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@Fidcal: Are you fixing any more FM's (besides your own Thief's Den 5)? Any clues about the numbers?

Thanks for the splash of cold reason Orbweaver Yeah... parenthood makes you like a wild crazy animal protecting it's nest...

Definitely. The child could certainly be adopted thus making my paranoia even more monstrous. I was mainly concerned about whether I am morally accountable in any way to look into things that trigger irrational suspicion...

Yeah... Not to dig myself deeper but the father specifically strikes me as odd. He's an unemployed RF engineer yet he speaks as if his IQ lost a digit... I just wish I could shake the guilt I felt the other day... I heard their boy crying inside the house while I walked our dog past their home... Again, no rational reason to believe that it was anything other than a proper scolding or a tantrum but... (shivers...)

Are you going to contribute some textures Mr Lemon??? (I like the artwork I've seen from you thus far )

Parents are often irrational for the sake and security of their children... But I quite agree with anyone scolding me for letting my imagination get the best of me. Be as blunt as you like.

Well that's pretty obvious ... I guess I'm just venting... Paranoia should not be fed I suppose.

:o :o :wub: Too late to apply for your beta Biker? ???

In my neighborhood there is another single-child family like ours except the parents are exceedingly old. Their "son" (I am incredulous that people who look this old could have had him...) is about to enter kindergarten this fall along with with ours... The family creeps me out. There are always scores of ancient looking folks visiting their house as if it were a senor citizen version of a half-way house. I fear that this may not be a healthy environment for their "child". I'm probably just being age-ist but I feel like I should call up social services on them. They always seem kind spirited but there is this creepy aura to the whole family dynamic. The father calls his son "honey" in his shaky old man voice in a way that a grand-parent would do. Maybe it's just a tax scam so the kid can go to a better school district... My imagination often gets the best of me and I conjecture the group of old folks as a coven of molesters. I really fear the idea of my son getting older and asking to visit there un-supervised... I am tempted to sneak out at night and try to spy on their behavior to confirm my suspicions. Recently I diagnosed the "father's" laptop (a little side-work) and found the hard-drive to be faulty. The whole walk back to my house I was afraid I would find "xxxxx porn" on there... The next night I had a night-mare about homeless crazy ladies digging up graves of Catholic religious officials and putting on their fancy robes then strolling into church and raving and rambling to the dismay of the clergy (who I felt were also molesters... and the actions of these crazy ladies was God's way of showing them the jig is up...) 1) Should I do something ? 2) Am I morally obliged to follow-up on unfounded suspicions? 3) Are "gut-feelings" enough to put people into a moral dilemma or is the greater immorality my own prejudice against the old? This is quite unsettling to me because I often admire old folks like Gandalf in LotR or the cranky old technician at my workplace. I used to want to dye my hair grey in high-school to have the Richard Gear look .

ARRRRGH!!!! The site would not accept Pre-Paid cards. ...and since the Pre-Paid card has a regular "service fee interval" I needed to buy something or loose even more money... So a 3.2ghz processor is on it's way Here's hoping it helps a little...

http://www.modwiki.net/wiki/Com_fixedTic_%28cvar%29 Com_fixedTic This controls whether Doom 3 adheres to 60fps physics tick rate, I believe a "-1" will set the engine free of this restriction at the expense of accurate physics...

Yeah, I think the performance improvement (other than your newer hardware...) might be due to the patch as I believe that the Stencil Shadows (shadow volume calculations) were moved to the GPU (but that may just be legend and folklore...)

There's a reason why even master Fidcal begged to play Sotha's beta contest entry... Sotha knows game-play.

I cant say too much as I only played the demo briefly but the performance was HORRIBLE on my ole Radeon 9500 pro... If you add that to the stability issues we probably have half of the infamy covered. Patch http://download.cnet.com/Deus-Ex-Invisible-War-patch/3000-7492_4-10266565.html

The only hurdle is whether the online store is out of stock by the time I can place the order. I will not fall to her feckless inquiries again...

Take that WIFE! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

Ha HA! A CPU sale! I am over the hump! I will sneak out after work and refill my pre-paid debit card. We are almost home. I can taste those extra 400mhz!

There's a Screen-Shot! Why didn't you use a spoiler tag? In fact, the subject of this thread should be spoiler tagged. Everything is spoiled! :laugh:

That would work too... A cube-map is six screenshots http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Cube_maps

From my understanding... any place you would use a texture in front of a VP you would instead use a reversed cube map of the the environment past the VP. This allows the VPs to be a little closer as the motion parallax from the cube map looks better than a flat texture. Off the top of my head you could chop-off the highest part of the vaulted ceiling and replace it with a reversed cube map (some may consider that both figurative and literal sacrilege so if you do this you may want to offer a High-End version without this optimization)...

(BTW I'd vote for your work any day! )

These would be special case items so the extra normal map would be considered to be "worth it" but I suppose that this brings up the contentious idea of what is.. "worth it" and how many to include in TDM... I believe that this verges on the same contentious idea of having an external prefab repository or external texture repository so that Mappers would still have access to these items but they would have to include them in the PK4's...

Well when I said show-piece I meant more detailed (LOD goes both ways ) But he does need low-poly stuff too

Right now you would need to combine details from these two wiki's (not sure if a specific article is overkill): http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Visportals http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Cube_maps

Again. Wicked Awesome... !