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I have acid reflux and take grey-market Nexium from Thailand (my sister-in-law lives there)... Have you looked into Acid Reflux (it's very common)... (presuming guts means stomach...)?
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Thanks Bambini.
The only reason why I gave any of these feelings any heed was because of a dream where God seemed to be yelling at me. This is what spurred the factions who are for "trying to listen to God" and those who are for "ignoring anything that seems irrational even if it appears to come from God"... into the discussion.
I am probably the epitome of the Agnostic as I constantly teeter between a purely Scientific world-view and a belief that God is intervening in my life. Seeing this back and forth is like listening to my own internal dialog except the language and discussion points are far more entertaining and interesting
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@Sotha:
Thanks again for your take on things. I can't help but be entertained by your colorful use of language (many native speaker/writers could only wish for such a skill).
But I can't let you take any kind blame for a "derail" (as if such a foolish original topic could be derailed
... Even though I understood that he meant "the current course of discussion" I got a good chuckle when jdude claimed that you "ruined" the thread as if the thread wasn't "ruined" to begin with :laugh: ).Bambini has brought up a good point though. Through my efforts to find out how to navigate what seemed to be an irrational request from God to "do something dammit!". I forgot to explore the other factor of prejudice.
I firmly believe that ALL people are inherently racist, sexist, age-ist, etc.
I was actually HOPING that a bunch of folks would post in this topic yelling at me for being an age-ist bastard.
I would much rather believe that the "creepy feeling" came from some prejudice that I could work out psychologically than believe that God is calling me to action.
I would again rather be a prejudiced and paranoid fool rather than be guilty apathy to child abuse.
The problem with prejudice being the root of this issue is that now I have an experimental "control".
Yet another single-child family with ancient parents were walking through our neighborhood and I had no "creepy feeling" what so ever about them. Perhaps that is another prejudice because they were dressed like hippies and I've always liked hippies
.So feel free to accuse me of age-ism. I cant deny it. I, in fact, firmly believe that it is an intrinsic part of the human
condition. And (bonus) it will further reduce any feelings of guilt I may have for not going on some raving mad investigation.
(No more lightning so I think God's cool with all this self-reflection instead of the vigilante investigation option...
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Yeah the same thing goes for GPU's... ATI has had PCF in hardware for several generations now yet most game engines will see ATI in the Vendor string for the card and automatically disable PCF. Some folks have software installed that makes these games think that their video card is nVidia just so they can have prettier shadows (PCF)
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Sticky this thread so it doesn't get lost again?
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Well a person using self-reflection to fight against their own prejudices and paranoia is bound to get philosophical no?
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At the very least and aptitude in Modeling should translate to an aptitude in Dark Radiant. Are you interested in making "Fan Missions" as well...?
(A question we would like to hear "Yes" to from any forum poster... anywhere...
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Each FM will have it's own directory in the Doom 3 folder. Each FM directory will have it's own Screens or Screenshots (I forget which) sub-directory. If you are running a Test map, and do not have an FM installed then it should land in the Darkmod\Screens directory...
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I can see it! ... Look like there's no Specular... Perhaps the light is not set for Specular?
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(Cant see the screen-shot... blocked at work
)Unless the Specular component isn't strong enough I think the look you want may require a transparent Cube Map?
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I cannot resist...
I have a P4 3.0ghz and a HD4650 AGP (so kinda lowish...)
Caveats:
But I am no expert ghoster and I find every FM challenging and fun because of my lack of skills
...My wife has a tendency to limit my CPU time...
Still interested?
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That is a LOT of work. I saw some similar herculean effort for the high-resolution texture project for Doom 3 but I think your Sculprtis work trumps even that by quite a bit.
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I was afraid those strings were vertexes... It looks great nonetheless!
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I think some screen-shots are in order here.
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(hint)
(Oh well
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Questions:
1) You are on 1.02 correct?
2) Linux or Windows?
3) If Linux, all "lower case" names correct?
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I was going to offer my wife but then I notice that it is a Wench...
(Requisite Wife-Joke Obliged...)
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Scary Piano with Bones for Keys (See Goonies inspired FM
):http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/11351-films-as-inspiration-for-games/
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The normals would be bent by preference but the "Normal Thief" program uses a higher poly model to bend the normals algorithmically. I presume you could do a shortcut simply using a Normal Map generated from a High-Poly version of the Tree (etc)...
AFAIK the only difference between this and regular Normal Mapping is that you are treating a "cloud" of polygons as if it were a solid object. And the amount of Normal data is significantly lower than a 1 to 1 Normal Mapped texture.
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Yes!
I vote yes (if my vote counts
)...A show-piece prefab contest would be great!
(Since there are no prizes, all you would need to do is specify a deadline... ?)
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This kinda reminds me of my troubles with the ole Hollywood idea of an Artificial Intelligence gone amok.
We understand the motivations of a human that wants to rule the world but why would a computer want to rule the world. Unless the person who made the AI gave it emotions or primordial desires the AI would have no emotional need\desire to rule anything.
I tried to contemplate on this emotion-free plane of existence once and found that it was a bleak place to live just as Tolstoy had warned it would be.
On the other hand, we humans are often overrun with emotion and striving for rational, logical, and objective is a great way reign-in our wildness and get some work done (and keep from being cruel, unfair, etc).
As a side note:
I think that Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr's back and forth over Quantum Mechanics is the most interesting example of the effect of Religious thought on a Scientific debate.
Even though Einstein essentially made the field of Quantum Mechanics possible by developing the dual-nature photon model, he did not like (emotion) the idea that probability played any role in reality. He went almost as far as to call the belief that Quantum Mechanics is the final theory "heresy" because he simply could not accept that God would create the Universe with probability interwoven into the underlying structure.
Neils Bohr, on the other hand, used Eastern Mysticism to reconcile the bizarre magical qualities of the Quantum World. Since he knew he would have trouble conveying this way of thought he publicly adopted the Copenhagen Interpretation which essentially urges the experimenter to forget even attempting to develop a conceptual understanding of the results and simply focus on the resultant math and phenomenon.
Throughout their arguments Einstein created the most extreme thought experiments to prove how absurd Quantum Mechanics is and that there must be an underlying classical mechanic to it all. To this day we continue to perform Einsteins experiments yet to our surprise (and especially Einstein's) the bizarre results keep coming true.
So this stubborn religious streak in Einstein which, if it were enforced via dogma, would have held back Scientific progress instead has advanced Science because Einstein adhered strictly to the Scientific method in spite of his feelings and let the results speak for themselves.
If all the Religious folk out there who object to Scientific data would propose experiments to prove or disprove their own claims the light of Science would shine even farther in spite of the motivations of the experimenters (presuming that the results were not "interpreted" into oblivion....
)(Just wanted to mention Neils Bohr
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Extreme Old Crumbling Castle Technique:
Ingredients:
Id Tech 4 Engine (as is)
Cube Maps
Normal Maps
Infinite time and patience
Artistry
Step 1: Create a basic Castle with (perhaps) some low-poly gaps representing damage
(Texture the Castle make it look as good as possible)
Step 2: Export the Castle into Blender
Step 3: Clone the Castle then modify the cloned copy into an extreme high-poly version with tons of little cracks and separated blocks/bricks making sure that some of the original texture work is still present
Step 4: Cut the High-Poly and Low-Poly Castles into components and create Normal Maps for the most detailed portions where things are crumbling
Step 6: Identify the deepest cracks in the High-Poly Castle
Step 7: Enlarge the Geometry of these cracks to the point where you can noclip into them when imported into Doom 3
Step 8: Fly into the Giant-Size cracks and capture an Environment Shot (part one of the Cube Map process)
Step 9: Shrink the Cube Map in Gimp (etc)
Step 10: Replace some of the texture work with the more detailed texture and normal map work
Step 11: Replace the deepest cracks with the Cube Maps (Interior Maps)
Step 12: Oh No! The Cube Maps look "wrong"!
Step 13: Stretch the proportions of the 6 environment shots so that the central "shot" is pinched a bit (lots of fiddling)
Step 14: After an eternity... Great crumbling castle with Cube Maps providing the illusion of deep detailed cracks
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Thanks Sotha.
I will keep looking around Google to prove to my wife that this is a "classic tale" rather than some crazy (and boring) story I cooked up on my own.
I guess we all sympathize with our little Might-Flea a little... I suppose that this story would actually be more meaningful for a guy at a bar who feels that another stronger fellow is mocking him. Too bad he would probably be too drunk to listen. (Squish!)
Was going to be Bikerdude's prefab thread...
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... I guess since my wife is always saying I'll die from GURD\Cancer\Etc. I felt like spreading the worry-warts around... Glad to hear that you don't have Acid Reflux... 