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Nort

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  1. Why? I already have MS Paint installed, so I'm not going to uninstall premium software I own, and I'm not going to install a third software just to crudely edit photos better. These images deserve their horrible gif quality. You were able to make out all there is to see in them.
  2. Paint takes half a second to load for me. Gimp takes like a full minute to load, and takes up maybe half a GB of memory. Paint is very much the more sane option for crude jobs.
  3. There are a lot of things that people do, that I find mindblowing, and so there is a non-0% chance that somebody will make a map or three, out of your idea. It's not completely impossible. Reading Mission 1, it would of course require modeling a fat AI model, and make him use a club, so that must be modeled too. I also don't know how the "sending" would work. Would you kite him, or ask him politely to battle the others? I also hope that Eric is okay with you describing him as a thief publicly. We're taking your word for it that he's your best friend, and not somebody that you instead mock and call thief.
  4. Nort

    xVASynth v2

    I'm sure that Mohammed wouldn't like his work to be defiled or burned either, but that typically falls under free artistic expression. Famous people have been exploited in this way since way before deepfakes came along - pretty much since idol posters were a thing. Sorry.
  5. These recent months have been like we just got an illuminati shuttle back from outer space, because everyone's back now. The game Routine is back. Spoony is back. ...and this girl is back too:
  6. You'd think that, since the upload limit is 500 kB (or maybe it was recently upped from 150 kB - I don't know) but once I resize them to 25% in Paint and resave them, it seems that each screenshot size grows a bit, which I guess makes the upload larger than 500 kB. It's happened 3 out of 3 times, and so after that I just figured that since my images aren't showing anything important, it's more suitable to just make them gifs.
  7. Well, the way that meshes work, is that each mesh has to have a shader. Right now the devs have chosen to just use shaders which doesn't exist, and this will generate console warnings. ...and so I made a file called "tdm_placeholders.mtr", in which I aim to define all these shaders. They don't even use a texture - just the caulk color.
  8. Guys, I just made my first shader. Isn't it just wonderful? (Yes, that's how it's supposed to look. It's not meant to be visible in maps, so it's kind of like caulk.)
  9. Well, it depends on just how far he's willing to translate things. If he's just aiming to translate the books, for some non-English friend, then he'll just need to edit the xdata.
  10. Nort

    xVASynth v2

    Yes, but as you can see in the demos, even big videogame characters like C&C:s Kane, with lots of voice data, produce fairly choppy lines. If the TDM lines fail, try basing them off of Troy Baker instead, or (for the protagonist) Stephen L. Russell and (for Benny the guard) Daniel Thron.
  11. What? How do you mean? Yes, there could possibly be special French characters which could require a font with those characters in them, and if there's too much text on one page, he needs to create new pages, but beyond that, what do you mean "set up"?
  12. A pk4 file is actually just a renamed zip file. You download an unpacker (which there are a few of on the internet) and then you right-click on the pk4 file and choose "unzip" or "unpack", and it will unpack all the files and folders from that pk4.
  13. They're in "/fms/[mission name]/xdata/*.xd". ...but other's fan missions will typically come packed into "*.pk4" archives, which you unzip first.
  14. Nort

    xVASynth v2

    I already looked into it, and they got it to work on a Windows 7 virtual machine, at which point I just give up. It looks great, but personally I'm not that passionate that I'm going to install virtual OS:es.
  15. Nort

    xVASynth v2

    Too bad it's for Windows 10.
  16. Also Routine. F-ing Routine. I was one of those who saw that trailer back in the day, ten years ago or so, thought the Alien Isolation aestetic looked cool, and started waiting for it. I bookmarked the Routine subreddit for it, and saw it fall into a pit of despair, and saw people start claiming that the game never existed in the first place, and that it had all been a scam. It was basically a solo project, by a guy new to game development, it seemed, and his idea for the game didn't seem too thought-out either. ...but those graphics looked so plastic and 80:s retro and cool, and I like robots... ...and so the announcement came, for me (who stowed away that bookmark right before the few clues of development came in) completely out of the blue, and now everybody is shocked to learn that there really was a game, all along. I don't know if it will be a good game, but just that there was a game, is sort of amazing to me. I just want to caress the plastic frames of CRT monitors again...
  17. I don't know whether this was a segfault or not, because the qconsole log just ends abruptly, but I started try to shoot fire arrows, and the game crashed after a while, which it has never done before since I updated to 2.10. (I'm on Windows.) Also try shooting fire arrows when the attack button is your middle mouse button. What you'll get 99% of the time, is the bow readying animation playing, without sound, and the bow then being lowered again. You have to somehow click the mousebutton, and then click-and-hold it again, to somehow fake out this effect.
  18. I ran into some new issues with the apples: Update Never mind. Apparently those are the wrong type of quotation marks. I didn't know Geany didn't convert those. Sneaky.
  19. Well, I tried to search for the cause of the hyper-alertness, thinking that it might be due to some strange sound in the official release of the engine itself, and I didn't find anything unusual in "tdm_propagated_sounds.def". Have you yourself tampered with values such as "vol", "alert_factor" and "alert_max"? Have you used capitals in your "inherit" values? (These need to be all lowercase in "inherit"-values.) Have you made sure that entities like the Roughboys AI, are properly inheriting their values? ...or maybe it has got nothing to do with the sounds, and it's actually the vision, like with the fog entity, in which case I don't have any experience in that to offer, but you could still look for "alert_factor" properties, and such. Good luck.
  20. Yes, he meant 1, 2 and 4. In programming, "vectors" are sets of values, yes, but typically numerical values describing different concepts, like for example a 3D vector is typically a group of X, Y and Z positions. In physics, a vector instead describes the X, Y, Z direction of a force. Bits and bytes are much more basic than that, and are handled much, much differently than vectors are.
  21. Okay, I think that you're describing bit flags. They work like this: Imagine that you straighten out that keyring into a line of keys, which has either been obtained, or not. We can number the keys 1-8 and formulate it into a simple question: "Has each key been obtained?" Then the keyring could look something like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Y Y N Y N Y N A single state of a key, as either retrieved or not - "Y(es)" or "N(o)" - is typically expressed as "True" or "False", in numerical form "1" or "0". This means that stored on a computer, the key would actually be this: 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 This is itself a number: 1101010. However, the computer stores numbers in a binary format, which means that instead of each number to the left of the first, being worth ten times more, it's only worth twice of that value. This gives us a numeral system which is concise and efficient. In it, the rightmost state is worth 0 or 1, the next state is worth 0 or 2, the next state is worth 0 or 4, and the next state is worth 0 or 8. We can then add up all of these numbers together, to get a human decimal value. In the keyring above, we'd get 1+1+0+1+0+1+0 = 64+32+0+8+0+2+0 = 106
  22. Anyway, this might be related: There's a general inconsistency of view focus which I can't figure out, where I go <Ctrl-Tab> over the orthographic views, only to have the Properties view switch tabs. I expect the focus to change to the window I'm hoovering my cursor over, and not have to click in it, but sometimes it gets stuck and I have to actually click in a view to shift the focus, just like I do to get the 3D view to start updating properly again. Might be related.
  23. Is that something you do? You invent bugs? You make a bunch of random claims, which aren't even funny? I dunno. I don't watch much comedy, so I'm out of the loop.
  24. Listen, I'm not mad, scripters. Well, maybe just a little upset, but mostly bewildered.

    I'm reading all these script files, and their indentation, and I'm just picturing some sort of frat party going on, where everybody is plastered, and is sometimes just making out while sitting on the spacebar.

    I mean you have heard of indentation, right? ...like properly nested indentation?

    ...because the first time I looked at one of your script files, I was like "Oh! So this is a sort of indentation based nesting, that looks very complex now, but which I'm just going to have to learn.".

    ...but no. Apparently this is obfuscation that makes every script look like "ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn".

    Why?

    Just why?

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    2. Nort

      Nort

      Yeah, who wants a society with clean code, when we can have a society that runs on hugs and thank yous?

      Well, it doesn't matter. Society won't run at all a few decades from now, and all your little kids will have starved to death, and my goddess will have propagated throughout the entire planet. Jai Kali.

    3. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      Is that what the bad guys in temple of doom wanted all along? Clean code? What were the kids mining for, semicolons?

    4. Nort

      Nort

      No, I think that fictional branch searched for some sort of magical Shiva stones, which somehow had the power to conquer other religions. In the absence of such magical artifacts, clean code is a powerful tool as well, and the <Tab> key has already been mined out for you. The power is at your fingertips.

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