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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
Killer track but technically Firestarter isn't Drum and Bass (or Jungle). Prodigy slowed everything down after Experience (first album).
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
One caveat is doing screen space means anything offscreen doesn’t contribute to lighting. For a fixed perspective dungeon or 2d game it works great, but a light source behind a column or in another room will cast no light on the scene
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
Most PS2 games used the PS1 hardware for audio/sfx so you freed the main CPU for rendering/gameplay. I believe Gran Tourismo 3 used the ps1 hardware for everything except rendering, which was the kind of nuts thing you could do if
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by midnightclubbed 2y ago
Not a street I was aware of, but it's located between the Qualcomm and General Atomics campuses and a stones throw from UCSD. Also has great freeway and rail (commuter) access and modern research focussed buildings for lease.
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
Concentrating on the professional market is a perfectly valid business model. I would assume you either need a completely compelling and unique product that is a no-brainer for those companies, or a good marketing team to break you into bu
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
This looks interesting, as a hobbyist with a EEE background and a programming career I like the idea of designing circuits using code. But maybe I'm not the target audience here... pricing seems high for anyone who is not using this co
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
Euphoria was used for a subset of animations, for the most part traditional mocapped animations (and a lot of them) were used to drive character movements. I don’t know if motion matching was used on GTA4 but it was on other Rockstar games
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
If you've not touched 3d graphics before start with OpenGL with a view to moving on to a modern API soon after. OpenGL does a lot of work for you behind the scenes and abstracts away most of the memory management, state management and
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
And that is why this case is being brought. Amazon are requiring that the price on Amazon is the cheapest price, even if the retailer would like to sell it on their own store (or eBay, Walmart, etc) for cheaper. If it’s sold on Amazon you
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
Gave ok suggestions for a $500 desktop, apart from including a redundant $45 cooler (Ryzen 3200g already has a passable cooler in the box). Changing to a $550 build keeps the same cpu but changes its price from $100 to $170, adds a $20 cool
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
Hardware accelerated is still not zero cost. Plus if you are publishing for the other console and/or PC there is a question as to whether you want to do the extra work for one platform.
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
What formats are better suited? To my knowledge most games use mp3-like compression for all their audio. Console hardware often has decompression support, it’s reasonably compact, quality/bitrate can be tuned by the sound engineers a
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by midnightclubbed 3y ago
For story based games (with voice acting) absolutely yes. Dozens of story characters, hundreds of supporting npc and all of them talking as either part of your missions or just to fill in the world. Maybe 50 hours is a lot for a non story
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
There have been attempts to go that route from both the hardware (eg Nvidia NV1, 1995) and software side (eg Quake 3 Area, 1999) and many attempts to render curved surfaces since. Generally triangles have remained dominant because they are
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
I don’t understand this comment. If my model is training for 2 days I expect to be doing other work while I wait for the results. Are/were there engineers/researchers that expect to get paid to do nothing while they wait for pain
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Some games certainly do that and most audio engines will allow the sound designers to add random variations, along with randomly selecting between different samples. There is only so much you can do with pitch changes and creative use of fi
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Vulcan is on windows, Linux, Android, and OSX via moltenvk. Compute (GPGPU) is a requirement for all Vulcan drivers, technically drivers do not have to support rasterization but I don’t know of any hardware that doesn’t. Outside of Apple e
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
I would still argue that home delivery is more environmentally friendly... The Amazon and UPS drivers delivering to my suburban neighborhood seem to drop at least two packages per street, so the cost in gas per delivery is half a street (wi
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Still appropriate for modern hardware. Despite hardware getting faster, display resolutions and refresh rates have also increased to eat the memory bandwidth gains. Especially so at VR resolutions. Modern rendering engines will use a mixt
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
If I was code reviewing this I would strongly suggest std::array instead of those raw array;) I’m also curious why you have page_id_to_frame_idx[] without a size. If you are using that paradigm to read off the end of the struct then it nee
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Most likely the optimizations are higher level than that (for the most part). With the switch they will be able to target to specific core counts and use a less generic thread/memory synchronization api. There may be some cases where t
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Activate the ILS landing system. Recalibrate sea level - minus 200 feet.
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Not necessarily bankrupt but at a point where they’d have to cut their losses by losing staff. But company B was going to be fully bankrupt before 6 months without company A stepping in. Companies make these decisions all the time, particu
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
The story fills in all the reasons why ‘management’ start at #1. Company A buys company B for a product it believes in. Company A knows that company B was incapable of getting product to finish line, which is why they sold out. No problem
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
While wildfires are certainly a growing issue in much of the Western Unites States the area around San Fransisco is a relatively low risk area. I realize you are just being snarky but Australians are no strangers to hellscape wildfires. Au
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
I was confused by this too. N64 texture mapping hardware has the same capabilities of current generation GPUs - perspective correction, automatic mip-level selection, bilinear/trilinear interpolation. The blurriness on the N64 was dow
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
One tidbit that may be of interest (or not) is that if you see doubles being used in N64 C code it is almost certainly accidental. Doubles were slow on the N64 mips CPU but the mips C compiler would happily output them and promote surround
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
I guess I got the snark from things like this... "I don't fault them for making MOST of the mistakes, C was a rather new language at the time, they didn't know the hardware they were working with and EVEN programmers in 2022
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Thanks for filling in the details on the disassembly, I'm surprised the matrix functions weren't in asm but I believe you. If I remember correctly NOA did the CPU/lib side and NCL did the RSP code (definitely in asm) and har
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by midnightclubbed 4y ago
Wow, so, ok. Former N64 programmer here, so my take is certainly biased but here goes. This guys has clearly done a lot of work, building on top of the existing reverse disassembly of the Mario 64 codebase and has a great understanding of

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