Posts by Minos

  • VTF and light bounce

    Quote from Ezekel

    I know I'm raising a necro'd post here, but did anything actually come of this?As far as I can tell Nem's tools don't mention this being added in the revision logs.

    The images posted look really impressive and I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to be able to make use of the resulting indoor ambience.

    As Robert said, you need to tweak the RGB values on a per-material basis. I made some tests with this before and it proved to be unpractical. It's easy when you have only one texture (which has only one color really, such as the dev texture) but it's just a lot of work when you have more textures, all with different colors. Keep in mind that the RGB values bounced by the vrad tool are not the RGB values in each texel but an averaged value for the entire texture. So let's say you have a texture which is half green and half red, the color bounced by this texture map will be an averaged value from both colors, not green and red as one would expect. These RGB values are calculated when you generate the VTF and can be accessed by opening VTF files on VTF edit.

    This is the kind of stuff that should be done via an improved lightmap generator and not on a per material basis. I wonder why valve never updated vrad, it seems so trivial to be honest. I mean, 3rd party Quake 3 rad tools have supported ambient occlusion and shit like that for years now...

  • Post Your Pic Extravaganza

    Quote from FrieChamp

    + my old friend Tomas Neumann from Crytek days on the right. It's so weird for me to look at a photo of Peris, you and Tomas in one picture (it freaks me out more than the brazilian punk rocker grandpa that you pose with). It's like "Hey Tomas, I see you're hanging out with Bram and Thiago, that's awesome! I know them too!" -"Really? From where do you know them?" "From the internet! ... So yeah, I've actually never met them. "

    haha that's crazy! I often hang out at the pool with him. Really funny guy and probably the horniest person I have ever met lol. Did you work with Simon Fuchs as well? (I know HP, Furyo and Rick did) He lives in the apartment on top of mine

    Never thought I'd meet so many mapcorians in my life. Small world

  • Unofficial alcohol thread

    Quote from PogoP

    That looks amazing, I want one!!!

    Just do it yourself:

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    I prefer to cut the halves into 2 wedges though. And three small but VERY important tips for the perfect caipirinha:

    1) Remove the white line inside the limes (makes it taste bitter)

    2) NEVER mash the "inside" part of the lime as that makes it taste even more bitter. The stupid girl on that video does that

    3) Never drink all the caipirinha at once. Always add more cachaca/vodka before running out of lime/alcohol. You can keep it going with the same limes for a few rounds if you keep adding constantly

  • Unofficial alcohol thread

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    Oh yeah! Is cachaça easy to find in irvine?

    I actually found 2 bottles at a big supermarket once If there's no cachaca to be found you can replace it with Vodka (caipiroska or caipivodka depending on the place).

    One thing I don't miss about Brazil is the beer though. Brazilian beer is usually shit and all major brands taste the same. Pretty crazy considering how important it is in our culture.

  • Unofficial alcohol thread

    Official "pool" beer (super refreshing and easy to drink):

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    Regular "bar" beers are usually either Corona/Stella. I really can't stand indian ales, strong brown ales etc, that stuff gives me migraines

    I also bought a pack of Guinness 4 months ago and still have the bottles in my fridge. Everytime I have friends at my place I try to lure them into drinking it but nobody likes it either. Guess I'll just have to throw it away.

    Besides that I've been drinking a lot of wine here in California. You can find some pretty good ones here for super cheap (in the 6-12 bucks range).

    For the more hardcore nights I either stand with the weird stuff Bram/Philip usually bring:

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    (this one owns!!)

    And last but not least you can never go wrong with a well prepared "caipirinha"

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  • Post Your Pic Extravaganza

    Havent posted on this thread in a while! Peris, me & this guy, the oldest punk rocker from Brazil:

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  • I need a big ass tv, HELP.core

    Quote from Buddy

    Update on my tv journey:It was cracked, i spotted too late and thus no RMA is possible.

    2012-03-21

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    -1300€

    Jesus, what brand? That's weird. I remember buying extra an 3 year warranty for my TV for very cheap. I did this when I got my TV in Brazil as well.

    Most of the stores give you at least one year warranty on their side anyway.