Posts by The Postman

Quote from Nz-Nexus

I mean I want to say that I don't trust about the bigbang theory even if it's true but it's up to you. I belive that the bible contains real situations/happenings in our life, noone would be so dumb and write just like that! The sciense is ok from my view but the religion have an bigger impact on our lifes. Atheists that don't belive In God I mean, They have to belive in something? If you ask an Atheist where is the human from he wouldn't really answer since he doesn't really know so he can then turn to bible and read it and then he gets that's life is not what he thinks, it's far from what he thinks.

I mean I love the sciense too, the spacetravels and space and other spaceresearch going on is all good.. But the bible is like something that allows us to know who we are. And I belive in God..

I only don't know if the sciense is aiming to go the good way, to do good things that is good for us. I mean look the global warming is another sign

the icebloks are smelting and the sea level can be lifted up by some years.

Wee need something smart if we do in sciense, but if we don't care about the nature it's of course sad.

I mean we have no other home then Earth planet.

I think religion and sciense goes close together to eachother in a way.

Hm.. And by sciense.. we at least got internet!

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Oh hay guys, i don't know how this works personally so GOD MUSTA DONE IT. Get out of here and don't come back until you can write coherent English or back up your ridiculously silly claims with some unbiased study that shows you're ideas aren't the tripe we know them to be.

Quote from kleinluka

i guess he means the height (greyscale) map that is used to convert the image into a normalmap..btw peris remove that sig...

Sort of. Heightmaps (greyscale images like you said) don't HAVE to be an exact match to the image under it, but can be a supplament to it. IE: If a diffuse (colored texture) map had concrete, the height map could just be tiny divots and wear.

Quote from sensee

maybe it's just me, but that doesn't make sense regarding the previous sentenceAnything that juts out from the wall more than 6 inches uses a normal map (and will require you to make that map piecemeal in photoshop with that filter by hand, not by filtering the entire image, or by making a model for it)

postman please explain

Well, I meant that one must make the normal map by hand with that filter in mind. To make sure you don't get "fuzzy" or soft edges you have to make sure that your normal map image has very stark contrasts on the edges of its structures. You can add detail scratches, etc. to it by using a heightmap along with it later.

Quote from SinisterSquirrel

I personally don't use the method, I just thought I'd inform people about it. Also, if you invert the image at step 5, you geta better representation of the height of the normal. It all depends on whether or not it uses ATi's method or Nvidia's; ATi inverts the X/Y while Nvidia doesn't. This is what it looks like with the image inverted.../pic-snip

/me Abandons tutorial.

The problem with converting images like the tutorial suggests is that EVERYTHING is essentially the same height and any detail is "fuzzy" or soft. It doesn't stand out very well and the whole thing looks like wrinkled cloth, not brick/concrete/iron. Sorry to stomp all over this, but there's a smart way and a sloppy way to use normal maps and unfortunately that filter is very very sloppy.

haha, very clever, i dig it

Great work nooba!

Quote from Nz-Nexus

First of all you want facts because without them you find it impossible to belive in something you belive in.

That's how science and logical reasoning work.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

We have good education and we have strong teachers that know religion and both research and science.

And strangely you fell through the cracks...

Quote from Nz-Nexus

Without the religion there wouldn't be any sciense since then scinse had nothing to compare with and strike with.

What...the fuck?

Quote from Nz-Nexus

I feel me free to talk about all I feel to and let's accept eachothers views however if you think I'm wrong and besides that if I thinks you are. There is no proof that big bang happened for unknown time ago, where do you know it from?

Did you read the article in this thread or are you just typing to see yourself type?

Quote from Nz-Nexus

From nowhere you belive what you hear and what you read.

These are scientific studies. Come off it.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

But you still belive it, don't you?So, I think it's you that need to calm down and spend many hours in the library before you go out in a serius debatte with someone else or me.

If you think religion is made upon stories and myths you must be sick in the head. Nothing just happends like that, like that.

Uh...Nexus, I know plenty about world religions and mythology. Probably larger amounts than you do. They're myths and made up stories from a bygone day when people thought the sun sank into the ocean or that gods roamed the earth and could be sacrificed to. It's not real and has no bearing on scientific reasoning.

Please please PLEEEEEEEEEEASE don't make normal maps like this. Squirrel I know you mean well but that's a ghastly way to make normal maps.

A good rule of thumb is to think of normal maps like this:

Anything that juts out from the wall more than 6 inches uses a normal map (and will require you to make that map piecemeal in photoshop with that filter by hand, not by filtering the entire image, or by making a model for it)

Anything that juts out from the wall less than 6 inches should be a height map (black and white image) and this counts divots, scratches, woodgrain and subtle changes in the surface of materials.

Making normal maps like you're suggesting makes very muddy edges on textures in game and really loses a lot of strong details and contrast.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

All people and the whole crowd belive that the big bang started it all..But what If It didn't?

Because, if you'd read the article we now have proof up until about a millisecond before hand that yes, the big bang did happen.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

What If what you say Is wrong and What the religion says is right?Why trust in science and reasearch when religion explains in the bible/koraan aswell what life actually takes the first step.

You're fine to believe what you want, however distrusting science and research for the sake of distrusting it is just patently false to both science and religion. Furthermore, science and research had repeated experiments and controls and are constantly changing and figuring out new information to patch old gaps in research. Religion is the same "we don't know what happened so here's a story" claptrap, it never changes in that regard.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

The fact is that it's hard to understand the holy text in the book of all books but many interesting things can really help Us to get infront of the perspective and learn what life is.

That's not a fact, and no religion doesn't explain scientifically where life came from. It's an interesting tool for indepth philosophical musings on morality and such, but beyond that it has no merit in science.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

Life explains to be a test and the 10 commandments are given to follow.One more thing is that different people understand different the bible

and can get it wrong. For example Jihad what arabes can do is breaking against the laws if so told in the 10 commandments, don't kill, don't steal and et.c don't lie when they do jihad and kills other people being martrues and terrorists.

What in the fucking hell are you on about? What does this have to do with the big bang? Nexus... please read more books and make an effort to learn more about the world, please.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

It's the human being that can be dangerous when he don't understands the bible wrong and the religion it's not the religion that says go and do it or you must do it because if not you gonna get it.

Seriously, what the fuck are you on about? This has nothing to do with the thread.

Quote from Nz-Nexus

You knoww why do you belive more in sciense when you can belive in the religion too? The fact is how you understand what is being spoken and what is being said.allright?

Because science has research and evidence backing it up. Quit speaking out your ass. Christ, I thought you guys had good education systems over there.

Quote from Fletch

Western Civilization isn't that far off from this sort of behavior. A hundred years ago we were lynching black people for looking at white people. Two hundred years ago we were burning people for witchcraft. Five hundred years ago we were destroying entire civilizations based upon religious wars.

100 years ago? Try 5 years ago. This shit still happens, just not as much. Even 30 years ago there were still lots of lynchings and a new rise given to the KKK.

Sweeeeeeeet, more stuff to get a third mortgage on my tiny 1 bedroom hovel for! I can't wait to put these on my Neon.

Quote from Pericolos0

lol skjalg, that video is from a documentary called "what the bleep do we know", which is made by some new age lunatics that want to use quantum mechanics to explain consciousness, how we are all part of god etc...using string theory, it can be explained... however that is just hypothesis and yet impossible to observe

Oh man, that crap. It was actually from a local cult from right here in the good ol' US of A! It's tripe and has been repeatedly trounced.

I vote that we name it "Toilet Shark."

A locked subforum that mods can send posts to instead of deleting them, that way people who get their posts chopped can see what they did that wasn't kosher and the mods can still have control over their forums. Win-win, baby!

I do believe he's been acquitted.

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My favorite series of patches for BF1942:

Pilots are too powerful, let's take 'em down a peg. Now you can shoot pilots. Oh snap, turns out that flak kills people with headshots like crazy now and the falling planes kill more people than the pilots do! Remove this feature and make it so that planes faster. :psyduck:

these aren't very funny.

The Jam - Sounds From the Street

Mechs! The most battlefield useless machinery ever conceived! Top heavy weapons platforms that require a stable, level terrain to be of any use. Not saying they don't look cool, just they're pretty dumb compared to say, a tank or something of that conventional nature.

Quote from TomWithTheWeather

What, like religion?

Not at all. In religion there are certainties and "unquestionable" "facts." Science != religion in practice whatsoever.

This is just awesome.

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Awesome collection.

Oh lordy lordy, these are cool, thanks!