Posts by Warby

  • God of War: Ascension

    first of all more god of war--->

    storywise id guess it would go something like this:

    act1 kratos is a commander in the spartan army doing the bidding of ares ( new squad command gameplay ?)

    act2 kratos looses the battle against the barbarians and sells his soul and life to ares -> gets chained to the chaos blades

    act3 zombie kratos goes around killing everyone resulting in the death of his family gets cursed to wear the ashes of his family on his skin... he stops worshiping ares and switches his "faith" to athena.

    the story is often "told" in the gow games but never played !

    they have a life time subscription to my wallet so bring it !

  • Tablets

    i got an ipad as a present a while back ... the first 3 weeks or so it was laying around in its wrapping ... i had no use for it ... now i use it all the time D: i am so addicted to that things its crazy i already contemplated selling my pcs and only using the ipad from now on ...

  • verified by visa WTF ?

    so i bought something a while ago on play.com ( civ5 if i remember correctly) and when paying it requested i create verified by visa (vbv) account with password.

    i read a little about it and complied.

    issue was i used to have a very simple password scheme back then if one of my passwords gets compromised they kind of all are ... or at least anyone with a tiny bit of brain will be able to figure out all my passwords.

    than the whole lulsec thing happend and actually some people i know got some accounts and passwords compromised. freshly scared i set out to go through ALL my internet accounts/passwords and TOUGHEN them the fuck UP ! (alpha numeric capitalization and so on)

    this took quite a while and the only thing that i can still remember being on the old scheme is the fucking verified by visa password !

    because you cant change the password on the visa page and you cant change it on my banks page either.

    i read online that you can only do it in the web interface /prompt of a merchant ... like play.com but it seems play.com stores everything about my card info including those passwords (totally making the extra step of security pointless) so when i buy something the vbv windows appears for one split second and without me having to type in my password this shit just jumps straight to the "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORDER" page.

    i mailed play.com asked what i can do to force the window to stay open they just send me a mail back giving me a copy paste marketing pitch about how secure vbv is and not at all answering my question.

    after a bit more pushing they essential said we cant be bothered to deal with this go talk to you bank ... who of course in turn say: they cant change the password either and i should talk with the merchant.

    next thing i tried was purposefully fucking up my credit card info that play.com has stored in the hope that the vbv window would prompt me and say: "dude shits not right here ... fix it !" but it just waived my purchases through no problem and than a couple of days later ( after i canceled my order just to be sure) play.com suspended my account.

    anyone else got harrased by vbv ? and do you know another merchant where i could make a purchase to get to that fucking web interface ?

  • UDK One-Texture Environment

    Quote from marks

    While that's true, I do wonder just how much overdraw there is from floating polys, and how expensive that shader is to draw. At the most basic level, all he's done is offset the performance cost for the scene from the texture memory onto the processor. While its an impressive demonstration, it isnt black magic.

    they are not floating decals if i understand it correctly so it should be as light on overdraw as any opaque geometry

  • UDK One-Texture Environment

    Quote from PhilipK

    Followed this a bit over at polycount and I'm really glad that this kind of optimization mindset is promoted. It's an impressive scene and no doubt good use of texture memory there. It's kind of a fresh breeze among all the "2048x2048 normal, diffuse, spec" trashcan props out there.

    THIS !

  • Sci Fi scene CE3

    nice story tlling there in the "order" that ou posted the shots

    1) all normal scifi hmmk

    2) is that some alien infestation organic shit back there ?

    3) getting closer omfg it is !

    4) too close its sucking me in wuuuaaghahahahahahahahahahahahaha *camera drops to the floor* ^^

  • Industry Professionals Share Nuggets of Information

    incidentally the only game devs that could afford to persue such a strategy are:

    - Valve

    - Blizzard

    - id (well, back in the day, anyway)

    - Mojang

  • Oliver Bartman - Environment Artist

    everything is too gray and boring all your ref pictures have way brighter and higher saturated colors than your assets ... elevate reality dont tone it down !

    also a lot of you material breakdowns have spec masks in them yet i see no specular/cubemap reflection anywhere on your renders ?

    the pipes in the "waste" picture is way too low tesselated for something that you can walk right up to and stick your camera against. this is not where you want to save polies !

  • Magnificent short movies

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