Posts by Sentura

  • Going to the gym is like a korean MMORPG


    height? BMI?

  • Going to the gym is like a korean MMORPG

    You shouldn't think of it as losing 6 kg when working out, because that way it'll never work for motivation. Think about it in terms of losing fat percentage. Muscles weigh more than fat, but they also consume more energy than stored fat does, so it doesn't really matter. Also if you want to lose fat, here's a golden rule: eat less calories than what your body consumes each day.

  • New web filter to block forums


    Jihad Allah Akbar Mossad Israel Bombs C4 Rockets NASA

  • Fez 2 cancelled, Phil Fish to quit Game Industry

    Quote from Taylor

    Again, Fish was also very good at handing out his own abuse. That Penny-Arcade Report article doesn't even mention him as a controversial figure, like all he did to get negative attention was be a genius, and I don't think Fez 2 being cancelled was due to this escapade but rather a contributing factor to twitter meltdown - but, hey, it's Penny-Arcade Report. For the record, here are some other indie stances on this:

    There is no Internet War on Creatives

    We don’t need more “Phil Fish”s


    holy shit, that last article speaks to me. it is exactly what i would want to say if i could find the words.

  • Solutions/Ideas for Technical Problems

    So I finally got to try it out, and the results have been pretty amazing. Scaling the heightmap from 512x512 to 4 times its size in Cryengine 3 has yielded a very natural desert environment. A few minor adjustments had to be made, the greatest one being that blur was necessary in order to remove noisy peaks, others included rising/lowering terrain in game to create a suitable gameplay location as well as limiting the terrain height to something more earthy (in this case.I used 256 units).


    This is the heightmap I used (same as previous imaged I posted but cropped. raw converted to png for upload):


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    Result (taken some 100m above human height)


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    There are only two problems in this approach:


    1) The beach sand only has wavy lines one way because of the shoreline washing up. However, this can be remedied by superimposing the same image (or another beach image) turned at 90 degrees for more grid like waviness.


    2) Given the flatness of the terrain, the desert will need to be bigger than just slightly over 4 Kilometers (4096x4096). For a desert terrain to make sense, one would most likely need double that size to create the illusion of endlessness. However, this is still doable, albeit more resource consuming.


    Also, seir: I tried with google earth, and the resolution is nowhere near good enough to use. I also tried with smoothening this, but the result was a desert that came off as bulky and rigid rather than flowing like sand. Also, erosion on sand doesn't exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion), though you could probably argue that wind on sand has somewhat the same effect. It does mean that sand deserts come off as more wavy rather than just flat, however.

  • Fez 2 cancelled, Phil Fish to quit Game Industry

    Many people want to liken him to the sort of crazy-genius behavior that e.g. Salvador Dali was, but this guy is nowhere near that. If anything, he sounds like he's autistic with a histrionic side. I haven't played Fez, but that's more because it doesn't seem like my type of game than anything else. At the same time I doubt the hype about Fez is that it is that good, especially after having watched some let's plays of it.


    You definitely need to be able to not give a shit and sustain yourself if you want to work as an auteur. I thnk even people like Gabe Newell receive a lot of hate every day, but to my knowledge he at least keeps it personal and within his email. He doesn't have a twitter account where he just lets people talk. Nobody knows how to guard themselves because there is such a dissension between real life and the internet. People are more likely to be fake in real life and truthful on the internet. And thus most people are likely to open themselves up because they weren't expecting this.


    I think the next generations growing up with the internet will likely be more truthful in real life as well as on the internet, maintaining less of a chasm between the two. And I see that as a good thing, because it's better to work with the truth than to work with lies. Not that any of them matter in the end, it's all about what each person individually thinks of themselves.