Posts by laminutederire

Quote from AlexM

On 12/12/2017 at 4:58 PM, AlexM said: I used to be fluent in french (in fact I knew more french than english as a child) but I haven't spoken it in 10 years so I need some refresher courses so it's a lot easier to get back to fluent than with Japanese which I've been studying lightly for a couple years now.

I do study Japanese way more often than French. Usually reading a few times a week. It has however gotten to the point where I can read Japanese much better than I can speak or understand it spoken to me.

At least there are very good literature books in French to read through! Or you can read maths books

Il n'y a pas beaucoup mieux dans les autres langues dans ces deux domaines!

I am a bit tight on money, and I've heard a lot of praise about Cuphead and Hellblade. If you guys had to choose between either one or the other, what would you recommend?

Have you checked the vis leaves? If so, are there really small one near the walls where that happens?

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2 hours ago, FrieChamp said: Yep, on Steam, too. I wouldn't hold it against players who bought it on day 1 to be salty about a 50% discount one month after launch.

Seems like the game did not sell very well and that they are trying to drive sales. That's probably why they made a demo available as well. A lot of the mixed reviews come from the overall buggy experience some player had 2, so making a demo available to know whether you can run it properly or not helps. (I personally wouldn't have bought it otherwise since I didn't want to get stuck at a measly 30fps). It can help driving the sales of the older games as well. So it probably made sense for them to do it despite pissing off people.

Too bad it doesn't look as smooth as the skate 1 to 3 games used to. Another game EA should have kept on doing if you ask me

Nice a demo is out!

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How hard is it to make a game which launches propely...

Quote from blackdog

On 16/11/2017 at 5:21 PM, blackdog said: So I realised a tournament is taking place in Oakland as matches came up on my YT.

Damnit Faze: they’ve been plowing whoever they plaid against, but of course yday they lost the only match yet in this round ?

https://www.hltv.org/events/2956/iem-oakland-2017

Best highlight is the Mario impression of APeX when asked what feature they should add! That's my humble opinion

They won 2-0 yesterday havent they?

Quote from Radu

46 minutes ago, Radu said: Don't worry guys, The Empire will strike back!

But, honestly, despite the bad publicity, I think this will play in EA's favor. Every media outlet and gaming youtuber has promoted Battlefront 2. And most of them have said that it's a good game buried underneath microtransactions. Now that microtransactions are temporarily turned off what do you have? Of course, once sales estimates are back on track..

That's why some Danish police dept is making fun of them by somewhat comparing it to as scam

All of that to buy another studio they'll close in a few years like this one...

Seems like it when looking at eurogamers headline

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4 hours ago, blackdog said: I understand what you mean but seems you are mixing things a bit; also I'm not sure/not confident regarding the examples you mentioned.

AFAIK Ron Artest had several fights, but on court. You mention sexual violence, but I've never heard of people suspended from games for that, and I can't even come up with examples of such cases. I know Kobe Bryant was accused of rape, there was a trial, and I don't remember ever hearing he was suspended... ever for what matters.

Of course ethics are important and there's stuff that is directly linkable to the sports scene and I can see sanctioned even if happened off court (eg: Michael Jordan doing betting on golf matches => concerns he would do the same for his games; Gilbert Arenas bringing a gun in the lockers; kng threatening a direct opponent) and stuff that is totally extraneous like a sex offence... that doesn't impact the sport image, just the team and can easily be seen as a good reason for termination, because you don't want to be associated with that person, but the sport federation shouldn't have any/much say on that.

There was tiger woods as well, he could still play anyway. Same for Kobe (I think he wasn't convicted as guilty? I'd have to check). That was my point. Unethical behaviors aren't punished in regular sports, so they cannot say e sports aren't suitable because of ethics.

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40 minutes ago, blackdog said: I don't understand what private matters and civil lawsuit spurred from family or off-the-court situations have to do with this?

Of course they get arrested etc that has nothing to do with the sport organisation.

Athletes attacking other players on the field face consequences, kng can take his rights to play elsewhere.

Of course if you look long and hard you can find ipocrocy, that is an everyday thing. I'm not saying the Olympics behold The Truth, just explained why I don't think there can be eSport in the event soon enough.

BTW this also should bring attention to the fact that a millennial game like Chess is not an Olympics discipline. Shouldn't they allow this in first? There is a Chess organisation that is part of the committee - so they recognise Chess as a sport (from what I understand) but then in countries like UK it is not recognised as a sport.

Well you could argue that the kng incident was private then since it wasn't during the match though... so private stuff matters from an ethical standpoint.

They face consequences sometimes, not all the time, and they are allowed to play anyway. For the fifa world cup example, the suspension was only for international games, he could still play in his club anyway.

Well it would happen in 2024 anyway, so it makes sense to think about it now to make the necessary debate beforehand.

(since when the uk agrees with the rest of the world anyway.? )

Quote from blackdog

18 minutes ago, blackdog said: That's the same news I posted in the opening of the topic, just from a different news outlet.

And no they are not in the running, by a far mile.

To be admitted to the Olympics you need to comply to the Olympics values, but most importantly you have to be an organised sport that means you have a global association the Olympics Committee can talk to. And this organisation needs to provide guarantees on matters like doping and gambling... the last bit alone can tell you how far we are to have the games we actually would want it the Olympics: there is a big push to regulate loot boxes under gambling laws, the debate is very open so I don't see how you can get a shooter in the Olympics, even if modded to be non-violent*, when they feature built-in "gambling" solutions. Also remember there were scandals regarding gambling/trading.

*I don't think that a paintball mod will make things easier as you still shoot another person, and in today's situation that seems wrong.

Also just days ago a CSGO player threatened the life of another at the most recent tournament... and he's allowed to participate in the next major tournament by switching to a new team. How's that good for sports values.

All this stuff screams disorganisation and shows there are no bases to see any time soon games at the Olympics.

Even if it was possible to get non-violent games in like say FIFA, I would argue why bother. Yes of course why when the football competition is happening with real players, but most importantly I don't think games with AI playing a part in the outcome of the game should be competitive at all. In this regard straight up shooters like CS or COD are much more suited because it's really player vs player and results are uncontestable.

In terms of who wants them in @text_fish that's a good question. I believe the committee itself simply took note of the giant following that there is now for e sports and they want to capitalise. I mean make money off of it.

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There is an e sport organization in France at least, maybe that'll be enough to start something in the right direction.

To be fair, the kng situation has many equivalents in sports features in the Olympic games. That type of situation is basically up to the fact that there is a lot of money involved. There have been occurrences of NBA players convicted for conjugal violence, sexual assault etc. There are games in basketball, football, etc where players hit each other on the playing field. (We all remember in France the occurrence of the head stroke during an international football competition in 2006 if I remember right, or the Ron Artest incident in NBA). There has been gambling in handball from many of the French team in their own handball club with something similar to the ibuypower situation, and the response from Valve was more radical than what happened to those guys who were just fined.

Oh and let's not forget the violence of trainers regarding athletes sometimes. That was the reason I quit professional prospects in sports a few years back.

I'm all for more equality and respect in e sports, but many of its flawscannot be used against them at the Olympics without a tint of irony and hypocrisy on the Olympics deciders part.

Been quite busy, hence the late follow up. Spent some time learning how to sample randomly directions and everything. The goal of that was simply to lay ground for direct and global illumination algorithms for more complex effects. Basically, in direct illumination, the complexity will be added by what you do when your camera ray hits the scene. There are a few approach then. The two easiest are the following:

- You can sample the directions in which the reflected ray will be sent, and look if it hits a light. You then assign it a probability corresponding to the surface material, and finally you'll divide the corrected color value by this probability. the color value will be a product of the value of the light, the effect of the surface material, and geometric correction terms.

You get a result like this on a test scene with limited sample number (here it was 64). As you can see, it doesn't perform well on the right. It is this way, because when you shoot the ray, then choose a random point on the larger emitter, you will more easily find a point where the contribution will be negligible, because of geometry properties. It therefore wastes computation resources on useless contribution, and isn't optimal in that type of case.

- You can also sample points on your emitter surfaces, and add the contribution of a ray going from this point to the intersection of the scene and the camera ray. Here you will do the same computation, but with fixed directions. The probability will have to be computed in a different measure to be coherent.

In this method you end up with a lot of noise, and bad results for the smaller emitter. This comes from the fact that the probability to hit it is smaller, and therefore you will waste samples in this opposite case.

The idea behind this and the division by a probability is that you want to integrate over all possibilities the contribution of lights for each directions using the Monte Carlo method. This method approximate the integral of f(x)p(x) by a mean of f(xi) where xi are distributed according to the probability p (I can explain the mathematical details further if that interest you). As this method is a bit slow in terms of converge (O(sqrt(N)) where N is the number of samples), dividing by relevant probability density functions can help convergence if this function approximate well the integrand. That's why we divided by the probabilities in the two method explained.

An interesting thing you can do is to combine those methods by a linear combination of them to get the best of both worlds. This is called multiple importance sampling.

As you can see, here you get the best of both worlds in the same computation time as the other two.

Next will come indirect illumination and why and how photon mapping can be useful, and how it relates in a way to other techniques like normal maps, or ambient occlusion maps.

(PS, what is the best place to link pictures from? (It's very picture heavy and I'm hitting the limit, but I don't want to put those pictures on imgur either ) ).

Quote from Pampers

1 hour ago, Pampers said: I'm having problems understanding who is pushing for this?

People organizing Paris games wanting to get a reasonably not too bankruptcy causing olympic games they want to find where is the money in a way.

Quote from text_fish

1 hour ago, text_fish said: Maybe Valve will put a bit more work in to their low violence mode? IIRC at the moment 'dead' enemies lie down with their hands behind their heads and there's no blood. It's quite funny to watch really.

Or maybe the core needs to step up and create a non-violent tactical shooter that isn't silly day-glo splatoon-style paintball? Here, I'll throw a design in to the hat:

SUPER-DUPER-TAG-TEAM-TAGGING Team-based FPS, where guns shoot "tags" instead of bullets. Instead of killing or hurting the player, tags simply remain on their avatar accumulating points for the other team. Team-mates can de-tag each other simply by approaching their team-mate and holding "use" until the tags are gone. Once a tagged player accrues 100 points for the other team they're 'frozen' and can't shoot any more, until their team-mate fully de-tags them.

In amongst all the tagging there would be some sort of asymmetrical objective such as capture points or a one-flag CTF mode, to provide interesting map strategies and give us a reason to develop new maps for it.

The end

Now we just need to sell it to the Olympics for $£$£$£$£'s.

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You can do a paintball game, I was thinking about it. But you can do it as a police training mode or something like that, this way you can try to keep it serious

Quote from Sigma

2 hours ago, Sigma said: Nah, we will see speed runs of Super Mario Bro.'s. Racing games maybe.

Everything but what everyone wants to watch

I'm pretty sure when Mr Estanguet suggested exports, he was thinking about Lol-Dota-CS-starcraft.

Well at best you'd have seen r6 siege-overwatch-hearthstone-age of empire, but nothing else less popular

Quote from Squad

5 hours ago, Squad said: They got what they deserved. Really sucks for boltz and steel though.

Boltz is fine, he just won epicenter with SK

Quote from Puddy

18 hours ago, Puddy said:

Congrats! Those cpu are somewhat hard to get in many places!

Quote from 0kelvin

11 hours ago, 0kelvin said: Does that course include discussing details about APIs or the hardware itself? I mean, the computing power of GPUs is ever increasing, exponentially in some aspects, but it seems that it's never enough. Toy Story, Finding Nemo or Ice Age, at every new incarnation the graphics evolve, but they still require a lot of processing power and hours to render each frame.

It includes details about how to complexify renders, and which data structures to apply to help Having reasonable complexity. Not that much hardware though. Im thinking about how to implement what I have done in openCL to use my GPU to render, so I'll explain if I succed at that goal

Graphics complexity evolves with the computing power as well. Like sure, we have found ways to render things faster with acceleration data structure, importance sampling etc, but what we gain in time can be used to render more complicated scenes. Just changing the camera model can slow down renders significantly for instance. Because more realistic lens models ask for more ray paths to converge to a good solution.

Quote from RivFader

12 minutes ago, RivFader said: This Eleague major is already setting the bar.. for most disorganized major tournament. Massive cheating problems, terrible seeding, tons of delays, etc.

Valve, CEVO and Eleague are really disappointing everybody atm...

Why have they moved to them anyway? ESL One Cologne/MY or dreamhack Cluj Napoka (something like that) were plenty fine. It seems that they wanted to make all American majors to please don't know who and made it suck so hard in the process..