Posts by laminutederire

  • Sharing my newly released paper on optimization testing in Source engine

    Quote from will2k

    Who says Source2 won't have PBR somewhere down the line or a similar rendering technique for realistic lighting calculation :)

    Source2 is not "officially" released yet (as in available for free to the public in its complete form as revealed earlier this year); the portion that got into Dota2 couple of months ago is the tip of the iceberg as far as I can tell. Many features/tools are still unreleased and Valve being Valve, most of the technical features are still not fully disclosed.

    I guess we will have to wait for a major release from Valve (HL3?? or L4D3) to push the engine to its limits and showcase its full technical features.

    I'm aware that UE4/Unity/Frostbite engines already have PBR with realistic/stunning results and streamlined workflow for artists/programmers, so that's an advantage over source 2 right now, but remember that source1 was an "incremental" engine, benefiting from incremental new features along its existence (ep1, orange box, l4d, portal2, etc.). I believe source 2 will follow a similar path, and if PBR is not there at release, it will find its way somewhere in a future update.

    I'm not defending source 2 though (haven't used it nor do I know its technical features inside-out); even with PBR and other features implemented, it could turn out to be an "inferior" engine compared to the current ones that incorporate PBR. In this case, there could be an "exodus" towards UE4 or Unity...time will tell :)

    yeah valve is bad with communication!

  • Sharing my newly released paper on optimization testing in Source engine

    I wish they will hurry

    I'm no expert, so correct me if I'm wrong, but... aren't the pbr pipelines very powerful and another argument why artists will move to something else?

  • Neuroscience and Psychology and other fields.

    Quote from Sjonsson

    Bonjour!
    No that's the thing, I just want to explore Neuroscience and Psychology related to give me perspectives I cannot get without reading/researching. Since I don't know what I don't know I can't really specify. But if anything it would be about how our brains react to different stimuli. Such things like how brains react to different patterns and colours (every animal is scared of fangs and certain colors are linked to poison etc) also how the effort -> reward system works in the brain.

    I know that there is an activation of non sensitive neurons which are the one which help give the bigger picture of what we are seeing. Don't know if it is the same for all animals. I think their activation follow the same process as the one for the activation of mirror neurons :)

  • Neuroscience and Psychology and other fields.

    bonjour!

    do you have a specific thing you want to learn about? :) As I said in the what's going on with your life topic, I'm currently working on autism, so I may be able to help you with a bit of precision on sub topics you want to learn about :)

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from FMPONE

    Damn, that's fascinating! It sounds like this task requires a lot of brain power.

    I hope you enjoy helping others, because I'm glad you're out there doing it.

    Good luck on the job hunt!

    i always enjoyed that, but I am afraid I won't be of any brilliance for a bit of time though. We work in a tight group for a client in the Institut Pasteur, but the awareness around that disease isn't as strong as it is in the US, which leads to a lot of false beliefs. So my part for now is more to raise awareness and teach people what it really is before they go around saying stupid stuff and mistreating autistic individuals. What is really interesting about it is that it has such a blurry silhouette. I could go on and on for a ridiculous amount of time, but I guess this isn't appropriate to ramble on and about such things in here, it will probably bore everyone to death

    all that to say: I am very glad to try to start something in a possible good direction to help others.

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from FMPONE

    Lately I've been chilling with my GF and my cute dog. Life could be worse. How are you guys doing?

    exam period for little students like me :) and working on autism to help children overcome this disabling pathology ! So better wait a few years for everyone to make kids so that I can help them when it matters the most :)

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    Quote from Logic

    Well, I don't think cheaters is trying to achieve anything, they just like being superior to others, and since CS is a very skill-based game it's hard to achieve legitimately. Cheats let them play the game the way they want to, but at the cost of others enjoyment, which is why I despise anything cheating related.

    I don't know if you are referring to cheating online or offline in GTA V. I've encountered some obnoxious cheaters in online mode that spawns in 50 NPCs around you just to see you get tazered to death. I do however think that GTA V needs a game mode that you can play with friends where anything could be spawned whitin a click of a button, just to see what types or scenarios people could come up with. This would be the ultimate chaos mode, but fun with friends that are all in on the idea!

    i was talking about offline mode

    yah but when you cheat you basically say that you're really bad at the game :)

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    Why do people keep cheating? You have absolutely nothing to gain with that... you get a better rank but you won't enjoy the game more since you're cheating... they just lose money buying the game every time. Guess valve has an interest in all that, but the cheaters don't so why bother?

    I personally cheat on gta V alone when I just want to have some fun doing something only cheats allow me to do that. You can cheat on cs go on a server with all your friends if you want to do that with them too, because they are in the same state of mind that you are so it can be fun, but in matchmaking etc it's basically useless

  • Rainbow Six: Siege

    Quote from FrieChamp

    Haters gonna hate. I got the full version and I'm having a blast ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    does it run better performance-wise?

    i ask because I had trouble running it this weekend since I haven't got a beast of a pc, but since GTA V runs perfectly well, I had hope for this game :)

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    Quote from Bodd Jonar

    I don't like the layout of season, the roation times makes the map super boring. I like the bomb sites, but it just doesn't work with 35s bombtimers. And removing dust2 would be madness. Teams veto it because it is a dangerous map to play, any team can upset on it since it is so aim heavy.

    yeah so?

    Maybe they just want to lift it a bit visually :)