Minos

Good call! I always wanted to play Witcher 3, but because of how long the game is, I never had the courage Great move!

I watched it last night.

Damn, awesome find, she's a beauty, congrats  

Lol, this shit is still going on? Wtf

The master directed the first two episodes, this looks amazing, will have to check it out!

I was watching a review of this game the other day and I felt a little sad. So much work and love put into this... so I can replay the exact same game I played a thousand times! Would have been cool if they had come up with at least a few new levels, but I guess that's a very hard thing to do these days   Seems like our culture is stuck in a loop of nostalgia... Capitalist creativity has reached its peak and everyone is afraid of making new things. I wonder what happened that caused this.

With that being said, I will still check out the free key I got for it, the environments look cool!

The new Blade Runner is not a masterpiece but it's an amazing movie. The environments are very believable, really great lighting and surfaces! I would watch it again.

I'm not watching/seeing anything for this movie. I'm going completely virgin 

Elon Musk, knowingly or not, is working hard to bring the Solid State Entity to fruition.

On 8/23/2020 at 4:46 AM, st0lve said:

Hi internets~

I'm good these days, even though I lost my job. Healthy, strong and lots of productive pursuits.

st0lve~

Didn't you start your own company? Or am I tripping? Still skateboarding?

On 8/17/2020 at 4:59 PM, Minos said:

Finally got an Oculus Rift S! After fucking around trying to get it to work for days, I found out that my USB 3.0 didn't provide enough power. Got a new USB card, put it on, Oculus works once, then craps out. I switch around HDMI ports and then it works. I then jump into this game, eager to play it... and I get this annoying stutter every second or so (When I move my head sometimes one frame freezes and I can see the black borders around it).

Now here I go spend another week to figure out what's causing that. I'd guess it has something to do with Oculus Home always being on and using resources unnecessarily. Seems like if you play VR games on Steam not only your GPU has to render the game itself, but also Oculus and SteamVR bloatware in the background. This whole thing feels hacky as fuck (Oculus, not Alyx).

Hopefully I can sort these problems out and enjoy this baby

Turns out the reason why Alyx runs like shit for me is that I have an old CPU. Guess it's time to get a new computer, this baby here has served me very well for 8 years already

11 hours ago, Buddy said:

I was going to complain here but then I made a mental checklist of how things are going and there is honestly nothing I can reasonably complain about.

It's my responsibility to fix stuff that bothers me.. so I guess I really can't have a moan? There are things that are out of our control but most really aren't.

Who am I to say what's right or wrong but you may be depriving yourself from valuable resources by not complaining. It's useful to complain to friends sometimes, you might get a different perspective on what troubles you, some suggestions, or even a pat on the back to give you some energy. (or a hump from behind if your friend is HP).

A bit unrelated, but the other day the weed was super strong and me and a buddy got into a nice philosophical discussion. He argued that people should do whatever they want as long as they don't harm others. I used to live by that thought, but the more I mature, the more I realize that kind of thinking is what got us into some of the troubles we have today. Sure, you should be free to pursue your dreams and Earthly pleasures, but we also need to develop a stronger sense of duty and responsibility if we are to live better lives, and that means doing things that you don't like sometimes, that benefit the greater good, otherwise we just live a meaningless life chasing after material things and pleasure, never feeling quite content or fulfilled.

In Starship Troopers to become a citizen (and have the right to vote) you first have to serve your country. Of course in reality, this would mean fighting other people's wars. But it would be awesome if we had some program to get benefits in exchange for public service. For example, clean some streets or beaches, or paint some walls, and get a tax break etc...

Finally got an Oculus Rift S! After fucking around trying to get it to work for days, I found out that my USB 3.0 didn't provide enough power. Got a new USB card, put it on, Oculus works once, then craps out. I switch around HDMI ports and then it works. I then jump into this game, eager to play it... and I get this annoying stutter every second or so (When I move my head sometimes one frame freezes and I can see the black borders around it).

Now here I go spend another week to figure out what's causing that. I'd guess it has something to do with Oculus Home always being on and using resources unnecessarily. Seems like if you play VR games on Steam not only your GPU has to render the game itself, but also Oculus and SteamVR bloatware in the background. This whole thing feels hacky as fuck (Oculus, not Alyx).

Hopefully I can sort these problems out and enjoy this baby

Very awesome, looks like a fun place to explore in VR!

19 hours ago, +Rusty+ said:

Brilliant!^^

 

Lol, time for my yearly rewatch of this

Game development is all smoke and mirrors my man

6 hours ago, blackdog said:

2020 is really looking like those catastrophic memes that have been going round.

• Two losses in the family, grand uncle and aunt;
• my mom has been diagnosed with spleen lymphoma, she was in the hospital all last week and they already done the first chemo cycle;
• on friday they notified me they would make me redundant (i was expecting it but still sucks, considering colleagues keep saying they need more help and because it feels they made their choice based on my work email address -- I was assigned to a company in the group that doesn't need much design work, for accounting purposes, but I was working for all companies and brands of the group).

If it wasn't for the baby I would have more time to feel sad and sorry. She's been doing so many new things recently, just finally started to pull herself up in the last two days as well... shame she's being a pain in going to sleep but hey.

Life is a bitch sometimes and slaps us in the face, but these moments are also moments of growth and evolution. Sometimes these changes (like the job change) will lead you to an even better job in the future. Best luck to your mom, hope she recovers quickly!

I love Italian movies too  Marcello Mastroianni is king. I love how funny, witty and beautiful they usually are. The Assassin (which is on Amazon Prime), is one of my favorite (despite the title this is more of a comedy than a thriller). Really makes you think. Highly recommended.

I love to watch random Ancient Rome/historical movies (A lot of those were shot at Cinecitta). They feel much more real and believable than any current day CG movie can. The production values are incredible. Usually they are a bit of a drag to watch, but the environments and vibe more than make up for it  

22 hours ago, +Rusty+ said:

After a couple of days of looking at code i thought it may just be an easyer idea to try and just update the original UE4 addon but that turned out to be pretty frustraiting with API updates and understanding the style of the original creator, so was advised it would porbably be better to start from scratch..
So two weeks of constant looking at code and getting to grips with python im finally getting to where i want to be.

Iv managed to create this little custom panel for exporting simple models to UE4 (still very much wip ovc)
-Selected objects name cane be changed within the panel
-When pivot to centre is chekecked, on export the model's pivot is centred
(which is 1 main reason i even wanted this addon because default fbx export causes you to manually move any objects to centre before exporting unless you want to keep blender's scene 1:1 which can also be done if unchecked)
-Exporting normals type's that are used within ue4
-Adding the custom export folder destination with quick and easy acces when shift+click on the folder icon
and ofcourse the export button that adds all the functions within..

Iv still to test more and add a mesh collision panel for also exporting collisions when checked..
Im no coder but learneing alot from this already.

Those are always the first plugins I install when I get a new 3d package  I will try this if I go back to Blender at some point. Question: Does Pivot to Center mean, it places the pivot at the center of the object, or does it move the object to the origin before exporting? If it's the latter, maybe you could rename it to something like "Export Pivot Location" or "Move to Origin Before Export" to avoid confusion  

It's a little Off-topic but is Terragen still a thing? Last I checked the newest versions output amazingly realistic results  I agree that the CS community won't accept a Bloodborne-like skybox, but variation is nice. I remember one of my favorite things to do back in CS 1.6 was to look at the different skyboxes - anyone remembers the skies for 3d-mike's maps, de_laguna etc? Having a beautiful and unique skybox will go a long way to make a map stand-out. If Terragen doesn't work, I'm sure there's a way to convert skies from cgskies to Source format (wouldn't be too hard to set something like this in a modelling program, just place a sphere and turn the camera around to take the screenshots).

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On 7/14/2020 at 11:41 AM, FMPONE said:

I hate when I wake up and see a blue sky. It’s like, hello dumbass sky, can’t you think of another color to be today? 

Perhaps you should consider moving somewhere else. At least on the places I've lived (and visited), the sky has an almost infinite range of colors
 

Very solid blockout, I think you got a winner here   I hope that in the final version you play a bit with lighting. Every CS map I see these days has the exact same lighting, the sky is blue, the sun light is a pale yellow, and the interiors look full bright. Would be nice to get some contrasts here and there (of course making sure not to destroy gameplay), or a more interesting sun angle.

A few months back I had a huge craving for F1, and this series on Netflix kind of satisfied that. I always wondered what the hell was going on before or after the races (since on TV they only showed the actual races), and this gives a very intimate look into the pilots and the day to day paddock life.

14 hours ago, Interfearance said:

Does anyone here watch f1?

I used to ages ago, but it's hard to watch here in the west coast, the times suck!

Nexus is real. He's been producing music on youtube for years, and has an active twitter channel.