Steppenwolf

Agree the plaster makes no sense. Looks like a foreign object. Plaster diffuse is also too bright and the normal map is ugly. But the whole rest of the buildings looks nice.

VR is here to stay now imo. Even should OR, Morpheus etc. flop on the market i think it has inspired enough enthusiast already who will stay on the ball. But i really don't think anymore that 2015 will be the big year for VR as i expected. Ther's just too many things that need to get sorted first. The real breakthrough will come when ther's small 120hz 4k screens (perhaps one for each eye even, GPU's that can render it comfortable, low latence cable free solution (something that perhaps needs to be invented first), optical solution that adjust with no effort,a fov that's at least close to real life and finaly an augmented reality component to it (see representation of your actual body, ability to switch between real life and VR without having to take the thing off each time). Maybe that will take another 10 years but of course there will be a lot inbetween that will excite those of us who care about it.

So did anyone here order a DK2? I received mine today. Finaly got my VR cherry popped. I'm feeling a bit ambiguous right now. On the one hand i'm very excited having gotten my first taste of the future on the other hand it was a reality check just how much still needs to be done. For the next generation OR will look and feel like a Atari 2600. The day started with some trouble to get the thing running but after a bit of research and messing around i finaly got it sorted. First time walking around in VR felt strange. Made me a bit queasy. I was afraid that i could be one who suffers from motion sickness. I got my first proper idea of VR when i tried some Cyberspace Ridge demo. Now that was something. I felt it in my belly like actualy riding a rollercoaster. I also knew then that i don't get motion sickness despite of it. The real highlight of my first day with the Rift was giving Elite: Dangerous a try. The first time looking down on my virtual me, taking a closer look at the instruments, giving the spaceship a spin was a mind bending psychedelic experience. I only know such feelings from tripping balls and lucid dreaming. Now for the not so good parts: It became clear to me that VR is probably still a couple years off from becoming a proper consumer experience. The fov is too small, resolution too low, fiddling around with the settings and cables is a pain. It gets hot under the mask. The lenses are very delicate. Get a bit of sweat and grease on it and the experience is spoiled. I find myself cleaning them all the time. Will keep you up to date with more experiences soon.

Looks awesome man. I think you should go back more closely to your first blockout screenshot. That kinda works as a small park and also has a better composition. You can get away without making cars or anything to bring the streets to life. Maybe put concrete instead of asphalt. That would save you a lot of work.

Yea Zelda is what got my father into TES games. He liked it on DS but his fingers are too big for it so i suggested Oblivion for an adventure on PC. First he was afraid of this sort of game because of his bad motor skills. But starting to play on easy fixed this. It's fun he played like 2000 hours of Skyrim but occasionaly he still asks me to find his way out of a dungeon.

My father loves (literaly putting thousand of hours into each game): - Civilization 5 - TES Oblivion & Skyrim - Anno series - Total War series - Mount & Blade He started gaming only a couple years ago and his motor skills are really bad but that doesn't stop him to enjoy the games. What the old folks lack in skill is compensated by their enthusiasm. They are literaly like little kids enjoying to play video games because it's new to them and they didn't grew up with it. My mom is the same. She's bad at pretty much every game but puts thousands of hours into Mario, Zelda etc.

No i didn't say that. The situation is different. In Russia the government itself corrupts the media. In the west media AND governments are corrupted by private political and/or economic lobby groups. Of course ARD/ZDF isn't comparable to something like RT or Fox News whose whole reason for existance is to push an agenda. But ARD/ZDF arn't free of an agenda of their own either. Frontal 21 for example has a long history of bullshit reporting. And public broadcasters are just one aspect of western media. Most plebs in Germany get their opinions from Bild and RTL. Bild for example is completely one sided in the way they report about Ukraine. Their narrative about the Maidan protests always was "our beloved sporting hero Klitscho leads the heroic fight for freedom of poor Ukrainian people". I knew through other sources all along that parts of the protesters were neonazis and thugs. The first time Bild even mentioned it was after Janukovich fled. It also took them very long to mention the ethnic divide of Ukraine. So if you want to really understand a situation you can't put your trust in just one media source. You have to filter through all kinds of media outlets, do a bit of research of your own about history behind events and most important use your own head.

Everybody knows most of the media is corrupt. What i find a big difference is the attitude of the population tho. Most Russians just seem to swallow state run media whereas people in the west call out their media all the time for bullshit reporting. It doesn't surprise me when US officials lie and it doesn't surprise me how toothless EU/US reacts to the Russian provocations. They are shitting their pants because it could cost our economies a couple billions. There is another lesson to be learned here which is that one oligarch does not pick another oligarch's eye out.

So Russia is acting like it does because its neighbors act like they do because Russia acts like it does? NATO as an aggressor fits well into the Russian narrative but the reality is that countries like the baltic countries would be Russian puppets again without NATO protection und suffer the same violations of freedom and human rights as people in Belorussia for example.

Yea how dare NATO to protect its borders against an increasingly rabid and unpredictable neighbor.

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140722/191112937/Russia-to-Respond-Adequately-to-NATO-Expansion-Putin.html More cold war bullshit from Putin. What makes it so devious is that it's HIM who expanded his military presence in western direction over last couple months in practical terms. It's the same "Evil NATO prepares to attack us" bullshit when Soviet Union had 3 times more tanks in their doctrine for steam roling northern Europe.

Man Minos you are falling hard for Whataboutism there :/ Better to understand the propaganda then to search the truth in the middle between RT and Fox News.

That's what Russia Today wants you to believe. But blaming the crisis on the west is a total disregard of the ugly history between Russian oppressors and ethnic Ukrainians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) and the fact that a convicted rapist and election fraudster (of Russian ethnicity) was in charge of the contracts. Moscow was stirring the shit from the beginning.

Pay more attention to the Russian propaganda apparatus and the laws that Putin comes up with. Everything is pointing in a direction that separates Russia more and more from the western world and reignates pride in the Soviet era. A cold war is only a logical consequence of that. Russian media and political rhetoric is full of of the whataboutism that was so typical for the propaganda rhetoric of the communist era. And read some comments from brainwashed Russians on the internet. It's all "Nato this, CIA that". The cold war is back in people's heads and not much is missing for it to become official state doctrine. When i say new Soviet Union i don't mean one Stalin style tho. Putin and his gang are oligarchs. He's probably aiming for something that's similar to the Chinese model. One ruling party with an almost unrestricted capitalist system that allows the oligarchs and party officials to fill their pockets to the brim. And Russian people will not give a shit for the most part as long as they can feel their national pride. Just take a look at the Sochi Olympics and how little resistance and outcry there was to the unprecedented corruption.

Sending in Nato troops to Ukraine is just what Russia's propaganda machinery is waiting for and it's playing with fire. Suppose they get attacked then we have Nato troops fighting Russian troops right next to Russia's border. I'm afraid there isn't really much the west can do for now. Putin WANTS cold war 2.0. It's the best that can happen to him to be seen as a strong leader who shows the middle finger to "decadend and degenerate west" and by that holding all the power in his hands to become a proper dictator. He's not giving much about freedom and human rights already and it will only get worse the closer he gets to building his new Soviet Union. All that the west can do is to play the long game, getting rid of our economic dependencies (with the Middle East aswell while we are at it) and not fall for Russias provocations and cold war antics.

Some happy kid is going to Disneyland for his birthday.

This looks painfully religious themed. Not sure if want.

My money is on trigger happy rebels who got their hands on some fancy toys. Doubt it's a false flag operation of some sorts. Would neither benefit Ukraine or Russia. As tragic as it is this is not RMS Lusitania. Commercial planes will avoid the region, maybe couple years down the line someone will be held responsible in a court. That's all that's gonna happen.

haha yea some idiots try to make a scandal where there is no scandal. Just the kind of people who cried themself to sleep every night for the last month because "celebrating German football team = 4th Reich in the making".

Yea i wasn't a huge fan of Nitrious first because some stuff looks different then what i used to (and i hate change) and ther's still the odd artifact or bug but when i saw that i get tons more fps with it and runs way smooth that became secondary complaints.

Opens instantly for me. Infact max never as was quick as in the recent versions and i've worked with some super detailed models recently. What drivers do you use inside max? The Nitrous drivers are 4-5 times faster for me then the old DX drivers. I agree about the pilled up ui clutter tho. I hope they will unify the menus eventualy

Names are long overdue to be eligible for compound words anyway.

Turns out on monday morning about 5am i ordered a jersey that has "Müllerthomas" printed on the back.

Yea i hate Maya with a passion. I heard it's getting better but i don't even want to try it. It's like once you had food poisoning after eating a fish no matter how delicious fish is afterwards even looking at it gives you a gag reflex ^^ Max on the other hand i like more and more even after years. Using it with Rappatools and xrayunwrap is a blast to me. Even Modo that so many people rave about doesn't feel as solid and intuitive to me (it has a couple feautures that i wish max had tho, like mesh fusion and falloffs).

No idea where the Max rumors come from. Digital Tutors ran with a blog post about it recently but i read it before. Someone pointed out that Max is Autodesk's second best selling software (don't remember which was number 1 but it wasn't Maya). So i think it's safe to say that it's all bollocks.