Commented 7 years ago2016-10-19 15:10:49 UTC
in journal: #8761Comment #52944
I agree with Ross Scott, VR is just ice on the cake and it's more of a market rather than anything else. Standard 3D is more than enough and I think there is still a lot to explore.
What I don't understand is why isn't it easier to be able to play 3D games with a 360° vision, optionally in 3D? It's already possible to use a smartphone to get a 360° vision, so it's technically supposed to be very simple.
Even if you do have the fastest PC of the world, you would loose a lot of FPS on modern games. We live in a world of WYSIWGR (What You See Is What Gets Rendered), 360° means killing that because it would require more cameras, more cameras = more scenes to render, more scenes to render = more CPU/GPU work, more CPU/GPU work = lags.
UPDATE : AFAIK, VR developers have a set of standards to respect in order to prevent motion sickness, so it's either the standards are bad or the developers don't care.
Commented 7 years ago2016-10-09 22:13:40 UTC
in journal: #8760Comment #68542
Like Instant Mix said : start with "high level programming languages" such as Java and C#, they are both great for learning purposes and also great if you plan to do some applications/games that don't require too much "real time" stuff.
C is a "low level language" meaning that your program is "close to your computer" rather than depending on a CLR for C#/JVM for Java, it's a nice "jack of all trades" for video games but you will have to do more work, Java and C# does many dirty job for you (memory allocation, garbage collector...) but this isn't the case of C.
My suggestion would be to learn the 2 types of languages, start with a "high level one" (Java/C#) then move on to a lower one (C). One mistake that newbies made and you should be aware of : don't rush things and don't use your game project for learning languages, in other words, don't be that guy that knows nothing about programming and start writing an OpenGL renderer (I'm not kidding, I already saw people trying to write an OpenGL renderer and they couldn't even declare a variable).
Another friendly hint: if you have an error during the compilation of your programs the case of errors, don't have the "search on Google" reflex, you look at the error itself, the solution is explained to you very often.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-27 19:25:35 UTC
in journal: #8715Comment #46192
NineTrine is right, EU is supposed to ease the pain of tourism, trading and such. If the "EU leaders" say we open our borders for illegal immigrants, every EU member has to do it and STFU (even if a member disagree with this measure)
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-11 14:41:57 UTC
in journal: #8710Comment #68029
I agree with Striker on one part : external GPUs aren't worth their value and you should save for another laptop (if you are moving a lot) or a desktop PC. Assuming you will buy an external GPU close to a GTX 980 (or another decent GPU), your RAM and CPU won't be able to follow causing a "bottleneck" and you won't get any benefit. Some today games are more CPU intensive rather than GPU intensive (I think it's the case of Assassin Creed Unity). Trust me, before posting my "PC building journey", I already looked at those.
For the trading thingy to get cheaper parts : I'm not a huge fan of that idea, the guy could have done something bad to the part (like bad over-clocking or broke something that will cause it's death in some months) before selling it to you. Cheaper but more risky.
About your brother, like Jessie said, teach him some manners ^^
Quick notice to Striker : an Intel HD 4000 could run League of Legends somewhere close to "High"/"Very High", with the laptop (see details below), I run the game in "Medium" in 60 FPS (drop at 30 FPS if everyone is casting a spell).
Intel Pentium 2020M - 2,4 Ghz dual core 4 Gb RAM Intel HD Graphics 2000 Windows 10 Pro x64 (was forced to leave forever Seven due to huge speed loss) 1366x768 LED screen
With this laptop, here are some games and how they run :
Battleborn : Required several Unreal Engine 3 INI tweaks to run at 15 FPS in closed areas, start to drop to 1 FPS in huge areas. The game is unplayable because I must run in 640x480 fullscreen and set the "render scale" to 50%, this cause the game to be in 320x480 with a horrible black contour. I don't know what the ** Gearbox has done with the UE3 engine. Borderlands 1/2/The-Presequel : Respectively 60/50/40 FPS constant at lowest quality (can be improved with UE3 INI tweaks). Those are UE3 engine games. Counter-Strike Global Offensive : runs at 60 FPS in 1024x768 lowest quality, Source (own branch) game. Deus Ex Human Revolution : between 45 and 60 FPS in 1200x600 with everything set to "Off/Low" both in Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 11, some FPS drops due to "streaming", this is a "Tomb Raider Underworld" engine game, developers always complained that this engine wasn't good for DX:HR. Dishonored : between 50 and 60 FPS in 1200x600, it's an Unreal Engine 3 game. DOOM (2016) : Engine crash (unsupported OpenGL 4.0 ARB extension). id Tech 6 engine. Fallout 4 : Works in the menu, crash when you start a new game. Own engine. Killing Floor 2 : Several UE3 INI engine tweaks were required to run at 60 FPS (no zeds) and 30 FPS (in-game action). If optimized like hell (no textures, no streaming, no shadows, no gore...), it runs at 90 FPS. League of Legends : as said above : "Medium" 60 FPS 1366x768 (drops to 30 FPS if huge number of particle effects). PAYDAY 2 : 30 FPS at 800x600, 2 mods must be installed, the first one is a Direct3D hack to fake an NVIDIA GPU (otherwise the game won't run) and the second one lower the shadow maps resolution. This game isn't optimized anyway (programmed by incompetent monkeys). This is a Diesel engine game. Overwatch : Take a lot of time to load the assets (the weapons and the heroes are invisible for 2/3 minutes) but runs good at 30-60 FPS in the lowest possible quality. I'm happy Blizzard think about players with low end PCs.
Commented 7 years ago2016-06-02 10:11:48 UTC
in journal: #8707Comment #44123
When Urby start streaming, I receive instantly an e-mail about it so I just need to log into my account on Twitch, click this avatar and tada !
Of course, if my phone isn't nearby, I'll miss that e-mail xD
I would also like to stream HL1 related stuff but I don't really know if my laptop and Internet connection will handle it, I made a quick test with a friend by streaming some Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield and he told me that it's fine but sometimes bad.
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Commented 7 years ago2016-05-26 21:21:21 UTC
in journal: #8705Comment #68025
My general culture teacher taught me when I was studying my BTS (the french equivalent of what english people would call BTEC National Diploma) that it's normal for dreams to be weird. Because the main reason of dreaming is to escape an hostile/painful reality, humans seek for a peaceful world or a world where the only thing he has to do is enjoy life, some people confessed dreaming to be a guy like Duke Nukem (without the aliens) or Deadpool.
For years, I used to tell everyone that I wasn't dreaming and I realized that I were wrong for the whole time. Everybody dreams, but for most people, it's hard to remember.
When I was a child, I had a nightmare where my house was on fire like The Sims. I also had a nightmare where I was in space on some kind of space pod with one of my brothers, then I fell down the pod into space.
The most recent nightmare I had was days ago, I was sleeping with my girlfriend at her place and suddenly I realized that my legs and arms were unconsciously moving and I was talking in my sleep. I have never done those before, I was logging on my university portal to find out that I failed the exams and I woke up in a brutal way. I tried to sleep again but it wasn't possible. I remember having gently woke up my girlfriend so she could comfort me and she managed to make me sleep again.
As for "good" dreams, I don't remember having made any of them.
Commented 7 years ago2016-05-15 11:24:55 UTC
in journal: #8703Comment #62845
Building up on what Striker said :
1) The standard support for Windows 7 ended in 2015, the extended support will end in 2020. A lot of enterprises here in France are still on Windows XP and refuses to upgrade to Windows 7 or 10 because they think that Windows XP has been the best Windows in the whole history and I tend to agree with them.
2) Ubuntu is the worst Linux distro since their move to the Unity desktop, if you take a look at Ubuntu 16.10 specs, you need 2 Gb of RAM and 1,2 Ghz of CPU to run it properly. Seriously Canonical ? Do you think I'm gonna ride a Citroën 2 CV when I can ride a Porsche 918 Spyder with Arch Linux ? This is the first thing I'm telling to people that wish to try and/or move to Linux : go for Arch Linux if you have the patience and wish to build a PC that suits you, if you need an "out of the box" Linux distro, go for Manjaro. Windows 10 should have integrated the "standard Linux software", not those "Ubuntu derivatives".
3) Since Windows 8, I've been complaining about the "Access Denied"/"You can't do this unless you have administrator privileges" when you add/edit/remove files outside of your personal folder. One of the solution could be to disable UAC (User Account Control) but some stuff won't work because of that. So you spend your time, copy/paste the file you wish to edit to your desktop, edit that copy, move that copy to overwrite the original with Admin privileges, test if it works and repeat if it don't. Don't get me wrong, when you create an account on Windows, by default it's an "Administrator", in theory, you should have the liberty what pleases on your PC.
Something I hate since Windows 8 are those "Metro" apps like "Mail", "Calendar", it gives me the feeling that I am on my phone and not on my PC. Luckily, we have tools to remove them.
I was running Windows 10 months ago, and I had a notification telling me that "Updates were available", I clicked on it, pressed the "Update Now" button, waited a few minutes and Windows 10 told me that it need to reboot to finish, so I pressed the "Restart now" button. Everything was doing great until instead of having the loading icon at boot time I had a BSoD. I tried rebooting, rebooting in safe mode, using recovery tools in the Windows 10 DVD, Boot-repair (Linux) and my Windows 10 installation was "dead" because of an update. I said that "enough bullshit is enough" and went back to Windows 7. I loose a little bit of performance but I have stability instead.
4) Using that "telemetry blocker" software is the first thing I do after I install Windows 10 for me, my GF or a friend and I agree on the fact that it's YOUR PC and like a software licence would say : you "DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT" and this is what I really like about Linux and I would be moving permanently to it if developers would stop supporting Microsoft only. I know that packaging applications on Linux is a pain in the ***, but it shouldn't be a barrier.
For reminder, the free Windows 10 offer end in 29th July, after that it's a $139 licence cost.
Commented 7 years ago2016-05-07 08:51:20 UTC
in journal: #8700Comment #62836
It was one of my old teachers who "forced" me and my classmates to store our work on Dropbox. After weeks of usage, I loved it.
When I start a new code project or even test, my first reaction is "git init", " git add ." and "git commit -m 'Initial commit'". I defineetly love these tools and can't live without them.
I do have a Facebook account and it's file storage system is a magnificient piece of ** that even a beginner could do bettet.
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Commented 8 years ago2016-03-04 11:57:47 UTC
in journal: #8677Comment #61506
Thanks for the suggestion Kachito, but there is a problem if I want to add another fan to the build : I will need to change the motherboard because the Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H has 1 CPU fan input and 3 system fans inputs. If that extra fan add a lot of value to the build, then I'll try to find another motherboard (again) ^^
Below you will find a very quick and dirty image made in Paint on how I'll consider mounting the build. According to some videos, I will have to be very careful when arranging the cables behind the thing that hold the motherboard because the space there seems tiny but I know that I'll manage. In the worst case scenario, my father has some clamping collars.
UPDATE : I'm definitely going for a 120 Gb SSD instead of a 60 Gb. I have selected every file and folder on my laptop with the exception of games and personal data (music, pictures...), in other words : softwares and OS only. Windows showed me a result of 44,32 Gb which is roughly 80% if a 60 Gb. Thanks again Penguinboy ^^
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-29 21:06:37 UTC
in journal: #8676Comment #44108
That was a very weird dream.
Something that I always ask myself : why can't I remember any of my dreams ? The only one that I remember was when my house was on fire and I was like 8 years old (I'm now 20).
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-24 20:26:05 UTC
in journal: #8670Comment #67371
I tried to do some code in Source 2004 and Source 2013 and it was a horrible experience so I sticked with GoldSource.
I enjoy some time with Unity for a small project. But it's not big and something that could be recreated on a custom engine.
Programming a mutator for KF2 (UE3) and making an unfinished Doom II MAP01 remake (not a copy/paste, job done, cya, but a complete overhaul to fit KF2's theme) also was fun.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 02:42:51 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61498
I guess we live in a world where you are no longer free to tell everyone your real experience in those reviews. Always getting the "censor"/"fake"/"delete" hammer ready to smash anytime and anywhere.
If The Core would become a paid mod then my status report erm... I mean review will be very demanding ^^
ARRANGEMENT also had years of silence and was classified as dead for some people too, but we were doing some stuff there and there.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 02:05:24 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61497
And "to put the cherry on the cake", the developer seems to hate everyone who disliked his mod. One streamer signed a NDA where he could test Prospekt before the game's release but he wasn't allowed to stream, talk, post stuff about it. He gave a review quite similar to mine to end up being banned from the Steam Community, full story here : http://imgur.com/a/ybBEC
Archie, I've been following The Core on ModDB for years and I haven't lost my habit of checking every month for any new stuff that I've might missed. You, Urby and other people involved with The Core are doing a perfect job and it will be a pleasure to play/review and even test the mod ^^
UPDATE : I managed to get the refund, I was close enough of not respecting the conditions.
Commented 8 years ago2016-02-19 01:40:07 UTC
in journal: #8669Comment #61496
Someone said in his Steam review that if you copy/paste the maps and some specific assets from Prospekt to HL2, there will be no difference at all and I agree with that.
Another thing that I forgot to point out : in the game's credits, the author thank you for the money you spent on Prospekt for "another Source engine based game". I fear for the worst that we'll have a similar thingy but with Barney Calhoun instead.
UPDATE : Looks like ValveTime.net disliked the "mod" too.
UPDATE : AFAIK, VR developers have a set of standards to respect in order to prevent motion sickness, so it's either the standards are bad or the developers don't care.
C is a "low level language" meaning that your program is "close to your computer" rather than depending on a CLR for C#/JVM for Java, it's a nice "jack of all trades" for video games but you will have to do more work, Java and C# does many dirty job for you (memory allocation, garbage collector...) but this isn't the case of C.
My suggestion would be to learn the 2 types of languages, start with a "high level one" (Java/C#) then move on to a lower one (C). One mistake that newbies made and you should be aware of : don't rush things and don't use your game project for learning languages, in other words, don't be that guy that knows nothing about programming and start writing an OpenGL renderer (I'm not kidding, I already saw people trying to write an OpenGL renderer and they couldn't even declare a variable).
Another friendly hint: if you have an error during the compilation of your programs the case of errors, don't have the "search on Google" reflex, you look at the error itself, the solution is explained to you very often.
Every time I see a mother/father giving his/her phone to his/her kid in the train. I want to rip and tear the phone.
As for TWHL World, do we consider the project dead or someone has the ownership ?
For the trading thingy to get cheaper parts : I'm not a huge fan of that idea, the guy could have done something bad to the part (like bad over-clocking or broke something that will cause it's death in some months) before selling it to you. Cheaper but more risky.
About your brother, like Jessie said, teach him some manners ^^
Quick notice to Striker : an Intel HD 4000 could run League of Legends somewhere close to "High"/"Very High", with the laptop (see details below), I run the game in "Medium" in 60 FPS (drop at 30 FPS if everyone is casting a spell).
Intel Pentium 2020M - 2,4 Ghz dual core
4 Gb RAM
Intel HD Graphics 2000
Windows 10 Pro x64 (was forced to leave forever Seven due to huge speed loss)
1366x768 LED screen
With this laptop, here are some games and how they run :
Battleborn : Required several Unreal Engine 3 INI tweaks to run at 15 FPS in closed areas, start to drop to 1 FPS in huge areas. The game is unplayable because I must run in 640x480 fullscreen and set the "render scale" to 50%, this cause the game to be in 320x480 with a horrible black contour. I don't know what the ** Gearbox has done with the UE3 engine.
Borderlands 1/2/The-Presequel : Respectively 60/50/40 FPS constant at lowest quality (can be improved with UE3 INI tweaks). Those are UE3 engine games.
Counter-Strike Global Offensive : runs at 60 FPS in 1024x768 lowest quality, Source (own branch) game.
Deus Ex Human Revolution : between 45 and 60 FPS in 1200x600 with everything set to "Off/Low" both in Direct3D 9 and Direct3D 11, some FPS drops due to "streaming", this is a "Tomb Raider Underworld" engine game, developers always complained that this engine wasn't good for DX:HR.
Dishonored : between 50 and 60 FPS in 1200x600, it's an Unreal Engine 3 game.
DOOM (2016) : Engine crash (unsupported OpenGL 4.0 ARB extension). id Tech 6 engine.
Fallout 4 : Works in the menu, crash when you start a new game. Own engine.
Killing Floor 2 : Several UE3 INI engine tweaks were required to run at 60 FPS (no zeds) and 30 FPS (in-game action). If optimized like hell (no textures, no streaming, no shadows, no gore...), it runs at 90 FPS.
League of Legends : as said above : "Medium" 60 FPS 1366x768 (drops to 30 FPS if huge number of particle effects).
PAYDAY 2 : 30 FPS at 800x600, 2 mods must be installed, the first one is a Direct3D hack to fake an NVIDIA GPU (otherwise the game won't run) and the second one lower the shadow maps resolution. This game isn't optimized anyway (programmed by incompetent monkeys). This is a Diesel engine game.
Overwatch : Take a lot of time to load the assets (the weapons and the heroes are invisible for 2/3 minutes) but runs good at 30-60 FPS in the lowest possible quality. I'm happy Blizzard think about players with low end PCs.
Of course, if my phone isn't nearby, I'll miss that e-mail xD
I would also like to stream HL1 related stuff but I don't really know if my laptop and Internet connection will handle it, I made a quick test with a friend by streaming some Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield and he told me that it's fine but sometimes bad.
For years, I used to tell everyone that I wasn't dreaming and I realized that I were wrong for the whole time. Everybody dreams, but for most people, it's hard to remember.
When I was a child, I had a nightmare where my house was on fire like The Sims. I also had a nightmare where I was in space on some kind of space pod with one of my brothers, then I fell down the pod into space.
The most recent nightmare I had was days ago, I was sleeping with my girlfriend at her place and suddenly I realized that my legs and arms were unconsciously moving and I was talking in my sleep. I have never done those before, I was logging on my university portal to find out that I failed the exams and I woke up in a brutal way. I tried to sleep again but it wasn't possible. I remember having gently woke up my girlfriend so she could comfort me and she managed to make me sleep again.
As for "good" dreams, I don't remember having made any of them.
1) The standard support for Windows 7 ended in 2015, the extended support will end in 2020. A lot of enterprises here in France are still on Windows XP and refuses to upgrade to Windows 7 or 10 because they think that Windows XP has been the best Windows in the whole history and I tend to agree with them.
2) Ubuntu is the worst Linux distro since their move to the Unity desktop, if you take a look at Ubuntu 16.10 specs, you need 2 Gb of RAM and 1,2 Ghz of CPU to run it properly. Seriously Canonical ? Do you think I'm gonna ride a Citroën 2 CV when I can ride a Porsche 918 Spyder with Arch Linux ? This is the first thing I'm telling to people that wish to try and/or move to Linux : go for Arch Linux if you have the patience and wish to build a PC that suits you, if you need an "out of the box" Linux distro, go for Manjaro. Windows 10 should have integrated the "standard Linux software", not those "Ubuntu derivatives".
3) Since Windows 8, I've been complaining about the "Access Denied"/"You can't do this unless you have administrator privileges" when you add/edit/remove files outside of your personal folder. One of the solution could be to disable UAC (User Account Control) but some stuff won't work because of that. So you spend your time, copy/paste the file you wish to edit to your desktop, edit that copy, move that copy to overwrite the original with Admin privileges, test if it works and repeat if it don't. Don't get me wrong, when you create an account on Windows, by default it's an "Administrator", in theory, you should have the liberty what pleases on your PC.
Something I hate since Windows 8 are those "Metro" apps like "Mail", "Calendar", it gives me the feeling that I am on my phone and not on my PC. Luckily, we have tools to remove them.
I was running Windows 10 months ago, and I had a notification telling me that "Updates were available", I clicked on it, pressed the "Update Now" button, waited a few minutes and Windows 10 told me that it need to reboot to finish, so I pressed the "Restart now" button. Everything was doing great until instead of having the loading icon at boot time I had a BSoD. I tried rebooting, rebooting in safe mode, using recovery tools in the Windows 10 DVD, Boot-repair (Linux) and my Windows 10 installation was "dead" because of an update. I said that "enough bullshit is enough" and went back to Windows 7. I loose a little bit of performance but I have stability instead.
4) Using that "telemetry blocker" software is the first thing I do after I install Windows 10 for me, my GF or a friend and I agree on the fact that it's YOUR PC and like a software licence would say : you "DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT" and this is what I really like about Linux and I would be moving permanently to it if developers would stop supporting Microsoft only. I know that packaging applications on Linux is a pain in the ***, but it shouldn't be a barrier.
For reminder, the free Windows 10 offer end in 29th July, after that it's a $139 licence cost.
Croatian (auto-detected) => English
Dolje gore gore gore nego gore. => Down up up up up care.
Google Translate :
English => French
Money on it being gory. => L'argent sur elle étant sanglante.
My translation of the previous sentence :
French => English
L'argent sur elle étant sanglante. => The money on it being bloody.
When I start a new code project or even test, my first reaction is "git init", " git add ." and "git commit -m 'Initial commit'". I defineetly love these tools and can't live without them.
I do have a Facebook account and it's file storage system is a magnificient piece of ** that even a beginner could do bettet.
And the map itself.
There was parts 1 to 7 which he explained how the whole system worked but due to the limit of size of his hoster he had to remove them.
After some "weird environment setup" I managed to dodge an error to get another one, making slowly progress.
Nice on the 3333 days thingy ^^
Striker, I greet you, Re-Volt veteran ^^
The good old days of racing the Toyeca in the Museum or in the Supermarket, making the HDD full because of 150 generated tracks xD
Good luck for your Source projects ^^
UPDATE : I have added the "Zalman ZM-F3 FDB(SF)" fan, a "2 fans in one" connector and a 2.5" to 3.5" adaptor for the SSD to the build.
Below you will find a very quick and dirty image made in Paint on how I'll consider mounting the build. According to some videos, I will have to be very careful when arranging the cables behind the thing that hold the motherboard because the space there seems tiny but I know that I'll manage. In the worst case scenario, my father has some clamping collars.
Something that I always ask myself : why can't I remember any of my dreams ? The only one that I remember was when my house was on fire and I was like 8 years old (I'm now 20).
I enjoy some time with Unity for a small project. But it's not big and something that could be recreated on a custom engine.
Programming a mutator for KF2 (UE3) and making an unfinished Doom II MAP01 remake (not a copy/paste, job done, cya, but a complete overhaul to fit KF2's theme) also was fun.
If The Core would become a paid mod then my status report erm... I mean review will be very demanding ^^
ARRANGEMENT also had years of silence and was classified as dead for some people too, but we were doing some stuff there and there.
Archie, I've been following The Core on ModDB for years and I haven't lost my habit of checking every month for any new stuff that I've might missed. You, Urby and other people involved with The Core are doing a perfect job and it will be a pleasure to play/review and even test the mod ^^
UPDATE : I managed to get the refund, I was close enough of not respecting the conditions.
Another thing that I forgot to point out : in the game's credits, the author thank you for the money you spent on Prospekt for "another Source engine based game". I fear for the worst that we'll have a similar thingy but with Barney Calhoun instead.
UPDATE : Looks like ValveTime.net disliked the "mod" too.