When you see how many trees there are in some of the levels, you'll know what I mean.
From a 'wow' factor, the objects themselves aren't exactly state of the art. The polygon count per object is fairly low. It's the volumetric explosions, animated objects(like the trees) and most of all, the map textures that kill your performance.
Alas, no. Turning off the tree animations is not possible. But setting the map detail to low will make enough of a difference that the latency created by the trees will be almost non-existent.
"Everyone knows that games spend most of their time running round a single big "main loop," working out the forces on each object, looking for collisions and working out which keys the user is pressing."
Actually, the game is not working out the forces of each object. This is why most objects in 3d fps games are static. Beyond basic collision detection, there is no interaction with the objects. If there are interactive objects in your game, the math involved in calculating the physics of a 3d pack of cigarettes or a 3d can of cola would not only take an enormous ammount of coding to bring to light, but also put undo load on the CPU.
When we worked on Ghost Recon, one of the big problems with physics involved calculating the way the trees swayed in the wind(believe it or not). Part of the solution involved going from multiple wind directions to a single one. The users wouldn't notice it. Heck, we could have made the trees static, thus relieving the system of about 40% of it's performance hit, but we wanted some level of realism in the background and atmosphere.
I don't believe it. I just saw a picture of what these ever-so-confusing ballots in Florida looked like and I do not believe some people can be so...Soo..Stupid?
Here is a link to a picture of what the ballot looks like. How can you NOT understand this?!?! You FOLLOW THE ARROWS. Jeez.
One woman said, "It was so hard to tell who and what you were voting for. I couldn't figure it out, and I have a doctorate."
Now, maybe my vision is better than the average Floridians(or whatever you call them =), but c'mon folks, a third grader could have filled this thing out.
I guess maybe it is true that the candidates up for election are a good indication of the intelligence of the majority. Heh, of course, I can't say anything either. Canadians are just as guilty. Our Prime minister is about as thought-provoking as a pet rock...And he was elected twice.:P
But still, how can you not understand that ballot?! The only thing more idiot-proof would be to put each candidate on their own ballot. But, knowing people, they'd find a way to screw that up too.
The majority of Americans I've met offline and off were for the most part pretty intelligent people, which makes me wonder why someone can raise such a fuss over something like this. It's not like you need to be a brain surgeon to fill out a voting ballot. =)
LOL, I'm half asleep and lookin' for trouble, so feel free to fire away! *grins*
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
Actually, I live in Canada and I'm paying $40/month for my DSL connection. I'd say being able to download 1 megabyte in under 8 seconds is pretty good for my $40.
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
*throws a dictionary at Timothy*
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Yeap, I know how you feel man. Those "impossible dadlines" are always a bitch.
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
"Turn your Internet Explorer to http://www.mozilla.org/, and laugh. This is the product of "thousands" of hard working open source coders. We did that same work, and more, in-house with less than 50 people working on the codebase."
Good to see 'ol Billy has a sense of humour ^_^
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
When you see how many trees there are in some of the levels, you'll know what I mean.
From a 'wow' factor, the objects themselves aren't exactly state of the art. The polygon count per object is fairly low. It's the volumetric explosions, animated objects(like the trees) and most of all, the map textures that kill your performance.
Alas, no. Turning off the tree animations is not possible. But setting the map detail to low will make enough of a difference that the latency created by the trees will be almost non-existent.
Actually, the game is not working out the forces of each object. This is why most objects in 3d fps games are static. Beyond basic collision detection, there is no interaction with the objects. If there are interactive objects in your game, the math involved in calculating the physics of a 3d pack of cigarettes or a 3d can of cola would not only take an enormous ammount of coding to bring to light, but also put undo load on the CPU.
When we worked on Ghost Recon, one of the big problems with physics involved calculating the way the trees swayed in the wind(believe it or not). Part of the solution involved going from multiple wind directions to a single one. The users wouldn't notice it. Heck, we could have made the trees static, thus relieving the system of about 40% of it's performance hit, but we wanted some level of realism in the background and atmosphere.
Oh, don't act like it's your first time.
You heard it here first, folks!
Pyramid-shaped keyboards make baby Osama cry.
That's what I get for reading an article without my morning coffee.
You know it's pretty bad when even Taco starts pointing out grammar mistakes.
Here is a link to a picture of what the ballot looks like. How can you NOT understand this?!?! You FOLLOW THE ARROWS.
Jeez.
One woman said, "It was so hard to tell who and what you were voting for. I couldn't figure it out, and I have a doctorate."
Now, maybe my vision is better than the average Floridians(or whatever you call them =), but c'mon folks, a third grader could have filled this thing out.
I guess maybe it is true that the candidates up for election are a good indication of the intelligence of the majority. Heh, of course, I can't say anything either. Canadians are just as guilty. :P
Our Prime minister is about as thought-provoking as a pet rock...And he was elected twice.
But still, how can you not understand that ballot?! The only thing more idiot-proof would be to put each candidate on their own ballot. But, knowing people, they'd find a way to screw that
up too.
The majority of Americans I've met offline and off were for the most part pretty intelligent people, which makes me wonder why someone can raise such a fuss over something like this.
It's not like you need to be a brain surgeon to fill out a voting ballot. =)
LOL, I'm half asleep and lookin' for trouble, so feel free to fire away! *grins*
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
I'd say being able to download 1 megabyte in under 8 seconds is pretty good for my $40.
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
Now they're out for blood wherever they can get it.
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"
"Turn your Internet Explorer to http://www.mozilla.org/, and laugh. This is the product of "thousands" of hard working open source coders. We did that same work, and more, in-house with less than 50 people working on the codebase."
Good to see 'ol Billy has a sense of humour ^_^
"The good thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs"