Whenever a game is produced it is decided how much physics will go into the game, this is dictated by a lot of factors, some of which are (in no particular order):
1) Possible cost. (Do you buy a prebuilt physics engine? Or spend developer time on it?)
2) How realistic does the game need to be?
3) How realistic can you make the game? With given platform constraints.
It won't be long before people begin to notice not just the graphics/game engine (Such as the famous Q2 and Q3 engines) but also who's physics/mechanics engines are being used...
Background:
I've got a degree (BSc Hons) in Physics, I work at a games development house as a programmer.
It wouldn't be so bad if when you pruchased a license to use their product you were offered:
option a:
Pay more for the license NOW, support guarenteed for 10 years.
option b:
Pay less for the license NOW, support for 2 years, then subscrition support thereafter.
If they justify re-charging to cover support costs then this is a far more honest way of doing it.
If they wanna characge because their product license has expired, then tough.
After all nodoby buys a product 'software', just a license to use software. If the license has limited lifetime perhaps consumers in this market economy should shop elsewhere?
We use dual processor machines here as WORKSTATIONS.
Sure I can't see the point if we are talking about having a DP machine at home for your personal use, but in industry time = money. The amount of time our artists spend waiting for photoshop to filter an image or our programmers have to sit and wait for a compile to run IS an issue for us. That and maybe, if they have to wait a while we'd like them to be able to get on with something else in the mean time.
I'm a programmer, I quit frequently have 2 or 3 compiles running at the same time, as I'm hooked up to test hardware downloading a buld and testing/debugging it.
PIII 450MHz 384MB memory Voodoo 3 3000.
X Server? Can't tell you for sure, it's the most up to date accelerated version offered to me when I install Mandrake 8.
This is a serious question.....
I use an out of the box Mandrake 8 install on my machine and while I prefer using it (and KDE2) to Win98 (which is on the other partition) the speed of both the windowing environment and the applications under GNU/Linux is nowhere near what I could get under Win98. Question: Why?
Personally I agree with an earlier post about ditching X11 and starting again.
As soon as the appeal court notices that this is a US company versus a European company they'll decide that the verdict damages the US economy and over turn it.
I work at a games development house and recently asked pretty much the same question of one of our lead designers on behalf of a friend who was looking for work. He said most designers start out as testers to get a foothold in the games world.
And to elaborate on the subject line.... just because you have IT industry experience this doesn't mean you can get into the games industry. They are, from what I can tell having worked in both, pretty separate entities.
Isn't it just about time that humans decided to live within the ecosystem in a sustainable fashion rather than trying to destroy it?
We live beyond our means in terms of energy consumption and localised areas of the world produce populations that cannot be sustained in those areas. (The UK for example couldn't exist in isolation due to over population)
I wonder if we'll ever decide that it's time to stop f'ing the planet and control ourselves?
Forget human rights, what about the rigths of humanity to live within a sustainable none ecology destroying ecosystem?
rant mode=off
Can I assume from the use of dollars and the mention of the states that this is a yank question?
Tarifs etc. for cellphones vary wildly from country to country, I could understand asking slashdot if you were gonna use it internationally, but slashdot has an international readership who might not be interested in US phone tarifs.
Come on you guys, I for one want quality on this site, not quantity. You are fast being eclipsed by the register for quality geek articles and sound/noise ration.
... is that 25% of the people voting on slashdot arn't US citizens.
Now I'm aware that the US political world can shape the future of the global geek world, but IMHO this slashdot poll should nudge slashdot away from it's US centric postition.
While I don't mind an open discussion on the geek effects of the US drongoid election lets leave out the politics eh?
Slashdot Mirror
Whenever a game is produced it is decided how much physics will go into the game, this is dictated by a lot of factors, some of which are (in no particular order):
1) Possible cost. (Do you buy a prebuilt physics engine? Or spend developer time on it?)
2) How realistic does the game need to be?
3) How realistic can you make the game? With given platform constraints.
It won't be long before people begin to notice not just the graphics/game engine (Such as the famous Q2 and Q3 engines) but also who's physics/mechanics engines are being used...
Background:
I've got a degree (BSc Hons) in Physics, I work at a games development house as a programmer.
It wouldn't be so bad if when you pruchased a license to use their product you were offered:
option a:
Pay more for the license NOW, support guarenteed for 10 years.
option b:
Pay less for the license NOW, support for 2 years, then subscrition support thereafter.
If they justify re-charging to cover support costs then this is a far more honest way of doing it.
If they wanna characge because their product license has expired, then tough.
After all nodoby buys a product 'software', just a license to use software. If the license has limited lifetime perhaps consumers in this market economy should shop elsewhere?
We use dual processor machines here as WORKSTATIONS.
Sure I can't see the point if we are talking about having a DP machine at home for your personal use, but in industry time = money. The amount of time our artists spend waiting for photoshop to filter an image or our programmers have to sit and wait for a compile to run IS an issue for us. That and maybe, if they have to wait a while we'd like them to be able to get on with something else in the mean time.
I'm a programmer, I quit frequently have 2 or 3 compiles running at the same time, as I'm hooked up to test hardware downloading a buld and testing/debugging it.
PIII 450MHz 384MB memory Voodoo 3 3000.
X Server? Can't tell you for sure, it's the most up to date accelerated version offered to me when I install Mandrake 8.
This is a serious question.....
I use an out of the box Mandrake 8 install on my machine and while I prefer using it (and KDE2) to Win98 (which is on the other partition) the speed of both the windowing environment and the applications under GNU/Linux is nowhere near what I could get under Win98.
Question: Why?
Personally I agree with an earlier post about ditching X11 and starting again.
As soon as the appeal court notices that this is a US company versus a European company they'll decide that the verdict damages the US economy and over turn it.
PS. This is a TROLL
I work at a games development house and recently asked pretty much the same question of one of our lead designers on behalf of a friend who was looking for work. He said most designers start out as testers to get a foothold in the games world.
And to elaborate on the subject line.... just because you have IT industry experience this doesn't mean you can get into the games industry. They are, from what I can tell having worked in both, pretty separate entities.
like this:
http://totl.net/STI/
Isn't it just about time that humans decided to live within the ecosystem in a sustainable fashion rather than trying to destroy it?
We live beyond our means in terms of energy consumption and localised areas of the world produce populations that cannot be sustained in those areas. (The UK for example couldn't exist in isolation due to over population)
I wonder if we'll ever decide that it's time to stop f'ing the planet and control ourselves?
Forget human rights, what about the rigths of humanity to live within a sustainable none ecology destroying ecosystem? rant mode=off
Can I assume from the use of dollars and the mention of the states that this is a yank question?
Tarifs etc. for cellphones vary wildly from country to country, I could understand asking slashdot if you were gonna use it internationally, but slashdot has an international readership who might not be interested in US phone tarifs.
Come on you guys, I for one want quality on this site, not quantity.
You are fast being eclipsed by the register for quality geek articles and sound/noise ration.
... is that 25% of the people voting on slashdot arn't US citizens.
Now I'm aware that the US political world can shape the future of the global geek world, but IMHO this slashdot poll should nudge slashdot away from it's US centric postition.
While I don't mind an open discussion on the geek effects of the US drongoid election lets leave out the politics eh?