OH well in that case, you'll be glad to know that everything within my pissy little demo was completely independant of everything else. Every single box you see there could have it's own mass, forces, attenuation, etc. just for the sake of simplicity I only made two different types. I could also adjust the gravity on the fly as well as all the above mentioned attirbutes of every new box "shot". Oh and I have spheres. Of different sizes.
And I didn't use PhysX.
And the whole point I was trying to make was that I could do this in the space of about a day or two and I'm CERTAINLY no expert in the matter, so why has it taken this long for game developers to really adopt it?
Plus, you do realise that MOST game physics simply overlay complicated objects with geometrically simple shapes? You might scoff at simple box collisions, but they're fast, efficient and can apply to most objects you'd have in a game. I dare say people would be more impressed with 2000 items bouncing mostly realistically around the place than 200 items bouncing extremely realistically around. Or maybe that's just me. Anyway, I've forgot what it is I was saying now, I think you missed what I was saying a little and focussed on the inadequacies of my little app when you should have focused on the inadequacies of most games released these days.
Players will also be able to battle against other vessels in laser-blasting, missile-firing deep space scuffles reminiscent of "The Wrath of Khan" and the Dominion War in "Deep Space Nine."
Yes, because those lasers and missiles were the key weapons in both of those events. If they don't know that phasers and torpedoes are two completely different things, I don't expect them to understand the various intricacies of the franchise. Oh well, a crap star trek game? At least it wont be disappointing, it's what we've come to expect.
Indeed, my ISP (bethere.co.uk) had some serious routing issues just last night, I couldn't even access the likes of Google and OpenDNS was entirely unreachable. However, good ol' Tor saved the day and I was able to browse as normal (Albeit slowly and carefully, so as to not send any important cookies or passwords) for the 2 and a half hours or so it took for them to fix it. Bollocks to privacy and all that, Tor has many applications and uses that I've come to rely on.
When I first read the title, my brain froze and for some reason I had every expectation that this audio would be "Help me Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope"...
Ahh fuck, I accidentally used BBCode instead of HTML. I'd post the proper link here, but in retrospect I'd rather not risk my photobucket account getting slashdotted, so anything to thin out the numbers of potentially curious people...
I wouldn't call myself an expert by a long shot, but I myself made a [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/neoKushan/Random%20Program%20creations/newtexts.png]simple app[/url] that had "lots of boxes falling" around the place and it worked fine without PhysX hardware or other. It was completely unoptimised as well, yet on a fairly limited machine I could have hundreds of boxes colliding all over the shop without much of a frame drop. I'm not bragging or trying to sound "kewel", I'm just saying that it's not exactly difficult to do this stuff and every game I've seen so far that supposedly has "super realistic physics" has always disappointed me on so many levels. Perhaps with some hardware acceleration, we'll see some really destructible environments in games. One can only hope...
Actually it's because long ago before PhysX was owned by AGAIA, it was called "NovodoX".
Obviously this name sucked ass to some management types, so they decided to change it to something more appropriate and more importantly, more descriptive.
It's a Physics library, so there's where the "Phys" part comes from, the X is clearly a holdover from "NovodoX", probably as a way of indicating that it's the same library, just with a different name.
Well fuck me, all those recent outbreaks of common sense came at a cost after all - an outbreak of pure, unadulterated stupidity. Thus the world is balanced and continues to spin for yet another day...
But shouldn't there be a law against tampering with elections? Like....a really really really serious, potentially company-destroying law? The kind of law that would have fines and penalties so great, diebold is sent to the brink of bankruptcy and it's CEO's are all incarcerated? Maybe that's a little extreme sounding to some, but when you consider that the very foundations your country was built on are at stake, you have to take a tough stand. I certainly don't agree with the death penalty or anything like that, but I do think this should be a matter of the utmost importance.
It depends on the deadline. Internal deadlines are what I'm referring to. Obviously if a big publisher wants something done by a certain date, it's knuckle-down time until it gets done, same with any company.
Thank you for your genuine response, it does actually make a lot of sense, society always seems to find a way to test it's boundaries and this is just another way of doing it. My question was genuine, though, for some reason things like this interest me. In a previous life, I was probably a psychiatrist or something.
Since we're all already getting modded off-topic anyway, allow me to explain my sig. Previously, it used to just say "If you're reading this, I'm bored at work. Then again, so are you.", then one day a fellow/.er posted this comment and I decided to change it because it was funny. It was in no way meant to troll, however I can now see how it might be interpreted that way. I'll probably change it when I find something better.
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I guess that means the chances of finding INTELLIGENT life out there just went UP a notch or two.
My theory is that one day he decided to drive himself to the white house.
OH well in that case, you'll be glad to know that everything within my pissy little demo was completely independant of everything else. Every single box you see there could have it's own mass, forces, attenuation, etc. just for the sake of simplicity I only made two different types.
I could also adjust the gravity on the fly as well as all the above mentioned attirbutes of every new box "shot". Oh and I have spheres. Of different sizes.
And I didn't use PhysX.
And the whole point I was trying to make was that I could do this in the space of about a day or two and I'm CERTAINLY no expert in the matter, so why has it taken this long for game developers to really adopt it?
Plus, you do realise that MOST game physics simply overlay complicated objects with geometrically simple shapes? You might scoff at simple box collisions, but they're fast, efficient and can apply to most objects you'd have in a game. I dare say people would be more impressed with 2000 items bouncing mostly realistically around the place than 200 items bouncing extremely realistically around. Or maybe that's just me.
Anyway, I've forgot what it is I was saying now, I think you missed what I was saying a little and focussed on the inadequacies of my little app when you should have focused on the inadequacies of most games released these days.
Yes, because those lasers and missiles were the key weapons in both of those events.
If they don't know that phasers and torpedoes are two completely different things, I don't expect them to understand the various intricacies of the franchise.
Oh well, a crap star trek game? At least it wont be disappointing, it's what we've come to expect.
Ahh, of course. I am simple after all.
Still, cheers for that informative post and double cheers for not making a dick out of me!
What's actually stopping people from growing their own Marijuana?
Perhaps I'm just too simple to get it, but is there a joke behind "labaia.org"? Does that mean something in italian or sweedish?
Indeed, my ISP (bethere.co.uk) had some serious routing issues just last night, I couldn't even access the likes of Google and OpenDNS was entirely unreachable. However, good ol' Tor saved the day and I was able to browse as normal (Albeit slowly and carefully, so as to not send any important cookies or passwords) for the 2 and a half hours or so it took for them to fix it.
Bollocks to privacy and all that, Tor has many applications and uses that I've come to rely on.
When I first read the title, my brain froze and for some reason I had every expectation that this audio would be "Help me Obi-wan Kenobi, you're my only hope"...
Ahh fuck, I accidentally used BBCode instead of HTML.
I'd post the proper link here, but in retrospect I'd rather not risk my photobucket account getting slashdotted, so anything to thin out the numbers of potentially curious people...
I wouldn't call myself an expert by a long shot, but I myself made a [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v438/neoKushan/Random%20Program%20creations/newtexts.png]simple app[/url] that had "lots of boxes falling" around the place and it worked fine without PhysX hardware or other. It was completely unoptimised as well, yet on a fairly limited machine I could have hundreds of boxes colliding all over the shop without much of a frame drop.
I'm not bragging or trying to sound "kewel", I'm just saying that it's not exactly difficult to do this stuff and every game I've seen so far that supposedly has "super realistic physics" has always disappointed me on so many levels.
Perhaps with some hardware acceleration, we'll see some really destructible environments in games.
One can only hope...
Actually it's because long ago before PhysX was owned by AGAIA, it was called "NovodoX".
Obviously this name sucked ass to some management types, so they decided to change it to something more appropriate and more importantly, more descriptive.
It's a Physics library, so there's where the "Phys" part comes from, the X is clearly a holdover from "NovodoX", probably as a way of indicating that it's the same library, just with a different name.
Well fuck me, all those recent outbreaks of common sense came at a cost after all - an outbreak of pure, unadulterated stupidity.
Thus the world is balanced and continues to spin for yet another day...
That's easy: Greed.
But shouldn't there be a law against tampering with elections? Like....a really really really serious, potentially company-destroying law?
The kind of law that would have fines and penalties so great, diebold is sent to the brink of bankruptcy and it's CEO's are all incarcerated?
Maybe that's a little extreme sounding to some, but when you consider that the very foundations your country was built on are at stake, you have to take a tough stand.
I certainly don't agree with the death penalty or anything like that, but I do think this should be a matter of the utmost importance.
What about embedded windows?
I hope you understand the futility of trying to explain sexual relations to those on slashdot.
Why on earth would he go to all this trouble when there's any number of friendly Filipino women out there willing to do the same at a low-low cost?
It depends on the deadline. Internal deadlines are what I'm referring to. Obviously if a big publisher wants something done by a certain date, it's knuckle-down time until it gets done, same with any company.
Because smaller companies are more relaxed and not as arsey about hitting deadlines.
I am quite sure they will say so.
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Thank you for your genuine response, it does actually make a lot of sense, society always seems to find a way to test it's boundaries and this is just another way of doing it.
My question was genuine, though, for some reason things like this interest me. In a previous life, I was probably a psychiatrist or something.
Since we're all already getting modded off-topic anyway, allow me to explain my sig. Previously, it used to just say "If you're reading this, I'm bored at work. Then again, so are you.", then one day a fellow /.er posted this comment and I decided to change it because it was funny. It was in no way meant to troll, however I can now see how it might be interpreted that way. I'll probably change it when I find something better.
If that succeeds, I'm going to rename myself "satan" and then sue the Vatican to get them to give me back my good name.
I don't really mean to feed the troll, I'm genuinely curious as to the reasons and mentality behind posting such random rubbish.