Does it need to be paid in a specific way? I would like to see the most petty way it could be paid out. I imagine with such a large amount people would quit or refuse to count it.

A lot of different game styles could work with a single directional light, with different possible techniques (ceiling/background) for top-down and 1st/3rd-person.

Though I think I found the best way:

NORMAL = (vec3(NORMAL.x, 1.0, NORMAL.z));

EDIT: Actually, diffuse_lambert_wrap is what I’m looking for. Although for more distinct shadows, the normal editing does look better than the other shading modes.

Volumetric fog seems to tie it all together, working even on unshaded and seems to pair well with a lot of settings to give different aesthetic options. Really fun just iterating on settings (lights, environment, materials, shader) in my test scene with a simple gridmap. But my editor keeps crashing.

I’m feeling a workflow here, and really liking the effort:results ratio. I have a fever dream of a scene and more ideas too.

Me, haunting those responsible for the wording:

not a cyborg.

For a practical test, search for kbin.social (and then ctrl+f for it also to get the direct results). Or, just look at a community: !kbinMeta@kbin.social

The only thing that appears missing is the avatars images. Though I assume the text content is doomed in the long-run when it comes to new instances, as I doubt re-federation (3rd-party federation) is a thing. Unless of course, someone manually crossposts said content.

I feel it’s more true for Nim-lang. No dealing with pointers (it’s possible, just not a normal thing like int**, Nim has newer memory management options like arc/orc). There’s also stuff like for i in 0 .. 9 (and ranges like that have more options/uses too)**

I mean I guess there is overlap (both languages have UFCS and interop). So it might come down to syntax or specific implementation. Though I imagine for those who like the braces style, there are other options to look at like Zig (or Rust, there is complexity but also popularity).

I know there is some difficulty when it comes to a language being niche (at least when lacking knowledge), and that’s certainly my experience with Nim.

* the asterisk is instead used for public+importable

** I guess D does have this as foreach (i; 0 .. 3), though not quite the same

Even in the deepest suburbs it’s not that hard to form community and connection with your neighbors.

I get that it’s less “fun” to go out and make friends if you don’t got a riverwalk and cafes, but the most important ingredient is still there, which is other people you just need to step up and make things happen.

There are so many angles to why isolated people don’t “just go out and talk to people”, though I will spare the rant as I live in an area likely much less densely populated than a suburb so I’m not sure how well my experience would map to what you’re saying.

Well, other than it’s a lot easier for some people than others due to many aspects (like the bit you mention about dogs will work better for someone who also has a dog) but those are already the sort of things that are the difference between someone with some sort of social life vs someone with none.

You use AI to code for you.

I alone use the wrong type of hammer to slowly and frustratedly get very basic tasks accomplished once every season if I’m lucky…

we are not the same.

All I can think here is

An elderly Walmart greeter:

“Go ahead hero, pull the trigger. You got killer in your eyes, son? …I don’t see it.”

On the other hand: anything anti-consumer like this (like bricking game consoles) has potential to backfire in a myriad of ways when the inevitable exploits are found.

Ransomware customers, target people you don’t like (perhaps even by employees), or simply brick devices to cause returns and/or drive up customer support costs, or just cause a scandal to tarnish the brand itself (or force recalls/end of sales in places that actually have consumer protections). EDIT: Also imagine a dealership where no truck can even be driven off the lot, especially if they all need something like the computer to be fixed/replaced.

The closer to a real brick it is (rather than just a soft lockout), the more potential there is for disaster. Also it reinforces exactly the sentiment that’d cause people to look for said exploits.

Kind of (300+ miles on the trail), though I’ve never found anything close to a friend or a money.

Going outside when you’re nowhere near a city:

(in USA at least)

It could include all that you’ve mentioned

Well, tell me if you find some better sculpting option than Blender. A lot of promising options (clay-like or SDF) are locked behind licenses etc. (and obviously I care more about low/medium-poly aesthetic)

Other stuff probably has its own limitations or is just more suited for environment (such as voxel terrain or CSG).

Would be clearer if you gave an example.

I’m guessing you mean VR painting. Or something similar like 3D sculpting (with some device setup that feels more immersive)?

There’s also texture painting and vertex painting*, but those are only part of working on something 3D.

* and no I don’t mean in the behind-the-scenes way it’s often used for some technical feature, I mean vertex color that is used for the final (likely low-poly) result. Like

I guess you could even mean mini/model painting (I say because you also posted this on the 3Dprinting community).

Look at how some of my examples are 2D, motion style is not really core to my point. Many variants of fixed-camera, top-down, sidescroller, even static/semi-static art are possible.

I mean I guess if you make a cool skybox like that you’ll want players to be able to look at it somewhat freely. Is it specific to flying/camera speed or any 3rd-person game? 1st-person? Can settings help, or is this something that would not work with faster-paced games?

I do see that less motion seems to help, one person said higher FOV+big display with distance (among other non-digital things)… though I don’t think I’ve ever had motion sickness from a game (though I think I do have some issue related to inner ear) so I can’t be sure.

I know personally if I’m able to make anything, it’ll probably be on the smoother/simpler side. For example, I made a simple character controller and adding view bob never entered my mind. Probably no filters either.

Abandon widespread* texture use, return to polygons+vertex colors+in-engine cutscenes (and similar data-saving techniques like soundfonts).

And for something not-by-me, see Spyro’s vertex color skyboxes.

* general normal maps are ok, but I didn’t have much luck beyond using generated noise for metal. I even tried some stuff with watercolor, maybe with better shaders it could work but untextured is easier.

Or another example, any material you can just apply without alteration (for instance, make something look like wood) is alright too. Maybe UV mapping is not too bad, but extra per-model work is not ideal.

They mean live vs just existing.

Hey, give a little credit to our public schools (poorly-optimized eye-candy) new games! (where 10-20GiB is now considered small)

I still see it being an issue of pricing and questionable value (over older/used/already-owned) of a bottlenecked part, particularly when it ends up with users who aren’t esports users (for a multitude of reasons). In other words: stagnation.

It’s more obvious with AMD selling new 4GB cards still in the budget category rather than ultra-budget, as in they aren’t raising the floor. The jokes still work:

EDIT: There were even polaris GPUs with 8GB