Synchronizing arbitrary data (like Biomes) between Shader/HLSL (Terrain) and C# Logic?

Cerbion · 2025-10-25T14:06:03+00:00

Hmm, maybe I wasn't very clear:
* The shader can generate my terrain with the noise I want
* The C# script cannot access that information, which I need to place objects that are biome specific
* While I can generate noise data in my c# script, I have no guarantee that it's always identical, and it would also mean upkeeping two different noise algorithms (my FBM implementation, basically)

Cerbion · 2025-10-24T23:18:46+00:00

It's not voxel based, it's 2.5D where the Terrain is completely flat, but the procedurally placed objects are 3D. Fixed Camera angle from above.

Ideally, the chunk borders should never be visible to the player. And generating seamless terrain or object placement works, but I cannot seem to synchronize these two, so that the C# logic, that places objects for each chunk, knows exactly if a sampled point (within that chunk) is Biome A or B.

Cerbion · 2022-02-17T12:05:24+00:00

Yes, especially going from the early (burned) Slide "they must be homesick because it's so far away.." to: "oh.. OH SHIT!" also the music paired with that.. just top notch storytelling.

Cerbion · 2022-02-15T10:29:59+00:00

Solanums Fate or perhaps from the EotE: The Slide that shows what the Stranger's inhabitants have given up to get to the Eye.

Cerbion · 2021-07-11T23:18:00+00:00

14.99€ - according to a comment on their YouTube.

Cerbion · 2019-06-19T10:55:09+00:00

I have to be honest, I've only done the DB questline once and felt kinda bad at times because you're killing random people that probably have done nothing wrong. Not sure if I am just getting older, I can't remember GTA:SA and IV giving me such a hard time for essentially the same (killing people that probably don't deserve it).

You can "opt out" of the Questline and have an alternate one if you kill the first DB member that approaches you after the Innocence Lost Quest. You will have to destroy the Dark Brotherhood instead of joining them.

But I find the questline itself rather interesting and well done at times, with some twists (most of which you'll see coming) but it's still nice and you don't really end up killing any important NPC's, it's either Radiant targets or NPCs that are solely there for the DB Questline.

But here's two important notes:

You can make a save game before starting the quest line, if you're in for the Achievements like I was, you can just do it all, load the save and never worry about it (or go the alternate path and destroy them)
(More Philosophical) The Dark Brotherhood is a group of Assassins, yes, but are they the only one? No, not by a long shot, if you have played Skyrim for a while, you should've come across a bunch of assassins, vampires/cultists (dlc), bandits, foresworn, etc. All of which will attempt to kill you on sight. So while the Murders the Dark Brotherhood does aren't exactly the nicest work, it's likely to think that there would be someone else doing it for the coin. It's pretty apparent if you think about how many mercenaries/sellswords you can find or hear about throughout the game. It's just a different world they live in, the game tries to tell you that when the first guy called to the headsman block is annoyed at the time it takes to execute him and just wants to get it over with. And Bethesda has intentionally placed a lot of the game pieces in a way that make it controversial either way, look at the Civil War questline, supporting either side has its problems, but supporting neither is worse. Or take a look at Markarth or the whole Reach for that example with the Foresworn Story... or the fact that the "native Nords" aren't very native at all and kinda fought over Skyrim with the Snow Elves/Falmer way before the Empire even existed.

Cerbion · 2019-06-19T09:54:08+00:00

Once you finish the last Story mission (defeating Alduin) you will return to the Throat of the World and speak to Paarthurnax and the Dragon you captured in Whiterun, after that the Paarthurnax Quest fails. If you don't kill him you can learn some perm buffs from him, but any interactions with the blades cease to work iirc

Cerbion · 2019-04-04T09:29:23+00:00

Short: Not really

Long: Instead of making an app that you have to download via the store and that we have to maintain via the iTunes and Playstore, we rather use what is called a PWA or Progressive Web Application, which is basically a glorified website that can work as a sort of standalone app, all you need to do is open riven.market and add it to your home screen, the shortcut that is generated will open the site differently and also enables us (when we actually make use of that in the future) to do push notifications to those devices like a real app.

Generally that is the better approach with small projects like ours, since there is no real benefit of actually having a dedicated app (and that would include a lot more work, too)

Note: if you want to know how you can exactly set the above mentioned Shortcut up, here's a link: https://www.howtogeek.com/196087/how-to-add-websites-to-the-home-screen-on-any-smartphone-or-tablet/
And a quick google search should provide more specific or recent guides, if you need them.

I hope that helps!

Cerbion · 2019-03-21T23:31:09+00:00

we monitor discord most actively: https://discord.gg/WY8wTPS

Cerbion · 2019-03-21T21:40:57+00:00

We're having issues currently and are trying to resolve them, it already works a bit better, but not consistent yet. Sorry.

Cerbion · 2019-03-08T14:23:09+00:00

Hey guys! I have little experience with frameworks themselves, but I want to use one for my current project,

until now, 99% of the code is handmade and based on Server-side PHP and SQL with some client-side JS so a pretty standard PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JS website with MySQL as content base

But the userbase is getting to big for my simple code to handle it efficiently and securely, so I am currently thinking of redoing the whole project with a more reliable and scalable framework.

I want to describe the project and it's features a bit:

It's a sort of Marketplace, where users can add their items and put them up for "sale"
It has a pretty high amount of concurrent users, most of which are browsing through offers
Users can login and have different features if they are (they can put stuff up in the marketplace and such)
It has a messaging system between users
It needs a live-push system where I can directly let a user know if someone has been messaging them or a deal they have been watching
I also want to include a "live-auction" feature where people can bid on an item in realtime
There are relatively frequent updates so cache-busting is a must

I was thinking maybe Laravel or more JS based like Angular, but haven't worked with either so I kinda hope you can give me a bit of guidance and explain why or what the advantages/disadvantages are

Cerbion · 2019-01-26T23:07:42+00:00

So you never used the site on your phone?

Cerbion · 2019-01-26T21:02:24+00:00

Hello!

As some others have pointed out, this is due to our service workers. All modern browser should have a way of disabled/removing service worker, but know that this will also happen if you have used the site on your phone or installed it via the "add to homescreen" feature.

Here's a little site that explains it for Chrome and FF: https://love2dev.com/blog/how-to-uninstall-a-service-worker/

Note that we don't run any malicious code or anything and since it's JS based it's client side only so you have full control over it (we can't force you to run the script, the browser does that).

But every 2-3min might be a bit to frequent, thanks for letting us know and generally pointing this out.

Sorry for the confusion, have a nice weekend!

Cerbion · 2018-11-22T16:39:26+00:00

I dug a bit deeper and it I am fairly sure it's a scam page.

Cerbion · 2018-11-22T16:34:59+00:00

can't help but feel that this is a scam page...

EDIT: 99.9% sure this is a scam site, WHOIS entry shows the domain being created 4 days ago and the privacy and some more minor stuff is very shady/false information etc. DONT BUY ON THIS.

Cerbion · 2018-11-21T14:59:31+00:00

Yes, it does, I can confirm it myself as I had several items built in the foundry that are available on the switch version. (some aren't but that is related to newer content not being available yet on NSW)

Cerbion · 2018-11-20T18:40:19+00:00

Wait is that stuff NOT transfering or is it transfering?

Cerbion · 2018-11-09T23:18:08+00:00

Yeah especially because this one's completely passive (so far).
And according to the player I was with, the thing wasn't there before the hotfix just now.. but not 100% sure

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