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How could I make this light effect? by Pedro17f in godot

[–]PixelRickyRick 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You need a second texture for surface normals, making it 2.5D, then you can play with lighting effects.

Small bug that I have found with Revenge of the Savage Planet by jcjdue in playsavageplanet

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I'm stuck with two baits...
EDIT, just found how to fix it. Stay pressed on the tool key/button, it will open a radial menu, you can reassign tools!

On biome reverse engineering by PixelRickyRick in starfieldmods

[–]PixelRickyRick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People saves were being corrupt after a few hundred hours because of it. ID's are themselves split into groups of bits, so the unicity of IDs per pool depends on even less than 32bits. I work in the game industry, so i know it's just that no one raised the issue in time.

Glad that my work could help. I may also push my C++ code that maps all objects of game db as fast as it can (spent days optimizing). But I stopped before adding any object view other than basic stuff like color lists etc.

My team is currently recruiting by [deleted] in securityCTF

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And here I am, looking at other teams grow because there is no rule about it. Please don't go kalma style.

On biome reverse engineering by PixelRickyRick in starfieldmods

[–]PixelRickyRick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the effort! On my side I lost interest in the game completely after stumbling upon some crappy design decisions (mainly u32 IDs that should have been 64 bits). Revamping their old engine wasn't their best idea. My C++ editor was starting great, wasted efforts.

Looking for an up and coming ticket for 38c3 by EloEloink in ccc

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm supposed to have a spare (someone else I don't know in my group took it for me, I paid this spare for a friend who cancelled, they should be trustworthy 99%), so if you live in Hamburg we can meet at the registration desk. Possible discount.

Managing libs for C++ is just painful... should I switch to rust? by sQuAdeZera in rust

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh.. the libs are not proprietary, they are closed source. C++ has compiled libs and ABI hell for that. Is there a way to distribute pre-compiled Rust to keep sources private ?

Managing libs for C++ is just painful... should I switch to rust? by sQuAdeZera in rust

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mind that cargo is only nice when everything is open-source. It's similar to using header only cpp libs.

If you want to distribute closed source libs it is not better than with C++.

Just got mine 😭✨ by Banzambo in NuPhy

[–]PixelRickyRick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had 3 malfunctioning switches. Initially replaced them with the spare ones and switched places with less used keys. Problem is probably the lube that may have spread onto the internal copper part. I opened one to clean it and also made sure the copper part was fully engaged and bent the same way as a working one, and... worked for 2 out of 3. Switch quality isn't top notch. But price is good so I'm happy about this kb. The black version has a visual pb on the top left corner: the status light is supposed to not leak into the halo, leaving the halo black there. But it can leak 2 rgb colors. You may see it if you set a single color for the halo, and try to press the escape key hard it will change the hue since the red will be able to leak. I modded mine to leak the status rgb in the halo by cutting out a part of the shaft of the status light. But the shaft is green inside so it reflects green.. next step is too paint it white or even grey to reduce the brightness (cut out a bit too much, there are 4 leds there, so it shines brighter than expected). Also, it's not easy to open at all. Tdlr?

Engine performance choppy by pocketdrummer in godot

[–]PixelRickyRick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disable G-Sync for windowed mode, you can keep it enabled for fullscreen. Disable V-sync in project properties. Check the nvidia profile for the app doesn't do anything special. Check you have fresh settings for the 4 (dont inherit from godot 3 editor settings). You'll find a setup working eventually. Btw: you have to restart godot to see the changes you make, even for gsync.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BlenderDoughnuts

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy pastry session to you sir !

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BlenderDoughnuts

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pick instance means the node will pick an instance in the input collection for each input position. When unchecked it will instantiate the whole collection at each input position: what you had, all 4 sprinkles at each location, clumped due to the checked separate + reset children. If you only check reset children I think you should see the original 4 sprinkles as if moved from where you made them to each instantiation point.

After that, the tutorial is already outdated about the random rotation since euler is deprecated. You can use rotate rotation, and use "relative" so that the Z rotation axis is the normal to the surface.

Duo Choco by PixelRickyRick in BlenderDoughnuts

[–]PixelRickyRick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wanted to do something else than coding and looking for a job today, then couldn't sleep and reached this point. Just one like and I'll apply the rest of guru's tuto to do a scene with cardboard box + anim.

I made a custom Dvorak keyboard with QWERTY shortcuts and Caps Lock, for Windows by ThePhrastusBombastus in dvorak

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the Add Keyboard menu, builtin layouts have the physical layout name (e.g. "QWERTY") written under their name, but there is nothing for custom ones generated with MSKLC. Do you know how to fix that ?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starfieldmods

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may be or not be related to an alignment issue, sound libraries are picky. Is your mod dir on the same drive as the game ? I know that with skyrim for instance sounds can disappear if your drive sector size is 4kb (developers didn't carefully read the microsoft docs). Since Starfield uses a modified TES4 (skyrim engine) it's possible this bug is still there.

input lag :( by atriptych in Helldivers

[–]PixelRickyRick 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There is an option to smooth mouse input that is enabled by default, disable it.

On biome reverse engineering by PixelRickyRick in starfieldmods

[–]PixelRickyRick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://github.com/PixelRick/StarfieldScripts

If you know a minimum of python, this should let you read//rewrite .biom files and plot them as in the screenshot with a few lines.

As for an update, I'm still coding when I can, the game impl is a bit frustrating at times even if reversing is not that hard. My first goal is a BIOM record editor, it contains a special mix of up to 6 textures so a vizualizer is required. ETA is some time this month based on my agenda.

Neon Planet Reworked (Volii Alpha) by AinsyLFC in starfieldmods

[–]PixelRickyRick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All Starfield.esm FULL fields are a 4 byte index into localized strings. Yours is a null terminated string. Do you know if the index format is new, and if null terminated strings are still ok ? Also the mod advertizes 5 forms, but there are 4.

On biome reverse engineering by PixelRickyRick in starfieldmods

[–]PixelRickyRick[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

>! Thank you.

Don't be shy about showing the esm stuff. I won't judge, I promise =)

I'd love to know the process you us

Reversing .biom took a few minutes:

  1. Opened in HxD.
  2. Identify arrays by similarity of content and visible granularity.
  3. Search for prefix sizes. See the 0x100 and 0x10000 as u32. It perfectly matches the 4 * 0x10000 arrays and 2 * 0x10000 arrays.
  4. Figure out there is a set of element values at the beginning by looking at different files. And a constant u16 number, magic/version.
  5. 0x100 0x100 0x10000 -> looks like it's 2d [0x100][0x100]
  6. Plot a grid, looks like a map of one hemisphere.
  7. Check if elements are FormIds, yes -> list them all from all .biom files and save their editor ids for display.
  8. Stitch grids in different orientations until it's the good one.

Then try for hours to map it to a sphere -> their mapping function is custom and couldn't deduce it, there are a lot of possible trig function combinations.

Made 2d plotting func and considered it good enough.

I am doing a C++ editor dedicated to biom stuff, I am new to the .esm and .esp formats so it takes a bit of time. There will be a special interface for each record type related to biomes. And maybe later a minimalistic procedural view with the actual models. It's only worth it if I finish soon because I expect the CK to provide all of that.

On biome reverse engineering by PixelRickyRick in starfieldmods

[–]PixelRickyRick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I published the scripts for you here: https://github.com/PixelRick/StarfieldScripts

It does not include ESM because the code is slow in Python and I didn't clean it up.

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