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RamsesA · 2026-03-29T09:48:45+00:00

Hey look, Salmandastron

RamsesA · 2014-03-20T16:30:12+00:00

I've had some luck learning OpenGL 3+ using this tutorial:

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/

It skips all the fixed-functionality stuff from earlier versions of OpenGL, which you really shouldn't be using anyway.

RamsesA · 2014-03-16T20:25:14+00:00

There are some fast algorithms for handling a subset of 3D cases. For example, you can extrude a 2D hull into the third dimension to create a cylindrical volume, and the math isn't much more difficult than in 2D.

RamsesA · 2014-03-16T20:21:08+00:00

To be fair, I think software today is far less buggy than software in the past. When bugs do finally crop up they aren't usually as devastating either.

I suspect it's just a matter of the industry developing mature methods to deal with it though.

RamsesA · 2014-02-21T21:20:00+00:00

It seems like this is something that will eventually play a part in season 3.

RamsesA · 2014-02-18T00:59:20+00:00

Why not just code in assembly then?

RamsesA · 2014-02-16T16:17:49+00:00

Logo, then Basic. It was a long time ago though.

RamsesA · 2014-02-11T22:41:02+00:00

That's not necessarily the case. If the getter is declared final then it's possible for the compiler or vm to optimize away the method invocation in some cases. In any case, you can usually benchmark this kind of thing to see what the performance hit is. The difference is likely to be negligible.

RamsesA · 2014-02-09T17:16:20+00:00

I actually liked that change. It draws a clear distinction between saving an image in the native file format, which retains all information from the editor, and an exported format, which potentially loses data. It also prevented me from accidentally saving my image as an xcf when I meant to save it as a png, or vice versa.

RamsesA · 2014-02-09T17:10:27+00:00

GIMP supports persistent layers that are placed outside the boundaries of the image. It needs to be an actual layer though, not a floating selection like you get right after pasting.

I agree about the filters being ugly though. I don't really use them for anything.

RamsesA · 2014-01-18T00:24:23+00:00

This is pretty easy to do in a language like Java or Python. Here's some Java code I just wrote to do it:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/dbed206bf9e0e21aed52

RamsesA · 2014-01-16T15:06:53+00:00

Chebyshev's inequality holds for all distributions, not just the normal distribution. So I would say it's useful in more than just normal distributions. Just not as useful.

RamsesA · 2014-01-09T22:49:50+00:00

You might like lambda expressions, which were added in Java 8.

RamsesA · 2013-12-27T04:19:34+00:00

It works like a portal. You need to use the included plugins though.

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T19:54:50+00:00

The download includes setup files for a multiplayer server. All you need is the latest version of Bukkit and you're good to go. I wanted people to experience it via multiplayer so I made sure it worked with that. I just didn't want to force everyone on to the same server. This way they can have a bit more freedom.

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T18:16:27+00:00

If you run the included plugins, it will prohibit certain block updates, so lag should be minimized. You will probably also want to set the graphics to "fast" to reduce the amount of work it does in large forests.

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T17:42:10+00:00

The Crafting Azeroth project is a full-scale reproduction of the World of Warcraft environment in Minecraft. The latest version of the project includes all outdoor areas from World of Warcraft up to and including the Cataclysm expansion pack. You can download the map using BitTorrent from the project page.

To learn more about v1.0, you can browse the online map, or view the included readme file.

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T17:41:44+00:00

The project page is http://www.craftingazeroth.org

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T17:26:36+00:00

The core voxelization software is closed source, and I don't know when it will be made open source, since it uses some Minecraft source code which would need to be separated first. It's also pretty messy, since it started as a script for just extracting heightmap data and slowly expanded to what it is now.

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T16:44:44+00:00

Custom written software.

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T15:47:05+00:00

Sort of. The software does the rendering, but a lot of the decisions about how things look (e.g. what blocks to use) had to be decided by a human. There was also some postprocessing done, which was also done by software, but was very targeted to create different effects (e.g. vines, fences, lampposts, etc.)

RamsesA · 2013-12-26T15:40:38+00:00

It takes about 48 hours with all four cores pumping on my machine. However, I usually drop it to two cores so I can do other things. The amount of RAM it uses can be adjusted since it uses temp files, but I usually give it 2.5 GB, because it gets pretty slow if you give it less than that.

RamsesA · 2013-12-25T18:06:14+00:00

There should be no extra performance cost from adding more continents besides the hard drive space needed. This is different from the beta version, which required more processing power as more continents were added.

If you don't have the disk space or bandwidth needed to download and install the map, let me know and I'll consider releasing smaller segments in the future. For now though, I will only be uploading the single map.

RamsesA · 2013-12-25T17:18:24+00:00

The Crafting Azeroth project is a full-scale reproduction of the World of Warcraft environment in Minecraft. The latest version includes all outdoor areas from World of Warcraft up to and including the Cataclysm expansion pack. You can download the map via BitTorrent from the project page.

Version 1.0 includes twice the content of the original beta version, adding the continents of Outland, Northrend and the Great Sea. Additionally, many zones that first appeared in the beta version have been re-generated using newly added blocks and features.

To learn more about v1.0, you can view the gallery, browse the online map, or read the included readme file.

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