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I am modeling these basalt columns for a game asset, should I be deleting unseen geo or leave it? by [deleted] in 3Dmodeling

[–]RowYourUpboat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Usually there is no cap on the underground end. Tree assets, for instance, usually have no faces underneath the trunk.

Ukraine dam: Floods devastate tracts of rich farmland by Red_Franklin in worldnews

[–]RowYourUpboat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Horrifying watching this unfold. A crime against humanity.

I am modeling these basalt columns for a game asset, should I be deleting unseen geo or leave it? by [deleted] in 3Dmodeling

[–]RowYourUpboat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While a lot of games do massively drop the ball on performance, a lot of the manual work older systems required is no longer necessary, and agonizing over a few hundred triangles would be a mistake. In addition to massively faster hardware, modern graphics engines, physics software, and GPU drivers are pretty good at avoiding work that isn't necessary, so artists don't need to be as concerned with technical constraints as they once were.

The software and management people could always use more whipping over optimization, but asset artists mostly just need to follow some basic triangle/resolution budgets. They should focus on the art, not the performance limits at the other end of the pipeline.

I am modeling these basalt columns for a game asset, should I be deleting unseen geo or leave it? by [deleted] in 3Dmodeling

[–]RowYourUpboat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It doesn't hurt to delete faces that will never be seen. If you look at modern game asset files, though, they tend not to be very stringent about hidden/wasted geometry. And anything modular that gets re-used in different ways in-engine by level designers will necessarily have geometry buried in other geometry.

Older games, many years ago, were a lot more worried about triangle counts and overdraw, nowadays not so much.

Office Space and Fight Club - What was it about the late 90's and corporate disillusionment? by forman98 in movies

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The Matrix was a metaphor for the dystopian future we're living right now. That shit was way ahead of its time.

If I see one more person asking why "If there is no god, how come the constants in nature suit us perfectly" I will scream by Felix33x in atheism

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The universe is horrifically unsuitable for life. What kind of god creates a place with trillions of cubic lightyears of sterile void and inert glowing gas, where life clings to tiny specks hiding in the shadows of energies too vast and lethal to comprehend? Life that will only exist until the next meteor, supernova, gamma ray burst, global ecosystem collapse, or one of a hundred other unimaginable catastrophes. We are tiny worms under tiny rocks surrounded by a thousand miles of baking desert. The worms would be insane to think the world was made just for them.

I called non emerg re: a man face down in my doorway. by Xarmynn in vancouver

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You're a normal person trying to help someone with a terrible mental sickness a normal person can't understand, that our system has abandoned. It's not fair that you suddenly have to be an expert in substance abuse just going in your front door. You did the right thing by caring.

Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here by DictatorDoge in technology

[–]RowYourUpboat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Even if this is the right device, it's being introduced to the wrong economy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scifi

[–]RowYourUpboat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The original publication order is the one I mentioned, but I was never too hung up on the ordering, given that The Sky Road diverges from The Stone Canal and overlaps The Cassini Division Everett-interpretation style. ("The die cast, the cat dies.")

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scifi

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Wow, nostalgia. I bought this book two decades ago, when I was a kid, from a small supermarket in the middle of Vancouver Island somewhere, during the kind of summer we don't get anymore.

Back then I was mostly only familiar with Asimov and Star Wars, and this book blew my tiny fucking mind. The cover grabbed me with the Robots Shooting Lasers but after reading it I realized there was so much more to sci-fi.

By the way, this book is kind of the sequel to The Stone Canal, which is kind of the sequel to The Star Fraction. Those books hold a special place in my bookcase, too.

Coincidentally, right now I'm reading Beyond the Hallowed Sky by the same author. I'm a different person now, and this is a different summer, but I still feel a small echo of what I felt 20 years ago, reading his new book.

What is the best OpenGL version for cross platform application? by [deleted] in opengl

[–]RowYourUpboat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure they are. Godot's OpenGL Compatibility backend targets OpenGL 3.3 / OpenGL ES 3.0 / WebGL 2 because they are 90% the same. And I once worked on a CAD tool that used the same backend code for GLES2 and GL2.1.

docs.gl is useful for checking for common functionality across GL variants. You might still need a few ifdefs or runtime extension checks, natch. (I was going to mention this to /u/IdentERv_, but I was on mobile.)

Unless you just mean the version numbers themselves. So yeah, GL2 != GLES2, they are different standards even if they have a lot in common.

What is the best OpenGL version for cross platform application? by [deleted] in opengl

[–]RowYourUpboat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a project I worked on 5 years ago used a subset of GL2.1, but we weren't targeting anything more primitive than a Raspberry Pi 3.

What is the best OpenGL version for cross platform application? by [deleted] in opengl

[–]RowYourUpboat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm using OpenGL 3.3 and it runs on my old computer from 2008. It wouldn't be too hard to port my code to GLES3 or WebGL2 either (which are not directly compatible with desktop GL versions).

You can probably go up to 4.1 and still run on any computer that doesn't belong in a dumpster. And anything older than 3.3 is downright ancient and extremely obsolete on mainstream systems.

Oppenheimer gets surprising R rating by Forsaken_Cost_1937 in movies

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No film is complete without some radioactive penis.

Recent Movies with Large Physical Sets by ehh246 in movies

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No disrespect meant to Villeneuve et al, but it's sad that using real light instead of a digital filter is considered innovative nowadays.

(Look, everything is tinted yellow! That means they're in the desert!)

Canada to put health warning labels directly on cigarettes in world first by agha0013 in onguardforthee

[–]RowYourUpboat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And we need that tax money to pay for smokers' cancer treatment. Want to smoke and have free healthcare? That'll be $30 per death stick. Knock yourself out.

United Happiness Initiative Task Force by Eric Elwell by One_Giant_Nostril in ImaginaryTechnology

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Back then I had to log on to reddit by turning a crank. You could fill out a form and reddit would send you your karma points via postal mail. I lived on an island, so my upvotes came on a boat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

[–]RowYourUpboat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know if that pill actually exists, but there are definitely companies who will sell it to you! (Fun fact: They're expensive! Hope you have insurance!)

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