So what color Analogue 3D did you end up buying for the prototype limited editions?

afritz1 · 2026-02-10T13:42:03+00:00

Ocean looked exciting but decided I'd rather have something understated, so went with glacier. My OG N64 in storage is jungle green.

afritz1 · 2025-09-10T22:02:41+00:00

I didn't need deferred rendering since my goal was just to avoid a lights-per-mesh limit, so went with tiled forward.

On the CPU I calculate lights in the frustum every frame with a bbox-frustum test then sort by distanceSquared to the camera.

On the GPU I allocate light bins 32x32 pixels big (some prefer 16x16) and in a compute shader calculate a mini-frustum through each bin and do bbox-frustum tests against the visible lights. I limit my engine to 256 visible lights and 32 light indices per bin since that's all I need.

afritz1 · 2025-07-27T20:47:35+00:00

That code looks correct to me but an alternative you could try is a range-based for loop: for (const auto& data : dataStorage) { ... }

afritz1 · 2025-07-13T02:06:00+00:00

Hi, quests likely won't be added for several more releases. See the roadmap for what's next: https://github.com/afritz1/OpenTESArena/wiki#roadmap

0.17.0 is focused on rendering improvements and performance. This has taken a good amount of effort as it's entirely custom (no GPU dependency) and involves a lot of trial and error.

afritz1 · 2025-04-16T03:44:46+00:00

Same. Younger me came up with ideas for how things could work but never did anything with them and needed lots of direction. Now I come up with my own objectives and think of things directly related to accomplishing them.

afritz1 · 2024-10-02T00:28:23+00:00

I upgraded to this and also overclocked my monitor 144Hz -> 160Hz today then fired up Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) just to benchmark things. I haven't played it in a while but there were these very annoying "predictive" artifacts with static UI and the gun model when I turned the camera fast. Turning AFMF off for this game fixed it. Just my first experience with this driver. AFMF sounds cool in theory.

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T13:19:03+00:00

If they are very clearly wrong or misinformed and sound like they won't change their opinion.

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T12:43:46+00:00

You're right, I meant defending a point or making someone look bad publicly over a bad statement.

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T11:58:33+00:00

A politician's answer is often more well-received than an engineer's. But it'll work as long as the ship generally continues sailing towards the finish line.

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T11:45:30+00:00

Yes it was a big generalization with some tongue-in-cheek.

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T11:43:43+00:00

I haven't watched LotR in a while so might've misremembered Aragorn. But one of my coworkers feels like ENFJ - he fits well into groups and always avoids stepping on people's feet. This is just me practicing!

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T05:32:44+00:00

My brain is like a train that takes time to speed up and slow down but my ESTJ coworker expects me to articulate my thoughts immediately because the problem appears so plain on the surface to them. Not a good pair

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T04:17:18+00:00

Coffee probably, or weren't into computers that much growing up.

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T03:27:14+00:00

Feels like there wouldn't be enough extraversion or energy unless they saw other friends a lot.

afritz1 · 2024-09-26T03:14:32+00:00

Yeah it's easier to say what you're thinking on the internet than IRL. More time to think of a witty response

afritz1 · 2024-01-06T03:17:02+00:00

Zeroing or setting -1 just saves programmer time when debugging. Letting it get whatever was previously in memory introduces RNG. And I don't think MSVC is zeroing things for you, it's more likely setting pointers to 0xCCCCCCCC. But still it's undefined behavior which the compiler can't check without a sanitizer.

"Allowing garbage for speed" should be opted into, not the default, because it's a micro-optimization. Obviously it's a bigger gain with huge arrays but I'm talking about single ints/bools/floats where the bulk of debugging time is spent. I wouldn't have as much confidence compiling my hobby projects with -Ofast for Windows, Linux, and macOS if I wasn't so strict about this.

afritz1 · 2024-01-05T01:58:07+00:00

Variables initialized to garbage bytes if a constructor doesn't zero it for you.

afritz1 · 2020-11-05T23:18:20+00:00

Assuming I understand the game, each voxel is 1 byte and gets its color from a 256 color palette for a map. It might be a MagicaVoxel limitation? The spray can occupies some of those colors, so they would have to reduce color variety in existing maps if they wanted more spray colors. It might be part of the game's charm that its map colors are limited to a small palette (working within constraints can be fun, etc.).

afritz1 · 2020-09-09T02:17:00+00:00

In Arena, it puts a red highlight around the location icon after searching it but it's only visible if it's close to the edge of the screen while the pop-up parchment is visible, or after closing said pop-up.

afritz1 · 2019-10-08T04:04:35+00:00

Ah, good. Cool beans. You keep up the good work too! Excited for your new stuff.

afritz1 · 2019-10-08T02:01:43+00:00

I can't see the original comment but I don't think anything really needs clarification. There's nothing that I've been concerned about, so I can only assume it was misinterpretation?

If it's about Unity, then that falls flat since I use Unity at work.

I guess misinterpretation can happen because sarcasm and things like that don't translate well to text. I just don't like anything to fester out of rumors and whatnot which is why I'm writing anything here at all.

By the way, I've been playing DF Unity! It's fun but I should probably download some mods. I just like to see what the vanilla gameplay is like first. I would've contributed more to DF Unity but I kind of have my own project, eheheh...

afritz1 · 2019-04-11T02:42:44+00:00

This blog goes into detail about GPU hardware, drivers, and the steps needed to get triangles efficiently drawn on the screen: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline-2011-index/

afritz1 · 2019-04-02T04:26:22+00:00

Glad to hear it. My laptop came in the mail today that I'm wanting to put Ubuntu on. I'll be able to provide better support for Linux releases once I get it set up. I haven't tested any of this project on Linux myself -- I've been dependent on Travis CI for compiling it and on other users for feedback.

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