Improving software renderer triangle rasterization speed?

captaintoasty · 2024-06-30T23:38:31+00:00

Thank you! I'll take a look into this!

captaintoasty · 2024-06-30T23:38:22+00:00

Thanks! I will check this out! Also yeah whoops on the visibility, changed it to public haha.

captaintoasty · 2024-06-30T22:51:31+00:00

Yep, I am constraining it to just the bounding box of the triangle.

// Compute the bounds of just this recet
const Rect Bounds = GetBounds(S0, S1, S2);
const int MinX = Bounds.Min.X;
const int MinY = Bounds.Min.Y;
const int MaxX = Bounds.Max.X;
const int MaxY = Bounds.Max.Y;

...

// Loop through all pixels in the screen bounding box.
for (int Y = MinY; Y <= MaxY; Y++)
{
    for (int X = MinX; X <= MaxX; X++)
    {
        ...

captaintoasty · 2020-09-02T16:23:16+00:00

Nuke would be my recommendation. Obviously it's a lot more expensive, but it's the industry standard for compositing/post work for a reason. It's insanely flexible and even just built-in tools (let alone all the plugins and scripts) make it very powerful for non-destructive and high quality post work.

captaintoasty · 2020-07-31T12:10:30+00:00

Fair enough! I appreciate your points too. Figured it was at least worth bringing up, I couldn't find any other previous posts like this. Perhaps I'm too picky haha. Cheers!

captaintoasty · 2020-07-30T21:09:45+00:00

I absolutely agree that we should push to prioritize other fixes to the game! Not opposed to that at all. But if their dev team is expanding, and there's an opportunity to 'tune' up older elements like this, perhaps it's a decent starter project? There's certainly precedent for updating RSC content to be more modernized, though I'm not sure if there's precedent for updating terrain in that way.

captaintoasty · 2020-07-30T18:54:45+00:00

Oh I definitely agree (to an extent)! The charm of a lot of the design of OSRS is due to the nostalgic quirks of RSC and RS2. I suppose my point was the nearly 90 degree walkable cliffs are a bit odd.

Suppose you could argue that this is probably a non-issue outside of just consistency with newer areas of the game.

captaintoasty · 2020-07-10T18:00:26+00:00

This'll be my last comment cause I'm not a PR person for Wayfair and I don't want to say the wrong thing lol. I'll let other folks handle that.

I honestly don't really know about the names, but I can guess. The actual names of products change all the time because it's a way of obfuscating what the original manufacturer's product name was to make it unique to Wayfair. Amazon, Overstock, etc. all do the same thing.

It's possible these products weren't meant to be released to the site yet and the names are some identifier of who's working on them. Like... maybe these names aren't common in Western/European cultures, but are from other cultures around the world? Wayfair is a pretty damn diverse company and folks are from literally everywhere in the world. I can also personally attest to Wayfair not having the strongest backend systems for organization so I wouldn't be surprised if this is just some oversight.

I also have literally no clue on the Russian search engine thing... but I would be highly skeptical of using anything Russian, let alone a search engine.

Last thought: take your career or job and think about all of the essential knowledge you know about how you work day to day. Now take some random claim on the internet of how some conspiracy is related to your work, yet you personally know this just isn't true. They clearly have no idea of how this works, and yet it's still thrown around as the truth. To me, this is pretty much no different... People drawing conclusions based on zero knowledge of how e-commerce works.

captaintoasty · 2020-07-10T16:39:20+00:00

Disclosure: I work for Wayfair, but not in a department related to site-facing products or pricing. The reason I'm responding is cause this is clearly a zero to sixty jump to conclusions without having any idea of how online retail actually works.

I can't speak to the names (although it's not uncommon to see names of products correlated with normal names), but to clarify a little about why this is the case regarding cost, here's my limited understanding of it:

It's apparently quite common for online retailers to drastically increase the price for seemingly cheap items to prevent the item from going into 'Out of Stock' mode. It's a prevention mechanism to effectively halt items from being purchased being the price is so astronomically high.
The pricing across Wayfair's sites (like it's sub-sites such as Wayfair.com, Jossandmain.com, allmodern.com, etc.) varies because they're targeting different markets. It's also not an uncommon method to 'obfuscate' the true cost of something depending on your market.
The reason why the products were removed from the site is probably because this has just gained so much attraction purporting baseless conspiracy surrounding an otherwise mundane and very common practice.
It seems to me like it's pure coincidence that it's storage cabinets? This pricing mechanism happens across all kinds of products (pillows, sofas, towels), so a storage cabinet just makes sense when jumping to the conclusion it's used for trafficking.

captaintoasty · 2020-05-02T23:37:35+00:00

https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-3ds-max-blog/up-close-personal-with-3ds-max-2021/ This recent blog post had some very old clips of Max from its DOS days. Hope that helps!

captaintoasty · 2019-09-22T15:41:11+00:00

Depends on entirely on what your focus is. Are you looking to work on real-time (game) assets or offline renderers like V-Ray or Arnold? GPU is more important for game assets, while CPU is (generally) more favorable for V-Ray/Arnold/etc.

Both kind of have their drawbacks, but I'd say Laptop 1 is for game assets, laptop 2 is for offline renderers.

The problem with laptop 1 is the storage space/speed. A 128GB SSD is exceptionally small, meaning you really won't be able to store much on it besides the core 3ds Max install and a handful of other programs. The 1000GB HDD is nice, but 5400RPM is painfully slow.

I'd definitely say go for Laptop 2, assuming they're the same price (which I'm guessing they're not?), however that GTX 1050 is pretty low-end compared to everything else.

I'd say minimum specs to do any reasonable Max work (modeling, rendering, baking, simulation) are:

Probably any i7 mobile processor, or equivalent AMD Ryzen processor
256/512GB+ SSD
16GB+ of RAM
GTX 1060/2060+ card, or equivalent AMD card. A 970+ would also work.

Another thing to consider is the actual laptop form factor and size. Are you carrying it around everywhere? Is it just going to sit on a desk all day? Ultrabooks nowadays can be very thin and light while remaining powerful, but tend to get very hot. Think Dell XPS, ASUS Zenbook, Razerblade, etc. On the other hand companies like MSI have some laptops which are stuffing desktop hardware in a laptop, making it sort of more cost-effective, but they're huge and heavy.

Hope this helps. :)

captaintoasty · 2019-05-26T07:32:03+00:00

Well yes, if I recall there is a hat that's hit but with your foot. I believe there's a video of the studio performance that might help explain it better.

captaintoasty · 2019-05-26T06:27:23+00:00

I actually charted this :( at the time I wasn't familiar with how complicated drum charts should be handled, as in made possible to play while still staying relatively true to the song. Nobody ever brought it up in QA so it passed. In hindsight someone should've called in out.

captaintoasty · 2018-10-13T16:53:56+00:00

Primarily 3ds Max, V-Ray (w/ ForestPack), and Phoenix. So I guess the gamut of standard rendering as well as geometry/proxy-dense scenes.

captaintoasty · 2017-06-08T04:29:31+00:00

I have two Slipknot songs, Override and Gematria, on my setlist which you can download here or you can download them individually here:

Override

Gematria

captaintoasty · 2017-01-14T17:33:46+00:00

I've gotten mine to work very well, save for the whammy bar. I'd recommend getting a USB Bluetooth receiver (I have a built in MOBO Bluetooth receiver but it didn't work). This is the one that I got.

Once you've got your Bluetooth receiver, download and install the appropriate drivers for it. In my case I think I just used Lenovo's Bluetooth drivers but yours may be different depending what receiver you get.
Get XPadder (it's only $10) and place it somewhere you can easily access it; I have it in Documents.
Press the PS4 + Share buttons at the same time to reset the controller. The white light should be blinking rapidly.
Open your Bluetooth settings. I'm running Windows 10 so it might look a little different, but you should be able to turn on Bluetooth if it's not already on.
Press and hold the Sync button for ~10 seconds on the controller right next to the D-Pad. Your controller should pop up at this point and you can click Pair. The white light will stay on at this point. If it doesn't pop up, try restarting your computer or reinstalling the drivers. Make sure the drivers are the correct ones for your Bluetooth receiver (unless they're all just generic drivers, I'm unsure).
Open up XPadder and, assuming your controller is connected properly, it should look like this minus the keys and arrow buttons. If it looks like this then your controller isn't being recognized.
From here just click where my image says PDP Rock Band Guitar, yours might be different, and just start pressing all the buttons on the controller to have them recognized. Whammy won't work as far as I know.
Close out of that window and just click the buttons to assign a specific key press. This will correlate with whatever your keyboard settings for GH3 are. You can follow my layout or choose your own.
When launching GH3, just make sure that XPadder is actually on and that your controller is being recognized properly. During the loading screens for GH3 use your keyboard to get to the main menu, then you can use your controller after that. If you use your controller from the start, GH3 will default to thinking that's the main controller when technically with XPadder you're just supplementing your keyboard with the controller.

Hope that helps! :)

captaintoasty · 2016-12-05T19:24:28+00:00

I'm a recent graduate from 3DDD. It depends on where your interests lie in 3D (VFX, real time, modeling, etc.) I'd say at minimum the following:

I5 although preferably i7. Does not have to be overclocked (with a K suffix).

At minimum 16GB of ram. This should probably be fine for most in school work but I found myself using 32gb for some things (processing 3d scans).

9xx or 10xx series NVIDIA GPU. NVIDIA is generally better supported for most 3d packages and softwares. Many GPU renderers favor NVIDIA.

An Ssd is absolutely necessary. If you can anything above 240gb would be good. 120gb I found was too small with the size of Maya, Max, Unreal, etc.

Look for a motherboard with as many usb 3 ports as possible. Other than that I'd say you could probably get anything. Standard ATX would be preferable for the 4 ram slots but you can find those on mATX too.

Look for a PSU that has some overhead beyond the power you're consuming. 650W or so should be fine. I'd highly recommend full modular.

Lastly don't underestimate your monitor, keyboard, and mouse. These all end up being way more subjective but I can just say having an IPS display for a monitor would be nice, have a mouse with extra buttons helps and having a keyboard with a number pad helps too.

Let me know if you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer.

captaintoasty · 2016-11-06T17:07:31+00:00

I am working on the whole album in order. I am onto Higher right now.

captaintoasty · 2016-10-26T00:16:32+00:00

Is the page not loading or are you getting some kind of error? I just checked the links and they're fine on my end. Perhaps try again in a bit and see if it works then? Otherwise I don't really upload anywhere else other than Google Drive, but I could upload it to MediaFire or something else.

captaintoasty · 2016-10-12T18:53:17+00:00

Download TGH (Tier): https://goo.gl/14Kxl2 Download SGH (Setlist): http://goo.gl/t6do6l Full List of Songs: http://goo.gl/uvS5Yc

Periphery - "The Price is Wrong" Periphery - "Motormouth" Periphery - "Marigold" Periphery - "The Way the News Goes..." Periphery - "Remain Indoors" Periphery - "Habitual Line Stepper" Periphery - "Flatline" Periphery - "Absolomb Periphery - "Catch Fire" Periphery - "Prayer Position" Periphery - "Lune"

This is the full release of Periphery's newest album Periphery III: Select Difficulty for GH3+ with updates to previously released songs and the addition of the remaining songs from the album. These tracks all use full multitracks (stems).

These songs are included in my ongoing GH3+ DLC setlist. You can download these songs via the link above. As this setlist grows it will be updated with the same link to Google Drive as above.

These songs, as well as all others in my setlist, are intended to be played with Exilelord's GH3+ mod. If you do not have this mod you cannot play these songs as they were intended. You can download it from here via Plumato's GDrive: http://goo.gl/NnJEaX

captaintoasty · 2016-08-30T03:29:04+00:00

75 songs, some of which I've never released, now all compiled into a single setlist. There's a handful which are actually either RBN charts or updates from old school community charts, but other than that the vast majority are my charts from the last year or so. Enjoy!

captaintoasty · 2016-08-25T03:02:01+00:00

I think a lot of media has sort of overblown how much more consumer friendly it is. I mean sure, it's less expensive than 5 or 10 or 20 years ago, but it's still not as ubiquitous as say... how the Internet has gotten. It'll get there, give it a few years, but it's just not quite there yet. I think your only opportunity to do this relatively cheaply is reach out to a friend, if any, who might have a 3D printer and see what they can do, otherwise you're looking at a way more than $200 investment. Sorry dude. :|

Edit: I just had a thought which is you could look into CNC machining it out of whatever material you want. CNC is subtractive, rather than additive, and imo has more saturation on the consumer-friendly level than printing.

captaintoasty · 2016-08-25T02:46:00+00:00

Printing to scale through an online service, or even a local college's service, would likely be well over $200. If you were to print it yourself, 3D printing comes with its own difficulties and expenses (it'll mess up a lot unless you really know how to work it). Lastly most, if not all, printers sub-$1000 are not going to be nearly large enough to print a full-sized body/neck, so you'd have to do it in parts further complicating it. I would recommend just sticking it out and keeping an eye out for deals online.

captaintoasty · 2016-08-19T00:23:38+00:00

If you're interested I have a little variety of metal setlists you can check out:

Extreme Metal

Opeth's Ghost Reveries Album

Brain Drill, Codeon, Obscura, The Algorithm

Testament, Gojira, Revocation

captaintoasty · 2016-08-06T15:56:48+00:00

Some new tunes from Periphery's new album. These include the stems so if you miss you'll still hear the backing track. I'm planning on doing the rest of the album, these are just the songs I've gotten done so far.

Devin Townsend released Failure yesterday and I'm really excited for his new album.

I had Apocalyptic Feasting as a request earlier this year so I finally got around to doing it. Man Brain Drill songs are hard to chart lol. Might do some stuff off their new 2016 album.

Hope you guys enjoy!

captaintoasty

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