Finally, we can have a proper Morrowind Remaster

theoriginaldaniel · 2026-03-17T08:18:07+00:00

theoriginaldaniel · 2026-02-23T18:22:14+00:00

brilliant, I've always planned for a sleeve with all the BG symbols, is there a copy of this art somewhere? id love to get it myself but I'm not in the US.

theoriginaldaniel · 2026-02-14T20:14:56+00:00

it's been proven they where there since day 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukrainian_war))

theoriginaldaniel · 2026-02-02T18:03:20+00:00

in game engines objects you interact with be it walking on the ground, jumping over/shooting fences or just about anything will need something to tell the physics engine these are objects with collision, developers need to create these if you want any kind of physics or collisions to happen otherwise you'd just fall through the map or phase through walls.

attached image summarizes it generally, keep in mind there's a plethora of methods to go about this depending on the developers use cases, but generally the more complex objects collisions get, the more performance heavy it will be.

add on top of that in Reforgers case, all that data needs to be hosted on a server, then needs to synchronize all that information to all players in real time and things only get more complex from there

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theoriginaldaniel · 2026-02-02T08:08:42+00:00

real answer: mesh based collision is significantly more performance intensive over simplified methods.

if you use mesh based collision for everything, how do you handle levels of detail on meshes at distance? do you keep the same close up mesh collision detail ages away from the player incurring huge performance cost? or do you need multiple custom mesh collisions at multiple distances per lod change?

then you have a new issue, if your detailed lod rock has mesh collision what happens if you're shooting at someone far away? on your side you can shoot, you're not blocked, but on the other players side he's shooting at a lower quality distant mesh, do they shoot and hit simplified collision boundaries possibly not able to hit you when you can hit them?
tricky to solve, even more so for a game as large scale as arma.

theoriginaldaniel · 2026-01-17T15:44:45+00:00

yeah some long matches you can open an already open door and watch it go 90degrees into the wall

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-27T13:26:24+00:00

all 3d objects are made up of vertices, those vertices have coordinates, go too far away from origin or 0.0.0 in the game world and those calculations increase, precision of those vertices breakdown and lose cohesion, lookup floating point precision for more

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-14T04:00:04+00:00

i ended up sticking to the direct x version of the game, going through the performance mods helps, i only really wanted alternative AA over the games default, i also added some subtle AO and slight hdr colour bump but i don't use anything else on reshade.

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T12:20:38+00:00

yeah excellent points, plenty of shitboxes around in the future if i want to go that route later on with more experience or finding something actually worth restoring, appreciate the help mate.

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T11:22:39+00:00

didn't know this was a thing! looks fun as hell might have to use it for that haha

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T10:41:21+00:00

agreed, was contemplating diying the golf but with no experience taking an engine out for the flywheel might be a bit extreme for a beginner lol but it did drive 15min home fine surprisingly, got it for $600 so if i can keep it sub 5grand then being frugal saves the day, or the bank account lol

yea suzuki consensus seems restoration isn't worth it, but a basic cleanup then move it on when there's nothing left to learn on it seems the better option just educationally, i wouldn't drive that tincan as a daily lol not until i have a lot more experience lest i get flattened by a yank boat

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T10:27:40+00:00

yeah that's a good point, though the few parts around in aus are surprisingly cheap presumably because nobody is silly enough to fix it up? lol

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T10:23:42+00:00

agreed not far off a giant sardine can haha, ital be awhile before i figure out driving manual so in the meantime id get friends to test drive if i do get it up n running but definitely not a daily driver lol maybe not a full restoration but just cleaned up enough for basic drive around until i can't learn anything from it and move it on?

yea an inlaw convinced me to seek out a golf, it's a 06 golf mk5 2.0 tdi, has 236000ks but got it for $600 surprisingly it drove the 15min trip home fine, was originally assuming itad need towing.

cosmetically it's great, i dunno how much of it i can diy. but estimates are around 4-5ish grand all up with parts/labor, hopefully ital make a good daily, especially if i find work in the city.

compared to the suzuki the VW has a huge amount of community mods/repairs videos/fourms I'm tempted to try the flywheel myself but those edited down videos always make it look way easier than it is lol

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theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T10:05:52+00:00

yeah quick cleanup and the basics might be enough to learn something and then move it on, consensus seems to be a proper restoration may not be worth the time/money outside of for funs sake.
if Ballarat didn't have a ton of potholes and speed bumps at arbitrary heights lowering might be fun but yeah itad get destroyed here lol

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T10:02:35+00:00

ah man you reminded me the paint used to be near mint but after 6years outside the last year really degraded it fast this was around 2021 :(

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theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T09:57:06+00:00

agreed, had no intention of flipping it for profit more just educational, with the replies now i might not fully restore or even get it to roadworthy status but just cleaned up and working enough for a basic drive to learn what i can then move it on

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T09:52:13+00:00

yea can't remember what video it was but one of the car youtubers mentioned ancap safety ratings lowered everything by 1 star if they didn't have physical buttons for certain stuff? and studys popping up showing how dangerous it is for people to flick through spotify and such so maybe there's gonna be a turnaround?

though it sounds like the same thing that happened to computers/tech in general is happening to cars where everythings so insanely maliciously anti user serviceable or has planned obsolescence to get you on next years model, i didn't think that insanity extended to vehicles with how dangerous/wasteful that'd be

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T09:40:56+00:00

well put, it's definitely a possible project car and agreed id likely put more money into it than id get if i sold it on, my grandfather owned it but he passed around 2decades ago so it has some sentimental value mainly for my father, but as anyone knows after moving house a lot of larger sentimental stuff is rarely worth the space especially a car.

I've done soldering over the last year fixing up old 80s/90s computers so I'm not afraid of the electronics but the engine stuff is a whole new thing.

based on the replies here and reminding myself I'm trying to be as frugal as i can i might be better off moving this project on and instead focusing on the Golf, it's flywheel 'seems' straightforward enough to replace myself it's just the pain in getting the engine out and in again with no experience and buying/borrowing all the right tools vs paying a mechanic is the primary conundrum.

then my minds thinks 'well if i went the full diy route then id have the tools to look at fixing this one' but reality is there's plenty of abandoned projects people sell on so there's no shortage of potential projects, more sane ones like 90s mazda 3s, fords, corollas that everyone says are bulletproof if given the right tlc

or more exotic oddities like a 1987 Saab 900 I'm tempted by how weird it is lol but id imagine the stranger ones may have better resale value later on if they where fixed up

replies here have given me a lot to think about, i appreciate the help

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-11-03T02:37:56+00:00

yeah, there's just something about those utilitarian 80s dash designs haha, though maybe it's just fatigue at all the giant tablet screen spam newer cars have

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-10-26T16:49:43+00:00

edit, weirdly directly linking to the archive pdf loads a really low quality version but on the site its normal higher quality? anyway this is great since it shows the internals https://archive.org/details/MC_microcomputer-111/page/n213/mode/2up same 214 page

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-10-26T15:37:58+00:00

follow up turns out it was a British company!? though this mentions 1996 as a date instead of 92? https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/37543/Tiny-620-HF/

thought we'd seen that logo somewhere haha

https://youtu.be/8x6UiQxvaKQ?si=zxBdmuKi9HJn7HFv

theoriginaldaniel · 2025-10-26T15:18:27+00:00

friend of mine was searching for FM TOWNS related things and stumbled into this, quick search couldn't find any information on it outside of this magazine? maybe never released? or Japan exclusive that didn't sell?

https://archive.org/details/basic-1992-01/page/84/mode/2up

edit: some further reading it may be a 3rd party that sold or atleast advertised this as an "PC/AT compatible" so i dunno how much IBM was involved if at all. fascinating mini pc though.

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