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by Superpig
Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:46 am
Forum: Introversion Blog
Topic: It's all in your head, Part 8
Replies: 59
Views: 143725

Ouch. There goes anything without a programmable shader. Well, to be honest... the GeForce 3 was the first card to support programmable shading, and it was released in 2001. Even without a GF3-level card (Intel Integrated, I'm looking at you...), vertex shaders can be transparently run on the CPU, ...
by Superpig
Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:00 pm
Forum: Introversion Blog
Topic: It's all in your head, Part 9
Replies: 88
Views: 125506

Yeah, SimTower started as an elevator simulator. The guy behind it, Yoot Saito, has actually released a sequel, which I believe is available somewhere on the web (look for 'Yoot Tower'). As far as scripting languages go: Don't forget that EVE uses stackless Python rather than regular Python, and als...
by Superpig
Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:35 pm
Forum: Introversion Blog
Topic: It's all in your head, Part 8
Replies: 59
Views: 143725

I'm not a graphics programmer, but here's a potentially workable scheme. It probably has a name in the literature. Yeah, it sounds like you're describing impostors. Link. Ouch. There goes anything without a programmable shader. Well, to be honest... the GeForce 3 was the first card to support progr...
by Superpig
Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:36 pm
Forum: Introversion Blog
Topic: It's all in your head, Part 8
Replies: 59
Views: 143725

Re: It's all in your head, Part 8

You can avoid a certain amount of popping by interpolating between LOD meshes - i.e. slide vertices until they're in line with their neighbours before removing them, using a vertex shader - but for this kind of system I'd probably abandon 3D rendering of distant buildings altogether and see about us...
by Superpig
Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: Shattered wishes
Replies: 31
Views: 7618

She stops calling you "Lucy" and starts calling you "Shithead." Good going, Shithead.

I wish I had the time and motivation to get back into Uplink source code hackery.
by Superpig
Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Alpha to Beta
Replies: 3
Views: 2441

I'd imagine the chances depend on how good at finding bugs you are.
by Superpig
Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Darwinia Wins IGF Awards!
Replies: 33
Views: 16978

By the way, where'd you get those business cards made? One of my colleages, Drew Sikora, got one from Mark and everyone he shows it to is highly impressed. I want one :D Chris DeLay gave me one, having met a die-hard American Introversion fanboy for the first time. They were asking me if I played U...
by Superpig
Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:29 am
Forum: General
Topic: Darwinia Wins IGF Awards!
Replies: 33
Views: 16978

Congrats guys. Great speeches. "We didn't want any publishers fucking with our game..." stunned silence and round of applause from audience :D (but no love for the beta testers? :P ;)) By the way, where'd you get those business cards made? One of my colleages, Drew Sikora, got one from Mar...
by Superpig
Mon May 09, 2005 10:28 pm
Forum: Mod Projects
Topic: Mod Database
Replies: 7
Views: 3118

Nothing to stop people submitting their mods to both sites.
by Superpig
Sun May 08, 2005 1:09 am
Forum: General
Topic: Quick and Dirty Darwinia Shapefile Viewer (Perl)
Replies: 23
Views: 6438

Cyberdyne wrote:This could be the start of a crude model editor.
It would be infinitely more worth people's time to write plugins for existing modelling packages - Wings3D, Blender, Milkshape3D, etc.
by Superpig
Fri May 06, 2005 1:59 pm
Forum: Mod Projects
Topic: Darwinia: Earth(old Darwinia 2 mod)
Replies: 8
Views: 3221

BTW, you'll have to think of a better name - Introversion own the name 'Darwinia' so you won't be able to use it without their permission.
by Superpig
Fri May 06, 2005 1:55 pm
Forum: Mod Projects
Topic: Darwinia Dev CD (G'wan Chris, you know you want to!)
Replies: 14
Views: 4111

WRT the cross platform element... each platform has dynamic link libraries in one form or another. Provided the API exposed to a DLL was complete enough, there'd be no need to write any platform-specific code; the only platform-specific thing would be building the library, and it ought not be too ha...
by Superpig
Tue May 03, 2005 7:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 2 copies
Replies: 6
Views: 2107

This thread makes me LOL :)
by Superpig
Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Luigi for Mod!
Replies: 7
Views: 1945

You're running? Where? How fast? Are there squirrels?

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