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Postby RabidZombie » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:15 pm

Hello Kotaku! *waves*

http://kotaku.com/5154847/run-a-nuclear-war-on-your-desktopliterally

Edit: Oh, and Offworld where courteous enough to upload it to YouTube.

http://www.offworld.com/2009/02/introve ... tuall.html
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Postby Xarlaxas » Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:41 pm

martin wrote:you want elDiablo to start a nuclear war? ;)


He'd do it well I'm sure!
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Postby skull13 » Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:45 pm

That.
Is.
The.
Most.
Awesome.
Thing.
EVAR!

jelco wrote:Anyway, it looks awesome. All I can think of is how amazing it would be to fight Multiwinia battles on your desk. ;)
Jelco


YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MEGAHEADBOOM!
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Postby RabidZombie » Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:51 pm

Imagine UPLINK on your desk...
:D

Oh...
:(
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Postby cheesemoo0 » Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:59 pm

Nice, I'm surprised this was picked up by Kotaku. If I didn't notice it here I would have certainly noticed it on there. :P
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Postby kostiak » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:33 pm

RabidZombie wrote:Imagine UPLINK on your desk...
:D

Oh...
:(


WIN
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Postby allen » Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:09 am

That's awesome. Been playing Defcon recently, found some people on a forum I participate in that actually love the game. Made a thread and it garnered a tiny bit of interest, don't think any purchases though. :(
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Postby Spacemonkey » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:50 am

This is pretty awesome, I downloaded it myself and tried it, it's pretty cool.

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I have so many ideas now, one of them being get a better webcam (the one I have is only 320), connect my computer up to my TV.

Then have a chess board, and instead of pieces, have small card markers (each having a different symbol). Then write a program which will draw 3d virtual models of chess pieces overlayed on the video image.

Could do other board games as well, monopoly, risk etc.
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Postby martin » Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:51 pm

I added playing with this to the end of my list of tasks, I'm building a planet renderer at the moment, so I may tie that into this system so that it'll render the planet in the middle of your room.

I'll post piccies if I do ;)
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Postby Spacemonkey » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:59 pm

I've had a lot of problems trying to compile it with VS2008, I think it requires 2005.
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Postby Spacemonkey » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:03 pm

martin wrote:I added playing with this to the end of my list of tasks, I'm building a planet renderer at the moment, so I may tie that into this system so that it'll render the planet in the middle of your room.

I'll post piccies if I do ;)


That would be awesome, or render a whole solar system, or a whole galaxy, then stand in the middle of the room and pretend your Obi Wan Kenobi looking for planet Kamino.


but maybe just start with a planet.
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Postby martin » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:55 am

Spacemonkey wrote:I've had a lot of problems trying to compile it with VS2008, I think it requires 2005.


Wonderful, I use professional 2008, so I'm sure I'll have lots of fun with that ¬.¬

And yes, it would be rather awesome to render a whole galaxy, not quite sure if my level of detailing system is *quite* up to that... yet ;)
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Postby Spacemonkey » Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:11 am

I tried 2005, the code compiles, but when the program runs it just exits after the camera properties screen. (Same thing was happing in 2008)
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Postby Spacemonkey » Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:07 am

I done this, using BuildAR (A simple program which allows you to assign models to markers, but not much else)

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However it's very twitchy, small camera movements will make models disappear and reappear. And it doesn't allow identical markers, each model has to have it's own marker.


I really want to get the code working so I can write my own stuff, ideally I would something based in the .Net framework, because i'm not very good with C++.
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Postby Xarlaxas » Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:49 am

I'll also point out that some of those pieces look a little too phallic for my liking. <.< >.>

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