alright here. debating between fractal+erosion terrain gen (using Wilbur) and noise+erosion terrain gen (using Jasper McChesney's approach), as well as trying to figure out what scale heightmaps should be on to be good for stuffing into a GIS, and how to make heightmapped terrain play nice when used as a GIS DEM in terms of geodesy -- I really want to avoid a disaster like the one Paizo created with Golarion -- the only way the Paizo maps of Golarion make sense is if the whole world was flat
I wonder if the last question is one I should throw at GIS.SE?
@James You've done this kind of thing before and I quote Genie. I'm gonna quote him again.
Did you rub my lamp? Did you wake me up? Did you bring me here? And now, you're walking out on me? I don't think so. You're gettin' your wishes[answers] so SIT DOWN!
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@HDE226868 In a moment of sheer insanity, I'm currently reading a paper about orbiting bodies in the Kerr-Newman metric. There are some very, very long equations. I don't think it's worth translating into an answer...
@HDE226868 I had to study a bit about the Kerr metric last year. And the Reissner-Nordstrom, but not the Kerr-Newman. I can see why. The equations are... Nasty
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I'll be fair - I'm still watching it and could change my mind
The bit at ~40s in is pretty decent
@AndyD273 So, the first few seconds are very much not HEMA - it consists of wildly swinging swords about, which is no more HEMA than running into someone flailing your fists is boxing
Taking the actual fight to start at 20s: Footwork is non-existent - they're walking. 26s: Guy in the cream/beige suddenly adopts a posture that looks a bit like a defensive sport-fencing stance - not quite HEMA. But not utterly ridiculous either. Guy in the black seems to have no idea what to do with his shield. Or sword
This is promptly demonstrated at 27s when he gets hit with cream guy's shield. This bit is reasonable. Demonstrated again when he gets hit twice more in rapid succession. But they're both still walking instead of using proper stances and both still flailing swords around
@AndyD273 I will say grappling/wrestling is a big part of armored combat. Swords and shields considerably less so. But HEMA is usually more about unarmored fighting; they just wear armor so they don't die.
I'm really wondering how historical those shields are. They're too small to offer full protection, and bucklers usually aren't strapped to the forearm. Plus with that much armor I don't get why they wouldn't just use longswords, but maybe I'm biased.
the tiny bucklers give enough flex to block and move
you must remember big heavy weapons don't change trajectory so much, so putting a chunk of metal in the path is pretty reliable [source, done a tiny bit of HEMA]
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