Evan

getting good at anything just takes practice

you wont get better by giving up on it

Is this backwards land?

Quake 3 reminds you of halo 4?

I'm excited about the Killer Instinct stuff at E3 this year

Me neither unfortunately

Anyone going to e3 this year?

Non-Gameplay trailer for Mortal Kombat X. This is a redone version using the Mortal Kombat theme music, rather than the out of place music the original trailer had youtube.com/watch?v=mGDiBnU6GAo

Many games are developed using only a few very large shaders, which are then preprocessed to create all the different permutations that actually get used in game

But once its done, its awesome

Porting that system to a different platform is a headache though

Unreal handles that well using their visual shader system, and material editor

If the framework you are using doesnt have support for texture atlas', you will need to add it, or simply not use them. Bundling textures together, and breaking them apart at run time is an unnecessary time sink that you should avoid

A texture atlas is used to limit the number of textures being transferred into VRAM. It allows you to limit that to fewer textures, and your objects then simply sample a singular texture with appropriately modified UV coordinates

Why even make a texture atlas if you are going to pull them out into separate textures?

A texture atlas is usually a singular texture, that is in a sense "stitched" together

The one thing people regret more than anything is not reaching out to their family members, even when it seemed like the most difficult option.

@Pip polymorphic behavior

It's difficult to develop in general, let alone independently

Mindful behavior is difficult to develop from a young age unless you are being heavily influences by others with similar lifestyles

Fair enough

I've found myself striving for a more mindful lifestyle, and reading is definitely a big part of that

The idea of mindful thinking, and overcoming the bias that your ego has isn't even around here in the states

I think the idea of humility is a difficult concept in western society

Everyone is welcome and everyone should respect each other

Should keep things tame in here folks

Trying to group together speakers, apples, and the various states of matter into a single group is pretty tough, and by the time you can, it's bound to be so generic that the name isn't descriptive at all

if you cant come up with one, then you should change how you are organizing things till you can

a file name should be self explanatory

#define mastery 1

Take the initiative to teach yourself if you need to

Blaming other people for your own concerns isn't a very good way to sort things out

That stands in your way?

I wear a pair of modified T50RPs all day long, they make for a good listening experience

yeah there is

@Hjorthenify that is a combination of techniques known as particle effects and projected decals, here is a link that explains the concept blog.wolfire.com/2009/06/how-to-project-decals

or gals

the guys who are working on that thing aren't messing around

That thing is a freaking boss

my neato vacuum is self aware

you do what you gotta do

There is never a singular way of accomplishing your goals

I guess it depends on how you define artificial intelligence

there are an infinite number of ways to create an AI

that's a pretty broad question

Blizzard, is/was an indie studio

valve, is an indie studio

indie is just independently published

shader ninja stuff is usually just fancy math :P

if you make them a thing