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D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Eonwe posted:

this legitimately made me laugh out loud at work

Yeah me too. Thing is, he's probably serious.

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Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




D_Smart posted:

We do have HDR lighting.

Volumetric lighting is disabled because a) it sux and is buggy on the Havok Vision Engine; and nothing we can do about it. They probably won't fix it since they are now owned by Microsoft b) we use Silverlining (the atmospheric middleware) which doesn't have it.


It's not the Sun. It's the corona.

And that's actually a bug. Get this. You were the first person to report it. I saw this. Created a ticket. Got it fixed today. The DSS Update 10 just released has this fix http;//lodmmo.com/known-issues

GALCOM thanks you for your service.
glad to be an assistance

im actually positively impressed by your answers
what about shadow volumes for lighting would that be possible?

also you should really add some texture variation on textures because it just catches eye how monotonous the ground and wall textures look.I also think you could easily use textures that had 10x more resolution without any kind of performance issues

Dark Off fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Feb 18, 2016

SabinBlitz
May 19, 2015

Firm believer that muscles conquers all
Waiting with baited breath for Friday public patch.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Dark Off posted:

glad to be an assistance

im actually positively impressed by your answers
what about shadow volumes for lighting would that be possible?

also you should really add some texture variation on textures because it just catches eye how monotonous the ground and wall textures look.I also think you could easily use textures that had 10x more resolution without any kind of performance issues

We've toyed around with shadow volumes; but again, it's down to the underlying Havok engine; since we just built our custom on top of it. btw, if you haven't yet, read this: http://lodmmo.com/in-pursuit-of-awesomeness/

We have done some extensive work in this upcoming .07 update. Unfortunately, the scenes are so massive, that it's just not feasible to go back and do everything. Maybe down the road we'll do more. Right now, we've just finished redo the character models at higher quality, some for the aircraft, vehicles and weapons are going through the same thing. These, mind you, were mostly done 3-4 years back and some even before we built this new engine. For a small indie team, there's only so much we can do without going over board. It's not like I want to keep the game in perpetual development.

With this major build out, our focus is on vehicles, the automated AI controlled entities (turrets on stations, defense systems firing etc), world events and finally the in-game cash shop.

And barring any critical issue, we're on track for a public release tomorrow.

Haskell9
Sep 23, 2008

post it live
The Great Twist
I can't see poo poo when the sun goes down. Like, I'm turning my mouse staring at blackness and I don't mean Derek's ethnicity. I blundered blind until I found a wall and hugged it into a corner and alt-tabbed to other things until the sun rose again. Hopefully .7 addresses this.

SabinBlitz
May 19, 2015

Firm believer that muscles conquers all
$5 to buy NVG.

In all seriousness, maybe just build night vision into the characters helmet or do it ARMA 3 style where you actually have to obtain NVG.

Maybe this feature is already in the game. I don't konw, I'm waiting for .07.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Haskell9 posted:

I can't see poo poo when the sun goes down. Like, I'm turning my mouse staring at blackness and I don't mean Derek's ethnicity. I blundered blind until I found a wall and hugged it into a corner and alt-tabbed to other things until the sun rose again. Hopefully .7 addresses this.

There are supply packs all over the scenes (they are even brightly lit beacons you can't miss) which have nv equipment. Free.

And the aircraft in .07 all have nv built-in (SHIFT+N)

SabinBlitz posted:

$5 to buy NVG.

In all seriousness, maybe just build night vision into the characters helmet or do it ARMA 3 style where you actually have to obtain NVG.

Maybe this feature is already in the game. I don't konw, I'm waiting for .07.

Already in the game and implemented since several versions ago

stand-alone:

http://lodmmo.com/asset/portable-image-enhancer/

weapon attachment:

http://lodmmo.com/asset/night-optics-t1/

http://lodmmo.com/asset/night-optics-t2/

Lots more here: http://lodmmo.com/asset/

D_Smart fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Feb 19, 2016

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
The major Line Of Defense build v00.09.06.07 with space and air craft, has been released. It's a major build, so get up to speed.

While not my largest project, this massive project is the work of less than two dozen people - of which the core team left to wrap it up as we head into the final stretch - is comprised of only eight people.

5 years, < $20M, no more than 23 people at peak. 100% indie. 100% self-funded. The only dreams we have, involve a genie.

That's how it is. We build games, not dreams. We sell working product, not JPEGs. We have live tech, not tech demos. We're indie.

And so begins the final stretch.

http://lodmmo.com/changelog/

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/700739919258513413

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/700740222561210369

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/700815069068845056

SabinBlitz
May 19, 2015

Firm believer that muscles conquers all
Nice. Downloading now. I'll mess around awhile and if I can find other active players, I'll probably stream to twitch.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
The in-game docs have not been updated for this build.

The quick help has everything you need to get started.

We also created a new quick start FAQ entry.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
I will be in-game in about 30 mins

D_Smart fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Feb 20, 2016

SabinBlitz
May 19, 2015

Firm believer that muscles conquers all
I was on for awhile messing around. Had a crash to desktop which asked for a bug report which I sent in.

I'll be on tomorrow afternoon (PST Time) to mess around some more. I'm writing down notes of my experience and what I feel could be streamlined or made easier as a user as constructive feedback.

I think I'll stream to Twitch tomorrow too. Just for kicks and giggles and so that way I'll have video to back up any bug reports too if I find more.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

SabinBlitz posted:

I was on for awhile messing around. Had a crash to desktop which asked for a bug report which I sent in.

I'll be on tomorrow afternoon (PST Time) to mess around some more. I'm writing down notes of my experience and what I feel could be streamlined or made easier as a user as constructive feedback.

I think I'll stream to Twitch tomorrow too. Just for kicks and giggles and so that way I'll have video to back up any bug reports too if I find more.

That's great. A ton of the bugs we fixed during the weeklong DSS release (http://lodmmo.com/known-issues) were the result of testing, feedback etc. Please feel free to just open a support ticket (http://3000ad.com/support/) and stick everything in there. I review those myself, several times a day.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/266620/screenshots/?p=1&browsefilter=mostrecent

It's rough around the edges, but it's coming along nicely. I do need to fix the roadmap page (http://lodmmo.com/roadmap) so that I can document the plan for the final push to release.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
I made a long HD video of a tour of the Starguard carrier. An entire massive behemoth that Spergs are going to be so pissed their half-baked tech demo can only dream of rendering; let alone playing in. More to come!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jCUQ1z0hzU

ijyt
Apr 10, 2012

D_Smart posted:

I made a long HD video of a tour of the Starguard carrier. An entire massive behemoth that Spergs are going to be so pissed their half-baked tech demo can only dream of rendering; let alone playing in. More to come!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jCUQ1z0hzU

I wish every update didn't have a bitter jab at another game.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

ijyt posted:

I wish every update didn't have a bitter jab at another game.
That makes one of us. :grin:

I have to work otherwise I'd join Derek's livestream. I want to fly spaceships with Derek Smart.

BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Feb 28, 2016

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
I ended up logging on for a bit because I wanted to see The Derek Smart ... and ram him with a ship.

But he was on a different server I think so I ran into someone else and we shot each other.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
heh, that's precisely why I was on the DSS (test) server :)

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
http://steamcommunity.com/app/266620/discussions/1/405692758723326499/

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
In case you didn't notice, a new public build went live today. And we've done some massive graphics updates

http://steamcommunity.com/app/266620/screenshots/?p=1&browsefilter=mostrecent

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D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice
I made a vidya!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArKi2CKlV8

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