Sillybones posted:

Speaking of, are people joking when they say this is a cult, because I sure am not. It is terrifying. It is not a nice cult either. It is the bank account draining, friend and family alienating kind.


It was the mods that made it good for me. Try modded X3 today!

Colostomy Bag posted:

Yep.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/40v29l/monthly_report_rotating_planets_and_actual/

Read the first couple of comments. The move to 64-bit made rotating and daytime/nighttime modes possible. The level of delusion is off the charts.

Tippis posted:

WhatisthisIdonteven.


How does that even make the remotest shred of something that at a long distance could be very briefly construed as even the tiniest bit of sense?! Rotating a spherical body requires 64bit positioning now? You could use a sodding 32bit INT to track Jupiter's rotation at a centimetre-level precision.

HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE BE THIS loving STUPID!


ARRGHGHHH

Iglocska posted:

I am sorry, it shows that you are clueless. With 32bit precision you can only rotate cubes.

Also, you can only rotate them clockwise, when viewing it from the center of space (earth).

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Alan rickman has died what the gently caress is going on?!

Tippis posted:

WhatisthisIdonteven.


How does that even make the remotest shred of something that at a long distance could be very briefly construed as even the tiniest bit of sense?! Rotating a spherical body requires 64bit positioning now? You could use a sodding 32bit INT to track Jupiter's rotation at a centimetre-level precision.

HOW CAN THESE PEOPLE BE THIS loving STUPID!


ARRGHGHHH

Tippis posted:

I repeat: ARRGHGHHH

Fargin Icehole posted:

Alright, trying to find the actor's access page of her, I want to show my brother why something like Sandi acting with A-List actors, and comparing it to Joe Kucan directing and acting as Kane with actors in the Command and Conquer days is incomparable.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

don't feel bad, you're just ignorant

you see, you're regular 32-bit int can at most track a polygon with 32 sides (a four-bit int can track a cube and so on .. pretty simpl.)

since grpahics cart are made for manipulating triangles, it means many ints for a CIRLCE (3.14159.... ints)

trackinga SPEHRE takes literally exponantialy more int's and so on

wiht 64-bit precision yuo need ONE graphics card instead of TWO so

RSI saved you like $500

Sillybones posted:

Don't the boats in World of Warcraft have local physics grids?

Maybe this is said enough, but Space Engineers already exists and has so much more of the promised functionality than Star Citizen ever will.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Uhhm SCUSE ME you filthy pleb, how many vidjamagames have YOU designed?? HUh?! HUH?! THOUGHT SO

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

don't feel bad, you're just ignorant

you see, you're regular 32-bit int can at most track a polygon with 32 sides (a four-bit int can track a cube and so on .. pretty simpl.)

since grpahics cart are made for manipulating triangles, it means many ints for a CIRLCE (3.14159.... ints)

trackinga SPEHRE takes literally exponantialy more int's and so on

wiht 64-bit precision yuo need ONE graphics card instead of TWO so

RSI saved you like $500

Daztek posted:

Sillybones posted:

Don't the boats in World of Warcraft have local physics grids?

fuctifino posted:

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happyhippy posted:

Yeah, they had to be coded in as at the start of WoW you could kill an enemy and his corpse would slide off the boat and be stuck out in the middle of the sea.
Which was death as your health would drain if you weren't on a boat that far out.

Nowadays each boat or flying public transport has its own mini instance as soon as you touch the floor. Hover above it and you are still part of the outer world.

Tippis posted:

Funnily enough, asking CRobber that very same question yields a pretty lacklustre answer.


You should be a redditor — it would vastly improve the logic and reasoning of the place.

e: Sorry, that was uncalled for. You made a funny post and I thanked you by insulting you.

quote:

[–]FloDaddeltFreelancer 3 points 2 hours ago*

already in the game

Zyloh said on discord in december that they're aiming for something like this: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html?_r=3

(for weather effects from space)

It'll be interesting to see if they can use the double torus dynamics the two opposite poles of planets are creating: http://www.cosmometry.net/the-torus---dynamic-flow-process

Berious posted:

Can you still mind control people off boats leaving them stranded in the middle of the ocean? Used to play a priest and enjoyed doing that to people who started poo poo.

Mind control was all around hilarious. Could make dudes jump off the huge towers in the outlands and take equipment damage rather than a no penalty PVP death.

Happy Sisyphus posted:

Hey is there a way to hide text within posts from people with less than rear admiral pledge status? I can only get it to work for hiding stuff from non-platinum users.

Tippis posted:

How does that even make the remotest shred of something that at a long distance could be very briefly construed as even the tiniest bit of sense?! Rotating a spherical body requires 64bit positioning now? You could use a sodding 32bit INT to track Jupiter's rotation at a centimetre-level precision.

WebDog posted:

Reading up about CryEngine vehicles is interesting.


It seems anything can be assigned as vehicle.
You build it in max/maya in segmented bits, import in and then assign a movement preset like tank or VTOL and then go into the in-game editor and assign the model's parts to be a wheel or light and so on.

Presumably alternate vehicle systems can be coded in. Which is where I think the majority of the problems could be stemming from, their attempt to make a flight engine that collides with the in-engine's physics rules which aren't much more than object has mass and density.

The game sees a vehicle as a rigid physics object on wheels. The game's internal physics engine will calculate the mass and density and then the vehicle engine takes over with it's own physics setup to drive the thing and add suspension and so forth.

In every vehicle are two major hitboxes that sit inside one another. One is for terrain collision and the other is for bullets. The game hints that if these two boxes cross over things will go wrong - like if a wheel intersects the bounding box. You also have to keep these hit boxes very low in poly count else the game will try to calculate every potential hit surface.

But on top of that you also have further refinements in the in-game vehicle editor where you can create bounding boxes for wheels and other triggers like sparks or weak-points.

You can see where I'm going when you combine this into what is effectively a segmented flying room that spins 360 and has detachable parts.
So now you are flying a quivering hulk of physics objects waiting for something to set it off and then a gun turret or errant bounding box clips as the game stutters from the lag and all goes to hell.

No doubt the guys at CryTek put together a working proof of concept which looks feasible but as they added more and more at Robert's whim, things got well out of hand and the engine's capabilities.