lounge

[deep glen]

:p

[foggy path]

fuck.

time to see how much luck for a character artist I can get from #volunteer-projects !

yeah all the character models are from there

since we don't have anyone able (or rather, willing) to model characters

I have a friend who helped with some models but he hates doing characters so he won't do those lol

I haven't really played lots of smaller indie games that might use free content so I haven't really seen any of them before :D

[soft night]

well zomg soon use this kind of solution https://magazine.substance3d.com/users-journey-the-creation-of-a-cinematic-loop-animation/

[regal pecan]

How long before someone makes an asset flip out of their own assets....

[foggy path]

other than Activision with their COD series?

...other than EA with their sports games...

hmm

lol

[regal pecan]

I thought asset flip referred to the minimum effort put towards making it a playable game, rather than the quality of its assets.

[latent spruce]

@quiet narwhal This input overlay on OBS? Will it actually show an overlay on any screen, or only if you are streaming?

[quiet narwhal]

ah I see what you are saying, you need an overlay on the screen what is it for?

[foggy path]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVo3VqjL0Q

[quiet narwhal]

@latent spruce so the obs stuff only works in the obs setup so unless you are recording with it or streaming its kinda useless. https://github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases/tag/v3.1-beta I just found is kinda neato

[latent spruce]

@quiet narwhal I found this used by artists to overlay an image for tracing in things like photoshop - I can't find any hotkeys (I've emailed the developer) to toggle it off and on but it's a start - I'm going to see about making a quick keyboard render in Blender from some templates then use that rendered images as the image on display in the overlay app - http://www.colinthomas.com/overlay/

Really all it needs is a hotkey - bonus points would be profiles that are loaded based on active window, with a universal hotkey that triggers the overlay

[quiet narwhal]

gotcha. I know you can hotkey it in OBS but only helps for recording. That other one I linked yo ucan filter based on process

but I didnt see a hotkey

[latent spruce]

It's basically something that shows all the hotkey/shortcuts - blender and other programs will show SOME contextual hotkeys, but only for the tool you have available - for generalists, this would be super helpful for faster workflows because you understand the concepts of what you are trying to do but just don't remember all the different keybinds

[quiet narwhal]

ah yeah just a simple overlay then of stuff

[foggy path]

Something you can do with OBS is you can have it fullscreen its output into your monitor

It might have some latency vs not doing it though

but it would work that way without recording/streaming

[quiet narwhal]

how do you do that?

[foggy path]

Uh let me fire it up and see where that option was...

right click the preview area

[quiet narwhal]

oh snap

I never right clicked the preview area lol

hmm. I cant get it to just preview stuff tho

[latent spruce]

oh maybe that woudl work because I know OBS has universal hotkeys

this is the concept - you can see the B key is done as an example

(this would be a full screen overlay, so you can actually read the damn thing

[quiet narwhal]

so it can get it to overlay, but the actual monitor is useless its overlaying on

ok yeah cant project onto the same monitor its capturing, which makes sense lol

but neato, thanks for the heads up on that. Could be useful

[latent spruce]

You can if you like the infinite mirror effect - not exactly the mark of a seasoned streamer

[latent spruce]

man this would be so much better if you could toggle the overlay easily

and if someone else did all this work instead of me

[late night]

https://www.paulblartstation.com/

[deep glen]

le sigh

and le lol

[jovial talon]

lol

[cursive crypt]

https://magazine.artstation.com/2021/03/a-statement-from-artstation/

First time I heard about nft, guess I'm out of the loop 🤷‍♂️

[solid aurora]

still googling what it is

[regal pecan]

It's absurd.

[cursive crypt]

Afaik, it is block chained record you own a digital asset.

[solid aurora]

ok I see

it's another way to milk venture capital for funding

glorified encryped Queue data structure

or linked list depends how you look at it

[cursive crypt]

It was sure that block-chain is interesting tech. So different apps will pop up around.

Can't comment on that one tho.

[solid aurora]

I'm to much cynic

[zinc matrix]

ue5 be like: damn it.... i dont think we will be able to release early access this year, we are just tooo noiisssyyyy

[solid aurora]

I jump on new tech all day

[regal pecan]

I tried looking up how Ethereum works just to find out if end users have to store gigabytes of art they can't use. Never figured it out.

[solid aurora]

but blockchain

meh

[zinc matrix]

imagine linking a video game with blockchain

???

[cursive crypt]

Well... it is interesting tho

[solid aurora]

I really see it as way to slap it and get funding 😄

[cursive crypt]

Ppl make money I guess. And drain power as they say of latest 🙂

[zinc matrix]

why do people buy pictures linked to blockchain

[solid aurora]

because..

blockchain!

[cursive crypt]

It is like public secure ledger.

[regal pecan]

Pyramid schemes!

[zinc matrix]

but how does it work? ive heard if you buy it you get special chain number?

[deep glen]

on twitter art-station is being put trough the grinder by quite a lot of artists using it.

[solid aurora]

you just slap clever words on something you want to sel

and let markting go wild

[solid aurora]

ok simply speaking

it's bitcoin

every entry in block chain is encrypted and linked to previous and next entry

you cannot alter it and you cannot reliably make copy of it

every key in blockchain is unique and distributed amoung "chained" users

[regal pecan]

Oh, and there's a site where you can sell NFTs of your tweets.

your tweets

[solid aurora]

in my days good days

selling you shit was considered special

now you can sell digital text -;-

which is probabaly worth less in grand scheme of things 😄

[regal pecan]

Technically not digital text. Digital certificates for your digital text.

Guaranteed by a company that claims, but does not necessarily, store them in a blockchain.

[zinc matrix]

they so do guarantee

[regal pecan]

I suppose it's good artstation is staying out of NFTs. Blockchain is literally designed to not let you wash the stain of it off.

[zinc matrix]

@zinc matrix what

game might be metro exodus

railway

[zinc matrix]

@zinc matrix is ue5 just a hype? like only 10% of pc gamers have the hardware for lumen, 😄

either your game has to be a good game, which the players with good hardware will play or...

[foggy path]

I don't think figures like "only X% have Y" makes much sense.. you can't design game engines based on what people have right now

Or rather, you could, but for something that's supposed to be used for games that push the graphical limits of hardware it doesn't really make sense because you're going to immediately be outdated

[zinc matrix]

huh?

https://i.imgur.com/coaJi2S.jpeg

[fluid bloom]

winter surprised car drivers https://is.mediadelivery.fi/img/1920/aa93e4e73a6a4618ac36f600ccb6c951.jpg

[ancient hornet]

where did they posted the hardware requirements already?

[zinc matrix]

nowhere

[ancient hornet]

also didn't Epic say they would be porting Fortnite to UE5? The mobile version has to be able to still run

[normal prism]

https://youtu.be/2wcw_O_19XQ

Nuts

[plucky pagoda]

It's too late for us now. The AI has won. https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1369130762730172419

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic)

CONGRESS: Deepfakes are a threat to national security

FORTNITE COMMUNITY: https://t.co/fZpNqvp5CL

Retweets

555

Likes

4814

Twitter · Mar 9, 2021, 3:39 AM

[foggy path]

lol

[cursive crypt]

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/capturing-reality-is-now-part-of-epic-games

I guess, I might drop Agisoft at some point.

[fresh heath]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uhh62MUEic

[cursive crypt]

It definitely is.

We might see some 16k dirt textures soon.

Complain to support. How so, few hours after the announcement and is not free also!

No clue really. Might need some time to setup.

Should go free?

[solid aurora]

now I'm waiting for annoucemnt of animations along humans

like you know

epic have mo cap studios

and they do nothing right know

might just as well give away free anim sets

[cursive crypt]

They should buy some asset studios so everyone get a free artist.

[deep glen]

Xd

[median wraith]

lol

that would give a new meaning to the word crowdfunding

Got an Epic mega grant

• So whats that means ?

Got 20 programmers for 20 months

[fluid bloom]

I don't think mega grants are that big 😄

[median wraith]

Can Epic purchase Autodesk

and give it to blender foundation ?

thank you Epic

[cursive crypt]

Need Fortnite 2 for this. Autodesk too big boss.

[humble remnant]

Isn't Forkbite kinda dying the past months

[ancient hornet]

it's still a big cash cow at least

but it does seem to have lost a lot of activity

but it started from SO high it's still a lot 😄

a game of that size won't die that fast

[vague atlas]

Hey everyone. I work a job that gives me a LOT of downtime at the office. So I figured it’d be nice to get some game development done instead of shopping on Amazon. Does anyone have a laptop recommendation that I can comfortably use Unreal Engine 4 and Maya on?

[fresh heath]

I wonder what is going to come after Fortnite

Maybe a new Unreal Tournament? 😔

[foggy path]

Fortnite 2

... or maybe they'll revive Save the World

[deep glen]

just more fortnite but new gamemodes (read: whats trending)

if city builders suddenly become the most popular thing, you'd get fortnite-themed city builder

[quiet narwhal]

I wish save the world got more love but honestly it's not horrible it just is what it is

with that said I wish I could bring my tron skins into STW lol

[solid aurora]

STW was nice

but

it's beyond saving right know

it really need ground up redesign

I really liked the concept

but the execution is average at best

like the base building is bad, locked to single map

adventure maps are small and pretty much look the same

grind is abmyssal

and this is saying somebody who is playing idle clickers..

the game wide and shallow essentially

[real palm]

did you mean Fortnite: Chapter 2?

[solid aurora]

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/9679185dbbfc718276941678d46032d56f74eadb

confirmed

network prediction will be driving network predicted physics 😄

by extension seems like finally

rendering and gameplay ticking will be seprate

[zinc matrix]

IsFAsyncObjectManagerCallback

🤔

[fresh heath]

https://tech.fb.com/inside-facebook-reality-labs-the-next-era-of-human-computer-interaction/

[potent dew]

Hello Slackers family, months ago I applied to the WN european devcontest (An Unreal Sci-fi Adventure project) and now I am at the quarterfinals where 100 out of 500 projects have to compete. A vote here would really help me to get more visibility, I would really appreciate it! ❤️ https://wndevcontest-games.wnhub.io/1464

If someone is curious here's the link of the demo : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A1HGwRG5gu1eG1r1ZYHqvHwht7b3KpWI/view

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/FlohOfWoe/status/1369365726583267332

Andre Weissflog (@FlohOfWoe)

The return of the MODs :) (MOD files are pretty much perfect for the web because they can encode hours of music into kilobytes) https://t.co/GUFkU8woDi

Twitter · Mar 9, 2021, 7:13 PM

[proud pier]

No....no they aren't

[proud pier]

First Epic/Blender need to fix workflow/export issues to UE4 for everything so it's 10% in line with Maya products at the very least

[carmine frigate]

its more of a blender/maya problem than a blender unreal problem 😛

unreal just picked a standard

[glacial notch]

hi everyone!

how’s everyone doing?

[cursive crypt]

I don't think they change it so much 🤔 However, being a closed format, that sucks.

[carmine frigate]

well export import isnt really their thing

everything in blender

thats the motto

[graceful ember]

hi, quick question

I've encountered a problem with my epic account

where I've accidentally split assets and games between the both

so I own a game on one account, but not on the other

is there a way to merge accounts through support, or will I have to log in and out every time?

[proud pier]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Just ask their support @graceful ember

[carmine frigate]

you could prolly inject a skel mesh and animation directly into a blend file

yea, controll rig is also has pyton so u just need to send the frames over

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/TristanRiedford/status/1369389223074291713

Tristan Reidford (@TristanRiedford)

To try and make the Combine seem a little less established in the world for HLA, we played around with their structures always requiring help from human buildings. Also lots of cables, like they were having a city wide LAN party before their citadel wifi was completed.

Twitter · Mar 9, 2021, 8:46 PM

[median wraith]

How I can report a dude from the marketplace ?

"This is completely new one pack. Same meshes and textures only"

🤖

[deep glen]

@fresh heath hnng

[median wraith]

oh is done

[carmine frigate]

Hevedy strikes again 🙂

[median wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-omg-surprised-scared-kid-gif-10714204

[carmine frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/boom-passion-explosion-gif-14729608

[fresh heath]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-03-09/final-evangelion-film-1st-day-sells-539623-tickets-for-over-802774200-yen/.170411

[carmine frigate]

is it any good?

[fresh heath]

No idea, I don't want to spoil it too much so I don't dig deep into discussions

[carmine frigate]

ahh, never seen the series

[fresh heath]

The original series is great

I enjoy the new movies less but they are still entertaining

[carmine frigate]

I only watched a few anime

mostly the 3d stuff 😛

some naruto and dbz too but long time ago

[zinc matrix]

will captureReality still be available on steam ?

[carmine frigate]

I think i like the 3d fight scenes of black rock shooter the best cuz its mega over the top

and well animated

[fresh heath]

Other than Evangelion, I also watched a few anime

Mostly Mamoru Oshii's and adjacent works

[carmine frigate]

those naruto games have top noth 3d aswell, mayB even the best

[fresh heath]

Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Urusei Yatsura

[carmine frigate]

when i watched ep 1 of boruto i was horrified by the 3d

i watched ghost and akira aswell

[fresh heath]

Patlabor 2's intro is really cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydCLeclaKik

[foggy path]

Armored Trooper Votoms is pretty cool too, it's maybe a bit more realistic mecha thing similar to Patlabor

the Heavy Gear games were somewhat based on Votoms iirc

also 08th MS Team is maybe the best gundam one :D

[torpid star]

thank you rider, very cool.

I'd love to see DLSS work for VR, since foveated rendering isn't a thing in the main branch of the engine.

I have a suspicion it wouldn't work very well with the stereo rendering.

[foggy path]

lol yeah had Rider generate one of those .ush includes once as well

very confusing errors from it

[foggy path]

ugh, I hope they can release 4.26.2 soon..

some of the bugs like protected/private funcs not working unless you drag it in from the sidebar are starting to get on my nerves a bit :P

[proud pier]

Didn't enjoy Evangelion series myself @fresh heath , directors cut/^2 and other movie (all on Netflix) before this did make it a bit better, but overall, not an anime that I would recommend.

But I might check this final movie out and see what all the fuss is about.

[foggy path]

I've only seen the original NGE anime series and I think it's massively overrated :P

[quiet narwhal]

@torpid star https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/lzt9hi/been_experimenting_with_the_new_dlss_plugin_in_vr/

[fathom wadi]

@torpid star if you mean in VR, foveated rendering does exist

in UE4 I mean

[torpid star]

not in the main branch.

[fathom wadi]

its part of the SDK for the VR part I believe

[torpid star]

what SDK?

[fathom wadi]

the docs say oculus

[torpid star]

yeah that's the oculus branch

it's a got a bunch of goodies

not the main branch unfortunately, plus it's Oculus

[fathom wadi]

no its just the oculus lib so it should work across

[torpid star]

last time I checked it was heavily integrated into the source code? or did they make into a plugin?

[fathom wadi]

one moment ill check but it used to be like that before the custom build

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BlueprintAPI/OculusLibrary/index.html looks to be just part of the lib so a plugin I guess?

[torpid star]

the actual foveated rendering is handled by the oculus branch of the engine, these are just utility functions that do nothing on the main branch.

[fathom wadi]

its surprising if its not in the core engine yet tho, I mean, seperate it into the VR sdk areas sure, but I remember they talked about it back in 2016 and thought it was added in 2017

fair enough

[torpid star]

yeah NVIDIA did a bunch of work for VR that hasn't made it across the 4.20 rendering changes.

single pass stereo on PC iirc. edit nvm that's the oculus branch

https://developer.nvidia.com/vrworks dead in the water

[fathom wadi]

im a little behind now as I got so sick of working in VR I haven't for a couple of years 😄

[torpid star]

so is the engine lul

[fathom wadi]

yeah seems so. I saw they were supporting openXR tho so maybe it's just a case of long term they know a better solution is coming so they half arse it until then 🙂

[torpid star]

Supporting OpenXR is nice. Unfortunately VR is a few years behind in UE. As soon as they finished Robo Recall the VR stuff stopped being a priority, it's just maintained now.

post 4.20 rendering changes, we don't have multi-view rendering/foveated rendering.

[fathom wadi]

I blame the weed.

oh the version of the engine. My bad 😄

[foggy path]

that's too bad with the VR stuff

Robo Recall is imo still one of the best of its kind

[sage ermine]

THAT'S why the atmosphere and vol clouds don't work in VR...

<sigh>

[fathom wadi]

the best VR experience I had so far is somewhere between Rec Room and Pokerstars VR. Although I did a prototype of a Time Crisis style game that was super fun so I should try more of those types of games.

but I prefer seated experience

[sage ermine]

I was heartbroken that From other suns wouldn't work on my Quest 2 😦

[fathom wadi]

good news. The HTC Vive standalone may be an option next year 😉

[torpid star]

If anyone wants a new Daft Punkish song try this: https://open.spotify.com/track/3oqOrmpxlBKVWfhCVhbAgZ

by a french artist as well

[cursive crypt]

You like beards? How we should know 🤔

[dense flame]

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2678 V3
Mobo: HUANANZHI X99 8MD3 X99 Motherboard
Subtotal: SG$ 244.83
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001381936066.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.54be5b3914bkd4&algo_pvid=a290ec0e-e53b--8d0017908133&algo_expid=a290ec0e-e53b-47df-8f76-8d0017908133-0&btsid=0bb0624516153379059986282e6b69&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_
RAM: 2x8GB DDR3 1333Mhz for S$63.70
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNVAFGn
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce gtx 960 for 80 SGD https://carousell.com/p/236404452
SSD: Lexar NS100 2.5inch SATA 6Gb/s SSD for S$85.80
https://www.lazada.sg/products/lexar-ns100-25inch-sata-6gbs-ssd-i339954966-s752944983.html?spm=a2o42.searchlist.list.50.4569d494EQU7MF&search=1&freeshipping=1
how about now, what else can I do?
Case: TECWARE NEXUS M2 M-ATX CASING for S$41 https://s.lazada.sg/s.ZXTm6
CPU fan: CPU Cooler 2 Heatpipes 4Pin PWM Fan Cooling Radiator for S$12.76 https://shopee.sg/product/272825586/6644221056?smtt=0.178452885-1615334991.9
Thermal paste: Net Weight 1/3/7/15/30 Grams Syringe Packaging Gray GD900 Thermal Conductive Grease Paste Plaster CPU Heat Sink Commpound SSY 4.8 for $2.98
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Total: S$616.97
Good deal? Will be using this to develop games in Unreal

[fluid bloom]

google does some interesting guesses when translating pronouns that lack gender into english 🤔
https://i.redd.it/4n7cbqkc06m61.jpg

😄

@dense flame why do you want an over half a decade old intel xeon?

[cursive crypt]

ddr2...

[dense flame]

actually ddr3

[dense flame]

cheap and powerful

[fluid bloom]

is it though?

[cursive crypt]

Ah, I saw up... looks fine to me.

[dense flame]

at least, I've heard xeons are good value

[fluid bloom]

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-v2-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-3600XT/m17083vsm1211585

actually here's a comparison against 3600x https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-v2-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-3600X/m17083vs4041

there's no V3 benchmarks for the intel but I'm guessing it's not much better

honestly if I were you I'd invest a hundred dollars more into a better CPU and not a discontinued end of life one 😛

[dense flame]

That's the thing, I can't stretch that far

[pearl elk]

$100 isnt even a decent keyboard and mouse these days

Ive seen people drop more of a pair of headphones than a CPU, madness

[fluid bloom]

guy at work has 1300 euro headphones

[dense stratus]

wow

[fluid bloom]

yea I draw the line somewhere between 200-300 euros these days 😄

1300 is just ridiculous

[dense stratus]

meanwhile mine were around £30-£40 and I really love them (my boyfriend got them for me so not sure the exact price) 😅

[solid aurora]

seems normal

at that point you also should drop around 2000 for headphones amplifier

[stiff crystal]

price alone doesn't mean it will sound good

my 120€ sennheisers still sound better than my other halfs 300€ bose's, altho mine isn't wireless so can see some value in that

[dense stratus]

very true

[fluid bloom]

He does have an amp for them too

[foggy path]

I've used Sennheiser HD-800's and AKG's equivalents, their price tag is around 1000 eur

Not worth it imo... especially the HD-800's are actually kind of uncomfortable unlike other Sennheisers because they used some kind of much harder material on the ear cups

they do sound better than my HD-650s but not enough to warrant that price tag and you can only really even tell they sound better in fairly specific recordings, most music isn't really any different :P

[stiff crystal]

I have external amp/dac too, but it's some "cheap" chinese thing

https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2017/05/19/tianyun_zero_dacheadphone_amp_09_version_1495200731_fcd44f1c.jpg

(that's the bigger headphone plug if you try to imagine the scale) so it does take a bit space from the desk

I'll probably bolt it on the table some day to free some space on top

this has been the best purchase I've made for audio.. mainly because before external dac I just kept buying expensive pc audio cards and they all had all kinds of issues and most still had subpar dacs

now I just use mobo's integrated audio via toslink and it's always fine

[cursive crypt]

I'm ODAC user, fantastic and cheap. With hd700 is more than enough.

[stiff crystal]

then couple that with Equalizer APO and you got nice and free software DSP on windows

of course, there can be better DACs today, things were quite different decade ago when I bought that

I like everything else but the size really

and the volume pot... volume pot is trash 😄

[cursive crypt]

Audio market is mostly snake oil. If you have no gold cables you are noob.

[stiff crystal]

yes, that's gold plated and "ribbed" toslink cable

let that sink in

the one in the image is not actually more expensive cable, just for lols

[fluid bloom]

meanwhile I plug my headphones into my mobo like a chump

[cursive crypt]

Also big mistake most wannabe audiophiles do is not having a dedicate ruby-based external clock to sync their devices. It bumps up the quality in tens.

[fluid bloom]

surprisingly small amount of noise in the signal though 🤔

just a tiiiiiny amount of static that is barely audible

[cursive crypt]

That's not music, that noise.

[stiff crystal]

it's not the noise itself, it's just horrible otherwise

my x570 mobo has this:

they even dedicated small part of pcb for audio alone

and it's still trash

[fluid bloom]

😄

[stiff crystal]

I tried that for one minute and then went back to external dac

[fluid bloom]

still waiting for my computer I ordered on 19th of december...

[stiff crystal]

I was like, maybe it's not that bad

but nope

[cursive crypt]

You need digital out from there.

[stiff crystal]

every modern mobo has one though 🙂

I also like how they market stock WIMA caps as high end audio caps 😄

[cursive crypt]

My previous mobo had dedicated USB channels for audio, lol. Ofc, with dedicated supply and whatnot. No clue was it working.

[stiff crystal]

I guess they are better than the usual crap they put on those but it's hardly highend

[cursive crypt]

Mostly snake oil man. On lucky days you be lucky hear anything above 12Khz

[fluid bloom]

"Audio: Realtek ®️ ALC1200 Codec"

that's what my x570 tomahawk has

😄

[stiff crystal]

I especially like the noise guard led strips on the mobo

[cursive crypt]

Are you with x570? AMD?

[stiff crystal]

I am yes

x570 aorus elite

[cursive crypt]

I guess you don't know, but do you have IBS option in your BIOS? 🙂

Oh, f. Don't tell me Gigabyte

[stiff crystal]

what is IBS? 😄

[cursive crypt]

It is profiling tool.

[stiff crystal]

this has been better gigabyte than the previous one I had

I'm not touching Asus mobos in a decade now

[cursive crypt]

Damn Gigabyte... they didn't cared about enabling some AMD features on their mobo.

[stiff crystal]

this one had pretty extensive settings on bios

[cursive crypt]

Nah... I'm also with Aorus, but Pro

[fluid bloom]

soon™️

[stiff crystal]

they've also brought new AGESA updates quite quickly

[cursive crypt]

I asked them about the IBS, they said "no and never" will be supported.

[stiff crystal]

@fluid bloom good luck with the 5950x

[fluid bloom]

thanks, I'll need it 😄

[stiff crystal]

I'd "need" that cpu as well 😄

[fluid bloom]

jimms got 12 pcs on 1st of this month

[stiff crystal]

but I'm fine with my 3900x

[fluid bloom]

before that they got 12 pcs on 14th of january

[stiff crystal]

yeah, it's been slow

[cursive crypt]

Ha looks good, Noctua is fine, I'm with the mini variant tho.. I want some free space in my box lol

[fluid bloom]

I think I'll need a new case too

[stiff crystal]

I have some decade+ old noctua on mine

would love D15

[fluid bloom]

I mean, I have a 3080 rtx on a separate order from verkkokauppa

[cursive crypt]

It is fantastic, it has a bit of noise tho 🤔

[fluid bloom]

it probably doesn't fit in

[stiff crystal]

noctua has kept sending me free brackets for all different sockets, good purchase

[cursive crypt]

I switched from water cooling... after the pump started to do some noises... and I always felt the need to open and sip in more water - like in a car.

[fluid bloom]

I didn't dare buying water cooling on the same go

the price was getting too dizzying for my eyes

my corsair h80i has performed well for 8 years now though, not a single odd sound coming from it

better than my old zalman reserator 2 😄

[stiff crystal]

I almost got some cheap one with x570... when I was getting mine msi had campaign where you got one for free

but the mobo I would have wanted from msi didn't have stock so the campaign just ran out

[humble remnant]

I'd recommend you look for second hand locally first

I recently glazed my eyes on a PC with an X99 Xeon (DDR4) with 32 RAM and a Radeon HD 280X

And it was a decent price for what it offered

One thing I would strongly recommend however is having a big SSD to hold the engine and the project/s you're working on

Also do keep in mind those Xeons often don't turbo high up

Unreal uses a lot of singlethread so you might have trouble occasionally

[fluid bloom]

I had real trouble finding non RGB lights equipped memory

it's amazing how like 80% of RAM sticks come with lights

wtf

[humble remnant]

I got Corsair Vengeance ones, 3600cl18 but clocked to 3000cl14 right now, pretty good performance

Either way

I'm with a Xeon in my server and I'd gladly use it as a secondary PC should I have to, but its turbo approaches 4 GHz

Majority of later Xeons turbo barely around 3 GHz

Consider your options and do look for a Xeon that has a much faster turbo so that the CPU isn't a bottleneck

And again, look second hand market

You can find solid PCs for the same price you would get a PC off Ali

[cursive crypt]

So much that. I had like 15 choices and 2 with no RGB.

[pearl elk]

Ive had some issues with the software for my MSI MEG x570, not sure if I can recommend

[cursive crypt]

What issues?

[pearl elk]

Dragon Center is just not overly good, the fan rates either arnt reported right or just dont work entirely. Xmp profile issues with the bios, some bios updates just not working all together. Just lots of little instabilities, theres an AMD one with the USB on x570s too

Take a look at the rating for Dragon Center on Windows Store

[cursive crypt]

I haven't seen so far a good quality pc hardware vendor software: any motherboard, even nvidia barely does it. They are mostly lame, like made by juniors and unstable. Gaming software is even worse, just flashy and beautiful. I can probably talk about several such softwares and the amount of bugs I found in them.

x570 had some issues with USB afaik... still the latest bios updates were mostly about that.

[pearl elk]

Well Asus tends to be not great but its stable for the most part. This mobo in particlar is the worst Ive seen software-wise

[median wraith]

MS Did id another time

have fun with your reviews

next time release the games at 600€

[cursive crypt]

Do car games milk their users as the football games? 🙂

[median wraith]

no, they have the same game and keep increasing the price each year

just released on steam

[pearl elk]

Yup they do, car packs, exclusive cars etc

[cursive crypt]

Pink tires +5$

It's a business, so they can do as they like as long ppl pay.

[pearl elk]

NFS charges for exhaust colours lol

I miss the days when you could unlock everything by playing

Now I gotta pay $300 for diamond gucci spinners

[median wraith]

@cursive crypt

You should buy the Ultimate

as is the only one with correct prices

its so rance they didn't wanted to increase it with their absurd rate

as will set in 120€

[pearl elk]

Im not paying $150, dont care how good the cars look

[median wraith]

by the conversion they did

[pearl elk]

All they have to do is copy/paster from the car manufacturer, hard work

[median wraith]

you pay 85$ for the normal edition in Europe

meanwhile cost 59$

you know the first world imaginary taxes increase of 40%

[pearl elk]

US gets charged less cuz they dont have to hire lawyers to check consumer laws :p

[median wraith]

lol

[pearl elk]

New releases used to be $80 here, Forza Horizon 4 is bit old now

Paid less for CoD Cold War

You watch Bethesda games get even more expensive now lol

[cursive crypt]

Steam regional prices really suck at certain cases. Most notable, they assume everyone in EU gets the same income.

[median wraith]

I mean then set 80$

the problem is they only charge 10$ extra to europe

while the base price remains the same in the rest of the world

[median wraith]

yeah they are charging with this game 100€ in rumania where the minimum per month income is about 300€

is filled with negatives

[pearl elk]

Publishers seem to think they shouldnt cover the costs of region prices so they charge in a way fluctuations in currency is passed onto the consumer

[median wraith]

thats their MS store

I thought when you sell in Steam you sign a paper that says

you won't give other stores advantage

[pearl elk]

Its probably part of gamepass by now

[median wraith]

I mean is a 3 years old game

I completed the game for 1€ the last year with 1 month pass

[pearl elk]

Its a service game though, it'll be worthless if they turn the servers off right

[soft night]

well some games not last in gamepass forever

@pearl elk it have being gamepass game from start

[turbid spindle]

@zinc matrix, :coin: Heads

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/tails-eye-roll-sonic-roll-eyes-whatever-gif-16217239

[pearl elk]

I think gamepass makes sense especially for service games, far better value

[soft night]

gamepass games the games on there arent there forever

Tails head so pizza soup?

[median wraith]

whats made the pizza of ?

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/yum-black-licorice-delicious-confectionery-gif-17952609

pineapples plus that

licorice

is that but there is black licorice pizza with pineapple

[cursive crypt]

Oww... I love these too... Too bad they are hard to find around.

[soft night]

so you love salmiakki then

in powder form some put it to pizza

[median wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-憤怒-angry-furious-mad-gif-4514235

[soft night]

there is salmiakkipizza

[solid aurora]

does anyone, know the name formula (math operation)

which allows to never reach 100% of some added percentage values

which create diminishing return

[median wraith]

wait a second

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/110509/multiple-landscape-physmats.html

there is no human way to have different physics materials for landsapes ?

🤖

[fluid bloom]

sure there is, they're tied to the layers

I think in some 4.2X version we also got the ability to define them inside the material itself

[median wraith]

Layers aren't materials

Physics assets go per material

let me check

[fluid bloom]

4.25: New: Added Physical Material Masks to Materials, which are used to associate multiple physical Materials with a single Material based on a mask. This is only supported when Chaos physics is enabled. In the Material, set the Physical Material Mask to a mask and Physical Material Map to an array of physical materials. In the Static Mesh properties, Support Physical Material Masks must be enabled and additional data will be stored at runtime.

so it only works on smeshes and with chaos only

for landscapes you need to define the layers themselves and then in the layer info asset (or wtf it's called) you set the physical material of that landscape layer

so don't use those "landscape auto materials" that people seem to love 😛

[median wraith]

seems like you're correct

@finite lark so is there

[median wraith]

I don't, thats just for specific areas

[fluid bloom]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/BuildingWorlds/Landscape/Editing/PaintMode/index.html

Phys Material The Physical Material (if any) assigned to areas of Landscape where this layer is dominant.

[pearl elk]

wouldnt it get the physical material of the material applied to that area of a landscape by default?

[median wraith]

But I don't know how to get these inputs

I mean lol

[finite lark]

Allen used this iirc... it does ring a bell

[median wraith]

Maybe like that

[finite lark]

but I am no one doing materials

not my thing

[median wraith]

Layers info have it inside aswell

[fluid bloom]

I haven't used that node before

I haven't worked with landscape much lately 😄

[median wraith]

I think that node is actually for automatic landscape

as the one you listed before

auto layers

[fluid bloom]

oh right that's a new 4.26 thing

New: Added a new material expression for landscape that outputs a physical material. This can optionally be used to generate the dominant physical material for each point on a landscape. When setup in a landscape material it overrides the standard layer based physical materials. The aim is to allow greater logical control over physical material placement on the landscape.

[median wraith]

Oh it just took basically 1 whole engine version to do it

🤖

at least now is there

[finite lark]

4.26?

then nah we haven't used it

we probably did something else

time for you to look for epic tutorials or feature highlights

haha

[carmine frigate]

a while back i was gettin rid of some old HDDs, so i went to the garden and drove a few nails trough em and tossed em

[pearl elk]

Hevedy we know your vehicles are going to be broken no matter which physical material is on the landscape 😛

[carmine frigate]

my neighbour asked what i was doin, and told him makin sure ppl dont dig trough my stuff

he thought i was exagerating, but if you connect it up it has a whole bunch of auto logins like most disks

and these disk verry often do get plugged in

E waste goes over theentire world 😛

[pearl elk]

military grade format

and if youre really paranoid, magnets

[carmine frigate]

gotta have stroong magnets, they have protective casings

[pearl elk]

open em up duh

easier than nailing em

[carmine frigate]

not to mention they allready have neo magnets in them

[pearl elk]

next time use a gun, its quicker

[carmine frigate]

I dont own a gun

thats not a thing we do here

[pearl elk]

then your HDD aint worth lookin at 😛

I 3d printed a Mac 10 just to get some street cred

[carmine frigate]

ahh, last time i checked TPB it had a catagory for 3dprint rips

it had 3 rips,, a dildo a buttplug and a gun

[pearl elk]

Id shoot someone with a dildo

not sure if thats less sus tho

https://tenor.com/view/excuse-me-kermit-why-so-quiet-looking-driver-gif-16480449

https://puu.sh/HnSYd/214001b8a0.jpg

Damn megascans are getting good

[silk lily]

epic acquire capturereality which is insane

heard that the quixel guys said its expensive

epic legit did this gif

https://tenor.com/view/improvise-adapt-overcome-bear-grylls-gif-10468556

[pearl elk]

If you cant beat em, buy em

When the going gets tough, the tough get bought 😛

I wonder if we'll get Godot 5 before Unreal Engine 5

[median wraith]

4 isn't even released yet

[pearl elk]

Dont be so hard on Epic, theyve tried so hard during this early access period to get UE4 done 😛

[zinc matrix]

@pearl elk is that ue4?

[silk lily]

i really waiting for UE5 then i can start working on my new game project

[humble remnant]

I feel called out

[carmine frigate]

now capturereality is owned by epic do i get more free stuff?

where do i collect?

no deal

[median wraith]

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10391362?hl=en

https://9to5google.com/2021/03/09/youtube-tax-us-change/

[foggy path]

they won't deduct you taxes as long as you submit the right forms

which I thought you had to submit to begin with if they paid you but guess not

[quiet narwhal]

well I can say right now they dont deduct taxes, they jus send the 1099-misc to us creators

kinda weird they would take them tho since you are not supposed to unless ya know employee and all

[agile egret]

looks like winter survival demo was released on steam with the entire unreal project included xD oops xD

[foggy path]

Gonna grab it because I'm curious now lol

wat

tbh not gonna even play it probably, more interested in just looking at the project

[zinc matrix]

from https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/434936802764128258/819278684829646878/20210310_165546.jpg to https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/716034136078549046/819279722210918400/RealityCapture_Hd9svJtO59.jpg

[carmine frigate]

just becouse its on steam doesnt mean it holds any value

better just look at UT or roborecall or something

[dim ruin]

lol this cable component is ridiculous.

[carmine frigate]

yea im more a fan of spline meshes

[cursive crypt]

Last year I checked out 1-2 games on Steam which were like... Beta? The amount unpolished/unfinished job was apparent. Promising at some sense, but still disappointing when you expect a finished product.

Kinda selling Alphas and Betas

[carmine frigate]

sell unfinished or never sell

[cursive crypt]

I understand the effort lol, however the amount of games sold in such state seems to has increased drastically.

Back in the days you mean. Whatever is marked now as Early Access is not Alpha or Beta, but pre-pre-Alpha version 0.0023

That some next level marketing, vote it up.

[carmine frigate]

also inengine footage is a thing now

[cursive crypt]

I might respect someone showcasing an actual game-play, 3/4 of the demo seems to be cinematics and mega-badass-blockbuster expressiveness.

[solid aurora]

publishing game on steam costs 100$ what do you expect ? 😛

with some card bots you can make 3-4x more

[carmine frigate]

cool, lets do it

[cursive crypt]

Uploads 3rd person UE startup

[carmine frigate]

you son of a bitch, im in

https://tenor.com/view/rick-and-morty-morty-you-son-of-a-bitch-im-in-animated-series-gif-17733141

make a team of 200 ppl,. instead of making 1 game we crap out 4 turds a day

i played that a lot tho, it isnt that bad

[cursive crypt]

Yeah, I think that's why I mentioned it.

[carmine frigate]

i allwaqys run up that stairs and jump down

[dim ruin]

well I got all y'all beat. I'm about to release First Person Shooter 2!

lol

[cursive crypt]

There is a secret passage behind the stairs tho.

[median wraith]

I like the second image on my end

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<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access denied.</Message>
<Details>Anonymous caller does not have storage.objects.get access to the Google Cloud Storage object.</Details>
</Error>

[dim ruin]

didn't someone actually release a game on steam that was literally the first person template with some new materials?

[carmine frigate]

some1 took a submitted jam game from some1 else and sold that on steam 😛

[dim ruin]

oh shit lol

[carmine frigate]

steam is wild

yea i dunno prolly isnt gunna make a ton

[zinc matrix]

@median wraith uh

[carmine frigate]

it was good for what it was in the timeframe, but not so good i would call bullshit on it

[dim ruin]

its actually proving to be kind of a pain in the ass to create decent fishing physics

and there's like no articles in existence that talk in detail about creating systems to do it

[median wraith]

There is a bug or something with 4.26 and VS

when is open via a node then takes 16GB of Ram and UE4 gets freeze

[dim ruin]

I haven't used vs for any c++ work in a while now. I haven't encountered any bugs for managed languages anyway

[stoic turtle]

If i use a trail / edu non commercial version of a program for 276 years for example and create alot of content in these years

Then i register and pay that program for one month import all creations and sell them commercially

Do u think that might be illegal ?

[carmine frigate]

not if you use blender unreal and krita 😛

[stoic turtle]

Yeah i meant the $1000+ softwares like autodesk ones for example

Which offer free edus

True , i think autodesk inject some data into non commercial use exports , ok thanks

I think i will ask autodesk them selfs

[carmine frigate]

i wonder in what way they wil tell him: buy our product u cheap bastard 😛

you goin to ask that question to a company that terminates perm licences?

[cursive crypt]

You talking about Autodebt or Adoberry?

[stoic turtle]

@cursive crypt idk these tbh

@carmine frigate i will just say can i sell what i created through my uni / edu years with edu version commercially using a a commercial paid version? Or i have to create them from scratch

[carmine frigate]

@stoic turtle are they any good?

now im curious 😛

[stoic turtle]

I will hope they are

As i think they did cause problems / fines for many already

[carmine frigate]

no i mean ur models

[stoic turtle]

And there’s a verse “u cant trick autodesk”

Ohh

Indeed

Fortune

Just kidding i didnt even create them yet

So i am asking to create them with edu version instead of a payed one

[carmine frigate]

good time to try Blender 🙂

[torpid star]

oh yes please install some obscure piece of drm software deep into my system

pretty please

[stoic turtle]

😮

@carmine frigate i love blender , but i want to use architectural softwares like revit

[carmine frigate]

ahh i dunno that1

[stoic turtle]

@torpid star ok nvm wont ask them

[torpid star]

adobe isn't that bad

autodesk drm oh god

[stoic turtle]

Ya adobes fine with pricing

Tho

But autodesk and somecompanys talk thousands only

[torpid star]

funny how our entire industry revolves around a proprietary file standard which gets fucked with every year.

[carmine frigate]

yea pro software can get super expensive

[torpid star]

fbx

[stoic turtle]

Yes

[carmine frigate]

hell often its so obscure it doesnt even say on the webstore.. its like call us for pricing

[normal prism]

innovation

[carmine frigate]

i can sorta import export gltf into the engine

[stoic turtle]

Yeah same issue , and i have to call a country based branch which might crank up the prices

[carmine frigate]

when the site doesnt say how expensive it is... you know its gunna be bad

[cursive crypt]

Always

[carmine frigate]

100$ administration cost... hmm doesnt the computer do that?

in 0.001 sec

let me do the administration, im an admin myself 😄

on speeding tickets here you get 5$ admin cost, so far it hasnt worked

[fresh heath]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/09/asia/russia-china-lunar-station-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

[carmine frigate]

@proud pier are u ridin that im not a cat meme? 😛

[dim ruin]

whoever said adobe isn't bad; they are the equivalent of that possessed Annabelle doll but for the software world

just waiting to see how they manage to fuck up Substance

[clear island]

Is Fandom Wiki also hosted at OVHcloud ?

It's down

[median wraith]

2 day without water and the 3 time this year

I mean if the pipe breaks at same point always and you have to shutdown a whole street in the main city, I bet you are doing something wrong

[carmine frigate]

only had that once in my old house, but the pipe was frozen

i had to use a hairdryer on it

[cursive crypt]

Frozen pipes... classic case. There is no year where this won't happen to someone I know.

[median wraith]

Here is one main pipe in the street and it seems when a car parks over that point in the street the pipe breaks

Here cannot be frozen

[carmine frigate]

any power or internet outage is rare here

[cursive crypt]

You don't know how blessed you are, lol

Outages here are regular.

[median wraith]

That happen here once per year or 2

[carmine frigate]

longest i even seen is prolly 4 hour power out

[cursive crypt]

I had to buy backup power supply for my heating system. When the electricity goes down, it is a must.

[median wraith]

Here 7h

I mean past that time or 12h

They have to pay each affected dude

As the food will be gone etc products

[cursive crypt]

They stupid then. Have to learn from our guys here. By law, they are charged for any interruption longer than 2h. However dudes never do that. They just light it up for 5 minutes before these 2h and then shut it down again.

[ancient hornet]

I bet Texas said the same thing 😛

[fluid bloom]

I have never heard of this happening in Finland 🤔

probably has

but I think we insulate our pipes 😛

[cursive crypt]

I guess it is because it is usually cold at your place and ppl just do it. Here we vary from +40 to -20 during the year.

[ancient hornet]

let's be honest

[median wraith]

Lol

[ancient hornet]

if it goes to -20 like that

[cursive crypt]

.. or something along the lines. Considering and the poor income, it is to be expected.

[ancient hornet]

it means they should already be frozen proof

[carmine frigate]

you need to have the pipe pretty deep at -20

[median wraith]

Well the problem is we got the sea here

[fluid bloom]

@cursive crypt same

though like +30 to -30 would be more apt

[median wraith]

So is harder to have something frozen here than Texas frozen

[fluid bloom]

older houses have shitty pipes though

[cursive crypt]

Ah, interesting... Well, guess you are just better equipped 🙂

[fluid bloom]

but I guess that's a universal thing 😄

[cursive crypt]

Last year a friend of mine, broke a pipe. On his villa, he had an insulation but it froze too much, the pipe was old and mostly cheap.

In my case, it broke on an unused floor.

You know these iron pipes, which go quickly rusty.

[carmine frigate]

look out when trowing boiling water on frozen stuff, weird stuff can happen

boiling water is usually not a fix for frozen stuff 😛

[unborn lotus]

dont throw it on your car windshield 😆

[cursive crypt]

Don't do that at home, lol

[median wraith]

Here we got inspections and whatever the law changes or pass x years you have to change the power or whatever it is

[zinc matrix]

since when dose 16mp loook so ugly

https://i.imgur.com/9xEgcpe.png

[median wraith]

Mpx and quality aren't 1:1 related

[zinc matrix]

cause its a smartphone?

[foggy path]

It seems to have picked up details ok in that though, maybe it's a bit blurry so it might not have focused correctly or is using poor aperture

[median wraith]

Checking the pic in the computer

I bet its time to clear the dust from the fruits

🤖

[foggy path]

Smartphone cameras can be a bit hit or miss, if you took this picture yourself, try turning on some more lights

Smartphone cameras usually work a lot better with plenty of light

[carmine frigate]

there is dust on the banana and grapes

not a good sign

[rose herald]

does dust even matter for a banana?

[median wraith]

Well it does if is made of plastic

[zinc matrix]

no

ill never remove dust from my food

[median wraith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tOvxkrVS8I&ab_channel=amc

One day someone will explain me why they put fake shadows under cars but no under trees and other elements

Maybe is mechanic to do it

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tsss-drum-band-gif-7320811

[zinc matrix]

InGame Quest: Repair the game so trees cast shadows.

[median wraith]

I think nobody noticed it is on the oficial AMC channel

promotion rolling there

I just read the news this morning and there is what I was looking for
"There is no baby boom in 2021, in fact we get the lower born rate since 1940"

Some genius predicted a baby boom by the virus lockdown from 2020 to 2021

There is just a problem in the country, there is no stable jobs, the 60% of the population don't have couple and the people that have job don't have time to be at home

[pearl elk]

Icewatch

https://tenor.com/view/icy-watch-flex-diamonds-drip-gif-15366050

@median wraith they expected people who live together to suddenly like each other, joke is one them 😛

[median wraith]

watch that watch is better than my watch

[median wraith]

The experiment with Guinea pigs ported to humans wasn't successful

[delicate lark]

what does liking each other having to do with having kids 😐

[dense stratus]

oh yeah that game gave me massive firewatch vibes, I do really like firewatch though so not necessarily a bad thing

[median wraith]

well is expected to have a child with someone you really like

isn't something that happen in most of the cases sadly, and there is a lot of cases where they want and like each but they can't

[pearl elk]

liking each other helps with the romance, but I suppose no one cares for that anymore anyway... Bloody Celine Dion ruins everything 😛

I guess theres a reason most my wages dont go on child support, never met anyone who dislikes me enough 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAuRoAUV19o

[delicate lark]

😄

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/it-crowd-moss-gif-10989577

[median wraith]

https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1370026741075308544

Kotaku (@Kotaku)

Roblox Goes Public, Wall Street Decides It's Worth Six Bethesdas https://t.co/abwHACo8fL

Twitter · Mar 11, 2021, 3:00 PM

[cursive crypt]

https://i.redd.it/y8g9zjmjmdm61.jpg

[pearl elk]

https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/1370025002955730944

The Ancient Osh, Part 2. (@DaveOshry)

Oh no they added Tunak Tunak Tun https://t.co/ePSjKFfNx5

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Twitter · Mar 11, 2021, 2:53 PM

[foggy path]

wanted to try that but turns out it's mobile only and I can't be arsed with my phone

makes you wonder what's their game though... running all those machine learning algos can't be cheap

exactly what I was thinking lol

[sage dome]

https://tenor.com/view/car-flying-car-coche-automobil-coche-volando-gif-19204586

[dim ruin]

people should get spanked for bad code formatting, amirite?

[foggy path]

Bah, do I really need to start messing with procedural meshes.. they're such a pain

Working on my building system and I need to be able to align some textures dynamically for it and pretty sure procedural meshes are the only ones that let you adjust UV's :P

[dim ruin]

RuntimeMeshComponent is also an option or there is also the new mysterious and practically undocumented dynamic mesh api

[foggy path]

FDynamicMeshBuilder <- this stuff?

[dim ruin]

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Plugins/DynamicMesh/index.html
This one actually looks liek the most capable of all options but docs are lacking

[foggy path]

Interesting

[dim ruin]

DynamicMesh plugin. Uses FDynamicMesh3 underlying

[foggy path]

I wonder if this is used with the modeling tools because there's some stuff there which looks like undo/redo support (DynamicMeshChange)

[dim ruin]

has this sexiness that will probably catch your eye:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Plugins/DynamicMesh/Parameterization/FDynamicMeshUVEditor/index.html
But I don't know if I would venture into that. Docs are hardcore lacking

yeah it is with the new tools

[foggy path]

Yeah

Thankfully everything I need is cubes so it's not too hard to do, just annoyingly fiddly lol

[ancient hornet]

no

you should have a robot do the formatting for you

[dim ruin]

in a perfect world, I'd even have AI write it for me

[ancient hornet]

no I don't want something smart

this seems too unreliable

I just want a dumb robot to do it

[dim ruin]

I just strongly feel those that leave no spaces between operators deserve a light thumping

[ancient hornet]

then you can enforce that formatting is correct and idempotent in CI tests etc...

see, the reason why it's a robot that should do it

is that people stop wasting time and energy arguing about that kind of things 😛

all you need then is to be the one that writes the rules to not include those spaces and you are good to go

[dim ruin]

would you have your robot use tabs or spaces?

[ancient hornet]

myself I'd ban all tabs

[dim ruin]

oh shit. here we go

https://tenor.com/view/angry-panda-rage-mad-gif-11780191

[ancient hornet]

but honestly, it barely matters for me as long as a robot handle formating

[zinc matrix]

@rancid root Impossible to display on web because they are outside of the sRGB gamut.
Here are some ways to clamp them. https://bottosson.github.io/posts/gamutclipping/
Don't use the term "Chromatize". Instead say "clamping the C value while keeping the L and the H values the same".
Instead of "Saturate": "maximizing the C value whilte changing the L value and keeping the H value the same".

[median wraith]

The CSS isn't working on my end and the clipping isn't working so it takes all the screen, is kinda funny if you ask me for a web that talks about clipping things

[humble remnant]

Anyone know of a facial recognition plugin?

There was an OpenFace thing on Github, but it was last built for 4.19, doesn't have the key component and it lacks documentation

[carmine frigate]

i might save that as a background 😛

[humble remnant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLEIJhunaW8

Interesting

Very interesting

That makes a Radeon even more desirable for me now since I'm with a 2700

[carmine frigate]

thats a bunch of light emissive particles extra 😛

[cursive crypt]

I put 6900 on the pair of 3080, 3080ti ...

[fluid bloom]

https://youtu.be/fZ0nN7jlotM?t=19

🤔

[median wraith]

that new GPU comes with RT things ?

[cursive crypt]

?

What is "new"?

[median wraith]

oh isn't new was released 3 months ago

lol

but the stores don't have it

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-mew-pokemon-funny-hilarious-gif-15197015

[ancient hornet]

there's an even worst shortage of semiconductors right now than when the 30xx cards were released XD

[soft night]

the 3060

[ancient hornet]

I think we can't expect to buy anything at all for a few months

there's even a shortage of shipping containers affecting stocks of semiconductors 😄

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/deantak/status/1369913139370729472

Dean Takahashi (@deantak)

At its $45 billion valuation, Roblox is worth more than: Take-Two Interactive ($18.98 billion), Unity ($27.76 billion), Ubisoft ($8 billion), Electronic Arts ($37.4 billion), Square Enix ($6.6 billion), and Zynga ($10.7 billion).

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[cursive crypt]

I was thinking to wait for 30xx, but found kinda acceptable, still higher, deal for 6900. Also as it works better with AMD cpu... was kinda good choice. Compared to whatever nvidia has to offer for higher price as of now.

[fresh heath]

I hope Intel's DG2 cards will kick Nvidia's ass

[cursive crypt]

Hm? What are these?

[fresh heath]

The newest Intel's discrete GPUs that are supposed to be coming soon

https://videocardz.com/newz/specifications-of-intel-dg2-xe-hpg-gaming-gpu-family-emerge

[cursive crypt]

Oh, the gonna dive into that segment... interesting.

Well, good luck to them. I will pass on "early adoption" for now 🙂

[median wraith]

man I wanted a bike 1 year ago, still there are no bikes

XD

[ancient hornet]

I have 0 faith in Intel right now

[soft night]

there is suprremee intel Cpus coming

[fresh heath]

That's understandable, but I think Intel is going to get its shit together in 2-3 years

[ancient hornet]

maybe they'll turn around but I don't think they got enough time already to have acted on their issues

llike their CEO is too recent, no way I'll trust on of their products that was probably on the design blocks for years before 😛

but then again, faith is faith, I'll replace it with cold hard facts once we know more

[soft night]

nvidia DLSS is so good

[ancient hornet]

it is

[delicate lark]

intel is so meh, AMD is so much better at heating my room

[soft night]

hevedy hevsuit armor look so smooth and reflective all those raytracing power

[zinc matrix]

semiconductors from moon?

[median wraith]

Hevedy 100% recommends Surviving Mars

specially the soundtrack to listen it while you work

so pick it now thats for free

I mean is made by the TZar devs

you cannot get anything better

[solid aurora]

I do not recommened Surviving Mars

I once played it

and didn't noticed there was sun rising

thought it was still light

[regal pecan]

Got it free from before. I'm just incompatible with that type of strategy.

[torpid star]

anyone wanna complain about spotify on desktop here?

it's really laggy on my 32gb machine

[median wraith]

maybe is made with UE4

and is generating the music in runtime

[regal pecan]

Obviously a fork of the Epic Games Launcher.

Running on an emulator in Chrome.

[sage tendon]

hi

[zinc matrix]

oi oi o

[zinc matrix]

@celest musk

[celest musk]

they use the fricking same avatar as me?!

xD

nvm, not exactly the same

[zinc matrix]

oh course, they're the official Bendy Twitter

But are you excited?

I am

[celest musk]

im not sure, i didn't buy the other chapters to be honest

2nd was a bit disappointing

but might give it a try

[zinc matrix]

its said to be coming out in April

or at the very least a gameplay trailer

[deep glen]

https://crypko.ai/

[cursive crypt]

Waifu generator?

[regal pecan]

Perfect. Isolate and contain.

[foggy path]

good thing they have the romaji reading of that word... I'm not sure if kuripuko would immediately convert to crypko for most readers even if they're native japanese speakers :P

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/very-very-interesting-blazybard-robbie-trickett-smite-very-exciting-gif-18554334

[cursive crypt]

I think that is relevant only for few specific cases.

[fluid bloom]

where's that from?

[solid aurora]

i can imagine milion of cases. Like.. async loading of blueprints, creating objects over multiple threads, like.. this is really slow either in editor and at runtime

i tried to open blueprint and had to wait locked for one second

got mad

[cursive crypt]

Yeah, I haven't really investigated, but the thread safety is quite limited afaik.

[solid aurora]

i don't think this macro is intended for ue4

is just got accidentaly backported

[cursive crypt]

Accidentally thread-safe.

[solid aurora]

i mean there was some minor work on uobject thread safty main for async loading

[broken sigil]

it's inside UObjectArray.h, seems like where the UObject memory allocation is handled

They also replaced FObjectIterator with FThreadSafeObjectIterator
This is on the master branch so I'm not sure if these things are in 4.26

[cursive crypt]

UE5 will have thread safe UObjects, confirmed 💡

[broken sigil]

from reading the source it seems like creating pure UObjects on another thread is safe but probably it isn't the case for components and actors

since it interacts with the world

but if they plan on having that dynamic actor streaming in UE5 they mentioned they need to do something about it

[cursive crypt]

In any case, it is kinda limited as of now. Hope more to come, threads are not so dangerous (tehehe)

[jovial quail]

what's that? I watched the stream but I don't remember hearing the term dynamic actor streaming?

[jovial talon]

@broken sigil UObject creation itself has been threadsafe for a while I think

[cursive crypt]

Expecting code like: ParallelFor (3000, NewObject<UBullet> ()) and then comments like, but why muh machine gun bullets botch down my game? ue5 sux

[fluid bloom]

I expect the core engine to expose functions for working with that stuff concurrently

[solid aurora]

That's probabaly never going to be viable with UObject

the registration of them is way to resource intensive

I rememeber the presentation where they said they can easily handle 1mln streamed object

unique

that pretty much mandates, that there is new system aside from UObject

for that you really need to be able to memcpy memory in place with as little steps as possible

[cursive crypt]

I dunno what "streamed" mean. In theory, yeah.

[solid aurora]

well i guess it's loading to memory and creating new object

you can't really get around it in programming, at some point you need to allocate that memory 😄

[broken sigil]

Yeah

[cursive crypt]

Was more about, is that 1 mil on HDD, just streamed on chunks? What means 1 mil, at the same time loaded in the level? etc... too many questions can arise in practice behind any flashy words.

[broken sigil]

Oh that's interesting
Seems like they are trying to improve it now tho with the stuff that's appearing on the master branch, could be wrong completely

[solid aurora]

I guess we will find out in a month or two

they started to work weekends

so some big demo incoming

[broken sigil]

Apparently ue5 will be able to support millions of objects at once

🤷‍♀️

[jovial talon]

can't waaaaaaait

[delicate lark]

yeah

[jovial talon]

Hey Csaba!

[delicate lark]

hey

[broken sigil]

Are there some rumors I'm not aware of 👀

[solid aurora]

nah just noticed there are more commits than usually over weekends

[broken sigil]

Ah ok

[solid aurora]

and the p4 > git delay is about 4h

[delicate lark]

predicting the future based on commit frequency

nice

[cursive crypt]

Man, real detective work here.

[delicate lark]

https://tenor.com/view/crystal-ball-fortune-teller-tell-fortunes-read-fortunes-see-your-future-gif-14068961

[broken sigil]

Lol

[solid aurora]

you'd be surprised how accurate it can be 😛

[jovial talon]

inb4 they leak UE5 on github

[solid aurora]

• ue5 preview is in spring

[cursive crypt]

There is a sun outside, it's spring.

[broken sigil]

I'm just waiting for the day I wake up and see an email saying ue5 preview is live 🌚

[jovial talon]

remember the ue5 demo

graphics twitter was soooooooooooo triggered

[broken sigil]

I've been successfully avoiding Twitter so no clue what happened lol

[carmine frigate]

id check the piratebay but id have to setup VPN 😛

[zinc matrix]

if i ask a senior environment artist on artstation for help and he accepts these questions in general, should i write "hi, how are you?" what should i write in the end of the message?

[jovial talon]

You could start with a ```
Hi!

Thanks for accepting my DM.```

and end with a Thanks again, Name

[zinc matrix]

why "again"?

oh

[jovial talon]

because you thanked him at the beginning of the message

[carmine frigate]

also u can ask stuff like he is a google searchbar

[zinc matrix]

that sounds so artificial

who is a google searchbar?

[fluid bloom]

fool's spring maybe

😛

[zinc matrix]

no sun nono

push it away from solar system

sun nono for photogrammetry

[carmine frigate]

isnt the solar system stuck too the sun?

[zinc matrix]

yes. so you can push it away

as far as needed

we need 1mil little scanning drones. 2x2cm big

and the 3d models of course open source

[carmine frigate]

or you just wait a billion year for evolution to start happening in ur empty level

[zinc matrix]

that would be a.i. then

[carmine frigate]

i call it data corruption

[zinc matrix]

that is called a.i. with bugs

[deep glen]

@gloomy badge ??

ah yea hehe

[cursive crypt]

lol

[humble remnant]

Cursed

[median wraith]

my computer feels from 2008 even to open the Epic Launcher, designed for quantum computers

[zinc matrix]

to be honest.. i am gear horny.. sorry... but.... you can shame me for that its ok... i just love.... it... like i can't change that.... that's just me... i can live with that.....

[deep glen]

https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9597879808/h818C810D/person-knees-did-do-age-30-took-away-bending

[soft night]

my bending over age 30 is normal actually more flex than i was in less than 30

[median wraith]

Visionaries

[zinc matrix]

@median wraith game?????

[hasty hinge]

I just want to take a moment to appreciate the grit and determination on the face of the UE4 Mascot (Dino, the Scene Sprite). During long and hard development hours, I just need to take one look at his/her face and I feel like I am ready for another crunch 🙏

[zinc matrix]

i don tthink this is the ue4 mascott....

[hasty hinge]

blasphemy

[wet bluff]

The icon was already around in UnrealEd 1 . This article has the full story: https://sudonull.com/post/16947-What-was-the-first-Unreal-Editor

[fluid bloom]

anyone familiar with constellations? Do these look correctish? 🤔 https://i.imgur.com/0nJLK3i.png

[foggy path]

The only constellation I'm familiar with is the NCC-1701

[median wraith]

oh Nigara can get the camera location

[fathom wadi]

niagara can get a lot of things :p

[maiden depot]

Hello,

I would like to optimize the following program using a Texture-s "pool" to avoid memory allocations on each insert during initialization and also be able to suppress the destructions in the Shutdown() function.

Can someone help me, I don't know how to do it ?

Project can be find here : https://github.com/pytchoun/Optimization-and-Memory-Management

I have to do 3 things
Use a Texture-s "pool" in order to avoid memory allocations at each insertion during initialization and also be able to suppress destructions in the Shutdown () function
Use a uint32_t hash value instead of std :: string for the Name type
Use a binary search to find items faster

[median wraith]

Turns out I like the GI on last version

[foggy path]

Tried opening up the Winter Survival Simulator proejct out of curiosity but sadly it fails because some plugins won't work despite having the same version of UE4 as it was built with and don't see any quick fix for it either :D

[fathom wadi]

disable the plugins. Then ship it :p

[median wraith]

I think the GI from 4.26 cost less from the first pass of 4.25

[median wraith]

Yeah

Well there is no other

LPV don't work anymore I think

There is the car scene gives a nice looking occlusion

Got a gameplay issue

In terror/horror games when you fail just dead and non horror usually are the same

Is there any other mechanic to penalty the player without end the game?

Other than damage he/she

[dense stratus]

losing items or money?

[regal pecan]

#design-chat 😄

[median wraith]

Oh, didn't know there was a design channel lol, ty

[median wraith]

No items or money, actually other than find the end isn't anything else there, I have to figure out what more to add

[dense stratus]

ahh I see, I'm not really sure of anything else you could do

[regal pecan]

Punishment is the loss of resources or opportunities, failure is the state when no more punishment is possible. Reexamine what leads to death and turn that into a longer process?

[median wraith]

Makes sense

[fathom wadi]

@median wraith send them to live where I live. that will penalise them plenty.

[regal pecan]

Good odds that will end the game.

[teal kindle]

anyone ever put the input and output pins on top and bottom instead of left and right, and call it it cthulhu code?

that would be all, thank you and good night

[cursive crypt]

Many programs have pins different from what UE/Substance and etc. are using: left-to-right. You can put pins up, down, move them and whatnot.

[teal kindle]

kinda wanna make a satirical tutorial with in and out pins on all 4 sides 😄

[fluid bloom]

do the pins flow right to left in arabic speaking countries? 🤔

[regal pecan]

Make the nodes rotatable and it's no longer a question.

[fluid bloom]

does valheim really look this rough? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/i-just-want-the-bees-in-valheim-to-be-happy

I mean, even the planks on that building look like they have fully averaged normals in one smoothing group

[normal prism]

Yikes

[regal pecan]

"I want the low poly aesthetic."
"Ok."
"But I also want textures."
"Say no more."

[median wraith]

lol

[median wraith]

I mean is made of pixelated textures

[fluid bloom]

yea, not a fan of that look 😄

reminds me of PS 1 days

[median wraith]

yeah the PS1 look in a trend this days

I like it up to an extend