hogsy

hogsy, 9 months ago to random

A couple of photos from yesterday's walk.

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hogsy, 9 months ago to random

Damn, that's pretty savage.

hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Whooo, depth issues sorted, pretty much done! :catjam:

Now comes the optimisation... groan

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hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Fixed some of the issues with the stencil shadows, so the result now works correctly for both detail rooms and the rest of the room too. So uh, it's mostly done I guess. Some depth issues I still need to resolve, but yeah, getting there.

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hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Started working on implementing stencil shadow volumes in my engine yesterday. It's uh, a tad more complex than I had expected but made some good progress today.

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hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Just finished FFXVI and damn, the writing is top tier compared to XV. Not to say it was perfect mind you, just in comparison. That said for anyone else looking to play it, I'd say don't worry too much about the side quests as many of them really detract from the flow and beats of the game.

hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Said to my partner yesterday, "oh, I bet something is going to delay my delivery tomorrow." And of course, this morning, I get a text informing me my package had been delivered to the wrong depot and wouldn't be delivered today after all.

:sadness:

hogsy, 10 months ago to random

The boy came to keep me company.

hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Improved the profiler a bit, so it's no longer a horrible hard-coded mess but a bit more flexible.

hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Wheee, world to screen space fun.

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hogsy, 10 months ago to random

When Microsoft bought out Zenimax I remember a few folks getting excited that it'd mean Id Tech would get open-sourced again. No surprise that, obviously, that didn't happen. Now with Microsoft grabbing Activision/Blizzard, I'm seeing the same thing?

Unless there's money to be made, Microsoft open sourcing anything is the exception, not the rule. Especially when it comes to games.

hogsy, 10 months ago to random

It's been a productive day for a change.

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hogsy, 10 months ago to random

Huh, neat. Despite suggestions that Square's Luminous technology is dead, next month, at CEDEC2023, it looks like there will be a tech demo using Luminous.
https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2023/session/detail/s642675c24ff1b

I really do hope they continue developing their own in-house tech.

hogsy, 10 months ago to random

And today on Star Trek Voyager; oh no, our ship is being destroyed by a block of cheese.

hogsy, 11 months ago to random

After much blood sweat and tears, finally got the Reality Engine compiled and "running" (limping, would be more accurate).

hogsy, 11 months ago to random

Someone was asking about the Into the Shadows demo that I'd looked at ages ago, and after poking at it again today, I'd randomly remembered something I don't think I'd mentioned before, but transparent sprites/surfaces in the demo are actually displayed incorrectly (some are totally dark and some are literally half dark).

You can see what the level looks like without lighting here.

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retrohistories, 11 months ago to random

I deleted every Facebook account a couple of years ago (FB, Insta, WhatsApp) and try never to go backwards, so it’s not like I was going to join Threads anyway.

But the day-one reports of a timeline full of influencer nonsense, Brand™ garbage and harassment are not exactly a compelling ad for the service.

hogsy, 11 months ago to random

Seems that a version of the Reality Engine, which was a competing engine to Unreal Engine 3 (that Epic Games eventually bought out), has been made available here.
https://github.com/thehemi/RealityEngine

Got both the engine and game modules compiling under VS22 yesterday, and will be gradually hammering my way through the rest when I've next got time.

hogsy, 11 months ago to random

Was nosing at the files in Kya Dark Lineage after dumping a copy I bought, and wasn't expecting to see this as padding, heh

hogsy, 11 months ago to random

I love the story and world in FFXVI, but my god, I don't know if it's just me but the game feels really repetitive. It's not helped by the fact that a lot of the quests break down into; go here, talk to NPC, run over here, talk to other NPC, kill a thing, run back and talk to NPC again. I think the stacking like this is why it's feeling more repetitive than XV was, at least for me - quests sucked in XV but it felt a little better paced...

hogsy, 11 months ago to random

I swear every time I try and enjoy something on the Xbox, it always finds some new way to annoy me. I literally played this game a few weeks ago, what are you downloading!?