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I would start by enabling alpha blending/testing.
#4886440 OpenGL question
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on 21 November 2011 - 09:36 PM
#4885808 Best Physics engine to use
Posted by
on 20 November 2011 - 12:14 AM
I think Bullet has an excellent implementation, but the quality of documentation is fairly poor. We find ourselves going into the source code often to figure out what's going on. PhysX is kind of a hassle due to their hardware support, but the documentation is very good and the implementation is very competent in most ways as well. I get the same impressions from Havok, though I haven't spent as much time with that one. I'd actually suggest that you start by looking at Havok, as they've been a staple of the industry for a very long time.
#4885807 A Tablet to Choose
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on 20 November 2011 - 12:12 AM
The Bamboo is nice, especially if you're not sure whether you want to get serious or not. I was nervous about the size before buying, but honestly it's not that big of a deal. You typically use the tablet in absolute positioning mode, so a larger model means you have to cover more physical area to cross the screen. Useful if you want to be very precise, but the Bamboo works a lot better than you expect.
On the other hand if you want to be serious about this, go straight for one of the bigger models. No point buying one, only to find it's inadequate and you have to get the other one anyway.
On the other hand if you want to be serious about this, go straight for one of the bigger models. No point buying one, only to find it's inadequate and you have to get the other one anyway.
#4883642 Loyalty and cowardace in America
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on 13 November 2011 - 10:21 PM
The original post in this thread is very clearly focused on 'JoePa', and doesn't acknowledge the victims' existence. Nobody blamed any of the Penn Staters (amongst which is my brother), until they had a riot by morons who think football is more important than child abuse. And yeah, people and reporting always focus on the negative aspects. That's not unique to you or your school.You claim we are focused on Joe and not the victims. No, sir, it's you. We care plenty. And we also care about our school that we believe has good people and does things. So stop being ignorant.
#4883607 Loyalty and cowardace in America
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on 13 November 2011 - 07:50 PM
Number one, you shouldn't be shocked when a highly public major scandal ends a career, no matter how illustrious. That is just how shit works. Number two, the man failed to notify relevant authorities about sexual child abuse by his staff, or really do jack shit about it. The court system can establish his final guilt or not, but that's not "one mistake" and you do the school and the victims a massive disservice by saying that. Especially given that there were TEN incidents, not one.
So where is the line, huh? How many unreported child abuse instances would you like before the man got fired?
So where is the line, huh? How many unreported child abuse instances would you like before the man got fired?
#4883324 Use a Pixel Shader or Make More Textures?
Posted by
on 12 November 2011 - 06:06 PM
I like the idea of using mipmapping to do it, basically force the LoD bias to select a low resolution image. Also make sure to change your filtering mode to NEAREST_MIPMAP_NEAREST.
#4883122 static Vector in a GameObject Class
Posted by
on 11 November 2011 - 09:27 PM
Static members require a declaration in the CPP file.
GameObject.cpp
GameObject.cpp
#include "GameObject.h"
std::vector<GameObject*> GameObject::everything
GameObject::GameObject(void)
{
everything.push_back(this);
}
#4806956 Selling eternal life! Is anyone interested?
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on 05 May 2011 - 09:57 AM
Caroline deleted.
#4806663 Do white people lack culture and confidence?
Posted by
on 04 May 2011 - 06:01 PM
For your sociology class, I recommend you try dropping out.
#4806660 What is humanity going to do about race?
Posted by
on 04 May 2011 - 05:53 PM
There's absolutely no need for this discussion to happen on GameDev. Seriously, I walk away for a few weeks and morons take over. Lounge != Soapbox, and OP = suspended.
#4806210 Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds
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on 03 May 2011 - 07:07 PM
Both. Gravity's a two sided effect, remember?but from which particle's reference point does it gravitate towards stuff?
The question is: How do you know that?
Because antimatter is defined as having positive mass. And even as early as Newton we had proof that objects with positive mass gravitate towards each other. Therefore we have proof that antimatter gravitates towards other massive objects and not away from them.
#4805739 Antihydrogen Trapped For 1000 Seconds
Posted by
on 02 May 2011 - 07:03 PM
That's just so sad. So, so sad.The long term storage of significant amounts of antihydrogen should soon settle the question of whether antimatter falls up or down
Here's a better one to play with, though: An antiparticle is essentially the same as a normal particle moving backwards in time.
#4804926 Why not an Open Source Government?
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on 30 April 2011 - 09:59 PM
The critical mistake is assuming that government exists for you. Government exists for itself, and for the people who control it -- this means big money interests in the US. Any sort of openness whatsoever damages the interests of those people. Just look at the furor over Wikileaks, Pvt Manning, etc, and the total lack of anger over the crimes they exposed. For the people involved in government, openness is far more dangerous than actual criminal activity, inefficiency, or any of the misc things that concern the 'masses'.
#4803989 Git and Binary Files
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on 28 April 2011 - 09:09 AM
Everybody I've talked to so far has simply fallen back on a different version control system (SVN, Perforce, Alienbrain) to tackle binary files seriously. Obviously that's fairly awkward, but there you go.
#4802107 What's better for everyone?
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on 23 April 2011 - 05:51 PM
No option helps "everyone", so give up on that misconception. If you release it as 'open source' or public domain it is in danger of being closed and kept away from its original authors. If you make it 'Free Software', it comes with a religion attached and very heavy restrictions that make it a non starter for most commercial environments. That said, I'm a big fan of open source (MIT, BSD style licenses) that require attribution but not distribution of modified source, and I'm extremely wary of anything GPL. LGPL is generally acceptable for libraries but keep in mind that LGPL cannot be used on many semi-closed platforms (iOS, consoles).