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Scaevolus posted:In the video it seemed to vary from .5 to 20 fps. Particle systems that simulate turbulence are still a fairly elusive thing at the moment, consider that fire/flame/smoke are some of the main things that stick out like a sore thumb as looking cheesy and unrealistic even in otherwise extremely well-produced games. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 5, 2010 |
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bitreaper posted:Spent a few months working on this, going back to it once I finish all the arts courses they want me to take to round out my degree... That's awesome! My friend actually sent me that video last night, didn't realize it was from this thread. Guess you guys are trying to be first to market for game's mdidleware? Short derail, what's the name of the artist your avatar is based on? I love his work but totally can't remember his name.
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Dr. Glasscock posted:That's awesome! My friend actually sent me that video last night, didn't realize it was from this thread. Guess you guys are trying to be first to market for game's mdidleware? Beksinski. Also that fire/smoke looks awesome. Turbulence in general is pretty fascinating to watch.
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bitreaper posted:Spent a few months working on this, going back to it once I finish all the arts courses they want me to take to round out my degree... So I take it this has been savagely optimized, then?
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Markov Chain Chomp posted:So I take it this has been savagely optimized, then? It has, actually  I got a 16x speedup on my quad-core machine one day by savagely optimizing it. Also you guys are still dicks; I was a poor freshman, bright-eyed and innocent, and you mocked my enthusiasm. Dicks, I say! Dicks.And yeah, we've built a very similar product for game middleware, it runs in real-time and interacts realistically with arbitrarily deforming meshes. I can't say much about it, but it should start to appear in the next year or two. I will say that we got to play with the full source of a very, very expensive game engine that shall remain nameless, entirely for free; that was amazing.
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I've been wanting to learn RoR for the longest time, and so I came up with this very simple idea of a public, one item To-do list: http://www.theonlydayistoday.com Eventually I'd like to have e-mail notifications and the ability to vote items up or down.
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Working on a cheesy Choose your own adventure, TF2 Style. It's not for any purpose besides self-entertainment and helping me learn coding. Click here for the full 1920x1080 image. This is really going to help me with Text and code organization, that's for sure. Added a background to a Starcraft themed Space Invaders rip off:  Click here for the full 1920x1080 image. Ularg fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Apr 11, 2010 |
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 Click here for the full 1192x808 image. Volume rendering is awesome and CUDA is a selling point for nVidia cards in and of its own, even if the cards themselves are crappy. Although this assignment made me realize that 1D transfer functions are pretty much useless...
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 Click here for the full 680x702 image. I'm thinking about making a multitouch DJ interface for my 4th year project and I wanted to prototype the interface. Originally I was using SuperCollider to mess with the pitch but I didn't like the results I was getting and using OSC is awful, plus I would need a separate library to get PCM data, etc... I'm not using FMOD, and while the sound still isn't perfect (really have to do something about pitch changes over time so it doesn't sound like digital crap) the interface is a breeze to use. Bonus points if you can guess what generic loop I'm using to test.
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Scarboy posted:Bonus points if you can guess what generic loop I'm using to test. Amen break?
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Commander Keen posted:Amen break? Indeed
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antpocas posted:I'm curious, why are you displaying the waveform as if it were a record? A digital interface isn't constrained by the limitations of physical media. Maybe it's a loop? I saw DJ Shadow live (it was loving amazing) and he creates loops while he's mixing by putting masking tape on the records, so when it spins around the tape bumps the needle back to the start of the loop. I know nothing about mixing music so I'm probably way off here, but that's what I was reminded of when I saw the waveform curved in a loop like that, with the red line being that piece of masking tape. fletcher fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 12, 2010 |
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The reason I went with a circular interface is because I want to try to make the multitouch interface feel like the real thing. It'll probably never feel (scratching dynamics, etc...) like real vinyl but it's worth a shot. If all else fails, displaying the waveform in a straight line is trivial. The red line just acts like a marker, as the record spins at 1.5rps, half as fast as vinyl, the old wave gets overwritten. This way you can see what audio is coming up. The next thing I want to do is show a little bit of the wave before the red line so that backcueing will be simpler. It's been a fun little distraction for a few days and is really cool to play with. It's a shame it kinda sounds like digital crap right now.
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Commander Keen posted:Amen break? Wait, wha- how...? How in the world? Just because it's a famous clip and a lucky guess or did you actually ID it?
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Factor Mystic posted:Wait, wha- how...? How in the world? Just because it's a famous clip and a lucky guess or did you actually ID it? If you go through it in your head while you trace around the waveform, the beats line up pretty plausibly Was my first guess too. Barring that, I don't think I would've figured it out though.
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This is something I've been planning of doing for ages and I finally got started on it. A multiplatform player / authoring tool for visual effects / demoscene productions / any OpenGL work. Supports syncpoints with a timeline, dynamically loading the effect files runtime (all the GL code is done with Lua) and sound hooks and playback from FMOD. The tool consists of three parts: - Compiled executable with FMOD interface and Lua interpreter. Pure C, ported to OSX, Linux and Windows. - The timeline and runtime debugging features done with Lua. - Effect code files done with Lua. Da Gaspodin fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Apr 13, 2010 |
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Da Gaspodin posted:This is something I've been planning of doing for ages and I finally got started on it.
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clockwork automaton posted:I honestly has no idea what is going on in regards to the iPhone app. I'm pretty sure they just target the most recent version. Reasoning behind that is "why not upgrade?". 3.1.3 adds nothing except a battery fix and no one had released a jailbreak for it at that point.
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Factor Mystic posted:Wait, wha- how...? How in the world? Just because it's a famous clip and a lucky guess or did you actually ID it? I wrote some loop processing stuff a while back and used it as my sample clip, so I'm quite familiar with the waveform. Bonus : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac I was in the class where that project was unveiled
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LOLLERZ posted:I'm probably not the only person here who would totally appreciate a video of this in action. When we have the syncing features done I'll post some sample videos here. Could anyone recommend a GOOD, preferably FREE screencast / video capture program for OSX where I could demonstrate the features and speak to the mic while doing it, explaining what I'm doing?
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I don't know how good it is these days since it's shot up in price, but Snapz was the canonical screen/vidcap program back in the Classic days. There's a trial version that you could use.
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If you're running Snow Leopard, QuickTime has screen recording w/ microphone input built in now. Seems to work pretty well.
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dexter posted:3.1.3 adds nothing except a battery fix and no one had released a jailbreak for it at that point. So here's the deal with that: we don't care about jailbroken phones.
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Commander Keen posted:If you're running Snow Leopard, QuickTime has screen recording w/ microphone input built in now. Seems to work pretty well. Thanks! It seems to work fine (though my actual demo effects run with a choppy framerate, but it doesn't matter). Here's a short video where I explain how the current (read: very early and feature lacking) skeleton engine works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mq_cgwdpaQ I forgot to mention that the "player" with very easily portable and is just dependant on lua and fmod, all GL/glut Lua libs can be distributed as dll/bundle/so-files.
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I'm making a Hacker News reader that operates by manipulating the content bodies of replies by handling requests through a custom NSURLProtocol, so that all the features of the site don't need to be handled or dropped. So far, the CSS file's filtered to multiply every absolute font size by 7/4, and the body is given a black background for good luck. The html content is filtered to have the table stretch to 95% instead of 85%, and to point to the CSS file through hn://news.ycombinator.com/news.css instead of http://.  Here's what the unfiltered version would look like:  
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You guys do a lot of advanced stuff that just goes right over my head  Anyways:  Creating my biggest project yet in Django. It's an online Portal for my fraternity. I already have a working version with quite terrible PHP, so Django is just incredible. I'm still getting used to it, but things are already coming together. Doh004 fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Apr 16, 2010 |
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Doh004 posted:You guys do a lot of advanced stuff that just goes right over my head Sup Lambda buddy?
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Doh004 posted:You guys do a lot of advanced stuff that just goes right over my head Sup RPI goon. If you need a Djangonaut on campus feel free to email me.
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Ok, now the Hacker News reader analyzes differences and highlights new comments posted since the last time you visited the thread.
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dancavallaro posted:Sup Lambda buddy? Always good to see another brother around here  king_kilr posted:Sup RPI goon. If you need a Djangonaut on campus feel free to email me. If I run into any major roadblocks, I definitely will. I'm just doing the project in my free time and we'll see how much coding I want to do this summer when I'm not working, but it's definitely a fun thing to do.
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shrughes posted:Ok, now the Hacker News reader analyzes differences and highlights new comments posted since the last time you visited the thread. A usability note, I couldn't notice anything highlighted here. Edit: Oh wait, that center comment is slightly whiter, I see it now. Might want to make that more obvious?
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Pfhreak posted:A usability note, I couldn't notice anything highlighted here. Seems obvious to me.
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Maybe from certain angles or monitor settings (Or maybe your eyes are just that awesome!), but that difference is way too subtle.
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shrughes posted:Seems obvious to me. Also, the programmer always considers their own solutions to be usable. I didn't mean to step on toes or anything, just providing my experience with it.
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shrughes posted:Seems obvious to me. It wasn't obvious to me at all.
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I didn't see it until it was pointed out. (Side usability note: as much as 10% of the population has some deficiency of color perception, which can make conveying information through color a problem)
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Come on guys, it goes from #FFFFFF to #F6F6EF. Totally obvious.
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It's not my fault you're all optically challenged.
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