EightAce posted:

yes of course they will have done due diligence. However they will only have seen the actual cash in the bank and revenue stream back when the finances were a bit healthier. Remember that (None German) auditors are only interested in what they can see as tangible assets and revenue as they know the square root of gently caress all about game development etc.They simply wouldn't know where to look for warning signs ......... like this forum for example.

Sgt. Briar posted:

Hello commandos o7, I have lurked this thread for about 2 weeks and have come to the conclusion that Star Citizen is the greatest scam of all time, and thus this thread that chronicles the shameless denials of a thousand cultists is also the best thread of all time. What an age we live in

but I got a question. The robber baron behind this grand scheme "Crobberts" seems to be a rather enigmatic figure, can anyone tell me about his horrible misadventures in the gaming/film industry before his current master plan? Am willing to pay in cat picture(s)

XK posted:

Just delta patch it you loving dipshit. It's a software technique that's existed for generations, can be pulled off by first year CS students, and completely avoids any issue concerning concatenated files or whatever. At worst, you have to give it a window into your encryption/compression. "We're still trying to figure it out, here's your second 30 GB update today."

Sappo569 posted:

Catte also didn't get any.

BadOptics posted:

The Canterbury Tales are easier to follow than this poo poo and it's written in Middle English.

intardnation posted:

He went to hollwood made a bad movie called Wig Commander

EightAce posted:

Thats because he had absolutely nothing to do with Starlancer

intardnation posted:

After wing commander he made a studio called digital anvil. Over promised and managed it into the ground. He was frog marched out of the office by the publisher. He went to hollwood made a bad movie called Wig Commander and got sued to the tune of 8 million by costner and lost.

He was frog marched out of hollywood and came back grovelling to nerds for more money.

Daztek posted:

SVG

Justin Tyme posted:

Oh, there will be, and if your ship is uninsured, you lose it forever. Have fun ragdolling to your permanent death in a horrible clipping incident as some DIRTY GRIEFERphysics glitch ramsbreaks your ship on the pad, erasing it from your inventory.

darkarchon posted:

intardnation posted:

Rescue cats are great! all mine have been rescue.

CR holds the power of Wing Commander something a lot of older gamers now hold dear for some reason. And despite his previous failures they overlook that and see the kid that made the game they loved as a kid as well. They forget the faults of the game and live in nostalgia land.
The stimperor feeds off this and fuels his imagination of what could be and how it could triple every second and how it will never be wrong or go bad.

EightAce posted:

People are still being paid, what can I say.

EminusSleepus posted:

from a scale of Locust to Daishi in Battletech mechs..how big is Ben Lesnick?

Jobbo_Fett posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8fu6nCpruY

EminusSleepus posted:

from a scale of Locust to Daishi in Battletech mechs..how big is Ben Lesnick?

Hopper posted:

I like it, alternatively you could use mini airhorns pointing in different directions (or Paaaaaarp-horns, but I don't think Gary's head would be recognizable in tiny white contours)

darkarchon posted:

I think he's an Atlas, but there's still some leeway.

EminusSleepus posted:

from a scale of Locust to Daishi in Battletech mechs..how big is Ben Lesnick?

intardnation posted:

After wing commander he made a studio called digital anvil. Over promised and managed it into the ground. He was frog marched out of the office by the publisher. He went to hollwood made a bad movie called Wig Commander and got sued to the tune of 8 million by costner and lost.

He was frog marched out of hollywood and came back grovelling to nerds for more money.

Toops posted:

Thanks dude! Nvidia's PhysX engine is fantastic, and comes native to Unity and UE. The guys that designed it are way smarter than I'll ever be, so I try to let PhysX do all the real work. I think of the ship as a simple sphere with mass, then just push on it with forces and twist it with torque. Contrast this with CryEngine which doesn't use PhysX, and CIG's ultima-fidelity-online approach, and tbh I'm impressed CIG's FM is as good as it is. It's immeasurably more complex to do individual thruster forces, and it's a wonder those ships fly at all. Literally every ship CIG makes needs its own custom physics-based flight model code, whereas I can use the same exact script, just tune the parameters, and get a completely different feeling ship based on those params alone. The time saved could be, oh, I don't know, spent working on the actual GAME?

The way I designed the flight model was just forces, torques, and per-axis dampening. When I pull in a new ship model, I just slap the FlightController on there and specify the forces for each direction of flight. Each direction also has a "damping" value, so (theoretically) you can "reduce" the net force in a given direction. Say if your main thrusters get damaged or something, you'd take forceDampeningZ from 1 to 2. Now you have half the force. I haven't found cause to use it yet, because although I register where ramming damage came from, the damage model doesn't care atm. All damage is created equal. If at some point if feels like that would add to the experience, I'll hook it up. But it's good enough for now just to have the hooks flapping around free. I try not to pre-solve problems, or add features "just because" unless the game feels like it needs it.

Then I jacked E:D's "flight assist" idea, so if you're moving but not thrusting in a given direction, the flight model applies a force opposite that direction of travel until you stop. So if you're strafing left, and you stop strafing, your ship will "strafe right" to counteract your velocity until it reaches 0. The only direction this isn't true for is forward/reverse. It feels really good to kind of "power coast" through space.

As for pitch/yaw/roll, same deal. There's a torque value per axis, and a "dampening" value. I set the torque values for each axis to limit rotation in certain directions (another Elite feature). You can pitch (rotate around x axis) much faster than you can yaw (rotate around z-axis). This naturally encourages you to roll your ship and pitch, because looking left and right feels too slow. But it also gives the ship a feeling of weight, and puts you in pilot-problem-solving mode, which I find more fun that twitch-turret-in-space mode. The net result feels way better to me than freelook noclip wallhax mode in SC.

The final bit was "boost," which is just as simple as adding an impulse force in the forward direction. In PhysX, you have several different force types. The one used for thrusters is just generic constant Force:

code:

rigidbody.AddForce(someValue, ForceMode.Force)

but you can add a "blast" of force (which handles jerk values) by:

code:

rigidbody.AddForce(someValue, ForceMode.Impulse)

PhysX handles the rest. No reason to re-invent the wheel.

You can also disable the "flight assist", and you'll get the "decoupled" or "KSP" mode, which is as simple as flipping a boolean to false, and the "anti-velocity" logic won't act on the body. The Neutron Paaarp Horn will temporarily disable people's flight assist if they're in the blast radius. So once again, I spent the time coding it this way to satisfy a gameplay requirement.

The only place things get hairy is working with rotation, really. Rotation is expressed as a Quaternion (4-dimensional projection of 3-dimensional rotation), which has literally no application to reality whatsoever, and so solutions aren't always intuitive.

Jesus loving effortpost man. I hope that wasn't boring.

Nation posted:

What a total joke - they had a literal stage this weekend to show anything at all instead they post a quarter of an image on reddit lol

Norefund14days posted:

SO Derek is actually Eight Ace....Eight Ace is Derek? Plot thickens...lol

EminusSleepus posted:

from a scale of Locust to Daishi in Battletech mechs..how big is Ben Lesnick?

MeLKoR posted:

I'm quoting it all in case anyone missed it, this is pro read. First of all let me start by saying that your radar is awesome and very effective at giving useful information at a glance.

Second, you are the living proof that some of the things CIG are proposing to do are so stupid that it doesn't take previous experience is games development to see how retarded it all is. the thread had discussed in the past how to go about designing the ships and movement and it's obvious to anyone with a couple of brain cells that the way you are doing things is the logical one.

Begin by designing how the ships will handle. It doesn't mater what they look like, they can be cubes with "fighter" or "trader" written on the side, at this point you are just polishing their movement. After you have the movement right you pass your cube to the artists and tell them «we have this cube, see how it handles? Make it look like a fighter, include two cannons and a missile bay and put the thrusters wherever it looks realistic for how it moves». This way the artists have complete freedom to make whatever looks best because they know exactly how it's supposed to handle. If they need to change anything in the future there is no problem, the flight engine is completely separate from how it looks.
After you got the ship moving and looking exactly how you want you can then to for the extra fidelity if you feel like it. Place some hit boxes over the thrusters and if they get hit you can affect how the ship handles. The key here is that first you twitch the flight engine to handle exactly how you want a ship that lost a port side thruster until it feels right and then you twitch the art (remove the thruster, animate damage) until it looks right. It's infinitely easier to do it this way because you don't need rocket scientists to design your ships and you don't need to gently caress with everything any time someone wants to add remove an extra seat. The player can never tell that it's being faked by looking at it because it all feels and looks as it should.

Instead of doing the logical they went the retarded way of beginning the making the art and then trying to get ships that were designed with no concern for the laws of physics to behave like you want them. And since for some ships that is just straight out impossible (Scythe) and the rest would take so much trouble that it ends up being impossible in practice they end up having to fake everything anyway. But since their flight model is now tied down to this "simulate individual thrusters" model they end up having to fake everything by giving the thrusters made up power and loving around with invisible thrusters.
They gave themselves an impossible task with the goal of achieving something trivial and then not only did they waste a retarded amount of money doing it, they can't get poo poo to either look or feel right and have poisoned all future development with this model. They are hosed. And why? Because Chris Roberts is an idiot. You don't need to be the loving Einstein of games development to see that all of this poo poo is retarded. The man is an idiot, looks like an idiot, talks like and idiot and people keep throwing money at him. Good loving lord, why can't I come up with a scam like this?