Snazzy Frocks posted:

if you gave $150 million dollars to anyone else in the world and told them to build a good space sim what are the chances they'd have gotten further along than chris roberts

phosdex posted:

Braben and Co built ED on what 10 mil?

Derek, ME:A has a long unskippable load screen when transitioning from space to planet and back.

AP posted:

The launcher appears to be playing 48kHz source files at 44.1kHz sample rate. This effectively slows the music by 8.125%.

TrustmeImLegit posted:

Unrelated but what does reddit gold do by the way.

chochmah posted:

I'm not a guru physics/game coder but from my experience there is a case to make for uninitialized variables when performance is what you are after. (variables don't have to be chars, ints or floats, they could also be structures and types or in the worst case raw pointers)

Here are two variants of us calculating the first 80 numbers of the fibonacci sequence:

code:

// Initialized Variables
uint64_t x[80] = { 0 };

x[0] = 1;
x[1] = 1;

for (int i = 2; i < 80; i++)
	x[i] = x[i - 1] + x[i - 2];

code:

// Uninitialized Variables
uint64_t x[80];

x[0] = 1;
x[1] = 1;

for (int i = 2; i < 80; i++)
	x[i] = x[i - 1] + x[i - 2];

The variant without initializing x first takes 1.921 seconds while the proper version with the initialized variables takes 2.099 seconds which is roughly a 10% performance loss. (both variants have been run 10E8 times to get large enough runtimes) That of cause is a pretty simple and selfcontained example. In the real world with more complicated code it's much easier to muck up and get nasty bugs by referencing accidentally uninitialized data but when you have to squeeze every millisecond out of an inner loop it's certainly a valid approach. Doesn't mean I don't agree with the rest of criticism, watching the code on bugsmashers or the man Chris "nimble fingers" Roberts himself coding shouldn't fill anyone with confidence in SC.

Here he is working on the famous physics code:

D_Smart posted:

And this the R&D tech demo from CitizenCon 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdCFTF8j7yI
Star Citizen: Procedural Planets v2, Oct 11, 2016

chochmah posted:

chochmah posted:

code:

// Initialized Variables
uint64_t x[80] = { 0 };

x[0] = 1;
x[1] = 1;

for (int i = 2; i < 80; i++)
	x[i] = x[i - 1] + x[i - 2];

code:

// Uninitialized Variables
uint64_t x[80];

x[0] = 1;
x[1] = 1;

for (int i = 2; i < 80; i++)
	x[i] = x[i - 1] + x[i - 2];

tak posted:

Neither of those use uninitialized variables though. The first one initializes them twice

notoriousman posted:

it's just as likely to be a close-knit cabal of overzealous fans spending their own time, money and energy on this astroturfing campaign out of love for all the enjoyment they've gotten from playing Star Citizen.

AP posted:

[LAUNCHER 2.5.1] MUSIC PLAYBACK SPEED SLOWER THAN SOURCE FILES

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1 Open launcher
2 Listen to music
3 Compare to source file

ACTUAL RESULT
The launcher appears to be playing 48kHz source files at 44.1kHz sample rate. This effectively slows the music by 8.125%.

Confirmed using Audacity.
Opened source file, changed it's sample rate to 44.1kHz then recorded the audio from the launcher to verify the playback rate was the same.


EXPECTED RESULT
The launcher music should play at the sample rate of the source files.

thatguy posted:

Really though, how do you gently caress up playing audio files?

Sappo569 posted:

I've always hated that gif of him, staring at the screen like someones grandmother trying to discover what the big flashing AOL icon means

tap... tap. tap tap. He looks so loving pleased with himself

OH HEY I DIDN'T SEE YOU THERE, WAS JUST CODING MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT EVER!

thatguy posted:

Really though, how do you gently caress up playing audio files?

Thoatse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-I8XIAj8I

AP posted:

[LAUNCHER 2.5.1] MUSIC PLAYBACK SPEED SLOWER THAN SOURCE FILES

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1 Open launcher
2 Listen to music
3 Compare to source file

ACTUAL RESULT
The launcher appears to be playing 48kHz source files at 44.1kHz sample rate. This effectively slows the music by 8.125%.

Confirmed using Audacity.
Opened source file, changed it's sample rate to 44.1kHz then recorded the audio from the launcher to verify the playback rate was the same.


EXPECTED RESULT
The launcher music should play at the sample rate of the source files.

SelenicMartian posted:

Imagine these people coding an audio driver.

Jonny Nox posted:

Game was supposed to support ASIO drivers at one point for

Reasons.

HycoCam posted:

Still can't get over the nudity and sex in SQ42.

Another spoiler/plot twist: The Multifunction Wardrobe turns out to give some of the best sexual pleasure to be had in space!! Everyday! Well, except Wednesday.

Foo Diddley posted:

Went in there on Wednesday and came out a changed man

HycoCam posted:

Still can't get over the nudity and sex in SQ42.

D_Smart posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/864185416232177664

Well, they've given croberts more of the worst news ever. He can't have "seamless" space<->planet transitions because the engine can't do it.

SelenicMartian posted:

Imagine these people coding an audio driver.

Beet Wagon posted:

They pretend not to like each other when I'm around, but apparently as soon as I'm gone it's nothing but snugs