MedicineHut posted:

Ah ok. Yes but if CR decides to give up after allegedly having full control and 300+ m then it is going to be very difficult for backers to rationalize his gently caress up.

Sillybones posted:

rear end in a top hat.

Nyast posted:

I have to stop you here, but this is incorrect. They had about 45M expenses per year and 35M revenue, so operating at a -10M loss per year. Calder's investment was 46M, so assuming their income doesn't slow down, that bought them more than 4 years of operating. That'd be until 2022.

Sarsapariller posted:

Oh good! A citizen has emerged to explain the signed depth fields to us.

Now I'm no 3D modeler but I'm pretty sure that 90% of what this guy is saying is so wrong that it's like stimpire.txt except for 3D modeling

Mirificus posted:

new phone who dis posted:

I actually followed this thread for a long time so I know how deep the hole goes, I was just wondering if anything had happened in the last 2 years or so that was significant. I think the last time I was here an employee was dishing dirt and there was tickle porn.

Sarsapariller posted:

Alright it's time for the post I actually came her for tonight, another episode of INSIDE STAR CITIZEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRe5-6Iq_4

The 8 minute show that costs roughly half a million dollars a week to produce!

* Today's episode will be about gameplay! Haha no, just kidding! It's about particle effects.
* Do you know what a "Signed Distance Field" is? Is this another thing we just invented, and it actually means "hitbox?" We'll never tell!
* Okay today's episode is literally about making the sparks bounce nicely. That's- that's it. They put this out with their heads held high.
* Oh good there's another segment. They sent their audio team to loving sweden to record... chemistry noises? Guess you couldn't get those anywhere else, foley guys? Hope you enjoyed your paid vacation.
* And of course the "Picture of a non-functional spaceship" segment at the end. Looks like those mysterious space gypsies are really into early-2000's spooky-organic alien architecture! An extremely generic design choice from the masterminds at CIG, who no doubt had to spend 6 months underwater studying dolphin loving or something to come up with it.

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

todd_777 posted:

Yeah it's essentially gibberish. I do a bit of 3d work as part of my job, I am not a specialist, and I don't work with real-time engines, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but yeah, this is just hilariously wrong.


The normal is just the direction perpendicular to the tangent of a polygon. a single-sided or double-sided polygon can have the exact same normal.


This is hard to unpack because he's conflating a bunch of things.

He's talking about baking normal maps from high poly sculpts and applying them to low poly game assets.

Then he's also talking about PBR shaders, which frequently involve normal maps, but they're a much wider topic and not relevant to collision detection. Neither are normal maps actually, lol.

Then he mentions bump maps, which are more primitive and probably aren't being used where normal maps are available.

By height maps I think he means displacement maps, which generally do the opposite of what he is describing – They take a low poly asset and subdivide it to yield a high poly asset. It's a bit (but not really) like a normal map in reverse. They could also take a flat mesh composed of many vertices and move those vertices along an axis, depending on what you're trying to do. But we're now getting closer to all of this having a point.


Ok, so now he's got his head straight about height maps or whatever, he's still using a very wonky definition of what a normal is, and I'm not sure why on gods green earth he keeps mentioning PBR shaders.

The rest is just.... yeah...Essentially, he's written an incredibly tortured explanation with a ton of irrelevant and just plain wrongs buzzwords to explain how CIG are piping meshes generated at run time into the collision system. I don't know why a collision system would be so broken at a fundamental level, either he's full of poo poo or CGI are idiots or all of the above. What a poo poo show.

trucutru posted:

I have to the same to you my friend, but that also is incorrect. Their actual expenses in their later years were "however much we made plus ten million". So, after buying a house and some extra perks those 46M will buy them a couple of extra years, tops.

Nyast posted:

I'm sorry ? I do not understand how what you're saying is different than what I said. "However we made plus 10M" is $35M+$10M = the $45M expenses number I mentionned ( +- a few millions, I don't have the exact numbers in mind ).

Also, 4 years from 2018 = 2022, we're already a year "in", so that's 3 years or funding more or less remaining at the current rate.

Nyast posted:

I'm sorry ? I do not understand how what you're saying is different than what I said. "However we made plus 10M" is $35M+$10M = the $45M expenses number I mentionned ( +- a few millions, I don't have the exact numbers in mind ).

Also, 4 years from 2018 = 2022, we're already a year "in", so that's 3 years or funding more or less remaining at the current rate.

trucutru posted:

I bet the German lawyer has a brand new coffin. Maybe even a real sarcophagus.

Hav posted:

Sarcophagus -> Reliquery -> a number of Horcruxes.

Sillybones posted:

He is displaying, not merch, but an overpriced enterprise grade SSD that doesn't have a real use in a consumer computer that he bought because it was hamfistedly advertised with Star Citizen poo poo.

To use a car analogy, he bought racing tires for his mazda because they came in a Star Citizen box. And he is proud of that box.

Mirificus posted:

"young and beautiful"


"young and beautiful"


"youthful and beautiful"

Mirificus posted:

rePool posted:

*I hope you get hatefucked by elephants in hell, have a good day.*

Friendliest most welcoming community.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/JPSandman_/status/1160947877209878530