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The worst volume control designs ever made 😭

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Relevant 2024 games and the engines they were made with

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You asked for it, so here it is. Visualizing CPU cache speeds relative to RAM. Cache optimization is important too!

As the player moves around, cars are constantly created and deleted to give the appearance of a busy city. For gta3, Vice & SA, my code places cars at about 70m from the player if they would be in view of the camera. They get removed at around 90m. Cars that are ‘off screen’ get placed at around 15m and removed at 25m. In the image (thanks, electromaximus) cars are created at the green and removed at the red lines. When the player looks ‘behind’, cars straight ahead would be considered ‘off screen’ and removed. Speedrunners use this to clear the road ahead of them. For SA, I changed the rule so that cars would have to be off-screen for at least 2 seconds to be removed. This fixed it. My code looked for road nodes at the appropriate distance to create cars and that didn’t already have cars nearby. Sometimes there were no suitable nodes which could result in empty or unusually busy streets. Cars further than 20m away use reduced physics/collision. In this state, cars do not detect collisions and would drive straight through walls. When the player gets close, the full physics is switched on. You can notice this happening as cars drop a little until the suspension settles. Cars don’t switch back to the reduced physics state.

It's just a dream

vec3 f=vec3(.2,.4,1.5),p;for(float i,e,g,S,u;i <50.;o =exp(e*5e3-sin(vec4(4,3,2,0)*p.z-log(S)))/50.){p=vec3((FC.xy-.5*r)/r.y*g,g)-i/3e4;mat2 M=rotate2D(t/8.);p.yz*=M*M;p--;p.yx*=M;S=5.;for(int j;j <20;p/=u)S/=u=dot(p=2.*clamp(p,-f,f)-p,p);g-=e=p.z/S;} #つぶやきGLSL

MACHINE Happy Belated April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/2916/

📔𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺 𝗧𝗶𝗽 #𝟭: Key Pose to Key Pose Speed up or cut out the inbetween frames of your anim! Inbetween poses will never look as appealing as key poses, and gameplay anims are limited on length, so try to hold frames on the key poses and speed through the inbetween frames!

Just so y'all know: Every time you push code, you appear on this real-time wall at the @github HQ.

WIP new DSAS feature: hitbox range visualizer lime = max range cyan = min range the range is relative to where the character started the animation from (so walking forward in the attack adds to the range) I mainly am making this to make writing AI distance checks simpler.

Hey you. We're making some progress. But we need your help. ideas.lego.com/projects/59f0…