Why should your opinion on turret power allocation be binding for me? It shouldn't. As usual, one can always argument for more options, more freedom, less constraints. This is always a good talking point - who can be against freedom? But as usual in life, there are compromises: The major one is dep...

Talvieno wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:46 pm

It seems I made a few edits to my text after you started writing. I absolutely spoiled it. My mistake.

The plot thickens...

Or let's say all this is a good cover-up for the deplorable lack of plot

I suppose I ought to clarify, after reading part of CSE's entry, that the contest this month is about beauty , and not about "making beautiful things". :lol: You could even do a ruined space station and say it used to be the most beautiful place in the star cluster, before it was demolished to make...

Talvieno wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 18, 2017 8:56 am

Ah, okay. Well, comment writing is important.

Indeed. So please feel free to comment the newest entry for the month of October

Not the easiest topic. So using some of my current "research" on procedural displacements and texturing, here is a small video, featuring also some original music from yours truly. With a topic like "beauty", it had to be classical music, of course. Without further ado, here is the youtube link . I ...

Josh however, is trying to drop one every American Friday. Friday: one of the most loved day of the week. Happen statistically 1/7th of the days. American Friday: a mythologic day occuring in the weeks with four thursdays. In opposition to regular, weekly, Fridays, they happen soon(tm). Just found ...

Well, here is one with non-standard geometry:
Tetrahedral, right angles, circular and triangular in one linear approach.
Other ideas are here.

Flatfingers wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 07, 2017 11:56 am

The robots survived. Because robots don't need chocolate.

Unnatural. Surviving without chocolate must be eternally bland.
A fate worse than a blue screen (assuming the robots are not MacOS X based; assumption realistic as mac based robots would certainly enjoy chocolate).

Actually, the chocolate thing was mostly a joke. :lol: Belgians are better known for waffles, and, sorry for the Swiss, a lot of countries in Europe are known abroad for their chocolate - Swiss, UK, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Hungary (in no particular order). Swiss are ...

Well, there is a reason they put the European Parliament here :ghost: Really? I thought for sure it was the chocolate. :ghost: I beg your pardon????? After misnaming the country with a central position in europe, you spread misguiged misinformation about chocolate? Context for non-connaisseurs of t...

Have you tried using some kind of offset? If you have (u,v) and measure points adjacent to it (like (u+d,v) and so on) you should be able to determine whether a given point is on an edge by comparing the values of those points. With smaller values of d you'll more closely approach a derivative, and...

The Vue equation editor is not self-explaining, but... with sweat it is possible to (mostly) make it what I want. Still lot's of issues, though. A propos, HS - do you per chance know if there is in the equation editor any derivative/slope/normal function I can use? Not on coordinates, but on number...

And I've been working on my 3D planets too in readiness :twisted: And I on my procedural height maps and texturing - never model again, the lazy 3D artist solution(tm) http://www.cavin.name/CSE/media/LTFC_DemoProcedural.jpg The Vue equation editor is not self-explaining, but... with sweat it is pos...

AdamByrd wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 04, 2017 5:14 pm

Shareholder? Is that like your buddy when he helps you carry a heavy cooler down to the beach?

Yeah. And the stakeholder is the one carrying (and placing) the sunshade

Thanks Adam, the update, no, the update s are most appreciated. It makes everything somehow more real and much more trustworthy to have another pair of eyes, and another brain, on board. Really the best that could happen! Perhaps you can take a coffee break to teach Josh some baisc shareholder manag...