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Quote from "CapKosmaty" »

Weapons and shields are indeed separate meshes, they are rigid AND NOT related to the monster mesh in any way.

Which means you can just as easily create a lower priority monster mesh and attach extra monster meshes to it in a random pattern. This has been done before... it can be done again. There is a system for it by now. You may not know it, nor do I know it, but it's there, and you need not assume all the complexities if they may not even be there anymore.

Quote from "CapKosmaty" »

Equinox, a mesh is a bunch of polys, but the polys are connected together.

And they can be disconnected. Meshes can be toyed with.

Quote from "CapKosmaty" »

in spore

Spore is a video game. I'm talking in terms of programs that create 3D models, not a game that is specifically adapted for people to toy with it and stuff. Please stop bringing that game up, I never mentioned it at all.

Quote from "CapKosmaty" »

i don't know what you mean by your vertex methods here, equinox. that's completely irrelevant as far as this discussion is concerned (Devil_Dark's argument does not hold either).

I'm sorry that you don't know anything about vertex methods. If you don't know something, I suggest you don't mess with it. I commented on a guy's post. What do you want here?
And, vertex methods: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164112.aspx
You can generate vertexes, polygons, etc. on a very very low level of programming.
Obviously, nobody uses that, but to give you an idea, since you totally had to butt into our convo.

Quote from "CapKosmaty" »

but the spikes are a different topic, because they relate to the body visually. equipment doesn't. you can attach it anywhere (in the hand, at the hip, on the back) and it'll be okay. but the spikes have grown out of the body, so there need to be some marks on it that represent it. and it's the case right now. if it were automated, it would look much uglier.

See Project Offset. Crowd test demo.

Randomized creatures are not a lot of work, it's very simple. It's also very heavy on the CPU/VC. Project Offset did it and people consider it a big achievement.
90% of Video Game stuff are not hard to implement, they're hard to optimize.

Bashiok is certainly overdoing it. In fact, so far from what I read of Bashiok's stuff I think he behaves like an idiot teenager.

Quote from "Erebus;393784 »

All the characters are a SINGLE mesh, you don't put them together like Spore animals.

Characters are a bunch of poly's... what are you trying to say here? By your logic, a skeleton with a sword is a single mesh, and we can't give him an axe instead.

Quote from "Devil_Dark"" »

the monsters are a veritable DUMP of code that has been put together, every single SPIKE probably holds att LEAST 10-20 rows of code.

Did you follow some course where triangles are generated via vertex methods? Because in game industry, that stuff is usually done by programs automatically, nothing is manually programmed, it would take ages.

I hate how commercialized they're getting...

I'm too lazy to put my cd-key in too vote there... I'll go for the barbarian. He's usually easiest to play in Diablo.

The statue is obviously overpriced, but since there are actually people out there who'd pay $300, they can price it that high. *shruggs* I say get material and make your own, cheaper and more productive.

I'm pretty sure your sig can't exceed 150 pixels + 3 lines of text... which it's borderline at.

LinkX, you pay too little attention to the human spirit, too much to labels and specialization. I saw horrible results of specialization and great results of generalization (and vice versa). You never know. This Wiki may be constructed different. People from the forum may end up being great supporters. How much people are needed for a good Wiki? Not that many. They're just hard to find. Who said we don't have them?

We should have had this long time ago, now we're more than a news site.

I like our layout better than the one diii.net have, btw. And I'm sorry for double posting, I don't seem to be able to edit...?

The Witch Doctor has been shown wearing two weapons too often now.

Quote from "Murderface" »

I think if the mod can tell that the conversation will soon turn to a mindless clusterfuck said mod should take it upon themselves to head it off at the pass. This relies on the perceptive prowess of the mods however. I believe that is doppels concern. Perhaps a mod qualification test, in which they are given a series of actions to choose from. Maybe 20 or so instances. Just a thought.

I don't think our mods require such a test.

Quote from "Num3n" »

i really REALLY dislike the checkpoint system... might as well make urself invincible as it basically gives you unlimited retries. i prefer having the aspect of having to go pick up your body as a good deterrent not to die.

Most games do it and they're fine.

Quote from "deathMars" »

But now when I actually think about it, I think this entire idea of X amount of posts and Y amount of months for an avatar seems kind of pointless since it kills the entire sense of identification which an avatar is supposed to bring.

It doesn't kill anything. It simply prevents certain users from acquiring that sense of identification too early.

Quote from "Doppelganger" »

Does the avatar simply help you to visually remember better who to avoid/read/whatever?

Yes.

Quote from "Doppelganger" »

Does the avatar tell you what kind of person they are and therefor helping you to avoid/read/whatever?

Not really. There are some exceptions but usually the avy tells nothing.

Quote from "deathMars" »

Would you consider me a spammer?

Yes.

Spammers are often people with <100 posts hence without avatars. So, mostly I identify the good people by their avatars. Sometimes, though, I do identify spammers by avatars as well.

Yeah, I sorta lost my eye. I have a different one these days, but I think I'll leave the old one on this forum...