Re: USF4 changes!
- From: Stephen Scheidel <gieroadsteve@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:45:49 +0200
witcher a ds clone?
don't worry lb you're safe.
On 20/06/2014, lindsey kiviets <lindseyak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> salie told me get witcher 2 its an amazing game.
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> R44.17 on steam. 15 gigs dl , gna take me awhile.
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> hope its good game. not some ds clone.
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> Subject: Re: USF4 changes!
> To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: greattekkenmaster@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:30:00 +0000
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> This is crap,, I would rather eat something nice and delicious than look at
> thisSent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!From:
> Wynand-Ben <paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:01:38 +0000To:
> cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ReplyTo: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: USF4 changes!
> Lol
> Dunno if you blokes knew about this.
> There is anime called Ghost Stories that apparently turned out to be not
> that amazing... when it got dubbed to english they essentially redid the
> thing with whatever the VAs wanted. Here is a small clip that I saw.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJ4VWoeOzs
> Best part is that it is a officially licensed dub by ADV.You can buy that on
> DVD etc.
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> From: alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: USF4 changes!
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:39:11 +0000
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> Erm... Jaeger bombs and tequila... I don't think I'm making work tomorrow...
> Not really following the emails either.
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> From: Ilitirit Sama [mailto:ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx]
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> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:07 PM South Africa Standard Time
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> The gameplay demo of MGSV was awesome, but it does make the Fulton RS seem
> OP. I hope they balance it out nicely in the final version. I mean, it
> costs 1000 GMP for a cardboard box delivery, but only 300 GMP per Fulton?
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> Game looks incredibly fun though.
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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Wynand-Ben
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> All I know about how its generated is the bit you quoted from Otaku, havent
> seen any interviews myself yet.
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> While that sounds less impressive it should probably count as a procedurally
> generated "cat" instead of generated "animal". So I guess they could
> technically not be lying... :P
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> There will be shortcuts taken. From the 1st time I saw this I was just
> thinking is how the hell will a Indy team manage this?
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> Will see someday I guess. Hope they take their time and do it properly.
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> Game looks intriguing
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:09:21 +0200
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> Subject: Re: USF4 changes!
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> From: ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx
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> But that's what I'm saying. From the interview it just sounds like they
> just have blueprints for known animals. Cats, dinosaurs, fish. How many
> ways can you really generate a cat? Who is really going to be impressed
> when they see a spotted
> panther for the 5th time, only in a different colour or size? In Spore,
> every animal has the potential to look completely different. I'm not
> getting a sense of any of that from what they are doing here. They didn't
> mention anything about exotic animals.
> They mention that deer will exist on different planets but they will look
> different. That's not impressive. Deer exist in different countries on
> Earth and they look different. In Spore, no two animals look the same
> (well, some do by virtue of mutation).
> So either they're overstating what their engine is capable of, or it's not
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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Wynand-Ben <paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Generating tree's and animals could use the same kind of level generation
> algorithms I reckon.
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> A "exotic" animal could have 1-8 legs. Its ass cant be too close to its
> mouth, the legs need to be in usable positions.
> Or tree's, cant have all the branches/leaves be too close together or oddly
> spread out... so there will be some sort of algorithm to make them look
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> I dont see how it is any different.
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> I still have no real idea what you actually have to do in the game... other
> than "explore". Gather stuff? Trade? Fight? Do what and to what end?
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> Hopefully they can make it fun.
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:35:15 +0200
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> If you have a base template and just tweak a few variables, it's not really
> procedural. It's just randomly assigning values to different properties.
> eg. When you click "Random Appearance" on the character build menu in an
> RPG. There's no real algorithm
> behind it. Procedural level generation on the other hand does require an
> algorithm eg. exit can't be too close to the start, every room must have an
> entrance etc etc.
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> I also think don't think they're going to be able to deliver what they
> mentioned, or at least make it fun without some big changes. They said the
> gameplay will take place in on true Universal scale. Ignoring the
> mathematics, it honestly sounds like the
> most boring MMO ever. The odds of you running into another player is
> exceedingly small, and they even acknowledge it! What's the point of an MMO
> where there's little-to-no interaction with other players? It might as well
> be a single-player game. I think
> this is one aspect of the game they will need to rethink very carefully.
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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Wynand-Ben <paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I dont take any marketing jargon seriously... dont see why this is any
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> Only thing im worried about is that they have bitten off more than they can
> chew. The game sounds and looks good but im not sure if its doable properly
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> If the size of it is really what they claim it to be then procedural
> generation would be the only way to go. Nobody would create that big of a
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> "From the article on Kotaku it seems they just have a base template for
> various classes of animals and plants and they tweak it to give them
> slightly different appearances. That's very different from procedural
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> Why is it different? Diablo 2 levels where procedurally generated... they
> were never the same. (Maybe not never but the odds are that it happened).
> Using sets of preconstructed base items/areas/stuff.
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> Its just varying degrees. If they builds stuff modular or interchangable
> enough they could "hopefully" generate a shitload of different "Stuff".
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> The scope of the universe alone sounds amazing tho if they can keep it from
> beeing too samey after you have seen too much of their "constructions"
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> Would be cool if they pull this off
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:57:36 +0200
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> Subject: Re: USF4 changes!
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> There's no way I can take any game that makes claims like that seriously.
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> They start out by saying all footage is captured in real time. Believable.
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> Then they start talking about procedural generation. Unbelievable.
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> So, how much of it then is just marketing blurb? I really doubt they
> generated life algorithmically (they have fish and dinosaurs). It's not
> impossible (Spore did it), but so now I scratch that off my list as well.
> What does that leave you with then? Procedurally
> generated terrain? That's nothing new or interesting.
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> From the article on Kotaku it seems they just have a base template for
> various classes of animals and plants and they tweak it to give them
> slightly different appearances. That's very different from procedural
> generation.
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> Those systems Ream mentioned are indeed real. Murray and Ream showed me
> their toolset to prove just how infinite the creatures and objects in their
> game are.
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> Ream pulls up a blue-ish menu with lines of code written across the screen
> and quickly clicks across it to pull up a very specific menu within their
> engine. Before I know it, he's selected an option for trees and I'm staring
> at one. There's a blueprint for
> a fairly standard-looking tree off on the right. He clicks a button that
> says "view variants." Dozens of new trees—of different shapes, sizes, and
> colors—pop up on the left.
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> "This is our toolset," Murray says as we scroll through the trees. "We built
> our own engine. It's super crappy, but it's kind of like Unity or something
> like that. We've written it all around procedural generation. And that's
> kind of what we spent the first
> year, when it was just four of us, what we spent our time doing. And then
> the last month before the VGXs we built the trailer using that."
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> http://kotaku.com/how-a-seemingly-impossible-game-is-possible-1592820595
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> Personally I think they're either just throwing the word around for
> marketing hype, or their engine is nowhere near in a state where they can
> start demoing true procedurally generated life.
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> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Wynand-Ben <paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sounds like you are taking a marketing comment a tad too serious...
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> I fairly sure its just a fancy way of saying the all of the environments are
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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:44:25 +0200
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> Subject: Re: USF4 changes!
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> From: ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx
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> This trailer for this game pisses me off so much that I want to smash my PC
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-v6R_T1hEs
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> Every atom procedural? WTF does that even mean you morons?
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> Did you codify the laws of Quantum Physics into your engine so that quarks
> had no choice BUT to assemble into stable atoms?
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> And if you got that far, why even bother telling us stuff like leaves, rocks
> and planets are procedurally generated? Surely these things should have
> just emerged from your awesome Quantum Physics engine?
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> Or let's give them the benefit of the doubt and suppose they just have
> algorithms than can arbitrarily combine electrons, protons and neutrons to
> create new atoms (much easier than even understanding Quantum Mechanics).
> There are about 7*10^27 atoms in
> 70kg human body. Suppose their algorithm can procedurally create 100 atoms
> per microsecond (100 million per second). That means in order to create a
> human it would take 2.22 * 10^9 millenia to procedurally generate 1 human.
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