Recent content by The Gronk

Grenades are a parabola until they come into contact with a surface, from there it's pretty simple newtonian physics to determine where they land.  There are plenty of examples where games give you an indication of grenade trajectory before you release it and that calculation is the basis for...

This _isn't_ hard to do well it's hard to make the AI do badly enough that it seems your expertise with a firearm and superior tactics are the deciding factor, they're not, that's my point.  You found an exploit, well done, people have just as many exploitable behaviours.  If you gave the...

I'll let you into a secret.  Every AI you have played against has had its abilities crippled to make you feel better.  Players have an easier time losing to another player than an unfettered AI.  Some of the main advantages are listed below, allowing the AI to fully use any of these will...

ECS is nowhere near production ready and is unlikely to be for around 18 months. The current codebase will be entirely replaced sometime this year and it only works with HDRP until then. I'm waiting for it to be ready myself.

I think the last time I cracked a hash you were probably just starting your first day in security, I hope so, it's probably quite a bit longer though... I'm very old. No doubt things are more stable now but I still question the sanity of running complex logic on the GPU.  Debugging alone...

You can program damn near anything you want in shader code, that wasn't my point. Have you ever tried hash-cracking or crypto-mining _while_ rendering a high-def scene?  It's the short road to a kernel panic or BSOD.

You got me curious so I went and had a look.  They're going to have a _lot_ of problems pulling that off.  The demo's look good but without an indication of the hardware it's running on we're back to the old adage "any sufficiently prepared tech-demo is indistinguishable from magic". They plan...

Of all people I would have expected _you_ to remember their Clarkisms.  🙂 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C. Clarke re:  the post above

"Originality is only undiscovered plagiarism" "Stealing from one source is plagiarism, stealing from several sources is research" - Writers proverbs 🙂

You are indeed correct, I should have specified vertebrates as there are a few non-simian zombies in the game such as bears and vultures. Perhaps you're thinking of the XCOM series?  The early remakes had fungal zombies, as did halo with the flood infected marines.  You've got me curious as to...

Before the AI update to the current system a half-block had half the HP of a full block.  The new pathfinding system required a half-block to have the same HP as a full block.  Now you have a situation where a thin pillar of something is the same HP as a full cubic metre of it.  Block HP is part...

Okay, I'll jump on the speculative fiction bandwagon... How about a fungus that's commonly mistaken for or referred to as a virus to due lack of knowledge or cultural bias?  The hyphae would be able to create a network to pass nutrients through the body, although at a slower rate than normal...

A neckbeard with power it would seem.  This is Gal Gadot's response to Mr Whedon's claim that she couldn't understand English enough to recognise threats and harrassment. Neckbeards go into game development, furry's are sysadmin.

This is game development, the number of Joss Whedon's per square metre is far above the average for any other industry.  🙂 https://www.reuters.com/business/activision-blizzard-fires-20-employees-over-harassment-claims-ft-2021-10-19/

One is capable of reason and compromise.  The other is largely unreasonable and uncompromising due to an underdeveloped pre-frontal cortex and amygdala.  Which one of those sounds like a description of a boss?  :-)