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cybereality
Yeah, kind of makes me want to use it more.

Back in 2000 a company I worked at was bought out by Unisys.
Unisys was the company that had acquired the patents on the compression algorithm in the GIF file format. When they realised what they owned (they got it as part of another company buyout), they were the ones who started charging something like $3000 for a license to put GIFs on a web page, and some fee to add GIF load/save to software. They are the reason a lot of software back then dropped GIF support (or had it as a plugin instead of integrated) and why the PNG format was invented as a competitor.

I resigned. I was rather angry about the GIF thing at the time. Plus the managers were assholes (the director blamed me for changes made in the software 6 months before I joined the company. Idiot). Oh, and burn out from bad project management. But definitely the GIF thing was an influence.

Here is a better comparison. This was 4.6MB uncompressed PNG. With JXL on 75% quality, we have a 336KB image, that still looks good.

Here is the same original PNG converted to normal JPG with settings to get the same 336KB file size.

It might look okay small, but open both in new tabs, you see that the JPEG has artifacts around the text and in some other areas.

Playing around with a Blender addon called Building Tools. Nice for exterior low poly buildings. Just have a disembodied head for now. I downloaded the street light, trash can, and car for free. I'm not sure how much texturing I'm going to do. With a lot of static cameras and Resident Evil controls, I'll be able to build smaller sets.

Cute. He's probably just wearing a cloaking device and forgot to put the hood on. Someone should tell him :-)

The street light's shadow is spooky as well ...

Kojack Back in 2000 a company I worked at was bought out by Unisys.

Did you submit an entry when they had the contest to choose the name for the new company?

DaveTheCoder Did you submit an entry when they had the contest to choose the name for the new company?

The company I was at didn't change its name, Just a small Australian business software developer.

The name "Unisys" was chosen from entries submitted by employees.

DaveTheCoder
Ah, I checked wikipedia. The name competition was in 1986. I was 13 years old at the time.

I was on Steam today, hardly ever go there. They had the one game on sale I wanted to buy at 70 percent off. What Ever Happened to Edith Finch. I don't even know if I'll like it but I wanted to see it and I didn't want to spend full price.

Yeah, that game seems good. It's similar to Dear Esther. Still have to finish it some day.

cybereality I hate when they can't agree on simple hardware standards. Like now it's USB. I bought a phone and accidentally plugged it into the wrong charger and it's mostly shot now. Looked exactly the same as the other one. I can plug it in but it only slow charges now and it says it's the wrong charger but it isn't. Why would they make them so much alike and yet be different? And the USB should have a little notch or something so you can't accidentally force it in upside down. They take forever to agree on standards and mostly make a mess.

cybereality I don't play games that have anything to do with the bible because they mess it up so bad. Hardly anyone will know that the rapture happened. As it was in the days of Noah when 8 souls were saved, so shall the coming of man be. All that left behind and all that. I steer clear of it. The odds are someone trying to make a profit on a computer game is going to get it pretty wrong.

No, it's not about the Bible. I mean, you could interpret like that, but it's an original story that is not religious, but it's kind of left ambiguous and you can believe different things.

cybereality The empty civilization and you figure out what happened, kind of like Myst. Boy the game save system in Edith Finch is really bad. I keep quitting and playing this one part. It will be the third time now. It's not that hard, I just have a short attention span. I'll have to make sure I see the game saved notice next time and just leave the computer run in the background and come back to it. I think that's lazy programming.

Speaking of The Chinese Room (makers of Dear Esther and Everyone's Gone to the Rapture), I was annoyed by their Amnesia : A Machine for Pigs.
I found the back story interesting and the environments were cool. But it lacked the horror and threat of Amnesia.
But mostly... I was disappointed with the machine for pigs itself. So little of it was shown. I was expecting something like the human processing lines in Prey (2006) or the stroggification of the player in Quake 4.
They didn't even need to show actual stuff happening, leaving it to the imagination is good, but they left too much of it to the imagination.

I hope Frictional Games makes something new soon. Amnesia Rebirth was interesting, but Penumbra Black Plague and Soma awesome games.

For some game dev related points of interest:
Frictional Games (Amnesia, Soma, Penumbra series) and The Chinese Room's Amnesia A Machine for Pigs use AngelScript as the main game scripting language. AngelScript is a C++ style language that I've heard is pretty fast, but I haven't tried it out myself (I think I did a tiny bit maybe 15 years ago, it's been around for 19 years).
For models, they use collada files. That's a bit inefficient, collada files are XML and are better suited to moving assets between tools, rather than final game format. DDS files are used for textures.

Interestingly, they leave everything exposed. If you install one of their games, all the game logic in AngelScript and assets in collada and other XML files are just sitting there, easy to open.

Here's an object from A Machine For Pigs in Godot.

Kojack Sometimes I forget this is in fact a game dev forum. I like this communal blog thread. I want to thank God's angel who descended to bless us with this and immediately peaced out before anything cool happened.

For some reason I could never get into Penumbra or Amnesia. But I really liked Soma, that was one of the best games ever.

Megalomaniak it's like actual conversations with actual people, the best ones happen by accident.

PC parts prices are coming down. Have prepared a list for a low consumption PC with a 5600G in the core and a standard 60Hz full-hd monitor.

My current one (5800X, PCIE4, RX6700XT, 1440p) actually needs a whopping 80W in desktop configuration and with nothing to do. With a fast memory profile and something to calculate it goes up to 500W, and the graphics card becomes loud.

I have a similar machine I use as an HTPC. 5600X and RX 6700 XT. It's great for 1080P. Ray tracing even works in a couple games.

packrat it's like actual conversations with actual people, the best ones happen by accident.

It would be funny if the OP ever came back and realized the silly thread they started now has over 4,000 posts.

This could be a reason, why I should (also) use Unity but, what do you guys think?

Hello everyone. Faced with such a problem as the generation of the navigation grid. The problem is that it does not take into account irregularities and stair ascents well. Is there a way to make a navigation grid manually? Thanks

Slava No clue. If you want better luck at an answer, I'd post it in a new thread under Godot Help with images or a video. I promise your question here will be drowned by the noise and forgotten.

packrat I promise your question here will be drowned by the noise and forgotten.

...here in this topic.

Megalomaniak Thanks for that. I quite literally failed "speech class" in elementary school where they train the socially inept. I'm the first and only one to do that as far as I know and I'm very proud of it.

I'm lonely again. Do you like to give variables fun names or are you a "good programmer"? Personally, nearly every variable is a rock reference of some sort, usually American. Such as a Sprite3D shader that includes a sampler2D for texturing and a sampler2D for alpha, called the_colour and the_shape. Good album.