Friday Facts #42

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Rahjital wrote:Does seperate rendering of shadows mean they will be able to react to the time of day?
In the beginning we will use separate shadows just for some entities. Drawing extra shadow for every entity on screen is also some performance penalty. But in theory if all the shadows were drawn separately then we can play with some transformations and see what we get.

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Re: Friday Facts #42

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JamesOFarrell wrote:
cube wrote:I think future cube will solve this if needed :)
A tip for future cube, Oculus bought and open sourced (MIT License, no commercial restrictions) RakNet, a great low level networking library designed for games. https://github.com/OculusVR/RakNet
I remember when we were looking into (not so long ago) it it was still payed :D

EDIT: oh they open sourced it last week - that explains it

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For what it's worth, i'd prefer fuzzy, less accurate shadows if it meant they'd actually follow the light cycle correctly.

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Cerus wrote:For what it's worth, i'd prefer fuzzy, less accurate shadows if it meant they'd actually follow the light cycle correctly.
As long as the shadows would stay confined to one axis, it could work quite well indeed. Factorio wouldn't be the first and possible not even the last game to use that approach.

It would also make for a nice game mechanic as it would be easy to judge the time of day from shadows.

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man this game is AWESOME! im buying it as soon as i can

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francoglop1 wrote:man this game is AWESOME! im buying it as soon as i can
BLASTFAMY! You mean you will by an extra copy :P
By now everyone must have Factorio!
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here is it again. cant update for some reason .. :(

i check the experimental update but nothing happened. i click the link in the experimental update download also nothing happened. can someone help me with this?. xD

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Login on main site, download new version of the game and reinstall. Always works when auto-update have problems :P

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Jetex wrote:here is it again. cant update for some reason .. :(

i check the experimental update but nothing happened. i click the link in the experimental update download also nothing happened. can someone help me with this?. xD
Try this, from main menu click About then click Check Updates. What happens?

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FishSandwich wrote:
Jetex wrote:here is it again. cant update for some reason .. :(

i check the experimental update but nothing happened. i click the link in the experimental update download also nothing happened. can someone help me with this?. xD
Try this, from main menu click About then click Check Updates. What happens?

it says no available update . :(

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Re: Friday Facts #42

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Sorry for the trouble. Please start a bug reports thread and post the log file there (it is next to the saves and mods directories).
I have no idea what I'm talking about.

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