Pocster

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getting there

It struggled with the sci fi picture. Why?; because it doesn't follow proper building design!. Staircases not going to all levels, cutting through floors, ending incorrectly, no steps etc etc. (expletive deleted) me I had to basically build not just a underground house but an underwater one to get it happy!.

The number of times I argue this whether Claude ot Chat. What I want against what I get!. LOL! . BBC BASIC anyone?. Anyway I map out a mega spec and unlike Chat Claude will deliver something more inspiring!. Compute_cheap_to_pocster=TRUE; me thinks!

OTT but look at the dome!. environment mapped on dome and base. Can have 5 or 6 on screen before frame rate tanks. Looks AMAZING! - better than 99% of PS/Xbox chump. But of course I eye the next bigger prizes!

Read lots of reviews and went with Treaggar . Did lamb rack in it last night! Worth the 3 hr wait. If you've not used one it's different than BBQ - what I mean is its not the same LOL!. You leave it for a long time. Burgers/lamb rack/ribs come out tender and flavoursome . I had to do lots of experimenting with each food type to get it right (did Salmon once for swmbo she loved it). Bit of faff with cleaning and pellets stuck/wet. But when it's hot and you havent got to 'fanny' over like a BBQ otherwise everyone gets burnt food; then its worth it. Got pizza oven also (swmbo is boss here) good pizzas BUT even betetr home made nan bread!!!

cubic environment mapping! Taking most of today to get working!.So for those not in the know! You place a 'probe' in a prop you want to map its environment and it renders 6 views i.e. 6 faces of cube. So its (expletive deleted) expensive!. There are some tricks to optimise. One of these alien domes next to a river get the river reflected with clouds - looks awesome. Now for tricks as 6 renders (low res) per prob is insane. Claude really (expletive deleted)ed me around on this as it kept saying from the screenshots it was correct (when clearly it wasnt). Render pipeline is 4000 lines of code and we have some legacy stuff in there from chat - removal means breaking ; so I'll live with that.

Yeah Claude used to say "5hr renews in x minutes at y o ' clock". Now it doesn't you get 5 hrs and thats it. If I stop then my 5 hr ticks on. When that ends I get nothing until I type and the 5hr timer starts again. I did used to benefit from using say 2 hrs of last 5hr slot remaining and then just rolling into the next 5hr slot.

Hmmmm, Claude now changed the 5 hr window?. It starts as soon as I type i.e. you cant use from the previous 5 hr remaining until it renews and carries over? Cheeky gits!

waiting for 5 hr limit to reset whilst drinking chilled wine next to the pellet smoker. THAT IS A LIFE! (or perhaps need to get one?) TBF if Claude was a bloke I'd buy him a drink or 2. If she was a woman well....

claude said "lets be clear before I change this for the FOURTH time" GET HER!. Can spend rest of my life trying to improve water - always a really tricky thing to look and react great without killing fps.

Landscape is gorgeous!. Especially when you change time of Day and let terrain cast shadows on itself and the basic alien prop buildings (still in experimental mode). Get the sun low; planet in the background, lens flare - looks proper ps5 pro. Back once more at 60fps

Right! Need to stop playing with terrain!. Another round of optimisations and more features added - could go on forever!. Environment cube maps on props next and then (finally) procedurally veg!

Claude just stung me . Hit my 5hr limit early so bought more usage . Can see I’m using it - that’s fine . Then it stopped again saying I had reached my limit - which of course I hadn’t ! . Bought £5 more . Then got 10 mins then same again . Assume a bug . Emailed them ! Not much point to buying extra if you get blocked anyway !

Really helpful. I guess it depends what you are using the model for; but for me opus 4.8 is destroying gpt5.5 for coding in my experience. I mean they have codex. If I get that to 'scout' it can take a minute+. Yet claude (git is local in both) takes 20 seconds, explains the code and proposes patch. Codex was never that reliable. Codex suggestions for patch I dumped back into gpt5.5! - it usually said they were wrong. But the claude "I can open a preview" and agentically fix the issue is AMAZING. i guess the claude environment is just far easier and cleaner for me than my attempt to harness gpt5.5. I did ok for 20 quid a month mind for quite a while.