Pocster

Chat being a shit today. I told it multiple times to (expletive deleted) off. As it would "this isn't proceed able ", or "it's too many bodged patches". You can imagine my responses! I told it to man the (expletive deleted) up, stop bitching and being shit because you've been down graded as 5.6 is coming out and to make a sentence from these letters 'FCUK OFF". 10 minutes later we progressed! Doesn't look much I know. But its a procedural landscape chunk based i.e. it's deterministic and infinite. Colours etc wrong; terrain variation limited at the moment. But this will be beauty! then I can cover it in tress and (expletive deleted) the frame rate! (I wont of course (expletive deleted) the frame rate). I've noticed it's shit at efficient techniques. We were doing complex things and it worked; I asked for a full breakdown of the render pipeline . 90% was on the cpu!!!. I said "you (expletive deleted)ing prick!". few hours later 90% on the gpu. It wants to "keep" the cpu code in!. I guess it's designed not to remove legacy stuff. Took a few attempts to get it all out not just set a flag to FASLE to avoid it. I call it bodger most the time. Again it's very human like!

And I still wanted more but performance number 1!. Really good lod on tree. Shadow types depending on distance from camera. Near trees leafs have shadows also. Tree sways in wind etc. I did find a glb for this and had to do some work to get it sane. Will probably compromise my snow accumulator now but for awesome looking tress I'll take the hit.

and then I want more.

Absoluely awesome tbf! Adil.Sharif@vent-axia.com say Pocster sent you (mention my massive cock - he'll know who you mean) - actually don't mention that.....

Give me strength!. Discussions about an efficient looking tree.... and then it cant render a (expletive deleted)ing cube!

😃. yeah I think those marks were left by blocks that might have been there a bit of time.... Like 1 month ..... or 6...... or perhaps it was a yr or 2 🫠 BUT! As a long term experiment which therefore stops me fixing it now its a very plausible test!

Then all of a sudden chat becomes shit. Quickly checking reddit seems a current issue. basically its lazy, misses obvious things, ignores evidence - so like a real person now ....

Bit rude mate!

yeah I did think of things like that. But is a visible area so its tricky to "test" a patch......

accumulating snow actually build height, and I can make it piss down. Best bit I can blend between weathers. So snow will melt as it gets wet as blended to rain. Rain will dry as its blended to a sunny day. TBH it does look AAA. Masses of optimisations to do as chat's been fibbing a bit.

(expletive deleted)er just told me to stop arguing!!! WTF!

Tried that.

Someone lazy in our household left concrete blocks on the decking for some considerable time . On removing them get these white marks . Tried cleaning them with various things but won’t budge . This permanent or can be removed ? Some people ! Buy materials ; leave them for a bit and then cause more work . I don’t know ! Tsh !

Vent axia sending me a new pcb foc 😊 very kind of them

Accusations from chat that I changed the code! Accumulative wetness at very little gpu cost; I like my wetness . This of course is leading to accumulated snow effect

Chats been very good today. Weather effects are always a pain because everyone expects them to look good but cost nothing. So we built a weather lab for testing.

Oi ! Now you’ve given mine a problem! Fan running flat out !!!!

Big (expletive deleted)ing argument over flowers having shadows....

I'll try! from memory!. Yes its the same for both fans. Get cover off remove reactor core thing unscrew panel around screen. there's a few screws Assuming thats off. each fan has 3 screws I think mounting it to the chassis remove them you then have to unclip the slide out pcb - it was fiddly (probably need to unplug all connection (I labelled mine so I didnt mess up) As it slides forward the fan connectors are typically at the back. Unplug them Then the stupid bit is once you've taken the connector off the end you have to feed it back so that the fan can come out. i.e. the cables are so tight fan as zero play until it gets some cable slack Thats from memory!. if you get stuck please put photo's up to refresh my brain. It's clearly designed so non Axia engineers dont do this!

I love the way I can optimise by making suggestions to chat. It doesn't "get it" until you suggest it. It was doing real time shadows on every object (even grass) which kills the cpu and gpu. I want shadows on everything but there are lots of 'cheats' that can be done if you know what to ask! Briefly tried this voxel demo on a nuc (this will be the avalon face/voxel screen). Was around 20fps. Go back to chat tell it to inspect and explain how everything is rendered in the main loop. What's cpu bound what's gpu bound. 10 mins later on nuc 60fps with plenty of cpu/gpu to spare.

DO IT DO IT DO IT!

You need to go three.js .... man stuff 🙂

Abuse yields results! River with bed, ripples, refraction. Real shadow volumes. Rocks with proper 'realistic' placement. Wind so canapoies can move. Look at that drawcount 🙂 just 270 ish.

common things I tell chat when coding. "Use" when I upload a file. Sometimes it ignores the evidence even though is asked for it. "don't guess" to hopefully avoid blind patches "you a zx spectrum?", "this a bbc c demo?", "does that look like a ps5 effect?" to 'motivate' it And of course lots of abuse. It's so funny. I has repled the obvious "yes thats shit" , but once it said "it is a load of wank"

SWMBO made me do some outdoor work! . Anyway welcome back to my youtube channel. Chat not very good at optimising drawcalls. We started with 50k!!!!!. Now down to 1. It needed a word. Struggling with the river at the moment. Hit that subscribe button NOW!