Avalon local LLM

[SteamyTea]

On 13/08/2026 at 19:31, Pocster said:

plant 10'000's of trees

Real ones do it themselves.

[Pocster]

5 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

Real ones do it themselves.

procedural generation does it itself also

[Pocster]

Fable is causing me to accelerate my requests!

Mikes in; fully lit by environment and driven with IK.

Scatter props like rocks, tree branches etc

Trees with shadows. Full grass. All affected by wind/rain/snow

Mikes eyes light at night so he can see where he is going.

Some simpler creatures going in e.g. butterflies and fish.

For the most part 60 FPS! - took sometime to get to that.

[Pocster]

now every blade of grass casts a shadow!. Mike (the robot) was happy in his tranquil world. But some mofo has now given him a gun.....

[Pocster]

Mike didn’t like his gun so now he’s upgraded to a plasma laser . Be kind . Don’t be like Mike and mow down the flora with your new found toy . In a world full of Mikes , don’t be a Mike .

[-rick-]

10 minutes ago, Pocster said:

Mike didn’t like his gun so now he’s upgraded to a plasma laser . Be kind . Don’t be like Mike and mow down the flora with your new found toy . In a world full of Mikes , don’t be a Mike .

 

You are not going to rest until you've reimplemented Unreal engine in your web browser are you

[Pocster]

22 minutes ago, -rick- said:

 

You are not going to rest until you've reimplemented Unreal engine in your web browser are you

You are SO right . Effectively on some things we’ve exceeded UE . But I cheated a bit . Mines a heightmap engine so I can’t do overhang / caves etc - fine for landscapes etc but not insides ( though I’m thinking about how you would do that with a ray marcher for a follow up project ) . But yes ! Everything UE does we attempt . Rain , snow , wind , lighting , explosions , lasers , ice , real big list . Put a video up on YouTube in the next few weeks . Expect Apple to offer me a billion dollars for it …. maybe …. or Mr.Beast ( I.e more money than sense ) . But I’ll take the cash from anyone ; not fussy ! 

[-rick-]

Mac Studio M5 Ultra is out. Up to 512GB but not sure pricing is available for that yet (they say wait until October). The 256GB model with maxed out CPU/GPU is £10,799.

 

How rich is your blood @Pocster?

[Pocster]

48 minutes ago, -rick- said:

Mac Studio M5 Ultra is out. Up to 512GB but not sure pricing is available for that yet (they say wait until October). The 256GB model with maxed out CPU/GPU is £10,799.

 

How rich is your blood @Pocster?

Fuuuccckkkk! At the start of this thread refreshed Apple website every 55 seconds!. Missed this though!. M5 256Gb ordered!. Might keep might flip. Nice one @-rick- SERIOUSLY appreciate the heads up!. Also means it will always be 60fps! 

[-rick-]

5 minutes ago, Pocster said:

M5 256Gb ordered!

 

Wow, wasn't expecting you to actually go for it. This is gonna be one hell of an expensive home automation system lol. Cheaper than a sports car though I suppose! 

[Pocster]

12 minutes ago, -rick- said:

 

Wow, wasn't expecting you to actually go for it. This is gonna be one hell of an expensive home automation system lol. Cheaper than a sports car though I suppose! 

Yeah - mid life crisis purchase like we all have!. NEW TOY!. Also once the gpu AI is used I can expect maybe a 4 fold increase in local LLM speed.

[-rick-]

1 minute ago, Pocster said:

Also once the gpu AI is used I can expect maybe a 4 fold increase in local LLM speed.

 

Yeh. I will be interested to hear how the new deepseek flash model does compared to Opus. I've heard good things about using the frontier models to orchestrate lower tier, cheaper agents.

[Pocster]

Nasty !