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 !

[Pocster]

Honestly. Can't work out if it's brilliant or mad.

Getting Multiple Claude sessions to literally talk to each other so they dont stomp on each other's commits. But just had to tell one session off for (expletive deleted)ing about and drifting. I demoted it to help another sessaion as an advisor!. I can see it grovelling to the other session and offering its support and knowledge. Bizarre to watch. These is all MY BITCHES

[Pocster]

LOL! I nominated a claude session as "boss" and to coordinate the others. I don't think this is proper sub agent stuff but seems to work. I asked it if they were behaving!. Working my way towards that YouTube video I've been threatening, then the phone call from Mr'X' with the million quid. Bound to happen. Probably be someone on here...:-)