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It's an arduino along with a piston and a compressor. It's actually a relatively inexpensive build when compared to press they're probably getting for it. I don't know how long ago your construction days are, but with Raspberry Pi and Arduino, there are now very inexpensive solutions to what used to be complex builds.
However, it would appear that it actually is as simple a build as that, probably even less expensive, as it was confirmed on reddit. So why are you arguing?
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http://imperialnews.network/2016/04/reverse-the-verse-episode-90-liveblog/
"[When did you get the new lobby door?] Just got it working yesterday. It’s been in there since they got there though. It’s made of wood, the same wood as a normal door. It’s just hooked up to a garage door opener. So not an expensive door."
https://www.reddit.com/r/DerekSmart/comments/4eyiri/clarifying_doorgate_just_a_wooden_door/
"Clarified on RTV today.
Just a regular wooden door with a garage door opener attached to it. Someone in RTV asked about the door.
"Just got it working yesterday. It's been in there since they got there though. It's made of wood, the same wood as a normal door. It's just hooked up to a garage door opener. So not an expensive door."
So not only does it create an amazing work atmosphere but it was relatively inexpensive to make."
The underlying issue is WHY cant they get people to work on this game? For all its accolades it has more people leaving it than coming to it.
GROUNDBREAKING 'stuff' should have people lined up to work on it (unless it is life threatening) but even then if it were truly groundbreaking in a 'major' field there would be plenty of people willing to risk it.
That video is really kind of sad because its like he is begging people to work for this 'awesome' game. That would be like Kate Beckinsale having to beg some internet geek to go out with her (after she went to a convention with a sign around her neck say "please take me on a date''.
http://fusion.net/story/42057/caps-lock/
With NO check if that person ever worked at CIG at all. Thats so 2015 ....
And despite that 2/3 of the reviews about CIG on Glassdoor are positive ;-)
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Darn ... someone stole me 1.5 years !!
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They finished 64bit in 3D (!) space some months ago. This is a huge step.
DS declared this transition from 32 to 64bit as impossible. So, gurus can be wrong after all.
"..but in Florida it set alarm bells ringing in Derek Smart’s head.." Haha.. i wouldn't want to be nowhere near him when he got the news.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
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Star Citizen – The Extinction Level Event
4/13/15 > ELE has been updated look for 16-04-13.
http://www.dereksmart.org/2016/04/star-citizen-the-ele/
Enjoy and know the truth always comes to light!
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Looks like I'm wrong on this one. Apologies
I know what you're thinking because I did too, "Will my wife let me do this?"
I'd want a pocket door, though. Keep it all in the wall.
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Ask yourself why is everything on hold? To me it is because the CryTek engine is for single player games. So after 5 years they couldn't get it working in a SC PU so now they are hanging all their eggs on a single player game.
Just to point out majority of backers want SC not SQ42.
Star Citizen – The Extinction Level Event
4/13/15 > ELE has been updated look for 16-04-13.
http://www.dereksmart.org/2016/04/star-citizen-the-ele/
Enjoy and know the truth always comes to light!
64bit double precision that's a funny thing because they are selling a multiplicator for a power-off in fact they are using 33Bit precision in every axis, more wouldn't make sense because the lag between CPU and GPU would be unbearable - alway remember the GPU is made for 32bit operations, you can pass 64bit to it but at a much slower rate - this is a hardware related problem no software can update your bridges to 64bit.
Every moving pivot (including a cup on your pilots desk) has to be calculated and if there are to many the discrepancy between CPU and GPU would end in character jiggle, warps and fall throughs.
In other words, there is a reason to not go this way as a developer.
And remember precision has nothing to do with how far you can look or travel, it has to do with jiggling and wiggling things that are further away in your current LOD (Level of Detail) from the Vector3.zero
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The cake is a lie.
"On the status of the Star Citizen project: A professional opinion from Ascent: The Space Game’s James Hicks
The technical concerns
In June this year, Cloud Imperium Games made an offhand announcement to the effect that it had almost finished getting its game engine to operate in 64bit 3D space. To CIG’s fanbase, this sounded like a cool new development (which it sure is!), but in Florida it set alarm bells ringing in Derek Smart’s head, here in Australia it made me very concerned, and I can guess that somewhere in England, if he heard it, David Braben responded with something like, “Come again?”
With the absence of such an announcement until that time, I had been assuming CIG either wasn’t going to need 64bit 3-D space or had done it already and wasn’t going to announce it.
If 64bit 3-D space is something you need, and you don’t have it, it’s a complete project killer. Without a solution for 32bit vs. 64bit 3-D positioning, your engine will not have enough accuracy to display spaceships in a steady position within a large environment. This is one of the core reasons games usually avoid truly huge environments, and if you are going to “go big,” you run into problems immediately. Between frames, objects will appear to shift positions. Close to the game engine’s “0,0,0,” the effect is so small you can’t see it (less than a pixel). Get a little further away and your spaceship will seem to vibrate a little. Further still and it wiggles. Further again and it’s jittering all over the place — ugly and unplayable.
On the other hand, with 64bits to work with, you can be accurate a huge distance from “0,0,0” — big enough, depending on your implementation, to work with a full-sized star system like ours, as a matter of fact.
The problem is that GPUs are crap at 64bit calculations. You either need to accept hideous performance (accept the unacceptable) or need to be painting a 32bit picture for the GPU, a snapshot based on the larger 64bit picture your game engine has… every frame. If this sounds complex, that’s because it is. Deciding to go 64bit has ramifications all down the line of your project. It complicates absolutely everything that comes afterwards.
And that’s why announcing that you’re almost ready to do it, six months after your initial projected completion date, sets off alarms in the heads of people who’ve been through this issue before.
Frankly, right after the announcement, discussion about Star Citizen went right off the rails. It’s now devolved into name calling and “lawyers at ten paces at dawn!!!!1” and I’ve got no interest in that. Chris Roberts and Derek Smart are two of my heroes. Listening to them fight, I feel like a child hiding while his parents scream at each other. It’s ugly, it’s off message for both of them, and I wish they’d cut it out.
So below, I’m going to continue the discussion from where it left the rails and talk about the technology challenges Cloud Imperium are tackling and what I can say about the project, as a somewhat informed outsider." Etc.
For "not talking about 64 bit 3D space" he is talking quite a lot about it (and i posted only part of it).
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It could be that they're looking to impress investors, but it's equally for employees. I go back to the mural. It's a relatively inexpensive use of resources they're working on anyway which makes someone proud enough to post it online. If CIG needs anything right now it's to create a positive environment.
As an investor, would you be impressed by someone squandering money? I think that an investor would be much more interested in what proprietary tech they have, what are the proposed solutions to current problems, and what their road map is. Chances are CIG wouldn't be looking for someone to invest $1 million, if they would want to bring on an investor at all. Remember the last time this went down, Microsoft put the brakes on all innovation, stripped Freelancer to it's basic parts, and pushed it out the door. That's a huge risk. However, taking on an investor is, at least, less risky than selling majority.
As for the last quote, that's a cool stat. Any reference? Personally, I'm waiting on SQ42. SC is nice, but I'm much more story-oriented.
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Almost the entire read is about the transition from 32 to 64bit 3D space. Something DS said it could not be done.
The solved problem talked about in Erillion's quote is exactly this.
In some ways i feel for you and the rest of the squad. You see, the linked article fully discredits everything the haters and DS babbled about over the past months.