citation needed, i've gone and provided more links in my previous post.

this is a discussion of fixed time steps vs variable time steps, both have their different pros and cons and from what i can gather the choice is entireley dependant on the use case, with trials fusion being a more physics simulator platformer, a fixed time step does make more sense for consistent physics simulations.

what jesus said doesn't even mention anything about 1 physics step per frame, he merely stated that the physics would be looked to the framerate which would be fixed time steps.

i don't want to derail this topic any further, personally i doubt halo is using fixed time steps.

No it isn't a discussion of fixed v variable timestamps. See my PM, taking this discussion out of this thread.

Yeah, I was referring to something like this but in reverse where going under 60fps slows the engine speed:


"Physics" was the wrong term. I just meant the game engine in general. My apologizes about that.

This....This Just made my day, This mean, your friends can enjoy modded content without the restrictions of a console....A chunk did i ever tell you i love you.....all ****

I just had a great idea that I tweeted over on Tom Frenchs Poll. Umm, Yah. Aaaanyway. I've felt since the beginning that we don't use panels in the smartest way. Blocks should be simple plain things with basic textures and panels should be where all that art comes in. You take all your standard basic blocks for the bulk of the map and then a tonne of cool panels to slap art when and where we need it.

Back to my point. I had an idea for panels that look like blocks but with all of the damage done to them. Imagine if you will a wall where an explosive went off taking a chunk out only an inch or so deep. Place this block in front of your standard block and todahh! You could even build panels with transparencies in parts of them so that you can use the block behind it as part of the texture. Hell you could even use this technique to make it look like rubble was on the ground. Imagine the panel being transparent at the sides and raised in the middle for the opposite effect.

I tend to agree with the concept of how you would approach this. I think that having few well planned locations on any structure or walkway for the random and unusual textures would eliminate patterns and make the rest of the map look more realistic overall.

To be honest, we could have done without any of the detailed blocks and just had the plain blocks with textures and then just panels for everything else.



It sure would be nice to get some of those indented panels as well.

Very happy to not have to buy that wankbag of a console to play Halo. Sure we will find out more at E3

It's a nice console but both the PS4 and the Xbone should have had more juice. I'm happy to own 2. The guys over at Xbox development have been doing a good job of tweaking it up. If not by hardware standards by feature standards it's one of the most advanced consoles to have ever existed.

Please please please have API's for placing Forge pieces programmatically.

and instantiate, orientate, texture, color, and metalic/smooth...

You could define an entire structure in JSON or XML...

Yep! That, coupled with an ability to read a map file to get piece placements means we could make our own Forge "skins" - basically non-Win10 UI's for placing forge objects. I've got my eye on a Unity VR skin myself, but not sure if there's many people who would be interested lol.

Also, imagine the analytics we can do if we have Forge coordinates available coupled with those new endpoints. I'm super excited.

He already stated they can't do cracks.

Not true. He said that he can't do a cracked texture. This is a cracked panel. The panel piece is something like .5 of a block thick by whatever height/width. Imagine that panel was made to look like a standard block (which it technically would be) and then you did one of a few things; dug one or more indents into without breaking through the object, broke completely through the object in one or more places allowing you to see through it, or remove all the edges of the object leaving only the the center of the object (this is more like an object scrap but the thickness of a panel)

Imagine you're in Forge and you have 2 objects one being an 8*8*(.5) basic concrete panel with the hole in the center (we currently only have a few detailed metal panels) snapped in front of an 8*8*8 basic block. The Panel looks fine at the edges but the center is blasted away leaving a gaping hole. To emphasize the effect we could darken the rear block to a different shade or maybe just give it another texture completely as we see in this rather blatant example below.



Remember this is not a object texture this is an actual object to which you could also alter the surface texture, gloss ect.

The panels don't have to be transparent in parts, I just think it offers more variety. The main use would still likely be to provide shallow cracks and or indents in materials. You could probably get away with only having to make a handful of sizes since the only concern is height and width. Depth would always be the standard panel depth unless the Forge team wanted to make one with a deep pit. A creative approach would be to stack a few panels of varying sizes with transparent centers to create a deeper hole and then put a cracked or crumbled panel at the bottom. Hell you could make it look like layers of building material. Concrete in front of wood in front of cobblestone.

Anyway this gets us around the fugly texture approach and essentially gives us a real cracked block. Please take a second look at the images I provided in my previous post again to see examples of a few of the varying sates of damage.

For an overlay, creeping vines or circuitry. But I wonder what the minimum hardware specs for the computer will be.

Id like the floor textures used on epitaph

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070702234916/halo/images/9/94/Epitaph_Interior.jpg




Even with this limit of amount of textures they can use on the simples. Why can't they create a new batch of simples with additional textures/a single texture. Could be in primitive menu as (simple texture alt). Shouldn't be any more difficult than creating any other piece with a texture. Just rather than being able to change the texture in the item properties menu, we would have to spawn the same sized piece with the alternative texture we want.

Boom, unlimited textures. You're welcome 343.

He said the minimum requirement is "beefy".

Not sure what that translates to on PCPartPicker.

if i were to guess it'd probably be recommending something like core i5, 8gb ram, gtx960 or r9 370 minimum.

So a G3258 Anniversary Edition overclocked to 4.5 Ghz, and a GTX760 are likely not beefy enough to run WinForge?

That's what I was thinking. Something that can do what the Xbox One can do at the very least. The fact that he used the term beefy as a minimum requirement just helps reinforce the idea that the game has to run at a minimum of 60fps.

I only hope that this rig I have is considered beefy enough. If a $1k rig isn't "beefy" enough, then we have huge problems. (okay kind of bragging here)