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[Flower Vpn @Artism_Vpn]

You won't be able to afford a decent pc because of this btw

[‎Gabe Follower @gabefollower]

1. Half-Life 3 will be announced TOMORROW!
2. If nothing happens, read the first part again.

[RATATAN (ラタタン) @ratatan_game]

The #Ratatan Reveal Trailer just dropped on our Official YouTube channel! Be the first to watch it in the link below!

#ラタタン トレーラーが公式 YouTube チャンネルに公開されました! 下のリンクからご覧ください!

https://t.co/80P9x1ro6j

[Obbe Vermeij @ObbeVermeij]

There was no way we could fit the whole map of gta3 in PS2 memory. Streaming involves loading models from the DVD as the player moves around. This was the hardest technical challenge during the development of gta3 and was coded by Adam Fowler.

The closer models physically are on the DVD, the faster they are loaded. This is because the DVD needs to accelerate/decelerate as the head moves to a different track.

Adam tried to place models that were close together in the city also close together on the DVD. He also experimented with repeating commonly used files.

Even after placing models on the DVD efficiently, it was still not fast enough. Players would see the low detailed version of buildings and sometimes the road was missing.

At some point we couldn't speed the streaming up any further. We had no option but to slow the player down.

Portland initially had a big drag running all along the island. This was a worst case scenario. The player could go fast and there were loads of buildings to load. The artists changed the road layout to slow the player down.

In other problem areas, we increased the drag (air resistance) on the vehicles 5% or so. Hardly noticeable but it helped.

The streaming issues were the main reason we couldn’t let the player fly in gta3 (other than with the dodo)

Streaming was also used for vehicle models, npc models and music but the map posed the greatest difficulty because of the amount of data.

As models got loaded into memory and then removed, the memory would fragment into smaller and smaller blocks. Adam’s code constantly moved models around to fix this. This was tricky as models sometimes had to be moved while they could be rendered.

For Vice City, various code improvements were made. Better compression of models and textures. Smarter code that would load the detailed versions of buildings only if the player was not flying.

Streaming issues tends to get worse with older DVDs and older PS2s.

(screenshot by @TheSphereHunter)

[pimpek32 @pimpek32]

@Dexerto

[Jack468 @jack840A]

Like A Dragon Gaiden fans will understand what this means.

[Airdorf @ QuakeCon @Airdorf]

Demo for a ✨ NEW GAME ✨ dropping in less than a week in collaboration with some really cool and talented people ��️🧔‍♂️🧙‍♂️📢

[ULTRAKILL - LAYER 8: FRAUD OUT NOW @ULTRAKILLGame]

Suffering leaves suffering leaves.

HD: https://t.co/U0Ox6m63tn

A moody moment from 7-3, for spooky season.

#screenshotsaturday #ULTRAKILL

[Sushi ✩°｡ ⋆⸜ 🎧✮ @sushislurpee]

@funnecfox is it this one😭

[pimpek32 @pimpek32]

@vixenkaaa

[Airdorf @ QuakeCon @Airdorf]

See y’all in less than two weeks for a major FAITH update ✝️

[Xor @XorDev]

Someone's selling my shader as an NFT...

[pimpek32 @pimpek32]

@ENI_Enigmatic ok

[pimpek32 @pimpek32]

@PRJ_Vanguard

[francl 🇵🇱 @franclfrank]

Did you know? In 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Rayan Goslovich of the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces prevented the world from complete destruction. He did not report a missile launch of 5 ICBMs which turned out to be false, Which he had deduced. Correctly. Truly a hero!