- Arod529
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Member for 13 years, 3 months, and 24 days
Last active Tue, Apr, 14 2015 17:31:29
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Dec 17, 2014Arod529 posted a message on Minecraft Windows Launcher Needs YOUR Testing and Feedback!Guys, common, relax now, it is simply a ease of access option for the technological inept.Posted in: News
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Aug 12, 2014Arod529 posted a message on Edgecraft: a Minecrafty Take on Mirrors EdgeHoly... I totally thought it was mirrors edge footage at first. Very well done.Posted in: News
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Jul 24, 2014Arod529 posted a message on UPDATE: Snapshot 14w30b Ready for Dinnerbone's Birthday! Also, Testing!It doesn't unload, just doesn't render. Completely different. Your redstone is safe.Posted in: News
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Jul 23, 2014Arod529 posted a message on UPDATE: Snapshot 14w30b Ready for Dinnerbone's Birthday! Also, Testing!Happy Birthday Dinnerbone!Posted in: News
Praise The Sun!
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Jul 17, 2014Arod529 posted a message on UPDATE: Snapshot 14w29b is Ready For (Enhanced Graphical) Testing!VBO does absolutely nothing for me, though overall performance is much better.Posted in: News
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Jul 17, 2014Arod529 posted a message on Mod Spotlight: Quick Hotbar ModThis is awesome. Adding to my Minecraft Mods bookmarks.Posted in: News
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Jul 2, 2014Arod529 posted a message on Snapshot 14w27a is Now Ready for Hopping!Those rabbits are really creepy.Posted in: News
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Nov 20, 2013Arod529 posted a message on MCX360: Skyrim Mash-Up Comes Out Today!Posted in: NewsQuote from ahamling27
I'd love to see a Terraria mash-up pack. Imagine having rocket boots, flame-throwers, sniper rifles, and of course, every color of slime imaginable.
Well it's not for the 360 but someone is working on a Terraria mod:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/732709-162-terraria-3d-corruption-hallow-dungeons-guns-magic-mirror-grappling-hook-mana-smp-and-more/ -
Oct 23, 2013Arod529 posted a message on 1.7 Pre-Release: "The Update That Changed the World"Posted in: NewsQuote from Clairefox
What if it's just your systems you're playing on? >_>.. I see little to no lag at all when I play. Instead of just complaining about what they do, why don't you try to fix your end first?
My system is easily in the top 10%, my system is just fine.
They seem to have given minor performance to 10yo absolute junk laptops that were never even designed to run flash well, much less a game, while completely decimating actual performance. aka it really actually runs like sh!t so it doesn't stress the computer.
There is a reason games have graphics & performance settings, so that they can run on a large variety of hardware, because no, not everyone can afford good computers and yes they still ought to be able to enjoy the game.
If you want to counter someones legitimate concerns, why don't you try and find legitimate solutions instead of blindly accusing someone of having a bad pc. -
Oct 22, 2013Arod529 posted a message on 1.7 Pre-Release: "The Update That Changed the World"Posted in: News
Yes, I'm so freaking sick and tired of them claiming that there is less lag/better performance ect. It is all LIES. Most notably in chunk updates are completely broken.
I can effectively halt chunk loading simply by rotating my view. Try it yourself everyone. Create a map, fly up a bit to see the terrain around, and spin your view at a viewable but decent pace, Open your F3 and watch as the chunk updates hover around 0 for 99% of the time while the area within render distance stays less than half loaded. I can do this until ultimate boredom or my arm grows weary. Stop, give a second or two and they jump up to ~40. Start spinning again, and it all comes to a grinding halt.
Back in Alpha and Beta days, where performance is supposedly "crap". I could allocate 4G of ram and practically have insta load terrain even on new generation. Now it doesn't make any difference. I can allocate 16G and Minecraft just sits there only ever using ~400mb at any point in time, failing to do but 2 thing at a time.
Mojang is getting good with the propaganda. Official announcement of improved performance every snapshot and release. People shout the praise as performance actually it continues to degrade. -
Jul 6, 2013Arod529 posted a message on 1.6.2 Pre-Release - So Many BugfixesThey finally fixed the teleporting animals?!?!?!? All I need is my mods to update and I will be one happy camper. Those glitchy mobs have really been getting to me.Posted in: News
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Nov 25, 2012Arod529 posted a message on Breaking News - Modding API Updates!Posted in: NewsWill mods like Optifine be added to vanilla?
Something even better. Overall, the game engine is being simplified, taking most of the load off of the client, and having the server doing the heavy work, greatly improving SMP.
Smoothstone stairs are not planned.
No new mobs are planned.
But for SSP it doesn't change a thing. In fact it makes it worse. Ever sense they "merged" the client with the server, it has run like crap.
At first they neglected the SMP players. Now it is reversed. The SSP players are now being neglected. It isn't/wans't fair or right to either party.
They really need to make a system that works before trying to add new content and features. It is great that they listen to the comunity in developing new content, but somtimes that needs to be put on hold. In the end they are creating more work for themselves, just like when they chose to ignore the SMP problems, and have now spent the last year or so trying to go through and fix them. If they had addressed the problems in the begining, as development went on, Minecraft would be in a much more polished and advanced state than it is now. When will they ever learn...
[For the inevitable smart --- who will say my computer is crap]
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lol... you dumb...
Second:
Before the change, I used to be able to run a server and a client at the same time on the same computer 10 time faster than the "new streamlined" SSP.
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Apr 30, 2012Arod529 posted a message on Change Your Minecraft Name? Possibly In The FutureI feel kinda bad, but, I can't tell any difference between the old and new wiki... what changed?Posted in: News
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Apr 24, 2012Arod529 posted a message on Mojang Quake Match Going On Now; Logins Better Than EverPosted in: NewsQuote from The_Pastmaster
Not everyone has heard about it though. That's the point.
Anyway: Wireless Redstone: MIND = MEGATONICALLY BLOW! O_O
I know, I think its a cool feature, and sometimes I haven't heard of it either, just saying that, as they promote themselves as a major minecraft news source, they are a bit slow. If they were a mainstream news source, which they are not, (newspaper/tv news/ect.) they, as a reporter, would probably be in serious trouble, and if consistently late, could possibly loose their job.
But, as to try and not offend anyone/clarify that there is no hate here, they are not a mainstream news source, they have the right to set their own standards, they report on many other things, not just minecraft, and the service is free of charge to us as the minecraft community, I am in no way promoting any negative stigma/action towards these people, and do appreciate the work and service that they provide to us in this forum. -
Apr 24, 2012Arod529 posted a message on Mojang Quake Match Going On Now; Logins Better Than EverPosted in: NewsQuote from Sweider
I do see how this is annoying. If I search Wireless Redstone, your video is the very first result that pops up. So I looked further into it.
Long-Range Wireless Redstone [No Mods] Published on Mar 25, 2012 by 777static777
Minecraft 1.2.5 | Wireless Redstone Vanilla | NO MODS! (TUTORIAL) Published on Mar 13, 2012 by xDowsey
I think they should change that part of the article, and give xDowsey the credit he deserves, otherwise this would be a real slap in the face to the minecraft tutorial community. *facepalms*
Not to mention... they are always super late on these digital diamond things. I've have almost always already hear about them even from third party people before it shows up on digital diamond...
*open minecraft forum and sees digital diamond title...*
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Nope, I'm being completely serious. I'm also unbiased, as I've never/have no plans of ever attending Minecon, and could care less if I ever have a Cape. Sure they are cool, but I don't have one, and it certainly doesn't bother me. Life isn't fair. There is no such thing as straight up "protecting the little guy", without it extending to the "rich and spoiled."
This sounds pretty personal to me. Oh, and I didn't make that statement. Capes were give per Mojang's decision, not mine.
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Point: Capes have and intrinsic value. Freely available capes such as ones provided by mods diminish/abolish aforementioned value. There is no argument here. Don't believe me?
Oh, look, intended exclusivity resulting in value.
Oh, look, again, not allowed.
Oh, and your absolutely selfish because you want to be given what you didn't earn.
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Just as players have no right to complain that I payed $10 for minecraft in Alpha and they payed $25 after release, you have no right to complain about capes.
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In games, the models have what are called LOD (level of detail) objects. Basically, they means they have multiple models of the same object, starting with high detail models for up close viewing to low detail models for when they are far away and in the background, with a couple stages in between. The farther the object, the lower resolution model and texture is loaded, the less resources it takes. The blur, or more appropriately, dof (depth of field) is just a post processing effect to help "smooth" the visual appearance of lower res models as well as focus the players attention to what is close and "important". It also simulates real life vision. The goal for lods is to balance removing as much actual detail in the model while retaining the silhouette so that when viewed from the designated distance the loss of detail is not noticeable, because you simply cannot see it from that far anyway. Commonly, each lod is half the resolution as the previous, but there is no set numbers, and it depends on the assets and game engine.
Minecraft is made of of a bunch of cubes. Each model, aka block, is already as low as it can get. So in the traditional sense of view distance performance and lods, it simply is not possible.
Minecraft does have the potential of another method, however. From a distance a 2x2 set of blocks could be rendered as 1. This would actually reduce the hardware resources for the block model by about 8x (a set of 8 blocks in a 2x2 space containing 48 faces, vs 1 2x2 block at 6 faces). You do have to consider, however, that these calculations would have to be done in real time and dynamically calculated. It is defiantly more complex than swapping a loaded model file at a specified distance. In the end, how efficiently it could be coded, how long it took to execute over a large space, ect. would determine how much of a benefit, if any could be gained.
Voxel based lods is can be very complicated and have to be dynamic(aka the game engine has to generate the lod itself), and with minecraft, intentionally designed to appear blocky, not a restriction of voxels my any means, the potential methods of lod terrain geometry is limited.
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False, you can fill water bottles from any source block.
The rain thing is really pointless.
Also, do you realize that a lot of people use the mouse wheel to select items in their hot bar? So that means, when the player is swimming around, and scrolls past an empty bottle, boom, all of a sudden their inventory is assaulted with water bottles. This is extremely poor UI design. Player actions should never happen unless the user tells them to.
This has absolutely nill to do with balance, just laziness. Also, the "everyone else is doing it so I can too" argument is a lame excuse. I sure hope you don't apply that to your everyday life.
Not only are water bottles extremely easy to fill, you counter point yourself here.
Games are about interaction. You can't seriously believe that 1 bottle every 15 secs is easier or more enjoyable than say 5 bottles every 1 sec(not that filling water bottles is particularly enjoyable). If you want to watch things on a screen, go watch a movie. If you want to engage in said things, play a game. Both are valid forms of entertainment.
No Support.
NOTE: Minecraft Forums are bugged bad, so ignore the weird artifacts in the quotes...
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I don't know if it was a typo or not, but you can power hoppers with any redstone, you don't need repeaters; or, you could just find a server that isn't run by anti-redstone snobs.
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Op, wants a super op furnace that doesn't use fuel to smelt his ores...
This is absolutely ridiculous. No support.
Also, please read the rules.
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