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So, my (very) out dated computer finally received a slight upgrade.

From an old Core2Duo E6400 (dual core) to an equally old Xeon X3210 (pretty much the same cpu, except it’s a quad core).

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Well, still the 24th of December, but you know, I had to post something.

I’ve decided to use this website as a “catch all” blog/website for me.

Which means I’ll start writing about more stuff…knives/pocket knives, stationery stuff, flashlights.

You know, stuff.

Won’t have much to speak about as…well…things aren’t expensive, it’s me who doesn’t earn much.

A reason for not having done this earlier is that I know I’m a bit of an odd character and the mix of very distinct things might…damage my internet presence. (ah, such a bold move may drop my readership from 0 people to…huh, wait!…moving on)

Who knows, people might notice I’m kinda crazy and call the loony van.

Although I might add I won’t go full blown crazy (sounding, I’m well grounded after all is said and done), I have another blog for that. (as I said I am an odd character, I wasn’t joking)

So that’s all for now.

Oh, Merry Christmas and happy new year.

Continuation of this.

I f*cking quit…

So, I removed the formerly CC-BY track and put another one in it’s place.

And…

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So thanks to the matter I mentioned on my previous post, I ended up having to change the music and re-render the video (2 years since the last render)

In those 2 years I changed graphic card 2 times, started with a 8500GT, then I had an HD3850 temporarily, then back to the 8500GT and finally a year ago changed to an HD7750.

With the changes, gone was CUDA acceleration, but in it’s place I had OpenCL.

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So, sometime ago I alluded to the fact that I did “no budget” short films with a friend or two to waste free time.

I also whined like hell about youtube’s copyright ‘system’

And today, simply by chance I logged in into the youtube account I use for the shorts.

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http://www.dxstudio.com/

So, I was roaming around the interwebs and came across this game engine (to be honest, I believe I came across it back when I first found Unity too).

Looked at the price for the “Pro” version and it was…0€, the right price for my wallet.

It also had real time shadows (which I really wanted to play around with).

So I ‘bought’ it!

My impressions?

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Is it?

Unity UI?

Really?

2 major versions and (at least) 4 years later?

When I first used Unity on version 2.6.1 they were already talking about it, everyone thought it would come in v3, nope…OK, v4 then? Nope.

Seems like it’ll be there on 5 (OK…4 and half plus a tenth), not too bad.

Well…

I know I’ll never finish a game, but I’m going to install the beta just to check it out.

PS: I haven’t followed Unity for a while (haven’t installed any of the 4.x versions and only installed 3.0 and maybe the next two versions). But was looking at the Unity 5 features and selling points and it seems they – finally – went SpeedTree. Not that I will benefit from it (I finally accepted the reality that I don’t have the knowledge nor the talent needed to make a game). Also it seems to be subscription only at USD$19.99/month (why don’t they just round it to USD$20?)