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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Client’, page 3:

Client: Installer & Auto-Updates

posted February 28, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Pretty much whatever-we-do, there will be a certain percentage of players which are trying to run an obsolete version of the Client forever-and-ever”
Another Quote:	“It is very important to keep updater transaction-oriented.”
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posted October 3, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“each of the stages of the rendering pipeline is operating on a large set of items (vertices or fragments/pixels)”
Another Quote:	“These days, even if the program uses fixed-pipeline, that fixed-pipeline is simulated over shaders anyway 😉”
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posted September 26, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“In games, more often than not, we’ll be dealing with so-called Phong reflection model.”
Another Quote:	“with orthographic projection, the lines which project points from our 3D world onto our 2D screen, are no longer converging to one single point; instead, they go parallel to each other.”
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posted September 19, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Size-wise, textures are HUGE. Actually, in a typical 3D game, 90%+ of the space on disk (and of GPU bandwidth/RAM) are used by textures.”
Another Quote:	“3D anti-aliasing algorithms can be divided into two large groups: ‘proper’ anti-aliasing (the one which tries to avoid anti-aliasing in the first place), and ‘post-processing’ anti-aliasing (the one which creates an aliased image – and then post-processes it to make it look better).”
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posted September 6, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“for the purposes of the MOG network communications, I usually suggest using Euler angles to represent rotations/orientations”
Another Quote:	“One thing which persistently haunts 3D developers, is polygon count.”
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posted August 29, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Using 3D engine can improve your 2D picture dramatically.”
Another Quote:	“Strictly speaking, “shader” is a program which is executed for each “vertex” or each “pixel””
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posted August 16, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“If you’re using double buffering AND perform buffer swap in sync with the V-Sync signal, your monitor will show your game just as a movie projector with shutter would show a cartoon in the cinema”
Another Quote:	“I’ve seen a pretty minimal 2D engine written from scratch at a cost of 4-6 person-weeks”
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