new 'puter in place

Well not that new really, I decided to make use of the upstairs games system, its still an older model system, but newer than the beast, and significantly quieter making for a nicer working situation, the old beast was churning out fan noise at an alarming rate and I'm sure its responsible for my Tinitus..

I don't like switching machines though, there's an inherrent loss of content you have to deal with, and at some point you find you need an app or a file that is just not there any more..its a pain..

But the old machine is still usable and I will set it up to be a back up, upstairs, then transfer all its many gig of files going back years and years....and years... and then see what I can do to recycle some of its good bits. Its still a nice machine despite its age, it has a good graphics card in place. But the noise is too much now, I might try to put its guts into an old silent case I have in the shed, if the PSU is compatable. But for now, its new pc in place. Which is sooooo much quieter.

Ahthankyew

Oops, Merry Christmas

sorry I forgot...

Merry Christmas

we had a nice quiet Christmas, though Jirawan did a bit of work in the evening which distrupted our dinner plans, we instead have an awesome roast beef and veg dinner on Boxing day

We never managed to get out shopping for presies before the lockdown shut everything down, so we'll be putting what we saved into a holiday pot. First chance we get we're going somewhere hot... dunno when that will be mind you. I suspect we'll be a little back of the queue for vaccinations, but as soon as we can we're having a holiday to remember, combined honeymoon, holidat, christmas pressy.

Even though it wasn't a traditional Christmas, it was still a wonderful 1st Chrismas together... the 2nd will however be a much bigger affair if I get even half a chance.

2020 was a pretty crap year for a lot of reasons, but it had its good points :D

Ahthankyew

Lighting done

So this is basically what I've been messing with, its not by any means new or revolutionary, in fact its pretty standard in most games and a little outdated. But I'm planning something on the Raspberry... which is capable of things like this quite easily, but not quickly.

The intenton now is to develop a few performance concepts that will let me use this lighitng model but at a much increased performance.. So that I can fill a Rasp3/4 with models and when appropriate, light them and make them look decent..
this particular model is probably not going to make it in a game, its too complex, but it does put the Raspberry at  its limit using a standard system. meaning I can measure improvements in terms of FPS, which lets me exeriment with a few ideas I have.

You can't really do this kind of researh with a PC, unless you draw 100's of these on screen, which also causes other things to come into play, so this is a really good use of a Raspberry's lack of power.

Oh and its damn pretty :D

Ahthankyew

Small Steps

The Difference with and without emission textures

though I must admit my light calculations are a bit off so having to use an ambiant light to make this pop

and on a bigger model the results can be subtle

Ahthankyew

New Pi Project underway

Every year I give my Y1 block C students a project to do on the Pi, its always an eye opener for them. this year I plan to make it a little more technical to help them transtition to the new Pi4's so more OpenGLES3.x than 2.0

They will get a basic render system like the 1st image below then have to load in the space station and different ships to create a basic space trading game viewed from an observers view point..

It'll be fun... promise :D

Ahthankyew

7 weeks married

Not a single cross word and every single day I've been reducd to tears from laughing and feeling an overwhelming sense of love and support.

wonderful.. just wonderful, no fear of saying the wrong thing, no eggshells to walk on, just a wonderful caring loving woman and a happy happy content loving man.... this is what I've waited 57 years for.

dammit Brian... why didn't you find this woman before, you muppet.

Ahthankyew

and I was looking forward to this.

bugger

Oh well, am sure they'll send me a new one soon...very soon... I hope... yeah course they will

Ahthankyew