NinjaPirate

Hey, wait, do ya mean to the actual final heat death f the universe, or just to the effective death, as in nothing much happens anymore but particles decaying.

Cos the leadup to the actual heat death is a few megatrillion years of not much going on.




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I'd choose the first option, and tell the other guy, "Sucks to be you, I lived a long fruitful life after my choice but you only got an hour."

Plus, I get to choose what I learn. There's some stuff I'd just rather not know about.






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Interesting, Susan Blu is the voice director, but she's not reprising her role as Arcee.




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It's not as if they've never used cut footage of dead actors in movie sequels before, right?




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I wonder how CoH handles occlusion culling.

Occlusion Culling is a level designer's trick where objects that are not visible don't get rendered, reducing the load on the computer running the game.

For example (because I do a bit of level editing in the game) Fallout 3 has a method where you set an invisible wall, and anything behind the wall from the camera's point of view does not get rendered. Outdoors, these wall are set on buildings so anything behind the building isn't rendered. Inside, the walls are set as boxes entirely surrounding blocks of rooms - anything inside the box the camera is in gets rendered, anything outside does not. You can put portals between culling boxes so a camera pointed at the portal can see what's in the next culling box.

Given how the camera can stutter when you pan you view past a really complicated room in City of Heroes, even if that room is blocked from your sight by a wall, I wonder if this game does any sort of culling at all.

Thinking on this further, the older zones in CoH had the war walls to break up the game into smaller maps, to keep the graphics processing to a manageable level. It's possible that the newer Going Rogue areas (Praetoria, etc.) DO have culling, which is why they were able to do away with the War Walls.

But the Base Editor would be an "older zone", so it probably didn't get this. Which is a pity, because they could probably up the item limit if the bases could do this.



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There's no standard wall texture that is just a solid color, but try this:

Set your Supergroup costume colors both to the color you want. Place some of the Wall Banners from the Wall Details tab, overlapping so there's no gaps.

Setting your SG colors to, say, blue, sets the entire banner to blue, including the supergroup symbol. The SG symbol will still be a little visible, however, but the back of the banner has no symbol. So if it bothers you, rotate your camera outside the room so you can see the back of the banner, grab it, and attempt to place the banner on the back of itself. If done right the banner will "stick" to itself like it was a wall, and when you let go of the button it will be against the wall but now backwards.


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Tell your friend that Apokolips just has really weak walls, because Darkseid likes wrecking stuff when angry so there's no point in making really strong ones.



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Also, as far as new "styles" of room, a lot of folks use room items to line the walls for a custom effect. Most common is covering a wall with wall cabinets, but it's possible to use arcane blocks, desks, shelves, whatever. One of the threads here has screenshots of a crystal cave made by just putting a whole ton of the crystals from I think the Room Details list all over the place.



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Hah, necropost!

I'm wondering now why the OP used Shoji lamps, when at that time you could already use the cubicle/floor tile trick to move wall items around.



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There are three types of desk counters of each texture, one with a sink, one plain, one with drawers.

The plain one and drawer one will not cause texture flickering if overlapped. I alternate them in rows to avoid the ugly flickers.



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Used to be, desks were the ONLY way to "float" items above the ground. The floor tiles, floor safes, and accent lamps didn't let items stack on them.

And on top of that, you had to make "magic" desks that allowed them to stack properly, by fiddling with their rotation until the game bugged and let you stack.

You can imagine how tedious this was, as you literally had to make a stack of magic desks every few feet.


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Random thoughts while watching the episode:

- Kryptonite radiation can be stopped by sheet metal now?

- Lois gets tied up. Again. This time by a force field.

- Kryptonian VHS has an awful lot of lens flare!

- Happy Birthday, Lena of the House of L!

That said, I enjoyed the episode and the two cameos (Helen Slater and Teri Hatcher)



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That bird wasn't actually part of the original script.

Apparently Mickey Rourke just independently decided that Vanko needed a bird, so he shows up on set one day with the parrot.



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I wonder if the zones with two stations will keep them?

Like, "Steel Canyon North" and "Steel Canyon South"?



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Yeah, but Pym usually deserves it.



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On a lower scale, even non-ferrous metals can be temporarily made magnetic by inducing an electrical eddy current running through them with... a rapidly shifting magnetic field.

This is how some trash recycling places separate metals from other debris.



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