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Hey guys, I have to render 4500 frames of ugly animation for a university project. If I would render only on my own machine, it would take 16 days. So while this is not a VIS job for a new Quake map, I am hoping for some people who would let their machines run overnight for some days for me.
It uses Blender so you would not have to install anything. You would have to download ~230MB of data from me. Blender is just about 100MB and you just unpack it, no installation needed! http://www.blender.org/download/ Hardware needed: - Either a fast CPU (i5 or better) or a - nvidia card with CUDA level 2 or higher and more than 1GB of GPU RAM, here is a list: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus A 560 works well (if you have the 2GB edition) ~4GB RAM I think Some decent upstream bandwidth would be nice because you would need to upload ~5MB per frame back to me. Detailed instructions, some small setup steps and more either in IRC or via mail. Pretty please! a Quake remake on Epic's technology would be the ultimate closure on the engine wars that started way back with Doom. Sweeney may not be a rocket scientist like Carmack but it looks like he's won this one, whether any such symbolic coup appears or not.
is 3 gig. This is crazy to think the normal install is only about 50mb or something. I'm pretty sure my first hard drive was 250mb!
Spirit this wasn't me bragging, I was just musing over how a 50mb game is taking so much space these days. Although I am curious as to how much data is on quaddicted
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357M 2.9G 119M 3.9G 5.7G 939M 349M 280M 999G 1008M 1.5G 689M 20M 4.7G 1.2G 417M 856M 22G 198M 68G it's either a great thing for Oculus Rift because they will have a huge network to back them up and great for Facebook will have an actual product to sell in what is potentially the next big market...
or it's absolutely awful news where Facebook shovels shit into it and destroys everything great about the Oculus Rift. it will likely be a mix of the two. let's hope for more of the former than the latter. http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2014/03/25/notch-minecraft-on-oculus-canceled-facebook-creeps-me-out
Minecraft on occulus cancelled - oh noes "Minecraft on occulus cancelled - oh noes"
Yeah. Now I'll have to live with playing Minecraft on every other device in my life. People are probably concerned because Facebook has an utterly atrocious track record for supporting developers.
http://www.bogost.com/blog/oauth_of_fealty.shtml (extreme hyperbole warning) While nobody expects Facebook is going to just fire all the cool people and begin running things their way tomorrow, nobody expects the two entities to remain entirely isolated from each other either. The real question behind it all: what can Oculus do now that they couldn't do without Facebook? Not Facebook's money, but Facebook as an organization. Surely they've had suitors making offers left and right, so what are the hard reasons they, as people who just want to make awesome VR goggles, would choose Facebook? The answer can't be as cynical as "their bid was the highest," but at this point it doesn't seem like anyone can think of any others. No one knows why this news should be exciting, so it must be bad. Perfect recipe for nerd rage (it was a Cool Thing that people Really Wanted that they Almost Had and now it's been Taken Away!) from JC's twitter
"For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week. I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR." "I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale." |
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