[off-topic] GUPT VI

[freespace2dotcom]

Dos *is* cool, but it's older than I am, so I tend to think it's a tad outdated. Any windows user had better know the
basic dos prompt commands just to fend off ignorance.

anyway, I like to stay with the "in" crowd, and they new generation are all calling them folders now.

as weird as it is, I like saying directory.

[Krytom]

Atom and I have made a remarkable discovery (actually Atom was the one who found it). Guess who made this:

And this:

And this:

These were made by me, yes, me. But I had the help of a very good program called:

Terragen

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

Download it. It's quite easy to learn how to use the program.
These are images that aren't best quality because I scaled them down from 1024X768.
Oh and by the way, all the images are computer generated. (if you haddn't guessed)

P.S. sorry for all 56K peoples, if the need for a GUPT 7 arises I will make one.



Post Edited ( 11-19-04 21:47 )

[freespace2dotcom]

ooooooooh~!!!

more stuff for me to play with!

[Atom]

Thanks Freespace.

And just to point out in bigger letters than before. It was I that found Terragen. So don't let Krytom lead you
astray. Hehe. But, Krytom; looks like you found some spare time last night. Nice renders. I always get kicked off the PC
before it finishes rendering, so I don't have many. I wish I had my own PC, that would be so cool.

Anyway, my word on Terragen. It's a great program, but for brilliant quality (cool) pictures it's quite a long render time.
One of mine was 2 hrs.

[freespace2dotcom]

hehe. I can't figure out how to get the high quality settings. I get nothing but low rez stuff that looks like it comes
from an early PSX game.

edit: Ok, I found it. I have no patience.



Post Edited ( 11-20-04 15:34 )

[freespace2dotcom]

Yeah, one just has to have water in their render. it makes it look prettier.


I can see that this will take some time, but I'm confident my computer will churn it out relatively fast.

[freespace2dotcom]

that water is addicting.

180034 qudrilaterals
Time taken,  0:25:38

[McBrain]

YAY!!!!

It looks way to realistic for a computer-generated picture!

Good one, Freespace!! It could be a Fjord in Norway...

[Krytom]

For a first one (at least I suspect it's a first one) that's good. You will find that you steadily improve over time.
Notice on my last render I tilted the camera by about 5 or 10. I was just experimenting.

[Atom]

Oh come on, since when were you an expert? You've only had it for a few days. The same as me.

[Krytom]

That's the thing. You don't need to be an expert to make nice pictures, or to sugest tips. Though when you see the
things that the 'experts' do you begin to think that you have much to learn.
Argh, I'm babbling on meaninglessly. I'm happy because my dad just gave me some beer. (that is perfectly legal )



Post Edited ( 11-20-04 22:55 )

[Atom]

It is, the legal age for beer in the home is 4 years old.

[freespace2dotcom]

heh. yeah, that was my first.

this is my second.

( I couldn't resist.)

[reekchaa]

Sure, but when will you be able to enter a random-seed for generating cities?

[freespace2dotcom]

right here, perhaps?

[Krytom]

Sim City 4 rocks!!!!!!!!
Freespacia?!? What kind of a name is that?!
I rock at Sim City (I know I'm being big headed, I havn't been big headed in a long time).
I made a city with around 600,000 population, it goes right up to the edges, there's no room left. I have almost every
landmark and my money's just going up. I'm even giving away rubbish to other cities. I have every kind of airport and
a very nice subway+elevated train system.

Ignore me if you want to.

[Atom]

What are you talking about? You were being big headed about Terragen. Your head's soon going to match your feet in size.

OK back to English coursework. Which I'm stuck on.

[freespace2dotcom]

yeah, I always have problems with english schoolwork.

all my parents have always said that because I speak the language natively, I should have no problems.

let me tell you that the last class I took on the subject was writing composition. that's FORMAL crap. which is vastly
different to the garbage I speak.

formal writing. surprisingly, I passed it, but I didn't enjoy it one bit. I think it was becasue I liked the professor's
personality. (though to be honest my mind has already removed most of what I "learned" there.)

And yeah sim city 4 rocks. all of them do, but 4 the most. the #1 problem I have though, is I always run a deficit early
on, and by the time I have a decent income, the weight of my loans crush me before I can pay them off.

And what's wrong with naming a city freespacia? alexander the great named all his cities alexandria. it's a vanity
thing, so leave me be.

[UAF_Lt_Brenton]

As usual, NASA and other space agencies always miss stuff.
Here is the latest Martian screenshot from the BMA-ML101 lander built by Brenton-McBrain Aerospace

[DocHoliday]

I knew it! There IS water on Mars

(you people are all using terragen, and you're either all brilliant or the proggy really is easy to use, anway I'm
starting to itch!)

[DocHoliday]

hehe, this one is old, but it's still my favourite

The European Union Commission Aviation Sub-committee has just announced an agreement whereby English will
be the official language of the EU, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Civil Aviation Authorities conceded in a meeting held in
Strasbourg earlier this month that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5
year phase-in plan that would be known as "EuroGlish". This plan is to take effect on 01 Jan 2005 at
midnight.

In the first year, "S" will replace the soft "C". Sertainly, this will make the sivil german pilots jump
with joy. The hard "C" will then be dropped in favor of the "K". This should klear up konfusion and
komputer keyboards on the flight management systems kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the second year, when the troublesome "PH" will be replaced
with the "F". This will make words like "fotograf" or "filosofy" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akceptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more
komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "E's" in
the language is disgraseful and they should go away.

By the 4th year, peopl wil be reseptiv to such steps as replasing "TH" with "Z" and "W" with "V". During
ze fifz year, ze unesesary "O" kan be droped vrom vords kontaining "OU" and similar changes vud of kors be
aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli zenzibl riten shteil! Zer vil be no mor trubls und difikultis und
evrivun vil find it very ezi tu undershtand ech ozer. Espesialy ze Lufthanza piloten kan now praktis zeir
"Euroglish" und at ze zame time sprachen vit ech ozer. Tis vil make ze Aviazion vorld mor zafe und ve vil
hav much lez akzidents in ze air! ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!

[Atom]

LOL

[reekchaa]

Heheh...  that's pretty hilarious.  

_________________________
"ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!"

[Atom]

I made a discovery today. My full name is 94.4% efficient. It has one usless (silent) letter out of 18.

[Krytom]

Mine is 91.23% efficient. I had more letters overall but 2 silent leters instead of one. An H and an E.