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Re:VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 l... by lukan on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:43AM (#42593451)
"when availability of hardware resources was limited"

If you aim for the broad mobile market - then you will have some serious limitations, as the majority of humans do not have flagship smartphones.

And even AAA games for the PC market - the better your game runs, the bigger the audience you can reach. Like the other poster said, bigger textures are far from the only thing that is happening behind the scenes.

In other words, I wish I would have unlimited hardware ressources.

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Re:VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 l... by thebruce87m on Saturday January 04, 2025 @07:28AM (#42594313)
> the majority of humans do not have flagship smartphones.

I always wonder if aliens are interacting with us through the anonymity of the internet. Things like this give me a (facetious) hope that they are. We can take from this that all aliens have flagship smartphones, but the majority of humans don’t.

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Re:VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 l... by lukan on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:01PM (#42596846)
The joke being flagship as in alien flagship? Otherwise I don't follow ..
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Re:VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 l... by thebruce87m on Saturday January 04, 2025 @05:02PM (#42598010)
It was because you referred to “humans”, as if distinction was required from a larger group. Nothing more than that, sorry for the confusion.
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Re:VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 l... by lukan on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:07PM (#42598870)
I see .. might have been because english is not my first language, but I thought the way I wrote was clear and common?
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Re:VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 l... by thebruce87m on Sunday January 05, 2025 @03:13AM (#42600439)
It is very clear. Your English is perfect, but I suppose it is unusual (to me) to see references to “humans”, maybe “people” is more common but there is absolutely nothing wrong with what you wrote.
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