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Because when i wrote it I didn't really know what I was doing and compiled it against the debug version of the library.

It should really be added to the engine core and shouldnt need a hacky plugin.

Yea, almost certainly.

It will probably just take a bit longer.

Unity does seem to have a culture of commercialism that other engines don't. I assume that's down to the fact that the unity devs made a "Marketplace" system available very early on.
It's a culture I don't find very friendly though.

Hello!

A lot is happening on the Adore front in a rather circumspect way.

I can't reveal too much but the technologies in Adore are currently being adapted into an engine that will power a game by the team that gave us one of AGS's most successful releases of the past few years.

After the project is officially announced I will go into more detail on the specifics of the engine.

I would very much like it if all you furry creeps would just not post stuff like this. There's like fetishes and kinky stuff and then there's interspecies creepy. I don't know where you came from or what childhood trauma you had that you think a woman looks better if she has a tail and cat ears, but don't think for one second everybody else doesn't see this and think "well I better hide my cat from this person".

Harsh...

In my mind, innocent until proven guilty applies to the court of public opinion. If you aren't willing to abide by that then you should be willing to accept a defamation/libel suit in response.

As to what rape victims should do, they should speak out and go to the police.
I have exactly zero issue with women speaking out. They absolutely should but they should make formal complaints to law enforcement. This stuff is illegal and perpetrators should be brought to justice.

What is also illegal however is publishing unproven hearsay.

If a friend of mine said they had been raped by person X I would go with them to the police to file a police report rather than resorting to a popular blog. I hope that's clear enough.
Rape cases have been prosecuted *years* after the fact so it's always worth going to the police.

EDIT:

BTW the same applies to those receiving threatening communication online. Death threats are *very* illegal and it's very easy to trace a youtube comment or a blog comment. If someone fears for their safety then they should go to law enforcement.

Let's just do away with due process altogether then shall we?
As you said, pretty much 100% are actual victims so we should probably just do away with western justice altogether.

If this were *any other* crime you'd be on our side. But the emotional component of rape is clouding your usually objective mind.

I would like to amend your inflammatory quote though to something like

"Dear everyone, don't make damaging accusations against other people unless you have evidence and are willing to defend your claims in a court of law."

To be clear, I'm not saying that false claims of rape are rampant or even common. Most studies suggest the figure to be between 2% and 10%.
However that doesn't mean we abandon our principles.

As for all the stuff about calling the alleged victim a "liar", that's simply how an adversarial legal systems works and it is like that for a very good reason.

I just looked at the commit and i have to say *FINALLY*.

Excellent work CW.

@KNOX

Considering all the stuff your game project seems to do are you sure it can even *run* on a non-nuclear powered PC?

Remember that all the raw drawing and stuff that AGS does is on the CPU and not on the GPU. 1920x1080 is simply not viable for that. Especially not in AGS.

To be honest, I'm stunned that it runs at even the resolution you currently have it at.

[in actual fact]

By saying that he's innocent until proven guilty, you're also saying that the woman accusing him is an evil liar, and you're dismissing her account and the accounts of the other women who came forward as not being evidence.

I am quite literally stunned that you've said that. Do you know nothing of justice?

I'm not saying he is in actual fact innocent, only the 2 involved and God know that for sure, but until he is found guilty in a court of law either by a group of his peers (or the judiciary depending on where you live) then we treat him as innocent. This is like Western Civilisation 101. I'm not implying the woman is lying I am merely assuming the default position under the law.

And the main thing that irks me is that whenever it comes to rape, some (most?) men seem to pretty much assume from the start that the allegation is false.

With a criminal offence (as opposed to a civil one) the burden of proof is upon the accuser. The allegation is false until shown otherwise. I don't care if there are rumours about shermer being a sleaze. That's not how we do things in civilised society. Why should rape be any different to any other crime?

Yes, there are some women who falsely accuse men of rape on a whim. But when absolutely nothing at all suggests that this is the case, why should we err on his side?

Because that's how western justice works. Innocent until proven guilty. I'm not on anyone's side, I'm merely suggesting the totally radical view that someone should be allowed to face their accuser in a court of law and be deemed innocent until proven otherwise. I know it's crazy! It's like I don't want to live under a medieval justice system or something.

It's easy to say "I wish things were different". Yes, the system isn't perfect. Does that mean we have to let people like Shermer get away with it (assuming for the sake of argument, that he is in fact guilty)? I don't think so.
There's always the risk of wronging someone, and sure, the US for instance has executed a lot of innocent people by now. But we can't keep letting rapists get away with it just because there wasn't a HD camera around.

What do you propose then? We start guessing? We could maybe do away with "beyond all reasonable doubt" and start going with "as long as it sort of looks plausible".

I do believe that gender is a social construct and I do believe that society is still very sexist and I actually agree with sarkesian almost all the time. I am, mostly, a feminist.
I agree with sarkesian on almost everything she says. Society *sucks* for women and I wish it didn't. I also hope feminism continues to grow and prosper because I think they are, on the whole, making a positive difference.

However, I do side with Shermer and I think he should sue for defamation. One of the pillars of our justice system is that the accused can face their accuser and publishing anonymous accusations of a very serious crime with a high degree of social stigma is irresponsible and dangerous. If you accuse someone of a crime then you'd better be willing to prove it or *at least* attempt to prove it in court. You do not have carte blanche to throw around shit like that. It's illegal and for good reason.

If Shermer is guilty then he can go and fuck himself but until that's shown in a court of law he is, as far as I'm concerned, innocent.

Now, it's true that rape is difficult to prove and it also sucks for the alleged victim and I really hate that. I wish we had a better system but accusing people and letting the mob decide is not a better system.

The "feminist angles" I've read mostly put forward this argument:
"If by speaking out PZ has saved some women from being raped then he has done a good thing"
To which I reply "horse shit". Innocent until proven guilty is sacrosanct and saving women from being raped is not the paramount priority. Preserving the rule of law is.
*That* is the problem I have with 3rd wave feminism. They would burn civilization to the ground if it meant no more women were raped and that's not something I can fully support.

Incidentally, the notion that I am a "dudebro" (short hand for a simpleton idiot i imagine in your mind) simply because I have intellectual differences with your ideology is beneath you. It's childish and dogmatic and, frankly, the recourse of a simpleton idiot.

Didn't realise I was a dudebro.

Latency is the simple answer.

In an MMO you can have latencies of almost a second and it kind of doesnt matter. Thats why MMOs generally have a kind of pseudo turn based combat because it doesnt really matter if your command takes a second to execute.

However, some modern MMOs do have thousands of players. Take a look at Planetside 2 for instance.
However, planetside 2 does require a whole server farm to support. It's not like you can simulate everything for 5000 players on a simple server.

Are you talking about drawing them in AGS or just making the font graphic to use in AGS?

Could you try making the label a little taller.

I think it might not be cutting it off but rather forcing new lines. See if the rest of the text is just on a new line.

Is the commonness of rape the only issue?

For instance, let's assume I told a joke in which one of the players was murdered or I showed a friend a cartoon in which someone was killed and he turned around to me and said: "Oh, actually my father was murdered just like that..". How would we be expected to handle that in wider society?

Don't get me wrong, I am not the type to throw rape around casually because I appreciate that it can cause distress and I'd simply rather not but the very knowledge that something can cause distress or offence is categorically *not* enough to stop one from doing it especially when talking about freedom of expression. If the only reason you can put forward for this kind of pseudo-censorship is "because it might upset or offend someone" then you really have no case.

But whatever you think about Assange he wasn't a victim of rape, literally or figuratively.

Yes, I wasn't defending that point at all. Thank for clarifying that.

Using rape in some contexts is offensive to people who have been through it.

Ditto torture, murder (by proxy obviously) and many other heinous things we use flippantly as metaphor.

I believe that by singling it out you give it an almost demonic power over the victims.
Considering feminism comes from a heavily post-structuralist background, feminists do tend to overlook the effect that *they* are having on societal norms
I think this kind of selective pressure upon the word and indeed the act makes it worse for victims, not better.

We use many words in a metaphorical sense. Not sure why rape should be any different.

You can say someone was dying or that something was "torturous".

Language is flexible.

You might find these easier to convert.

theres no weird syntax here, just normal C.

Code: c

void RGBtoHSV( float r, float g, float b, float *h, float *s, float *v)
{
	float min, max, delta;
	min = MIN( r, g, b );
	max = MAX( r, g, b );
	*v = max;				// v
	delta = max - min;
	if( max != 0 )
		*s = delta / max;		// s
	else {
		// r = g = b = 0		// s = 0, v is undefined
		*s = 0;
		*h = -1;
		return;
	}
	if( r == max )
		*h = ( g - b ) / delta;		// between yellow & magenta
	else if( g == max )
		*h = 2 + ( b - r ) / delta;	// between cyan & yellow
	else
		*h = 4 + ( r - g ) / delta;	// between magenta & cyan
	*h *= 60;				// degrees
	if( *h < 0 )
		*h += 360;
}
void HSVtoRGB( float *r, float *g, float *b, float h, float s, float v )
{
	int i;
	float f, p, q, t;
	if( s == 0 ) {
		// achromatic (grey)
		*r = *g = *b = v;
		return;
	}
	h /= 60;			// sector 0 to 5
	i = floor( h );
	f = h - i;			// factorial part of h
	p = v * ( 1 - s );
	q = v * ( 1 - s * f );
	t = v * ( 1 - s * ( 1 - f ) );
	switch( i ) {
		case 0:
			*r = v;
			*g = t;
			*b = p;
			break;
		case 1:
			*r = q;
			*g = v;
			*b = p;
			break;
		case 2:
			*r = p;
			*g = v;
			*b = t;
			break;
		case 3:
			*r = p;
			*g = q;
			*b = v;
			break;
		case 4:
			*r = t;
			*g = p;
			*b = v;
			break;
		default:		// case 5:
			*r = v;
			*g = p;
			*b = q;
			break;
	}
}