Today I've been implementing some HDR and Bloom.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/VzmGB9B.png[/t]
I tried to exaggerate it there with a really wide gaussian blur.
[QUOTE=Asgard;49659509]Because you can learn things and gain contacts that you wouldn't easily on your own. For me, university is almost a kickstarter for my career. I'll be able to get a good job at a large studio much more easily, and be able to gain knowledge from teachers who worked at prestigious studios in the field I want to work in.
To simply say "quit" is short-sighted, and calling it a "waste [of] money" is too.[/QUOTE]
Giving money to something you hate (or not getting anything out of it) is a waste.
I never said giving money to things and humans you love was a waste. Never.
I had in mind "study yourself stuff you like, get money, get to the better university and study here".
Now Protocol7s situation ; he wants to study things he loves but university is incapable providing him that.
He could use shortcuts though.
You can ask teachers for final and finish the subject, so you don't waste time.
[QUOTE=Fourier;49658817]Quit.
[editline]2nd February 2016[/editline]
With everyone who disagrees - why waste money with something you hate; why not learn on your own and spare money for something worthy?[/QUOTE]
I'm taking 4000 level courses and have dumped so much money into it, I'm already so close and I want something to show for it.
[QUOTE=Fourier;49659977]Giving money to something you hate (or not getting anything out of it) is a waste.
I never said giving money to things and humans you love was a waste. Never.
I had in mind "study yourself stuff you like, get money, get to the better university and study here".
Now Protocol7s situation ; he wants to study things he loves but university is incapable providing him that.
He could use shortcuts though.
You can ask teachers for final and finish the subject, so you don't waste time.[/QUOTE]
Common you know where this is going and has gone every time before.
People in general expect a piece of paper that says you're capable of doing something, and committed enough to follow through with it.
I agree, we can stop talking about this.
Secondly, I do agree paper is helpful for some jobs - especially where it's matter of security.
Have any of you guys programmed in Swift or Objective-C? I have been learning Java and know a bit of C# so expecting a fair bit of difference while I go through making a basic iOS app for fun!
I've done Objective-C++, which is a horrifying amalgamation of something I love and something I think was shot with a shotgun at birth. The end result is a deformed shotgun baby.
[QUOTE=Asgard;49659509]Because you can learn things and gain contacts that you wouldn't easily on your own. For me, university is almost a kickstarter for my career. I'll be able to get a good job at a large studio much more easily, and be able to gain knowledge from teachers who worked at prestigious studios in the field I want to work in.
To simply say "quit" is short-sighted, and calling it a "waste [of] money" is too.[/QUOTE]
I quit all the classes that have bad professors and only enroll in the ones i care about and have good professors.
It's hard to get a degree going at it like this, but i'm pretty convinced it doesn't matter.
Why waste my time and patience with bad professors, when i could be doing projects or learning a new language?
If the content sucks at school, suck it up or find a better school.
If the end-game is important enough to you, then abide by the requirements. There is always time to self study things that may be interesting but not offered during lecture.
Where is February waywo.
[QUOTE=Isaac96;49660936]Where is February waywo.[/QUOTE]
we rolled back our clocks (24 * 31) hours, didn't you hear?
who will make the February thread for march
[QUOTE=Map in a box;49661125]who will make the February thread for march[/QUOTE]
The Januaries of 2016 go on forever obviously beause you can't end a year in january, that'd be ridiculous.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/382RIBJ.png[/IMG]
[vid]https://my.mixtape.moe/pngspc.webm[/vid]
Sexy.:cool:
[sp]gotta fucking love catlikecoding tutorials[/sp]
[QUOTE=Fourier;49658817]Quit.
[editline]2nd February 2016[/editline]
With everyone who disagrees - why waste money with something you hate; why not learn on your own and spare money for something worthy?[/QUOTE]
I say this only because you aren't from the US:
Without a degree your job options are limited and paychecks are much smaller. It's just part of our professional culture.
You could find cases that disagree with this, but they are in no way the norm.
The answer to everything isn't to just quit. Sometimes you gotta wade through the shit to get to the good stuff.
I'll cross-post what I said in another college discussion thread:
My experiences with university education, practical experience, and employment/hiring: (engineering perspective)
[B]* University came with opportunities to work on projects (both in-class and extracurricular)
* The school will often times have access to equipment and labs that a hobbyist/home-tinkerer wouldn't
* Group projects are great for building the leadership and interpersonal skills that I've had companies ask for
* Projects were typically framed around designing and building a real product so the techniques learned were broad & practical
* Most government (USA) jobs require higher education of any kind. This isn't likely to change any time soon no matter the industry trends
* Work for the government (i.e. contractors and sub-contractors) typically mandates trained/certified engineers
* College/university graduation & major is typically used as a check-box or minimum-threshold for job applicant eligibility
* It suggests the candidate at least worked hard enough to pass their classes (they must have some work effort)
* They must have worked with (or under) some other people (goes back to those interpersonal skills)
* It is expected that a strong college program will at least expose students to concepts and methods that they will need in the industry
[/B]
With the industry I work in, you stand little change of getting past the first stage of resume/CV filters without a college education. The phone, and on-site interviews that follow, end up determining (or try to) whether you actually have the skills & experience necessary for the position.
[QUOTE=ChristopherB;49661732]I'll cross-post what I said in another college discussion thread:
My experiences with university education, practical experience, and employment/hiring: (engineering perspective)
[B]* University came with opportunities to work on projects (both in-class and extracurricular)
* The school will often times have access to equipment and labs that a hobbyist/home-tinkerer wouldn't
* Group projects are great for building the leadership and interpersonal skills that I've had companies ask for
* Projects were typically framed around designing and building a real product so the techniques learned were broad & practical
* Most government (USA) jobs require higher education of any kind. This isn't likely to change any time soon no matter the industry trends
* Work for the government (i.e. contractors and sub-contractors) typically mandates trained/certified engineers
* College/university graduation & major is typically used as a check-box or minimum-threshold for job applicant eligibility
* It suggests the candidate at least worked hard enough to pass their classes (they must have some work effort)
* They must have worked with (or under) some other people (goes back to those interpersonal skills)
* It is expected that a strong college program will at least expose students to concepts and methods that they will need in the industry
[/B]
With the industry I work in, you stand little change of getting past the first stage of resume/CV filters without a college education. The phone, and on-site interviews that follow, end up determining (or try to) whether you actually have the skills & experience necessary for the position.[/QUOTE]
College can be educational, but people forget that it can be so much more about what you make of it by participating in things beyond your regular classes. If it wasn't for my extracurricular work, my GPA would've completely fucked me out of everything I've gone for (admittedly, said GPA was due to terrible mental health but still).
For many of the engineering and tech disciplines, what you said about the hardware and research facilities is soooo true. Who the fuck can afford to do aerospace research out of their garage? Test large-scale parallel computing? Work on integrated systems for commercial tech?
Also, don't strike out grad school. PhD is pretty questionable for engineers, but a Masters degree can help boost your application, increase salaries, and gives you the chance to change school or work on different discipline.
There are always going to be the outliers, but chances are you're not one of those. And college is much better than high school, thank fuck.
[QUOTE=paindoc;49661951]College can be educational, but people forget that it can be so much more about what you make of it by participating in things beyond your regular classes. If it wasn't for my extracurricular work, my GPA would've completely fucked me out of everything I've gone for (admittedly, said GPA was due to terrible mental health but still).
For many of the engineering and tech disciplines, what you said about the hardware and research facilities is soooo true. Who the fuck can afford to do aerospace research out of their garage? Test large-scale parallel computing? Work on integrated systems for commercial tech?
Also, don't strike out grad school. PhD is pretty questionable for engineers, but a Masters degree can help boost your application, increase salaries, and gives you the chance to change school or work on different discipline.
There are always going to be the outliers, but chances are you're not one of those. And college is much better than high school, thank fuck.[/QUOTE]
It's also worth pointing out that many of the benefits of going the alternate path (i.e. not going to college) are open to you as a student. If you have the drive and discipline, you can build incredible hobby projects, you can contribute to open-source initiatives, and you can even operate a small business or do consulting. I've even had professors that would accept some of those activities for course credit.
[QUOTE=ChristopherB;49662108]It's also worth pointing out that many of the benefits of going the alternate path (i.e. not going to college) are open to you as a student. If you have the drive and discipline, you can build incredible hobby projects, you can contribute to open-source initiatives, and you can even operate a small business or do consulting. I've even had professors that would accept some of those activities for course credit.[/QUOTE]
My research on a fully 3D printed clay-extruder for 3d printers counted as 3 credits for my major and I got a 4.0 on it, my name in a published paper, and research experience. College is quite fun, so excepting exceptional circumstances I fail to understand why I see so many people complain about it or seem to have a terrible time :c
my school is in the pocket of textbook publishing companies so we have to get some access code attached to books in order to do our homework. its to force us to buy books
anyways, i tried to reset my password and got this gem instead
[quote]An email containing your Login Name and password, in plain text, has been sent to the email address on record for your Pearson account.[/quote]
:vomit:
Apart from employment reasons, I really just wanted to go to University/College to be taught programming in a formalized way. I learn't bits here and there with a few languages myself while in high-school last year, but I know allot of my code is trashy and reflects the Hodge-podge method I learn't them in. Some of the things I do, like reading/writing using streams are really just route learned from tutorials. I don't really understand what the stream is, or how it works under the hood. And that's something I really hope to change.
I narrowly scrapped my way into a Computer Science course this year at a well-regarded uni, and I'm really looking forward to the experience.
[QUOTE=awcmon;49662379]my school is in the pocket of textbook publishing companies so we have to get some access code attached to books in order to do our homework. its to force us to buy books
anyways, i tried to reset my password and got this gem instead
:vomit:[/QUOTE]
The thing I love about the CS textbooks, is that they're far more likely to be 'available' on the net than other disciplines... I also had to use Pearson's last year, and boy was it annoying.
[QUOTE=WTF Nuke;49661712]The answer to everything isn't to just quit. Sometimes you gotta wade through the shit to get to the good stuff.[/QUOTE]
This is very much true. I started a paid apprenticeship at a company, while studying to be a datatechnician specializing in programming. Most of the first half a year I spent wading through support, and treating symptoms of issues, because there was so much support I just didn't have the time to fix the issues.
Then I started to spend time outside of work to work on the issues. Wading through so much shit, undocumented issues, and all kinds of trouble.
Then we got another paid appretice for the company, studying the same as I do, and he is helping me out with the support tickets and everything.
Now, the company support inbox for hosting hits 0 several times a day, and often for more than one hour, allowing me to work on work, at work.
It took a long time, and there's still ways to go. It's been a lot of wading through shit, especially due to me being placed in the middle of it pretty quickly. But it has been quite a learning experience, and we're finally getting to a point where we can focus on the good stuff. Which means self healing systems, malware detection systems that clean items with 100% positive rates, and a lot of other great things, that we're working very very hard to make happen.
If anyone ever feels like they're just wading through shit endlessly, maybe get some waders, so it doesn't stick.
[QUOTE=awcmon;49662379]my school is in the pocket of textbook publishing companies so we have to get some access code attached to books in order to do our homework. its to force us to buy books
anyways, i tried to reset my password and got this gem instead
:vomit:[/QUOTE]
Quit.
[sp]jk[/sp]
Hooray! Dynamic texture updates! I still probably can't resize at runtime without crashing everything, but I can now dynamically modify the textures I've got
The main thing this allows me to implement is dynamic billboards - specifically dynamically updating text
Then I drew some silly squiggles over everything
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9317774/textureupdate.PNG[/IMG]
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9317774/sponza.PNG[/IMG]
Sadly to implement billboards ill need to do transparency in deferred rendering. Ill likely have to just implement a second pass
[QUOTE=chimitos;49661621]I say this only because you aren't from the US:
Without a degree your job options are limited and paychecks are much smaller. It's just part of our professional culture.
You could find cases that disagree with this, but they are in no way the norm.[/QUOTE]
Agree completely with you about EU.
Vice versa, I was speaking for US situation, because you need to spend hefty money for college and from what I have read (a lot), lots of colleges are bad quality in US.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;49661125]who will make the February thread for march[/QUOTE]
should i just snip 'january' from the thread title and everyone sticks here until the auto-lock hits
What's the term called when you have 2 transparent sprites with a color of 255, 255, 255, 100, and then those two sprites get on top of each other but their transparent values add, and the collided areas equal an amount of 200 so they become less transparent.
What's the term that makes it to where that doesn't happen, so when those 2 sprites collide the collided area remains @ 100 transparency?
Ho boy are we bouncing back from monthlies again? How long until we switch again?
[editline]3rd February 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=General J;49664049]What's the term called when you have 2 transparent sprites with a color of 255, 255, 255, 100, and then those two sprites get on top of each other but their transparent values add, and the collided areas equal an amount of 200 so they become less transparent.
What's the term that makes it to where that doesn't happen, so when those 2 sprites collide the collided area remains @ 100 transparency?[/QUOTE]
Additive? Though that probably includes adding the color values and not just alpha.
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