Strider Nes Passwords
Abigayle Laurenitis
The organization name for the project. This is usually a GitHub user or organization name (e.g. "strider" in "strider-cd/strider") but may vary from one project provider to another. (as another example, in GitLab this refers to the repository's "group").
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Passwords are a method of blocking access to variety of things, such as objects, information, and locations, as well as a potential method of storing information. In MS Paint Adventures passwords are put to some unusual ends.
In Problem Sleuth passwords are used to record the game's save state, and Team Sleuth by entering new passwords is able to alter the state of the world around them. Team Sleuth uses this to cheat by looking up passwords for save states where difficult tasks have already been completed in order to skip over them.
After deciding to keep her conversations with trolls as linear as possible, Jade Harley started giving them a password at the end of every conversation, which the troll could then pick back up in theirs and Jade's shared futures.
The first password Jade gives to Kanaya Maryam is CROOOOOOOOOOOAK. Two passwords given to Karkat Vantas were shown; one, also reused by Karkat to secure a memory of his own hive in Openbound, was IF I HATE MYSELF SO MUCH, THEN WHY DON'T I HATEMARRY MYSELF?: the final password is SEE YOU SOON.
Good real-time shadowing of heightmaps is hard and, using a traditional ray-tracing technique I have seen at , takes a lot of CPU. In preparation of a demo I have made I created a methodof realtime heightmap shadowing that I have dubbed the "Strider Technique", and should run on all modern hardware at great framerates. The difference should be unnoticeable especially when spreadover several frames, while the results are definitely impressive. The technique currently relies on the source being directional, and though I will also give suggestions on how to adapt it to pointlighting, I have not done any successful implementation of this kind of light. The technique can be used for any kind of heightmap, be it displacement- or bump-mapping, though bumpmapping is almostnever used with directional sources.
The Strider Technique comprises of the basic reverse of the similar raytracing technique. It's similar to the shadow volume method of casting model shadows, in that it casts lines from the top ofhills to test if points below are shadowed. It progresses along each row away from the light source, drawing a line from the top of the hills to the end of the shadow with all points that linepasses being flagged flagged "shadowed" and skipped when the loop comes to them.
This is the C++ code for a simple implementation for this shadowing algorithm. It assumes that the sun is on a specific diagonal, simplifying things so you can get a good feel of how to implementa full blown implementation giving an ambiguous sun direction.
You may notice that several parts of this code, such as finding the exact distance instead of just incrementing the distance by 1.414 (square root of two) each loop, are not necessary unless thereis an ambiguous light source, and this code can definitely be more optimized with that restriction, so this should be considered only as an example. I hope, however, that the commenting is clearabout what it's doing.
I have pretty much judged myself not a good enough programmer to even pretend that I can make a good readable set of code implementing this. The implementation I have created doing this, thoughthe results look pretty enough, is bloated and unreadable, so I have not included it here.
The shadow edges there are jagged. This is because the shadow only has as much a resolution as the heightmap itself, and the edges follow the points in the heightmap. This can be fixed with aband-aid by having the program check each unshadowed point to see if it borders on a shadow and adjust the shading if it's on an edge (the way I fixed my demo :P), though this gives ridiculously softshadows and for shadows of only one point, the four/eight (depending on your anti-aliasing matrix) are also slightly shadowed looking unrealistic. I currently have no hard answers but I do have acouple of possibilities that someone else may like to try:
I have not yet successfully implemented point lights. For point lights off the heightmap, it seems easy to slightly modify the implementation for the different gradients of the rays of light, yetfor the larger shadows the lines find themselves diverging. The silhouette of the hill would thus give a shadow of many lines that fan out, not a complete shadow. The full shadows appear spotty onthe side of the mountain (as the first unshadowed point shadows others and this loop continues) and the ends of the shadow appear overly jagged. (You may have to have a good imagination to seewhy.)
If this problem is conquered, then point lights should be quite feasible for terrain self-shadowing. For point lights over the terrain the loop would have to spiral or circle out, casting shadowsthis way.
If the sun is treated as the directional light source used in this algorithm, the algorithm can easily be done over several frames, requiring only slight amounts of CPU time each frame, howeverthe catch is that the terrain cannot be updated gradually, since the algorithm requires a refresh of the array telling whether a point is shadowed or not, like the rendering of double buffers from avideo card. As a result, gradual updating is usually fine with a slow moving source like the sun, but you have to make sure the time it takes to update gives a shadow change of at max one point.
The Strider Technique is quite adaptable and implementable, especially in light of it's speed advantage to other techniques. It's quite an elegant method of terrain self shadowing, giving greatresults.
I would love to hear of any implementations of this technique. Perhaps I will be a pioneer of a shadowing algorithm used everywhere it can - what has John Carmack done over the last coupleof years? It is a joke . . . you are supposed to laugh.
Written By Matthew Strahan
Student of Software Engineering at University of New South Wales, Australia
e-mail: str...@strategyplanet.com
I'll be glad to hear any questions, comments, or of any examples!
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