#Horizon Tech

[retrogamingblog2]

The Evolution of Gaming Graphics

[system-threat-detected]

Horizontober day 29: Beam

Beta would do a good job with the Specter Gauntlet, I think :)

[squishsquishy]

Dot from Pokémon Horizons

x/x/x x/x/x x/x/x

[blasteffect]

Lunar Horizon: Pioneering the Future of Moon Habitation,

Courtesy: Delnia Yousefi

[shesmore-shoebill]

bc i cant resist talking about this. The jokes about the weirdness of Mia's hair/it's unnatural movement are VERY funny and her hair is SUPER wack, well deserved lmfao.

BUT for anyone interested, it has historically been quite difficult to accurately animate hair and fur in 3D, esp in things like games where the movement and interactions are not predictable- aka, its not just simulating it once and recording it, but trying to figure out how to make it organically, naturally move based on unpredictable input. (like someone controlling a character in a game) This is because there are an immense amount of small physics interactions and events happening simultaneously that comprise the way we percieve hair (or fur) to move. This then changes further depending on the texture of the strands, whether they are wet or dry, etc. The typical physics tactic of coding in known behaviour based on certain interactions between objects breaks down a bit with such a large volume of items.

Computing the actual individual interactions between individual hairs using a physics based model, would get you closer to actual movement but quickly becomes very expensive, as you can imagine, (constantly computing physics interactions for thousands of individual hairs).

There have been a number of ways to deal with this issue over time, cheat it a bit/make the performance feasible. You'll notice in older games hair or fur is typically either a flat surface with some coloring/lighting on it to make it seem like a certain texture (more common for fur), or just a. flat line or block without an actual attempt to make the actual movements of esch individual hair. Animation of animal fur is often done in patches instead of treating it as individual hairs or all just a plane, which is why furry animals in video games might look a little like their fur is matted vs all flowing smoothly and softly. Brave did some interesting tech to correctly depict curly hair in a way that feels "right".

anyway. its a fun topic. i find it interesting. cant find a general history video about it like the lecture i attended about it, but there are tons of interesting papers on it as the resesrch and work around this is still ongoing.

[alabyte]

«Infodumping»

«Crosshair would be lying if he said that there was nothing warm and familiar in that burning light of enthusiasm behind his brother's eyes. Now, over time, such sparks of life flared up more and more often, especially during last rotations, but, of course, not as much as it used to happen before - in all their conventional "before". There was about as much sentimentality in him as there was stability in this whole anomaly - critically little... At least from the outside. But even he, a moron with the emotional range of a toothpick, wanted to dive into the deepest flooded facility, climb the highest mountain and get burned on fire as many times as necessary, if only this light would not die out. If only this light in the eyes remained to shine longer.»

[ RP Horizon!AU, ep.1 – «It takes two» ]

Just a quick sketch on our current episode in play. They're getting ready for their long trip, and, well... Maybe these two are in their chaotic arc.

[heksahela]

Warning: HEADCANONS, RP based. So, Horizon!AU during RP summer event makes me and @alabyte draw many things like armor concepts for our characters. Btw they wrote an excellent trivia about this AU and event and posts many amazing concepts.

[garfieldstim]

can you make a dot from Pokémon horizons stimboard with Nature, tech, slimes, paint mixing and/or body stims

dot(pokemon horizons) stimboard with nature themes, slime, tech and paint for anon

x x x / x - x / x x x

[singingkestrel]

I'll give you a hint: It's Ted freakin' Faro.

[finrays]

Thinking about the original Miriam robots that existed before the Zero Dawn ones and what they might look like.

GAIA uses mostly vertebrate animals as inspiration for her robots, which makes sense, since they need to traverse rough terrain from ruined human infrastructure and wilderness… having hooves and legs instead of treads would probably help with that.

And we know the Chariot Line has an arthropod/cephalopod kind of theme… scorpions, cuttlefish/squids and… crabs? Are the Khopesh units crabs?

Anyway, I feel like that leaves three kind of unique tacks for Elisabet’s original designs…

1) Plantlike bots

2) Insectiod bots

3) Mythical creature based bots

They’re all kinda cool possibilities… but I kinda like Option 2 myself.

Forester drones that look like giant digger wasps, buzzing up to the tops of trees to check health and then digging holes and depositing new seeds via their “stinger.”

Winnow drones that are like the big toe-biter bugs, mandibles spread wide to catch microplastics and filter them from the water.

Lantern drones that look like dragonflies, collecting radiation in swoops and then pausing to brush their forearms over their faces, igniting internal reactions that neutralize the danger.

Open source schematics for a giant rhinoceros beetle field-prowler whose specialized “horn” leaves the roots of native plants alone while making a row for a farmer riding on its “shell” to plant in.

Just… ROBOT BUGS HELPING THE PLANET.

[legionofpotatoes]

been playing bits and pieces of horizon forbidden west! game's pretty as hell

[retrogamingblog2]

The Evolution of Gaming  Graphics

[robo-dino-puppy]

when our armor can’t save us

[quohotos]

The greatest mysteries in tech that I've received explanations for but still feel like mysteries:

How the fuck did they spend 10 billion dollars on horizon worlds and have something that looks and plays more shit than second life?

How the fuck is the star citizen single player not out yet in 2024?

Just imagine what would be possible with the kind of money those projects were given.

[liquidlycan]

the isabelle post reminded me how much i like raddle! could you do raddle acnh with a tech-y science theme?

RADDLE - ANIMAL CROSSING NEW HORIZONS

with themes of science and tech!

no cw

requested by anon! -> i really enjoyed doing this one!! thank you so much for this request. i hereby implore a push for animal crossing requests with themes. they're so awesome

x | x | x x | x | x x | x | x

[somecallmekay]

I've gotten myself in a mood for a story where society fell to zombies, but it's set just a bit in the future.

Walkie talkies and touch screen displays. Helmets with HUDs that when their power runs out turn transparent so the user can still see. Bio scanners that tell you if something is edible or not. Movement detecting sensors that send an alert if anyone has crossed their view used for knowing when zombies are about. People with robotic prosthetics that read neural inputs and react like the original hand. Sttlements are defended by physical defences not to drain energy during the nights. Hunting with firearms and bows, farming with botany textbooks and crop rotations.

And there's like, the one settlement in the forest around which the story revolves. No other around for miles, but that doesn't mean hopelessness. Very much a feel good thing, where scouts and hunters help to create safe zones for the kids to play in. They have enough food, they live with nature.

Zombies only come at night, but there still are some during the day, so if you go out, don't get lost, and have a pistol on you.

But if someone gets turned, there's no way of turning them back. No medicine works, there is no cure. Don't get bitten.

Idk. Society fell, but humanity didn't.