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smwScott
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Well, the new skin is better than the old one, but I don't see why it was necessary. Anyway, decent job on it.
-smwScott
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Sat, 03 July 2004 11:33 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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The SAM Site looks awesome - will it have any animation involving the missile covers opening and/or closing as it fires?
And if people want to call textures skins, why not let them? It's highly irrelevant as long as you know what they're saying...This is just like that Nod not NOD thing. Who cares anyway?
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| Renegade Alert SAM Site [message #99230] |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Well, yeah, besides that...
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| Renegade Alert SAM Site [message #99245] |
Sat, 03 July 2004 14:04 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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My thoughts exactly.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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Sat, 03 July 2004 15:11 |
mahkra
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The only reason that aircraft are referred to as having a skin is that they're literally covered with a metal skin.
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Actually, the skin isn't always metal. Back in the day, it was usually laminated wood. And while aluminum alloy skins are the most common nowadays, there are many other skin materials: titanium, Inconel-X (a chrome-nickel alloy used on the X-15 because of its strength at high temperatures), carbon/epoxy, and fiberglass (which happens to be radio-transparent), to name a few. And composites are stronger, lighter, and more durable than aluminum, so it's only a matter of time before metal-skinned aircraft are obsolete.
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3D models aren't covered with anything. They have no skin.
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I thought 3D models were covered with a "texture".... isn't a "texture" something?
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Sat, 03 July 2004 15:45 |
mahkra
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They aren't covered by anything. The texture is the bitmap each polygon displays, think of it as something similar to Star Trek's Holodeck, it's just a box (polygons) but it can display anything you want.
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But doesn't the bitmap follow the surface of the polygon? If that's how it works, then one could say that the polygon is covered by the bitmap.
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SuperFlyingEngi
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But skin is just a word multitudes of people have come to use to describe textures! Why do you even care?
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| Renegade Alert SAM Site [message #99286] |
Sat, 03 July 2004 19:24 |
mahkra
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Actually, "skin" and "texture" are two different things. A skin is something that changes the look of an entire program (think of winamp or windows media player skins).
"Skin" is used VERY commonly in place of "texture" though, and not just on these forums. And words are defined through common usage -- if a word is used enough with a new meaning, it will eventually acquire that meaning. That's why dictionaries are revised so often.
Personally, I figure it shouldn't matter if someone says "skin" instead of "texture" because everyone knows what it means. But the two words don't technically mean the same thing. (At least, not yet...) So ACK *IS* right when he corrects people. Still, ACK makes so many mistakes in his own writing that it's pretty stupid for him to be correcting other people. (And the only reason I mention him specifically is that I don't think anyone else actually bothers to correct people when they use the term "skin" incorrectly.)
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SuperFlyingEngi
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The way I see it: At least someone is trying to combat the slow descent into apathy concerning English in our society. Maybe you don't care that "such and such means this or that," but that's not going to prevent people from mushing together all sorts of words that have absolutely no business being correlated.
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...texture and skin don't have no business being correlated, though...Where textures appear to cover objects to the human eye, what do skins appear to do according to the human eye? cover objects.
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"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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