Welcome to Prime Time the office hours segment,
where you can ask me questions about N.
If you have questions about N, please drop them in the office hours. Text chat.
There's a few, uh, channels above this one.
There's a thread dedicated to good questions for this session.
Uh, I'll answer in the order that they appear in.
If there's no questions, I'll remain in absolute silence.
And maybe we'll talk about recycling or something. I don't know.
Uh, so jumping straight in, we can have some questions,
so I'll go through all of those and, uh, let's get on.
So
is there a way to make certain elements hidden from
cameras without adding them manually to the exclusion list?
Can there be exclusion list for the main camera?
Um, I've looked into this before.
The cameras that are part of the streaming camera seem
to have that list as in the exclusion list.
Sort of
manually bound or something. They haven't been able to add stuff to that. Um, so
no, if you're not talking about the, uh, streaming camera, um, then, you know,
just spawn cameras.
There might be try the, um, camera. Exclude Tip.
I think It's an essential tools, miss, uh, I think it's green, and it's got, like,
exclude from camera tip and you just shoot stuff on it.
Try, uh, try that.
I want to improve that functionality so you can basically be like, Cool.
Don't look at this. Do look at that. You know, it's always fun. Camera exclude. Tip
tip. Tip A British. I say things weird sometimes.
Um,
going forward to the next question. Um,
Virgil asks, What component can I use to slow down a player's hand?
EG a rather stiff lever, et cetera.
Uh, so you'll be using, um, grabbable pose philtres for that?
Um, there is an example, um,
in Gear Bell's folder, there's like a, um
it's like a weight like a um
not a full, like a single hand weight terminology.
Um, that's difficult to move. Yeah. Um, post photos. I think I have a tutorial for it.
I'm not sure I will. I will. I will double check my tutorial list. I think I made one.
I'm not sure, though.
Nope. I don't know video, but yeah. Grab a
grabbable pose philtre. I don't remember the name of the component where it is.
I will open up the code base, and I'll get you the location of that in just a second.
Grab
A.
It's a grab A.
So I'll get you the location of those components in just a minute.
So I'll move on to the next question.
I'll jump back up to there once I have
the location of those components because I've forgotten.
Um,
O asks Prem, can you elaborate on you putting a kid in a bin?
Yeah, So
my, uh, high school, it's the UK. So like nothing is equivalent.
I'm just going to try and make it American, because that's what people know.
Um, my high school equivalent, um, had an attached like college.
It's called Sixth Form in the UK.
I don't really know why it's called sixth form, because
nothing else is called a form. There's no fifth form.
It can sound like an RPG battle or something. I don't know,
um, but
sixth form was attached to the main high school,
which meant for an additional two years,
I basically did sort of college style degrees on the same campus as my high school.
Um however, sixth form students were not required to wear a uniform? Yes, In the UK.
It's common for school uniforms to be a thing.
I know that doesn't really exist in the US.
Um,
so we were like, the cool kids, you know, we were approaching the age of, you know,
we were, like, 17, 18, et cetera.
So we were approaching the age of adulthood,
but still attached to this high school full of
mostly annoying kids.
And, uh,
some of these annoying kids, uh, assumed that because I still went to that school.
I could still be a target for all the banter, stroke, bullying that that, uh,
played that school because it was one of the worst schools in the district.
But no, I'm I'm too old for that now.
And I'm also not wearing a school uniform, and, uh,
I really don't care what you're doing.
Um, so
I was walking home, and this tiny kid must have been the first year of high school.
Decided to attempt to pick on me, And I said, you're gonna leave me alone, kit,
or I'm gonna put you in that bin over there,
and, uh, he didn't leave me alone. And so I put him in the bin
uh, the bin was a sort of oil drum style bin,
like an empty oil drum with a trash bag in it.
Very common, because kind of cheap to make et cetera
and putting him in it was effectively like a claw machine,
because that's how little effort it took.
Except a good claw machine that can actually, like, hold stuff.
So I basically just went like,
I
dropped a bit of bin
It was great.
I did. Yeah, I managed expectations. Really? Well, um,
I know online.
I joke around a lot, but, like, in person, like, if I say I'm gonna do something,
I'm gonna do it like
so, you know,
if I ever threaten you would be a
you know, you're gonna go to a bin, you're gonna go to a bin
linker post an ex
of why it's called, um,
sixth form, and I'm gonna read it. So the benefits of the recording
uh, so sixth form first came in, um,
the 19,
the 19 hundreds before numbered year groups were the
main form of reference for each age group.
It was called the Sixth Form because all the students age below what we now call year,
12 and year 13.
Uh, they were grouped into five other sets of forms.
So a level students were the sixth of these forms. So it was like a group.
So sixth group of students,
it needs to be changed. Um, it it sort of is like college.
It's It's really difficult to explain because, like the the
high school education in, In In the UK is like education is we do like
preschool. Sometimes we call that reception.
Please don't call it reception,
though it may sound like we're in a dental office or something.
Um, but then it goes to like preschool, which is reception. And then you do,
uh,
well, at least I did in, like, elementary school.
I did year one year two, I did what was called a junior school.
And then I did years, Um, 345 and six, or in a junior school and then 789,
10. 11 were like high school in quotes
and then 12 and 13 were that sixth one thing, which is sort of college. I
and then I went up to university,
so
I actually like the year system.
Um, I know the grade system also is used with, like, I.
I get confused about the numbers.
The year system basically means that, like,
by the end of my pre university education,
I had spent 13 years being educated on how to do anything other than my taxes.
So that was great.
Uh, so I think it also says that, uh,
when they were in, uh, year 10 and 11, which is the the two years before sixth form.
They thought the sixth forms were arrogant, arrogant people, uh, until, uh,
they become on themselves.
Yeah.
Um same.
There's something about,
like your life being in your hands when you're
into sixth form that that changes your mentality,
right?
You're you're, like, completely separate from the rest of the school.
But, um, in my case,
I still had to sort of interact with that part of the school by putting them in bins or,
most of the time, sort of towering above the kids.
Um, and very tall.
Um,
yeah. Fun.
Let me find those post philtres for you.
Uh,
grapple to
go.
Um, grab
a
grabbable avatar pose. Philtre can be found in transform interaction.
Add it to the same slot as your grabbable component.
Uh, it also works with slider, I believe, um,
which you might want to use for your particular outcome
and then check check in a pose. Philtre.
Um,
the post philtres that you probably want to use
for making an item difficult to move are,
um
uh, smooth
up, which will make, uh, the movement slower.
Um, sort of feels like a nurture as well.
You can also do what's called a box constraint. And that limits the sort of, uh,
the range of motion,
Uh, various other things like that.
Awesome.
Yeah.
The other confusing thing about it is that the sort of qualifications that you get
So,
um,
the high school qualifications are called, Or at least they were called at the time.
They're sort of different now. I don't know. I'm beginning to sound old. Um,
they were called G CS ES,
which is something like general certificate of secondary education.
Um,
and
I don't know the year before mine, Or like my brother who's three years older than me.
He got, like, nine
G CS ES
or something. I somehow got, um,
26
and I don't really know how.
Uh, it just kind of happened,
so that was fun. Um,
maybe it was 23. 23. Sounds more reasonable, I.
I try to do the maths in my head, but it's difficult.
Uh, the reason why it was 23 was because I don't know, a lot of subjects I did weren't,
um G CS E types.
They were replacements for G CS E types.
I did one called
data, which is diploma and digital applications,
which was worth four G CS ES all by itself.
I also got, uh, maximum marks in a double subject,
which basically means worth two G CS ES,
uh, physical education.
Um, I don't know why, and I still don't know why. This today
I never did any of the work and I. I never attended those classes. Uh, so
talking about Sorry. If there are any
questions, please go right ahead.
Otherwise, we're just going to talk about the British school system.
So please, please Nearest questions. Nearest questions. Nearest questions.
Otherwise, British school system. Here we go.
Um,
So, yeah,
there were a couple of subjects within the British
school system that were mandated by the government,
and there was a lot of sort of uproar
about why they were being mandated by the government,
and some people liked them.
Some people didn't like them.
One of them was, um as as as
says here, citizenship, Where, um, we were meant to learn how to do taxes.
We didn't do, um, advanced sex head in there, but, like, definitely taxes.
Um,
except for,
um,
the citizenship teacher kept being bullied out of the school by the students.
So I don't think I ever had,
like, a citizen,
a citizenship teacher.
That was the same for a single term of school. I remember one lesson in citizenship.
We were asked to, um we were like copying from the white board, et cetera,
um, drawing the layout of the House of Commons in the UK.
That's our main, um, government room.
And I really need to look into how the US government works. But
like
we have a big room, it's actually not a big room. It's kind of cramped, actually.
We have a cramped room where most sort of
debates and stuff go on during the UK government,
and it just
most of the way it's structured is based on,
um,
like the times when we had swords
rather than, like, not swords like you know,
so
lots of it is old and doesn't make sense.
But it's pretty much like
if you took like a set from a TV show such as Downtown Abbey
and you put like
middle age politicians in there
and ask them to talk about stuff. That's what you've got.
There's, um, Excuse me last I cough.
There's lots of silly laws and and regulations and ways of things doing
it's It's very confusing.
The House of Lords is even more confusing, Uh, for anyone who was not there for the,
um, the king's coronation ceremony.
You missed out on me being just absolutely confused.
It's like, Why are they wearing blue? Why are they wearing red?
Oh, that person's wearing green. That must mean something.
Oh, that person's hat is a different colour. That must also mean something.
They're like these, uh, I don't remember, but I think it's like the,
um
Prior
Pro Pro
something like that.
Anyway,
there were these people that were like wearing weird regalia and holding sticks,
and they were very important.
But no one ever explained why they were important or why they were
holding sticks and one of them was so much younger than the rest.
And he must have been so smug because he
probably looks like he's just taken that post.
And suddenly all this activity happened with the the death
of the Queen and the coronation of the King.
But he held his stick really well. And then there's, um,
the black rod of Parliament.
It's like this lady that currently it's a lady who is
she is.
She is
in place to,
like,
enforce the will of the monarchy on Parliament sometimes,
but she carries a black rod, and it's just like it's she wears.
It looks like she's in a Shakespeare play. It's very confusing.
I'm not making any of this up. You can look it all up. Otherwise, Nia's questions
she doesn't beat them with the stick, but sometimes she breaks the stick,
and when she breaks the stick, it's like magnets or screws,
right so it can go back together.
But when she breaks the stick, it means that Parliament can't happen.
Oh, speaking of sticks and stuff, Um,
there's a mace.
Yeah, it's a mace. There's a mace that, like sits on the table at the House of Commons.
And if that mace isn't there, then the House of Commons session isn't valid. Um,
so
in a particular sort of, um,
riotous House of Commons session
A.
Me,
a member of parliament tried to steal the mace and take it out of the House of Commons,
thus invalidating the session.
And it's hilarious. I'll get you that,
Um,
yeah, here we go.
Everyone is, like,
amazingly amazingly polite in the House of Commons because there are, like,
rules and legislation about it.
So even when the Macy Staller,
which is something like incredibly rude and incredibly provocative,
they're still like, Oh, no.
00, put it back. There's no, like swearing or anything because they can't be.
So if you want British, that's a good That's a good British. And then, um
uh,
the usher of the black Rod. Yeah. See, I'm not making this stuff up.
It sounds like I am, but I'm not,
um,
trying to get, like, a a correctly angled shot of the of the current one
was, of course, the the title changes hands, et cetera. When they retire.
Yeah, Actually,
this will do perfectly because it's got both the mace and the black rod, and
I don't know some other person wearing something I don't understand
anyway. Any news questions?
Any news questions?
What's weird about the, um,
political system as it exists is it doesn't make any sense.
But a
lot of,
um,
a lot of countries that we either Still, I mean, I'm not gonna use the word
I'm gonna use the word own, but I don't mean like, don't get offended, right?
Basically a lot of the like countries, which which Britain still quote, owns,
governs whatever.
It's weird. Monarchy is kind of confusing,
have just copied and pasted the entire system.
So there's a mace for, like, Canada.
I think there's a mace for Australia, and it's just like, Come on, guys, you are,
like, thousands of miles away from, like Britain
make something that makes more sense
as thinkers are filling in what blue and red means, et cetera.
I mean, more like complicated than that.
Like there were some of the beef eaters that had,
like different coloured beef eater hats.
And some of the beef eaters had, like things pinned in their hats like a hat pin.
Um, and then
there were the the ones on horses that wear mops on their heads.
They, um sometimes their mops were different colours.
Sometimes the mops were different colours.
If anyone doesn't know I'm not talking about,
they literally wear mops on their head.
I'm not making up,
uh, King's horse back yard.
Not getting them.
Here you go. So this is a horseback.
King's guard used to be queen's guard up until recently,
um,
they wear incredibly large boots, and they've got a mop on top of their helmet.
The single greatest thing that's preventing me
from joining that particular organisation of any form
is the fact that their hat strap has to rest on their lower lip.
I just think that would be the most irritant place ever for a hat strap to rest.
You can see it there in that. That King's Garman. Um, it's also like everyone.
It just looks so uncomfortable.
It just looks so
uncomfortable.
Like, why can't it be under the chin like a normal hat?
Well, it's It's difficult to say the word normal hat when you're looking at
that.
How did we start talking about politics? I really don't know anyway.
Any news questions
Oh, we were talking about citizenship. Yeah, the educational system.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's all because someone asked why he put a kid in a bin.
Yeah,
it's all their fault.
A near question
Ray
Jack will ask. Is there a rough guideline for texture resolution?
What's best for application?
I'm trying to figure out landscapes and murder my GP U over a plat map.
Or maybe something I don't know.
Um, OK for plat maps. Probably something different for an avatar like
two K or less.
Um,
like you don't need four K for an avatar,
and you might want four K for an avatar if you're doing something cinematic.
So, for example, me,
a movie project They might want four K
for an avatar because they're doing something cinematic.
But if you're doing something where you plan to hang out with other people,
two K or less, you'll be absolutely
when it comes to splat maps.
The thing that you need to remember is that the textures that you
apply for the splat map are more important than the actual plat map.
So your spat map could be a much lower resolution
than the textures you put into this black map.
I'm not making any sense here. I'll just link this plat map tutorial.
Um,
that'll help A little bit. I guess
so. The the red, The red, green, blue, orange, red, green, blue stuff. Right.
Make that splat map
less resolution than the the grass,
the rocket et cetera that you put into the splat map because you won't see
really anything there.
You might have some issues around the edges.
Um, because you can you can do blurring right around the edges where you can have,
like, different, um, values around the edge.
In that tutorial, I just do absolute colours because I'm being quick, though,
for landscapes, um, landscapes.
You can probably push to four K because it's part of the world. But like keep an eye,
um, honestly, like two K or less for like, basically everything.
We're on the cusp of saying that four K is OK
like on the cusp.
And that's because of,
like the the three X series of graphics cards and the four X series of graphics cards,
like it's becoming
the new normal.
But, um,
still two K for a bit.
I know like we've got like the Murphy's Law
sort of graph or or whatever or Wikipedia page.
But I wonder if there's like another one, which refers to the lag that we have whilst,
um,
people who can't instantly buy the newer computers catch up
because that's what we see a lot, right? So you see it in in browser versions, right?
We used to. It's kind of fixed now because of age, but
where it's like, OK, cool. We just released a browser version 500
it can do everything, like literally everything.
But 90% of population are still on browser version
two because they don't know how to update it.
But this is like a more hardware problem.
It's like, OK, well, we have graphics cards like the,
um,
N videos for series Right, which do amazing things.
But how much of the population has that graphics card? You need to keep that in right?
Spec says the plat map should also be full.
OK, try, try both.
Maybe I'm wrong. I live literally only done the sort of base colours with them.
I've not done any sort of blurring or
or anything.
Yeah. Oh,
dear me.
Oh, dear me.
Oh, we got another question here,
Uh,
says when I tried to assign a texture to the Alpha Channel.
The texture ran underneath of everything.
Is that normal, or is they do something wrong? Um,
depends on your plat map. So if your plat map has, um 100% alpha,
wait a minute. Like it's difficult because, like,
all right, if your plat map has 100%
opacity,
as in everything's visible
across the whole board, then the architecture will take place there.
Try varying the alpha there
to understand how spat maps work honestly, just like open up paint.
Draw random squiggles of randomly like colours, alphas, et cetera.
And and you'll figure it out.
So like try making a corner of the spat
map zero like invisible alpha and see what happens.
OK, we have another question here, So I zoned out for a second.
Um,
before you ask,
uh is the camera portion of a mirror supposed to disable itself
if the re detector provider is disabled or running into an issue?
Uh, with the well that is using a mirror to make rid fashion or
reflection on the water's surface? But uh, would also generate a tonne of lag.
Initially thought disabling the render and or the
render texture provider would disable the camera,
but it doesn't seem to be the case.
Uh,
the render texture provider is, uh I
have to look at how M
works.
There are too many things called mirror and the cobase fruits.
I
can't find the actual mirror.
It doesn't. Oh, my God. I'm
I need to get some cough syrup going in a minute.
Right? Um,
it doesn't look like,
uh, we honour the, um, disabled state on the rent detector provider.
Uh,
create new form. Here it is.
Oh, yes. Camera portal. What?
Oh, OK, Yeah. I'd have to go look at the
I'd have to go look at the, um
um, the unity code.
Uh, from the looks of things, at least the render texture provider component
and the camera portal component. Don't, um,
don't honour the enabled state,
but I would have to go look at the unity code to understand a
little bit more about how that is interfaced into the unity side of things.
Which is great, because every time I open up unity, everything explodes.
Did specs forget to upload a picture?
Uh, anyway. Uh, next question.
Um,
OK, that's the mirror question. Done.
Uh, lakeside miners says you guys D MS team taking care of yourselves.
I feel things getting more tense. Oh, we're fine.
Um, a couple of people are on a little bit of a break right now. We're fine.
I'm kind of sick. But, like, um,
I work through. If it's just cold, I just work through it.
I know it's weird. Other people like, take it easy. It's like I'll be bored.
Trust me if it's like flu or like Covid or like I don't know if I'm actually
sick, sick, I'll be in bed.
But like, you know, if it's just I've got a cough and sniffles,
I'm gonna sit at my desk and try and be productive Anyway,
I've never really understood that in bed with a laptop.
Maybe it's because my bed doesn't have a headboard.
I was thinking that last night when I, like,
rolled over and punched the wall behind me accidentally.
Maybe I should get like, a headboard sorted anyway.
Um, I haven't really lap topped in bed in in a long, long time,
Shadow asks,
would adding selective and exclusive rendering to camera portals be
equally as easy as adding it to the regular camera.
It's something I've been thinking about for a while. I mostly useful.
I'm not sure you'd have to open up a issue for that one.
I'm sorry I'm not in the position right now to go ahead and dive
into how that all works because it's it's heavily in the side of things.
Uh, we do have a question in the in the the stage chat.
Uh,
I understand the confusion between the stage chat and the office hours,
text chat and the thread chat.
So lots going on there?
Uh, hey, I'm Lennon
says, Oh, hi, Lennon.
Uh, I'm prime. Can you make it?
So we, uh, so we can desktop players can move their arms.
I don't know how, but please do,
um, we're looking into some, um, enhancements into the way that,
like desktop arms move.
But right now, anything that you would have to do would be customised by yourself so
you can edit into your own avatar. But we won't be able to add anything currently.
Um, to desktop avatars.
If you'd like to see more of that, please open up a GB
issue.
I have a friend request on on discord.
With that, I don't think I see any additional questions.
Uh, we are over time as well.
Uh, so rather than talk about politics here, uh, for more time, it's like,
I'm not going to really talk about politics like
I haven't said anything that's like politically minded left,
right, middle upside down, right?
It's just like the structure of politics,
right? It's It's like
there's a silly room which, like,
regardless of who the politicians are and what their views are,
they'll be in the silly room.
Uh, missed question aspects. Uh,
specs. You collect all the mass?
Can you kind of challenge the king and gain the power to the crown jewels?
I, I don't know, Like,
technically the the king doesn't really even own the crown jewels, right?
You you would have seen
in the, um, coronation Serey that all the jewels were given to him to hold and stuff.
There's, like the
the ball,
the stick, the sword, the crown, the ring.
But you couldn't even put on because
sausage fingers. But, you know, you know,
um,
he doesn't own those like he can't wear them willy nilly, like in in olden times.
They used to wear the crown all the time so you could identify them. But now it's like
it goes back into the vault and he just walks around and we know he's the king.
Um,
I really want to find just to, like, leave you guys off.
I answer elect trying to question juice support cheese.
I don't answer cheese questions.
I want to find a picture of the the young, stick wielding guy and and and know his name.
Um,
it's gonna take me a while because I can't just Google image search for, like,
young guy with a stick like it just that doesn't work.
Um,
all right, I'm I'm almost there.
I apologise for the silence, but we will find the young person with a stick.
There we go.
All right, So here's Here's the the the, um I don't know, I. I actually I have no idea.
Um,
but you you like that isn't the fall out of them.
There's about, like,
five or six of them lining the battlements of the whatever this building is called.
But you can see that, like from the other two on the right there.
They're all, um, older people, um, holding the stick.
But the guy on the left there is is much younger and just like he just must have
maybe even a few years He must have have have accepted the the title or the position.
So he must be very proud that he got to be part of that.
Like, what I need is, I need, um
I need a version of all of the events that happened around that ceremony
with, like, speech bubbles and tool tips. Right?
So I can, like, pause the video any time mouse over a person's face and it be like,
Here's their name.
Here's what they do.
Here's their accomplishments in life because I want to know the name of that person,
and I want to know, like how long he's been in office, I guess.
And I want to be like, Cool, right? I want to know more about him.
I want to know why he's holding a stick.
I don't know,
and I really want to know why he's holding a stick only for ceremonies like this,
right when you're like a, um, an elected.
So before he was talking about like it's a security state and it would be awful.
But like only for members like this, right?
It's like if you
have a title
that is recorded in the government and in the
monarchy because you're you're doing an official role,
your name is public anyway, right?
You're a member of the public because you're serving the public et cetera.
But if this guy took off his outfit and walked down the high street,
of course we wouldn't put the tool tip on him.
But he's he's at an official ceremony. I want to know his name, his title,
The stick means so that I can appreciate him because
right now I'm just looking at it and I'm like,
I know it's important.
I just don't know why,
but there you go, the man with the stick. I will leave off there. Now.
If anyone finds out his name,
please direct Message it to me and I'll be
back next week with more prime time and questions.
Hopefully more questions rather than more, uh, sticks.
Have a have a good day