Elysian Shadows

Wish I had read these before. Been trying to install Ubuntu all day. Tricky mainly because I cannot see the Windows partition in Ubuntu installation. Very annoying. Shows it all as free space.

Well, turns out I couldn't go very long without wanting to use some of my old familiar programs on the new desktop. Guess I'll reinstall Ubuntu soon for a dual boot.

All done.
This is it.
Running Ubuntu.

Well shit.
I was trying to line it up with the input cover AND the screw spots, and the thing scratched on the bottom. Looks pretty bad. It scratched one of those silver dots around the hole, and is showing some copper.
Should I just try it out? It looks pretty bad.

Is it easier to install the CPU onto the motherboard when it is outside of the case, or is it better to install the motherboard first?

Wow! OK.
I will shop around.

Would you get a separate GPU?
Even though the processor has graphics in it also?

OK, Thanks.
I will look at getting a decent power supply.
I'll probably be getting an i5 processor. I'll think about it.

Well, I'm feeling my laptop is a little outdated (not much though,) and that I could use a bit more powerful of a computer. So I've decided to build a desktop. I'm also thinking about installing Ubuntu as the operating system. I've never used Linux before and I'm not sure how difficult it would be t...

So I'm sure you've all heard by now.
What are your thoughts on Facebook buying Oculus?

OK, seems the problem was with my uniform binding.
Some sort of mistake with the matrix I was binding.
All working fine now.

Well, I think I understand the different spaces. I was working in view space for the lighting. My problem is with the vertex normals. When I just use the vertex normals, things look as I would expect. The trick is that I will eventually want to rotate the object, and so I need to make sure the norma...

OK. Thanks.
I have a couple of books on computer graphics that talk about the different spaces. I will review those sections very carefully again to make sure I understand them.

Both the object and light have a color.

I'm trying to make a directional light. I'm not sure I understand how to do that with a light vector. Which space should that be done in?

I've been working a while on my vertex shader. I've been having trouble with my lighting. Everything on the screen appears dark unless I go in and manually set the color, in which case I can see that the cube does draw to the screen. I played around with different variables to figure out where the p...