Gaulish Gaming Banquet: xxl-romaster

mehdiboumour

yea enemy count

mehdiboumour

so its 65535 indeed

mehdiboumour

actually its doable (with ininite potion and not only 2 nearby lol)

mr.rubinshtein

such a specific number they choose

mr.rubinshtein

why not just 99999 or something

mr.rubinshtein

probably that was the engines max capability i guess?

adrientd

It's because the enemy count is stored with 16 binary digits.

adrientd

which means it can be in a range from 0 to 2 power 16-1 = 65535

mr.rubinshtein

ah

mr.rubinshtein

funny math that my brain always has troubles to understand

hesopesomeso

65535 is indeed 2^16-1, if signed, equal to -1, which usually means none or infinity.

pegperegogaucho

-1=0 proof

pegperegogaucho

If you owe an apple, that is basically like having no apple!

pegperegogaucho

2^8, 2^16, 2^32 are common "maximum" amounts, being 8, 16 and 32 bits respectively. You need to have a specific amount of bytes to store a value and depending on how many you want you choose the appropriate size, here they chose 2 bytes so 16 bit and they can only have values as big as 2^16

pegperegogaucho

It's like you have some number and need to decide how many digits to give it, imagine you want to store the number of friends yo have, so you think "hmm, definitely less than 100" so you choose 2 digits __ -> Maximum amount of 99

adrientd

I just made a discovery: anyone wonder why the in the Remaster the Roman's spear wood texture is black (like in this shot from the trailer)?

adrientd

Well turns out it's because the model has vertex colors!

pegperegogaucho

pegperegogaucho

They must have been scrambling figuring out why it is still black!!!

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