VRChat, Easy Anti-Cheat, and Why It’s a Bad Choice
TW: This is going to be a fairly, long detailed article aimed at laymen about anti-cheat from the perspective of a game programmer and systems analyst. I hope I can…
Fixing a Role-Changed VIVE Tracker
Update 2/20/2020: I "decompiled" the Vive Tracker Role Changer tool and figured out it's just self-extracting batch file packaged with lighthouse_console. Will try to get in touch with Valve or…
Get pretty LODs like this without the performance impact.
High-Performance LODs with DynDOLOD 2.x
Skyrim is an old game, but still fun to play. I occasionally use it to blow off steam, and have had plenty of experience modding it. The following is an…
Skyrim and High Performance Dynamic LODs using DynDOLOD
This is a cross-post from 4chan for posterity. I regularly get 55FPS (capped) using the following procedure, which is a mash of STEP instructions, DynDOLOD install procedures, and personal experience. …
How to Clean Skyrim Saves
I recently made a Skyrim mod to fix an annoying bug with Serana, one of the Dawnguard DLC's characters. She's a rather complex entity, using her own AI to help…
Phabricator and Supervisor
When Space Station 14 was first getting its sea legs, we had the need for a project management system that could easily handle hundreds of developers, and had ways for…
Disabling AverMedia’s Media Center Hotkeys
A year ago, I purchased an AverMedia C027 PCIe HD capture card, so I could stream old retro games from my PS2, SNES, and N64. While it works a lot…
Fun and Adventure with Ruby, Redmine, and Lighty
For those who don’t know me all that well, I’m a lighttpd fan. I use it for serving web data from all sorts of systems: PHP, HHVM, Python, and even Lua have run on my servers, and all through lighttpd. However, there’s always been one big outlier who just doesn’t get along with everything else, and that has been Ruby. – MORE
Together at last.
HHVM on Lighttpd – Walk in the Park
Just switched this server (dedi.nexisonline.net) to HHVM, a recode of PHP by Facebook. The process went smoother than expected, although I switched the ChanMan/testing server to HHVM a while ago,…