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[King Klutz]

This post is just a heads up for some of you botters (this is taken from my post on rsbots btw, so the topic was originally geared towards the users over there).

http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?16,17,216,61384753

You may be expecting the last element of July’s Behind the Scenes, but we have had to delay this to the beginning of next week as we were also aiming to release a significant update to our graphics engine. If you’re interested in the details of what we’re doing, the last paragraph tries to describe it in a little detail.

“When we’re rendering our 3D scene, historically we have sorted all of our world entities (such as players, walls, particle effects etc) into view depth order. We then render them in this order, from furthest away to closest, giving the view you would expect, where nearer things appear over far things. Whilst this has the advantage of being quite fast, it’s also somewhat inflexible, and leads to various graphical glitches that you’re probably familiar with if you play in the ‘Safe mode’ or ‘Software’ graphics modes, whereby things appear to draw on top of - or through - each other when they shouldn’t (player capes are an excellent example of this). With this update, we’ve moved to using an industry-standard technique called ‘Z-buffering’, which allows us to be a lot more flexible with our 3D rendering in the future. As an example, it allows us to have player kit or animations which extend outside of the square on which your character is standing. It also allows for more complex models and a number of other improvements which we’ve been wanting to do for a while.”

~ Mod Chris E

If this is like the graphics update last year, botting will be put to a halt for a week to perhaps a month (full functionality). I believe last year when Rs updated its graphics/game engine with the new HD almost all randoms and scripts were broken for awhile. This year, this graphics update seems like it will affect us even more, since the problem lies in mode we bot in, "safe mode". Anyways, this is just a heads up, obviously I'm not a programmer or developer so I wouldn't know for sure. Though, this update (when released in a few days) might affect us for a while, and seeing how many of you spaz out when reflection is down for a couple hours, this may be 10x worse.

 

[Alaska]

It's not a big deal really. If the people that bot freak out over the bots being down for a few weeks at most then they really need to get their life in order.

It's also up to them to help the Devs fix whatever is wrong by giving them accounts that are stuck in randoms, and not flipping shit when the bot is down for over an hour.. Doing those two things helps out and gets things done faster.

 

[owned1992]

I wouldn't really care if they went down. I'd just play legit 4-5 hours a day until the bots are back up. Hopefully it doesn't happen, though.

 

[King Klutz]

It's also up to them to help the Devs fix whatever is wrong by giving them accounts that are stuck in randoms

I've done this three times before to two different developers who constantly insist on sending them accounts stuck in randoms. On all three instances I've had no follow ups, no thank you, no notice that the issue had been resolved. I usually waited about 1-2 weeks before I checked back on the account, and the last log in IP was my own. Perhaps someone had already sent them an account, but a PM would be nice... snobs.

Anyways, I do agree with you that the people on those forums flip over shit way too easily. That's why I said the original post was taken from there. I just felt like posting it here as well, in case anyone is interested.

 

[GFX | Justin]

NeXus is very fast to update things like this. We'll be fine

It shouldn't take a month though.

 

[kmjt]

Ohhh no. You mean we are actually going to have to PLAY the game we pay for now?