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We are located in the historic renovation of Clipper Mill.
North: Follow Southbound Interstate 83, exit Cold Spring Lane. Turn left at traffic light onto Cold Spring. Move into the right hand lane. Turn right on Falls Road. Turn right on Union Avenue (notice large painted house with arrow to Meadow Mill Athletic Club). Proceed down the hill, under 83 overpass, over the light rail tracks. Take an immediate left into Clipper Mill on Clipper Park Road. We are half way up the street on the right. We are across from the pool.
South: Follow Interstate 95 North take 395 North towards downtown; turn right onto Pratt Street. Follow ¾ mile and turn left onto President Street which will become 83 North. Exit Falls Road. Turn left on Union Avenue (VFW post is on north west corner). Proceed down the hill, under 83 overpass, over the light rail tracks. Take an immediate left into Clipper Mill on Clipper Park Road. We are half way up the street on the right. We are across from the pool.
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January 20, 2014
Woodberry Kitchen is recalling the following canned items: Snake Oil Hot Sauce (6oz), because they were manufactured without licensed approval.
All of these products can be identified as glass jars with the product names: "Snake Oil Hot Sauce" and were manufactured from the dates September 2013 – September 2014. All lots of the products bearing the above names should be considered part of this recall.
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The recall was initiated after it was discovered that these products were being manufactured and sold without state licensed approval. The manufacture of these items was immediately halted until such time that approval is obtained for their manufacture. This recall is to the retail level.
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I bought a tomato plant around 6 weeks ago at Aldi (not the most reliable plant source, I know) and planted it in my garden where it gets about 6 hours of sunlight daily. Now it's over 3 feet high with luxuriant foliage but not a blossom in sight. The weird thing is that I have not fertilized it at all! Not knowing what was in the soil it was potted in, I decided to wait a while and see how it did without fertilizer. Any ideas on what could be causing the absence of blossoms?
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Thanks everybody for your answers. I finally gave up and threw it out. Not even a hint of a blossom and here it's late July already. Put the resulting space to better use by planting lettuce. Does anybody think that it could have been a sterile tomato plant--is there such a thing?
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Somebody at the store probably gave it the wrong type of fertilizer.
The best thing to do is start your own tomatoes from seeds. That way you can control every aspect.
You did the right thing not adding anything. Best not to unless you know what you need. I like using the cheap test kits (You never said what type of potting mix you used. Was it a potting soil designed for containers or bedding soil?
As xaroline brought up, what was the weather like?
When you say the plant got about 6 hours of sunlight could it have been less?
Another question would be tied in with the weather on how much you were watering?
There are several companies marketing products as "bloom booster" 's. Most often they have a lower nitrogen level compared to phosphorus and sometimes nitrogen equal to or under potassium levels. Essentially it is just another fertilizer. The old school of thought was that a higher level of phosphorus led to root and bloom production.
Yes, you can have sterile plants, albeit rare, but they should still flower, just produce no fruit.
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All-day, free festivities herald the grand opening celebration of a new facility in Big Pine established with the goal of promoting health and wellness throughout the entire community.
This Saturday, Aug. 4, the Big Pine Paiute Development Corporation invites the public to tour its new fitness facility, The Wellness Center, which offers equipment and programs for toddlers to teens and adults of all ages.
Lone Pine High School and Metabolic Studio teamed up this summer to help fund summer jobs at local businesses for 26 local students.
Summer Youth Employment and Training Program Coordinator Stacy Ayers said a grant from Metabolic Studio has allowed the school district to employ students at a number of Lone Pine businesses, ranging from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Lone Pine Cemetery District to the Chamber of Commerce, the Lone Pine Memorial Plunge and the Lone Pine Film History Museum, among many others.
Leonard Dyer
Donal Avon Williams
Winifred 'Winnie' Williams
Search and rescue crews have located what they believe to be the body of missing San Rafael hiker Thomas Heng, 31.
Inyo County Deputy Coroner Jeff Mullenhour said he expected to positively identify the body and possibly establish a cause of death before the end of the day Friday, but that information was not available as of press time.
A multi-agency search effort was initiated Monday morning after Inyo County authorities were notified that Heng had not returned for a solo hike to Mt. Langley that afternoon.
A routine traffic stop Thursday morning resulted in the arrest of two Lancaster residents and the recovery of a stolen vehicle.
According to Bishop Police Department Public Information Officer Katie Coffman, an officer stopped Ryan William Dunham, 33 and Charity Leeann Swagler, 34, at about 11:13 a.m. for a ŌĆ£minorŌĆØ infraction involving a defective windshield.
While running the driver, Swangler, and vehicle information, officers were advised by dispatch that the vehicle, a 2002 Mercedes, had been reported stolen out of the Lancaster area more than a month ago.
City leaders took a look at First Amendment rights Monday and decided to update BishopŌĆÖs policy on pre-meeting prayers to ensure the city is not at risk of being sued for its traditional invocations.
City Attorney Peter Tracy said that several cities in California have been threatened with lawsuits over invocations being given at the start of government meetings. The threats have come from a group that is attempting to ensure the First Amendment is being practiced in local government.
Lake Sabrina
Our nice relaxing, normal, everyday days were back at Lake Sabrina. Thank goodness!
No hail, no rain, no thunder and lightning, no mules being startled, no rock slide ŌĆō although there were a couple of rock slides on Mt. Haeckel (covering part of the glacier in the Sabrina Basin) and around Picture Peaks along with reports of numerous other rock slides in the back country.


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Dictionary of Literary Terms 3 S E C T I O N O N E : A – C Dictionary of Literary Terms (the) Absurd - an avant-garde style in which structure, plot, and characterization are disregarded or garbled in order to stress the lack of logic in nature and man's isolation in a universe which has no meaning or value. The term is derived from the Latin absurdus, formed from ab and surdus, meaning "deaf" and "stupid". Albert Camus used the word in discussing his concept of existentialism, the philosophy that the individual is responsible for whatever decisions (s)he makes according to the doctrine of free will, but that (s)he makes those decisions without knowing what is right or wrong, as dem- onstrated in his novel, The Stranger. In this novel, the protagonist, Meursault, commits a murder without seeming to realize either the seriousness or the consequences of such an act; there was neither an evaluation of the act before it was committed nor remorse for having done "wrong" after the fact. Living this way was considered absurd or senseless, illogical, and contrary to common sense. Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis is an example of an absurdist short story, in which a man wakes one day having been myste- riously transformed into an insect. The term is usually used to indicate the Theater of the Absurd, a phrase invented by Martin Esslin in 1961 to refer to the plays of such 1950s dramatists as Eugéne Ionesco, Edward Albee, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett. Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) - means the study of the emo- tions and the mind in relation to their sense of beauty in lit- erature and other fine arts, but separately from moral, social, political, practical, or economic considerations. This area of study is concerned with the appreciation and criticism of what is considered beautiful or ugly. It is sometimes referred to as "art for art's sake." The word comes from the Greek aisthetikos, meaning "percep- tive," and was derived from aisthanesthai, which means "to feel" or "to perceive." The term was introduced in 1753 by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarent, but the study of the nature of beauty had been pursued for centuries, certainly since the time of Plato. The later Nineteenth Century saw the blossoming of the aesthetic movement in England. In the conclusion to The Renais- sance (1873), a seminal work in the articulation of aesthetic theory, Walter Pater writes, "For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." Other major proponents of the aesthetic included John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde. Affective fallacy - the error of judging a literary work by its emo- tional effect upon readers or a confusion between the work itself and its results. The term comes from combining two words: affective, which means pertaining to emotional effects or natures, and fallacy, which means false or mistaken idea. Affect was a Middle English word taken from the Middle French affaire, meaning "to influence;" affaire was derived from the Latin afficere, which was formed by joining ab and facere, meaning "to do." Fallacy is from the Latin fallacia, which was derived from fallac- or fallax, meaning "deceitful." These terms were originally from fallere, meaning "to deceive." In essence, avoidance of the affective fallacy demonstrates an attempt to create objective literary criticism, in which the critic is concerned with describing the rhetorical composition of a work— how it functions — rather than with describing the impact of a work — what it does — on the reader. see: catharsis Allegory - an extended metaphor in which a person, abstract idea, or event stands for itself and for something else. It usually in- volves moral or spiritual concepts which are more significant than the actual narrative. The term is from the Greek allegoria, a joining of two other Greek words: allos, meaning "other", and agoreuein, meaning "to speak." The most famous allegory in English is Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) which describes the adventures of the human soul as if it were on a journey. Parts of Dante's Divine Comedy (1310–1314) are also allegorical. George Orwell's Animal Farm (1946) is a political allegory in which the story of the revolution of the animals on an English farm stands as a critique of both the capitalist democracies of the west and the totalitarian regime that had grown out of the communist revolution in Russia. see: fable, morality play, myth, parable, satire Alliteration (sometimes called initial rhyme) - common in poetry and occasionally in prose, this is the repetition of an initial sound in two or more words of a phrase, line, or sentence. It is usually a consonant and marks the stressed syllables in a line of poetry or prose. Alliteration may be considered ornamental or as a decoration which appeals to the sense of hearing. The word comes from the Latin ad literam, which means "ac- cording to the letter." This device was consistently used in Old English poetry, but fell out of favor in the Middle Ages. Now it is used to emphasize meaning and is especially effective in oratory. It is characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, as in Beowulf, and is still used by modern poets in nonsense verse, tongue twisters, and jingles. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare makes satiri- cal use of alliteration in order to demonstrate the artisan-acting troupe's lack of poetic skill. In the play within the play, Pyramus and Thisbe, Quince says as prologue: Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Act V, scene i : lines 155 – 156 Allusion - a reference, usually brief, often casual, occasionally in- direct, to a person , event, or condition thought to be familiar (but sometimes actually obscure or unknown) to the reader. This holds true especially for the characters and events of my- thology, legends, and history. Association is an essential part of allusion. The purpose of allusion is to bring a world of experi- ence outside the limitations of a statement to the reader. The term comes from Latin alludere, which means "to play with," "jest," or "refer to." John Milton uses allusion in Paradise Lost: ...; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights; And all who since, baptized or infidel Jousted in Aspramont or Montalban, Damask, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia. Book 1 : lines 479 – 587 In The Merchant of Venice, when Shylock seeks to compli- ment Portia for her agreeing that Bassanio must keep his bargain, Shakespeare has Shylock use the biblical allusion: A Daniel come to judgment! Yea, a Daniel. Act IV, scene i : line 221 Ambiguity - a doubtfulness or uncertainty about the intention or meaning of something. It usually refers to a statement that is subject to more than one interpretation. The term is used for words that suggest two or more appropriate meanings or that convey both a basic meaning and complex overtones of that meaning. Sometimes, authors make deliberate choices of words that simultaneously cause several different streams of thought in the reader's mind. Ambiguity is also used to mean confusion between the denotation and connotation of a literary work. A simple kind of ambiguity is the use of homophones to promote a multiplicity of possible meanings. In Sonnet 135, Shakespeare puns on the word "Will," invoking its sense as one's wish, as well as its sense as a nickname for "William": "whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will" (line 1). The word is derived from the Latin ambiguus, which means "doubtful," and was formed from ambigere—a combination of amb, meaning "both ways," and agere, meaning "drive." see: allusion, connotation Anachronism - an error in chronology, or placing an event, person, item, or language expression in the wrong period. The term is originally from the Greek anakhronismos formed by combining ana, which means "back or backwards," and khronos, which means "time." In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, an anachronism is used: Brutus: Peace! count the clock. Cassius: The clock has stricken three. Act II, scene i : lines 193 – 194 There were no clocks during Roman times, and the striking clock was not invented until 1,400 years after Caesar's death. Contemporary theater often uses anachronisms, such as when one of Shakespeare's plays is performed in modern-day clothing. Analogy - the relationship of similarity between two or more enti- ties or a partial similarity on which a comparison is based. An example is the classic analogy between the heart and a pump. In argumentation and persuasion, analogy is often used as a form of reasoning in which one thing is compared to or con- trasted with another in certain respects, based on the known similarity or dissimilarity in other respects. Analogy is often used to paint vivid word pictures. The term comes from the Greek analogia, meaning "propor- tion." In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift describes the societies of the Lilliputians and the Brobdingrags in such a way as to make their characteristics and weaknesses analogous to human society. see: metaphor, simile Antagonist - the character who strives against another main character. This character opposes the hero or protagonist in drama. The term is also used to describe one who contends with or opposes another in a fight, conflict, or battle of wills. In literature, this is the principal opponent or foil of the main character and is considered the villain unless the protagonist is a villain; in that case, the antagonist is the hero. The word is derived from the Greek antagonistes, which means "rival" and was formed from the combining of anti, meaning "against," and agon, meaning a "contest." Shakespeare's plays provide apt examples of antagonists: his Macduff in Macbeth is an antagonist and the hero, since the protagonist—Macbeth—is a villain; Laertes and Claudius are the antagonists of Hamlet in the play of the same name; Iago is Othello's antagonist in Othello. Also, the antagonist does not have to be another person. In Jack London's story "To Build a Fire," the antagonist is the bitterly cold weather. see: protagonist Anticlimax - a drop, often sudden and unexpected, from a digni- fied or important idea or situation to a trivial one or a descent from something sublime to something ridiculous. In fiction and drama, this refers to action which is disappointing in contrast to the previous moment of intense interest or any- thing which follows the climax. The effect may be comic and is often intended to be. According to Samuel Johnson, who first recorded the word, it is "A sentence in which the last part expresses something lower than the first." The term comes from the combination of two Greek words: anti, which means "against" or "the reverse of," and klimax, which means "a ladder" and was derived from klinein meaning "to slope." An example of an anticlimax is when the indigent protagonist finds a great amount of money for which (s)he has been intently searching and does nothing with it. see: climax Antithesis - contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. It is the juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to their contrasting ideas and give the effect of bal- ance. This is a device often used in rhetoric. The word comes from the Greek anti, meaning "against," and tithenai, which means "to place" or "to set against." In Milton's Paradise Lost (1667), Adam and Eve are described using antitheses: For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. Book V, lines 297 – 299 see: epigram, figure of speech, oxymoron Aphorism - a brief, pithy, usually concise statement or observa- tion of a doctrine, principle, truth, or sentiment. Aphorisms are usually not anonymous. The word comes from the Greek aphorizein, which means "to mark off by boundaries" and was formed by combining apo, meaning "from," and horos, meaning "a limit." The term was first used by Hippocrates. An example of an aphorism is Benjamin Franklin's Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. see: epigram, proverb Apocalyptic - connected with revelation. The term is also used to describe literature that provides a prophecy or revelation. In contemporary usage, this refers to any literary selection that reveals and predicts the future. Usually, the term is used to refer to the coming of the end of the world and the expected final battle between good and evil. The word is from the Greek apokalupsis, which means "un- veiling," and was originally derived from kaluptein, meaning "to cover." It is used as the title of the last book in The New Testament of the Bible: The Apocalypse or the Revelation of St. John the Divine. The final two books of Paradise Lost are apocalyptic, as the arch- angel Michael shows Adam how human history will climax in the final judgement of God. Apology - a defense and justification for some belief, doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action without any admission of blame with which we contemporarily associate the word. In the Eighteenth Century, the word came to be used loosely almost as a synonym for autobiography without any suggestion of justifying or defending the writer's ideas or conduct. The term comes from the Greek apologia, meaning defense. This Greek word was formed by joining apo, which means away, and logia, which means speaking. Plato recorded Socrates's Apologia in the Fourth Century B.C. At the end of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, there is a retrac- tion or apology for his work; in this case, apology means both an explanation and an expression of regret. Arbitrary - lacking any natural basis or substantial justification; determined by whim with little thought. This term was originally from the Latin arbitrari, derived from arbitr- or arbiter, meaning "to witness." Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn contains many instances of Huck's arbitrary choice of actions, such as when he chose not to accept the Widow Douglas's home as his own, preferring to run away instead or, as Huck stated in the second paragraph of the novel, " . . . when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out." Archetype (also called prototype) - the original model or pat- tern from which copies are made or from which something develops. It is also a symbol, theme, setting, or character that is thought to have some universal meaning and recurs in dif- ferent times and places in myth, literature, folklore, dreams, and rituals. The term is from the Greek archetupon, meaning "pattern" or "model." The psychologist Carl Jung identified the archetype in the collec- tive unconscious of mankind: the ideas or modes of thought derived from the experiences of a race—such as birth, death, love, family life, struggles—inherited in the subconscious of an individual from ancestors and expressed in myths, dreams, and literature. Plato was the first philosopher to use archetypes, especially those of beauty, truth, and goodness. Sophocles used the arche- types of blindness, patricide, incest, and fratricide. Hawthorne and Melville focused on the archetypes of sin, retribution, and death in their works (The Scarlet Letter and Billy Budd, respectively). The Greek Myth of Pandora introduces the archetype of the mischie- vous woman, exemplified by Madame Merle in James's Portrait of a Lady (1881). see: folklore, imagery, literature, myth. Ballad - a short, narrative folk song that fixes on the most dramatic part of a story, moving to its conclusion by the means of dialogue and a series of incidences. It represents a type of literary and musical development across Europe in the late Middle Ages and tends to have a tight dramatic structure that sometimes omits all preliminary material, all exposition and description, even all motivation, to focus on the climactic scene. The narrator is impersonal and the listener or reader is left to supply the antecedent material. Folk ballads are transmitted orally, and therefore, subject to continual change, although most seem to be domestic, simple, stanzad, rhymed, and use language and action which are stylized. Clichés and conventionalized con- duct are typical in ballads which are still common in northern Greece, parts of the central Balkans, and Sicily. Originally, the term signified a song accompanied by a dance. Later, it came to mean a narrative poem with short stanzas designed for singing or oral recitation. There are four types of ballads: 1. folk ballad which is derived from the medieval oral tradi- tions 2. literary ballad which is a deliberate attempt by its author to capture the charm of the folk ballad 3. broadside ballad which proliferated in the Eighteenth Century, sold for a penny: printed on sheets of paper called "broadside," they included suggestions for the tune to which they should be sung 4. a sentimental tune with melodramatic lyrics, popular in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The word comes from the Old French ballade, which derived from the Provençal ballada. This originated from the Low Latin ballare, which means "to dance." An example of a ballad is "Bill," which has been sung by sailors for decades: He lay dead on the cluttered deck and stared at the cold skies, With never a friend to mourn for him nor a hand to close his eyes: "Bill, he's dead," was all they said; "he's dead, 'n' there he lies." The mate came forward at seven bells and spat across the rail: "Just lash him up wi' some holystone in a clout o' rotten sail, "'N', rot ye, get a gait on ye, ye're slower'n a bloody snail!" When the rising moon was a copper disc and the sea was a strip of steel, We dumped him down to the swaying weeds ten fathom be- neath the keel. "It's rough about Bill," the fo'c's'le said, "we'll have to stand his wheel." see: folklore Bard - one of an ancient Celtic order of versifiers, especially one who was highly trained as a composer, singer, and harpist who recited heroic and adventurous poems. This type of versifier was the oral historian, political critic, eulogizer, and entertainer of his society. Poems passed from bard to bard orally with each bard adding some personal embroidery. Their memorization was aided by certain formulas such as fixed phrases and re- peated verses or groups of verses. The most prominent bards lived in medieval and post-medieval Wales and Ireland, many as residents in wealthy homes, others as itinerants. In Wales, bards were often nobles and formed guilds to set standards for writing and reciting. They were repeatedly outlawed by the English as politically inciting, causing their gradual extinction. The word is still used to describe a recognized singer at the Welsh musical festival, Eisteddfod. The word was taken from the Gaelic and Irish bard or bardh, approximately meaning "poet," but specifically meaning the type of poet described above. Now the word is a synonym for poet as in "Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon." Bibliography - a list of readings on a particular subject. Included in the list are authors, titles, editions, and dates and places of publication. Bibliographies can be divided into two categories: the enumerative, which lists alphabetically or chronologically, and the critical, which lists evaluations or comparisons of the items. In library science, however, the term means the study of the history, physical description, and classification of books, graphic materials, etc. The word is from the Greek bibliographia, meaning "the writ- ing of books" and was used to describe the writing or copying of books until the mid-Eighteenth Century. An example of a bibliography may be found at the end of this book. Black comedy - Often considered perverted and morbid, black comedy depicts situations normally thought of as tragic or grave as humorous. Specifically, it displays marked disillusion- ment and depicts humans without convictions and with little hope. The term is also used to describe theater dealing with sinister or disturbing subjects handled lightly in an attempt to offend and shock, as is common in Theater of the Absurd. Black is from the Middle English blak derived from the Old English blaec, which is probably the same as the Latin flagrare, meaning "to burn." Comedy is derived from the Latin comoedia which, in turn, was from the Greek komoidia formed by joining komos, meaning "revel," and, aidein, meaning "to sing." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a Twentieth-Century novelist whose works, including Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five are filled with black comedy. There are representatives of the genre in Twentieth Century drama such as Beckett's Waiting for Godot. see: absurd Blank verse (also called unrhymed iambic pentameter) - un- rhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. Blank verse is considered best for dramatic verse in English since it is the verse form closest to the rhythms of everyday English speech and has been the dominant verse form of English drama and narrative poetry since the mid-Sixteenth Century. Such verse is blank in rhyme only, having a definite meter, although variations in meter are sometimes used. As Milton explained in his 1667 preface to Paradise Lost: The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in larger Works especially, but the Inven- tion of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter. The term is originally from the French blanc, meaning "white"— in the sense of "left white" or "requiring something to be filled in." The term was first used by the Earl of Surrey, Henry Howard, in 1540 in his translation of Books II and III of The Aeneid of Virgil, but previously had been adapted by Italian Renaissance writers from classical sources. It was used a great deal for reflective and narrative poems until the late Seventeenth Century. In the latter Nineteenth Century, the English romantic poets—Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats—made use of blank verse. Later yet, the English poets, Robert Browning and Lord Tennyson, and the American po- ets, Robinson and Frost, employed it for less lofty themes, leading its use to become more colloquial in tone. In Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theseus's speech to Hippolyta explaining the lovers' rearrangement of couples is written in blank verse: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Act V, scene i : lines 12 – 17 Bombast - originally, cotton or any soft material used for padding to produce clothes in the fashion of the Sixteenth Century. It has come to mean a highflown unnatural style, rather inflated and insincere, pretentious, ranting, and using extravagant language. Also, it can denote extravagance at the expense of content. The word is from the Greek bombux, meaning "silkworm" or "silk," and the Latin bombyx, meaning "silkworm," "something made of silk, any fine fiber, or cotton." Both were used to form the Old French bombace, meaning "cotton." In Shakespeare's Othello, Iago uses the word in complaining to Roderigo about Othello: But he, as loving of his own pride and purposes, Evades them with a bombast circumstance Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war; And, in conclusion, Nonsuits my mediators. Act I, scene i : lines 13 – 17 see: hyperbole Canon - a standard of judgment or a criterion. It is also an approved list of books belonging in the Christian Bible, in addition to being the accepted list of any given order, and the list of books accepted as Scripture. The term is increasingly used to refer to those works of literature that have come to be considered standard in any anthology or course of study. In addition, it refers to the works of an author which are accepted as genuine, such as the Chaucer Canon. The term is derived from the Middle French canon, which was adapted from the Italian cannone, meaning "large tube." This definition evolved from the Latin canna, which meant "cane or reed." Common usage eventually led to the term being defined as a straight rod or bar, a carpenter's rule, or a standard of excellence. Greek authors were known as kanones or "models of excellence." Melville's canon consists of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Canto - one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem. It is also used to denote a singing or chanting section of a poem, or a subdivision of an epic or narrative (comparable to a chapter in a novel). The word is taken from the Italian, which originally took it from the Latin cantus, meaning "song." Dante's The Divine Comedy is divided into cantos. Catharsis - any emotional discharge which brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety. The usual intent is for an audience to leave feeling this relief from tension or anxiety after having viewed a play. The word comes from the Greek katharis, meaning "cleansing, or purification." This evolved from kathairo, which means I cleanse, and katharos, which means "pure or clean." Catharsis was referred to by Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) in his Poetics: Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; . . . through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. Book 6 : 2 Character - an aggregate of traits and features that form the nature of some person or animal. It also refers to moral qualities and ethical standards and principles. In literature, character refers to a person represented in a story, novel, play, etc. The word is from the Greek kharakter, meaning "stamp," and kharassein, meaning "to engrave." Originally, the Greek philoso- pher Theophrastus (372 – 287 B.C.), a pupil of Aristotle's, used it in his book Characters which contained short prose sketches of different types of people molded to a pattern which served as a model for some Seventeenth-Century writers. In Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century England, a character was a formal sketch or descriptive analysis of a particular virtue or vice as represented in a person, what is now more often called a character sketch. Chaucer wrote character sketches in the General Prologue to his The Canterbury Tales. Characterization - the creation of the image of imaginary persons in drama, narrative poetry, the novel, and the short story. Characterization generates plot and is revealed by actions, speech, thoughts, physical appearance, and the other char- acters' thoughts or words about him. The etymology and derivation of the word are the same as those for character. In Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Huck's use of dialect, run- ning away, his guardian's feelings about him, and Jim's response to him all comprise Twain's characterization of his protagonist. see: allegory, fable, plot, thesis Chorus - a group of singers distinct from the principal performers in a dramatic or musical performance and, also, the song or refrain that they sing. The word comes from the Greek choros, meaning "a company of dancers or singers," or "a group of persons singing in unison." In ancient Greece, a chorus was a group of male singers and dancers who participated in religious festivals and dramatic per- formances as actors, commenting on the deeds of the characters and interpreting the significance of events within the play for the audience. In Aeschylus's works, the chorus takes part in the action of the play, while in Sophocles's, the chorus comments on the action. In Euripides's works, the chorus is lyrical. During the Elizabethan era, a single actor recited both the prologue and the epilogue, and sometimes commented in-between acts to interpret the significance of events, as in Shakespeare's Henry V, in which The Chorus is a character. Contemporarily, the playwrights T. S. Eliot and Brecht used choruses in their Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948), respectively. Chronicle (also called history) - a detailed and continuous record of events, usually a systematic account or narration of events that contain little or no interpretation or analysis. The word is from the Greek khronos, meaning "time," and khronik, meaning "annals." Chronicles were used as a form of history from Roman times until the early 1600s when they were largely replaced by biogra- phies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, logs, travel books, and narratives of sea voyages and exploration. Shakespeare adapted Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scot- land, and Ireland (1577) for his history plays, such as Henry V. Climax - the moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis comes to its point of greatest intensity and is resolved. It is also the peak of emotional response from a reader or spectator, and it usually represents the turning point in the action. Additionally, the term is used for the arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences in order of their importance, the least forcible coming first and the others rising in power until the last or, simply, the last term of the arrangement. Climax also means a culmination. The word comes from the Greek klimax, meaning "a ladder," and klinein, meaning "to slope, or slant." The climax of Beowulf is when Beowulf slays the mother of the monster, Grendel. Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles (1891) climaxes when Tess murders Alec D'urberville, who has harassed and tormented her throughout the novel. see: anticlimax, denouement Closure - the sense of completion or resolution at the end of a literary work or part of a work. In literary criticism, it is the reduction of a work's meanings to a single and complete sense that excludes the claims of other interpretations. The term came from Middle English, which took it from Middle French, and was originally from the Latin clausura, meaning "to close." An example of closure is the Finale in George Eliot's Middle- march in which the author explains what happened to each of the characters in the novel. Colloquialism - a word or phrase used in an easy, informal style of writing or speaking. It is usually more appropriate in speech than formal writing. Colloquialisms appear often in literature since they provide a sense of actual conversation and use the pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary of everyday speech. The word is taken from the Latin colloqui, which is a joining of com, meaning "with or together," and loqui, meaning "to speak" and "conversation." Mark Twain makes use of colloquialisms in his Huckleberry Finn, such as in the opening line of the story: "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter." see: dialogue, idiom Comedy - a ludicrous and amusing event or series of events de- signed to provide enjoyment and produce smiles or laughter usually written in a light, familiar, bantering, or satirical style. Comedy is the opposite of tragedy. Dramatic comedy begins in difficulty and rapidly involves its characters in amusing situ- ations and ends happily, but not all comedies are humorous and lighthearted. It differs from burlesque and farce in that comedy has a more closely knit plot, more sensible and intel- ligent dialogue, and more plausible characterization. Often comedy assures its desired effect by stressing some oddity or incongruity of character, speech, or action—perhaps by caricature or exaggeration. There are many different kinds of comedy with the most usual being: 1. the comedy of humors in which characters' actions are controlled by some whim or humor, 2. the comedy of manners which involves the conventions or manners of artificial and sophisticated society, and 3. the comedy of intrigue or situation which depends more on plot than characterization. There are also topical, romantic, satirical, and verbal wit comedies. The word comes from the French comedie which was derived from the Greco-Latin comoedia which was formed by combining komos, meaning "to revel," and aeidein, meaning "to sing." In the Middle Ages, comedy referred to narrative poems that ended happily, such as Dante's Divine Comedy (1320). Prior to that, comedy may be traced as far back as Aristophanes, the Fifth Century B.C. Greek playwright. An example of contemporary comedy comes from Faye Kellerman's The Quality of Mercy: "Aye, a strong neck I have. Yet it is neither as long nor graceful as thine—" He corrected himself. "As yours. As far as the head is concerned, I've been told I have a head for words, yet not much of one for numbers and none for science and languages, as you have. So as far as heads go, you are heads above me. Which explains why your neck is longer than mine." see: black comedy, comic relief, farce Comic relief (also called episode and interlude) - a humorous scene, incident, or remark occurring in the midst of a serious or tragic literary selection and deliberately designed to relieve emotional intensity and simultaneously to heighten, increase, and highlight the seriousness or tragedy of the action. Apart from being a simple diversion, though, comic relief normally plays some part in advancing the action of drama. The phrase comes from two words: the first, comic, has the same etymology as that of comedy which is discussed above; relief may be traced from Middle English, back to Middle French, and originally to the Old French relever, meaning "to relieve." Since the Sixteenth Century, tragedians have almost uni- versally used comic relief, as in Shakespeare's drunken porter in Macbeth: Here's a knocking indeed! If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key. Knock, knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of Belzebub? Here's a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins enow about you; here you'll sweat for't. Knock, knock! Who's there, in the other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in, equivocator! Knock, knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an English tailor come hither for stealing out of a French hose. Come in, tailor. Here you may roast your goose. Knock, knock! Never at quiet! What are you? But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further. I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. Anon, anon! I pray you remember the porter. Act II, scene iii : lines 1 – 19 see: black comedy, comedy, farce, subplot Conceit - describing a person or idea by use of an analogy which often seems farfetched but proves surprisingly apt in pointing out parallels between the two being compared. A conceit may be considered an extravagant metaphor making an analogy between totally dissimilar things. The word comes from the Latin concipere or conceptum, which was formed by combining con, meaning "with or together," and capere, meaning "to take." Originally, the word was used to mean "concept or idea." The term has been used since Petrarch (1304 – 1374). The fanciful images and startling comparisons frequently used in Elizabethan poetry are conceits. In his sonnets, Shakespeare used conceits such as: "So you are to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet- season'd showers are to the ground." LXXV : lines 1-2 see: analogy, hyperbole, metaphor, oxymoron, paradox Connotation - suggestions and associations which surround a word as opposed to its bare, literal meaning. It is the oppo- site of denotation. Literature uses connotation; science and philosophy use denotation. Connotation refers to qualities, attributes, and characteristics implied or suggested by the word and depends upon the context in which the word is used. Metaphors depend a great deal on connotation. Connotations often elicit emotional responses from the reader. The word is from the Latin connotare, meaning "to mark to- gether." In his love poetry, John Donne often uses the word "die" which in the Renaissance had a sexual connotation, such as in these lines from "The Canonization:" "We die and rise the same and prove mysterious by this love." see: context, device, figure of speech, metaphor Content (also called subject matter or substance) - things or sub- stances in an enclosed space, such as topics, ideas, statements, or facts in a book, document, letter, etc. This is true not only of forms, but also thought, feeling, attitude, and intention as conveyed by the words and their arrangement—especially what is said, rather than how it is said, in literature and in poetry. The word is taken directly from the Latin continere, meaning "to contain." Context - the part of a written (or spoken) statement which leads up to, follows, and specifies the meaning of that statement. The context of a group of words is nearly always very intimately connected as to throw light upon not only the meaning of individual words, but also the sense and purpose of an entire work. The term is taken from the Latin contextus which is from con- texere, meaning "to weave together." Understanding the context in which a work of literature was produced often leads to a deeper understanding of the work itself; for instance, understanding the social and economic position of women in the early Nineteenth Century can provide a greater insight into the characterizations of women in Jane Austen's nov- els. Couplet - a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhymes, that are of the same metrical length, and form a single unit. The term is also used for lines that express a complete thought or form a separate stanza. Couplets are usually written in decasyllabic lines. A closed couplet is one that is logically and grammatically complete. The word comes from the French diminutive of couple which was derived from the Latin copula, meaning "a band or bond." The form was first used by Chaucer in the Fourteenth Century. Tudor and Jacobean poets and dramatists used it as a variation of blank verse and to round off a scene or act. The couplet eventually evolved into the heroic couplet, which was rhymed iambic pen- tameter and popular in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Nineteenth-Century Romantic poetry used the couplet, as do epigrams. Shakespeare used this form in the concluding lines of his sonnets. Chaucer used it in his "Merchant's Tale" within The Can- terbury Tales: Whilom ther was dwellynge in Lumbardye A worthy knyght, that born was of Pavye, In which he lyved in greet prosperitee; And sixty yeer a wyflees man was hee, And folwed ay his bodily delyt On wommen, ther as was his appetyt… lines 1 – 6 see: epigram, stanza, sonnet
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Originally posted by datth:
Also note: I did experimenting on my own and noticed that my computer will CRASH if I run SC2 with invalid variable.txt settings. Can't say this will happen on all systems, but seems likely.
Okay Hopefully this will be a source of even more variables.txt information, although at this point I have a pretty fair collection.
Feel free to contribute things you've learned. In fact it'd be be even better if you did experimentation yourself to help figure things out for everyone else. I will probably edit-in any contributions into this original post.
Adjust max FPS
SC2 used to cause GPU overloading without a framerate cap AFAIK, but either the problem was fixed or I was mistaken.
Originally posted by AdamS:Values can be changed to taste - a bit higher or lower than you desire, such as 60 for the GUI, and 80 for the game
Add the lines:
frameratecap=60 (In-game FPS limit)
frameratecapGlue=30 (FPS limit for the battle.net user interface)
Also note: If you have an FPS cap enabled (for at least the gameplay), I suggest you disable vsync, although this is not advice from an expert and I may be wrong.
Vsync by the way, is an alternative to using a framerate cap, which will help or prevent partial frames from rendering (half of a screen update being displayed [for only a milisecond or few] instead of a whole one).
Vsync is a perfectly fine option to use, just realize that I've heard it may cause very small amounts of input lag, and/or lower FPS (up to 50%). Vsync causes frames to be rendered at a rate that's typically a factor/divisor of the monitor's refresh rate (60hz, 75hz, 100hz, etc.)
A more in-depth explanation can be found here:
Run Starcraft 2 at a custom resolution
This one is pretty simple, but some of you may not have realized it.
Add (or edit?) the following lines:
Width=X (X being the screen width you want in pixels)
Height= Y (Y being the screen height you want in pixels)
Disable all creep effects:
Creep becomes a texture. No more animations. Some competitive gamers may like this.
Ultra-high (extreme) graphics settings.
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EDIT: An in-game extreme graphics setting has been introduced, but only for the cinematics as far as I heard. I doubt it does much though, as far as I know it mostly just improves shadows. I do not recommend using it even for just the cinematics but that's just me.
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More details on this setting: http://tinyurl.com/34lwoe8
Extreme settings not available through GUI. Note, this runs EXTREMELY SLOW from what I heard, even on newer cards. The visual difference is almost ZERO in many cases, too.The major difference this does I think it make the shadows super-detailed. There's some other differences, but you don't notice them as much. I do not recommend this change to put in your variables.txt due to the performance cost compared to graphics boost.
Add the following lines:
GraphicsOptionOverallQualityVer7 [5] = 4
Performance AND good quality - tweak
More details on this setting: http://tinyurl.com/34lwoe8
This will maintain most of your current ultra settings,
but lower a few settings for a major performance boost. Note, this is designed to improve performance from ultra (highest) settings, in case you either want it to look different, or perform more smoothly.
hdr = 0 (Seems to lower color de-saturation of units, but also removes most of the glowing on most units. Also reduces but not completely eliminates the glossy/shiny look on models)
shadowmapsize=512 (shadow detail. You can also try 256 or 128.
transparentshadows=0 (Major change for ATI Radeon cards I hear. cloaked units get normal shadows instead of transparent.)
Remove shadows
Completely removes shadows as far as I know. This is another competitive gamer performance change, but I think can just be done in the GUI?
shadows = 0
Untested, but obviously water effects:
This could be another useful improvement on some maps for competitive gamers. I have not tested these, and do not yet know what they do for certain, but here are what my values happen to be.
waterreflection=1 (water reflections effect)
waterrendertargetsize=1024 (water quality I'm guessing)
watershadow=1 (shadows in the water? possibly shadows FOR the water waves?)
Show low-ground/pits/canyons/hide-fog
This makes the screen/gameplay-area SLIGHTLY "darker", since there is a small amount of fog on normal level ground, but the main thing you'll notice is all low ground (pits,canyons,etc.) that is normally unpathable (unless you specially edit it in the editor) will be visible, as the fog that normally covers it will disappear. Not sure if this increases or decreases performance, but it looks pretty cool IMO.
Add line:
fog= 0
Remove the glossy/shiny/slimy look on all models
If one sets hdr to 0 it will diminish the shiny/slimy/glossy appearance on all models, but models will also loose all glow effects. However, if one keeps hdr at 1, but sets spec to 0 you will loose the glossy look completey, but keep the HDR glow effects. Note that spec=0 considerably reduces the perceived detail level of many units (especially zerg).
Change lines:
spec = 0
Remove bumpy textures
This will remove normal map (bump map) effects on all models, including the terrain. It makes the terrain flat looking, but also removes the 3d look on all other textures that use it (pretty much every zerg unit, and not much else AFAIK). This affects the quality of zerg units' detail a lot, but makes the terrain a bit more clean looking.
modify the line:
Unknown effects
Test these if you want. I have not tried them, so be careful.
I run every thing on a either high or ultra. I don't want to sacrificer any visual quality but I'd like to enable simple pylon circles. How can I do this. They seem to only show up when every thing is set to low.
I am personally requesting if anyone knows how to remove all lighting in the game. This is an option in the editor (view>lighting), but I don't know it's variables.txt variable, if it even exists. Note it is NOT "lighting" or at least "lighting = 0" because I tried that and it crashed my computer.
Unrelated to variables.txt, but very useful if you want a visual boost:
This information is only relevant if you have an ATI Radeon card.
ATI has released updated drivers to enable Anti-Aliasing in Starcraft 2. Previously even forcing application to use AA would not work for Starcraft 2, but with the new driver, it can now be done. This may slow down your FPS considerably, so watch out.
It also improves performance in certain crossfire setups.
EDIT: that was version 10.7a, you should probably get a more recent version now (which may offer increased benefits). Visit amd/ATI's website to get the latest version.
nVidia cards could/can already force AA.
Edited by Xapti on 2/9/2011 11:36 PM PST
New, discovered it myself before my computer crashed and failed on me (posting in safe mode)
Add line:
fog = 0
Turns off game fog. Game fog is most noticeable when you look at parts of the map which use pits or cliffs that are lower the ground below "ground level"m. The fog quickly gets dense, and you can't really see the ground at all. This removes that. It might be a performance booster, or a performance reducer. my guess is reducer, but not by much.
In the folder, under windows 7, C:\Users\(Your Username Here)\My Documents\StarCraft II
or Simply "My Documents" then StarCraft II
Open the file "Variables.txt" in the StarCraft II folder right there, not in the subfolders.
There is a ton of graphics settings, but one that stands out is "shadowmapsize"
So basically if you know about shadow maps, every frame the scene is rendered to the depth buffer without color or texture information, then to in a different pass the normal backbuffer. The normal pass goes to a render target of say 1920x1080 (your screen resolution). The depth buffer for the shadowmap is (for ultra) 2048x2048. So its pretty big, it is faster to render to the depth buffer, but still has a huge tangible hit on performance. This shadow map is then sampled for all scene objects that either cast or receive shadows (pretty much everything). So:
a.) The smaller this shadowmap resolution is, the faster this pass is rendered.
b.) The smaller this shadowmap is, less sampling, less "taps" are needed for the final scene due to the overall resolution difference.
So it is currently set at:
Without changing any of the other options, set it to:
There is a negilble difference in quality, and in this game its really hard too see. But the performance difference is well worth it.
Let me know what you think, and if you want to prevent StarCraft II from in-advertently reseting this back 2048, set the file "Variables.txt" as read-only.
I tried the shadowmapsize thing but did not get a big boost in fps. I only got a few. Its not worth the quality imo. Im sure those who have a decent computer could probably find this useful.
My specs in case youre wondering:
windows 7 64bit
i7 920 @3.6ghz
ati 5870
6gb ddr3 1600mhz triple channel
Edited by Akumapro on 8/6/2010 1:33 AM PDT
The engine itself probably doesn't support anti aliasing in default since it uses a deferred renderer and deferred renderers have a very hard time supporting AA.
If blizzard did manage to get AA hidden in there kudos to them though.
I can pretty much guarantee there's no AA option for variables.txt. If there was, it would be an option in-game. This is definitely something you have to force on your video card.
Note, however, if you're not a fan of catalyst control center, or nvidia display wizard (or whatever it's called), you don't need these programs running to force AA for starcraft 2. You only need to set the option(s) and then close the program. I don't have my program on startup, so it will only open when I run it manually.
There's also other programs that let you force AA and change more advanced settings the default programs don't even let you. I don't remember the names, but I am at least sure there's one for ATI card (called atipro or radeonpro or something I think). You don't need to run them all the time, either. In fact, I think by default they DON'T startup automatically, since there's no reason to.
very nice find mr xapti.. of course ive been having crashing issues myself.. ill give all this a try see if it at least calms down on the crashing.. i got two ati 5830's and there slould be no reason why this game crash's like it does.
from the looks of the variables.txt file these settings shouldnt be even set this high on default.. i know blizzard wants there game to look good but not so good too where its putting over the limit heavy stress (settings) on even the top doller cards/pc's
also Carandiru's post does make's sence. and sadly (& this is very well known) shadows do seem to tax alot off the gfx cards no matter what game you play. its never really needed to have extreamly high shadows because you really never notice your units shadow once you get in the battles anyways..
I tried the shadowmapsize thing but did not get a big boost in fps. I only got a few. Its not worth the quality imo. Im sure those who have a decent computer could probably find this useful.
You have a kick ass video card, I don't think you need to tweak (at least you shouldn't have to), also considering you other specs. I have:
Windows 7 64bit
2 285 Dual-Core Opteron Processors
NVIDIA 260 GTX Maxcore
2GB DDR Ram
Will any of these settings help with the in-game videos (cutscenes) and things like the Hyperion Bridge, Lab, etc for people running SLI? (I'm aware that there is a consistent problem with SLI for people using that setup). I have dual 260M's, and the game runs flawlessly except for those areas. My cards don't currently get excessively hot (I am running both HWmonitor and Everest). Or is this something I'm going to have to wait for either a Blizzard patch or an nVidia driver update?
I don't really have any complaints about the game, just that part would be nice to see. Other than that, I have no complaints and have been greatly enjoying the game.
I don't think they affect the cut-scene performance or quality, much or at all. I didn't know SLI had that problem. Running crossfire I don't have the problem. Sounds like a problem nVidia will have to fix, since it's an SLI thing.
There is a setting for quality of in-game cutscenes in the GUI if you didn't know, but I assume you did.
I'm making a new post just to be clear:
It turns out the experimenting I decided to do (which made me discover fog=0, and what pixellight, and spec do) can actually result in your computer crashing immediately when SC2 is run (at least it happened to me). This can happen if you provide in invalid variable, or very likely an invalid value, or even possibly values that your system simply doesn't like/support.
It is also possible that this is what caused my crossfire to stop working (I can't boot windows with 2 graphics cards now), since the timing would be right, but I find it extremely hard to believe that it is possible. While I highly doubt it, it is a possibility.
From this point on I do not recommend experimenting with variables.txt if you don't know what you're doing, and any changes you do make will be at your own risk (not that it wasn't ever your own risk before though, lol).
Edited by Xapti on 8/6/2010 10:24 PM PDT
frameratecap=60 (In-game FPS limit)
shadowmapsize=512 (shadow detail. Only change if the number was higher by default (1024 or 2048). You can also try 256 or 128.
i have 1st tryed the top one.. sits around 62 in-game seem to have help load/move interface a bit fast/smother
for the shadowmapsize= mines was set @ default 2048 so i fig i have 1024 memory in my gfx cards (ati 5830) & simply matched it too to shadowmapsize=1024..
these settings has so far help reduce lag/crash's so thats a plus. so far not one crash yet ;-)
i do have a question tho what is softshadowTaps=6 ?? whats it for/do?? just askin because in your post its set to 6 wile mines it set too 12..
softshadowTaps should determine the number of times each shadow pixel accesses ("taps") its neighbors in the shadowmap to determine softness.
I must admit even if this fixes problems I'm wary of attempting it, I don't know enough about putting in code or messing with game text to fiddle with it, unless there's some very exact details on what to do step by step. In mean time I think I'd rather wait for a patch.
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I don't have these two settings in variables.txt, should I add it or just not do anything?
If you lower your shadow map size to 1024 you should probably also lower your taps, since it's kind of unnecessary to have that many taps when your detail probably isn't enough to show the difference (or at least not as good).
softshadowTaps, transparentshadowsProbably should not do anything. The changes for that section are changes to improve performance from ultra settings - I didn't really mention that (kinda stupid of me), so I'll clairify that one. That may be the reason why you don't have the values. Obviously do not increase values if you want a performance boost as opposed to quality boost. They are also values for PC, it's possible mac is missing certain variables or something? Just a guess although I think it's unlikely since they use pretty much the same hardware.
Edited by Xapti on 8/7/2010 12:06 AM PDT
ok just got done playing for the night.
just to let you know i only had 2 crash's for the whole night thats alot better then having a crash after 1-2 games online... prob 20 + crash's a night (well used to be ;-p )
i havent try lowering softshadowTaps= to 6 yet but will do later on when i wake up.
good to know, I wonder how much of difference in "soft-shadow" quality it will make when changing the shadowmapsize=2048 to shadowmapsize=1024 and softShadowtaps=12 to softShadowTaps=6. I currently have it at 12, but with some shader programming knowledge this is a variable defined as the extent of a for loop in a pixel shader. And the more "taps" the farther the samples reach out to adjacent pixels to get a "better" soft-shadow average for that pixel. Sounds all technical I know yes, but what is the tangible difference - only screenshots comparing the two would actually show - and I bet the difference is so friggen hard to see its worth the "small" performance difference.
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