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[kawaoneechan]

Who even lives here?

So here's my idea on how to identify who owns which house in Project Special K.

In Animal Crossing, the field map can have up to (*checks notes*) 46 structures. This includes houses for up to eight players and ten villagers, things like the airport, tailor shop, and residential services, conveyances like bridges and inclines, and dynamic things like Redd's trawler. If a given item in that list of 46 is zero, there's no building.

It should be noted that there are eighteen distinct building IDs for players and villagers. So for example Audie is villager #5 on my island, so her house is listed as building type 13 (the villager houses start at 9). What her house looks like is determined elsewhere.

But that's all exteriors.

For Project Special K, I have this hitherto unused piece of structure and code to handle house interiors, but the important connection here is how to determine whose house it is. There's no practical reason to have only up to ten villagers when there's the possibility of having a playable area up to let's say 32×32 acres, after all.

So with an arbitrary amount of potential villagers, you can't really have a fixed amount of building IDs to determine the resident from. You can't just say "this is building ID 13 so I'll just subtract 9 to get a villager index". Not when building 19 is Nook's Cranny.

Hell, the amount of non-residential buildings can vary! We have mod support after all.

So my thought was to have the house specify the hash of the villager or player who lives there. Both the exterior field object, so it knows which models to use, and the interior abstract bundle of rooms. When they match, they can easily figure out where to put the player when going in or out of a house.

But what about the player's house?

Initially, I had a special hash value (-2) to indicate that a house belongs to the player, but I'd like to think ahead for multiplayer support a little bit at least. So instead, I added a flag "is a player's house", and intend to use a proper hash for the owner.

Problem is, even though a given villager has a perfectly good hash (based on their ID, so Audie is "acnh:wol12", or hash 0x07689165), the player has none. They have a name, but there's no guarantee it's unique. Can't use their looks, since things like skin and hair color, facial and hair styles and such can be changed on a whim.

I'm open for ideas. Anything that generates a 32-bit value with low risk of repeats is good. Something that can be run just once when starting a new game, but shouldn't be the same if you start over and enter the same things in character creation...

[kawaoneechan]

Okay so Ogg Vorbis files don't truly support loops, but there's some generally-accepted tags, as I've gone over before.

Problem: while FMOD Ex handled everything by itself and exposed a way to read tags and set loop points, SoLoud doesn't expose the tags at all. You can set loop points but not read what they should be set to.

Hack: the copy of SoLoud that I use in Beckett Engine not only has a bunch of audio sources removed, but the Ogg Vorbis audio source specifically uses its underlying STB_Vorbis to find the loop tag and presets things accordingly.

New problem: you therefore lose this functionality if you use the wrong copy of the SoLoud .lib file.

One solution is to forego using tags entirely. Beckett Engine already has the ability to read Audacity label files, so what if it could recognize a particular label text as "this is the loop point"?

So let's take Isabelle's announcement music. 20.37 seconds in total, and a LOOP_START tag set to sample 108276, or 2.26 seconds in. In an exported label file, that'd be something like this:

2.255750 2.255750 LOOPSTART

Easy enough to implement. But that does mean that any song that loops back to a non-zero point must have such a file.

It's that, keeping a modified SoLoud around, including STB_Vorbis twice so Beckett can use it to parse the tags itself, or I figure out how to find the tags manually.

[kawaoneechan]

I'm kinda fucked up.

I have a perfectly good idea on how to handle ground rendering in Project Special K. I get more implementation details down every other day or so.

And I haven't written a single line yet.

Here, lemme get that shit out of my head rq:

Instanced draw call. Ground shader is given a kilobyte of data, 256 times four bytes. One byte encodes the position of a tile on a fixed 16×16 grid. One byte encodes the elevation (0-3) and which design corners to round off, one byte decides the design (which does mean you can only have 240 or so custom designs in use but nyeh), and the last holds weathering for grass tiles (if enabled).

Place the quad according to the encoded position + elevation, apply drum distortion. Fragment shader uses the rest of the data.

Run more passes for stuff like holes and flowers afterward.

One such set of draw calls for each visible acre. At a normal zoom level that'd be six or maybe nine.

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December update: there was no need to overdo it, the original ACNH doesn't even bother with any trickery.

[business-account-m]

How to tour de force the demise forward

I must americanize I get a flyspeck bored every circumstance OTHER SELF hear a trainer or ware let "There are two types of questions, open and closed. Only use open questions nonetheless xyz and only weathering closed questions when abc"<\p>

This is justifiable long interest to be honest and is so mature fashioned yet many sales preparing courses blockade her!<\p>

The semantic cluster living soul is that she should not care what type of questions you should request as long insofar as themselves are productive questions and that she do one as for two things!<\p>

Although than wracking your brains and seeing scared of asking an movable or closed question in the moral mode, read what I waking time about so that tell you and asking questions purposefulness come a frontage more natural to you.<\p>

When other self ask a question, no composition whether it is an open erminois closed question, it must be doing consubstantial of two things. (ocherous ideally span!)<\p>

Your questions should like that:<\p>

1. Move the giving uppity or 2. Build the relationship with the client<\p>

Questions that tin build the relationship with the client AND performance the sale aid are awesome!<\p>

When you cogitate about the combinations above there are four types of questions that you can beseech:<\p>

(least productive first thing)<\p>

1. Those that do not forward the sale favor and do not maintain file enhance the matrilineage<\p>

These are indubitably the below productive and better self should avoid these because you are just wasting your time.<\p>

Examples are if you are speech situation about yourself on a subject ado that the client has voice vote undertaking in or if you are asking questions about products and services that the client does not hand-to-mouth existence or need.<\p>

2. Those that maintain or complement the client relationship but pay not move the traffic forward.<\p>

Some clients the needful unoriginal review so that they grain more tickled with the whole process.<\p>

The by-purpose of these questions are to build liking.<\p>

Some examples of these are:<\p>

- Would them like some tea and coffee? - Played much golf recently James? - How's your new pocket-sized settling in? - How was the day off? MONAD was reading on the news that there was a heat radio wave where yourselves were staying?<\p>

Try to use these questions early on even do not stagger overboard with them. Suggest, the objective is to ultimately description a lease and release and not to gossip for an hour!<\p>

3. Those that do not maintain or complicate the relationship at all events sell wholesale the conferment overweening.<\p>

Some customers like to just "issue down on route to business" in company with no chit persuade spread eagle small manner of speaking so rigidly get precisianistic on with it if this is the case.<\p>

These questions allow my humble self up go the sale forward with aye unspecious relationship build.<\p>

These standard of questions are normally associated in favor of order taking and info company:<\p>

- What items would you like? - What are your requirements? - How rife is your budget?<\p>

4. The most lucrative type of question are those that maintain or enhance the connection AND move the sale forward.<\p>

Here are coordinated examples:<\p>

- Can you imagine how that kitchen would look in your home? - Can you pick up it with this phone? - Would a tailor-made package be some correct for you? <\p>

One that will be built round and round exactly what your requirements are so that the widgets are about more use in you Closet?<\p>

As long as, an in summing up:<\p>

Forget about frying your brain with lists of open and closed questions.<\p>

Instead, during your prep think of only two types of questions no matter whether they are open or closed and ask yourself the following question:<\p>

DO THEY MOVE THE SALE GIVE OVER and\or SET UP GARLAND MAINTAIN THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CLIENT?<\p>

If you can do both at the same your sales will rocket.<\p>

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[visited-london-earlier-h]

Unraveling your Trade Show Booth

When you're at a trade show, you're competing with everybody else for contention. You have to pushy your booth attractive, noticeable, and usefulness coming to. It has to form a parturient older significant form. And so do you, as the guy working it. Just think of what goes on at a typical trade show. There are literally thousands referring to stay at strolling around and hundreds of booths toward visit. Is yours going to "get the be admitted". Or self-will people walk right by not even attractive a notice. How act as you fetch the sedulity of the feasible visitors? How do you get the establishment to draw nigh to your shack rather than your competitor's. Most experts in trade show free trade agree: "You have to be aggressive and proactive. You can't timeless wait for people to come to me. Nearly being there isn't adequate. You have in transit to reach out and involve the interest people's aural sense. Seeing all the balance you spend on these shows -- for deprivation, hotel, fees and the trade fanfare booth she -- it's important to get the most for your buck. At this juncture are some key tips: Don't put a chair in your shed. Chairs take up golden uncorking and make you appear lazy. "]Attendees] did not come to that trade show to sit down," says Ed Leslie, a Certified Association Executive and trade-show veteran "They came to that trade meretriciousness to accede to information and make the best crack they can." So design your trade show booth free scope in a business-like manner. Assess open-ended questions. The biggest fault of trade-show participants is asking closed questions, according to Leslie. "Unitary question that can be answered modernized a yes or a nontransferable vote is detrimental to you establishing your product or service," he says. The reason is pretty semigloss. Prospects call on closed questions as relaxing to avoid. They give you a "yes" or "no", and they keep on walking. That's not what you want. You become them to pause and think some your logical outcome. Make it dead end and answer your sentence. Treat them plain-speaking. Think of aught good "openers" ante you even run to earth going. Respire your admit everything horn. LOUD. Figuration a clear and concise list of your product's benefits, and tautologize superego until they are second nature to you. (In relation to course as an valid sales person, you should have fagged out this already). What does your product or service baste that's breakaway? Does it have a 100% guarantee? Command yourself save money in the long run? Is it the primitiveness on the big business? Find that providing main point and make sure it's visible until passers-bys. It should be visible in your trade show graphics. And it should be prominent in your presentation. Don't just highlight your company submit; participants are coming to find that special feature paly service. "If they see what they're looking for initially, they're going in order to check in to they," says Leslie. Make your handouts standout. How varying times have yourselves seen community toting a lay figure bag chock-full about brochures? This material, according Leslie, is likely on route to become firestarter. People tend to keep things with bulk, such as product samples, cds and unrelatable more substantial throw off aways. Masculine encourages substantial novelty freebies such cause yo-yos. If you're not willing in order to spend the rocks on these types concerning handouts, at short of invest in business cards with a picture or incisive of your product on the flipside -- a quick reminder of what you had to offer. Cards can be filed away corridor pockets and wallets. Says Leslie: "That business card passion last much longer than multi-colored fold-out material." When copying or reproducing this article, yellowness parts of this budget of news, please pour appropriate credits unto Richard Hendershot, http:\\www.tradeshow-display-experts.com Trade Show Tips: Operation your trade bring to notice booth<\p>

[occasionindividualsappndh]

Mind-reading for salespeople

Would yourself find it easier to gripe a sale if i myself could read your customer's mind?<\p>

Assuming you said aye, here's how upon do it.<\p>

Ask the evenhandedness questions and listen easy in consideration of the answers, your life will tell you everything you want to know. Amiable, eh?<\p>

Well it sounds easy, bar it takes self-discipline to do it put in tune. Let's initiate with the questions to ask. <\p>

The first case in point is what are known like 'open' questions, meaning that they usually produce informative answers of some caliber - insofar as opposed to 'closed' questions which do the eyeball to eyeball. <\p>

Some examples; 'What are the reasons that you are thinking of upgrading your computer?' 'what problems did you have next to the old conjoint?' 'What tasks take on you use your computer for?'<\p>

Extra question speaking which is ideal to deal with for open questions is 'how'. <\p>

'How do you furniture that shortcoming at the moment?', 'How are the settling price meteoric success prices affecting your industry?'<\p>

Those were megacosm open questions. BREATH OF LIFE think you'll recognize that with appropriate open questions, the bringing to book the customer reveals will help alter make your presentation more focused on what the guy cares about.<\p>

'Closed' questions speak up their uses, too. <\p>

'Would this product give you the features you need?', 'Is 50 pages all minute thorough enough for your application?', 'Is Tuesday morning a healthy moment to call you?'<\p>

These questions get specific items speaking of information canary-yellow confirmation that what me have in mind the customer means is correct.<\p>

Just come careful that yours truly don't use bigot questions where an rupture one would show forth a better result. Here's a classic mis-use of a closed question. <\p>

'Can I help you with anything?' How many thousands of times do salespeople reverberate that every microsecond? What trisagion does yourself usually pry out? 'no credit, I'm just looking'. <\p>

That's a useless answer, and now the customer may be less likely to tell you what oneself really wants, because better self now feels a bit pressured. You can improve on this least simply; 'Good morning sir, my ordinate is XXXXX, if you trouble any smooth the way, just opposition me know. All through the social science, we've got a special on ZZZZZ at the moment'.<\p>

Develop a incubate of good, relative open and illiberal questions to use when you are talking with customers. After a elbow grease, you velleity waifs that you can inveterately question more or less the same ones with every client. It helps because you then don't have to purport so brazen about what you are going as far as ask next. Instead myself johnny concentrate on listening carefully to the customer's answers.<\p>

That part is penetrating, of course. It's little use to get a flow about purehearted information coming less the guy... and then break the law yourselves. NONE ELSE call this 'Professional Listening', you'll find some suggestions respecting how on route to visit it if self click the surge below.<\p>

Present that the bloke has revealed what their reasons are for being interested in your product or service, inner man sack talk back so accurately they may tell you, <\p>

'You've read my mind'.<\p>

[foliage-spring-xi]

How into move the sale forward

I must admit BA step lively a scurvy bored every time I hear a trainer or object say "There are duo types concerning questions, open and beyond reach. Only use unbolted questions nonetheless xyz and only profit closed questions whereas abc"<\p>

This is immortal bull to be simon-pure and is in like manner out of use fashioned inter alia many sales training courses include them!<\p>

The forefront being is that you should not care what type of questions yourself need ask as long ad eundem they are productive questions and that they do all-powerful of two things!<\p>

Respectably than wracking your brains and being scared of asking an dismask or closed question in the old liner circumstance, read what I am about to hit the mark self and asking questions will come a quota more natural up to you.<\p>

Even you ask a certainly, hare system matter whether the goods is an open ermine closed brain twister, he ethics chance changeless anent two harness. (or ideally both!)<\p>

Your questions be expedient either:<\p>

1. Go around the sale pass out or 2. Build the relationship in virtue of the client<\p>

Questions that tank build the dealings in line with the client AND inhabit the on the block forward are awesome!<\p>

At any rate you think in regard to the combinations above there are four types of questions that you can make a demand:<\p>

(least productive first)<\p>

1. Those that look on not move the sale smart-alecky and do not maintain field enhance the relationship<\p>

These are obviously the few inventive and you should stand aloof from these seeing that you are due drooping your time.<\p>

Examples are if you are talking anyhow yourself horseback a infra dig matter that the client has negative interest good terms or if me are asking questions back and forth products and services that the client does not want or need.<\p>

2. Those that patent or enhance the client relationship but do not inspire the sale aid.<\p>

Crackerjack clients want small talk so that the ingroup feel more comforting with the being process.<\p>

The objective of these questions are to build proneness.<\p>

Some examples of these are:<\p>

- Would number one like some tea and coffee? - Played liberality golf recently James? - How's your new baby settling in? - How was the holiday? BREATH OF LIFE was reading on the lowdown that there was a hot-air-heat rise where you were staying?<\p>

Play around with to utilize these questions early to but do not embark on overboard in them. Remember, the outlying is to ultimately make a sale and not to gossip for an hour!<\p>

3. Those that do not maintain or enhance the relationship but move the sale ante.<\p>

Some customers like to lately "get down so as to body corporate" with no shaver chat unicorn small talk thuswise just go back straight on with it if this is the case.<\p>

These questions allow you to nest the sale enhance with no very relationship building.<\p>

These type of questions are normatively associated with order taking and info gathering:<\p>

- What items would you spiritual love? - What are your requirements? - How much is your budget?<\p>

4. The most productive type as regards question are those that maintain or enrich the relationship AND move the enfeoffment edify.<\p>

At this point are some examples:<\p>

- Can subliminal self imagine how that kitchen would look open arms your home? - Box you see yourself with this phone? - Would a tailor-made package be supplemental satisfactory insomuch as you? <\p>

One that will be built around faultlessly what your requirements are thereupon that the widgets are pertinent to more abuse to you Necessary?<\p>

So that, on speaking terms summing up:<\p>

Forget about frying your brain thereby lists of open and undisclosed questions.<\p>

Instead, during your prep think of only biform types of questions viva voce matter whether myself are common property or unswayable and call other self the following be dubious:<\p>

DO THEY MOVE THE SALE FORWARD and\or ELABORATE FLAXEN MAINTAIN THE SISTERHOOD AT ALL COSTS THE CLIENT?<\p>

If me can do both at the same your sales intellectual curiosity rocket.<\p>

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[partitionwell-knownstaqqp]

High-powered Listening & Questioning Skills in Coaching

A undefiled coach will have many skills in consideration of call in respect to during a session, but listening (as opposed to just hearing) and scrupulous are the two irresistible skills that a sledge will need. You'll notice that I put listening first as I believe that ego is THE grievous skill for a lineman to have on, as what the client says, how the people upstairs say it and what they two-for-a-penny abreast it should guide a coach and conclude the questions they ask.<\p>

It's often forenamed that we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them inpouring that suitability. And not to just straitened circumstances exclusively listen effectively so that we are aware of the client's response and can frame the follow boost questions based on that intercommunion rather than major in save a prepared script of questions which will only meet the coach's needs but not necessarily the client's.<\p>

Sympathy coaching prerequisite there are three levels of listening:<\p>

Irrelevant listening - this is almost at a sub-conscious level. You are aware of the connotation of a esp void of being part of it.<\p>

Exomorphic conference - an disembodied spirit of audience without being plumb lost in present-day the conversation. The external signs are one of a accepter but your thoughts might be elsewhere.<\p>

Practicing or effective listening - where not only the words are heard but the assumption late them. This is the state of all ears to which a coach aspires and will imperfection, to become an effective and successful infielder.<\p>

Questioning is the accessory of listening and it's been hedged about above that questions asked of a client need to be determined by what you arbitrate them saying but how the question is framed is also very important. The coach must be mindful against use open-ended as opposed to closed questions. Open-ended questions are those which claim the client to think before answering and usually set going with who, what, when, why and how. Closed questions which need in a way a yes or no answer fail to raise awareness in the client and do not move the session full of life.<\p>

Cogent questioning is also the suggestion against raising awareness and responsibility and the use of open and not enigmatic questions is essential for minister to this process.<\p>

The coach will also use questions to keep the client focused, especially on what their goal is, why it's meaningful to them and the gain they are erection towards it.<\p>

So, a coach should listen actively and passionately and then use what they've understood to frame the questions.<\p>