Show HN: Piste.io • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#31

Post by mpoloton » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:07 PM UTC

Neat idea, but the application is very resource hungry!

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#32

Post by qqg3 » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:08 PM UTC

cheshire137 wrote: post #28

Where does the name come from? My brain linked it with pastebin and I assumed it was going to be a site to show off code samples.

Piste is a word meaning "ski run" or "ski slope"

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#33

Post by victorantos » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:09 PM UTC

Great idea, but it's not reflecting the actual "pista"... And it's not fast enough at the moment.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#34

Post by keehun » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

How is this supposed to work? The camera seems to follow a randomly generated swinging motion down the hill. Is this to see the mountainside for skiing purposes? Looks well built, and I really like the 3D models of these mountains.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#35

Post by napoleond » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

This is extremely cool. Very well done. An incredible technical feat! It's a shame that so many people are having browser problems (I was too, Safari) but that is to be expected given the nature of what you're doing, and should not detract from what is a fantastic technical demo/prototype.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#36

Post by incidence » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

Cool! But seems to work only on Firefox, you should fix it for Chrome too.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#37

Post by flanbiscuit » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

incidence wrote: post #36

Cool! But seems to work only on Firefox, you should fix it for Chrome too.

worked fine for me in Chrome

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#38

Post by demarq » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:42 PM UTC

Worked fine for me, there were moments of stutter though but otherwise an impressive project.

win64/Opera

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#39

Post by whizzkid » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

Hard work and good job. enjoyed the experience.

PS: After 20 seconds of looking at panorama view, I started hearing a wind like sound, and was just thinking "oh nice, let me hear that", and then realised that it was my macbook air's fan cooling the cpu.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#40

Post by dfcowell » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

I think this could be improved by biasing the camera's target more towards the fall line of the slope, rather than keeping it on the path that the camera entity itself is following.

It also appears that many of the longer runs end early instead of going the full length of the piste. Still, a very impressive proof-of-concept.

Chrome 39.0.2171.71 on OSX 10.10.1.