/v/ - Video Games

So, how's LD going, Anon? Got any idea, already or still in the "design" phase?

>>13908079

>"design" phase>by now

Naw, We're making progress

>>13908079

What is the "design" phase even? I have literally never "designed" my games. You just make them and then tweak them if you don't like them.

>>13908079

I'm in the theoretical mathematics phase, testing if you can make nonograms with dimensions higher than 3D.

>start off with two simple 1D nonograms ([X] and [X-X]

>a few normal 2D ones

>3D ones, like that DS game

>wait what the fuck, 4D?

>oh god where does it end

>>13908528

Noted & thanks for your response, I'll take another pass at the feet with vertical position in particular if I understand what you're saying right. Third gif is more unhappy timing than anything else though, the freeze frame after the animation finishes is where she stops, not where she starts, but the first few animation frames happen to work for both positions, so I might need to do something about that step-in too.

>>13908528

possibly after the game teaches the player 4D spatial reasoning

understand any number of dimensions with this simple trick: every dimension is just the starting point of a new dimension

>>13908528

>Can brain even understand 4D puzzles? Or would it be just random trail and error fest?

You'll see a 3D projection of the 4D object, can select which 3 axes you see, and can scroll along the currently invisible axis with a scrollbar. It basically just becomes harder to find the next projection that you can find a working hint in.

I could also use just the 4th dimension as invisible and not give any hints along that axis, but then it would pretty much be as simple as a 3D one except as many puzzles as it is wide in the W axis. Then you could make puzzles that basically are just frames, and make simple 3D voxel animations. I'm keeping that as an alternative solution if the real deal doesn't work out, but my intention is to make it stupidly hard since the theme is "the more you have dimensions in my case, the worse it gets".

>>13908395

>>13908647

I think you might be a better fit as a game's journalist.

>>13908705

those polygons and normals tbh

>>13908647

is this like a good score in one of those "subjectively, you're right" universities?

>>13908772

>you get hit and the screen shakes like an explosion just went off

bad game design

>>13908792

you don't wanna get hit. I was opting to have one-hit-one-death system but now it's 3 strikes and you're out.

>>13908799

it makes it harder to understand what happened and because the yellow punch indicator can be hidden when the npc is closer to the player, getting hit may result in getting hit more because you're thinking you weren't that close but didn't realize what happened until too late tbh

>>13908817

that actually gave me an idea. I'll make the indicator for enemies a different color.

And I'll tone it down so it's clearer what happened.

>>13908830

yellow is fine, just need it so that their arms don't cover it

>>13908896

that's much better

How to learn:

>ART

Read loomis, watch glenn vilppu DVDs.

Practice drawing from imagination trying to recreate pictures you see from google or your anime shit, but trying to copy them from imagination (like you watch the picture then draw it, then if you forget about a part, watch the picture again).

Try to construct these pictures as if you were doing it from imagination.

Start with the movement lines, then do perspective boxes, then proportions, then anatomy, then clothes and hair, then clean up and ink said piece.

Practice perspective, anatomy, values and planes.

Learn how to render a realistic picture by copying some masterwork.

>WRITE

Read "The story" from robert mckee.

Read TV tropes articles on writing, read tv tropes.

Download the TTC courses about shakespeare, poetrhy and the one called writing better sentences and writing non fiction.

Also learn grammar, and seek the ode less written (poethry book).

Read the bible, shakespeare and the most important works of literature in history.

Learn to write a sonnet.

Watch at least the 100 best movies of all time in hollywood.

>CODE

Read SICP and watch it's course.

Learn to code pong and breakout using SDL on C#.

Make some games with libgdx.

Read about data structures and algorithms.

Read about optimization of algorithsm.

Read the basics of computer architecture.

Learn the C programming language.

Learn algebra, trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra and physics.

Learn about OpenGL and do some graphics demoes.

Learn to do space partioning like quadtrees.

Learn the basics of game engines architectures, physics engines architectures.

Read the basics of AI.

>MUSIC

Google "The complete musician" PDF which is a college book on music theory and analisis.

Read the basics of music theory (music theory for dummies).

Realize music is nothing more than a melody line with one or more voices at the same time playing basically the same notes of your chord progression.

Google some tutorial on the basics of harmony, chord progressions and counterpoint.

Buy a cheap keyboard.

>GAME DESIGN

look up some tutorial on youtube called "from seconds to hours/mintutes of gameplay"

read a book on fun and game design.

read the book of chris crawford of game design.

>3D modeling

read on topology, learn to draw your own references, mostly if you do the 2D step, 3D is easy as fuck.

get a pen tablet and learn about sculpting on clay to master zbrush.

look up the blenderella course, the blender rigify rigging DVD, the chaos and evolution DVD.

>ANIMATION

download the animator survival kit.

Master the 12/10 animation principles of old disney guys.

Get some exercises of animation.

Master drawing.

>ADVICE

Read the bible, the basics of history, get some hobbies that aren't games like gardening, fitness, martial arts, music, reading literature, economics, history, political theory.

Read about sexual transmutation.

Do nofap.

Get a dog.

Learn diferent languages.

Socialize.

Read about investment.

Read how things get viral, a book on viral marketing.

Read about the blue ocean strategy in bussiness.

Start doing exercise, do calisthenics or join a gym.

Cook your own food, don't eat garbage, learn about nutrition.

>>13908942

Enemies spawn independently or is it triggered by killing them?

>>13908580

https://www.khanacademy.org/mission/math

>>13908647

the worst part is that he failed that just because of the timer

the lessons are ok once you learn your power level

>>13908627

>>13908772

that looks like some good gameplay

>>13908963

by kill

>>13908772

those are some deadly bananas

>>13909078

I'd say that's a better mentality tbh

>>13909097

it looks odd, but in the same way old Nip video game manuals looks odd. its a bit uncanny even for animu, though though I am not the one to talk!

>>13909108

is more like old 90's anime, that's maybe why is uncanny.

>>13909078

Tone down your autism and start stylizing & gesture drawing.

>>13909097

>>13909108

I think it looks odd because the head has no depth to it/the haircut suggests a weird skull shape, maybe it should also lean left a tiny bit or the neck's connecting to something weirdly. There's also the lines on the hair being a bit weak, both in thickness and in stroke.

>>13909097

>So, focus on copying your favorite gook artist, rather than focusing on loomis.

No, don't do this because you become one of those fags excusing poor anatomy as "muh style". Learning good anatomy and drawing skills are fundamental. After that you can exaggerate what you like to achieve a look you want.

>anime is drawn without perspective

That's just blatantly wrong.

>>13909153

just draw you draw slut tbh

>>13909144

you do realize 99.9% of anime, even professional anime done in the industry has anatomy and perspective mistakes.

I could draw realistic faces and I learned loomis and I can do portraits.

But animoo faces, have mistakes because most gooks suck at doing realism, and therefore having mistakes becomes part of the style.

western artists try to make animu while following loomis and always fall in the trap of making western looking anime.

Of course you got top tier artists in japan who make anime good because they grinded loomis and realism, but they're the minority.

Actually doing an anime drawing with perspective comes off.

If you try to make anime on blender, is literally impossible because you need to tweak and deform the anatomy into weird shapes that are wrong if you follow loomis.

>>13909317

I'd say you're overqualified.

>>13909226

Of course anime isn't realistic, it's not trying to because by being unrealistic it gets to be better than reality, in some sense. It uses anatomy, perspective and artistic fundamentals for as long as it helps the result, and then breaks the rules if it feels like that will just look better (or take too long to draw, a common problem in serialized art). Perfect realism is a false god, even Loomis constantly tells people to draw in a larger-than-life way.

>>13908942

be sure to post your game here when the jam's done. I sure as hell wanna play it.

>>13908987

>that looks like some good gameplay

Thanks, my dude. We sure are getting better at those 72 hour projects.

>>13909512

How many folks are working together on it?

>>13909551

no idea i see sometimes four of us, not sure if the others are active

>>13909551

>How many folks are working together on it?

Me for code/assets, my codefriend for… well, code. My brother for music. Just like Beelzebox. I was hoping to get more people on board but it's the same old story: people love to talk how they'd be making a game but given a chance, they never take it.

well, okay. the gameplay idea was from an ideaguy friend whose contract doesn't allow him to make vidya outside of his company

>>13909703

what kind of company doesn't allow that?

Isn't game making basically a hobby to those doing it soley for fun and not career?

>>13909764

>what kind of company doesn't allow that?

Game studios. They don't want competition.

>those doing it soley for fun and not career?

given the info below, I think that's self explanatory.

Mobile app companies don't allow their employees to make mobile apps privately either. This includes mobile games

>>13908647

who's to say that she stepped on her own bananas? it's not like there are only 3 bananas in the world. Also, the wording in no way indicates that she ever dropped her bananas.

And some people would eat stepped bananas just fine

>>13910181

I remember your posts. Thanks for sharing. I'll be putting it on the abandoned projects part of the wiki

I want to get started on my own PS1 styled renderer (with fixed point vertex transforms, no mipmapping, etc)

Where do I start?

>>13910200

Good to hear I'm still remembered. Perhaps one day I'll pick it up again, but for now I've been sidetracked with other projects.

Also the blueprinting that went into this needs to be purged with fire and rebuilt anew

Yo, MoM anon here!; I decided I will be making mini vids in anticipation of the demo release, so here is the first video of said batch!

Here, you will see the animation and sprite changes I have applied to the Pistol, Shotgun and Magnum, as well as adding a kick back property to the shotgun and Magnum. While you could use it in the past to push yourself back to gain speed, you can now use it to perform Gun Jumps!

>>13910520

>i'm going to make

The event is already half-over anon. Compo ends in a few hours, jam 24 hours after that.

>>13910624

i'm not doing this for a competition. is there a ohrrpgce comp taking place right now i'm not aware of?

>>13910636

You replied to a post that asked if you had an idea yet for a gamejam that is currently going on.

>>13910650

I thought LD stood level design and not something specific. it was just a general question in my mind.

>>13910587

>Gun jumping

Oh man one of my favorite mechanics.

You better make good use of it.

>>13910678

its not really a necessary mechanic, but more so another of many vertical options in my game!

That being said, its one of the quicker air options in the game, and is very useful in certain areas, one of which is featured in the demo I will be releasing soon!

>>13910587

This looks fucking fun. I already want to play it.

>>13910587

Some jingly magic sounds would finish off that logo introduction animation. Otherwise looking fun, MoMdev. And you need to post more often you jerk!

>>13910730

I actually DO plan on posting more. At least a video every one or two days now, just to show off changes, mechanics and areas I have not shown off yet. Also I will take note of that!

Also, just a general question for everyone here, would you say the animations on those weapons have been improved since the last time I shown them off?

And one last thing, I was showing off this project in the Doom Thread not too long ago, and god a lot of feed back in regards to the lighting in my maps. If they is any suggestion of improvements ANYBODY would like to suggest, I will do them; the gun animation changes are a part of that, so I do take note on such things!

>switching engines mid-jam because shit ain't working and it lacks functions you need and don't have the time to write yourself

I live on the edge.

>>13908303

Writing the GDD. It's very important to have that. I hear a lot of anons say that it's not, and that it's the same as ideafagging, but being able to just directly pump work into an existing concept is important for organization's sake. It makes you much more efficient. I can never do artistic things if I'm in a bad mood, and I'm in a bad mood a lot. So what I do is I have a design doc that I follow and do purely technical things for, so when I'm in a good mood all I have to do is put flesh on them bones.

Also, your brain thinks more than you're aware. If you roll the idea over and over in your head and think about the implementation, the solution comes much easier when you're actually working on the project. I was skeptical of this at first, but once I started letting my brain do some of that background thinking before starting to do things hands-on, I'm just generally getting shit done quicker because I'm going through the motions, the whole thing feels more familiar than not.

>>13908316

Glad to see this is getting worked on. I come back and immediately see some art. That being said, >>13908528 made good points. Plus, you have to consider your standing sprite and how it is animated plus how the animation may affect how a player sees themselves in-game in terms of where their player character is collision wise. In the first animation for example, upon doing a second hit the sprite moves forward in the image. Now animation movement and in-game movement aren't necessarily the same thing and because your image shows a player moving where they aren't actually, this could make the player think that their hitbox is further from where it actually is (ex: your player location was (0x,0y) but your animation made it look like your player is at (10x,0y)).

>>13911212

If you're not sure exactly what you want, or just have a vague idea, sketching things out and writing them down might be useful, but if you already have what you want clearly in your head, and have the skill to implement it, it's probably more useful to make a quick proof-of-concept.

>>13911394

If you're going for things that can be read at a glance, vertical bars work well. Alternatively, you can use an icon that changes color based on the state, like red from 0%-30%, yellow from 30%-60%, and green for 60% or above (or different colors based on what the thing represents)

Or why not both, vertical bars that change color based on fill.

>>13911212

Maybe this is a difference in creative process because I give absolutely no thought, I just take action and see what the result is after. Usually it is good, if not then I can change it. Granted I haven't worked on the "game" part of what I am doing since I am still programming an engine, so I know what kinds of algorithms I want to make, and because these things take so long to implement I have a clear road-map in my head. But in gameplay I just say, I want to make a new kind of enemy and then just make it, etc etc, like playing with a ball of clay until I like it, instead of having an idea of what I want to make with the clay finally at any point.

>>13911482

Nice ballsack, faggot.

>>13911420

Mockup movement in image software isn't necessarily the real movement that will be scripted in-engine, but I'm trying to make it roughly match. So for example the 4-hit combo will have forward movement on 2nd and 3rd hit when I get around to putting it into the engine.

>>13911575

Glad to hear. I'll admit I didn't know about it at first so I usually assume other people haven't either. What are you deving in/with btw?

>>13911591

LOVE2D/Notepad++/Krita. It's probably not the best of choices but I've gotten a bit too comfortable with them to really want to change.

>>13911604

I feel you on Notepad++. Try Sublime Text 2, it is like Notepad (I think Windows 7, 32-bit and up only?) in a bunch of ways. The way you edit properties such as text size is weird though, that might be a turn off.

>>13911681

Jesus, just use Code::Blocks, or Vim or Visual Studio or Notepad++ or something

>>13911690

but this won't feed into my autisim , I mean I can explain why those editors aren't what im using easily:

Code::Blocks is actually something that looks OK, so I might use it

Vim is annoying and if I will use it I am probably going to use the editor "Open Watcom Vi" that came with open watcom because it looks cool, other than that I don't even know how to use it

Visual Studio is too many GB, I mean I have it but its a waste, also the macros are buggy so if you change a macro you have to recompile the whole thing because it wont realize you changed it, thats annoying…

Notepad++, I mean its just not as good as a real IDE, cmon

So, Pelles C is right now the best text editor I have, because its pretty cool and less bloated than all of those "Except for open watcome vi if you didnt have to download the whole software suite. So, the idea is that I can write my own cool text editor, and it will be just for me… and also my own build system, because I don't like the ones that exist right now. I mean its just like a text editor so its not that big of a deal to make it, I'm not gonna make emacs or something its a text editor…

I have some cool ideas for games (programmer) but I recognize that all of them are pretty big projects and would take years to complete. I'm likely to get burned out of them and not end up finishing them.

I also have some ideas for simple, easy games that have been done before but would be cool to make. Obviously I wouldn't show them to anybody. Should I just build up my experience with the easier, fun games before tackling the big projects I'm really passionate about?

>>13911905

Make the easier games first. And you should absolutely show your games to everyone you can, even if they are just clones of other games.

>>13908316

>2

the big uppercut is too slow and freezes in the wrong moments

>4

second combo is really good for you, it shows you are breaking the 2d mindset

>5

the double kick looks overpowered, give it more time before it actually kicks

>>13908647

none of them because bananas are fucking garbage and only for ape niggers

>>13912018

Is your first note about #3 instead? The attack is designed to have 2 hits, the first one is more or less where it has an unnatural break. It's probably going to look better in motion, because I can set individual frame timings instead of lazily setting every frame to the same duration, but I will definitely try and time it more smoothly, and faster for the whiff case where it has to look like one big uppercut. About #5, I'm thinking about making the splits kick move forward less because it's intended as an option for when you're sandwiched. It'll also be not very fast comparatively, but the way it's going to be balanced is probably commitment, as in lack of free cancel options and recovery time.

>>13908910

>Read about sexual transmutation.

The first time I read about this was in a Napoleon Hill book, and since now everybody knows that the guy was a hack, maybe the best hack America ever produced, I can't help but to view these kinda of statements with extreme doubt, and sometimes with a little hostility. If you could back it up with some sources that doesn't go up to the snake oil salesman would be a great favor. Mind you, I'm not against NoFap or chastity, and I do not doubt their immediate effects (not wasting time with ephemeral bullshit), my whole problem is with 'sexual transmutation', the term and the concept.

Apart from this, what an amazing post. I love this self learning shit it's like half of reason I still come to this end of the world. I already knew half of this from /loomis/ and the 8agdg wiki but other half is quite precious.

Sage because no progress was posted.

>>13912290

People would feel more fulfilled if they were a bit more like you, unhappily our kind faces extinction.

Did you ever read Weapons of Mass Instruction?

I think you are going to like it

Sage again for no progress.

>>13912377

You need to get out more and get some friends. You talk and write like a neckbeard, i.e. just like me 4-5 years ago. This is a red flag, and you need to do some self-reflection and stop thinking you know and understand everything, because you most likely don't. Slow the fuck down and get your angst under control.

t. fellow autist

>>13912377

I honestly think you sound like an underage tool, and your writing style isn't helping matters, but your passion and drive for teaching ie math seems real and I respect that.

>>13912494

most of the people I met IRL are simply, I dunno how to put it nicely, they're slaves of the system, they're plugged, happy to live as wageslaves the best years of their lives, all their youth, in a lifestyle that doesn't improve their culture nor intelligence, enjoying self destructive habits, like hook up garbage, spending time getting drunk without realizing how damaging and poisonous is alcohol, spending time reading fake news without even considering for a moment who is behind the scenes or caring about real politics, thinking the goverment intervention in markets is a good idea because poor people needs welfare, without basic understanding of economics to understand why free healthcare is bad and why goverment education is garbage and kill a children self steem and doesn't teach nothing usefull for daily live, much less spending time watching garbage shows of TV that are written because the director hired a shit writer to produce a soap opera so you can see garbage melodrama for the TV channel to make money off advertisement, or listen music promoted by the jewish music industry in a effort to destroy music sensitivity and dumb down melodic and harmonic and counterpoint beauty so they can push crime music in a attempt to destroy the power of counter culture of music, while comodifying real counter culture as a mass produced ideology to teenagers, while population never questioned why they need to work 8 hours a day so their bosses and companies get their aggregated value of their work just to afford food so their companies saves millions on taxes by sending factory jobs to thirld world countries and fucking the middle class so now families have to work two parents several jobs just to afford living, where 70% of the population in america has less than 500 bucks in savings and the vast majority of the population has a wealth of less than 40k, while having the technology to elevate all humans to a first world standart of living with clean technologies, recycling all pollution, cleaning the oceans, stoping rainforest destruction, all while spending less money humans spend on bottled water, because capitalism is a garbage system, but comunism even while being a good idea is retarded as well, all this while americans think black friday is a good idea simply because they give 40% discount ignoring some months before the prices increased by 40% and the fact they work their lives just to be alive and the goverment tax them so they stop saving money on 0% interest savings accounts so they gamble their wealth on stocks because that's good for the economy while they acquire chinese goods of poor quality using credit, because fuck the economy and fuck producing jobs and goods here, we're a financial service economy.

All while your country is in middle of drug addictions and my thirld world country is one of the most dangerous because prohibition is a good idea and clearly worked with alcohol.

Also, while your taxes goes to finance world wars and kills millions of childrens and forcing the displacement of humans to europe caused by americans, that are causing the rise of the extreme right on europe.

Also, I'm not even started on the child trackficking and pedophilia ring in Europe by muslims and the thirld world by clinton fundation and the hollywood pedo rings protected by the congress.

But yeah, I clearly could have some IRL friends.

I guess I could speak about the latest soap opera, or chinese cartoon, or the dumbed down radio music, or how my NT classified to world cup.

Most people I know are no diferent than animals, and the people that have doctorates and college profesors are no diferent than trained chimps.

But yeah, of course I can have IRL friends, is not like I see them on facebook talking about important shit.

>>13912498

My passion is real, and I've always considered myself diferent.

One of my first memories I have in school is turning my head back and watching the class and thinking something is wrong, is like they're sheeps.

>>13912627

>but comunism even while being a good idea is retarded as well

You wonder why no one does anything and then speak the line you've been fed and bred to believe for most of your life without realizing it, and never once mentioned the root cause behind all the evil that you dislike.

Banks. Fractional Reserve Banking to be specific.

Our whole system is built to collapse and WILL once all the pieces are in place.

People aren't doing anything because they know it's not time yet.

Guys please, I'm saging for one reason. Could you post progress or something useful? This is /agdg/ you can continue your existential and political ramblings at /pol/ or something.

>>13912677

Communism can be suffered nowhere. I'll never forgive my ancestors for not fighting and dying in Poland like they should have, leaving me in this nu-roman hellscape. Blood and soil.

>>13912686

They can keep kicking the can down the road indefinitely. Probably. But maybe not.

>>13912721

you're a bluepilled idiot who is not even aware of his own slavery and should read more.

So, let's stop this discussion here.

>>13912736

>>13912377

>That spacing

>All this blog posting

>Other people are mindless sheep, these Youtube videos told me

>Doesn't know how to link to another thread

>Let's stop talking about it but let me get the last word in and say you're an idiot

Christ.

>>13912757

I didn't mention anything of the tinfoil shit like reptilians and blood lines anon, or the orion wars.

>>13913036

the mag getting stuck like that and the effort it looks like it takes to put it back in looks kinda shitty.

also i'm telling you right now that ADS animation would feel awful if put in a game.

you need to work on timing above everything else. your poses are okay, but the timing is too linear.

>>13913036

Unless you're making a post-apoc game where guns have rusted internals it shouldn't be that hard to get a clip in and out of your gun. Also the recoil force for a handgun with a slide is back then up, your animation just has the gun going up.

Even then it's too slow and linear like the other anon said. The firing animation needs to be snappier. I'd recommend using the handgun animations from Far Cry 2 as a reference.

>>13913036

The recoil animation is very clunky and doesn't look right, it should be smooth. Your animations for an FPS should be fast and tight.

>>13913056

I do, I'm just not very good with animation curves yet. Some things are difficult to replicate fully.

>>13913092

Yep, transitions are my achilles' heel. I found a few tricks like offsetting rotation keyframes, but most of it eludes me, still.

>>13913231

Snappier, got it. I think I was a tad too careful with not making the gun look like it's made of plastic.

>>13913231

>>13913092

Yeah, the model is a salvaged, handcrafted gun. I made the mag get stuck because I wanted to give it that character.

>>13913254

Thanks, I guess I should stick with straightforward, simple movements.

can someone explain what the hell does the & operator does? not the && operator.

>>13913899

Lets say we are only dealing with single digit binary numbers, so either 1 or 0. & takes in two inputs and gives one output. The inputs must be 1 and 1 to output a 1. If it isn't 1 and 1 it outputs 0.

0&0=0, 1&0=0, 0&1=0, 1&1=1

Got it? Let's move on to larger binary numbers.

0101, 5 in decimal

1100, 12 in decimal

& goes down the line, performing the & operate between place value

In

0101

1100

Out

___0

In

0101

1100

Out

__00

In

0101

1100

Out

_100

In

0101

1100

Out

0100

So 0101&1100=0100, or in decimal 5&12=4

>>13914039

Thanks, I knew that using "foo & 1 == 0" can be used as a faster way to find an even or odd number, but I didn't understand it. I finally understand.

>>13913899

Use diffrent bits as flags, then use & to test for the flags. This way, instead of using _Bool or bool in c++, you can just pack 8 bools into one byte.

Imagine the common programming pattern: flags = FLG_X | FLG_Y;

How do I test for these? if(flags & FLG_X)

>>13914752

What do you want doing and what have you got to work with?

>>13914752

A procedurally-generated roguevania

>>13914843

You should try motivating people in your local area with similar interests or maybe doing a smaller project and then securing funding and partners later. It's quite easy to overwhelm yourself with work else. This sort of stuff would probably be fairly straightforward in UE4 if you wanted to go it alone, the program is designed for artists after all.

>>13914903

I would advise you to take this slow. First because you should probably think more about your idea before you end up blowing too much cash on it, second because you should at least learn the basics of game development in art/programming/etc, just by building tiny simple games. Things like Pong or Chess (no AI) or shit like that. Knowing that really helps a director.

>>13914903

What's your brief? I'm not disinterested in this, if you were willing to put together a spec I'd be willing to figure out what the fuck I'm doing. I'd like a chance to test my skills and learn some stuff before I try a project of my own. My own art is somewhat lacking anyway.

I'm pretty amateur as far as it goes though. I'm not super fussed about pay but it'd probably be a good motivator for me.

Been so long since I used 8ch that I can't figure out how to use the email field if it even still exists, feel free to drop me a brief at tehhitguy@gmail.com (please no bully).

For reference I'm a comsci student and not a total amateur.

>>13914932

art or programming?

>>13914935

I'd be programming for you. The way I see it, if I contribute something to your project I get some cool experience and something to write on a portfolio. I would rather like to be paid if you're happy with my work but that can be arranged later, I'm interested to see what your pitch is to see if it's a good fit for me. If you could put together some documents explaining how your game is supposed to work and what you want done in what engine I could have a look at what's possible. I'm probably better suited to a 2D project than a 3D project though, but I'm willing to give it a try if I think you can pull off the directorial aspect.

>>13914959

That's cool. I can't promise I'll be able to help you, but writing all this stuff down should help you find a better direction regardless of the outcome.

Looking forward to (maybe) working with you.

>>13914843

Let's break this down, from my personal experience.

>walking around in fps

First person is the easiest kind of 3d.

>crosshair that animates over specific objects

Extremely easy.

>Interacting with characters via persona 4 esque dialog system

Not terribly technical, but it would take a while to create.

>story progress

This is a case by case basis kind of thing. Could be anywhere from relatively easy to difficult and complex. This would also most likely require the ongoing addition of code, whereas everything else you mentioned would just need maintenance and tweaking after they were implemented provided they were implemented by a programmer who wasn't utter shit.

>entering a room and shifting to sudo 2d

Easy.

It looks like the time sink here is going to be writing, asset creation, and the code controlling story progression.

I'm also interested in this project, but I'm already busy enough I doubt I could contribute much.

>>13915080

Killer app to end Windows imperialism

>>13915085

>he doesnt know what imperialism means

For christ sake.

>>13915114

I was being moronic with regards to the DPRK/USA relations given that you posted a picture of Trump. I apologise for not making it more obvious.

>>13915149

oh my god did I just witness a double murder?

>>13915085

>>13915028

Windows is just a better platform tbh, unix ecosystem doesn't really care about games, just that the game is "Open source", meanwhile the OS'es they make are not really designed for games… I mean compare X11 to Windows, it's obvious which one is better, especially for games- I mean X11 doesn't even have a standard way to do full screen, like you can try some tricks with it or try linking to xf86vm - it's just a big mess. and then there is the really poor situation with libraries and hardware accel- to the point where something like Debian Linux doesn't even have proper OpenGL without downloading a whole bunch of shit, and the drivers are a mess… because you are trying to figure out if you have the "free" drivers and the proprietary ones, and it's a rather confusing situation… now, GNU/Linux can run the games, it's just obviously not a factor that went into designing all of the systems that a game developer uses, unlike Windows, which has features that make game programming slightly easier to do.

>>13915152

No, a single murder of an IP-switching spamfaggot. Good riddance.

>>13915442

just like make it an array anon

Consider this, there are only so many inventory slots, and the size doesn't change enough for arrays to not make sense… obvious choice.

You might think haha arrays are slow but until you have an inventory with over 500 slots (probably need more tbh) it is actually faster than a more advanced data structure because of the CPU caching it better because of the spatial locality

>>13915480

Hm, would it be stupid to break the inventory down into a two dimensional array - with the main array containing multiple arrays defining horizontal slots? I'm going the Stalker way and only really using the multislot as a way to help items feel more tangible - the real limit on the inventory is weight. I want the inventory to be infinitely expandable in theory.

>>13915516

For maximum speed, you want a 1d array in one big block. Although since this is just your inventory speed doesn't matter, just make it whatever you want

>>13915531

Sure thing, I guess the best way to rewrite my post is that, If its something that doesn't get updated every frame, then speed doesn't matter. Also in general the inventory is simply so small in memory that the amount of processing power you spend on it also isn't significant. So, it's really just about whatever you are comfortable with writing the most especially as an inexperienced programmer

You should try out the 2d array, that would probably be the best way to implement it conceptually.

>>13915558

Thanks! I've decided to go with the vertical. Lengthy horizontal mouse movements when interacting with the UI are uncomfortable to most people.

>>13915574

anon, I think he meant when using two dimensional arrays of standard size

it CAN be both but picture yourselves navigating through a menu that expands endlessly you pewdiepie subscribers

>>13916290

anon please don't mod minecraft anymore, just don't waste your time. Go learn C++ and do make gaem

>>13915831

Do you have a final objective with this or are you just making things as you see fit? If you do have a final objective, do you mind sharing?

>>13916290

At least it's not like XNA when drawing fonts

>Have to create an .xml file for your font

>Limited to currently installed system fonts

>When you compile your game, it gets processed into a serialized .xnb resource file which is generally unchangeable, you have to remake it from the source if you want to change things

>It's literally just a blank texture with the selected characters at a given size

>The .xml files require you to state the font size in Points, not pixels or inches, so pixel perfect fonts are out of the question

>Because it gets rendered in the pipeline, there is no concept of "font size" at draw time

>>13916393

If you only use anime images*

>>13916393

Careful anon, I don't want to go to prison.

>>13916304

The aim is for something that plays vaguely like Hexen meets Diablo. So traditional FPS in feeling with things like equipment/loot system with affix based items (I've already done that but it's a separate prototype), skill trees, assembled areas made from chunks, and so on. With easy mod support so people can add custom stats, items, enemies and areas. I should write this up properly and add it to the wiki page or something.

Did that answer your question or do you mean more like setting and such?

>>13916424

>assembled areas made from chunks

I really need to learn how to do this for a future project. Eg, making certain tiles/sets snap together like lego

>>13916410

Just look up still renderings of nude DoA bitches. I didn't use pizza you fool.

>>13916450

it was a joke desu

>>13916767

Don't feel too bad, quaternions are hard.

As for your question, I think you want your camera to look in the direction you're moving? Your way of explaining it is rather hard to figure out. If I'm right, you want to use some form of LookAt function from cameraPos to cameraPos + MovementDir. If there's no such function, here's a C# implementation you can reference:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12435671/quaternion-lookat-function/17654730#17654730

>>13916877

I want the camera to feel as though it's attached to a platform that turns to match the direction of movement. Basically, I want to make the player look in a certain direction but still retain the ability to aim.

Thanks for the link, I'm gonna take a look.

>>13917127

Looks fine to me. Seems proportionally correct.

>>13917127

cool hat, pardner

>>13917127

Front brim is too short, along with the "stove" not being longer in the front and back.

>>13917127

put holes into your hat then it looks extra cool

>>13917307

When im done adding details to this hat it will look like something out of JoJo

>>13917348

Thats probably it, i will try a few different ideas, thanks

>>13916300

Oh I'm not modding it, technically.

I'm trying to fix the source, and open it up to load everything from configs, giving vanilla a universal API accessible to everybody.

No more modloaders, no more id conflicts, no more bullshit.

I'm halfway to having blocks and recipes loaded from a json file, recipes are already handled in a way that's easy to modify, but blocks were another matter, requiring reducing the constructor classes down to a few generics that can be reused and block drops were further simplified by a new class to make a hashmap of blocks and what they should drop. Parsing json is what's holding me back currently, Argo is used to write and read json currently, for stat tracking (achievement bullshit). I have to create a new class to read/write json for the recipes/blocks because they will have so many options. Other things could use a re-implemented cfg reader that is used for simple options.

>>13917380

But won't it break if MC updates?

Or are you saying that your mod will work canonically from a specific base version?

>>13917376

I want to fuck wisp

>>13916767

>ok so if I have a quaternion representing my controller rotation for the player's input, and I have a direction of movement, how can I apply the delta of change in movement direction to the quaternion so the camera looks as though I'm on rails? I need this for a specific mechanic dammit, why am I not one of those rainmen who just understand shit

You need to be more clear and lay out what you have and what you want.

You also need to take into consideration what kind of rotation you want. If you want to rotate from vector a to vector b, then both {r,i,j,k} and {-r,-i,-j,-k} perform the same rotation. Not only that, if you are rotating a half circle (180 degrees), then there are an infinite amount of different quaternion rotations possible.

>>13916767

you could make the delta yourself, it's just numberbefore - numbernow

>>13917384

I'm working with a specific version, but there wont be much point to updating once the API is made, it should make backporting new content a breeze.

There would be very little that cannot be done through the API.

>>13917446

>microsoft

>doing work

funny joke, I'm working on an old version before a bunch of useless shit was added to bloat the code base, when the client and server were still separate entities. There's still a lot of shit I don't understand at all, but I've learned quite a bit about how things work and how to change them.

>>13917509

the problem isn't the delta, it's quaternions. I just don't have a lot of experience with them.

>>13917446

That's the windows 10 version, which is identical to the mobile AKA pocket edition version. It's made in C++, has a bunch of quirks in redstone, and has a few other blocks. The original java version is still being supported and is in fact still the main version.

>>13917575

i assume you're using unity, you have to feed 4 float numbers to it, try drawing a tree of how you're gonna do it

Quick question, surely laptop integrated graphics (hd 620) is decent enough for 3d mobile game development with Unity, with 8gb ram, right?

I know integrated graphics are pretty shit, but this situation wouldn't ask for much right?

>>1397880

use composition. define a different class for each behavior, and then have each object set its behavior property to an instance of whatever relevant behavior class. That has the added benefit of allowing you to change behavior at runtime, if you want.

is there an issue with this?

>>13917934

>use composition. define a different class for each behavior

I thought by definition these two excluded each other.

Either way, it looks like this is the best approach anyways

>>13917992

Okay yeah, this was my issue

>"Entity" class contains an instance ID, type ID, friendly and internal name, collection of sprites for drawing said object, and a reference to a Behavior object that controls how it works

>Actor instances contain a position and an ID number that corresponds with an Entity's type ID, so I iterate the actors, look up each one's entity information, then look up the behavior and do stuff based on that

What's weird is that I'd have 200 types with singleton instances of Behavior, and one type with 200 instances of Entity. I could combine them but it still feels weird having that many types

>>13917654

Unreal. Most of my problems come from misunderstanding of how quaternions work but I guess I'll just read up on it.

>>13918128

Post the cliff notes version. All I can find online are

>Wikipedia-tier documentation of quaternions in a purely mathematical N-dimensional sense that mean fucking nothing

>Case specific >my guy won't rotate :(( Unity or Unreal shit

>No middle ground

>>13918688

>In modern mathematical language, quaternions form a four-dimensional associative normed division algebra over the real numbers, and therefore also a domain. In fact, the quaternions were the first noncommutative division algebra to be discovered. The algebra of quaternions is often denoted by H (for Hamilton), or in blackboard bold by {\displaystyle \mathbb {H} } \mathbb {H} (Unicode U+210D, ℍ). It can also be given by the Clifford algebra classifications Cℓ0,2(R) ≅ Cℓ03,0(R). The algebra H holds a special place in analysis since, according to the Frobenius theorem, it is one of only two finite-dimensional division rings containing the real numbers as a proper subring, the other being the complex numbers. These rings are also Euclidean Hurwitz algebras, of which quaternions are the largest associative algebra.

Well I'm guess I'm just gonna go fucking kill myself then.

How do I make a standalone game in GZDoom?

All the resources I can find are for modding Doom and making .wads and .pk3s. Is a "standalone" game in this engine just a fancy Doom mod with original assets?

Manlet Simulator got me inspired.

>>13919314

props to you for creating actual objects for the bullets instead of using raycasts

>>13919622

The only problem I saw with them is performance when firing rapidly, in the later builds they were optimized to despawn after a certain distance. Plus it helps the player to figure out where they are shooting.

<i have to do 400 frames of animation

<200 of them are the real deal, the other half is just showing the fact that the boss is damaged

<all this at 12fps

i have the autism to do so.

>>13919669

Worked for Cuphead

>use tilemap

>game crashes

ouch

Hello people, I am wondering, since I am getting some commissions on 3D stuff I need an alternative to PayPal, they no longer allow personal payments between me and my client and it really eats a chunk of my payments, anyone?

>>13920248

Hey, that is agreat idea, maybe it should also be applied to other places like calves.

>>13920823

oh well, in any case the butt joints seem like a great idea.

>>13909078

>can make actually good art

>complains about not being able to make gooktoones right

Man, that's just, wasted talent right there. Like, having the abilities of Da Vinci or something and deciding to draw calarts cartoons.

>>13913036

It sucks. :^)

But for actual info

>Drop the retarded shit you're doing with the draw animation. You don't cock the slide like that when drawing the gun like some hollywood movie or shitty game. YOU ARE EJECTING A ROUND WHEN YOU DO THAT. If anything, turn off the safety.

>Visit /k/ and learn how guns work.

>ADS is shit, off center, and you can't even see through the sites with your model.

>>13913092

>>13913231

>t. nofuns

Some guns have a little "catch" with the mag release so the mag doesn't just fall on the ground. The insertion looks like it's doing the Battlefield-style "cool" double tap to put it in.

>>13914752

>$100

A window that pops up and says "hello world". What kind of fiverr type game are you playing at? High skill work demands high pay.

>>13919300

Do you know the difference between a pwad and an iwad? If not, learn it. For it to be a standalone game, it needs to be an iwad.

>>13917654

>i assume you're using unity, you have to feed 4 float numbers to it, try drawing a tree of how you're gonna do it

Actually, Unity has a very robust Euler-bases system for converting understandable Vector3 values into quaternion black magic. Shouldn't >>13918128 Unreal have that as well?

>>13919150

Gonna leave you guys a nice comment on the LD site sometime later.

How did you guys get to gether on Discord? Do we have a channel now? Or was it a spontaneous thing I missed in the threads?

I also realized one of you dudes made that hypercube game for LD before. Good job that was

anyway, that rendertexture on the scope looks promising.

>>13919314

> redo this concept but make it a sourcemod instead

how does Source handle VR?

>mobile game using Unity that being a puzzle shooter

with a motion gimmic, that might turn out cool

>>13913036

actually, >>13921032 has really good points. I'd watch at least a few videos showcasing how pistols are operated. What pistol is that, anyway? If it's something fictional, that mag ejecting mechanic ain't at all out of place.

>>13916393

>in retrospect she looks like a deformed warped mess

>I married a deformed warped mess

all husbands end up saying that at some point in their marriage JK

>>13919300

good question. I keep thinking that MoM should become a standalone release on Steam for example.

>>13921032

Okay so I did some research:

>IWAD

Internal WAD, contains complete game data (Doom 1 and 2, Hexen, etc are IWADS)

>PWAD

Patch WAD, used for singular levels or small sprite replacements etc

So I understand why you would need a complete IWAD in that case. Now, how do you get GZDoom to load your custom IWAD by default? Do you have to name your IWAD Doom2.wad? can you define a default startup wad for the engine? Also what are the legalities of selling the IWAD as a complete game? I assume if the IWAD contains all original assets that would be fine, but it still needs GZDoom to run, and aren't there legal issues with selling that?

>>13916424

>Did that answer your question or do you mean more like setting and such?

Oh yes it did. I was just afraid you were just another aimless enginefag.

>>13921729

They use the same drawing and surface collision as proper projectiles for now and since things like snow and leaves will be able to change sectors by moving.

>>13921735

That's understandable since I've not posted a lot for the real game part. I'm kinda planning on showing name idea, protagonist sketches and general art stuff all at once to help get feedback on if it all fits.

>>13915567

I have another suggestion.

Let's say you have an InventoryItem type that defines an instance of an item residing in an inventory. This will have two members, Pos2D (integers) and a reference to a Shape. A shape is the configuration of slots that are covered and has one member function: bool Intersects(Shape other, Pos2D offset); which returns whether this shape at 0,0 intersects the shape other at pos offset. The offset is computed by taking the difference between this items pos and that items pos. You could construct a new shape for each item or you could fetch one from a cache of shapes. The inventory is then just a list of InventoryItems that you add/remove from. To check if an item can be placed at a location, iterate over all items and check for intersections. If one is found, return false. At the end, return true. To find the item the cursor is over, do the same except with a 1x1 shape at the mouse pos and return the found shape, or none. If you ever need more performance (you won't), replace the list with a suitable spatial partitioning data structure.

>>13920248

it also lets you scale up that booty

>>13916424

Sounds fun

Forgot to remove the flag

>>13922752

Start something else. Smaller this time.

Yo, MoM anon here again with another mini vid update. This time showing off the changes with the skeletons, which replaces their sword and shield weapons with a blade gun weapon. This allows them to have more variety of types of skeletons, such as the Gunner and Slugger Skeletons featured here. They are heavily inspired by Blood cultists!

>>13922752

What are you making? Rewriting stuff you already figured out is not as bad as restarting from scratch. Maybe try to do something else, like go for a walk to clear your head.

>>13922752

7 years of devving, retrying, and a useless $12000 2 year compsci degree, paid off

I think I've got a project I can finish and polish and share. You really do need to start small, then cut your expectations by half, because feature creep happens and things can change.

>>13922874

The cultist like movements are neat. The enemies look a bit small to me though or is that intentional?

>>13922870

This is for the MC right? Is the full game going to be third person then, while you manage your faeries?

>>13922981

Small in what way?… they are the same as as the player, sprite wise!

>>13922981

yes, third person, the faerie village administration will be an UI window, also you will be able to see the faeries helping in your farm

>>13923002

Maybe it's just the size of the room throwing me off.

>>13923076

Can you pat their heads while they're farming?

>>13923135

i don't see why not, but won't be up there in the priority list

c'mon guys, try to beat my high score

>>13923303

Intel graphics, yes? Even my GTX 260 runs this shing relatively smoothly until the physics kicks in heavily.

Hope you had fun, though.

I should have added an FPS counter

R8 me honestly anons, please

https://soundcloud.com/user-255533427/paddington

>>13923533

pretty fucking bland and rather bloody basic tbh, I suggest remixing using more instruments tbh

>>13923564

Even the end is basic? hm

Thanks tho, anon.

>>13923587

very much so

>>13923533

Sounds good. It wouldn't cause me turn off the game. I like middle portion the most, sounds like good JRPG battle music if somewhat more optimistic in mood than I'd expect. Depending on what accompanies the track visually and narratively it could make for a memorable experience or scenes.

>>13923533

Piano-only songs can work, but you need to have a strong, memorable melody Right now, you don't really have that. The first 15-ish seconds are okay, but only if they build up to something. If you ever catch yourself whistling a melody you wrote, you know you've done a pretty good job.

That, and your piano-instrument sounds like it's the default midi soundfont sound.It doesn't sound like a real piano, nor does it sound good in it's own right, it just sounds crappy.

>>13923378

Whatever comes with a Lenovo Thinkpad T420

>>13921141

>How did you guys get together on Discord?

It was spontaneous. We're talking about closing it pretty soon.

>I also realized one of you dudes made that hypercube game for LD before. Good job that was

That was me who made the Hypercube. Finish your sentence goddamn it, I want to know what it was.

>>13922819

The strange behavior is most likely because the AI pathfinding intelligence was turned way down to avoid frying any toasters that try to run the game as you get more and more 0% cool dudes.

>Did you make the assets? they are breddy gud.

I personally didn't make any of the 3d assets, but yes the 3d models and textures were made in house by our 3d modeler/texture guy.

>>13924050

are you the person who was suggested A*?

post some examples of path finding you want to do, perhaps I can help explain the basics of pathfinding algorithms (which should be universally applicable, not just to godot)

>>13924050

I keep fucking up anything with a heuristic

>>13924072

I'm just trying to edit what others have done to have a character follow a mouse where mine is something following the player but I'm retarded and it just ends up running against a wall unless the player moves around.

>>13924084

Okay, let me start at the beginning.

The simpler kind of pathfinding is with a static, fully known environment. This means there may be obstacles like walls, but there is a clear start point and a clear end point and those DON'T change once the pathfinding has started.

So you're just finding the shortest route from A to B. you need to be able to establish a grid of your room's floor. Make sure this grid has data in the cells that indicate whether it is walkable, an obstacle, the start position, and the end position.

The VERY SHITTIEST way to find the path is to start from the origin and create a tree of all possible paths on walkable ground until you find one that gets you to the goal. This is shitty because it is very inefficient, meaning it will take a lot of time/space to find a path, and when you do find a path there is no guarantee that you have found the optimal path. I would not recommend this as your final solution but if you need it just to test you can try it.

For a static environment, a good algorithm to use is probably A-star (A*). you can use this website here which helps you visualize a lot of different algorithms to see how they look as they do the pathfinding.

https://qiao.github.io/PathFinding.js/visual/

Now dynamic environments are a little more tricky. I suspect since you want something following a player, this is the situation you are going to be faced with. You can still use the basic ideas behind A-star (or whatever algorithm you choose). Essentially, read the grid and find the best path to the goal. But you won't be doing this only once in a dynamic environment. In a dynamic environment, you will essentially do a grid search, find the best path, and make one move towards the goal. Then when the next time it comes to move (usually the next frame), do the search again and find the new best path to the goal. Essentially every frame is a different search and you update the start position as the object moves.

I recommend you google and do some research on A-Star and Djiktra's algorithms, as understanding those will help you immensely. Let me know if you want more detail.

>>13924210

I got it to work by directly importing the tilemap that other project was using. I think I'm missing something when I'm setting it up.

>>13924233

It sounds like you don't understand the code you're using to do this. You mentioned you copied this from somewhere? You can post it here and I'll see if I can help you figure out how it works. I'm not sure what you mean by importing the tilemap, however.

>>13924260

I do understand it and that's why its been so confusing. I think I've just been missing something with the tilemaps.

>>13924073

>Unreal 1

>UT99 weapons and HUD

what did he mean by this?

So I want my puzzles/boards to have both an easy mode and a hard mode.

The game I'm borrowing from had 3 requirements for a puzzle to be solved on hard:

>Reach the hard mode exit (easy mode becomes unavailable)

>Beat the timer (timer doesn't matter on easy)

>Collect enough gems to satisfy the hard mode quota (easy mode has its own quota)

I was also thinking of having a target score you need to beat as well - collecting gems, destroying monsters, and being fast would contribute to this.

>>13924375

It's running on the first Unreal engine, so "Unreal 1". Are you serious anon?

>>13924409

No shit UT99 uses the Unreal Engine 1.0, this game even ships with working U1 monsters, weapons and items for some reason. Unreal 1 is usually referred to the game itself which had a actual SP campaign, unlike UT99 and after that whose campaign is just a fixed set of bot matches.

>>13921537

If it's an iwad, you just drag and drop it/use a BAT file/etc. and it will run. GZDoom autodetects if you have multiple iwads in the same directory when trying to open a pwad so it knows what the iwads are. Having the "Executable" for your game be a script file that passes the right arguments to open the game should do the trick.

Technically, the source code is open source, you could probably sell the iwad if it was 100% new content and 0% iD assets, but for the engine, that's another problem. Linking to it would be fine, but including it bundled with your iwad would need some sort of agreement with Graf Zahl. Not likely considering he's a cunt.

>>13924461

>>13924510

Its funny, since I wanted to ask Graf about that in regards to MoM. He never gave me a reply back though, when I sent him a note about it on the forums.

People really don't seem to like Graf, do they?

>>13924375

I was referring to the engine. I was using UT99 mostly because i can find more people editing for it specifically. Otherwise i could do much the same in UG or any other Unreal engine game including Deus Ex.

Ive been contimplating making a TC mod for UG/UT thats a 3D mascot platformer so i'm just learning the editor.

>>13924435

>No shit UT99 uses the Unreal Engine 1.0, this game even ships with working U1 monsters, weapons and items for some reason

Thats because UT99 was originally just an expansion pack for Unreal. It was made standalone late in development. It was originally made solely to fix the broken netcode the game originally shipped with. Which they later did with the Gold version.

>>13924543

>People really don't seem to like Graf, do they?

Because he's a gigantic cunt and act like a bitch to everyone.

Especially on bug reports

>Works on my machine

>This bug doesn't impact on my playing experience, wont fix

>My OpenGL renderer is buggy and slow? Well I will just enforce everyone to have at least OpenGL 3.0 capable graphic card to play, despite that my engine doesn't support even most of the OpenGL 1.1 features and the code always runs in fixed pipeline mode. That way I will shut up those with weaker graphic cards about performance!

>Yes this is bug is serious but I wont fix it cause I don't like the way you reported it and/or I consider you persona non grata on my forum, bye.

You might want to skim through GZDoom bugtracker and the forum bug reports to get the whole picture of this asshat.

Also GZDoom in general is a pure garbage, see

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/50624-fastest-opengl-source-port-engine-for-wads/?do=findComment&comment=867957

https://zandronum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=99089#p99089

Vid related, performance on real sourceport, in zdoom/gzdoom nuts.wad grind down to 0 fps even on strongest PCs out there.

>>13924712

>>13924634

Hmm. I am slightly concerned now; while MoM is suppose to be not graphically intensive, I hope it doesn't give most people issues in regards to the fact I am using GZDoom.

I must wonder too; he seems to dislike mods that are of TC variety, or so people have told me. Why does he focus on an engine that allows the creation of TC mods easier, then?

>>13924634

Heh we linked to same doomworld thread, guess that one grafs bitchfit shitfest will be never forgotten by the dood community :^)

>Vulkan renerer

Oh god thanks for reminding me

https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=57253

>Please implement finally the new GLDEFS, we even coded them for you, just put them in so finally we could use any of the OpenGL 3.0 shader features!

>Nope, fuck you guys

>Why?

>I'm gonna write Vulkan renderer first, then deprecate OpenGL renderer, that's the way to go, trust me! I have 20 years experience in professional coding business!

>But you didn't even start working on the Vulkan renderer yet…

>I just ran into budget constrains! I cannot afford 100$ for Vulkan capable graphic card for next several months, despite that I proclaim to be 20 years veteran of coding industry, just trust me I will make working Vulkan renderer in the future!

It will be hilarious if he actually managed to make it, imagine him saying "Nope, you need at least 2016's graphic card to run GZDoom now!"

Also all the Nudoom 4 Vulkan renderer vs GZDoom Vulkan renderer performance charts would be hilariously bad, for Graf

>>13924776

Perhaps because ZDoom was the only port out there that had somekind of popularity and lacked hardware renderer, low barrier of entry-high level of internet gratitude and fame kind of deal I suppose.

Man, I gotta get me some 3d learning in

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/938078284574838786

>>13924722 (checked)

>missing my point

Whatever floats your boat my man.

>>13924628

>Thats because UT99 was originally just an expansion pack for Unreal. It was made standalone late in development. It was originally made solely to fix the broken netcode the game originally shipped with.

That's interesting, I haven't read about that at all. That would explain why it is shipping with some U1 content.

>>13924776

>while MoM is suppose to be not graphically intensive, I hope it doesn't give most people issues in regards to the fact I am using GZDoom.

I guess in this case just make sure that MoM can run in software mode, like so that it doesn't look awfully bad since you are using a lot of sprites, and no heavy reliance on dynamic lighting I guess. You are in better position regarding that since you are using a lot of sprites instead of models. So I guess the only downside with that is you wouldn't be able to hack in a ground decal in that rendering mode because Graf is too much busy fiddling with Vulkan code instead of adding things like proper ground decal support, jesus man.

>I must wonder too; he seems to dislike mods that are of TC variety, or so people have told me. Why does he focus on an engine that allows the creation of TC mods easier, then?

I have never read those story at all, care to share some link about it or something? If that's the case then I would like to know the answer to your question too.

>>13924846

Its just what quite a few doom friends have told me. I do not know if they is any truth to it.

Also, While MoM doesn't use that many dynamics lights, it does use quite a few 3D models. All Low poly mind you, but I wasn't aware this was a concern I was going to deal with. I should point out though, that the current version of GZDoom will be the only one I will be using at this point.

>>13924634

>>13924712

It probably would be fairly easy to re-write it to use OpenGL 1.1 features only. Also, how can you "not support most of the OpenGL 1.1 features"? I don't get what that's referring too.

>>13925149

The toe part of the boot looks a little too small, and it looks like someone took a bite out of the bottom part. Everything else is good.

>>13925149

Do you want it to be a static image of a boot or do you want it to imply the motion that it will grant the user?

Because at the moment it looks like you're trying to do both.

Find the curve of motion for the action you want to define, and follow it, or just do a simple boot.

>>13925149

I think the heel is too big, and I'm not sure what the vertical line to the left of the toes if for.

>>13925259

Fucking nice. Now it doesn't look so fucking derpy.

>>13925262

Anon, that doesn't even look like a fucking boot anymore. It looks like a Christmas sock with a wing on it.

>>13925325

If you want it to look like an actual boot, use >>13925259. It looks fine, but it still looks like a sock.

>tfw you took a break from gamedevving for weeks to learn how to draw

>don't feel like going back to the devving because I've made more progress drawing in three weeks than I have actually making a game

Being a one-man dev is suffering.

>>13925325

Add a sole to the boot, it will help it look less like a sock.

>>13922752

just end it and start a new project, i ended up uploading half baked game to a store just for the sake of to probe you can finish a project

>>13921032

tbh I don't really care if it's realistic. It looks cool, that's really all I care about. Fiction is cooler than reality, anyway. I'm fully aware I'm ejecting a round by pulling the slide back fully, I just don't really care because CHA-CHICK when pulling the handgun out is satisfying as fuck.

>>13921141

That's a salvaged semiauto from Rust - I got it from the official development kit because I needed models to animate. Also yeah, I do check references, I'm just not 100% caught up on the animation curves yet.

>>13926086

Yeah, I basically went with the first one, with the wing from the second

>>13926293

you are supposed to set actions in the project settings then use is_action_pressed( instead

>>13926358

Thanks, I didn't know about setting actions. Unfortunately binding an action to shift still doesn't want to detect when shift is released.

>>13926370

You need to define the input(event) method. Here's a tiny sample project:

https://my.mixtape.moe/lejrql.7z

>>13926509

What version of the engine did you build that against? It's still not detecting the shift release event on 2.1.4 stable for me.

>>13925262

I like the flying sock look. It looks better than any of the boots you drew.

I think the boots would look better if you gave the sole more definition. Look at the heel of >>13925214; the arch's cutout is completely perpendicular to the heel and to the ground when flat, and the bottom of the heel is at a 45 degree angle to the ball/toe of the foot because it's bent. Compare this with the heel of >>13925259, where the cutout is basically nonexistent, and the heel is parallel to the toe despite being bent in the same way.

>>13926602

>commas work after post numbers

>semicolons don't

For fuck's sake. >>13925214

>>13926541

2.1.3

>>13926635

You are too kind.

>even if crouchjumping out of the window is a feature.

I was half joking when I said that in the Ludum Dare comments, if that's where you were getting that from. It wasn't intended, but I knew about well in advance. The fact that it's possible wasn't a bad thing so I left it in.

Though I was only one of two active programmers on the team. I don't know why the other guy left it in.

>Who made the music?

The music is just some free to use stuff off the Internet. Searching for "Bussy Beat - Silent Partner" should get you want you want.

The beginning vaguely reminded me Force Marker out of the Heat soundtrack so decided it was the best option for something that would fit the theme kind of.

>>13926635

I'd be more than happy to help out with a tailored soundtrack if you're interested, had my music featured in a very famous game (can't mention it here due to linking back to name). Even studying programming at the moment too, although I doubt I could help with that. Greatly support this kind of creative game. if you have an email or any other disposable way of contacting I can throw you over some examples.

>>13926851

>not doing all trig operation using huge lookup tables

>>13926827

sorry, meant for >>13926798

>>13926827

I'm flattered, honestly, but there aren't plans to further develop the game.

Here's the discord if you want to talk with the team, we'll be shutting it down pretty soon.

https://discord.gg/GSkSfm

Or if you don't trust that here's a 10 minute mail account I'll be refreshing.

s2301864@mvrht.net

>>13926857

That's slow as shit

>>13908316

That Split kick is going to be a pain to animate in a dress. looks good to me though.

Anybody know if there's a standard method to save an actor's current state to a data type in UE4? I really don't want to create a new struct whenever I want to save data of an item I pick up.

>>13928009

New struct as in a new struct for every new item class, given there are new variables to save.

>>13928040

I think the holes should be texture-based rather than geometry-based

>>13928059

i think the few extra triangles are worth it, the holes are low poly

>>13928009

Calling serialize on an uObject (parent class of almost every single thing in UE4) spits out a binary blob named FArchive I think.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/API/Runtime/CoreUObject/UObject/UObject/Serialize/index.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/API/Runtime/Core/Serialization/FArchive/index.html

There's a tutorial on saving and loading data involving this by Rama, but the actual part you need (before saving the data to hard drive) is skipped over:

>See Archive.h and ArchiveBase.h for all the info you need about getting from your varibles and custom class data to binary format (serialized data).

https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Save_System,_Read_%26_Write_Any_Data_to_Compressed_Binary_Files

I have no idea what I'm talking about to be honest.

>>13928204

Thanks, anon. This is a good lead.

>>13927862

>BeyondUnreal wiki

I tried to archive BU, it just looks like it's about to die at any second, feels bad man

>>13927862

Weren't you LannFyre? I tried adding him on Steam but never got a response back

>>13927862

I do wanna use UG over UT99 since I'd rather make a big total conversion mod to turn the game into a 3D platformer.

>>13928249

Again, look up LannFyre on UT99.org. I have a huge dropbox archive of a bunch of topics, from UScript to map editing to lighting to bits and so on.

>>13928599

I am, didn't know people tried adding me on Steam. I'm "C:/…/Anubis.exe", leave a comment or something and I'll add you.

>>13928646

I'd heavily recommend it. Post progress too, Unreal mods are awesome. Before you get started though, look up the UScript in Pawn, PlayerPawn, Viewport, ScriptedActor, NavigationPoint, and subclasses of these. If you're gonna do total conversion mod, you need to know UnrealScript.

>>13930018

>This

Most of that went over my head, but I assume that basically, he's being a weasel and taking advantage of loopholes to be a cunt for no reason

>>13930026

Being megacunt is his way of life, it's even worse if you are part of a sourceport that is based on ZDoom/GZDoom, like ST/Zandro, where there's internal policy to maintain full backward compatibility with ZDoom/GZDoom -> when people find a bug that's part of ZDoom/GZDoom codebase they are asked to report it at ZD/GZD bugtracker, so it will be fixed there and then backported to Zandro.

With Graf in charge 99% of those bug reports get marked as Closed Wontfix/I don't give a fuck/Not worth my time to work on.

It worked far better before Graf took charge of ZDoom, as GZDoom renderer was only affected by his "code-pro" ways, now it's both of them.