/v/ - Video Games

make a video game where you're a train that has to make tracks infront of you otherwise you derail and die

>>14388581

it sounds like this

>>14388590

I used Diablo music, the extended theme for Tristram. But I see a resemblence, not sure if MediEvil composers were inspired by Uelmen, tho.

>>14388601

kirby is shaped like a friend

>>14388604

it came out afterwards so it's possible

Is Borland C still good to use on a 486? I just dug out my old IBM Thinkpad from high school, and thought it might be fun to start relearning x86 assembly. It's been quite a long time, but I am fairly certain I did everything using Borland C's editor. I also think I used "Turbo Assembler" or something for the code I optimized in assembly.

Any thoughts/suggestions/advice would be nice.

Fixed the speed problem with my Text Adventure.

Before I was passing the entire parser and tagging model to the parsing function as arguments, now I'm just passing a pointer to those models. That gave me more than a 600 fold increase in speed. Here's an example.

>Go north and get the flask

<Before pointers

1990.2 milliseconds

<After pointers

3.6 milliseconds

My goal is to keep the time to read, parse, calculate, and display the result of a simple input under 10 ms but the absolute limit that I refuse to go over is 40 ms.

>>14388751

Software doesn't go bad, so I don't see why not. I can however suggest this assembly IDE: http://www.masm32.com/ , although you need windows 2000 to use it. Alternatively http://openwatcom.org/ comes with an assembler and a lot of useful tools and can probably target and run on whatever OS you have very well too.

>>14388834

>Software doesn't go bad, so I don't see why not.

:^)

>I can however suggest this assembly IDE: http://www.masm32.com/ , although you need windows 2000 to use it. Alternatively http://openwatcom.org/ comes with an assembler and a lot of useful tools and can probably target and run on whatever OS you have very well too.

It's running DOS 6.22. I need to procure the IDE as I can't find any of my old disks.

>>14388852

Open Watcom can be downloaded online for free and has all of it's tools compiled for windows, DOS, and linux, so you might want to give it a try.

>>14388911

Dubs dictate I try this.

>>14389100

Why not like, store a Dictionary<T,int> where T is either a string or animation object, then you can look up its ID and pass it that way?

>>14389110

Mostly because I'd still have to tell it which animations correspond to which states.

I was hoping for something slightly faster, like, looking if the animation cointained X word, and if it did, assign it to this state.

Having to manually check IDs means that I need to write out a bunch of stringtohash like so

m_LocomotionStop = Animator.StringToHash ("Base Layer.Locomotion Stop");

So that I have something to compare it to.

And also because I'm honestly not that good with dictionaries

>>14389140

>I was hoping for something slightly faster, like, looking if the animation cointained X word, and if it did, assign it to this state.

Inverted lists will be your new best friend.

>>14389163

Can't find anything about inverted lists, you mean inverted index?

>four months go by

>haven't worked on game

>one day I'll get around to it

>that day never comes

Why do I always do this shit? I start out with a strong resolve, study hard for like a week, and then just drop my project for so long that I have to effectively reintroduce myself to the fundamentals of programming just so I can get to a point where I can understand what the fuck I was trying to do in the first place.

Maybe I just can't, like, make game

>>14389199

you need to make it a habit, even if you're only doing it for one hour a day, just make it so that it's your default thing to do

>>14389199

no more zero days

https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/1q96b5/i_just_dont_care_about_myself/cdah4af/

>>14389238

test your different methods you figured out on a smaller scale to see what works for it

>>14389264

He's trying to help…

>>14389280

He and you should also stop posting. Reddit and redditors have no place on this site.

>>14389291

b-but /agdg/ is a warm, welcoming place.

>>14389315

There is a difference between being warm and welcoming and being a refuge for cancer. Go and post on /r/gamedev if you want that, instead of spreading out onto 8ch.

>>14389184

>Can't find anything about inverted lists, you mean inverted index?

Yep, same thing. I work on an IBM mainframe programming in Natural with ADABAS dbms and the Germans call it "inverted lists".

>>14389199

>>14389140

>meme spacing

>>14389529

>(1)

>>14389529

>being a literal nigger who can't contribute to a constructive thread

>>14389600

Already did Pascal way back in college. Quick historical trivia on TurboPascal: one of the main guys that made that also made Delphi (aka Object Pascal). He went on to be the main guy behind C#.

Are you developing on windows or linux?

>>14389971

Linux.

>>14389971

>developing on windows or linux?

windows, but only temporally and not by choice, seriously, i pity the fucks that have to set their environment in windows

>>14390011

Neat

>>14388601

Sounds like that part in Wallace & Gromit actually. A game equivalent would be Pipe Dream.

>>14390052

That's how you learn bro, can't get good without being bad first.

<porting everything from godot 2 to godot 3

I hate it.

>>14390270

wasn't 2.1.5 supposed to resolve this?

>>14390304

They changed every function, every quirk I used with the previous engine, different types of data don't interact as easily like: you can't add an integer to a boolean. but maybe its because I used 2.1.4

>>14390306

That looks like a pretty and computationally effective visual style.

>>14390306

That looks really nice,what engine?

>>14390322

>you can't add an integer to a boolean

shit nigger what the fuck are you doing

>>14390322

>you can't add an integer to a boolean

That's a good thing, anon. You don't want that kind of habit forming up in you.

>>14390306

Looks really cohesive, kudos.

>>14390385

>>14390386

Yeah you have to cast it and then you can use it in actual languages.

>>14390439

It might just be me being blind,but it looks like you're going a tad heavy on the cel shading.

>>14390439

Wouldn't overdraw only affect semi-transparent pixels? Is it an AA thing? Or is the grass blade a texture full of alpha? One soluton is for each blade to be a triangular polygon, and shade it solid/gradient. Another idea is for the grass to be a pixel shader.

>>14390439

I have an idea for a tank game but since you already have one being developed, you probably know if it's realistic or not. What if instead of controlling all the tank's system simultaneously, you are placed as the tank commander and have to type or speak your orders into a mic. Each member of the tank would need orders individually. It would be a lot like Brad Pitt's role in Fury and would be a lot different then most games because it is entirely based on tactics instead of twitch reflexes.

>>14390590

Those tanks functional?

>>14390516

It seems entirely doable, provided you have some good UI in mind already for how you would be issuing commands. Your biggest hangup will probably be AI.

How accurately would you be modeling external and terminal ballistics?

>>14390606

depends on what you mean with functional i guess?

>>14390952

Can you actually use/drive and shoot them,or are they just part of the environment

>>14390516

I can't imagine this being fun unless it'd be a multiplayer game where each individual crew member is a player. This wouldn't have to be a pvp game though.

>>14390516

If you're going to make someone type, make sure you have some form of tab completion, even if it's basic.

>>14390959

it's a strategy game of sorts, so you do control them, but you don't physically 'drive them around' so to speak.

>>14390980

Oh my bad,i misunderstood.

>>14391102

You gonna put some in jokes or references on the tombstones? or leave em blank

The last hours of a jam are always so stressful, send me your luck

>>14391124

I'm sending you good vibrations via the web.

>>14391120

Neat idea, but I can't put the inscriptions as normal maps or textures as the tombstones are a bit too small on-screen. Maybe I should make them interactable in some way, so that a sign appears or a recording plays.

>>14391124

and the most productive. Crunch is real. Godspeed

>>14391128

Maybe has some ghostly text pop up if you interact with em,dunno how hard of an effect that'd be though,to have text rise up.

>>14390037

>i pity the fucks that have to set their environment in windows

I pity the fucks that can't afford Visual Studio. I actually do think it's the best IDE, and after you install Xamarin there really isn't a better cross-platform compiler out there.

>>14391175

>proprietary compilers

I strongly doubt that supports any of the modern C/C++ standards, or the wealth of platforms that GCC does.

>>14391128

Worry about other things but amusing grave flavour test is always welcome.

>>14390306

nice environment anon.

>>14391204

>I strongly doubt that supports any of the modern C/C++ standards

No, actually VC++ supports basically all of C++14, and most of C++17. Additionally it supports some amazingly good tools like the Core Language Checker as well as the Clang extras. The top three compilers are roughly on par now and generally all stay ahead of the C++ standards release cycle thanks to the TS model the Committee moved to a few years ago. It gives all the compiler vendors plenty of advance to experiment with the upcoming standard and be close to ready the moment it's sealed.

>>14391175

>best cross-platform

No, the unquestionably goes to GCC. VS does have the world's best debugger however, and with the Core Language checker is now arguably the single best IDE to develop portable C++ code on.

>>14391322

>No, the unquestionably goes to GCC.

I should have typed IDE not compiler, sorry. As far as compilers go >>14391318 said it best. Personally I only do cross-platform programming in C# (hence why I mentioned Xamarin).

>VS does have the world's best debugger

I can't afford IDA Pro, but I suspect it is at least equal to if not better…

>>14391360

>it is at least equal to if not better…

No, it's literally the best debugger in the world. Years ago the joke probably rightly so heh was that MicroSoft's debugger needed to be the best. And the partnership they had with NVidia for a while developing the Parallel Nsight system really zoomed them ahead in a class by themselves. That was years ago now and the Visual C++ team has never lost their edge in this area.

>>14391360

I'll make the additional point that GCC/Clang are far more available than Visual Studio so at the very least the codebase should work across compilers, at least if you intend the code to be open source.

GDB sucks, no argument there.

>>14390270

its bad indeed, was pretty fucking mess when I tried last time, specially the auto-importing feature for assets

gonna stick with 2 for a while, if not forever, only real useful thing I would need is the better documentation

>>14390322

and besides, they've changed a lot of core stuff as well, like configs, error logging,

things you would need to relearn, but there isn't any guide to it, so its basically trial and error

>>14391397

>I'll make the additional point that GCC/Clang are far more available than Visual Studio so at the very least the codebase should work across compilers,

True, and good point; Clang is great for LLVM.

>if you intend the code to be open source

Nah most of cross-platform stuffs are still just little personal projects testing the waters in the mobile / tablet arena.

I hate Indians. They're everything about programming, smells, and broken English that I'm going to avoid for the rest of my life and only a tiny amount of them have internet access. Can we get a head start on banning pajeets?

>>14391525

have you tried turning it on and off again?

>>14388751

if you're on a 486 you'll be missing out with borland C, which is mostly good for 16-bit code.

Use DJGPP with rhide if you want that borland vibe. Personally I'd use microemacs.

Turbo Assembler is garbage and has gay syntax, the nasm or gnu as is better and comes with djgpp.

>>14391936

>if you're on a 486 you'll be missing out with borland C, which is mostly good for 16-bit code.

Yeah, it's what I used as a teenager before I gave this to my grandma to use to write a book when I went to college. I know I have the discs somewhere in a box probably in mom's attic. I will add DJGPP + rhide to the list along with openwatcom. Many thanks, anons!

>>14392069

I like the look of the town. Most medieval games now have way too many empty buildings that serve no purpose other than to trick retards into thinking it's not a small, empty town.

>>14391525

>the projectile was sent back 180º, but the player loses HP since the projectile still hits him.

Is it some kind of a homing projectile or how would a reflected projectile still hit the player?

>>14391525

Give each projectile an owner flag. Unless you're using shit like grenades, this should work just fine for like 99% of all projectiles.

When the reflection script happens, change the owner to the person who it was supposed to hit, and give it a reversed velocity, and it should work just fine, right?

>>14392092

Normal projectile.

I think it's because of the way it was programmed in Hexen/Heretic, the reflect flag works this way (I think, I'm not 100% certain of this):

>Monster shoots projectile

>Projectile hits player

>Projectile has its direction reversed instead of going into the Death state

>>14392157

I'll try it out

>>14390322

>you can't add an integer to a boolean

Yeah, I ran into a similar typing issue when I wanted to flip a boolean with the xor operator. Doesn't work, you have to cast your booleans to an int to do it. For a dynamically-typed language Godot is really annoying about that kinda shit.

>>14392229

But again, now that I think about it, even if I do fix the damage problem, players would still be able to reflect projectiles from all angles, and I don't think this would be a good mechanic…maybe.

>>14392243

Even C# is kinda fucky about bitwise operations, too. Mostly, this seems to stem from it implementing the .NET specification (eg "int" is a .NET keyword, Int32 (the C# equivalent) is not actually necessary).

Anyways, even if I add bytes or do XOR or whatever operations, it always yields an int, because that's what it's defined to do. Unfortunately.

>>14390386

>>14390385

You're supposed to be treating ints and bools as almost the same thing, strongly typed languages are pretty cancerous about not letting you do that.

>>14389971

windows has the nicest compilers as long as you stay away from the ones made by nu-Microsoft

I would like GCC more if it wasn't so huge- it's not some kind of self contained compiler, it comes with this giant implied unix toolchain and environment that just amounts to a ton of bloat on my computer. Basically the same reason that I don't like MSVC either.

>>14392433

That's probably the one thing I wish I could do in C#. A statement like "if (someVal) { … }" and have it "evaluate" it by default, eg 0 or null or false returns false, but any other value is considered valid and continues on

Question

May 5th you'll have vidya to try?

>>14392632

>a feet guy

I just call them "degenerates"

>>14392639

if you use that word for them what do you call furries and people who like NTR?

>>14392632

That just the model? or are textures included,because that looks pretty 70s space suit-ish

>>14392742

Pretty sure the colored regions are just different mesh groups for distortion

>>14392799

aww,it looked really nice,should save those colors for a suit design down the line.

>>14392662

>people

>>14389315

This isn't a debate. I'm going to find out where you live.

>>14389225

Come on, Fred, we told you that posting reddit links here is frownded upon

>>14392918

cracks me up every time

>>14392632

I was about to say that the torso was too small but your pic at >>14392958 confirms you know it. I'm assuming the proportions you're using are intentional.

>>14393012

I think it's rather that he's following the proportions of >>14393012 which happens to be a loli model.

>>14393023

Looking good, the armor and wings must have taken a huge amount of time. Is this going to be the model you use in-game, or are you going to make a low poly version as well?

>>14393023

Some uh,interesting color choices?

>>14393068

Wings took a lot longer. Had to place the majority by hand for the high poly. Armor wasn't too bad. I don't exactly have a poly limit and I'm not sure what a good range is, but the current model is about 37k faces. I'm gonna be using it as a replica tabletop model for WH40k.

>>14393075

Love the colors.

>>14393230

There has to be tons of UI libraries out there. Just the other day I stumbled upon an actionscript 3 one (flash's programming language) for mobile apps.

>>14393437

very friendly npcs you got there.

>>14393437

How does your visual scripting work? Do you abuse coroutines?

>>14393446

you start at the start node (in this case 0) and then immediately execute everything next, once you're at the end you stop, repeate on the next fixed update

the exception is stuff like Wait,Dialogue,MoveTo since they can't happen instantly. They return no next nodes until they're finished

if someone enters the ai's radius, the start node is temporarily treated as the event node (unless there isn't one), and is treated as such until the new tree finishes all it's scripts

>>14393469

Does said update also include the fix on readability for pickups and enemies you mentioned in your release thread?

>>14393497

visibility, yeah.

>>14393508

Urho3D (the game engine) doesn't have an option for brightness AFAIK.

The only way I can think of is hacks like modifying the ambient light, which also decreases possible darkness.

>>14393531

Brightness settings are considerably simpler than that, you literally add a the same user-defined value to each of the output pixels and clamp the result.

>>14393636

wouldn't that just result coloring things white without increasing contrast?

I wanted to make a thread asking this but noticed that all the people who know about game development are in this ITT anyways so thought I'd ask here; what are the prospects of video games getting some kind of dynamic soil modelling anytime in the near future?

I started working with DEM recently, modelling dam failures and was thinking "you know what, you could make some video games out of this".

>>14393736

That's generally what brightness is, up until a few years ago games usually had separate brightness and contrast settings.

which is the best engine for a 2D fighting game?

>>14393736

It's why brightness and contrast are separate settings.

Thoughts on UE4?

>>14393736

Yes, brightness settings are just making the image more white or black. Contrast is a separate setting you could also give.

Brightness:

C = Clamp(C + brightness)

Contrast:

factor = (259 * (contrast + 255)) / (255 * (259 - contrast));

C = Clamp(factor * (C - 128) + 128)

I think they also might give different results based on which of the two you do first, so experiment with that if you choose to implement it.

Modern casualised games tend to just give one slider that changes both along some curves, but there's no reason to not give your user full control if you don't assume them to be mouthbreathing retards.

>>14393784

better than unity in every way other than performance

>>14392433

>You're supposed to be treating ints and bools as almost the same thing, strongly typed languages are pretty cancerous about not letting you do that.

What the fuck are you smoking?

>>14393775

This question comes up a lot, so I don't know if it's just you asking it repeatedly. There's no real consensus for something like this, since none are specifically aimed at fightan. You'll have to make the mechanics yourself.

As for options, you have GMS, which you can try for prototyping if you don't know whether you want to actually make vidya, but it's shit and buggy, coming from someone who used it since GM5.

You can look into Monogame, Unity (though it's 2D is bloated), Godot (which is certainly a work in progress but is getting there) and Love2D (which is very barebones, but that's part of it's appeal).

>>14393784

Chinks.

>>14393784

Would be acceptable if it require paying Tencent if your game made enough shekels.

>>14393775

>>14393851

There really isn't one, a custom solution is probably best given the very specific requirements fighting games have. Something based around GGPO/RetroArch-like rollback netplay is probably ideal.

>>14393834

>>14393832

A bool is literally the same as an int in memory and checking if something is true or false is done by checking if something is zero or nonzero. In general the boolean type is pretty wasteful to use at all, so it's only useful when you don't have multiple flags to pack into one int and want to convey in your code that it is a single bool.

Strong typing just creates this artificial idea of types like bool as fundamentally different things instead of just suggestions about how the integer is supposed to be interpreted. Seriously stop programming in whatever trash language that doesn't let you freely use data like that.

>>14393874

>>14393775

Also, 2D fightan is the one genre where tying everything to the framerate is acceptable.

Alright, so I didn't make a Control/UI class yet, since I wanted to do the parenting stuff first. Then I realized I could just abstract it into an interface with a node-based approach. The only drawback I can find is that if you use a query function (eg GetRoot or even getting the Parent), it will return the base INode type, instead of your implemented type (eg if you made a ControlClassNode) so you'll have to cast things, maybe. Other than that I think it's nice and simple for what it is.

https://hastebin.com/bocefeyega.cs

>>14393868

lmao

>>14393878

>In general the boolean type is pretty wasteful to use at all

How?

>Strong typing just creates this artificial idea of types like bool as fundamentally different things

No, not really.

None of your post explains how this retard wanting to add to a bool with an int is anything but idiotic.

>>14393889

>>14393878

>In general the boolean type is pretty wasteful to use at all

Pretty sure I read somewhere that the compiler will pad it to either 8 or 32 bits. But still, as long as the object itself takes up a reasonable amount of space (eg you have a dozen bools, rather than just one) it won't waste that much space.

But this is a micro optimization at best, since you're trying to out-optimize the compiler, and trying to save bits when you have several hundred megabytes of memory before it becomes an issue.

>>14393900

You mean:

<1 bit is the same as 32 bits

>>14393903

i'm using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/sizeof as a reference, don't blame me if i'm retarded

>>14393903

Booleans are not a single bit, in reality.

This whole conversation is meaningless though, as these things are not just language dependent, but implementation-dependent and what you can do with bools and ints is as well. In VisualC++ sizeof(bool) is 4 bytes, just like sizeof(int). In VisualC# sizeof(bool) is 1 byte instead. But another C++ implementation might return 1, or whatever it feels like. The C++ standard explicitly defines that sizes of these variables are up to the implementation.

>>14390980

Is there directional based armor values?

>>14393900

I just said int, never said how long the int was. Do you think that int automatically means 4 bytes or something? Not talking about any specific language, just an integer.

>>14393899

The compiler could try packing the bools, but it's not something you can take for granted. It's not like changing your programming style to use bitwise ops to pack your booleans instead of using a boolean type takes more effort.

>>14393889

Just a waste of memory, compilers are only sometimes able to optimize it.

And yes it does, I've already explained that ints and bools are the same exact thing, just numbers. Although if you really need a programming example to lay it out for you , lets say he has an array of objects and wants to count how many objects in his array have attribute X, he can just have an int to store the result and add the bools to his int, since true is really just 1, it should work without any problems. Like so:

//with strong typing
int x_count = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < num_objects;i++){
if(object[i]->isx){
x_count++;
}
}

//without strong typing
int x_count = 0;
for(int i = 0;i < num_objects;i++){
x_count += object[i]->isx;
}

And so, I have saved an if statement, not a big deal but it is certainly an improvement over before.

>>14394007

Just trying to say that people get taught them because they're easy to understand, but in general they stop being as useful once you get a grip on bitwise operations

>>14394046

C# makes it easy with its static Convert.ToBoolean(bool) function :^)

>>14394046

that is bad technique. someone could set isx to any number they wanted. if it were a boolean it is one or the other.

>>14394079

You're not understanding. isx is still a boolean, but you can easily interpret its bits as if it were an integer.

>>14394079

Sure, it would be better to say isx == true if you aren't sure, so

x_count += isx == true;

>>14394193

man, I forgot about this but you can also do

x_count += !!isx;

>>14393766

Spintires has mud, From Dust has dynamic erosion.

Also, mixing ints and booleans without casting is BAD PRAXIS. That's the true reason you don't do that crap.

>>14393766

A lot of unique (and fun) games are made out of autistically modelling a particular thing and making a game out of it. See games like Wetrix, for example

are there any example of 1MA game made last year that was a success?

>>14394046

>opening brackets not on their own line

Opinion discarded.

>>14393766

>treads are exactly sized to catch the balls instead of letting them slip through

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

I'm at the level of skill now where GameMaker's limitations are becoming very apparent and I know I need to move on or get stuck stagnating in their sandbox forever. Does Godot look like it'll have staying power, or is it just a fad at the moment because it's gotten a big release recently? Unreal is tempting despite its flaws, since many of the big fish are using it.

>>14393766

>I started working with [computer technology] recently, [doing unusual task] and was thinking "you know what, you could make some video games out of this".

I wish more games followed this logic rather than "dude what if I combined a popular game with another popular game." I'm a hypocrite, but still.

>>14394315

I use unity so obvious I'll suggest moving to GODOT

what are the technical limitations of libgdx vs other engines?

>>14394328

It makes you shit on the street

>>14394288

>>14394269

It's a good practice, because sometimes you might get a client that pays you per line of code.

>>14394344

What's with pajeets and their undying love for java, anyway? It's not even easier to use than C#.

>>14394344

>>14394359

I'd argue that Java is worse than C#, because despite how similar they are, Microsoft has generally made a bretty good improvement to the language over time, and has a pretty good compiler.

>For some reason, Java thought it would be a good idea to make every function overrideable unless you explicitly say not to

>>14394328

It's written in Java. But pretty much every modern engine for indie developers except Unreal tries to force you into some shitty managed language, so they aren't much better. I can't say that it looks any better or worse than Godot or Unity, but I would think that Unity and Unreal are more capable engines.

>>14394352

I would switch to allman style and pad my shit if I was getting paid to write code, but my games are only written for myself.

>>14394359

Pajeets literally only care about the job market, if you can meme C# to them as the new future of the job market they will switch to that.

>>14394359

>What's with pajeets and their undying love for java, anyway?

All mediocre programmers, pajeets included, only care about industry trends. Java is popular because massive corporations have a gigantic boner for it. It's simple enough for any retard to use, meaning their pool of programmers to choose from is really large and individuals are easy to replace. It's compatible with almost everything, so you don't have to worry about rewriting code. It's already super popular, which goes back to reason 1. And most mega-corps aren't interested in performance, so the main downside of java is basically non-existant.

>>14394352

Or just when you want your code to be readable.

>>14394444

wasted quads tbh

>>14394510

Use wanting to make a 3D platformer your motivation for working hard on your current project. Don't try to juggle two projects

>>14394352

Anyone who pays per line of code instead of some other metric is a fucking idiot.

>>14394510

literally quit sucking that dicks and twerk on that project of (you)'re's tbh

Godot 3.0.1 is out.

https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-0-1

>>14394535

So, it's nothing

>>14394510

Here's some advice from Henry Miller, adapted from books to games.

>Work on one thing at a time until finished.

>Start no more new games, add no more new material to your finished games

>Forget the games you want to make. Think only of the game you are making.

>>14394546

>huge list of new features and bug fixes

>nothing

don't be a nigger

>>14394563

>get called a nigger in two separate threads

I might be a nigger

Fellow enginefags, mind explaining your render call sorting system? How do you manage your renderables? I only have as much as a plan right now

>iterate over shaders, then materials, then models

>either have specific arrays / vectors per type or do some sort of in-place sorting every frame

However many implementations ive come across dont bother with this at all and just arbitrarily throw everything at the GPU. Are state changes not as expensive as i thought?

Also, if you have a PBR + IBL pipeline, how do you fall back if any of the textures are missing? How does IBL work in the real world, do you just always use the global skybox or somehow subsegment a scene into areas where specific cubemaps are used?

Third question, how do you manage point lights, do you just cap a scene at 4-6 assuming you dont use deferred rendering, or do you somehow only pass the closest n lights to a given models shader by using a broad-phase like sweep?

>>14394624

>Throwing shit at the gpu

This is honestly how modern architecture expects it to be. There's no point in cleverly marking regions to be redrawn, etc. Instead, you want to clear the screen, draw everything, and then present it to the device every frame, as many times per second as possible (usually 60 or more)

State changes are cheap. They are just instructions on how to transform the geometry. Likewise, computing the points is generally cheap. The slow part is the bandwidth cost of moving stuff to/from/around the gpu. That's why batching exists.

>>14394315

Godot has a patreon that ensures Juan and one other guy are working on it full time. I'd say it's a safe bet that it'll keep being updated for years.

>>14394679

>most bars unlabeled

>not to scale

t-thanks

Is posible to make flash animation that is not crap?

>>14394322

Never underestimate the power of shaders.

>>14394762

Yes but it's a lot of work and the whole point of flash is to simplify animations by tweening static objects.

>>14394762

Flash is a web development animation software. You can animate with it the same as any other, and many modern cartoons are. I'm assuming you're complaining about excessive tweens to try to avoid work, but don't know what they are or why they usually look bad.

I only just now realized that you can tell your animator to not follow though with the next animation if it's being interrupted by another one

fuck

>>14394824

not to give credit to some furfag but animating is just as much work as drawing when it comes to digital media

>>14394833

While I agree in theory, his "work", isn't.

>>14394762

seven years no improvement, love this meme

>>14394841

one hand, he's generally shit, on the other he's taking the money of other retarded furfags. things even out if you look at it from a more cause and effect point of view

>>14394855

if his "work" becomes massively successful then you can bet other faggots will copy his "methods" and thus there'll be an over saturation of trash these furfags will have to suck up or get outs which should cause even more of a stigma on furfags which I'm all for tbh

>>14394864

Probably using a Lua binding against OpenGL, if one exists. Also Lua is SLOW, you'll want to use LuaJIT as well.

>>14394864

Get your hands on some SDL/OpenGL bindings and make a simple program that spins a model around maybe to dip your feet in it.

3D graphics actually isn't that hard to get started with, because OpenGL does a lot of work so you can get into it a little easier.

Probably will be kind of slow but you can just write the important parts in C later or have potato graphics which is easier for your first engine.

>>14394864

Don't use Lua to write a game engine, it's too slow. You write the core of your engine in another language, like c, and then extend it's functionality using Lua.

>>14394841

>Sitting in front of a computer, focusing for months at a time making tiny adjustments to get movement exactly right isn't work.

Shit work and shit art are still work and art, Anon. I looked him up, and it's obvious why he's popular. His art has a clean, stylish aesthetic, and very smooth, close to natural movement, despite being tweened. Those two ingredients alone are all you need to be funded by the autistic porn market.

>>14394824

>can never create his own "art", only use shitty tweens and make things jiggle,

Are you saying he doesn't draw the images himself?

>>14394942

No he doesn't. He gets his girlfriend Kabier to draw the art, or else piggyback off of a popular artist and (doesn't always) ask to animate their work

>>14394858

>Vulkan

Good luck anon

>The world is an array of VBOs

Do you perform any sorting at all, by materials for example? Do you have different shaders for different objects in the world? Do you have some sort of scene graph?

>>14394864

No.

>>14394624

I'm still a nodev but I think the trend for high performance rendering is toward ubershaders with multi draw indirect.

Ubershaders can contain the code for multiple material types so you don't have to switch shaders between materials, and branching is basically free on modern GPUs as long as every instance in a warp (every batch of 32 or 64 vertices/pixels etc) branches the same way. In other words, as long as you aren't switching material types on a per-vertex basis, you should only pay the ubershader cost between objects (more on that in a sec) when you traditionally would have had to change shaders and uniforms anyway.

Multi draw indirect lets you submit a bunch of draw calls with one API call. You basically fill in an array of structures that each represents a draw call, and submit that instead. And instead of manually setting shader uniforms for each call, you fill up a buffer with those parameters and use a draw ID to find the right parameters within the vertex shader. This ties in nicely with ubershaders of course because you can use it to render multiple objects of differing material without changing state. You can even handle multiple vertex formats (!) if you are clever about it.

Even for cards that don't support MDI (it's standard in OpenGL 4.3) there are hacks you can do with instancing to get a similar effect, without multi draw, but still saving the cost of changing shaders and uniforms for each draw call. Moving in the other direction, MDI uses a standard structure layout and is stored in a GPU buffer, so really advanced engines can use compute shaders to generate their own draw calls on the GPU, for example using the GPU to perform occlusion culling and generating the relevant draw calls without having to make a round trip to the CPU.

The last challenge is textures. NVIDIA GPUs support bindless textures (no texture slots, just texture pointers basically) so no need to change texture state with this approach. AMD GPUs don't though, iirc they have 32 texture slots, so either you pay the texture binding cost or you find a way to pack all of your textures into texture arrays (which requires each texture in the array to be the same size), and if you're going to that effort why bother having a separate path for NVIDIA GPUs?

If you do all of this stuff right, you can basically render your entire game with one API call. This talk goes into more detail:

https://www.slideshare.net/CassEveritt/approaching-zero-driver-overhead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70QbvzB6II

tl;dr Vulkan autism was kinda pointless because you could have gotten most of the benefits of Vulkan with existing OpenGL APIs, and here's how.

>>14395028

Thank you for your elaborate post anon, this sounds very promising. I’ll watch the GDC talk. Are you working on an engine or a renderer?

>>14395003

No, I have one shader that doesn't do much and no scene graph, and no sorting. Sorry if its a little disappointing, I am working on implementing a BSP-PVS rendering algorithm and so this is how I plan on arranging my VBOs. It won't draw the ones that are culled, etc. Then I plan to work on transitioning from the idea of textures to the idea of materials. I don't know very much about shaders, my previous experience with this is writing stuff for fixed-function OpenGL.

>>14395028

>If you do all of this stuff right, you can basically render your entire game with one API call.

Kind of reminds me how according to this one talk that was given by id software in about 1999, Quake 3 just gets rendered in one GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP.

>Vulkan autism was kinda pointless

Kind of lame if true, I don't actually know modern graphics programming so I just picked it up so that I could get into the cutting edge of graphics and it is the most cutting-edge API that I can use on my computer (not going to install windows 10 for D3D12)

>>14395028

Man these fucking cop outs in the talk are annoying

>on some hardware this isnt supported, but im not going to name any names

>this is faster on some hardware, not going to say which one

>this might be a better idea depending on your circumstances

They act like the audience wouldnt be able to just try it out and see for themselves.

From what im taking away from it, it sounds like the hardware support isnt as consistent as it would have to be to be a viable strategy for a project of my scope. Sounds like you have about 4 different special scenarios depending on Nvidia/AMD, Intel/AMD and even Nvidia Pascal or older Nvidia. Then again maybe you just chose one way of doing it and roll with it, leaving out the bindless textures so AMD is supported.

>>14395134

I wouldnt recommend Vulkan for any agdg scoped project to be honest, its much more convoluted than OpenGL, harder to use, and OpenGL is generally faster unless you leverage the special Vulkan features which is unlikely.

>sorry if its a little disappointing

Not disappointed, im just surprised, but then again it doesnt take that long to implement batching/sorting even after the fact.

>>14394535

>direct blender exporter for godot

I hope they support blender groups, of all the exporters that i've tried no one takes into account groups and in the process break my scenes, despite being the optimal way of producing game assets and maps

>>14395195

sorry I am already too far in, any way I kind of picked it up to learn Vulkan so I am doing pretty good at that, I didn't expect to be able to get any advantages out of it going into the project any ways

>>14393085

That's how the actual model is. I didn't design him.

>>14395428

Yes.

>>14395434

What about flash games ported to mobile?

>>14395479

If its a game and you played a non-trivial part in making it what it is then it's allowed.

I want to get back in to making basic 2D games (NES style, not "indie" retro, but proper NES, with the restricted colour palette and 4 channel MIDI sound).

So, Godot or Game Maker 2?

I'm familiar with Game Maker 1 but the price for entry on 2 is a put-off and its reviews aren't solid so I'm thinking of learning Godot.

Is it suitably advanced? Version 2 or 3?

>>14395528

Go for Godot.

>>14395614

Yeah, it's also /vm/ for video game mods, too, even though it doesn't say it in the title explicitly.

>>14395595

2 or 3?

Any recommendations for good tutorials to start with?

>>14395701

As far as I understand it Godot 2D has been done for a while so you might as well get the latest version possible.

Also if you're starting completely fresh from programming the best place to start are replicating simple games, pong, mario, etc. Tutorials aren't very good to learn, since you mostly just end up copying what the tutorial does. I'd honestly just google and look at the docs and see if you can make it

>>14395701

Go straight for 3 since 2 is deprecated already. Godot's website has samples and tutorials.

>>14395711

show me ur gay dong

>>14395708

I'm familiar with programming, just wanted some tutorials that teach Godot basics and cover whatever scripting language it uses. I've made other games in Game Maker (not very polished, but they worked) with none of their drag and drop shit, just coding everything by hand in their scripting language.

When you say to go with Godot 2D do you mean version 2? >>14395713 says to go for 3.

What even are the differences?

>>14395741

No I meant go for 3.

Dunno I still think that starting a small project to teach yourself will always be more useful than straight up tutorials, but if you learn better with tutorials then go with that.

>>14395686

Embed related is the quake 3 talk if you want to watch it, it's very interesting.

My engine actually has two renderers and one of them targets fixed function OpenGL for my older laptops. That way I can target the most hardware possible, and older OpenGL is really simple and fun to write, I am still at the point in graphics programming where I have yet to actually use shaders seriously, mostly because I stayed programming in fixed-function GL for so long, but I am slowly learning it. I know a lot about graphics programming, just not shaders.

>>14395741

Thirding Godot 3. Great engine.

>>14395790

I'm waiting for the real time GI

RPGdev here, having a bit of a physics problem. Chances are I wont get help on this, being Uengine 1 and all, but could anyone take a look at the physics formula I am using on a Puppet pawn and see if anything looks amiss?

		if ( Physics == PHYS_Walking ) {
			NewAccel = (normal(aForward*X + aStrafe*Y + aUp*Z) * GroundSpeed);
			if ( VSize(NewAccel) > 3072 ) {NewAccel = 3072 * Normal(NewAccel);}
			Acceleration = NewAccel;
			Velocity = Acceleration;
		}
		MoveSmooth(Velocity*DeltaTime);

>>14395614

That's very cute and i'm curious what it is.

>>14396608

>Velocity = Acceleration;

shouldn't it be velocity+=acceleration?

unless i'm misunderstanding the names

>>14395614

Are you making a 2humon romhack?

>>14396608

I have no idea whats going on in this code. Have you tried the rubber duck debugging method? Try to explain as precisely as possible what's going on on every piece of your code. It will help you understand your own code better and possibly come to the solution, if not at least you could write that down and we could better help you.

>>14394864

Surprised nobody told you about using Love2D with Love3D extension.

>>14396011

Godot 3 already has realtime global illumination, the big thing holding it back for me is the lack of occlusion culling.

>>14397085

while lights are rael time, it still needs baking for some stuff like emissive materials

>>14393469

First user made level!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1314398492

>>14396608

v = a * t, not v = a.

d = v * t + (1/2) * a * (t^2), not d = v * t

>>14395686

>i would like to write a serious engine

To be fair writing an engine is the absolute best way to never ever finish an actual game. Im mostly doing this for experience with OpenGL, preparing for a project at university next semester that will use OpenGL, as well as portfolio faggotry, possibly.

I found some good slides from GTC 2013 where they go further into implementation, but i cant find the talk as a video:

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2013/presentations/S3032-Advanced-Scenegraph-Rendering-Pipeline.pdf

>>14397956

yeah i didn't want to use triangles, but i guess i will have to

>>14397896

>>14397967

Your loops are fucked.

>>14393878

>In general the boolean type is pretty wasteful to use at all

Bullshit. In general it is pretty retarded to use bitfields. Bitfields should only be used if you target microprocessors.

>Strong typing just creates this artificial idea of types

That is the point. A boolean is a 1-bit integer. Of course on most machines the smallest addressable memory cell is 8 bit so that is what your bool will actually be sized.

If you have an n-bit integer and want a k-bit integer you have to cast it. Nothing cancerous about that.

>>14394046

Is your code example supposed to be C++? Because C++ implicitly converts bools to integers afaik so the if is not necessary..

>>14398195

Keep them as they are. Big tits are fine. But when every chick has big titties, none of them do.

It's like, honestly, I woouldn't mind one or two women in fighting games having b/a cup tits to go along with there juicy Anavar fueled physiques.

>>14398209

I don't write any C++ and I wasn't trying to write an example for a specific language beyond the general C-style syntax. Bitfieilds should be used in most cases anyway because they are more expressive than booleans, as well as taking up less space. There are a lot of complicated expressions that are inconvenient to write using booleans but are much easier to write using bitwise operators

>>14398314

>Bitfieilds should be used in most cases anyway

why?

>because they are more expressive than booleans

They aren't. Boolean values are best expressed by actual booleans with true and false. Nothing is less expressive than having unnamed booleans which you have to access through bitwise ops.

>taking up less space

Only matters if you target microprocessors.

>There are a lot of complicated expressions that are inconvenient to write using booleans

Example?

>>14398343

>Example?

Choosing which tile to use based on neighboring tiles, for one

>>14398428

???

Maybe if you would explain by what logic tiles depend on neighboring tiles I could understand what booleans/bitfields have to do with this.

Any references for pixel art? Specifically, I'm looking for how to do different materials, eg brick, grass, mud, that sort of thing

>>14398521

good god, spell check your shit mayne

anyways, just check at which point in the animation you're capable of damaging the opponent

windup is before that, attack is after that, end is when you can no longer hurt your opponent with the weapon, it's not the same ratio for every animation

either split your animation into 3 animations or use a state machine behavior to check if the normalized time is between end of wind-up to end of attack

>>14398520

Aside from the resources that should be up on the wiki in the OP (I can re-dump them if they're broken again/still), just look at how games you like the look of do it. Take screenshots, zoom in, study techniques.

>>14398521

>fallow threw

>no seance of weight

worried laughter.png

What exactly is your question? How to determine the part of the animation where damage is applied? Or how to make an animation that feels right when it comes to wind-up times and so on?

>>14398521

if you have blocking or hitting a wall animation you may want to also consider when that'll occur

>>14398558

>>14398557

coming back that if i want to be faithful to the source material (diablo 2) i'm going to basically have to just about rotoscope a basic attack animation and play it back at different speeds rather than go full animation autism.

>>14398574

you don't have to be 100% to the source at every moment

>>14398574

>rather than go full animation autism

Rotoscoping something so simple sounds like animation autism to me. Not to mention you have that stiff Diablo 2 feel almost nailed down, just speed it up a little. Just do some trial and error.

>>14398667

There's a bit more wrist-swing in there normally, and the follow-through motion tends to be curvier. Consider looking up some HEMA videos fighting/training with maces.

>>14398667

tbh why swing into swing the draw back of the second swing is not going to do damage unless it also has up force with it and at that point it'd be a very slow attack. why not instead of swing swing, you have it swing thrust? it makes the most sense based off the moment of the first swing since by the end of it his weapon position is in a much better spot for thrust rather then needing to "wind up" again

>>14393437

Did you create that AI Behaviour stuff yourself, or did you use a asset? If so, what's the name for it?

>>14398795

myself

>>14396608

Nevermind, I fixed this issue with latent functions. I have new code for anyone to look at if they want to. A couple of notes:

> aForward base = 0, scales up to 300

> aStrafe base = 0, scales up to 300

> aUp base = 0

function ControlMove(float DeltaTime, float aForward, float aStrafe, float aUp, byte bUp, byte bDown, byte bLeft, byte bRight, bool bPressedJump, rotator DeltaRot)
	{
		local vector X,Y,Z;
		local rotator OldRotation;
		local bool    bSaveJump;
		
		aForward *= 0.1;
		aStrafe  *= 0.1;
		GetAxes(Rotation,X,Y,Z);

		if ( Physics == PHYS_Walking ) {
			if ( aForward > 0 || aStrafe > 0) {
				Destination = Location + (aForward*X + aStrafe*Y + aUp*Z);
				//log("1Dest:"@Destination);
			}
			else if (aForward == 0 && aStrafe == 0) {
				Destination = Location;
				//log("2Dest:"@Destination);
			}
			Velocity = vector(rotator(Destination-Location));
			Acceleration = normal(Destination - Location) * AccelRate;
		}
		
		if ( bPressedJump ) {DoJump();}
		if ( Physics!=PHYS_Spider ) {Acceleration.Z = 0;}

		// Update rotation.
		OldRotation = Rotation;
		UpdateRotation(DeltaTime, 0);

		if ( bPressedJump ) {
			bSaveJump = true;
			bPressedJump = false;
		}
		else {bSaveJump = false;}

		bPressedJump = bSaveJump;
	}
Begin:
	if (Physics != PHYS_Falling)
		SetPhysics(PHYS_Walking);
Move:
	MoveTo(Destination,GroundSpeed);

I need some help implementing Voronoi Diagrams. Surely someone in here has done it before, right?

So let's say I generate 100 random points in a region. What is the use of the diagram? From all the reading I could do, it seems like it just creates a ton of fluff (edges, cells, intersection points) just so you can check whether an arbitrary point is nearest to a particular cell.

Wouldn't it be easier to just store the points in a BSP tree, and get the nearest one that way? What's the advantage of it?

>>14399167

Voronoi diagram:

nearest node = diagram[x,y];

BSP:

Is my point in this half or that half?

Is it in this half of that half of said half?

Is it in this half of that half of said half?

Is it in this half of that half of said half?

…

Is it in this half of that half of said half?

Oh so it's that point.

>>14398868

There are two ways you can perform a "half swing" like that. First is to pull back on the swing after it gets going. This is what is literally meant by "pulling your punches" and basically means you won't be doing any damage with that swing. The second is to impact something. If you want to incorporate this into game design you are going to be changing how attacks work depending on if they hit the enemy (at minimum).

>>14399265

blender is free and fast

maya works too, bulkier though

>>14399272

3dstudio max is a better maya t

>>14399279

it's literally the same thing

just use blender

>>14399296

you're literally the same thing

>>14399212

Well I guess I'm asking a few different things

>If you used a framework that has a VD, what sort of functions and properties would you expect to work with?

The most important one would be to find the nearest node, but I think that being able to track the edges and intersect points associated with that node are also important, so you can do things like generate a polygon or find perimeter length and area.

My problem with BSP trees is that I always conflate them to non-sparse quadtrees and I get really confused and don't know how to sort them out of implement them.

>>14397896

while is true that you should try to avoid triangles I want to suggest you to stop being retarded and finish your game. don't stop your momentum just for an faggot triangle, momentum is more valuable than perfect topology specially when you already have good enough topology your game is one of the few I'm looking forward to

>>14398343

So, lets say that I have a variable uint8_t flags and 8 of the bits in flags are being used, as opposed to 8 booleans. The bit flags are being named using the preprocessor, like normal:

//declaring bit flags
#define BOOL1 (1 << 0)
#define BOOL2 (1 << 1)
#define BOOL3 (1 << 2)
#define BOOL4 (1 << 3)
#define BOOL5 (1 << 4)
#define BOOL6 (1 << 5)
#define BOOL7 (1 << 6)
#define BOOL8 (1 << 7)

//declaring booleans
bool bool1;
bool bool2;
bool bool3;
bool bool4;
bool bool5;
bool bool6;
bool bool7;
bool bool8;

Obviously in that code we can replace the "boolX" with an expressive descriptive name about what it is supposed to represent, that's why it's not an array or anything. So, let's compare some if statements where the value of every boolean is relevant:

//determine that only booleans 5, 3, and 7 are true, and every other bool is false:

//with bitwise opeartors
if(!(flags & ~(BOOL5 | BOOL3 | BOOL7)))

//with boolean variables
if(!bool1 && !bool2 && bool3 && !bool4 && bool5 && !bool6 && bool7 && !bool8)

Now, imagine what happens when we want to change the expression?

using bit flags, this is much easier. With boolean variables, a lot of code needs to

be changed. It's just not as trivial as it is with bitwise operators which I am really only scratching the surface of here because I don't want to type out a million examples. Obviously booleans are useful for more elementary operations but they do not scale in the same way that bit flags do.

>>14399527

the C# compiler lets you treat a set of enums as flags, which makes it a lot safer and clear what you're doing

fun with strongly typed languages. If you do this shit manually, you can run into a lot of trouble when your previously working bitshit doesn't work properly because you're compiling to a different system.

[FlagsAttribute] public enum PhoneService
{
   None = 0,
   LandLine = 1,
   Cell = 2,
   Fax = 4,
   Internet = 8,
   Other = 16
}

 var household1 = PhoneService.LandLine | PhoneService.Cell |
                       PhoneService.Internet;
      var household2 = PhoneService.None;
      var household3 = PhoneService.Cell | PhoneService.Internet;

      // Store the variables in an array for ease of access.
      PhoneService[] households = { household1, household2, household3 };

>>14399592

Sorry, I dont ever program C# so I really wouldn't know anything about it beyond that it's like Java

>>14399527

if((bool3 && bool5 && bool7) && !(bool1 || bool2 || bool4 || bool6 || bool8))

Oh wow. Such hard. Your example is not really convincing. If you actually write the if statement properly it is way more readable than your bitfield shit.

The boolean approach is extremely readable and even literal retards should be able to grasp within seconds what it does. Your bitwise ops mess may be shorter but definitely not as simple as using booleans.

>>14399592

>>14399600

C# is utter garbage. Especially enums. They are not safer not clearer than C.

You can for example cast any int to PhoneService.

>>14399608

should be self evident what I'm doing there if you're familiar with C(plusplus) it's not using any language specific feature other than noting that the enum should be treated as a series of flags. None || Cell || Other gives you 0 plus 2 plus 16, or 18, stored as a single enum type "PhoneService"; You're still dealing with ints all the way down, so you can use bit operations on them, but they're still conceptually booleans otherwise.

guess which key is fucking broken

>>14399617

>C# is utter garbage. Especially enums.

opinion discarded

>>14399600

>you can run into a lot of trouble when your previously working bitshit doesn't work properly because you're compiling to a different system

That's not true. Because of the nature of the CLI, your compiled code is guaranteed to work cross platform. Now what the JITter does to make that code work is another story, but that's something you absolutely do not have to worry about, unless you're using COM and interop stuff

>>14399622

>That's not true. Because of the nature of the CLI, your compiled code is guaranteed to work cross platform

Whoops, I was referring to cpp in that case. Ran into an issue where a library suddenly started shitting the bed a while back because I was targetting different hardware.

>>14399617

>>14399527

Also, there's bitfield twiddling hacks that let you use integer bitmasks and certain math tricks to avoid the && chains. Different optimizations exist and there are far, far too many, since it depends on what you're doing.

>>14399617

that is way more verbose and not as simple to write as bitwise operators. Maybe you have a hard time reading the operators because you don't remember what they do off the top of your head?

I don't write my code to make sure that literal retards can read it. I write it to get results.

>>14399619

wasn't responding to your second post, I honestly don't know the answer to that because it looks OK.

>>14399667

Terse code does not equal readable code. Also it seems like we have different definitions of simple.

>I write it to get results.

Have you ever worked with multiple people on the same codebase?

>>14399691

It's kind of expected that when you work on a codebase, you understand how to read the language that it's written in. If you can't read that basic sample or easily understand it you are just retarded. I've already shown how it's more expressive and useful and now you're basically admitting that you literally cant even understand the language feature you are bashing

>>14399752

we've established that the anon you're responding to is literally retired. I don't know why you keep responding.

>>14400038

>literally retired

As opposed to pretending to be retired yet still having a job?

>>14400198

nice acorn dude

>>14400198

I can feel the faces

>>14400198

It's cute. Good first try.

>>14400333

I can feel those digits.

>>14401548

I tried some websites using the VS .NET 2003 browser and the VS 2017 browser once and they seemed to have the exact same problems. I don't know if the VS 2017 browser is actually different.

>>14393899

>But this is a micro optimization at best, since you're trying to out-optimize the compiler, and trying to save bits when you have several hundred megabytes of memory before it becomes an issue.

Breh do you have several hundred megabytes of cache

>>14401591

Maybe chiming in a little but, 49 mins in this talk the guy begins showing examples using the boolean type, really puts the kind of waste that it can generate in prespective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

We'd like to think that the compiler is capable of optimizing our booleans into packed ints with bitwise operators, and stop the waste, but compilers aren't/cant just do that.

>>14401631

Boolean checks are insignificant performance-wise. This debate is an academic curiosity, not to be taken too seriously by any dev.

>>14401718

Granted I use bitwise operators because the syntax is better, not because I think that it's a serious optimization but it is a real (if small) improvement to the code that is being compiled. I think that the talk I linked too more than proves the real implications of what it can mean.

>>14389100

Do not use mecanim animation manager

Figure out how the Playables API work and do your own animation manager, mecanim's is fucking awful

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/08/02/unity-2017-1-feature-spotlight-playable-api/

This is just like the fucking character controller, just because Unity comes with one, does not mean you should use it

>>14399879

Is it toohoomon? based on which version of pokemon?

>>14401125

9/10 something is missing, i think the anime version has softer-looking cheeks, might be the lack of skin shader you mentioned.

>>14401548

the hair is texture only i think

>>14402961

As of Godot 3.0 it's not unrealistic to use C++ for everything, as you don't have to recompile the entire engine anymore like you'd have had to with Godot2. C# would also be perfectly usable if it weren't for the current lack of support for actually exporting a finished game using it until 3.1 is released. That feature's coming Soon™.

>>14402980

I suppose I'll mess around with 3D modeling in general, and look into it Soon

But it's nice to hear that it's likely going to be avoidable.

>>14403100

>MoltenVK going free and opensource

Now that's a pleasant surprise.

In Godot how can you check type of custom class?

where you would have

> is_type("Object")

every time I've tried

> is_type("MyClass.gd")

it fails

Source 2 when??? Gayblet didnt deliver, fuack.

>>14403473

Dota 2 is made in Source 2 :^)

Happy custom map making :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^) :^)

>>14403427

Try is_type("MyClass")

>>14403473

>>14403484

The Source 2 editor is buggy as shit, from what I've heard. It's incredible how active the modding community for Source is, considering how Valve clearly doesn't give a fuck about modding support anymore.

>>14402961

In Godot you can use 3d Gridmaps. Just make sure the origin of your 3d object is at the center of it. You can use those Gridmaps on every axis so you can use it for your floor and your walls.

Unless you put some effort into it it will probably be very apparent, that your layout is based on squares, although you can also set up your grid to not consist of squares, but rectangles.

As far as i know there is no landscape system planned like the one in UE4.

>>14402538

I don't think I know enough to do this tbh