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Is a better idea to simply give up on gamedev and focus on building a single skill.

I'm wondering why someone should give a fuck about small games made by a single guy that are mediocre in everything when they can play games made by hundreds of more talented programmers, artists, musicians than anything I could ever make.

Better focus on a single skill like illustration and make a living from it, maybe I could even become more well know for it than making shitty mediocre games.

>>14636733

You shouldn't go into gamedev if your objective is to make money. Gamedev is definitely one of those fields where you're supposed to do what you love and let the money follow. If you want to make a living go get a normal day job. Your project will only be as successful as the blood, sweat and tears you put into it. Which, gauging by your post, you don't want to put a whole lot into.

Who cares if someone has 200 Chinks helping him put together a game? The reason why people give a fuck about small games made by a single guy is because that single guy put more thought and care into his game than the soulless AAA machine he's competing against.

>>14636777

You really thought this out, didn't you? Good work. Nice trips

>>14636733

I'm working with a few other anons together. It really helps to have a team of people you can trust but I guess I was lucky in finding the right people.

Seriously though, networking is powerful but it can easily turn ugly.

>>14636868

Take a look at the tutorials in http://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/math/index.html

>>14636979

Do it faget.

>>14636733

Being a jack of all trades is still extremely useful, even if it doesn't directly lead to employment. You're assuming that everyone wants to work in a team, or work on a game that isn't theirs. It's true that it's mathematically impossible to be great at everything, but it's entirely possible to choose one or two things that you're going to be exceptional at, and then learn the basics of all of the others enough to get off the ground.

>>14637140

The best resource is the ability to look things up from a search engine, and compile information from multiple tutorials/guides for the sake of your own comprehension.

There's plenty of advantages to making your own engine if you're capable of doing it, but the problem is obtaining that capability.

>>14636733

>Is a better idea to simply give up on gamedev and focus on building a single skill.

Fuck off, retard, that isn't a question.

>>14637230

Maybe at first glance, but when you apply it creates a way different outcome.

>>14636979

Lookin good man, haven't seen u in awhile, glad you're still kicken.

Did you end up rewriting the engine?

>>14637301

>Programming is a craft

indeed, indeed

> feedback on this GUI

it's coherent, it has a good layout, but it's lacking character… it feels too generic.

>>14637301

>You can't read yourself to become a carpenter

>what is trade school

That font is terrible by the way. Just use Sans or Helvitica.

>>14637324

in trade school they still take you to sites, and do hands on training u derp; or at least the one my friend went to did it.

>>14637332

or at least that's what one my friends who went to trade school told me.*

i don't know how that word salad formed, kek, sage for correction

>>14637332

Then obviously you do programming challanges to practices. Since I'm confident programming in most things, I want to learn how to do enginedev now.

>>14637301

Where's the button to quit or go back to main menu?

>>14637319

>Did you end up rewriting the engine?

Waiting for Jai before I make anything new.

>>14637324

>what is trade school

You think you sit around reading books in trade school?

>That font is terrible by the way

That bad? I'll try something else, thanks.

>>14637319

it's coherent, it has a good layout, but it's lacking character… it feels too generic.

Thanks anon, you're entirely right. I'm gonna try and get some props on and some motion in there.

>>14637353

>Where's the button to quit or go back to main menu?

Do I really need one? I figure you can't leave without having selected a profile?

how hard would be to focus on art then become the art guy in this thread and working with other anons to make their games?

(maybe some of such games become a sucess)

>>14637343

Good stuff anon, just be clear on what your goals are, and what you're working towards.

Provide yourself with enough challenge to keep yourself driven + intrigued, but not so much challenge as to overwhelm yourself.

>>14637353

>jai

first time I've heard of it, but if jonathan blow the super autist is working on it you know there's going to be some neat stuff.

>>14637362

>Do I really need one?

Depends on the game I guess. That looks like a part of some start menu, it would be annoying to explore the menus and then getting locked in the character selection screen even though you may have wanted to go to the options first or something.

>>14637374

>working with other anons

>make games

You're a funny guy

>>14637392

It goes like this right now:

Splash -> Profile Select OR Main Menu -> Profile Select -> Main Menu. I see your point though, it's worth considering.

Anyone of you guys got a .pdf of this?

>Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, 2nd Ed

>>14636979

>shooting blocks

It'd be cool to have a late-game tool that looks like a big vacuum and lets you suck dirt and other soft blocks up. Astroneer has a mechanic like this.

>>14637374

If you really want to make art for games, then go for it.

>(maybe some of such games become a sucess)

That's probably not going to happen until you're quite good.

>>14637439

http://libgen.io/search.php?req=Beginning+OpenGL+Game+Programming&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def

>>14637469

Good stuff, thanks anon. Do you think I should use a separate font for buttons and titles or could they be the same? So just change the text above the character?

>>14637520

It does look a bit jarring when everything is capitalized, at least.

If you use multiple fonts, then usually you should only have one special font (like you have now) and use it for headings like the name or "Select profile". The other fonts should be neutral like Open Sans, though you rarely want more than 2 different fonts.

>>14637140

If you have to ask if there's benefits to enginedev, there is no benefits to you enginedevving. It's only beneficial if you know what you're doing.

I'm stuck at a impasse.

I'm currently trying to add hooks and creating an EventHandler to handle custom events, but I want to be able to allocate data that isn't declared in a class at execution. Does anybody know if there is a term for this or have resources on what I'm trying to do?

>>14638547

You may be looking for dependency injection.

There’s lots of frameworks for this on github as its widely used, but if you use unity look at zenject.

>>14636979

Does this take advantage of chunking or quadtrees?

It's been like two years and I still can't fucking grasp how to work with them yet

>>14639064

That's not quite what I'm looking for anon.

Here's an example: I want to be able to allocate (int) magic level to all player classes after compilation, even though it wasn't declared in the class initially, if that makes any sense.

>>14639247

What you are looking for are dynamically typed objects. I assume this is Unity? Compiled languages are strong typed, which means the length of the data is known ahead of time, since every time you allocate a new object into memory, it sets aside exactly (technically not, but that's not relevant here) enough memory for that instance. You can't just "add onto it" without creating a new type.

You can either use a secondary language like Lua or Python to hold the relevant data, or you can cobble it together yourself, and do something like a Dictionary<object,float>, but then this limits you strictly to one type (floating point). I don't normally recommending the "object" type, but here it shouldn't matter, even string as an index should be okay, because Dictionaries are backed internally by a GetHashCode() call regardless of supplied type, so it should perform at roughly the same speed regardless of what you do

>>14639276

Yes that is exactly what I was looking for. It's a custom 2D engine. Shame, maybe I'll add a scripting feature later on. Thanks for the help

>>14639292

Besides WW3 being about to start its going pretty well.

>>14639212

For the first one, there’s a few ways u can approach that.

But first, you need a position to query, and you should always have one per node to work from.

so, each node should have a min and max (or center and extends/half size) for the space it encloses (thus u can get an adjacent position in a particular direction via just adding the extends*2 In the direction).

using this information for bounds checks, and to recurse to the node that contains the position (even at a passed depth).

To actually organize that, and get the adjacent quad tree, u just build a quadtree of quadtrees.

You could just have a moving quadtree on your controller that gathers the terrrain quadtrees (that’s what I do but for octrees).

>collision

>edge cases

Have overlapping cells, I.e. cells that extend so there are no edge cases.

The usage for this in collisions should be to first organize the collidables into small groups, and then detect collisions; so the main goal is to always be able to detect when collidables are close to each other in a relatively constrained space.

>>14638575

> parties

< implying I go to normalfag social gatherings

< implying you do

get off my board

>>14639455

>>14639455

No, a fucking 2 hour drive from (((Toronto)))

Regarding the rendering pipeline discussion from last thread: Does anyone know if DirectX Raytracing / Nvidia RTX is actual fully fledged Realtime Raytracing, with no conventional rendering at all, or does it just use raytracing in some capacity for reflection and shadow calculations? SSR today is also done with some raymarching, and many shadowing algorithms use ray calculations, it wouldn't be very revolutionary. Looking at the Metro Exodus demo i couldn't make out any sort of artifact a real raytracer would have, it just looks like slightly improved shadowing / AO / reflections.

>>14636979

This video from the same presentation seems to suggest that it use 1 sample per pixel + some kind of denoising algorithm.

>>14639511

I hope people aren't stupid enough to let realtime raytracing catch on. I actually like being able to casually download a game and expect it to run at 60 fps.

>>14639511

Yes, but i think the 1spp just refers to shadows / AO / reflections, the geometry is rendered conventionally. In the shadow section in the first part of the video, they briefly switch to 1spp, see how the geometry is still perfectly clear?

>previous $10K "professional" model cards used for raytracing were underclocked consumer models with less cores and RAM, but the consumer model drivers were deliberately crippled

>now this shit

If NVidia's claims of 300 million rays per second is accurate, and they're real raytraces, then you can expect 18 frames per second at 4K res (and two bounces per ray, which is the observed average in the CG render industry). You'd get 72 FPS at 1080p. If they're pulling their "pro" driver shenanigans again, all bets are off.

>>14637140

There is no one resource on making an engine. It's all just resources that might help you make one specific component of your engine. You have to be able to apply the stuff in those tutorials into your engine by yourself. For example this teaches you how to write a graphics system similar to the ones that are found in quake, half-life, etc:

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~jsnider/SeniorProj/BSP/default.htm

However it doesn't at all teach you how to draw graphics on the screen. You would have to look up a graphics programming tutorial for that. You'd also need to learn how to use some kind of sound API, etc. to actually make an engine. You can't find this stuff all in one place since it's all specialized and every engine does stuff differently.

I'm probably the only anon who posts links to OpenGL 1.1 stuff ,sorry if its not very helpful

>>14639511

This looks like path tracing, and not ray tracing. Ray tracing is a lot easier to do. For example, video related is a real-time ray tracing demo from 2001 with no 3D card. I guess path tracing is a kind of ray tracing? But I always considered them different because of how the results and algorithms are different, even though they are both about calculating rays.

Not sure if this is the right place, but if someone can please help a total noob/retard out- if I want to play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 do I need to run an earlier windows emulator and load it on there? Or rather, how can i play this game- will it run on windows 10?

>>14639749

I looked it up. Path tracing is like ray tracing++. They are related but path tracing does a better job at simulating how light works in real life.

Path tracing, for example, can emulate caustics, ray tracing cannot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(optics)

>>14639770

Defintely not the right thread, kek, but nbd

Make sure u install it and try it first, and see if it boots.

If that doesn’t work, then probably just need to run it in compatibility mode (go2 the game Exe, right click, and open properties then select windows XP compatibility).

Try booting it after that, if you get an error message, search the error message; there will probably be fixes for other games, but the same applies.

If all else fails just emulate winXP on a virtual machine and play it on there.

Sage bcs off topic

>>14639793

People always mentioned how it could do soft shadows, and ray tracing can't in its base form. Interesting to see that it has other cool properties. I guess nvidia is just calling path tracing ray tracing now.

>>14639543

Oh it's coming full force in maybe 3 or so years. And it's not gonna stop because your ass is still using dial up. Overall it's a good thing. Instantaneous light bakes for a scene in an editor is something to be excited about.

>>14639771

i still don't really know what to do with the ECS

the only thing i've gleaned from the tutorial is that i should have systems to do the Update() and Start() for objects rather than each object doing it by themselves, one benefit of this being that i'm using the same deltaTime

other than that i can't figure out what the fuck they're doing and what they want me to do

in any case the current beta build of unity keeps crashing on my when i try to import stuff, so i'm not really gonna bother with it anyways

>>14640398

It's probably for cache coherency. Components are packed tightly into memory, so that when you pass components through a system, you'll get minimum cache misses.

>>14640901

you really don't need it though

at best you need highschool tier vectors

if you're not using some engine that already has stuff like this built in, you need to understand coordinate system conversion

>>14640901

PatrickJMT has a ton of videos for many different fields of math and he explains things pretty well. If you're really wanting to get a lot of practice and understanding, you're probably best off finding a textbook you like, reading it, and doing all the problems that have answers so you can check yourself.

>>14641546

tl dr, i don't REALLY need it?

so far they've been claiming it's needed more for performance rather than for organization, and i'm just not seeing any huge boost

>>14636868

Have they fixed sprites jittering in version 3?

>>14641944

You sure that's not an issue with you trying to draw sprites at non-integer positions? That happens with every program.

>>14641954

Nope, but the jittering was very strange: on Windows it happened sometimes, randomly, on Android it happened all the time. And on integrated Intel graphics the game looked like an unplayable slideshow.

>>14641944 (checked)

I don't know, I haven't bothered "playing" around with Godot 3 much since I feel breddy clueless were to start to make a "functional" test game. My Python knowledge is just good enough to make a simple-ish text game.

>>14640901

Thanks for formulating the question better than me. tfw I know this feel

>>14639418

nigga I was drinking alone at home. Five beers at least.

>>14642028

What do you suggest for the green district?

>>14642046

My town won't be that big, it would house one or two ships at the most

>>14642094

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.0918334,-64.4004811,14028m/data=!3m1!1e3

>>14642093

Nevermind. Just tried it and I think that things just got worse. 2D renderer is useless, and 3D renderer still gives that random jittering.

>>14642201

You should take into account a small margin of error, usually referred to as epsilon, when dealing with floating point numbers.

>>14642201

You should print the exact values of each floating point number. Chances are you'll get different results. 15.778 cannot be stored into a floating point.

>>14636733

There are plenty of top tier games made my a small amount of people, yet shit tier games with teams of hundreds of people. Your argument is garbage because quantity doesn't automatically mean quality. Anyways, if you want to be an illustrator, illustrate, if you want to make games then just like make game. Also, if cash is the most important thing for you then this place isn't for you, most people here do this for passion and most likely cannot help you out if you just want to make a cashcow. Might want to go to some chink forums and try to get some tips about making shit tier mobile games to get rich.

>>14639511

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>>14641756

http://cg.ivd.kit.edu/svgf.php

This stuff has been available for 1-2 years now. Seeing how the tech went from 10fps to 60fps on the same hardware in such short time means that even current mid-ware hardware should be able to fluently run that tech in another year or two. Anyways to run down how it works, it's a hybrid path tracer. Everything gets still rendered traditionally, they just add a single pass path trace from which you can produce colorbleeding, shadows and reflections. Instead of shitfuck of screen space image effects you now have this path trace to do all the fancy lighting and shadowing in the environment in a single step. The reason this tech is so valuable is because you have no scaling problems, doesn't matter if you have thousand or one object, casting their shadows will now cost the same. Also no need to place shadow maps, reflection cubes, illumination probes anymore. Now it's all about making the denoiser as efficient as possible.

>>14642352

Looks nice, excited to see it develop.

>>14642352

It would make sense if outside the main walls you could see some urban sprawl. It also doesn't make sense that the only entrance to the port would be that one opening without and space for ships to dock. You could add some docks to that along one of the beaches. Also it looks like it's not possible for you to move a large ship through that tree thing and the buildings and into the river, which kind of seems to be the point of such a port.

>>14642352

Looks nice. Maybe add floodgates at the entrances to the city so that it can avoid being flooded as the tides change ? i would imagine that this kind of city needs very stable water levels.

>>14641170

>Make it a partially constructed dyson sphere.

That would just be exploring a planet/solar system. If you're thinking about a super structure maybe a ringworld or something like Rama from Rendezvous with Rama? I chose a space station because rooms connected by hallways are easier to manage in a text adventure than wide open areas.

>>14642368

I remember that being posted here when it came out.

Considering the big two graphics cards manufactures are now implementing this I'm wondering if newer graphics cards will have physical circuits built for denoising. I wonder if that's even possible.

>>14642352

Looks cool. Add maybe some kind of small citadel on the cliff. Seems rather undefended otherwise.

>>14640441

>First image

Oh I remember asking you about this ages ago and seeing it. Nice to see you're still at it, anon.

>>14641769

Keep it up Ika. I've not made any progress in two weeks, lend me your strength.

I need to learn to make simple models with action animation in mind. Think maybe early PS2 quality for a Bastion-like isometric beat-em-up. Is there a suggested curriculum for 3D?

This is probably better for the drawthread, but I realized Pixiv is a great resource for drawfags:

https://www.pixiv.net/howto

Tons and tons of user submitted tutorials and guides, sorted by category

>>14643152

When you're creating a lower poly model to animate topology is extra important. There are plenty of resources out there that you can find through a search engine, but the basic idea is to avoid polygons that have more than 4 sides and make sure the polygons "flow" in a specific path.

Here's a link that shows examples of topology.

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Topology

You'll also want to look into character rigging and skinning. The important thing in rigging is to make something that is flexible and intuitive for the animator, probably you, to work with. You'll want to make it so that whatever position the bones are in the character still looks good and deforms cleanly. Continuously test the rig as you make it. It's even better if you know ahead of time what exactly the character is going to be doing so you can plan for it.

Outside of that you really need to get familiar with your tools. Look up tutorials for your software in-particular in relation to the above. Then practice, practice, practice.

>>14643295

Care to explain to the class why this is important? What happens if you have many adjacent sides or break the flow? Tearing? Clipping?

>>14643309

When u import a model into a game engine the engine breaks polygons into triangles.

So, if u if a n-gon it will split, and could cause your animation deformations to be inconsistent with the animations in your 3D modeling program (good to triangulate in the 3D modeling program too).

Also it’s good for subdivisions, consistent weight painting, deformations, and other such things.

>>14643309

Having polygons with more than 4 sides leads to bad deformations as the model is animated. Four sided polygons also sub-divide the easiest so it's best to use those as exclusively as possible. Having polygons "flow" together in lines and/or loops cleanly defines the shape of the model, helps with subdivision, and makes the model deform in an expected way when animated.

You can get away with bad topology in a model that doesn't deform, like a gun, but you'll also end up having a lot of unnecessary polygons and subdivision will be a pain in the ass.

Good topology is also important when doing smooth shading and working with normals.

>>14643416

Nevermind, just remembered that VS has the option to attach the debugger in a separate process or not. Turns out that keeping the application running separate from VS makes it way faster, for whatever reason.

>>14642368

>The reason this tech is so valuable is because you have no scaling problems, doesn't matter if you have thousand or one object, casting their shadows will now cost the same

And this would be a straight up lie.

>>14642442

Thanks, i will try my best

>>14642476

Forgot to mention, the city was founded by mages, the stone is all solid white marble erected by geomancers, the city is barely 5 years old when the game starts, btw the tree was grown with magic too

>>14642483

Good point, will do

>>14642552

Yes, i will expand the cliff a bit, but the terrain there won't be as flat, it will also be dense forest

>>14642664

But its more AESTHETIC in the center

I will add towers made out of magical trees on the walls later

Making UI in Godot is suffering. I'm getting this weird behavior with Godot's editor where if I edit a node in the properties panel (like change a label's text or a panel's size), shit just gets fucked up. The position of the nodes changes, it's like they just collapse or something. For example I edited a labels text and it randomly moved the GUI root node to the middle of the screen. Maybe I'm just retarded, but this behavior doesn't seem normal, maybe I'll try and recreate it.

>>14644127

sounds like a bug, godot GUIs are usually pretty straightforward, just make the node, anchor it in place and hook the signals

>>14644193

>anchor it in place

There's my problem. I just haven't set the anchors; totally forgot about them. Thanks.

>>14643919

Not an expert whatsoever, wouldn't it depend on the number + intensity of lights in a scene?

>>14644814

Is this project ever going to be reasonably usable for other people, or is it just an outlet for your autism?

>>14644877

Its just an outlet for my autism at this point. At some point, it might reach a stage where someone else can use my tools and work on my codebase and make a game with it… but even by the standards for game engine usability in 1998, my tools are mediocre. It wouldn't be terrible to use my map editor right now, but literally every real map editor out there is better. At least on the programming side, it's not bad at all. You just get dropped into my C codebase, which really isn't any different from other engines made in the 90s. I'd like to think that this engine will have lots of cool games on it made by other people, but I doubt that that is a very realistic expectation to have.

>>14644877

well he already release this, so at this point he's kind of free to fuck around with what he wants

>>14645118

Thanks. It's a health bar, I'm not sure if I want to overcomplicate it, but I'll consider adding some detail to it somehow.

>>14645267

Never heard of it, but I'm sure my game's different. I've got this concept of a cool female protagonist with white hair and black dress…

>>14645267

Imagine if someone tried to sue you because your game has a rectangle

>>14645407

Didn't Phantasy Star Online have a frying pan as a weapon? And Mario RPG? And PO'ed for the PS1? And Earthbound?

>>14645427

And TF2.

>>14645427

>>14645428

You don't need facts to file frivolous lawsuits to bully your competition.

I haven't made a blog post since January, so I've summarized all the updates I've been posting here for the last couple of months in this post: https://kircode.com/post/new-ui-physics-engine-particle-system-and-music

>>14645407

they had an enormous amount of success with an asset flip and then they get pissy, when someone else can just buy the exact same assets and make a ripoff.( If you google it you can find the packs used on reddit)

They were even retarded enough to say that they are considering legal action against Epic, but not retarded enough to follow through.

I wonder if it has something to do with them being Korean, because i have heard of some retarded business practices from Koreans before.

>>14645549

Have you tried reversing the order of the vertices? Maybe you're looking at the backside of the triangles and they're getting backface culled.

>>14645549

Post a pastebin instead of an API trace.

>>14645576

Yeah, tried that, doesn't look like backface culling. I'll try turning off face culling just to be sure, though.

>>14645581

The trace in a pastebin? Or a minimal reproduction?

https://pastebin.com/BCbTgcjE

>>14645589

Minimal reproduction, hard to gauge from a trace. Shader and API calls preferably. Are you using the index hack shader?

>>14645589

>>14645549

You seem to call glDisableVertexAttribArray on every input before initiating a draw. If the vertex attrib array isn't enabled for that attribute, it wont get data from the vertex buffer you gave to it.

Either way post your code instead of a trace. This is terrible to sift through.

>>14643919

>And this would be a straight up lie.

Please explain through your technical knowledge why this would be, Mr. Expert. If you disagree with someone you're supposed to prove him wrong.

>>14643919

>>14645698

I'm far from an expert but I find that very hard to believe, too. I can imagine that the number of rays stays the same, but increasing the number of objects in the scene means that the same rays have to be tested against more objects. Am I wrong?

>>14645707

You use a BVH for that. It's not free like the other anon said, but it scales pretty well.

>>14645623

I cross referenced some other working opengl code using this library and I've noticed bits an pieces relating to the vertex attribute array that differs (as well as the sampler/texture binding API calls), so I know where to start looking now, thanks for pointing that out.. If I get stone walled again, I'll do a minimal reproduction in a repo on github. But it's probably not going to look like typical opengl because it's a graphics abstraction API over opengl/directx/vulkan/metal.

>>14645597

>Are you using the index hack shader

I don't think so, but I don't know what an "index hack shader" is, is it a specific technique used in vert/frag shaders? The vertex and frag shaders I'm using are in the pastebin, if I have to come back begging for more help I'll have the shaders in the minimal reproduction.

>>14645914

This is the shader I'm talking about. You don't need any buffers for it (except maybe a dummy one depending on if AMD fixed their drivers yet or not).

https://rauwendaal.net/2014/06/14/rendering-a-screen-covering-triangle-in-opengl/

I need some help, I think I might've backed myself into a corner but I'm not sure where to go from here.

I created a dictionary. This dictionary contains a key (which is an animation hash) and an identifier.

I was planning to have the identifier be an enum, so that I could use switches in my script depending on what animation I'm currently using.

On startup the script runs through every animation I have and adds it to the dictionary, however I'm not entirely sure how I should set the identifier.

I was thinking to use "Tags" that I can set from the animator, however those are saved as strings.

If I have this:

        public CurrentAnimationState currentAnimationState = CurrentAnimationState.Idle;

        public enum CurrentAnimationState
        {
            Idle,
            Default

        }

Can I change my current state by doing something like:

currentAnimationState = CurrentAnimationState["Default"];

Does my question make any sense?

What does /agdg/ think of Handmade Hero?

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>>14641229

Thanks for the advice. I already have a copy of nostarch's Manga Guide to Linear Algebra and I'll definitely look into PatrickJMT's stuff.

>>14646342

TL;DW, It would take like a year to watch all of it. The C tutorial part at the beginning is very helpful though.

Also it would have worked better if the game was simpler, and the whole handmade thing was split into multiple parts. First part would be to make a very simplistic space invaders-level arcade game or something, second part where they make a more polished and juiced RPG or something out if it, and then a third part where they start over and go all out with 3D and a larger scope.

>>14645267

I'm going to make at least one game using this engine. So, there will be something that shows off what it's capable of.

>>14646342

I never watched it, watching videos just isn't how I learn things. Also from what I have seen almost all of the content there can be found in other tutorials online, that aren't in video form. So at this point I already know most of the things that are in his videos.

>>14646461

What tutorials did you use for Sigma Rendering? Or did you do it yourself?

>>14646124

What language is this?

>>14646348

How's that bloat? It's better than all the (((modern))) engines that are funded by the Chinese and Israelis.

>>14646498

C#

>>14646480

For BSP trees:

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~jsnider/SeniorProj/BSP1/default.html

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~jsnider/SeniorProj/BSP/default.htm

For OpenGL:

http://nehe.gamedev.net/

https://sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/

http://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter01.html

For Win32:

http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dn308572.aspx

For Xlib:

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Programming_OpenGL_in_Linux:_GLX_and_Xlib

https://tonyobryan.com/index.php?article=9

For Vulkan:

https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/sdk/1.0.26.0/linux/tutorial.html

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/api-without-secrets-introduction-to-vulkan-part-1

https://vulkan-tutorial.com/

>>14646501

good thing you can install godot and be free.

>>14646534

Thanks anon, I've been watching your progress and it's very inspiring to see one man achieve so much through sheer force of autism.

>>14646534

>Xlib

I know you weren't aware of XCB at the time but here's some resources on using it. Most anons interested in cross-platform or Unix gamedev will probably use a preexisting engine or SDL Wayland never ever, but some familiarity with XCB is still useful.

https://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/guide/

https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libxcb/tutorial/index.html

https://xcb.freedesktop.org/tutorial/

https://xcb.freedesktop.org/XcbApi/

>>14646516

I'm not well versed in C#, but it looks like there is a parser for Strings to Enums.

Otherwise, store all the states as Strings?

>>14646965

I really like this, what's the game going to be?

>>14646953

The FOV between those two examples are the same. The difference is that the top one is first person (look from within the tile you are standing), where-as the bottom one is third person. (look from behind the tile you are standing)

>>14646965

Make sure you have storm surge walls surrounding the front too

Unless you’re in a bay, it would be a concern

>>14647052

The sea there is not THAT violent, but i may add later, right now i will focus on finishing the giant tree in the center

I'm not entirely convinced my transitions between menues is the way to go (zooming in/out). Gimme some opinions on what it looks like.

>>14645118

It's a collection of games that I was handing out, seen here http://ejew.in/products/the-blue-box/ and actual footage of the games on the disc here http://ejew.in/games/

>>14646611

I found a bunch of different answers from c# and unity and couldn't get it to work.

I think at some point unity must've changed how the parse is done.

ended up looking something like this

             currentAnimationState = (CurrentAnimationState)System.Enum.Parse(typeof(CurrentAnimationState), "String");

Thanks for the help anon

>>14647234

This looks pretty good too. I need to experiment more. I booted up some casual shit by King, they pop an animation and a really fast zoom in/out when opening and closing windows. It looks really juicy to be honest, I'm going to try and make my transitions faster starting out.

>>14647073

Any sea is that violent unless you have natural barriers (bay, giant coral reefs, manmade sand barriers, etc).

While even then, the envitability of the sea, and implications of storms means not shoring up for that type of eventually makes a city naively built; especially if it’s right up on the shore.

Look at major coastal cities in Japan and the UK for reference.

>>14645698

>okay Mr. Expert, explain how you can possibly know more collisions takes longer than less collisions?

Is cuckchan down again?

>>14647363

i will probably add a coral reef then, it would add to the comfy factor

Does anyone know if it's possible to manipulate .obj files within godot? Like if I want to make a ship model with turrets that move, would I have to make every little part a separate .obj or can I just make one .obj and manipulate it with scripts/code? Personally, I'm hoping for the latter. I'm using RenX for 3D modeling, then converting from .gmax to .obj format.

Also, how do you guys handle scale? Do you just start with some arbitrary dimension for something (like a player model) and then go from there? Or do you base it off desired texture resolution, or real 1:1 scaling, or what?

>>14647643

OBJs are static 3D models. Unless you make every part separate and control each different part with a script, then you won't be able to animate it.

>>14647255

What about something like

public class SomeAnimator
{
	public static Dictionary<string, AnimationState> States;
	public AnimationState CurrentState;

	public void SetAnimationState(string value)
	{
		if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
			return;

		if (States.ContainsKey(value))
			CurrentState = States[value];
	}
}

>>14647643

One of the most important factors to 1MA’ing a game is having an extremely efficient workflow; having powerful tools makes getting there a lot easier.

>animated turret

As anons mentioned use an fbx with a simple rig. It’s be really easy to implement that, as u just use the bone’s forward to look at a target.

>scale

Usually only matters for the physics engine, as depending on the scale used in the engine, is what you should scale your models to if you an accurate physics simulation (f.e. 1 unit in unity is 1 meter, and in blender the default cube is about 2 meters).

Texture res is highly dependent on your art style direction, and you should use a tool like substance painter to have automagic resolution changes for your textures even after painting/baking them.

>>14648371

moving pure-code stuff into static utility classes is absolutely something you should be doing, unless it's specific to the component you're writing.

but doing this will typically mean that you need to change the usage of the code that you moved to reflect that. in some cases, what you actually need to research are Extension Methods that extend functionality of existing classes. these should absolutely live somewhere in your codebase where only extension methods live.

>>14648517

That is exactly the kind of low effort garbage I expected them to make.

>>14648371

You should definitely be creating extension classes as this anon said >>14648482 and keep those under an extension namespace of your API; you can organize them more thoroughly when you start getting a larger codebase (for now just put all static extension classes in a extension namespace, you'll thank yourself later).

The basics of extension classes is that you keep everything static in the static classes w/explict delerations of readonly/etc, and passing references to what you're operating on.

If you mean doing a partial class, then that is sometimes fine too, but generally you only want2 use partial classes for say making a class inherit from an interface in a centralized location (f.e. u have 5 classes that inherit from an interface, so u make them all partial classes that inherit from the interface in the same file as the interface, for clarity/organization's sake).

>>14648517

SimUncle

2/20

The family-dinner-with-your-racist-uncle simulator!

A game by Tobi, Kota, and Étienne.

this was a month-long gamejam

>>14648552

>>14648548

is this real? Something like this could have been made in Twine in 10 minutes

>>14648552

>racist uncle

>never said anything racist and its just a sperging out and making sassy comments simulator

Was this an epic ironic maymay?

>>14648515

Oh damn, that reminds me of ResistJam. I recall they banned half of their disagreement, but never banned me somehow. Poe's law, man.

Lost all my screencaps, unfortunately.

>>14648531

i hate that i need to do interfaces on top of

a base class in a lot of cases because there's hardly any polymorphism support for the inspector.

unless you mean doing them basically like interface-traits, like the UI components do. sometimes those work out.

>>14648552

>not being a neurotic cunt is now racist

Top kek

>>14648515

>>14648517

>sonic fags

>poleese brutaliti simulator

Holy kek this is good

Sage for offtopic

>>14648883

I lost 10 IQ points reading that description.

>>14648794

It's Portuguese. Google translate handles Latin-based languages pretty well. You can usually get a pretty good gist of what's being said.

>The political system is bourgeois and sympathetic to fascism. The one who believes in democratic values do not vote at the polls.

Amazing.

>>14648272

I've had best luck with gltf for godot 3. Blender has a plugin that lets you export gltf (it's written by the Khronos group), and blender can import .obj iirc.

>>14648371

>Why

This literally solves what you described.

If it doesn't,you really need to articulate your problem better

>>14649078

>they/il

I'll say.

how do i find background artists

>>14649133

I write a million concepts that will never be a game and give up and move to the next project.

>>14648531

Do you have any idea why something like

public static class PlayerRotation
{
    void Main() 
    {

            Vector3 playerRotationForward = Vector3.zero;
            playerRotationForward.z = playerRotation.transform.forward.z + Mathf.Abs(normal.x);
    }

}

Would tell me

An object reference is required to access non-static member `CharacterControllerLogic.playerRotation'

I can't even wrap that in a namespace for whatever reason

>>14649155

Yeah but who's your favorite musician.

>>14649158

Actually sorry that's not even the problem. That's happening because one of my variables isn't static.

However this

An object reference is required to access non-static member `UnityEngine.Component.transform'

Isn't one of my variables, why the hell is it giving me an error

>>14649160

Can't say I have one, actually.

I'm mostly into bands.

>>14649182

playerRotation probably isn't a static class, I have no idea what you're trying to do.

>>14649182

>>14649158

Well it looks like the problem is possibly with playerRotation.

>some random Main function

>it's not static

I don't even understand what you're doing

>>14649201

Same thing then,your favorite band/duo/whatever.

>>14649206

>>14649208

The main function is static and public I just forgot to write it

What about the Unity component that I can't make static?

Those are also giving me an error

>>14649219

Do you know what static, how it works, and what it's for? I get the feeling you're trying to misuse static functions.

>>14649233

I wasn't data mining,honest,i was just curious to see what peoples tastes are around here,my favorite is king gizzard at the moment.

>>14649219

It looks like the transform variable is a non-static variable and you're trying to access it from a static class, rather than from an object instance.

Eg, create a new instance of UnityEngine.Component.transform, then call the variable off of that one.

>transform t = new UnityEngine.Component.transform();

>playerRotationForward.z = t.forward.z + Mathf.Abs(normal.x);

>>14649237

Static is when something is referenced and it's not a specific instance, so it's the same no matter where you call it from.

I explain like shit but that should be basically it.

I understand why MY functions and variables need to be static, what I don't understand is why unity's variables that I have no control over also need to be static

>>14649242

And how would you go about making a game around their music?

Certainly sounds interesting and somewhat comfy.

Also, was your question how to make a game based on them as musicians or their music?

As in, the game reflects the musicians or their music.

>>14649133

I don't know how I would ever go about making an Aphex Twin game. His music is all over the place.

>>14649242

I listen to absolutely nothing but long eurobeat mixes lately. They are nice for programming.

>>14649252

Transform has never been a static member, it's just a getter for this.getComponent<transform>()

>>14649271

>>14649250

I think I might be tired, looking at it now the lines of code that were giving me that error made no sense and should not have been there in the first place, so nevermind that's my fuckup there.

Thank you for the help I'll get back to work tomorrow

>>14649259

Either or,if they have a stage personality or characters like bowie that could be used as a game point,if not,their music could be used.

>>14649295

Post music theory

Whats a good editor to fuck around with and make midi songs? I mean ideally I can use transforms and effects but I'm a lazy fuck and don't want to use FL Studio

>>14649302

If it were about the musicians themselves it would be more of a story heavy approach and if the music were the point of focus I'd probably try and reflect that with the environment/world building.

And combining both approaches and focal points I'd probably have a hard time deciding what to put more emphasis on.

The hardest part to begin with would be to decide what the gameplay would look like.

Unlike with sports games where the gameplay is set in stone and the music is bought with licenses, this would mean finding gameplay that would fit the music or the theme of the musician/band.

>>14649311

I've seen people do some crazy shit with FL Studio, OneyNG uploaded a bunch of tutorials on how to use it properly on OneyPlays

>>14649133

DJ Smokey. The game is a Yume Nikki type walking simulator where your character traverses several states of inebriation to do battle with kush aliens and shroom aliens. You also have to protect DJ Smokey at all costs.

>>14649311

MuseScore is FOSS and is pretty good if you can read and write music.

There's also Finale, proprietary and owned by (((Microsoft))), haven't tried it though

>>14649333

I think in my case it'd be pretty easy,some of their albums are very story based and would do well as a game,or as a smaller project just taking one of their character (eg the people vulture) and making a side scrolling shooter would be good too

too bad nobody would appreciate it because the band is damn obscure.

>>14649352

>too bad nobody would appreciate it because the band is damn obscure.

It's both a curse and a blessing.

The mainstream does horrible things to bands and their music 99% of the time.

I'm sure you'd be content with sharing your game with like minded people who'd understand the music and the game's themes rather than have the masses eat it up without understanding a thing about the game.

>>14649367

At least this doesn't look like absolute trash

>>14649409

something tells me with how he didnt space the anitifa and game jam bit he was making this as a joke,and not serious about it.

>>14649242

Hard to choose.

I'd say pink floyd, and then tristam.

this >>14649155

>king gizzard

reminds me of a mix of pink floyd + beatles

good stuff

>>14649158

well, you're referencing a variable that's non-existent in your posted code (playerRotation.transform)… so you're not providing us with full source (hard to tell).

Although, it's because you're referencing a non-static variable which is instanced in your static class (not good); pass it instead.

This is what you should do:

public static class RotationExtensions
{
	//playerRotation go is passed by reference, since it's a class, changes remain
	//probably should just pass transform component, and w/e pre-referenced components u need
    void DoRotation(PlayerRotation playerRotation, float xNormal) 
    {
			Vector3 playerRotationForward = Vector3.zero;
			playerRotationForward.z = playerRotation.transform.forward.z + Mathf.Abs (xNormal);
    }
}

>>14649443

dear lord my poor formatting got rekt, rip

>>14641944

I used Unity in one of my college courses (I didn't go there for game design) and I noticed stuttering when running the game from the IDE, but not when run from the executable. Maybe Godot is the same way, though I'm trying some basic 2D object movement right now, and it is really annoying. I was planning on using GMS2 anyway for this project, but figured I'd try out Godot before getting too far with anything.

>>14649443

also I'm assuming you're applying your final changes to your passed go's transform before exiting, else, that does nothing

sage for triple posting and clarification

>>14649311

>Post music theory

I actually don't know much music theory, so I can't help you more than vid related can. Most of the time, I just "feel" music, and convert emotions into songs without understanding why it works.

>I'm a lazy fuck and don't want to use FL Studio

FL Studio is easy mode anyway. Just do it now instead of having to learn another program later.

>>14649335

He put them on private, probably because they showed that his copy of FL was cracked. Some of them have mirrors up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcaJsVo6A0

>>14649443

>pink floyd

my man,are you a the wall man or dark side of the moon man

this is pivotal.

And those were the ones that only took a few tries to get running. The others required WebGL I couldn't get running, just froze on startup, or don't work if you run them locally. So that's 13/20 shit projects, and 7/20 that won't even start. Commies are subhuman.

>>14649490

definitely prefer dark side of the moon for a full album listen.

athough, i love the wall's animations + music for a more visual/sound experience, and a few of my favorite songs from PF are from the wall album.

did acid and dmt (on separate occasions) for the first time to dark side of the moon, so some major sentimentality tied to the album

How bout u, a the wall man or dark side of the moon man?

>>14649517

The wall easily,it's a nice flowing story and i get angry any time i hear part of it played on radio without the other parts to follow suit.

>>14649242

>>14649210

>>14649133

Where my Dream Theatre fags at

>>14649521

I need to do another full listen of the wall actually, as I love that type of narrative crafting through music.

>>14649133

>You are tasked with making a game based on your favorite musician,how do you go about it?

But anon, everything I work on is already influenced by Brian Wilson in some way. If I was to ever make a game about a different musician, it would probably be an adaption of Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow and some of the Die Totenmaske guys have expressed interest in working with Death in June if they ever get the chance.

>>14649871

What he means by it is

>I'm going to redefine "art" as something that requires social recoginition, and since I consider myself to be the whole of society, it's whatever I want to be.

Rinse and repeat for communists on every subject.

>>14649878

Nah, he's just autistic, hence all the sanic obsessions. Antifag segasonic is his oc donutsteel or whatever the fuck. Also, watch your spacing.

>>14649871

>>14649853

>Community for me doesn't mean "a bunch of players to be exploited"

<support me on patreon

>I want to avoid the toxic habits of videogame and art as much as possible

<floods a game jam with "toxic" ideology and shit game mechanics

>strategically incorrect

As opposed to what, being tactically wrong?

>>14650001

Is this still the antifag jam? Lmao how pathetic

On another note, can somebody give me a hand with projectiles?

Most of my game data is stored in JSON and it works well. I want to be able to calculate velocity off of a graph ex: xVelocity = sin(timer)

I'm just not sure how I would manage to do this without hard-coding it.

>>14650017

Just use kinematic equations, and base projectile speed (or initial velocity anyway) and launch angle off of the game data.

>>14650001

>made a game jam

>the purpose of which is to have a lot of game submissions from multiple people/teams

>only expected himself to be the sole partaker

>>14650017

>>14650102

That's a different one, this one actually calls itself an "autism awareness jam"

>>14650209

Sega Master Systems are still being manufactured and sold by a licensed third party in Hueland. It's the most popular console there because it's so cheap.

>>14650221

>Sega Master Syndromes in Hueland

>>14650255

>not planning ahead

Why? Why are you not mapping these dependencies out before you start programming?

>>14649242

i just listen to movie/tv soundtracks

>>14650450

Sure.

>>14650452

>not meticulously maintaining a scrum board

>not logging all time you spend on your project

>not estimating time required for all tasks

Top kek

>>14650450

I'm going to do something with my two nodev friends who barely know game maker, it's going to be a shitfest for sure.

>>14650450

I'd have liked to team up with you this time, but I have to entertain people by getting drunk at a festival this weekend. t. fred slimefag

Plus even if I had time I probably should just spend it on my fluid simulation.

the botnet server link is here, it should be a good place to discuss roles etc

>>>/agdg/29079

>>14650465

but you're very versatile and you'll have the support from fellow anons. And it's supposed to be fun

>>14650471

you willing to work in Unity?

and spend half of the jam fighting over the genre and scope?

>>14650478

>I'm going to do something with my two nodev friends who barely know game maker, it's going to be a shitfest for sure.

post it when it's done. I'm expecting the games we'll churn out to be at least so bad it's entertaining

>>14650499

>getting drunk at a festival this weekend

godspeed. Hope to see you next time

>>14650550

Yeah I can work in Unity. I'll be joining the room soon.

>>14650550

>disgord

>>>/agdg/ is officially dead.

>>14650583

>agdg is officially dead.

if you wanna collaborate, we can switch to a communication method of your choice.

>>14650617

>if you wanna collaborate, we can switch to a communism method of your choice.

>>14650617

How about literally anything else. There's no excuse to use disagreement when Riot.im exists.

>>14650685

start a room and we'll see you there

>>14649544

>>14649521

Y'all should try 1. Outside by Bowie

Or Diamond Dogs, both are pretty good IMO

>>14650843

True game dev has never been tried.

>>14650866

Isn't most of Jai's syntax placeholder?

>>14650908

what the hell is this? Shinra Wars 2107?

>>14651314

impressive lag

>>14651342

playing on step-by-step in unity to make sure it's working as intended, I just released Ctrl+Alt+P

>>14651314

What's your question?

If this makes sense in reality?