/v/ - Video Games

>>14878827

he's skinny on purpose, the idea of the nonexistent plot is that he can get fuller as the story progresses through means that we have yet to discuss

>>>/v/14878682

Found a GLSL implementation of TAA using something called "variance clipping". Not skilled on this topic so I can't explain further, hope it can help you though:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MscSD7

>>14878813

>bonfire

>the dark souls of skyrim games

>>14878854

>he's skinny on purpose

So the ending reveal was that he had HIV/AIDS all along, and this was truly a narrative experience worthy of current year

>>14878897

>>14878877

i repeat, nonexistent story

the original idea was to just steal from dork souls/gothic and get away with it

>>14878906

Will it be the Dark Souls of dark fantasy soulslikes?

>>14878906

There are plenty of well-endowed women, who feed you if you help them, in Gothic 2.

>>14878906

>Nonexistant story

Doesn't stop the inevitable streamers/redditors that sniff out your game from crafting an "emergent narrative" and making their own fanon out of it, unfortunately.

>>14878854

Yeah I wasn't criticizing, just curious, kinda hard to see.

>>14878917

i wouldn't know, i only got as far as joining the militia and then didn't bother to finish it

and i haven't even played dork souls since the original port ran like shit and the remaster doesn't run on my gpu

>>14878920

>is skinnyquest and skyrim actually in the same universe

I wanna make a frostpunk like game but with actual endless mode and in a different setting. Engine-wise i was thinking unreal. Story-earth has been flooded and you need to be elon musk and craft your own starship to mars.

>>14878827

>emancipated?

anon………………………….

>>14878935

someone call elmar fudd, it's wabbit season again

>>14878955

Not sure if you saw this (checking shared doubles):

>>14878855

>>14879031

Thank you. As far as i can tell that guy does not render a velocity buffer, he simply exploits the fact that his camera moves deterministically to calculate the previous position. The same goes for another example i've found on that website.

I think my issues stem from DirectX and OpenGL using different coordinate systems for screen space, clip space and uv coordinates. No matter how i spin things, my image is always a blurry mess, as if i would use no reprojection at all.

>>14878999

win32 is the kind of thing that makes sense the third or fourth time you do it. Once you "get it" you can start seeing how you could write your startup code better than it's done in most of the tutorials (which kind of focus on writing simpler code, rather than the best code)

>>14879180

>win32

What?

>start seeing how you could write your code better than it's done in most of the tutorials

I don't think I've made anything the same way that another person did it after I learned how the thing works, there's always another way that feels simpler and better and more flexible to me.

>>14879269

weren't you talking about setting up the OpenGL context here: >>14877242 or am I confusing you for someone else?

>>14879325

That's someone else, I'm not at that early stage.

>>14879390

sorry about that, your posts were pretty close together

Is it worthwhile to read Blender's documentation? Is it actually useful or is it mostly useless like Godot's documentation?

Anyone here feels like a pompous faggot everytime they think of a story ?

I was thinking about some rpg (multiple choices with an actual impact)/fps homicide detective story and everything was coming to me easily and then when I thought about it 10 minutes after I felt like a pretentious hollywood tard.

>>14879518

this is partly why i haven't actually done anything with >>14878813 yet

quality writefags don't get enough credit because of all the shit writefags

BY THE WAY UNITYFAGS

>>14875704

http://archive.is/mlhKO

KSP apparently logs pretty much every fucking thing you do for ad analytic purposes, and according to anon in that thread (>>14879404 and >>14879546), Unity does this out of the box too

>>14879518

Stop thinking like a traditional writefag and design your game as a system you drop the player into. Let the story emerge from and be affected by the player's interactions with said system and you'll end up with something much more maintainable than the traditional method of prescripting a bunch of set story routes and trying to keep the tangled mess coherent.

>>14879565

isn't that only if you have analytics turned on?

anyone who isn't makine mobileshit should usually turn it off on principle

>>14879573

>>14879518

Oh yeah, you could also take >>14879562 's advice and tell a simple story well. Bonus points if you can tie the story's themes to the game's mechanics: at their best story, aesthetics, and gameplay are so closely tied together that they become hard to separate.

>>14879518

yes

I've had a lot of ideas for backstory/lore for the next game I want to make but I'm incredibly hesitant to even write anything down because of this

>>14879626

>I'm incredibly hesitant to even write anything down because of this

Stop being a perfectionist anon. Something you should be aware of is that what you produce initially is probably going to suck. You need to learn from failure in order to truly make anything really good.

>>14879609

you can turn it off though

ultimately you'd have to blame the dev for not turning it off, not unity for having it there

>>14879609

I'm surprised people are surprised about this. Unity spying on their users is old news. There's even a GOG mix list which lists all games which spy on their users and most of those games on the list are made in Unity. https://www.gog.com/mix/games_w_potentially_telemetry

The only thing which changed is GDPR coming into full effect on 24th so now everybody has to disclose what data they collect and what they do with the data.

>>14879640

>you'd have to blame the dev for not turning it off, not unity for having it there

you absolutely can blame both. a game engine should not come standard with fucking spy fuctions

>>14879661

Except guns are actually useful. Telemetry only benefits devs and kikes.

>>14879661

That's like saying gun manufacturers by default build in the functionality that causes guns to automatically shoot up schools, and that it is the owner's responsibility to turn that off. Your comparisons to guns is retarded and you shouldn't be making them.

>>14879682

well yeah, if it didn't it wouldn't be here

>>14879686

i'm not good with analogies, but i still think it sort of stands

Does anyone know a good video or series on good single player level design? I remember a lot from Valve dev commentary but I was wondering if anyone has something more and in depth.

Ah fuck I enginedeved.

>>14879669

Getting strong OFF vibes from those.

>>14879982

What's stopping you?

>>14880209

musically illiterate, failed artist and I don't understand code

>>14880218

Better start learning, bud. Or do you think people are just born with all their knowledge and talent in 3D modelling/programming/etc?

>>14879982

>>14880236

Do you have any samples for your old music projects or something? I could use some few for a doom map

>>14880243

nah I couldn't even figure out how to use any music programs

>>14880236

So what, I'm a dumbass and I still learned how to code. Legitimately practice anything for enough time and you WILL get good at it, regardless of how stupid you are.

>>14880236

It sounds like you have motivation and self-esteem issues. I know that feeling.

Two hour long documentary on cuckdev.

>>14880569

Better to make nothing at all than a steaming pile of shit.

>>14880569

>I'm not much better than Anthony Burch, at least he got married

No, it doesn't work that way.

>>14881117

$5,311 a month

>>14880886

Hobby artists are like that. They only want to work on it when it's fun for them. After 2 weeks they get bored and move on to doing nothing at all but pretend like they're busy.

>>14879518

I have tons of stories and general ideas for stories, and I realized the ones I tend to like the most are the ones that are really simple at their core. From there I just expand on shit, add details, reinforce the existing plot elements, etc. Trying to come up with twists or "deep meanings" will always ruin shit. If you ever look at a story you're writing and think "Man this is so profound!", imagine Phil Fish saying it.

>>14881166

I've spoken with him about it before and he said he was definitely never going to go on a year-long break again, and now I'm here. He also has always been vehemently against hiring another artist, so I may try both approaches.

Any idea how I would go about finding another sprite artist?

>>14881213

Yeah, but it's tough when the other guy feels some amount of ownership of the ideas, even when he isn't and hasn't been doing that much.

>>14881384

>It's great for finding gameplay features that never get used or are overused.

Also less obnoxious than having a billion achievements for simple shit.

give me one reason to not make a porn game about some fucked up niche where the faggots are starving for content.

>>14881835

1: your dignity

2: do you enjoy making it

if you can ignore either of these, go for it

>>14881837

I can't buy shit I want with dignity bucks.

>>14881835

>give me one reason to not make a porn game

Why the hell would I do that? Go for it.

>>14881895

whether it's ethical or not, there's no real downside to spying from the devs perspective, knowing what your audience is and what they're doing ingame can only help you tailor it to them further

you still shouldn't do it, but you'd have to be blind to not see the benefits

>>14881903

Don't respond to bait.

>>14881934

bitcoin

>>14881956

If your target audience is people who are smart enough to use bitcoin but dumb enough to pay for porn, you might have problems. At least, I get the impression that it's not a huge segment and you're aiming for some subset of it.

>>14881384

It doesn't matter if it's "useful" or not. It's spyware and nobody should download your game if its doing things like that. It's not a matter of any kind of conspiracy theory: its basic decency to not spy on your users.

>>14881984

the entire market maybe a fucking thread on hgg.

>>14881985

I think you are conflating research with spying. There's a very fine line between "Logging what websites you visit" and "You never picked up this item in stage 1".

>>14882002

I am, because it's the same thing. Such a system inevitably has to phone home to the developer's servers, and so you know what each users IP is, and what times they played the game, etc. And that's just the beginning, developers with this mindset usually take more information like what kind of hardware you have, what performance you have with your settings, and so on. It's a slippery slope.

If you are going to put malware in your game and dance around whether what you're doing is bad because it only reports some private things (when it should report nothing at all), and not other, more private, things, then nobody should trust anything you ask them to download.

>>14882036

>Such a system inevitably has to phone home to the developer's servers, and so you know what each users IP is, and what times they played the game, etc

That's already a given for any multiplayer game. Are you saying every single video game in the past has had the fault of spying on the users because your IP address inevitably has to reach their servers? How would anybody be able to gather information for their game? Is there an end to your madness?

>If you are going to put malware in your game

Your argument boils down to fearmongering. ANY program you download can have malware without you noticing. You're going to have to grow some balls and learn to put on an internet condom.

>>14882050

Of course if I connect to a multiplayer server I am giving up my IP, I know that. But this is very different from what you are proposing, which is monitoring a single player game by having every client phone home to a centralized service to report information about how people are playing the game. (at least, that's how I imagine it would work) Single player games in the past did not connect to the developers server so that the developer can look at what you are doing. Multiplayer games in the past did not phone home to any one centralized server, you chose which servers to connect too. That way, no one entitiy can profile what the users of the program are doing: it's the difference between IRC, where servers can only see as much as people connect to them, and disagreement, where one server can see all of the activity on the service.

If you're wondering how would anybody be able to get information, the answer is they wouldn't. The world will not end if you cant use analytics (read: load your games up with spyware). If you really want it, ask users to generate demo files and send them to you through some kind of file transfer service if they want too.

It's not fearmongering: It's the simple truth that information gathering is spyware. You can try and shame people for calling you out on that, but it doesn't change what you are doing. It's true that any program that you download can have malware: but that's completely besides the point- you have admitted that the programs you will distribute definitely have malware in them! While I can feel better about downloading a "free software" program that doesn't have anything to hide, or the anti-privacy attitude you have.

>>14882050

>IP address inevitably has to reach their servers

That excuse only works for multiplayer games.

>ANY program you download can have malware without you noticing

So it's ok if I add malware into my game because lol any program might have malware!

>>14882087

The issue is what type of data is being collected and how it's being used. It's open for abuse yes but analytics is not bad in itself. For example, UI engineers have to keep track of analytics to know what buttons in a certain layout are being used and to find simpler layouts for navigation. They aren't selling your information or gathering your facebook credentials. This is mundane information actually being used for the betterment of a program. For me there is a threshold of bearing analytics. I don't mind anonymizing data for how fast it took me to open an app, but I won't touch or download W10 at home.

>>14882002

>I think you are conflating research with spying.

What makes something spying or not isn't what data is being collected, but how it's being collected. Collection of non-public data should always be done with the knowledge of all parties involved, and collecting data on someone who is expecting privacy is always spying.

Further, the line between acceptable and unacceptable data points to collect gets a lot blurrier than you're acknowledging. I think most people would be fine with gameplay data being collected, like you said, but opinions on how far to take it are going to vary wildly. Loads of normalfags honestly think that collecting your search history would be perfectly acceptable because if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. That's not an exaggeration. That's real.

Loads of companies are going to push that it's reasonable to collect all kinds of data points that we would think are completely unreasonable. If they thought that it would benefit them, many companies would have a complete dossier on all of their users. I don't think it's fear-mongering or any kind of stretch to say that a company that used its digital distribution platform as a botnet to spam petitions would also use its games to secretively collect excessive data.

>>14882050

>Are you saying every single video game in the past has had the fault of spying on the users because your IP address inevitably has to reach their servers?

Obviously, the act of connecting to something from an IP is the same as telling them that IP. The issue is in retention. Video games that gather information about their users, which is then retained by the devs without the users' knowledge, do have the fault of spying.

>How would anybody be able to gather information for their game? Is there an end to your madness?

Software should obviously be able to collect data for various purposes, but it should always be made clear exactly what data is being collected. A vague line or two in the ToS about "Also, we have the right to collect data on you," isn't nearly enough for a user to make an informed decision about whether or not they want to accept it, even if it technically does count as informing them of the collection.

>>14882119

This is more or less the way I see it as well. The issue I have is that it's just a stone's throw to go from collecting mundane information to collecting information that should be left alone. I think that analytics definitely does a lot of good but it's one of those problems that doesn't have a simple solution. Anytime you take something that can easily go from a good thing to a bad thing with minimum effort, there will never be an easy resolution.

It's a lot like the gun control debate, actually. Gun ownership is a really good thing, but all it takes to make bad use of it is simply to point it at someone innocent and pull the trigger. Data collection and aggregation is similar in this regard and it's going to have the same endless debate.

>>14882136

Agreed anon.

If anyone here plans on using analytics have it as an opt-in build (you could even name it, "beta tester analytics build"), and give full disclosure as to what data you're collecting + why + data retention time.

It's really not hard to be ethically sound here, but it does require some effort.

Analytics are undoubtedly useful here in the context of games; as, the people playing essentially fulfill the role of really detail oriented beta-testers.

>>14882188

>>14882258

In my opinion, it's best to limit analytics to opt-in hardware/performance analysis and everything else should be done by a survey on the game's website. Using analytics for gameplay improvements is unfeasible, because you won't know why users make their decisions. A gun being underused could be because it's too weak, or hard to use effectively, or it's an ammo guzzler, or it has a shitty model and animation set that offends /k/'s sensibilities. You won't really know how to improve it if users don't tell you their reasons directly.

>>14882182

>pure and beautiful thing

He's creating a puppet. If you want true love, spend time with a REAL person.

>anon culture

If you consider Imageboards to be your primary culture than the Jew has done more damage than I previously thought.

>>14882549

>doesn't make the thing he wants himself

>complains in agdg about it

>>14882606

>There's no such thing as "internet culture"

Spot the newfag.

>>14882609

>What is the point of learning C++

There isn't, you should learn god's chosen language, C

>>14882609

How can you figure out linux but not C++?

>>14882749

>That's a weird way of writing lisp?

>lisp

holy kek

If I wasn't using Unity at the moment I'd be working in lua and C++. I really miss working with those languages.

>>14882741

>Since when did you need to be a programmer to use Linux?

If you break one thing from a bad update, like firefox abandoning alsa for pulseaudio, then it has more trial and error than C++.

>>14882766

Lua has garbage syntax, my man. Squirrel really seems like a better alternative.

>>14882786

I'm not sure I agree with lua having garbage syntax (unless you want to do OOP, because then I would agree). I'll check out squirrel though, never heard of it before. Do you have any idea how it compares in performance to luaJIT?

>>14882833

>lua

>not luaJIT

Kek, who the hell would use regular lua for games?

>>14882856

C was the basically first ever high-level language. The only other languages that existed at the time was stuff like FORTRAN and Assembly language. If it ran as slow as those languages, it would never had caught on.

>>14882876

>If it ran as slow as those languages, it would never had caught on.

By this I mean the ones on the graph, not FORTRAN or Assembly language.

>>14882092

I don't follow AGDG threads that much, but that looks really nice, anon. Keep up the good work!

If I might make a suggestion, though, the area in the third screenshot could use better shading. Dunno if it's just unfinished so far, but a lot of the background looks flat.

>>14882092

Saw this explanation of a nice 2d water effect you might like.

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40539.msg1104986#msg1104986

>>14882856

C is more like assembly with syntax than anything else. It's extremely bare-bones.

In addition, processors have been mostly getting better at handling straight-forward code, which C produces way more of, especially compared to all these scripting languages where every variable can change type during run-time.

>>14883414

Why are you using visual scripting instead of code for that behaviour, anon?

>>14883900

yeah, i'm starting to question it myself

pros:

>you can add semi-cutscene stuff like the npcs walking and doing some dialogue mid-fight without messing up hard-coded combat

>you can easily edit the behaviour and tell whichever npc to do exactly what you want with little hassle

cons:

<it's just not as good

i'm considering switching the combat to hard code, but we've yet to discuss what we even want for combat, let alone specific fights

>>14883925

I would consider using behaviour trees, they make it quite easy to splice in behaviour like that you mention. It's also fairly easy to work something visual/node based out.

https://www.please use archive.is/blogs/ChrisSimpson/20140717/221339/Behavior_trees_for_AI_How_they_work.php

>>14883950

Woops, forgot gamasutra is filtered.

http://archive.is/xn3VB

>>14883970

>oh yes

>oh yes

Ayy, looking good.

Right, those nodes are somehow replicated in readable C#-code? Then I guess nevermind, it's looking nice.

How do you make sound effects? Any decent tools or guides?

>>14884037

>>14884027

It's not too bad to be honest, but I reacted to GetResult() in your first link. You write a bit too much code for no reason.

       
public override Node GetResult()
{
	if (finished||alwaysExecute)
	{
		if (connectedTo.Count > 0)
		{
			return connectedTo[0];
		}
		else
		{
			AIScript aisc = parent as AIScript;
			if (aisc != null)
			{
				if (aisc.connectIfDone.Count > 0)
				{
					return aisc.connectIfDone[0];
				}
			}
		}
	}
	return null;
}

>>14884083

yeah, i noticed it just now

some of this stuff is months old with the "i got it to work, i'll fix it up later" label and then i forget about them ever having issues

>>14884037

I was somewhat aware of that. I was thinking more of a basic guideline on how to achieve 'bigger' sound effects like magic spells, explosions or weapon slashes. I guess I should scour the internet a bit more.

>>14884067

Pretty cool.

>>14883072

Yeah the colors of my art assets has been something I've been redoing a lot lately. The laptop I've been drawing them on has a sorta cheap screen and I think that the colors aren't represented super well on it which leads me to choosing bad colors. Its mostly a lack of contrast really.

>>14883526

This is really helpful information. Thanks for sharing it man.

>>14884415

>This faggot really embarrasses himself once he tries to explain why the Yandere dev meme code is bad.

You really don't have to considering people have made clones of Yandere simulator that they made in hours compared to him taking years.

>>14884415

Yeah, I make a point of not making fun of anyone's code because mine is honestly probably not very good either.

>>14884444 (fukken checked)

>>14884457

He was talking specifically about the string comparison if-else cases with eye color and whatnot. Just the reasons he lists why the code is bad are just hilarious.

>>14884415

Whoever made video is an unsufferable faggot on par with yandev, couldn't make it 5 mins into the video.

>>14879652

>>14882092

fuck yeah, my 02/02 demo day pals are alive

>>14884494

There is actually nothing wrong with using string if nests like yandev did for eye color. It has its situations for use. Like if the user is actually being asked to type in a color for their eyes. Problem was that this wasnt the case. He could have used constant ints to act like enums (because Javascriot is shit) and then just go through an array for the color. There was no player string input.

The real meme is people pointing and laughing at CS graduate memes without thinking of possible legitimate context no matter how ridiculous. Although there are some too ridiculous.

>>14882092

The main character looks cool.

>>14881384

>Analytics are incredibly useful for knowing how your audience plays your game. Which can then be used to improve the monetization. Ads have nothing to do with it. It's great for finding gameplay features that never get used or are overused.

I don't have confidence analytics will be used for good, though.

>>14884165

Nothing specific, but you should try layering sounds:

>>14885017

>Like if the user is actually being asked to type in a color for their eyes.

1) Why would I expect the user to type in a color value when I can just offer them a color wheel? That seems like pointless busy work for both me and the player.

2) If I do force them to manually enter a string for a color, I would presumably have, throughout the code, string values to compare them against, yes? At that point all I really have are hardcoded comparisons, and at that point there's no purpose to using a user input string as opposed to an actual number or an enum.

3) If they instead, for whatever reason, have to enter the color value multiple times each time it's checked to compare it against their original choice…I mean at this point I don't even know what the fuck is going on with the imaginary program.

I'm not going to argue that using string comparison is 100% bad in every case, but I don't think this is the example to use if you're trying to make the case that it's acceptable.

>>14885505

Postprocessing really goes a long way, looks spooky

>>14885522

Pretty sure he wasn't making a case that yandev's specific use was appropriate, and just used his code as an example of what if-else chains and string comparisons are as a general concept.

>>14885505

I wonder how he'd look in motion. Slow,

menacing and deliberate or some speedy janky motherfucker with constant bone chittering.

>>14885600

hes gonna be fast, he rams you off the edge if he hits you

>>14885522

Not that guy but I'll be honest, I do string compariaons when its the easy obvious solution to a simple part of the program, even if its not ghee "best" solution

>>14885615

>>14885600

>>14885720

https://github.com/vnen/godot-tiled-importer

>>14885505

I like it. Looks really good and spooky.

>>14885842

Can you post some generic Tiled data? I want to see how it looks

>>14886484

The editor itself comes with some samples.

>>14886923

>The bone jutting out of the dudes spine should only be one joint

I mean…I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do, really. As far as I know, you don't make joints in Blender. Or in most 3D modeling software. You have Bone A, and the tail of Bone A connects to the head of Bone B, and where they meet you have a "joint." It's just a natural result of having one bone connect to another. You do sometimes have control bones that interact in weird ways with other bones, but I don't think that's what you're trying to do here. I think you've just fundamentally misunderstood the concept of skeletons.

>Also, can you pivot around joins or do you need bones?

Can you pivot around joints? …I'm not sure I understand the question, but my guess is no. So far as I know, animation is tied to the bones themselves, not the connections between bones. You would rotate the mesh around one or both of the two bones in the joint.

Maybe it would help if you clarified a little what you're trying to do at this specific point? I'm not sure why you think you need to extrude a bone outside the model to represent a joint. Are you maybe looking at a guide for inverse kinematics and somehow confused that for a generic skeleton guide?

>>14887618

Maybe it's time for a new one.

>>14887618

>>14887642

8chan isn't fast enough to warrant whodev mondays. Keep it to 4chan.

>>14887642

tbh the wiki one is horribly outdated too

>>14887649

I know, I'm just surprised I had shit saved from before the migration

>Old music files from 2011

Christ

>>14887358

>>14887618

Oh fuck this takes me back

>>14887757

Was Roidboy ever finished? I remember loving that art.

>>14888221

Is that fucking oblivion music?

>>14888221

Unless those are actual portals (in which case I'd say use a loading screen instead) You probably should replace them with loading corridors because this is kind of jarring.

>>14888327

yea, was about to start getting the loading screen to work for those too

>>14888520

Forgot to include >>14887203

	#define ifwhile(cond) \
		if(cond) while(cond)
	#define elsewhile(cond) \
		else if(cond) while(cond)

>>14888623

No. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>14884508

It annoys me that Tumblr turned against yanny and did their typical callout-post thing, and then without skipping a beat the imageboard counterculture, or whatever you want to call it, adopted exactly those talking points as if they were their own. There are a lot of opinions here that are basically identical to what you can get there, except they've been enchanted through the magic of parallel construction, so that no one cares or cares.

At least that one spitegame that was "Yandere Simulator with none of the problematic shit, and a single mom instead of schoolgirls" is dead in the water. RIP in shit, motherfucker.

>>14888520

All modern 3D modelling and animating tools follow this standard, so this isn't blender specific. Bones not having tails is an optimization for exported models, typically. Think of bones in terms of actual bones. The point a bone rotates around is the bone's head, and the tail is what moves during rotation. If I have a set of bones for a human arm, it would be arranged like this:

Scapula head connected to spine tail, humerus head connected to scapula tail, radius/ulna, wrist head connected to r/u, etc.

>>14889059

If the same company calls you twice you've probably got a pretty good shot.

>>14890076

it's one of those job application sites, it's not like they have any idea who i am

>>14890085

>>14889059

Unless you have "nigger faggot" tattooed on your forehead or you just copy code from Youtube tutorials without any thought, then you were just unlucky. They didn't need you at the time, but they might now. Give it a shot.

>>14890688

sauce?

>>14890790

Came from when you fresh install Unity after you log in. It's the Policy text you have to accept before you can use it.

>>14890790

https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy

The part I screencapped is right under "I play a game built with Unity software, what should I know?"

>>14890804

Looni- oh wait

>>14891039

I'm not saying you should use malware. Taking measures to reduce this kind of telemetry should be done whenever possible.

I'm pointing out that spying on some level is essentially inevitable these days, and it's only been getting worse over time. Worse to the point where that chain of thought isn't as completely batshit absurd as it would have been a decade ago.

People are going to be practical, and for some people, going with the horrid defaults while blissfully ignorant of what the defaults bring along with a working setup is exactly what practical means.

>>14891184

Other's success shouldn't make you feel shame. That's not healthy. Take pride in your accomplishments and hard work. Not everyone is at the same place in life or has the same experiences through life.

Build on what you have and work in collaboration with others.

Whatever happened to that Diablo style game on here with the funny blob guys as the playable character? I though it was adorably silly when ever he would wear a helmet.

>>14891140

wtf i love c++ now

>>14891176

Noice.

>>14891324

logging in is optional, you can work offline

>>14891266

I try to post something every day but sometimes it's really hard. As long as it motivates you or gives you something else, go for it, otherwise it's just needless pressure.

Anyone remember that one top-down pixel art shooter an anon put on steam? It looked a bit bland. I can't seem to find it.

>>14891284

I want to post updates every day but I don't feel like i've made enough progress to talk about it.

>>14891328

huh, okay then. It still rubs me the wrong way but I guess it's not like I use it anyway.

>>14891012

>Just wanted to play make videogames

>Have to solve Gamergate, world hunger, and Jews, just to be abel to develop games unmolested

>>14891345

Never mind, found it.

>>14891324

>start making games for DOS

After watching some Bisquit videos, I wouldn't mind trying that. I just need to be less of a brainlet.

Unityfags worried about spyware, why not just use Godot? Doesn't that have C# support?

>>14891609

Yes. As a Godotfag though, I can admit that it's not yet on par with Unity, it's missing some things like occlusion culling.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/19101#issuecomment-391798744

C# support is also not "production-ready":

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/19101#issuecomment-392009233

>>14891609

>Unityfags worried about spyware, why not just use Godot? Doesn't that have C# support?

>>14891140

>>14891640

Yeah that's just a problem with C# in general. Microshit gonna shit.

>>14891708

Not him, but I've just recently started using Godot 3.0, and so far it seems great for 2D games. I'm not sure how the 3D side of things is though, but 3.0 did introduce their new PBR renderer and such.

>>14891718

I have vague ideas that would work with both so that's good to know at least. What are you working on?

OK, who invited Zalgo?

So if I have a UI system, and I want to raise a MouseEnter event, would I typically create a MouseEventArgs object that is consumed only by the subscribers of that event and then discard it? It feels like I would more often than not be making a lot of instances

>>14891756

Yet Another Castlevania clone. I was able to have a decent little prototype in about 2 hours from knowing pretty much nothing about the engine.

Don't Zalgo me.

>>14891898

I heard about a book that made you program your own C++ Doom clone, building an engine from scrap as well. The problem is: I don't know the author or the book's name. I think I could find a pdf if I knew any of those.

>>14891928

didn't mean to quote.

I remember the Hellbreaker dev mentioning the Urho3D engine. What's it like?

>>14891802

The documentation on the engine seems really good.

>I'm making a 3D platformer

Is the webm you've linked the standard movement or just a minigame/level in it. Cause it looks nice.

>>14891891

>Yet Another Castlevania clone

I made one too so I don't blame you. Aiming for a Ninja Gaiden clone this time.

Zalgo defense.

>>14891952

>Aiming for a Ninja Gaiden clone this time

Nice. It should be relatively easy. KinematicBody2D has a function called is_on_wall() that returns true when you collide on the side of something so wall clinging should be relatively easy to make. Just be sure to setup move_and_slide() to have a proper Up vector and you should be set.

Z

So I am trying to create a Node Based dialog/quest editor for my game, and I am using (((Unity))), and I'm looking into the new shader graph code just to see how they render the graph, and it looks like they are using a new UI framework, but damn IDK if it's just me or what but I cannot read this shit as it's all spaghetti code.

github.com/Unity-Technologies/ShaderGraph

They have 3+ .cs files just for opening and rendering the ShaderGraph window, Why???

>>14892030

It might be because your pill player is blue, but I'm getting some strong Sonic Adventure vibes. Are your levels going to be really expansive? It looks like the hang-glider can cover some serious area.

>>14891988

Thanks for the tips. I'd like to think I've improved enough to avoid the spaghetti code I wrote before so the info will be helpful.

>>14892030

Pretty cool, though it seems like you'll have some problems keeping the player from leaving the playable area. I like the ending.

Anyone know any good music making software?

>>14892118

If you're wanting really chiptune-y music, Musagi and Famitracker are pretty good. I've heard good things about Sunvox, but I haven't dived deep into it yet. I've also heard people bring up LMMS as a poor man's Fruity Loops.

>>14892124

>in-between sections designed like 1080 snowboarding levels with an emphasis on going from point A to point B

So is level progression pretty linear then? I feel like you might want to make a way for players to go back to previous levels if they wanted to 100% it. Maybe a wind gust you can ride on your hang glider? Then again, if it's not a collect-a-thon, they probably wouldn't need to.

How hard/easy has it been to make something in 3D for Godot? I wouldn't mind making something in 3D sometime, but I feel like it's way past my level right now.

>>14892118

Certainly not Acoustica® Mixcraft™ that I stupidly bought twice for minor updated versions for $40 USD each over the last decade when I was stupid and young.

Just pirate FL Studio or something, IDK

>that feel when starting to regret choosing Unity when reading more about the data harvesting

Fug. I should have gone with literally anything else like UE4. Guess I deserve it for "dabbling" and letting it build into a big project before I bothered to learn everything. Now I'm not sure If I have to include some stupid fuckery about Unity's privacy policy.

Unicode was a mistake.

>>14892206

> I feel like you might want to make a way for players to go back to previous levels if they wanted to 100% it.

Yeah definitely. Not a collect-a-thon, but it will have optional challenges that people will be able to complete later.

>How hard/easy has it been to make something in 3D for Godot?

No harder than most game engines. Like other anons have said, there are convenience nodes for programming 3D character controllers as well as general physics. GDScript is designed around these nodes, so it's really easy to set up basic movement. Someone made an in-depth tutorial for making an FPS, it's a bit obtuse but should give you an idea of how to set things up.

http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/3d/fps_tutorial/part_one.html

>>14892436

What's wrong with it? Actually curious because there is a need for a text standard that works with different languages, including stuff like right-to-left scripts. The emoji shit is cancer of course.

>>14892536

Beyond aesthetic problems like emoji's, it has a huge amount of security problems. It's not really possible to implement unicode in a secure way, as we keep seeing again and again when the newest unicode bug comes up (the last one I noticed was the "highlight this black dot" bug that crashed android phones). Websites now need to filter out insecure unicode, it's just a big mess because of this. If they got rid of the characters that can stack on top of other characters, like putting the two dots on top of the letter 'u' is actually two characters and you can just keep adding those characters so that it stacks which has caused a huge amount of bugs and lets people block out other text. Instead the 'u' with two dots on top should just be one character, that way it can't be exploited.

>>14892118

>>14892367

Used LMMS many times before. It's pretty nice for making music exclusively with your computer (i.e. without MIDI instruments/audio recording which you have to do with Audacity because LMMS doesn't support it), but it's also very unstable. Has weird behavior with project saves. Also isn't compatible with some plugins including big-name ones like NI Kontakt (it'll work the first time you load it in but once you save the project you'll never be able to load it again).

Would recommend what the other anon said. Just pirate FL Studio. More stable than LMMS.

>>14892641

There is no way a compiler is going to accept that

>>14892704

Did you use it on windows or linux? I know there's some open source software that is shit on windows because just about no one bothers fixing bugs for that since none of the regular devs use it.

>>14891639

>C# support

>implying you'd want Spybot Rationale in you're environment tbh.

>>14892641

💯

>>14892978

windows, yep

>>14894255

your waifu looks really bony, you should probably feed her

>>14894751

>Lol. What's your dude saying?

it's just stock gachimuchi sound effects

the fireball is van saying WOO or something, might be a higher pitched "fuck you" but i can't tell for sure

the healing scroll is billy's "how's that for power, huh?"

>>14894008

Wow someone actually helpful in a /AGDG/ thread thanks

>>14888645

good friend

Wish i had friends like this

>>14888645

I like seeing your progress, don't give up! Your stuff is really great.

>>14880561

Argent does it better

>>14895320

>and go the /biz/ route

>buy high, sell low

>post about your imminent suicide with crying wojak images attached

Keep us updated

>>14895409

UE4 is cool and all, but that shit is really bloated

i'm literally restricted to using blueprints with it because:

if i try to compile from VS while UE4 is running, it could take 5-10 minutes

if i try to compile from UE4 it has a 50% chance to crash

and my only real option was to turn UE4 off, compile in VS, turn UE4 back on

or just use blueprints

unity might be garbage too, but at least i can work with it - compilation here per script is usually 5-10 seconds at best

>>14895409

Don't open 10 projects at the same time.

>>14888302

>>14895648

Good job, keep it up.

>>14895800

just fail through life like the rest of us, worked out great for me

>>14895751

Yeah that's just to show the lerping. Ideally the target and poles start at the animation. So the lerping shouldn't be visible.

>>14895819

I'd hardly call depression during college, failing at life.

>>14896172

I like the working title. Sounds exciting.

>>14896596

RPGMaker is only bad if the player can tell it's RPGMaker and they bring their frankly perfectly justified preconceived notions of what an RPGMaker game is to the experience. Use 0 stock assets for anything, sound affects to UI elements must all be custom, modify the battle system via YOUR OWN scripts, not just Yan'Fly stuff because that's basically default now. Then make sure the game is actually good and there you go.

>>14896834

Give the light some color and move it to one side, maybe tone down the strength, too.

It looks way too evenly lit, kinda boring like a canteen or a cubicle.

Maybe add a plane out of frame that emits a warm color, simulating an open window or something.

What's the primary performance-killer for games?

Say, for example, you had an engine that was trying to simulate life. Instead of working at the atomic level, imagine you approximate it to size X, meaning that you don't think of billions of atoms but instead generalize it to about a cubic millimetre. Now, imagine size U being the total volume of space that you could simulate on a decent PC.

In my mind, if you developed the physics to handle all this, you could probably simulate millions of points at once but it's actually rendering it to display that's the resource-hog.

>>14896976

Why won't you just make it into a sprite?

>>14896928

>>14896963

I barely read anything you said, but if you're doing millions of calculations per frame you have to use the GPU for them. You're going to have to figure out what the limitations are yourself really.

>>14896993

my artist wanted to try this, but for it to also work over on the UI

we could to that with a spritesheet but this is the easier option

>Trying to make the jump from GameMaker to Godot.

>Also trying to make the jump from 2D to 3D.

Holy shit, it suddenly makes sense why the majority of indie trash is 2D. 3D requires you to have paid attention beyond the first few weeks of high school algebra.

I'm noticing a lot of holes in Godot's documentation. Am I making a mistake trying to learn 3D dev in a WIP engine?

>>14897021

Wouldn't making a separate orthographic camera to render the pointer on top of the main camera do exactly what you're trying to do? I still feel like I'm not getting something, though it sounds intriguing.

>>14897086

Now try to write code where there is no fixed "up", e.g. you're standing on a tiny planet.

>>14896928

Weak force, strong force, E&M, gravity. Look up multi-body physics and interactions/forces resulting from field forces.

Now think about what type of precision you need to get things like static friction and surface tension to result from accurately simulating these field forces.

Sounds like you are at least interested though. Take some physics in highschool once you get there. Also, this board has an age requirement.

>>14897086

No. I did the same when Ogre3D was pretty heavily a WIP.

You should start very simple though. Draw & simulate lines (vectors), spheres, planes, and spend a lot of time with the camera system. Also spend some time learning matrix-matrix, matrix-vector multiplication, rotation & translation matrix math (just the very basic linear algebra stuff). Do some problems on graph paper and work through the actual matrix multiplications to rotate a vector. You have to understand the fundamentals are you will be very frustrated. What order should you apply translate, scale, and rotation to objects? About what origin? What does this look like in "godot math"? Take your time to work through it and understand it. Takes notes.

>>14897181

What, I gave you a real answer and a direction to get more info? How much spoon feeding do kids expect these days?

>>14897102

>give up while you still can

A little suffering isn't gonna stop me, faggot.

>>14897135

>it does all the math you could ever want for free*

What does Unity do in that department that Godot doesn't? If Godot is viable to learn on, I'd prefer to stick with it, because it's open source, and because of the numerous problems with Unity and Unreal. I think I would sooner consider Unreal as an alternative than Unity.

>>14897200

Shut up, fatty. Go be more of a loser.

>>14897216

I was half-joking and I have yet to try Godot to actually judge it. Though I have to say Unity is just so simple I'm often blown away by how much I don't have to learn.

>>14878854

>he can get fuller as the story progresses through means that we have yet to discuss

Cannibalism? Capitalism?

>>14896928

>>14896963

Google N-body simulation.

>>14897086

One way to make the jump is to do 3D graphics with 2D gameplay. It's still a jump, but less of one. Makes it easier if you're not too good with the math.