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reee mark you dingus, you deleted the thread where i actually got the last thread number right, now i can't delete this one

previous >>15373176

>>QUARTERLY DEMO DAY SCHEDULED FOR August 8th

It's September, OP. Next Demo Day is November 11th.

>>15408092

Don't really care what cuckchan is up to, really. As far, as I'm concerned, 4/agdg/ is just r/gamedev or whatever they have over there, and this is the only /agdg/ I'm concerned about. I'd say the same about /v/. 8/v/ is just /v/ to me, and 4/v/ is irrelevant.

Sage for mostly off-topic.

Ha! New thread means new spam tolerance

http://poal.me/8i6jlh

>>15408330

Fair enough, but using the new logo would bring them here anyway.

>>15408434

I don't particularly see a need to shill this place, other than maybe a passing "thank you" in the credits.

>>15408446

Yeah, a mention in the credits' special thanks.

>>15408288

I din du nuffin

>tfw dredging through enginedev instead of just like make game

>>15409023

What kind of space wizard game are you making anyway?

>>15408358

Nice work.

>>15409023

Oh cool, you're dancing wizard guy. Do the planets rotate?

>>15409164

That's pretty fucking neat anon

>>15407981

You don't fucking vote for nomenclature you stupid subhuman nigger, this is agdg because we call it agdg. Not because we voted on it. Because it is. I can't express how degenerate subhumans like you are to an imageboard.

>>15409438

Just wanted to know the general belief. It it makes you happy it's over now.

>>15409748

You could also have learned the general belief of the thread by lurking for more than a few days after hopping off the reddit train.

>>15408358

>buildings that actually look interesting

I'll bully you later

>>15409783

I've been coming to /Jeb/ for years.

>>15409814

Don't so angry anon.

>>15409814

This is child abuse

>>15410031

Why make an engine when there are so many out there?

>>15410069

For the productiveless fun of it. here's no other reason to.

>>15410069

>why improve yourself when so many other people are already better?

You've failed, anon, you don't understand the human drive. NPC

>>15410082

Doesn't sound like >>15410031 is improving though. Sounds more like he's stuck reinventing wheel.

>>15408358

I still think you should go with more cartoony textures, or at least fix the reperating patterns. Also, install the post processing pipeline and set up ambient occlusion, that will make this look much better

>>15410223

Im a total amateur when it comes to this stuff, do you have a tutorial to recommend?

>>15410158

> Sounds more like he's stuck reinventing wheel.

He's stuck understanding the properties and construction of the wheel

>>15408877

I have it set in stone the kind of game I want to build, I have a pretty solid idea of the mechanics I want, but the content is what I still don't have a lot planned. I wanted to finish the basic mechanics first before focusing on content. My formation is on higher level of programming, I know a lot of neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, computer vision, robot pathfinding and things like that, so my technical side is lacking. I make it as I go, so my coding is very much based on iteration and trial and error as I don't have the experience to properly plan the code before I do it.

What are the things you think you are good at? I can do the coding I want pretty fine, even though it would be slower than someone with a degree in comp sci. I can do the music, I already have a few songs, and I took a look in the sound design. I have never collaborated so I don't know how to go about it.

In essence I say that my game will have a metroidvania style of exploring and back-tracking, monster hunter-like combat, autistic chemistry system, and a very dangerous environment. The player should always be cautious when exploring the cursed hogwarts.

>>15409864

I haven't put much thought into it since I did what worked and kept with it, I want it built and at least having the minimal functionality first before refining it. I'm half satisfied with the design right now, I could change it into being more space-efficient if it annoys me enough. The thing with my system is that the player will carry a lot of unidentified items (like potions with unkown effects and only a label to differentiate between them) but he can label these items the way he wants, so the item name is something definitely necessary, while making it only icon based would be inneficient to move to actually see the items you have.

>>15409164

Looks really good, do a good no mans sky space exploration game.

>>15411619

shiv-r

New stuff is pretty decent

>>15411619

Pick a genre and I probably listen to it at least a little With the exception of many electronic genres like nightcore no offense. Eurobeat is my go to productivity music though. It's pure distilled fun and energy. As much as I love Chopin you just can't write code to an Etude in the way you can to Perfect Hero or Adrenaline.

>>15411619

>What kind of music do you guys listen to?

I have days where I listen to various artists from classical, days where I listen to metal, or eurobeat, or electroswing, etc.

Some specific, more "unique" musicians I listen to would be Die Antwoord, Little Big, ICP, OK Go, and lately a lot of IGLOOGHOST.

I'm probably pretty much like >>15411777 except even more chaotic

>>15411777

do you have some suggestions or download links? i'm tired of youtube suggesting the same 5 songs in a row

>>15412076

>do you have some suggestions

Just plug in the songs from the soundtrack list into YouTube. Fifth stage has some good shit if you don't know where to start.

>download links

I wish.

I did find this playlist though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuGFhEQGYK0&list=PLlcLw34CVBMsTuXYZLKTcm1tZQAnR0Lmy&index=1

Appears to be a lot of covers and remixes but there are some original mixes in there as well, just scroll, listen, and remember what you like.

>>15411619

I listen to eurobeat and italo disco mostly, sometimes trance music but not anymore because I know all of the songs in the playlists and I got tired of it. I don't listen to the kind of "inital D" eurobeat any more, I like listening to the older stuff they have which is a bit better.

Playlists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-QqdAB39M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubwqo9Pi_2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPaqNvIp3Sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv0iUKb80C8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wqUKzACAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEMt9esDe1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_8CGDVDkNk

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

>>15412076

Look up "Para-Para" and "Maharaja Night: Hi-NRG Revolution" for some good stuff.

This might be a good jumping-off point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiBBGgsDSC8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0xksWySw6c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2X1XLA-T9c

>>15411619

>What kind of music do you guys listen to?

I've lately been listening to the Mega Man X series sound tracks

>>15413084

My bro will probably do it later, but we got a pile of more urgent shit like remaking the character controller and animations

>>15412599

It looks like each subsequent tech is placed on the level N+1 deeper than the one it requires, preferring the deepest tech

>>15409814

10 year old boys should never have the thousand cock stare. Fucking hell.

>>15411985

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_Camouflage_Pattern It's this one, right? But the digital pattern one looks much cooler

>>15413001

Regarding the line brides, in the last thread you said player will be able to build their own bridges. Why are you making such an option? Will the game take place also outside the city, in wild terrain, where such bridges would be necessary?

>>15408297

In what situations will the NPCs need to dynamically find free seats?

I have some questions on modeling and engines, mostly because i got to rigging; topology i think is fine but could be better, as for engines i am using unreal 4 because i am use to it, but because of tencent and the license i might not want to use it for a final product (if i get that far). i just want to make a demo. i have about three GDD's (and still working on improving them, i don't have any art documents; can't draw but trying to learn) so i'm going with the easiest one.

1. any videos are advice for rigging? i just got to that part and some parts of the body bend in odd ways, e.g. the elbow.

2. for animation how are the frames suppose to be set up? is there a limit like to many or too little?

3. if i have multiple meshes, do they have to be animated together in blender or do i do that in engine? e.g. guy riding a skateboard.

4. as i was looking at different rigs, some put work into inverse kinematics, i did not, can you explain why it is necessary, or what i lose without it? I only know of inverse kinematics from an engine standpoint is it the same?

5. as for engines i can swap engines that i know, but how hard is it?

>>15414542

Exactly.

>>15414542

I can relate to this. Ambient works fine, though.

>>15414627

can you "cimb" up a ledge that doesn't have enough room to stand on?

>>15411619

>>15414542

>>15414579

>I can relate to this. Ambient works fine, though.

Let me hit you up with a Youtube channel.

>>15414849

That might not get in the way, but it's unnecessary.

>>15414663

for now

>>15414873

Put it on in the background, it's comfy as fuck.

>>15414912

You piqued my interest. I found this dull rain that's doing the trick.

>>15414449

1. Sounds like you may have issues either with the topography of your mesh (in which case no amount of rigging knowledge will help) or its an issue with the weights of each bone. For the latter, look up "blender weight painting"

2. Generally animators start with the key poses and then add frames in between the key poses as needed to flesh out the animation. For a simple running animation, you might only start with 3 or 4 frames and then add more in between as needed.

3. Depends on what you want to do. UE4 has slots, where you can attach a mesh to a bone of another mesh's skeleton. The slotted mesh will follow the rotation, translation, and/or scale of the parent bone (with optional offset) as it goes through its animation. That may be enough for you, but if the slotted mesh does something unique as part of the animation, they may need to be animated together.

4. IK is typically required for when a particular bone at the end of a bone chain needs to smoothly travel from its current position to a destination (something which is not easy to animate in FK).

>>15411619

I can recommend Kobaryo, amazing hardcore/happy hardcore artist

>>15414881

I made a pretty thorough visual tutorial on complex edge climbing/shimmying but it looks like it's not on the wiki. I'll see if I have it on my pc when I get home

>>15415562

> defending chinese data farmers

>>>/cuckchan/

>>>/reddit/

>>>/anywherebuthere/

>>15415577

Best goy

>>15415577

>literally everywhere datamines you

>stop being a cuck and use my datamining platform

At least use Riot or Tox if you want your voice chat and embedded images, faggot.

>>15414881

well what happens do you clip thew it? or do you fall off?

>>15415527

i started it to pass around blend files to people without having to fuck around with github. but now im thinking i might just have to burn it to the ground or ad a capacha somehow because it's broken down into constant shitposting.

>>15415591

2 (two) Shekels have been deposited into your account.

>>15415577

It's spyware you retard. It's encrypted between the clients and the server, but that doesn't mean that it's private, discord's servers log everything you say on them. It would only be private if it had E2EE.

"everyone else does it" is not an excuse. IRC, mumble, and XMPP don't have cookies and JS.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html

I can't find the new logo. I've searched the wiki. Is there some gallery with the artworks?

>>15414152

>In what situations will the NPCs need to dynamically find free seats?

i might not want to manually tell every single npc where to sit

>>15408297

RADIANT MUSICAL CHAIRS

>>15416644

i'm using it because it's convenient, what more do i need to explain?

i've got a bunch of npcs that need to sit and i tell them to just sit instead of telling x to sit here, y to sit there, etc.

>>15414912

>>15414849

These are pretty good, thanks for linking it. Some guy on youtube recorded the ambient music of each area in RDR, so that's what I've been listening to.

>>15411619

>>15414542 (this)

Some of my favorite genres of music are lyrics heavy, but during development I prefer ambient music w/o lyrics.

Generally I go with chiptunes, [dropless] EDM, or classical music. Otherwise it's just distracting.

I also like certain game/anime OSTs as they're generally only ambient. My favorites are the DS1-3, bloodborne, and Ragnarok online soundtracks as they're really inspiring/focusing/nostalgic. I also like the FMA: Brotherhood OST. Anything with subtly integrated gregorian chants with a temple like sound chamber resonance gets me rocks off tbh.

>>15415833

https://mega.nz/#!Rm4x1JJR!wXtUEBAsER9GY9FQHTN5u2i_Vj3rzNLIsZ_PHS6arDs

I had to dig through the archives for the link. It should really be uploaded to the wiki to be easier to find.

>>15417927

Have you tried using the intercept theorem to get the pink diameter (hence the size, position, etc.)?

If you know the slopes it should be feasible.

>>15417972

>intercept theorem

I'm too dumb to understand how it's applicable to this problem

>>15417927

You have A.pos and A.r, and B.pos and B.r, being the position and radius of both circles. You want a sphere touching A.

The radius P.r if you draw a circle at any point P along the vector from A.pos to B.pos is equal to Min(A.r, B.r) + abs(A.r - B.r) * Dot((P.pos - B.pos).normalize, (A.pos - B.pos).normalize) smallest radius, plus the difference between radii multiplied by how far along you are mapped from 0 to 1

You want to find a point where the distance between P.pos and A.pos is A.r + P.r

A lazy way to do this is to just iterate over the vector B.pos - A.pos, but it's pretty wasteful. How fast do you need this to be? If it's an uncommon, fire once function, just do that because solving this further is pretty fucking hard since P.pos relies on P.r which relies on P.pos.

>>15417927

Assume the circles lie on the horizontal X-axis s.t. the left circle's center is at (0,0) and the right one's is at (d,0), with d > 0.

Let r1, r2 be the radii of the left and right circle respectively.

Then the slope of the upper line is s := (r-R)/d.

The center (x,0) of the circle you want must then satisfy r1 + sx = r1 + x (look at your picture to see why), which is easily solved.

>>15418145

> (r-R)/d

(r2 - r1)/d.

> r1 + sx = r1 + x

r1 + sx = x - r1.

Fucking hell, never change notation just before hitting reply.

>>15418132

>>15418135

>>15418145

>>15418189

Thanks, I'll try these.

>How fast do you need this to be

In the worst case probably hundreds of times per frame? I'm basically drawing circles all the way from start to the end along paths, but I'm unsure how many there might be and how often exactly they need to update.

>>15418250

just linearly interpolate between the sizes

>>15418428

yea but how much

>>15418428

The distance between circles needs to be consistent across all circles and all start/end points.

>>15418533

Yes, that looks exactly like what I want to do.

>>15418561

I just did a while loop that steps along X, interpolates the radius and then checks if that circle starts after the last one. There's probably a much smarter way.

function love.draw()
  local lg = love.graphics

  local start = {
    x = 100,
    y = 100,
    radius = 48
  }

  local finish = {
    x = love.mouse.getX(),
    y = love.mouse.getY(),
    radius = 16
  }

  local last_radius = start.radius
  local last_x = start.x
  local current_radius = start.radius
  local current_x = start.x

  lg.circle("line", start.x, start.y, start.radius)

  while current_x < finish.x do
    current_x = current_x + 1

    local delta_x = (current_x - start.x) / (finish.x - start.x)
    local delta_radius = start.radius + delta_x * (finish.radius - start.radius)

    if current_x - delta_radius > last_x + last_radius then
      lg.circle("line", current_x, current_y, delta_radius)
      last_x = current_x
      last_radius = delta_radius
    end
  end
end

>>15418884

You shouldn't necessarily need angles at all. This looks solveable purely with linear algebra. Can't you just imagine a line from top of A to top of ab, get the slope, and then make circles that lie on the line between midpoints, such that the radius exactly touches the adjacent circle and slope?

>>15421934

Forgot to add it's meant to be a party based RPG with active pause.

>>15421934

Heroes of the Storm actually implements this in various forms. Various Overwatch heroes in that game have the ability to attack whilst moving. One hero, Genji, has a slightly different implementation. As an attack, he throws three throwing stars in quick succession. Ordering movement whilst attacking will have him finish the current set of 3 stars he's throwing, allowing him some degree of mobility whilst attacking, but not as much as some other heroes.

There are loads of mechanics you can implement with attacking whilst moving; you can reduce accuracy of attacks, slow down movement and/or attack speed, prevent reloading, etc.

The question you should ask yourself is how you want players to react to the enemy. What kind of gameplay you're trying to create. From that point, you can ask yourself whether it improves the gameplay or not.

>>15421934

Are you making a tactical kenshi-esque game for controls? You could just include a hold-fire command like most RTS games do. Modern RTS games have units shoot on the move, examples being company of heroes, CNC3+, other completely fucking dead games, and HotS as anon said.

>>15421932

what do u mean

>>15422103

Anon, this isn't a school project. You don't have to pretend you've planned things in advance.

>>15422166

im guessing they meant promotional art

>>15422103

that's more of a fanart. I like what you did

>>15422704

>he's still going

Holy shit, anon, it's like you're doing it for the (you)s or something

>>15422720

I wanna make an action platformer based on evangelion.

>>15422787

I don't mean you making your game, man, that's all fine and all, but you came into this thread and your first post was the same bitching you did last thread. Even if you're not going to change anything, don't start with the whining. Just strikes me as attention seeking.

>>15422860

because everyones for some reason goes to bully me.

>>15422922

why are u triggered over someone posting poor art?

>>15422937

>>15422950

this was my 3D skill some years ago.

I think I've improved.

>>15422960

Oh my god, it's you. I remember you, anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLGC9V0kmT0

>>15422967

I think I've improved over time.

maybe in five years I'll stop sucking shit.

>>15422966

yeah.

>>15422975

You won't if you keep acting like a little bitch.

>>15422993

I think I still need to learn a lot, I even lacked discipline when I started.

I just need to practice more.

>>15422998

Don't worry. We're hard assholes mostly just for show.

>>15423029

>>15423027

I'll try to make my best effort, but don't expect professional results when you're not a pro.

I guess is ok to be shit when you're a begginer.

>>15423042

Im not a pro either, im a fucking ideafag that looks for youtube tutorials and keep trying, just admit your model is fucked and get your shit together

>>15423042

Nigger we aren't expecting anything professional-tier, just that you stop posting absolute garbage and getting pissed when people give you pointers or call it shit.

>>15423052

>>15423047

fine, is shit then.

>>15423051

Funny you say that, c8eedd is an actual nigger from South America.

>>15423051

>He's obviously improving and learning.

No Hitler, he's not. He gets pissy every time someone gives him advice and start making excuses or taking it personally. He's been doing so for over a year in different communities. The guy really doesn't deserve any sympathy.

>>15423042

It's perfectly acceptable to be crap in the beginning, we were all crap, but the willingness to improve and to endure that struggle has to be there; to say the opposite is to really put yourself down, and rightfully makes people who have gotten over that a bit discontented.

As anything that requires the monumental amount of effort gamedev, and other such hobbies that require such effort; is an act that one should respect in some manner. Respect the hobby, respect the values that drive you to improve the hobby, and work through the struggle.

It's well worth it.

>>15423051

Psh, nothin' personelll, kid

I realize it was a bit edgy, but it's the truth; it may hurt, but that's how it is.

>>15421961

I haven't played Kenshi, but based on few videos I watched, it seems so.

>>15421976

Frankly I can't see anyway this could enhance the gameplay beyond being a cool looking gimmick. Though I like that shooting mechanic they have for Genji in HotS, it's pretty much the same thing as stutter step just with the attack not being stopped by movement. I think I'll check if it fits.

>>15422103

That's some thicc yet rare atmosphere on those planets.

>>15423091

> Are you that dumb Britbong who was spamming Amerimutt?

No…?

>>15423091

>Are you that dumb Britbong who was spamming Amerimutt?

that faggot never posted progress

>>15424276

nice effects, what are you working on anon?

>>15408358

I can't offer any helpful advice so I must bully instead

Your buildings look interesting but the texture sucks. Keep at it though.

>>15409814

That facial makeup and the eyeshadow makes him look like a blood drained corpse, how sad

>>15422704

eyes are too close

>>15424403

That is a lot better.

I've been trying to read through this entityx source code that someone linked a few days ago, and I have to wonder how anyone can make sense of this stuff.

Every other function has a variadic template. What the fuck?

Every time I try to read this shit I find something new about the C++ language specification (not that I was particularly knowledgeable before, but still).

Variadic template recursion, anonymous parameters, templates without any angle brackets or parameters, and so on.

Was C++ a mistake, or was I?

>>15424276

nice demo

HOW THE FUCK do particle systems work in an engine?

Do I just draw a little square mesh and put a little texture on it that had transparent edges then point it at the camera and swap the texture each frame to simulate animation? Then do this hundreds of times to simulate fire?

>>15422166

>>15422162

>>15423122

sorry

>>15425069

Instancing.

>>15425143

Get incredibly lucky and hope they don't fuck you over.

I'm hoping to scour my university for game designers and find someone I like who will partner with me. My idea is that I focus on all engine/logic stuff while he focuses on visuals/design/art/sound

>>15425143

Can you do anything aside from modelling?

>>15425158

what uni?

>>15425178

Australian.

>>15425175

I suggest you make a working prototype. Once you have more than words, that is, once you are clearly getting results, offers will flock around you.

>>15425206

Yeah. I guess you're right.

So what's a good place to learn how to do character creation in blender that includes modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating?

>>15424662

>Variadic template recursion, anonymous parameters, templates without any angle brackets or parameters, and so on.

>Was C++ a mistake, or was I?

neither. no sane person uses any of that shit in code for an application. It's special case tools for libraries and CS PhD wanking.

>>15425069

Yes. That's one way. Write a proof of concept and test the performance limits.

Then check out point sprites. Do a quick proof of concept of that.

You may be satisfied with what you have at this point. If not..

Bing.com for the 194 million papers out there on 100% GLSL particle systems.

>>15425143

Would be cool if we could make a legit game. There is so much variation of autism here that it could actually work. Its like a wide spectrum of skills.

But of course don't jump head first into anything ambitious.

>>15425315

And autistic engine dev.

>>15414571

>>15414579

>>15414542

I find that playing any D-Block song boosts my performance and motivation by up to 400%

Are there any foley experts here? Any tips on creating gunshots would be appreciated, ive just been remixing clips from Freesound.net

>>15411619

Did you animate that?

>>15411619

>>15411619

>>15426405

RTX raytracing.

>>15426464

>>15426405

Guaranteed cinematic 24fps@480i

>>15425362

Having a wide variety has a problem in itself, and it's that most people are incompatible with one another. Highly different interests and work/programming conventions, and having to change those will kill a lot of your enthusiasm towards the project, but you need that enthusiasm to push through.

I too want to help on a project but as soon as someone says "military" my motivation is already packing it's bags. When I see highly layered class structures and methods I don't want to have anything to do with the codebase. It's different if you treat it as a job, but I already have a job and personal projects that I love, so there isn't room for someone else's project that I have grievances with.

>>15424817

>>15424699

>>15424360

Thanks. I'm just making a C64 megademo and this is my 4th part. I have a thread about it in /agdg/ if you want to read a bit more about it or to see the previous 3 parts.

>>15427543

The attack part is obvious, but what do you mean by defense type AI?

>>15427543

In what kind of game? Defense, broadly, is working to prevent an enemy from attaining an objective. It's an abstract concept can be carried out in a number of ways depending on context. An enemy character AI that blocks sword swings? An enemy RTS AI that creates fortifications and turtles? Be more specific.

>>15427578

The default state is offense, it will attack from the start. It also needs to defend itself; when will the "defense" state be active? I am thinking whenever the health drops below a certain threshold, the state changes to "defense" but will make for a repetitive system

>>15427604

It is sort of real-time, just a health and shields changes numeric values. Attack decreases health, shield absorbs a percentage.

>>15424662

>Was C++ a mistake, or was I?

C++ was a mistake. Even the man who invented it agrees it was a mistake. All the console devs who use it code in it like it's C.

>>15427740

>When C# devs try to fuss over the GC and manual memory management instead of just using C++

>>15424387

she has down syndrome you jerk

>>15427914

More implementations support it. C11 also had some really dumb C++-like parts if I remember correctly, but I'd have to look that one up.

>>15427755

This guy is having such a hard time breathing it's unnerving.

>>15427914

The current C standard is still C11, see the standards webpage:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

However, there is a newer standard that is behind a paywall right now, if you look here:

https://www.iso.org/standard/74528.html

And you can find more details about it reading these posts from a member of the standards committee:

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/

Currently, the only compiler that claims C17 support is Pelles C 9.0. Meanwhile MSVC only implements C95, glibc only implements the mandatory parts of C11, it's not a great situation because of GNU politics holding back standards adoption. Something about the optional parts being proposed by Microsoft, so they won't implement it. Meanwhile Pelles C, which is only made by one person, can implement all of the technical reports whether they are adopted or not, just in anticipation.

>>15427755

I agree with this guy all the way, especially on the templates. At work we have a giant code base with shit ton of templates which are just repeating the same code over and over and the compile time is also huge of course… hate that shit.

I'm a simple nodev right now, but please tell me at least a couple of you are working on a third-person horror game. Currently working my way through the reportedly good ones.

>>15427929

I take it you're referring to _Generic? Everything else seems like sane stuff.

>>15428033

nah

there's a guy making a 1st person spoopy skullton advneture though

>>15427912

That's a lot more specific and something that can be worked with.

In this case, you have 5 possible actions for the AI to take, not just Attack and Defend, so whenever the AI has to pick one, you'll have to check for all 5.

A simple and effective way to do this is to place a weight upon all 5 tasks based on parameters and then the AI simply picks the option that scores higher. You'd set the weight with something like this:

Attack: AI Strength - Player's Shield + AGRESSION + (AI Health - Player Health)

Reinforce: Player Strength - AI Shield + TURLE + (Player Health - AI Health)

Scan: Player's Shield - AI Strength + SABOTAGE + (AI Health - Player Health)

Mask: AI Shield - Player Strength + DEFENSIVE + (Player Health - AI Health)

Reflux: Player's Shield - AI Strength + BUFFER + (AI Health - Player Health)

You'll notice that your AI will make some sensible decisions this way.

If it's Strength is 100 and the player's Shield is 20, Attack get's a weight of 80, while Scan get's -80. It will only try to Scan once it's Strength is less than the Player's Shields.

Also note that that the difference in health between them factors here as well. The 2 defensive actions (Reinforce, Mask) will happen more frequently when the AI has less health than the player, however the other 3 agressive actions will instead happen more often if the AI has the upper hand.

Those 5 varibles, AGRESSION, TURTLE, SABOTAGE, DEFENSIVE, BUFFER are used to make sorta of a personality for your AI. You can roll 5 random values or use specific ones for an AI and all it does is shift their priorities around.

Lets say you have an AI with Agression at 100 and Turtle at 50. You'll notice it shielding itself very rarely, only in dire circunstances but attacking much more often.

If you're gonna have the same AI all the time, you can remove that however.

>>15427912

Although, I'll be quite frank with you, EYE's hacking minigame is terrible and boring. There's some bad problems in how it was designed and how it works, plus it's not event the most exciting thing ever.

For starters, add a queu of actions, where the player can click 5 actions and they are placed in an order at the bottom, instead of having to time your clicks to get the best speed out of it without wasting your programs. Obviously, clicking on the queue should clear a program in case you want to change it.

You can even make cyberware factor here if the AI also gets a queue but you can only see a few programs based on your cyberware.

Secondly, Reflux\Overload was a terrible move. while it removed your defenses, you didn't require any to use it, meaning that in every hack all you had to do was Mask the oponent's attacks away and let him Overflow his defense away as well while you boosted your own Attack and never had to worry about Shields. As long as you kept the AI in check, it would never attack anyway.

Personnaly, I'd recomend giving different programs different run times. Attack and Mask could be short, Reinforce and Scan longer and Reflux the longest to balance them properly. Or perhaps make them run off some resource instead.

Thirdly, use the Numpad for hotkeys, especially if you make a queue for actions. You can have a small square on your HUD at the top-right giving you all this info. Queue a few actions that you can see happen in realtime and you're free to shoot around for about 10 seconds before you need to input some more actions, instead of staring at the GUI like in EYE.

I want to make a TempleOS game in memorial of Mister Terry…

>>15428226

I was looking for ways to make it exciting because noticed the flaws too; sometimes its easy as fuck to cheese sometimes its a battle of attrition against the machine. I thought about having something of a MP gauge, or hax points, which need to be gained via attack to access reflux/overflow. Or some new action. Different run times is also on my next list.

I will try implementing the AI and see how it goes. Honestly I'm not sure why I'm doing this. Thanks for your input.

>>15428299

Make eyes a tiny bit taller. He looks like some sort of happa.

>>15428299

How cartoony characters are meant to be at the end? Wouldn't thicker line at the nose, like in 1st pic, look better?

>>15428385

>dracari

The fuck even is a dracari?

>>15428387

Should i go for full beard instead?

>>15428387

>>15428402

I like the goatee

>>15428408

Well i wanna add options to customize hair and facial hair later, but its very low priority

>>15428436

Your art actually resembles a human instead of an anime blob, so you're getting better. Don't stop there or you're a piece of shit.

>>15428436

>They are not (((subversive))) enough

Well it depends. Some dragons are treasure-hoarding, manipulating, deceiving basards.

>>15428444

not on asia, asian dragons are usually good.

>>15428199

As long as it's not just a walking simulator I'll take it.

>>15428437

I will improve the models further eventually

I need to get this game done by 2020, after i release and start getting some money i can stop and improve the details

>>15428444

>>15428447

In my universe they are slightly more intelligent than a smart dog or a dolphin, they use very simple magic and can't even speak

I base some of my stuff on Tolkien like most fantasy universes, but i have my own spin on everything

>>15428448

Anything from Asia is souless bugmen.

>>15428452

>The good dragons want to create a dragon ethnostate funded through the money they extort from non-dragons.

Forgive me if I'm missing the joke, but isn't basically Israel?

>>15428444

>Dude that was my dragon what the fuck

>>15428385

>>15428436

>>15428472

This might seem crazy but try this: make the goatee round, in the shape of the chin, instead of pointy.

It will likely end up looking quite well while still being a goatee.

The issue is that pointy goatees are for villains, heros get stubbles, full beard and 5'clocks instead

What should I use in Godot? GDscript or C#?

>>15428710

GDScript. C# was added to help others migrate towards Godot, but GDScript is the main language. There are things you can't do in C# that you can in GDS, and it's development and documentation take priority over C#.

>>15428436

>>15428924

I think no facial hair looks better. More like a young man embarking in adventure. Fresh face = fresh heart.

>>15428948

If that's what he's going for, sure.

>>15428924

The face scar is supposed to be deep, the eye was healed with magic, but there was not enough power to heal the entire thing, in my world characters with scars are rare because healing magic exists, the problem with Adam is that he was born with high magic resistance, so healing magic is very ineffective on him.

>>15428948

>>15428961

He is actually retiring, the whole reason for him to stay in the village and live a comfy farming life is that he is tired of adventure, i wanted to make a character that is past his career peak since it is so uncommon

>>15429099

Give him a subtle stubble. It ould make him look more aged.

>>15428452

>There are bad dragons

Subtle

>>15428452

>This jew is bad because he ratted out another jew who was committing tax fraud, which should be okay, because other jews do it.

Not one of Mark's finer moments.

>>15429547

As expected from a Jew.

>>15429203

>>15429488

I will try, but last time i tried it looked like shit

>>15426405

>Whats the fastest dynamic lighting method for a scene where all objects are not static?

Forward Lighting.

The determining factor seems to be number of light sources and types of shadows. As far as picking the lighting method.

If I place 4 vertices on the screen, how do I find a matrix to project a given rectangle into it? Is it even possible?

>>15430439

>Just draw a rectangle between them.

I need a matrix if I want to project things from inside the rectangle into the transformed plane.

>>15430445

oh, now I understand. That sounds like a scale-translate matrix. You would have to translate the vertices by the difference between the two lower corners of the rectangles, and then scale it by multiplying all the X coordinates by the ratio between the X-width of the source rectangle and the X-width of the dest rectangle. So if the source rectangle was 0-1, and the dest was 0-2, you'd just scale it by 2/1, or multiply all verticies X components by 2, then you would do the same thing to the Y components.

>>15428420

does she sell milk :^)

>>15428444

Nowadays, dragons are just big reptiles

>>15409814

Shouldn't it be considered a crime to turn human beings, children no less, into abstract "modern art" projects? Children are gullible little shits, not just from lack of experience, but because they crave attention and validation from others - from adults, especially their parents. Whether the parent is ignorant of this and thinks their kid genuinely wants to be a queer because it's doing what they get positive reinforcement for - or they're maliciously turning the child into their own pet project for their own attention whoring goals - there should be no tolerance for this kind of abuse.

>>15430774

Right is wrong, wrong is right. There's been a war on children for quite some time now. Ask any young person and most of them will tell you that they dislike kids, while places like plebbit are extremely hateful against children. It's fucking weird, man.

>>15430979

downward movement of the arms looks a little stiff and a tad too fast

remember theres inertia even in anime waifu noodle arms, therefore the elbows would naturally come down faster than the hands creating a natural bend at the elbow

>>15431076

Yeah I should make the wrists rotate downwards slower. Thanks!

>>15410277

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PostProcessing-Stack.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PostProcessing-Stack-SetUp.html

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/post-processing-stack-83912

it's ez

>>15411619

Good ambient music. Thief 1/2 is also good.

>>15431720

Thanks

>>15428385

Now that I look at it, thinner lines look much better. I guess I was just too used to the old face.

Well fuck 3 attempts to make a stuble like

>>15430015

>>15429488

I didn't like the results, keeping the shaved look for now

>>15432576

use FLIF or WEBP at least. PNG is outdated and if you are writing a game you can choose to not use it.

>>15432632

I'll keep it in mind for release. But I want my game to be changeable for the end user, and most people use PNG so that's what I went with

>>15432576

It's certainly noticeable. This should be obvious, but indexed images only really work when you have a small palette to index. If the exact pixel data isn't important for the game, you could also allow PNG and JPG for both kinds of backgrounds.

Why are you not posting the actual image? It's kinda weird to ask whether a placeholder looks right rather than the real thing.

>>15432632

Is this another epic DEPRECATED XD meme?

>>15432721

Post the unindexed version of nebula.png

How can I read a 24-bit bitmap as a 32-bit one at runtime. I want to be able to load bitmaps as 24-bit and read them 3 bytes at a time so I can display them on a 32-bit buffer. I don't want to do any transformation of the data, just change how the array is indexed. I'm currently doing something like this (pseudocode but I'm using C):

for x < texWidth
for y < texHeight
((uint32*)buffer.data)[posX + posY * bufferW] = texure.data[x+y*texWidth];

>>15432576

It looks good but it's obviously indexed but I like that aesthetic.

and ACKSTUALLY, the pillars of creation is only a small portion of the eagle nebula

>>15432734

It's against their book to turn a fellow jew in to the cattle. Makes sense that he would be against it.

>>15432758

> I don't want to do any transformation of the data

What is this supposed to mean? Since there is no alpha channel in the original, you will have to do some sort of transformation. If you just don't want to change entries, surely you can just read in three byte increments and generate the alpha channel on the fly. I feel like I'm missing something.

>>15432758

>It looks good but it's obviously indexed but I like that aesthetic.

You can't just throw "but" into everything, but your text will be unreadable.

>>15432758

For a small performance gain, you want to treat the texture you're reading as a single index array. That is, a byte[] that increments by a fixed step reach read, in order to minimize op usage. Eg, each read, you write n+0, n+1, n+2, and 255 to the output array, then increase your position by 3 bytes worth of values in the input array, but jump array by 4 bytes in the output array

>>15432798

I'm not using alpha, the last byte is just for padding for 4-byte alignment. I'm software rendering so I need the accessing to be as fast as possible.

>>15432758

I'm no expert so there may be a smarter thing to do but; Take the pointer to data and move it by the index, multiply the index by 3, then cast it to an u32 pointer and dereference it. That'll get 4 bytes from the desired position, you can override the extra byte separately if you want.

((uint32*)buffer.data)[posX + posY * bufferW] = *(uint32*)( texure.data + (x+y*texWidth)*3 );

Depending on where you need the bytes to be, you may also want to add "<< 8" to shift it.

>>15432841

If you're going to render from that thing transform it into the format you need once at the beginning rather than every time you render, jesus fucking christ. This is why recommending C in these threads is abuse, the performance problem is always something besides the language.

>>15432888

>my solution was so mindblowing it broke 8chan

Meant ">> 8". It'll get this: "1111 1111 1111 PADD" but you may want "PADD 1111 1111 1111"

>>15432903

Well, I don't want to do that because I only want to allocate the memory I need once. If I do that, I'd need an extra 1/3 the amount of memory, which will just be always zero anyway.

>>15432921

your problem isn't memory and it will never be memory

>>15432921

Stop using C, it's rotting your brain. I'm not shitposting, this language is legitimately harming you. The way you are going about this entire problem hurts performance far over a hundred times more than a lack of four byte alignment could ever in any situation. You are converting the same fucking bitmap into the same fucking format every fucking frame, and meanwhile think that you are """optimizing""" something. You are not. You are being fucking dumb and I can't even blame you because the tool you use encourages this particular retardation.

Just put this language away. Use something else, for the love of fuck, this is painful to watch.

>>15432888

>>15432903

Thanks, I managed to get this working. I didn't need to use any bit shifting, I'm on little endian anyway.

>>15432929

Maybe I just want to challenge myself

>>15432948

Good news is that you're already challenged, anon.

>>15432938

Okay, you've convinced me. I'm downloading eclipse and just booked a flight India…

>>15432957

>le pajeet xd java lol

Nevermind I was too late. The damage is already done and irreversible.

>>15432965

Okay then, I have an open mind. What language do you recommend and why do you think what I'm doing is so bad. For context I've basically just switched to that>>15432888

>>15432841

>Cares about performance

>Uses software rendering

Maybe you should reconsider your decisions.

Also stop being fucking retarded. Define a struct that contains 3 uint8_t's, make sure its packed by using #pragma pack, load that struct and then add the extra alpha to it.

#include <stdint.h>
#pragma pack(push, 1)
struct rgb {
    uint8_t rgb[3];
};
struct rgba {
    struct rgb rgb;
    uint8_t a;
};
#pragma pack(pop)

struct rgba getPixel(void* _data, size_t w, size_t x, size_t y, uint8_t a) {
    struct rgb* data = _data; // make sure the struct & data has the same endianness definition.
    return (struct rgba){data[x+y*w], a};
}

>>15432998

Maybe I phrased it incorrectly. Not so much a challenge as wanting to have the pointer in my texture struct be the same as the one that is loaded into the file struct so I don't need to be doing any allocating, copying, and then deallocating. Why would I do all that when I can just cast to uint8, multiply the index by 3 and the cast to uint32.

>>15432987

I already explained to you why it's dumb. It's not fucking optimizing anything. As for the language you should use, anything but fucking C. No, not C++.

>>15433011

Interesting, but it seems just to be over complicating things just to get a pixel on the screen. It seems to be way simpler to allocate and x-by-y void* buffer, so I can cast it to a uint32 and plug in an index and then give it a uint32 and I get a pixel on the screen. Plus the

Win32 API call i'm using (temporarily) takes a void pointer to the bits. I don't believe I need to make it any more complicated.

>>15433032

Please quote the post where I said I wanted to optimise stuff. I already have my buffer set up as 32-bit so I (i'm not at that stage yet) can just cast the void* to a uint32* and plug in the index and get pixels on the screen.

>>15408260

There's something I've been wanting to ask.

Has anyone from here http://www.homph.com/steam/ currently here on this site? or are they all cuckchan faggots.

>>15433032

Also, I would genuinely like to know what language you

>>15433073

Oops, embarassing. I what I was going to say was: I would genuinely like to know what language you would recommend, C#, ASM?

>>15433073

>>15433076

Java

:^)

>>15433058

>Interesting, but it seems just to be over complicating things just to get a pixel on the screen.

It's not over complicating anything as it is the only way you can read 3bytes / 24bits.

>It seems to be way simpler to allocate and x-by-y void* buffer, so I can cast it to a uint32 and plug in an index and then give it a uint32 and I get a pixel on the screen.

And then you read the last pixel, with the fourth byte read sticking out of your allocated buffer, which triggers a segfault. Nice job, smartass. God forbid you write back to textures, enjoy your memory corruption.

Don't even think about turning that optimizer too. Reinterpreting data as something else is plain undefined behavior, so if you read 2 pixels sequentially, it'll actually be allowed to do something like:

<read 4 bytes (rgbr)

<return first pixel (rgb)

<read 2 bytes (gb)

<return second pixel (0gb) (legal optimization because data may not be reinterpreted as something else and you didn't write to it in that time, so the value is undefined which allows the compiler to fill it with the next fastest thing)

Now you might say "but it doesn't do that on my build!". But here's the fun part: it might do that next update.

>>15433104

>Being willfully retarded and ignoring what other people say

We have enough fucking idiots here that make bad decisions and refuse to listen when told their decisions are bad.

>>15433107

I said quote the post where I said I wanted to optimise stuff. I don't think that explaining why I made a decision that is largely irrelevant to the question im asking is wanting to optimise stuff. I don't want to convert all .bmp files to 32-bit every time I make a change (they're large, and paint.net only supports 24-bit and 8-bit)

>>15433123

You have a point, I'll look into the rgb struct business, even if it's only for image loading. I don't understand what you mean by the fourth byte of the last pixel sticking out of the buffer, however. Could you expand more upon that?

>>15433147

What every anon has been trying to tell you is that modern hardware only every works in 32-bit RGBA format. It doesn't matter if you're doing software rendering or not, because it still gets converted into OpenGL/DirectX calls against the actual physical hardware; your graphics card, whether embedded or PNP-able works with this format, and so does your LCD monitor. The only time the display format might change is with smartphones or specialized handheld devices, and the OpenGL layer will automatically take care of this for you.

tldr: Your meme .bmp format is just for storage. Once it's loaded into volatile memory, it needs to be 32-bit RGBA to play with literally anything you didn't write yourself

>>15433123

>We have enough fucking idiots here that make bad decisions and refuse to listen when told their decisions are bad.

Nothing wrong with telling people when they're doing it wrong, but telling him to stop using C just because he did something in a less than ideal way is just stupid. Nobody is born with an innate talent and knowledge for low level programming, you have to go through hurdles to learn it first.

For all the Terry memeing going on, you'd think people would be telling him to use C even if it kills him.

>>15433147

>You have a point, I'll look into the rgb struct business, even if it's only for image loading. I don't understand what you mean by the fourth byte of the last pixel sticking out of the buffer, however. Could you expand more upon that?

If you have 3 pixels of data, then your data is structured as such:

RGBRGBRGB
1111 <- these bytes are read with your first uint32_t read
   2222 <- these bytes are read with your second uint32_t read
      3333 <- these bytes are read with your third uint32_t read

>>15433162

Ah, yes, I see what you mean. The problem I was having would be: the first pixel is RGBR, the second was GBRG, the third was BRGB, and so on. I see the merit in the the rgb struct and after reading >>15433156, I'll re-work my loading code tomorrow to use the getPixel(). I'm pretty sure I read your post wrong and was thinking it was about the global back buffer instead of the image buffer. Lmao

>>15433159

The thing with C is that it allows you to do pretty much anything. Unfortunately, some people are idiots and think they can outsmart the compiler despite not knowing anything about it.

Then you have people who that, but refuse the fucking listen after being told ten times to stop trying to reinterpret data as something its not. Telling these people to stop using C so they stop posting these worthless fucking questions where they want to redefine the language to do what they want with complete disregard with everything that goes into it because of muh imagined perf gains that are completely unbacked by everything is DEFINITELY a good way to go about it. Because these dumb hardheaded fucks really are wasting their time on meaningless trite.

>>15433191

Well, I'm sorry. I've only been programming in C for 4 months, so I didn't know reinterpreting data was bad practices, but it makes sense that it is know that I know why.

>>15433207

It's not "bad practice". It's "undefined behavior". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior

Unlike modern languages where there is no undefined behavior and the code simply throws an exception when something goes wrong, C had this wonderful thing called undefined behavior where you have no idea what is going on. This especially turns bad when you turn on the optimizer, because compilers are allowed to assume that undefined behavior doesn't occur.

As a rule of thumb, I recommend that instead of trying to write code where you try to be a smartass to the compiler, write code where you try to explain to the compiler exactly what you want to do. Make it do no more, no less. Just exactly what it is supposed to do, computationally speaking. It is the compiler's job to compile your code, not you. If you want to omgoptimize something, then use inline assembly. Many compilers support that as an extension. Too bad you wont even be able to produce better assembly than a compiler because you probably don't know shit about anything a modern CPU does.

>>15430408

You only need 3 vertices, labled a, b, c. Form the two vectors ab=b-a, ac=c-a. Compute n=ab x ac (that’s the cross product) to get a third vector. Form the column matrix M=(ab, ac, n). Invert it, M^-1=N. For each vertex v you wish to project, compute v’=N*(v-a), set z to zero, i.e w’=(v’_x, v’_y, 0), then your projected vertex is w=M*w’. You can roll the translate (i.e. the v-a part) into the matrix by going into homogeneous coordinates. I think a goes into column 4 of N, then you re-compute M.

>>15433688

i'm going to need a closer look at that ass, and are you planing on adding a walk cycle? or a attack animation?

>>15433910

yes, is going to be a tales of phantasia clone about evangelion.

I made a gay ass game and I want to shill it here

it comes out on wednesday

>>15433923

Looks competent, but uninspired.

>>15433939

>3939

nice

I just wanted to make something cute