/v/ - Video Games

Alright lads, so when will video game graphics finally surpass real life?

>>15501783

Real life has a shitty artstyle

>>15501786

great framerates though

>>15501791

How can you tell? You can't perceive life at greater than 24 fps

>>15501810

Its hard to tell anyways considering life runs at 1080p at most

I bought the current gamedev humble book bundle.

I can upload it if you guys want.

>>15501825

If it's any good then yeah.

>>15501791

Yeah but the controls are unresponsive and suck

>>15501843

Post what you have.

>>15501893

>extensions hidden

Disgraceful.

>>15501893

Zip them and put them in a mega.nz then share the link.

>>15501837

Can you show some examples of the better way to do it?

>>15501951

>I had to do a lot of edge loops to do the fingers and the head

you could just split that quads in question rather than make a whole edge loop

>>15501952

1. How could I do that?

2. The edge loops are already made. How would I reduce them automatically?

Like a desubdivide if you will.

>>15501946

Thanks.

>>15501955

>1. How could I do that?

select the quad and subdivide/extrude

and i'm sure there was a way to connect two edges other than edge loops, but i can't remember, i don't use blender

>>15501773

How do you get ideas, fellow /agdg/ers?

>>15501964

steal everything you see/hear

>>15501964

>play game

>get frustrated at shit design decisions

>want to make a game like it except without the shit

>>15501965

Ah, I see, the ol' INSPIRED BY switcheroo

>>15502062

>That skirt clipping

lewd. I thought she was wearing red underwear.

>>15502062

>Team Shinobu's blasting off agaaaaain

>hair kinda makes a star shape when she disappears

>>15501787

Lunar alien is progressing nicely.

>>15502085

I'm coming into this thread just to ask the obvious question that's probably already been asked

will you _ Her

What ever happened to Bavarian Scout Ranger?

>>15502338

GDI has been busy, doesn't have tome to work on game but he's still alive. dropped by the disagreement channel recently.

>>15501810

>How can you tell? You can't perceive life at greater than 24 fps

wot

According to the lab at the U of MN I can see and react to around 122fps. In the CRT days I used to run my monitors at 120hz and when competitive gaming used to turn all graphics settings to low to try to get 100+ fps.

I've seen youtube videos breaking down the amount of information differences between different frame rates at different resolutions. The bottom line is you're wrong, and humans can see well beyond 24fps. What you are thinking is that film technology chose 24fps because it's run by cheap fucking jews and 24fps is the lowest you can use before it looks janky and destroys all immersion.

>>15502351

Sweet, you by any chance have the "trailer" video with music? I can only find one vid on jewtube and it's missing the music and 1v1 fight

>>15502354

all resources I know of:

>>>/agdg/29841

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH2m764lFzk19ytOSkY0vDw

http://8agdg.wikidot.com/gdidoujinmediaworks

>>15502352

That's an elaborate way to say "I'm new"

If you were to make a free game that contained no ads, but instead had a cryptocurrency miner, and you were completely up front about that fact and gave an option to turn it off, would it be ethical?

>>15502697

Maybe if it were turned off from the very start but people could enable it it they wanted.

If it's already running when the game is installed I'd say no.

>>15502697

I think so, as long as you make it very plain that it's in there. It's just a different payment model essentially. Getting it to run in a way that didn't interfere with the game itself might take some effort.

>>15502369

thx it was that demo day trailer i was looking for. re-encoding for the webm thread

>>15502899

>how the fuck do i populate a wasteland

Mutants that are a result of failed science experimentation, which doesn't involve with radiation.

>>15502899

Just put dead shit everywhere.

>>15502899

Depends on your setting. You say that it's fantasy, is it a wasteland as in a desert? You can add cacti and the occasional oasis with palms and small patches of grass and other plant life. Some partly hidden buildings under the sands. Big dunes to make it less flat. Fantasy versions of typical desert creatures.

>>15502899

ruins

>>15502899

big rocks, small rocks, all kind of rocks everywhere, also caves, half caves and sinkholes

>>15502062

Make her beg for it

Hey guys I'm coming back to this thread and gamedev after a long break (2 years)

Anyway I'm making a total war clone with greek, norse and egyptian mythology

The story is basically that the gods are sick of the presence of other religions and decide to directly take control of their worshippers to wipe out the other religions and gods.

Anyway I'm struggling to think of a good name for this game

currently the name is "war of the gods" but i'm not too happy with this name

i was thinking maybe divine war or divine warfare but those aren't too great either

i was thinking about maybe using some foreign word like something greek or latin but i couldn't find anything that sounded good.

anyone have any better ideas

>>15503122

What about Age of Mythology?

>>15503329

Isn't square to square collision detection relatively easy? Why cast rays?

>>15503354

>>15503370

It just works I use raycasts because that's the first thing that came to my mind. Are they that bad?

>>15503389

It just seems horribly inefficient.

>>15503389

I just don't understand why you would come up with the idea of using raycasting for the problem of "check if grid cells are occupied". You just find the top left cell based on item position/size, then loop itemwidth*itemheight tiles and check each one. It's not even a mathematical problem.

>>15502651

Are you sure the normals are right? Make a shader that writes the normal to the fragment color to verify, both pre and post transform. Triplanar works by using the normal to blend between 3 textures, right? Use the sample weights as fragment color. Write the uv coords to color. Blend between three identical textures. Use an uv texture. Try to identify if it’s an artifact appearing at the texture edges. Try disable mip-maps/anisotropic filtering or texture filtering in general.

>>15503490

nah, i toggled generate lightmap uvs and when i started baking the lightmaps it fixed itself

>>15503442

Rather than checking each cell, couldn't you use quadtrees to check occupancy? I know that's probably overkill for an inventory grid

Got lazy, really didn't want to refactor code. Working on that and the Godot cheat sheet today: http://8agdg.wikidot.com/gdscript-cheat-sheet

I put a code example in there so far, still no idea how to just do a white-space line so I can better space out the information better.

>>15503547

I've heard Xenoraptor was alright. Risk of Rain as well.

But I don't think those anons migrated over

>>15503528

If you need quadtrees then that's a sign of your inventory system being shit. Assuming your inventory system marks each occupied tile somehow (instead of just having items in some list), then quadtrees shouldn't give any benefit no matter what size the inventory is.

>>15503547

>Notch

>make a fun game

There's some from 4chan, for example Cavern Kings and Deadbolt. I'm sure there's plenty more but I don't go there anymore.

>>15503389

It's like using a jackhammer to drill a hole in the wall; it technically works, but it's using considerably too much power.

You just clamp the tile you're currently over, give every item an array of offsets they cover, and check all of those to see if they're occupied.

>>15503528

That's computationally more expensive while providing no benefit. Quadtrees are to get subsets to perform checks against "every other thing" less.

>>15503547

I had fun with Shinobudev's wedding.

Look at this loser:

http://boards.4chan.org/ic/thread/3615133

>>15503607

>>15503602

Yeah but the same concept applies, doesn't it? Like instead of an inventory, if you had a 256x256 map in an RTS game and a unit occupied a 2x2 tile region or something. Does it not just filter down into checking individual 1x1 areas anyways?

>>15503613

I'm not sure what benefit you're looking for. For tile based systems you can just check the tiles directly for most things, that's very fast and simple operation compared to managing a quadtree or similar system and searching through it.

>>15503613

>Does it not just filter down into checking individual 1x1 areas anyways?

Only in the worst case, which means you shouldn't have used quadtrees for that particular problem.

But really, just use arrays for this particular problem. You have a small grid, boolean checks at O(1), you're not going to be able to speed that up.

>>15503165

well it does take a lot of inspiration from age of mythology maybe i could combine total war and aom somehow

war of mythology

total mythology

mythology war

age of total war

i do have to worry about copyright/trademarks though

if not i would just go with mythology total war.

>>15504018

Age of Total Mythology Wars (now on Apple Store for mobile)

>>15502899

Giant bones of an ancient beast.

>>15504093

Grand Theft of Mythology Wars V

>>15504033

I better be able to squeeze those and make a HONK noise.

>>15504013

Thanks for the information.

>>15504198

Sorry to disappoint, this is not a porn game

>>15504246

Nothing pornographic about honking some funbags.

>>15504290

>should let everything below the knee shrink with the tights or not

It should be a gradient, so to speak. The further from the ass the the smaller the effect of the slider At the level of feet and ankles the effect should be 0 because these parts don't accumulate noticeable fat unless planet size is approached.

blogpost

24 hours without electricity and the surge fried the furnace and 3 protector outlets when it turned back on. fuck my life

>>15503329

>I'm using raycasts

what engine are you using? how do display the gui elements?

because >>15503438 this is true

as I wrote previously, simply use arrays.

In the case in you screenshot you are using what I'm assuming a 10x6 grid. That's an array of 60 objects (whatever you prefer, be it bool, an int representing the item instance or a direct reference to the gameobject).

Your cursor is currently hovering over grid 3x2. In the array that's 3+10*y-1(accounting for array starting at 0), which gives us position 12.

Your item size is 4x3.

This means you only need to check grids between 12 and 15, 22 and 25, 32 and 35. A simple for loop will do that for you. 12 iterations, not too taxing on the processor.

For performance reasons it would be preferable if this triggered only when entering the bounds of a grid and not continuously. In Unity I use its grid layout group component and have Pointer Enter event triggers set up for each cell within the grid that runs the script that checks for availability.

>>15503547

review demo day entries. loads of fun to be found there.

>>15504346

Thanks for such detailed posts. I'm working with Unity.

Currently I'm using a 2d array for storing info about items in the inventory, is 1d array, like you described, much better?

>>15504290

>tfw someone does something you where trying to to better than you could do it, and they are just slapping it on as another feature

>>15504033

What does the "Very Important" slider do?

>>15504542

2D array is almost (but not quite, depending on the language) the same thing under the hood, just with automatic access of element [x + y * width]. Technically it is a tiny bit slower in Unity, but for that to be noticeable you have to be using some pretty massive arrays and using them a lot of times per frame. Only optimize when needed, unless your solution is noticeably bad. Which I'd say using raycasts for a menu kinda is

>>15504655

>Only a little slower

Actually this is something I've done a fair bit with my own engine. Every array I use is never exposed as a property, since that forces every read/write/compare function to suddenly gain the overhead of a method call.

I also use mutable structs with references here and there, too :^)

>>15503602

deadbolt guy has a thread here

>>15504655

>Which I'd say using raycasts for a menu kinda is

Not with RTX™!!

>>15501946

Thanks anon, here's my share:

https://www.filemail.com/d/tskxnepwdgwlljx

>>15502352

He's joking anon. The "you can't see over 24 fps" meme came from a response to people criticizing a low frame rate in a videogamrme.

>>15501859

Git gud

>>15501946

Anon I thank your generosity but could you please use anything other than mega? They have max daily DL quotas.

>>15506080

Wanna point me towards a better service? I've used mega for a while and never hit any download caps.

>>15506102

Isn't Vola good?

>>15506308

No, I am legitimately recommending Volafile because I've seen it used in share threads and have never had an issue with it

>>15506315

Sure, I'll leave a zip of the books on there tomorrow and post a link if you want me to.

>>15506102

try https://www.filemail.com, it's good for threads like these as there's a limit and it can host up to >10gb files

You can also torrent from it

>>15506102

Had no problem's with the other anon's filemail.com

Is there any paper/project which describes a game in a generic way by defining rules and the engine making sense of them?

something like:

- you can attack or do nothing if it's your turn

- you can only attack if you have a weapon

- if you're stunned you can't attack

- …

and the engine automatically converting them to the appropriate code.

I'm trying to translate ttrpg mechanics which has tons of states, flags and special cases it's really painful to code to begin with only to find that there are more extra rules which affects multiple states and you need to readjust everything.

I think callbacks may be the answer for it, so far I'm using a set of enums for possible actions which is filtered by a lot of functions, but then I've found out that I need to pass a lot of arguments and deal with exception cases it became confusing.

>>15508153

I had the same issue as you and you don't actually need to use state machines. Some anon here early suggested to use the remainder to evaluate turns, so:

if (round%2==1)

playerTurn();

else

enemyTurn();

>>15508153

There are libraries that make state machines easy to define, it sounds like that could be the direction youre interested in going?

>>15508274

Be sure to increment the round/turn when you're done.

>>15508274

It's not about choosing turns, it's about the whole set of rules, you can have rules like "if you use this technique you can only move up to half your maximum movement and your skill is capped at X after applying all the modifiers, but only if you have Y and don't have Z", and the worst of all is that I need to make an AI for it.

>>15508301

I find state machines confusing the way they code them, specifically transition, I'm also looking into event systems.

>>15508478

I'd be interested to hear whatever solution you settle on

>>15509703

very nice

>>15509852

very spooky

>>15506315

Here's the books.

https://volafile.org/r/p3v2uyem

>unity collab loses link to project ID and i can't upload without one

>can't change it unless i make a new one

>redownload project

>lightmaps are gone/fucked

wow

I'm starting to realize that if you have a very old system, it's easier to rewrite it from scratch than try to refactor it.

>>15508478

I searched for ”computer rule system” and got a bunch of relevant results. Here are some free keywords for you to research:

>rule-based system

>logic programming

>expert system

>prolog

>lisp

>>15504246

You make me sad anon

>>15512243

Those are not particularly helpful

>>15512355

I'm down for pure marriage,you have my hopes for your game skyrocketed again

>>15511986

wat music

>>15512644

I thought elves were supposed to be healers, you'd think they would cure that bitch's scoliosis

>>15512807

>rigging

>not in t-pose

nigger what are you doing

>>15512840

that's how the reference from google images was.

>>15511128

Thanks anon.

>>15512826

Torso is fine, lower back is broken.

>>15512243

Most of the articles are really confusing, they're either about math related logic or functional programming, the event system also proved to be annoying, you need to know what kind of variables do you need and a way to sort things based on priority, designing your functions only to find that "rule XX: your attack is capped if Y event happens" will now have you passing an extra variable to define the cap.

I moved to metaprogramming, instead of defining the function before hand and having to deal with it becoming a gigantic function, I can just do something like "add this check to X function with a priority of Y" from anywhere and the function will be updated without looking into it, so far it looks like the best way and it will be the fastest.

>>15502062

Where can I follow development anon and what's the name of the game?

>>15513444

>>>/agdg/30078

He is very active in there, he should answer questions if you have any

Should I make a cookie clicker but about white genocide???

>>15513611

shekel clicker kind of already exists

>>15513642

There hasn't been any new update to this mod for ages.

>>15513655

it's an idle game, you can't exactly innovate, as far as i can tell it looks complete

>>15513717

> as far as i can tell it looks complete

Nyet tovarish, there is a lot of strings and description that are missing replacements and not all sprites got replaced.

>>15513464

I just want to keep track of the game and download it when it comes out instead of forgetting about it. Looks like immense fun.

>>15513905

Or hunt down anon, whichever.

>>15513914

if you want to be spoonfed updates:

https://www.patreon.com/sgthale

if you want to meet shinobu in very early stages:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/20627261

>>15512644

Do you have a twitter or something i can follow you on? waifu anon?

>>15514172

>Splats are only visible if not occupied by an item (or at least centered on the "group" and looks just fine)

>Plenty of room to see the background color

>Yellow, which indicates swap, or red which is invalid

See, even PoE fucked this up

>>15514186

Sorry, this is a compliment if it wasn't clear, it looks great

>>15514172

hell yeah, my dude! Great job. now I'm anxious you might have less bloat than me thanks for playing the demo, btw. if you have any thoughts you'd like to share, please give 'em to me

>>15514181

https://fablesoflaetus.com/

>>>/agdg/30488

>>15514181

After GG pratically died my twitter has been just for retweeting lewds, shitposting and degeneracy

like anon said >>15514206 this is where you find more updates, i make a report every friday on that devblog.

>>15512710

my brother's original OST

>>15514253

He should make some dungeon synth

>>15514253

I can hear DF influences. Really comfy.

Maybe he should reduce the effects on the bass a little.

>>15514266

I'm sure he'll love this album but he's 100% a guitar guy so he likely wouldn't be able to emulate the style. Even embedded ambient track is guitar + effects up the ass.

I got the guy that made the Ludum Dare waifu shooter music to have a go at making a 10 minute demo for Beelze, I'm pretty excited to hear his interpretation of this theme and Uelmen's style. He's had education in music and does mostly electronica so I imagine he'll make something a bit closer to this. We will see if it fits. My bro's sound is organic/analog, that's for sure.

>>15514295

>Maybe he should reduce the effects on the bass a little.

I kinda fiddled with equalizer before putting this in the game and uploading it on soundcloud, might be my fault. His method of making music is kind of erratic as well. not to mention he rarely actually sits his ass down to make music anymore which is a damn shame

>DF influences

I'm shy to admit it but unless you actually meant David Gilmour, I can't decipher the DF initials.

>>15514353

Well your brother has talent that's for sure.

>>15514186

I'm glad it's clear and readable, I'll try to keep it that way later on when I get proper art for menus.

>>15514206

Again, thank you and other anons for help with this. I'm not sure about the bloat, because there are still some unnecessary actions being performed during coloring of the cells that I still need to figure out.

I already wrote my thought in demo day threads. Will we get to see the surface during next demoday?

Though there's one thing I discovered just now. For some reason I can't take screenshots nor record anything from Beelzebox. I checked some other demo made in Unity to see if this is because of the engine or not, and everything was fine. I also checked if this problem occurs on other computers and it does.

Though it's interesting how this manifests on different computers. On the first one, when I try to take the screenshot it results in a plane black image. But on other computer I tried, the screenshot was made, but it captured the desktop as if the game was minimized, even though the game was in full screen. Pretty weird.

>>15514820

>Github now owned by Microsoft

>Godot drank the koolaid and adopted the Creator Covenant

>>15514253

This is really noisy. Low-pass that before you include it in the game.

>>15514353

This has a bunch of noise in it too, but nowhere near as bad.

>>15514840

Don't ruin anon's successes.

>>15514915

poltards are so retarded they make everything about their conspiracy theory, is better to ignore them.

>>15514353

DF = Dwarf Fortress, I'd assume.

>>15514840

Godot didn't accept the CoCk, but they did rename master/slave to master/puppet.

>>15514991

Its not a conspiracy that your a stupid nigger

>>15514991

Everyone knows it but it's better not to say it

>>15515021

Which is ironic because being a puppet is worse than being a slave. At least a slave is forced. A puppet is either mindless or cowardly.

>>15515154

You need the title theme playing in the background

>>15515154

>Video can't be played because the file is corrupt

Thumbnail looks interesting

>>15515308

>All three of them are shaking their hips in tune

This amuses me so, it would be even better if it was in time with the music.

Looking for criticism on my current linear interpolation approach

The only valid positions for characters are on one of the tiles, but of course I want to show an animation in which they move from one tile to the next. I'm trying to figure out, among other things, what systems should apply while characters and moving, and what tile they should be considered to be on.

current imagined approach:

>make "moving" component which defines start and ending position, as well as the duration of the move. additionally contains a time counter that i'll be adding the delta time to

>make linear interpolation system which which act on entities with moving components

>every call, add delta time to the time counter of the entity's moving component, and set render position to: timecounter / duration * (xf - xi) + xi

>I'm currently keeping track of my entities' positions (for stuff like determining what's adjacent, or on a given square) with an array of vector pointers, so when I get to the halfway point, add to the vector associated with the destination square, and remove from initial square element.

Does this sound okay?

>>15515528

I thought of using something close to that exact system myself. You're doing some sort of pseudo real-time tile-based project?

>>15515528

>>15515538

I'm doing the same approach in my puzzle game. Each actor can only move to an unoccupied, non-solid tile. When an actor wants to move to a tile, it flags the target, and sets a timer. The draw code interpolates the source/target tiles, but after it reaches halfway, it releases the previous tile occupancy and after it elapses, it can then take another action. This looks as though it is actually moving, but it's very static

>>15515538

>>15515573

what if input is received while it's interpolating? ignore? change destination and duration according to desired action?

>>15515772

Thats one of my games invariants. It will only check events on that object if it is idle. Eg it finishes moving onto a water tile, only then will it sink and disappear. The only exception is if an explosion or laser object removes it mid transit

>>15511791

there's zips inside the zip I'm sorry

>>15515953

>Rival has two stated motivations, each with no clear connection to her action.

>Rival vanishes after the start of the first act.

>Whole first act is going to the next town over and learning something from an old man.

>Goal is to save the town, but most of the story takes place elsewhere.

Would skip every cutscene if the gameplay is worthwhile.

>C# doesn't support generic operators, eg you can'd add or subtract two values of T

>There isn't a generic constraint that allows it either

>At best you can compile a generic function using LINQ expressions which is like 3 layers of abstraction more than it needs to be

Christ

>spend a whole day trying to solve a problem, literally got a headache because of it

>fuck it, slept for 3 hours

>change few lines

>everything works

I'm both mad and amused

>>15512846

Were you born retarded or did you eat paint chips as a kid? If the image was with the arms down then it's not hard to download gimp and rotate the arms in the image so you can adapt it to a t-pose. Apply yourself, nigger

>>15516257

i don't want to post what iv'e been working on but digging thew my past stuff is full of cringe…

back to topic are you working from reference? you really go to work from reference. and if you can just make a nice hand model to copy pasta for all your shit. and i mean a nice hand model like open a project and just do it but again make it to the 8 standard for the wrist and go for 6 or 8 sided fingers i would suggest 8, fully jointed fingers, don't do nails you paint those on…

its a common learning tutorial and if you do it right you get to have a nice hand to make the rest of you life easier. just copy paste scale rotate and make feminine or stubbier for the character not that any of that changes the topology.

>>15516384

this guy?

>>15516342

no offense but you need reference images for your reference images

>>15515308

This looks so fucking dumb that it looks funny now and I can't hate you anymore because you made me laugh.

>>15516632

Shoulda used cryengine.

>>15502955

It's not like Bayes was even around for the industrial revolution, anon, nor did the taming of the wolf and the complete rewriting of Australia's ecosystem (thanks Abbos) take place anywhere near the dawn of our modern world.

>>15515592

>3 "new"s in the loop

>begins the loop with s = stack(q)

>ends with q = stack(s)

I'm not very familiar with C# but does that code that even work? It looks like it's just popping from a stack and pushing it back until the counter runs out

>>15517090

>q = queue(s) rather

>>15516632

It's a pia, but can't get around it atm w/o buying an asset, creating your own, or changing your workflow dramatically as to get around an issue that shouldn't be there in the first place.

On the bright side it's slotted as an "experimental" release in the 2018.3 roadmap:

https://unity3d.com/unity/roadmap

That and nested prefabs finally

>decide to rewrite my momentum/collision code to be better

>world is good ol' minecraft AABB environment

>old code uses boxes for entities, and uses collision tests, moves per-axis to keep it simple & robust

>new code uses cylinders for entities, and uses collision sweeps with a bit of margin, moves per-axis to keep it simple & robust

>only problem: moving towards a corner will make your entity get stuck into it, rather than "sliding" off

>write code that detects the normal of a corner collision, calculates the surface direction the entity deflects towards and simply rotate its momentum towards that

>works nice, but now players can't stop their entity by slamming their face exactly into the corner (where normal is opposite of momentum)

>ez solution: just scale the new momentum with the angle between the old momentum and surface

>write some code for it, works for most cases

>there's one edge case where it gets stuck

>do some debugging

>because I'm doing collision per-axis, the entity ends up resonating between going along the surface in one or the other direction per-frame because every tick the acceleration modifies the momentum to go the other way

>only way to seemingly fix this is by making acceleration code per-axis and doing it in-between per-axis collision sweeps

fuck

Is it me, or is gameplay code always doomed to be a fucking trainwreck, holy shit.

>>15517130

>have code

>it just werks

>happily coding for a long time

>oh shit I need to change something about that code

>tweak it a bit

>everything breaks

>spend 7 years debugging and adjusting it

>it gets worse every day

>just like my life

>fall into depression

>only work on the code for couple hours every few days

>start drinking

>i hope my liver disintegrates soon, killing me in the process

>haven't developed in 4 months

>look at code again

>get PTSD and anxiety attack

>weep in bed for 2 hours while eating tendies

Game dev was a mistake

>>15517028

Settings→wrench, advanced settings→speedometer.

>>15517372

It's even funnier when you put a scripting language in your game that needs to be compiled, but there are exploits that allow you to easily break outside of the sandbox.

For example, in Warcraft 3's JASS, there were two fun bugs.

The first one is the return bug. In older versions of the game, only the last return in a function actually had it's type checked. So by simply doing:

function H2I takes handle h returns integer
    return h
    return 0
endfunction

There were apparently also a bunch of JASS functions in Warcraft 3 that allow you to preload files into the game. (Useful if you have custom assets like models & textures!) Turns out that some of these functions also allow you to generate preload scripts to make it easier to preload data. Turns out you can put any text you want into these preload scripts, choose any filename for them, and put them anywhere within the file system. (Warcraft 3 already runs as admin anyway, so nothing is stopping you.) Combine that with .bat files in the autorun-on-startup folder and you have yourself a great time.

>>15517600

>How many programs do you think are secretly using your machine for all kinds of additional purposes

most of them, at least the ones made by jews or asians

>>15517620

>what os

Windows 7, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't get much better in other operating systems.

>>15517714

One thing mobile did right was require the application to ask permission for different actions when you install it. So if it wants the permission to read my contact details, I can press cancel and never touch that shit program again. That said I haven't installed a mobile app in years so maybe I remember wrong

>>15517620

>1 hour ago

ONE HOUR AGO WHEN

I hate this shit.

>>15517714

>Firejail is the way to go if you want userspace sandboxing on Linux.

No, permissions are. Just make a _firefox user and replace your firefox shortcut with a "sudo -u _firefox firefox" shortcut. You don't need to resort to badly reinvented octagon shaped wheels just because you didn't bother learning about the old round ones.

>>15517743

when burgers stop using retarded time i will stop using relative time

>>15517734

It's mostly just because they were made in a different era. Most OS security was made with the assumption that you'd only run programs on your machine that you trust, and that a particular program might need to access other program data. When mobile OSes came, it became clear that programs should be treated as untrustworthy by default, and the principle of least privilege was solidified as an ideal concept in security even below the user level.

Mostly, it's just that mobile OSes are effectively still single-user OSes, but still need to provide some security guarantees in an environment with untrustworthy programs.

>>15517745

Yeah, that works, but then you have to give your user account passwordless sudo privileges or type in your password every time you want to launch a sandboxed program. You still have the issues that programs can read everything that is world-readable in /etc and /tmp (which is way too many fucking things. Seriously, create a simple limited user and fuck around in the account, seeing exactly how much information you can just pull with your permissions), and god help you if you've left any sensitive directories world-readable (like most systems do for home directories for some reason).

This also gets inconvenient when you have to create a new user for every single program that you want to use. If you have a multi-user machine (which is more rare these days, but still a concern for some), it involves every user having sudo privileges so they can switch users.

User accounts are a good tool, but they are not sandboxes, and if what you want to achieve is to sandbox a program, trying to use plain user accounts might incidentally work at best, and might fuck you over with a false sense of security at worst. The point of a sandbox is to limit what a program can see beyond the limits of ordinary discretionary access control. It's whitelist-based security, which is far safer than blacklist-based. It also allows network whitelisting and blacklisting, so you can prevent applications from accessing the network, which is significantly harder to achieve with basic user accounts, so even if a nefarious program manages to access information you don't want it to get, at least you can keep it from phoning home.

It's not resorting to a "badly reinvented ocagon shaped wheel" because they achieve different goals with some overlapping concepts. These analogies never work for OS concepts.

>>15517372

Now read about windows hooks and dll injection

>>15517782

The timestamp element has unixtime and datetime. You can really easily use this with a userscript (or "User JS" in the options here) to format it however you like, but that might not work right for auto-updating unless you can insert a post-update hook in there somewhere. It's been a while since I looked at the Infinity source code, and I'm not a webdev by trade, or I'd give you a more concrete example.

For some reason, Vulkan was trying to get into my steam directory. Steam adds an implicit layer into the windows registry so that it can draw it's overlay on top of Vulkan programs. However it raises errors in the validation layer. I fixed it like this:

#ifdef __SIGMA2_WINDOWS
	(void)SetEnvironmentVariable("DISABLE_VK_LAYER_VALVE_steam_overlay_1","1");
#endif

>>15517372

You can check what your programs are doing by using procmon.

>>15515528

I'd go with RPG Maker's approach.

Once you move, you logically move instantly, and occupies the tile instantly, trigger events, etc

But visually you will still have to interpolate the position. the smooth moving from Tile [1,20] to Tile[1, 21] only happens visually, logically it happened instantly.

for those of you making tile-based games, how do you handle the storage of map data?

I feel like I'd need to make my own map editor, and then design some kind of file format to store the data if I wanted to design my levels. I'd really rather not, though.

I could also do it procedurally. Map generation is an interesting problem, I guess.

>>15517967

I'll hold your hand 4u.

https://doc.mapeditor.org/en/stable/manual/export/

Making an editor isn't difficult if you ignore widget libraries and just do a basic bitch old school approach like ohrrpgce.

>>15517967

If you don't want to make your own editor, you use Tiled. If you're not lazy, you make your own. Full procedural is never the answer, only partial procedural and then you still need an editor to make the parts used in the randomizer.

>>15517130

>>15517168

>realtime programming + performance constraints + complicated graphical elements

Gamedev is probably the hardest type of programing there is.

>>15518286

Only if you're also making the engine.

>>15518360

Keep the front.

>>15518360

Remove it, and model a collarbone instead.

>>15514353

DF=Dwarf Fortress

DF has nice background music that at first sounds very chaotic, but there is a method to the madness. You can't quite put a finger on it though.

Download the game from their website, it's free and the music I mentioned is played in the main menu. It requires lots of autism dedication to get into the actual game, so don't waste your time on it when you have a game to develop yourself.

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

>>15518458

I am not sure how big DNA is, but probably, it will, however, just be a jumbled mess or crash 7zip

>>15518337

even if they are not you still have to understand the way the engine works on a pretty deep technical level wich works with a lot of the same constraints

and you still have to do realtime programming and use to engine properly to get decent performance out of it it doesn't really mitigate the complexity that much

I swear nothing can prepare you for the mind bending mess that is realtime programming

>>15518754

You don't know what real time means

>>15518482

>I am not sure how big DNA is

Around 3 Gbp or 3000000000 base pairs long.

>it will, however, just be a jumbled mess

kinda

>or crash 7zip

Probably. I've downloaded genetic sequencing data and it was around 22 Gb.

>>15518970

thanks, now rigging and making the shape keys for this cape will be either a piece of cake or a fucking nightmare

>>15518970

This usually happens to me when there's multiple objects with keyframes and I still never deleted the starting frame.

I may be trying to set one thing's position and then when I try to render a still image it has reverted because there was a keyframe hiding somewhere.

>>15519049

I've only made a single keyframe. How would I delete the starting frame or what is the starting frame? I only have the single object/mesh and a few lights in the scene.

>>15519071

I usually select all and check if any keyframes appear.

Another thing to check is if you've moved anywhere beyond start in the timeline, if I remember correctly if you move anywhere beyond start and try to change things, it will revert to what the start is because that's the default location/rotation/scale/etc

>>15519210

Well then if you saved before posing, I'd suggest just reloading the save.

You did mean that when you try to pose the bone it reverts to it's default position, right? Can you record it happening?

>>15518916

I know what i meant when i said it but if you think I'm using the term wrong why don't you tell me why

>>15519709

That's a lot different than what I thought was happening.

On the toolbar above the timeline where it shows you're in pose mode, do you have "manipulate centerpoints" enabled? Just try clicking that to enable/disable and see if it fixes it.

>>15519771

I'm pretty sure that button was disabled but clicking it on and off doesn't have any effect. same outcome. I've spent about 5 hours today trying to search for an answer to this problem. I intend on using this piece of shit in Unity. Should I just try to animate it in there? I was having a lot of fun making this and rigging it until today.

>>15519796

Just judging from the video it looks disabled already.

Searching for solutions, have you checked the amature properties to see if duplication frames is set to None? Select the amature, go to properties: object: duplication

>>15519966

Awesome dude, it's a problem I've not run into myself but now if I do I'll know what caused it too.

>>15519966

Them double pendulum boobs.

>>15520698

getting the framework for the beelzebox guy do do his gore system with beelzebuff.

>>15501787

I like it

please fix those water splash effects

also the music is fitting

>>15520790

what's wrong with the water?

>>15519742

Real time is divided into soft and hard categories.

A hard real-time system requires proven upper bounds on termination.

Soft real-time is what dsp programming is classified.

Using the term is evocative of such systems.

I have a hard time believing a video game is harder to code than say an MRI controller or the systems used in aerospace engineering.

It's common for programmers to assume video games are the hardest discipline when they've only been exposed to corporate visual basic database interface applications.

>>15521728

there are a lot of lame answers but the less immediate fun one would be to generate a kinematic structure for your arms, keyframing for about-to-punch state (lo, hi, mid) and then using inverse kinematics to automagically generate a reasonable animation for punching at the place where your mouse is pointing. Shrink that hurtbox and segment it with differing damage potentials, slow down attacks a little, and make it so people have to aim, think about where to hit, and time their shit well, and you're good for a "weaker" (more intuitive, complex) combat system better than most AAA titles

el cheapo fixes:

>slow down unarmed combat on both sides and record current animation state arbitrarily, if you're animating and they're animating you clash and whoever started second gets to deliver their attack with a simple 'counter' animation- this is more interactive than what you have already, but works best if you include a strong attack variant that has long windup but can't be countered and a fast attack variant that doesn't counter and does little damage but has a faster animation for mixups + rock-paper-scissors gameplay

>arbitrarily limit stun rate or move it to an accumulator that gains based on enemy's resistance, your strength differences, or some other arbitrary characteristic

>>15521728

Make continually punching lower stamina which causes your speed of attack to lower. Make it lower in a non linear way that favors punching a few times and then moving back for a little bit before doing it again.

>>15521731

true there are harder things

allthough considering more than 90% of all programming is webdev or a phone apps it's one of the hardest

also the difficulty of gamedev varies alot depending on what kind of game is being made

>>15514266

>Old Sorcery

My nigger!

>>15522358

>>15521864

i ended up just making it so you always get hit, but only play the stun animation depending on random chance which increases with your damage

basically unarmed is an unreliable last resort

>>15521731

>MRI controller or the systems used in aerospace engineering.

It boils down to the complexity you're going for, if you're going for rocket science then it is rocket science. This also applies to graphical fidelity.

I've got an original kinect and I'd like to use it for mocap, any recommendations on software?

>>15518908

Cute. The cape with front fits her better than the one without.

>>15522809

>unreliable last restort

Will weapons be destructible and scarce or something? Because otherwise why would anybody use unarmed combat at all?

>>15523732

If you can, try to recreate the movement and see what your legs do. Video tape it, and watch it frame by frame. Other than that, have them sort of swing in a way that follows the movement and makes the shimmy easier for him.

>>15523732

Most of the force of 'lifting your arm and moving it' is coming from your upper gut.

When you have a wall, you tend to push against it which gives you a bit of an advantage and looks reasonably close to what you animated.

When you don't have a wall, you tend to do mini-crunches where your pelvis pulls up and forward a bit, legs with it, and then you swing back as your hands touch surface and relax; you'll also see a little lateral motion from tensing and relaxing obliques.

When you do have a wall, try making the motion a bit asymmetric and involve a slower slide period and a brief jump period; you can also make the animation more alive by working in a little bit of up-and-down as his feet slide against the surface and he pulls up.

>>15521731

>>15522362

>>15523117

Except in the military (and presumably the medical world as well, considering the ridiculous cost of that equipment) "just slap a faster CPU in it lol" is pretty much everyone's life motto. Not to say it's easy to program that stuff, especially if it's literally rocket science, but please don't delude yourself into thinking those programmers spend a ton of time optimizing their code.

>>15523807

The point of real time isn't whether it's faster or slower. It's that you can guarantee the amount of time something will take, every time, with no exceptions. Any kind of software that could kill someone if it went wrong also isn't about speed, but rather its about correctness because if you got something wrong a person could die. Speed is not the biggest deal in these systems but rather another set of garuntees that you have to make which are challenging in their own special way.

When you have more requirements you have more challenges. Game engines in general have a lot of things to do, but with less/different requirements that are easier to fulfill. If you had to prove that your game engine would never drop below 60fps, EVER, while being perfectly correct, then it would be more difficult. So it's really a different kind of optimization, game developers like to optimize for "most of the time" while a real-time system has to optimize for a better "worst-case" scenario.

>>15524315

Is this Doom 3?

>>15524459

SCARY

I want to steal FF12's gambit system for one of my games. What's the easiest way to implement this? It feels like some kind of expression evaluation is happening

>>15524459

How hasn't this game's community completely evaporated by now? Is there even still a significant modding scene for it?

>>15524481

What is so scary? he just wants a big hug

>So what are any good reference pictures for character models?

Character reference sheets.

>Is there any good ones to use for males/females?

The ones that look the closest to what you want your characters to look like.

>I assume the workflow is to make a generic male/female model and tweak the model for any other character.

The workflow is to make something that kinda sorta resembles the character reference sheet you came up with during the character design phase that you probably didn't do.

>>15524791

UUUU, enjoy.

>>15524816

>>15509703

Thanks anon. Looks great.

>>15524676

gambit(condition,action)

>>15524044

There are tons on google. What you mainly want are topology references, and then anatomy references of people who have the same general build as your character. Having correct topology makes it easier to make things look anatomically correct, as well as for deformations during animation, so it's pretty important.

You don't have to go the basemesh route, but it's nice later on if you decide you need different body shapes.

>>15525694

Why make a normalfag friendly dungeon? If they want to beat it then they need to be more dedicated, increase the difficulty.

>>15525714

yea, what i'm asking if it actually is normalfag friendly

i've heard about people getting lost in even simpler geometry

>>15525694

I think your path is pretty solid. No matter which hallway I choose if I just walk straight through it I'll reach the end point.

Landmarks matter. Noticeable, recognizable areas where the player can quickly point out and say "i've been here before". Decorations and clutter that nudges the player in the right direction. All the shit people talk about Skyrim it actually did have some dungeons that were winding and slightly confusing but good object placement made them all seem like a straight line. They tend to love putting wheelbarrows facing a specific direction at every fucking intersection.

>>15525720

you should purposefully fuck with the player like what antichamber does, and have their location change based on where they're looking in certain parts of the map, so when they turn around it teleports them somewhere else seamlessly

>>15525694

unless there are windows or another way to see where exactly you are then it will be too frustrating for a first dungeon. keep in mind that your games will always unintentionally frustrate your player, so there is no need to do it yourself instead keep your presentation clean concentrate on your core mechanics and themes

>>15525694

>first dungeon

I wouldn't do labyrinth theme in the very first dungeon, a dungeon where you get lost only to come back to the start without gaining anything is something for mid game. The first dungeon should have a simple layout and secretly teach basic dungeon mechanics to the player without overwhelming him, and every next dungeon you add a special mechanic related to that dungeon so that the player always has the mechanics he's already familiar with plus something new and mysterious.

For example, your labyrinth dungeon could have a mirror theme with mirror teleport mechanics, so the player will accept a confusing layout because confusion and disorder is the theme of the dungeon. If you confuse your player without a "reason", they'll just get frustrated a lot more.

well i definitely got lost the first few times

i'm thinking once i add some spiders and decorations it will be slightly easier to remember where you've been

what can i possibly add here other than spiderwebs and corpses, assuming that the cave is natural?

>>15526022

Has it been explored by humans at all before you showed up? Torches, mining equipment, barrels, buckets, benches, WHEELBARROWS, wall drawings, chains, gates. Sky is the fucking limit here.

if you're the first human thing to ever enter the cave then different rock and stalagmite formations go a long way. Creating light shafts near intersections can guide the player while seeming natural, patches of fungus/flora, water puddles/streams. If you're going heavy on spiders then the cobwebs thickening as you go deeper easily implies you're heading into the nest/heart/center of the cave. Burrow holes in the walls too small for the player to fit. Also how are the spiders sustaining themselves, where is their main source of food coming from? Spiders aren't going to just hole up in the ground because creepy fiction dictates it.

>>15526246

I thought you were designing a candle-headed character? Is this one some kind of will-o-wisp?

Environment changes look good, though I agree with other anons from last thread that you might need to change the flat-color floor to have some kind of texture.

>>15525694

if you want it easier just make it 2d, alot of normalfags cant think past a 2d euclidean map. even in high school a lot of my classmates didn't ever use anything but the main stair to get from the top level to the bottom, even if their next class was way fucking closer if they used a different one. so yea i think that it will piss normalfags off.

>>15525694

Make sure that always turning right will make them go back to the start. Put a triggers that call the player stupid if they do that 3 times in a row.

>>15526022

specific ore veins, peculiar looking stalagtites/stalagmites. Big unique rocks in the middle of a space. Tiny streams running from a crack and making a small pond.

>>15525694

Looks like the Cave from Diablo 2. If its small enough, it should be fine for a first dungeon.

>>15526022

Your landmarks will need to be shiny.

Not being able to look further than 3 meters in front of you is super disorienting, no wonder you got lost.

Make the level bright and you will be able to navigate it effortlessly.

Make some shiny bug thing that points where you can light fires with the torch, make them stay near the unlit torch and run away when you get too close to them.

>>15526246

looks much better with extra details, but the collective pine tree blob still bothers me

OK this is a bit of a weird post, since I've just seen an analysis video on FF15 that accidentally tells you what to avoid when designing a game.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=v8lvAq_yp_w No embed for youtube so I'm not accused of shilling for the guy.

In short, the issues he lays out for FF15 apply to many other games.

> Make sure your world makes sense. If it has a different logic to the real world- show it off. Avoid asset reuse as much as possible or the player is taken out of the experience. Even if your graphical style is cartoony and non-realistic, this still applies.

> Players have fun when they make lots of meaningful decisions. How to tackle a problem, how they execute the solution, etc. Don't hold the player's hand and do it for them, let them work shit out. If any moment of your game except the earliest parts can be done by someone who has never played a video game, you've fucked up. Likewise if the player can play the same way in the first moments as the last without increasing their skill or problem solving, you've fucked up.

In fact when he explains why healing is fundamentally different in action games to RPGs, he's accidentally explained why the FF7 remake has a real chance of bombing, and that it's going to be something with zero connections gameplay-wise to the original.

>>15528042

add to dev resources, on the game design section

LINK: http://8agdg.wikidot.com/resources#toc25

i'll watch it in a few. I love this type of stuff

>>15524687

they released the doom 3 engine code awhile back, the dark mod is built on it

>>15529164

If it's off by a pixel, it may be rounding error

>>15529182

No idea how you can fix that in Godot

>>15529186

Not too familiar with Godot but rounding the player position has helped me with similar issues.

>>15515592

Just use a variable to keep track of current index i.e. index=a%n; then read it off as for(I=index->n) print(arr[i%n]);

>>15529248

Or cons a circular list and read n elements from index d - n. But the real mystery is what the fuck is happening in that monstrosity of a reply.

>>15529248

You have the right idea. In C# specifically, modulo (actually the "remainder" function) is quite slow compared to other primitive op functions. You'd still write a pair of circular for loops to process it, though.

>>15529164

that looks like a vsync issue

>>15529206

fag

>>15529206

>Godette doesn't turn into a princess

way to miss the point of the super crown

>>15529928

sasuga gay community

>>15529942

>Started VR.

What head set are you using?

>>15529948

Vive.

>>15529942

cute

>>15530149

cool, which library are you using?

>>15530936

SDL2.

>>15530965

How do you like it?

>>15528372

Put under design in the videos section.

> A video analysis of Final Fantasy 15 that touches on several design aspects to consider and avoid. How to avoid making a world that is unbelievable or illogical, players needing lots of small important decisions on their own to stay engaged, and several other design elements specific to that game and games of its genre. A great showcase explaining what happens if you don't consider those factors. It also touches on FF15's troubled development, allegedly brought on by an ever-shifting design document before bosses put a different director in charge and demanded something out within that year.

>>15531101

It's okay. I'm already kinda familiar with SDL through Löve, which often feels like a Lua wrapper for SDL functionality. If I do port my main project I'll probably just use it for event and window stuff and do my own OpenGL rendering.

>>15531258