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>tfw you can download nightly builds of godot and live at the forefront of game engines

Where is the repository/gallery with all the AGDG logos?

>>15537091

>Not making your own engine, thus having secret unreleased tech

>>15537096

I just grabbed some from jewgle

GDC lecture about some old ladies making games for girls.

>>15537177

Anything actually interesting?

>>15537183

Just started, but it seems a bunch of old ladies that made games back in the 90's

>>15537163

Not complaining. Just asking anons here. I once saw a link that had a bunch.

>>15537218

You may be able to use blend shapes to get the feet in the right position and shape.

>>15537223

You can look in the wiki. There's a link in the OP.

>>15537261

Even if i use a shape key to put the feet in position the character height would still need to be changed, otherwise the tip of feet would go through the ground

>>15537290

Shape key to move the entire character up :^) .

Like you said doing it in animation seems like the most reasonable solution.

>>15537218

I'd model+rig the shoes with a pose and make sure all shoe-wearing animations with that character use that exact pose. The shoes will look weird in the default t-pose, but you probably won't ever have them visible in that pose anyway.

>>15537261

>You can look in the wiki. There's a link in the OP.

I've tried. I've gone through the entire Contents index. The closest I get for a supposed gallery is this link:

http://monobook.wikidot.com/doc:features

And that's it.

On an unrelated note, how do NDA's work? Does it require legalese or can you just state things simply and add a date and time? Also, for busy/successful sites and youtubers, should I add the key with the NDA (saying something like "usage of this key means acceptance of the terms") or wait until they accept?

>>15537389

To hold any weight they'd need to be written properly and agreed to/signed. There plenty of free templates available. Presumably you want them to talk about your game though, so why do you need an NDA?

>>15537477

To avoid content from coming out before a set date.

>>15537389

>>15537477

I'm sorry, the right term was embargo.

agdg, seems to be more active now

>>15537389

http://8agdg.wikidot.com/wiki:thread-template

>>15537389

An NDA is a contract. A contract lets you sue or otherwise get "legal remedies" if the other party breaches it. In this case breaching the contract is releasing information that falls under the umbrella set by the NDA before a set date. You don't need legalese but if you don't have it the lawyer on the other end is going to have an easy time arguing why you don't have grounds to sue. If you are forming a contract then you are going to want a lawyer.

That's my not-legal-advice section, here's my personal views. YouTubers and small fry reviewers don't have lawyers on retainer. So if you come across as a nice and polite person, have them sign a big scary NDA, and explain that you don't want information released before a certain date then they'll oblige. They don't want to be sued, which means their logical side tells them not to release it eairly, and you were nice, so they don't have an emotional gut response to screw you over.

But if you fuck up once and the other guy actually has a real lawyer read over the contract, then you are in trouble. The other lawyer will probably try to negotiate to get a better deal for his client, in which case you are negotiating with someone who's job it is to negotiate, has gone to school to get good at negotiating, and has years of experience negotiating with other experienced people who's job it is to negotiate.

>>15537672

>The other lawyer will probably try to negotiate to get a better deal for his client

What "deal" is there to be made? You're allowing them to review/access your content with a specific date that they can't disclose it. Is there more to it than that?

>>15537721

>Is there more to it than that?

From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement

-outlining the parties to the agreement;

-the definition of what is confidential, i.e. the information to be held confidential. Modern NDAs will typically include a laundry list of types of items which are covered, including unpublished patent applications, know-how, schema, financial information, verbal representations, customer lists, vendor lists, business practices/strategies, etc.;

-the disclosure period – information not disclosed during the disclosure period (e.g., one year after the date of the NDA) is not deemed confidential;

-the exclusions from what must be kept confidential. Typically, the restrictions on the disclosure or use of the confidential data will be invalid if

-the recipient had prior knowledge of the materials;

-the recipient gained subsequent knowledge of the materials from another source;

-the materials are generally available to the public; or

-the materials are subject to a subpoena – although many practitioners regard that fact as a category of permissible disclosure, not as a categorical exclusion from confidentiality (because court-ordered secrecy provisions may apply even in case of a subpoena). In any case, a subpoena would more likely than not override a contract of any sort;

-provisions restricting the transfer of data in violation of laws governing export control and national security;

-the term and conditions (in years) of the confidentiality, i.e. the time period of confidentiality;

-the term (in years) the agreement is binding;

-permission to obtain ex-parte injunctive relief;

-description of the actions need to be done with the confidential materials upon agreement ending;

-the obligations of the recipient regarding the confidential information, typically including some version of obligations:

-to use the information only for enumerated purposes;

-to disclose it only to persons with a need to know the information for those purposes;

-to use appropriate efforts (not less than reasonable efforts) to keep the information secure. Reasonable efforts is often defined as a standard of care relating to confidential information that is no less rigorous than that which the recipient uses to keep its own similar information secure; and

-to ensure that anyone to whom the information is disclosed further abides by obligations restricting use, restricting disclosure, and ensuring security at least as protective as the agreement; and

-types of permissible disclosure – such as those required by law or court order (many NDAs require the receiving party to give the disclosing party prompt notice of any efforts to obtain such disclosure, and possibly to cooperate with any attempt by the disclosing party to seek judicial protection for the relevant confidential information).

-the law and jurisdiction governing the parties. The parties may choose exclusive jurisdiction of a court of a country.

>>15537672

>>15537781

Guys I meant embargo, not NDA's. Sorry for the mistake. To reiterate:

>How do embargoes work? Does it require legalese or can you just state things simply and add a date and time? Also, for busy/successful sites and youtubers, should I add the key with the embargo terms (saying something like "usage of this key means acceptance of the terms") or wait until they accept?

>>15537672

>http://8agdg.wikidot.com/wiki:thread-template

Thank you, though I'm sure there's many more logos out there.

>>15538105

I still have no idea how to implement text wrap and I've been programming for over a decade.

I assume it's just a matter of getting the character length, dividing the string into word segments and measuring it appropriately

>>15538105

Why is the screen capped? Why is there some textwall on the left side, why is there an animu figure on the right. Is there character speech in that text? Is it info text? Can't speak Tacolanguage. How about you give us some information on what you're even doing because i am seriously confused here, i've never seen such odd layout.

>>15538203

the left text is just a text game, using maybe poetrhy (that's why is in spanish), some basic menu with options, like examinate or grab.

the center area is the map, works like a roguelike.

the right area is just cutscenes, dialogs, emotions, etc.

>>15538183

>Been programming for over a decade

>Doesn't know almost every language has a word processing library that supports some form of word wrapping

What language have you been programming in? Machine Code?

>>15538183

Apparently you do have an idea, because that's a fine solution

>>15538105

It is looking good, I like the 3D effect for the field that you've added.

>>15538105

Colombia?

Venezuela?

>>15538243

conguito parcero.

>>15538257

Jamundi (20 minutos de Cali).

>>15538218

Turing in highschool (2006), various Java/VB shit in college (2010), and C# post graduation (last 8-10 years). It's just something I've never had to implement myself.

>>15538271

is usefull, not all people use the same keys.

>>15538263

Oh, I'm from Casanare.

Do you make the art too? Looks good, What will be your game about? The 3D map reminds of Turn based games like Fire Emblem.

The trees at the bottom looks kind of weird though.

>>15538284

I want to make like a harvest moon roguelike somehow.

>>15538276

Rebinding is definitely an option, that's not what I meant. I specifically mean this:

>plug in multiple gamepads at the same time

>only really have use for one because it's a singleplayer game

>each gamepad can still support its own mapping

I'm not sure how much use something like that would get. I don't really see anyone switching between gamepads mid-game.

>>15538291

Not sure how that will work, but good luck fren.

>>15538295

>single player

then is not very much use for multiple controls.

>>15538304

is like the combat is basically farming.

>>15538082

From what I can find online, embargoes take the form of forums that you write your name and company name on. They are not legal documents and the most you can do against someone who breaks it is put them and their company on a blacklist and say you aren't going to send them any more games. It doesn't even usually last if the reviewer is a part of a big company. I don't know how exactly it works over email.

An embargo outlines when a reviewer can release and what forms of media the embargo exists on. Some print companies get to negotiate an earlier release by releasing an online version along side a print version because print deadlines are less flexible than online deadlines.

While a company like Ubisoft probably has their lawyers draw up the embargo forum you probably don't need a lawyer and you don't need legalese. Just make sure it's clear and make sure it covers what you want it to cover. While I don't know how it's done officially, I would say wait until they accept the terms before you send them the key.

>>15538086

There are, but that's the best list I know about.

>>15538183

To do it naively, it's not too bad, something like

Set up an output string buffer or some sort of output stream (out)
Define or take in as a parameter a max length (maxlen)
Keep track of the "current line length" (curlen)
For each word (word) in the input stream:
    if curlen == 0:
        Output word to out
        curlen += size(word)
    else:
        if curlen + 1 + size(word) > maxlen:
            Output "\n" to out
            Output word to out
            curlen = size(word)
        else:
            output " " to out
            output word to out
            curlen += size(word) + 1
return out if necessary

The difficulty is making it look good. For instance, if your max length is 80:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
incididunt ut

is correct, but

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing
elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut

looks better. This is not a simple problem to solve, especially when you have a lot of lines. It even gets more complex when you introduce the possibility of hyphenation (see http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/knuth-plass.html for knuth's or https://xxyxyz.org/line-breaking/ for more generic discussion).

>>15538218

It's not really that common. Only python has it in the standard library. A lot of languages don't have popular word wrapping libraries.

>>15538369

Doesn't C have a library with word wrapping?

>>15538295

It's not necessary if it's singleplayer, but is necessary for split screen (just same re-mapping functionality per gamepad).

Also just save the keys mapped to the particular controller type, and reload those settings when the player switches to that controller.

Dragon's dogma uses a system where it auto-switches based on which gamepad had a key last pressed, and saves/reloads the mapped keys.

>>15538082

Humm doing anything like that is sort of "pushing it" in terms of the unspoken agreement one has between a YTer and an indie developer.

Though, if you're AAA, AA, or a hugely popular indie dev like Hopoo or notch then nvmd; this only really applies to indies w/o the huge rep.

The YTer has the power in negotiations.

Most likely, they can ignore it, and no harm is done to them; the inverse it likely for you.

In essence, any semi-popular game YTer is offered a lot of games to review, and are doing you a favor.

Saying; "i have this list of demands to play my game, and you have to read all of this shit, possibly get a lawyer, and then I'll try to remember to send you a key."

As opposites to, "delete email, what a pompous ass, done".

You need to sell them the experience of playing your game. Give them reasons as to why they'd want to play your game over the sea of other games, and why it's worth their time; without wasting their time explaining the above.

Man I fucking hate using Unity. I've been planning on switching to libgdx but I wasn't sure if it would be worth it. whats everyone else' experience with it?

>>15538528

>Man I fucking hate using Unity

Why is that?

Also if you list of reasons why you do and don't like it, then maybe anons can provide alternatives that match your preferences more.

>>15538528

I enjoyed libgdx, it's the first thing I picked up when I decided to start game programming. I wanted to do some shader stuff and it used some megashader by default I think, so I implemented my own spriting system and then down the rabbit hole I went, a couple years now and still no game. That said it's a great option and it's absolutely one that I would go back to, sorry I don't have better specifics to list for you.

>>15538939

That actually looks pretty good. Two things come to mind: the cape is hovering above him instead of resting on his shoulders and the face looks like a mask worn on top of a grey skull.

>>15538391

Not one that I'm aware of. Most places I see just reimplement it themselves, because it's fairly easy enough. If you have a mutable string, you can even do it in-place.

>>15538939

Looking at the sprite index data, I see a lot of partially transparent colors. If it works for you, do it, but it is something I personally try to avoid like the plague in my own work. I either use fully transparent or none at all (when indexed). Right now you're using like 60 colors in your image, as opposed to the 10 or so it would take.

I know you're not using 0% black for the outline, but it's close. Try to avoid this. Use color theory to use perhaps a very dark, saturated blue for the outlines of the bones. Likewise, the side of his skull is outlined in a hard black - you should only put an outline on something if it's not "connected". It's part of the same shape so make it look that way. Also consider a slightly yellow tinge to the bones, because they're never pure white.

Also consider a slightly orange-yellow color for the eyes as well, perhaps using two colors instead of hard red

>>15538976

Oh, I didn't even realize I shat all over it when I tried using a big eraser.

I'll play with the colors and adjust those outlines. It's really something that was bothering me, but having to work with squares is really something I didn't expect to be.

>>15538990

No one expects to be, but we are.

>>15539103

I never realized there was a version of Bogosort for texture sorting.

>>15539996

Maybe they know about aniki too. Imagine.

>>15539996

Not only is there a pretty decent chance they won't notice or know what it is, there's also a pretty decent chance they won't give a shit.

Reminder that Shinobu-dev got a job by showing them a VR marry-a-loli simulator.

>>15540029

in that case i'll probably just fail because of all the spaghetti in there

i've had better interviews and demos where i've failed because of non-ideal code

actually use the >>>/vg/ thread you fucking nudevs.

>>15539996

>drive link

>not proper version control

>>15540217

i use drive as a backup, i also have duplicate projects on a mobile hard drive and i still use unity collab as version control

i'd like to think it's enough

>>15540180

>ID'd posts from 6 months ago

>cyclical so you could technically be tracked indefinitely

If I wanted to be datamined I'd post in reddit..

>>15540180

Why?

>>15538086

then go through the thread archives and add them

>>15537522

makes me happy

>>15540695

>>15540482

do it.

>>15540938

You got me there.

>>15540980

MoMdev became Mombot

>>15540980

He's always posted rather irregularly, usually popping back in with a bunch of new features and then updating regularly for a while, before going back into hermit mode.

Who would've thought that having a todo list actually helps getting shit done

>>15541426

>Be nodev

>It's a to-don't list

>>15541490

>>15541426

I have a to-do list. My problem is I don't know how to do anything on it.

>>15541811

I do have several, but every time i start working on an item, i figure it needs its own TODO list with subitems

Shit is always harder than it seems

How do you go about on making a dev-team? I mean, i can't pay salaries, how can i find people to want to join my project?

>>15541968

Depends.

If you're a talentless ideaguy, instead of making a team, you should make a gun and shoot yourself.

If you actually have some tangible fucking skills, then show your project off and say "hey, I need X, Y and Z, if you want to join, please get in touch".

>>15541811

Divide and conquer anon, my only issue is that some times I'm forced to redo some stuff to take account of something new, it's awful when you have to untick something you did already.

>>15542062

Sorry how did you do your lighting again? You're drawing it to a separate texture and then either using additive or subtractive lighting, right? How did you clamp the darkness into stages again?

>>15542062

You stuff looks so cohesive. I'll buy it whenever it comes out.

>>15541968

I've explained this before. Maybe I need to make an entry into the wiki so it can just be linked whenever someone asks.

Pitch your game. If you have a prototype or proof of concept then post that.

Layout what tools you are using. (Engine, version control, etc.)

Layout what is already finished. The design document is the only thing that needs to be mostly finished. Anything else, art, code, story, is just icing on the cake but makes people want to work with you more.

Explain what needs to be done.

Go over what skills you need.

Go over what skills you bring to the table.

Give a method of contact, like email or steam username, and say how everyone is going to stay in contact. Slack? Riot.im? Telegram?

>>15541968

Step one: Become a 1MA (This is like a 10K hour step)

Step two: Make something other people will see worth in

Step three: Find people who can follow your directions and enact your vision

????

If you haven't shown the dedication of working on something for years, or have pure raw talent, it would seem like it'd be hard to convince anyone that it'd be a good idea to join you.

>>15542143

>>15542105

I have similar plans to buy it when it comes out.

I'll try to get my buds on steam to buy it too.

keep up the good work mang

What's a good program to record video with? OBS doesn't preserve pixel quality and makes it into a blurry mess. I have an older version of it and can't update since it requires Windows 8 or a service pack I don't want to install.

>>15541385

That's my favorite 3D animu grill I've ever seen in this thread, is she original or an appropriation?

>>15542753

Original

My game will have several waifus, she is the second one i made so far

>>15541385

I'd fug it. Why did you name her after the Xenogears bitch tho?

>>15541968

Have a good project and ask if anyone wants to help, there's all kinds of issues. If you don't have a good vision people won't join, and if it's a project that will be sold commercially people need reassurance that you won't take their shit and not pay them, that's probably a hard thing to do.

>>15543387

I didn't remember almost anything from the first Xenogears, or are you talking about the most current ones?

Anyways, her name is Elisabeth, Elly is a nickname

What's the correct way to handle UI input like sliders and buttons and shit? Function pointers? Hardcoded switch statements?

>>15544171

for unity or something else?

unity has those fields where you can select a gameObject and a function from whatever components it has, calls that functions and then you usually get the value from the slider to do whatever

otherwise you have to keep track of input to figure out what you're doing

>>15544171

Of those two options I would tend towards the function pointer style solution

>tfw keep learning new optimization tricks

Computed gotos are op

>>15544906

Looks good, man.

>>15544932

Speebot also used squash and stretch pretty nicely.

>>15544171

UI elements emit events. These events have a type, like click, gainedFocus or text input. They also have some data, like time, mousePos, inputText. Functions can be registered to receive events. Registration is done on elements of the UI tree, not globally. Events bubble, meaning that when an event is generated, the generating element is first checked for handlers, then it’s parent and so on. The origin element is a parameter of the event.

>>15546084

So the child element handles the event and then passes habdling to its parent?

How wonderful a scroll bar be implemented? It has 3 clickable regions (plus minus and the bar) which makes me feel like implementing as a parent control with 3 button control children but this seems unintuitive.

Getting there still rough on some sides.

Will polish for wednesday.

>>15547537

wew. Good luck, bro. You started these threads, it will be hard should you go away, not being the A in AGDG anymore

>>15547537

Congrats my man, hope you have a great time

>>15547537

>>15547537

I have no reaction images on my laptop at work but congratulations!

>>15547537

>>15548426

It depends what you're doing with them.

One of the main reasons vectors end up being faster is because they don't free memory when their contents shrink. They'll keep it allocated, whilst a naive resizable array approach tends to not do that.

There's also some nonsense with emplace versus copy involved since you're dealing with C++.

>>15548436

Is it worth creating a new vertex array every draw call, or should I keep two vertex buffers? I have a similar thing with my SpriteBatch class in C#/SFML.

I generate the vertex data as a Quad struct in an array (4 vertices) so I can sort them in groups, etc. When it's time to actually draw them, I have a second array of Vertex, that gets written to. Since I didn't want to allocate an array every draw call, I just keep the Vertex[] as a secondary buffer on the batch class.

>>15548426

Vectors are just dynamic arrays under the surface with a bunch of code supporting them. They allocate more memory than needed when growing in size because memory allocation is very expensive computationally and should be done as little as possible.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/vector/vector/

In addition to what >>15548436 said, the code written for the standard library is well written for a general use case. It could be that the code supporting the array under the surface of the vector is just better written than you're own code supporting an array.

>>15548475

Which method of batching is the most efficient depends on a whole bunch of factors, like the size of data unique to the instance, size of data reused between instances, the amount of memory available in GPU registers and caches, method of batching used as well as how the drivers work with it.

I don't have enough experience in OpenGL to tell you which is the best for your case. But my money is on why the fuck are you trying to optimize drawing sprites you fucking retard? any GPU from this millennium is capable of drawing thousands of sprites, so why are you wasting time trying to batch a bunch of fucking sprites? do you even have any benchmarks to show that the draw calls are a significant bottleneck in your rendering process, or are you being a filthy nodev that wastes his time worrying about inefficiencies in unfinished software that can always be easily fixed at a later date?.

>>15548534

Tough, but fair. Perfectionism is a curse.

>>15548640

>Wouldn't this only happen if the timer object wasn't static, and/or the class where it's defined wasn't static?

No.

If you define a Timer variable, regardless of whether it is static or not, you are not actually allocating a timer. You are just allocating a reference to one. The "t = new Timer" creates the actual timer object, and makes your variable refer to it.

This distinction is important, as making your variable point to something else does not delete it. It only gets deleted when it is no longer pointed to by anything or "in use". If a timer event is scheduled to call your main menu .tick() every 0.1s, then it will continue to do so until stopped. And only then will it be considered no longer "in use".

In other words, if you have a static timer variable t and a function to assign it to a newly created timer, then calling that function 5 times will leave you with 1 timer that your variable t refers to, and another 4 timers spooking about without you having any references to them, all 5 of them producing events.

>Basically I am thinking his error is that his code is creating multiple instances of that type of object when it only needs one…

It probably is creating multiple instances, but you can't solve it by making a reference to it "static". It solves nothing, as these timer objects are kept alive by threading components of C#.

Instead of being an idiot about it, just search through the code where these times are being created and add a debug output there. Run it and you'll know immediately whether or not he's creating multiple timers.

>>15548776

>Instead of being an idiot about it, just search through the code

it was discussed via telephone, fag.

>if you have a static timer variable t and a function to assign it to a newly created timer, then calling that function 5 times will leave you with 1 timer that your variable t refers to, and another 4 timers

isn't static supposed to make the variable pertain to the set of all instances, and without static the variable pertains to a specific instance?

Does anyone know where to pirate unity assets? I want to test them out before buying anything.

>>15548876

>it was discussed via telephone, fag.

Sorry. I was running on the assumption you would actually try to solve the problem yourself before confronting strangers on the internet that know nothing about your project.

>isn't static supposed to make the variable pertain to the set of all instances, and without static the variable pertains to a specific instance?

Yes, but the variable is a reference to an object, not the object itself.

>>15548932

CGPeers.com has a pretty good collection. You'll have to wait until the 15th to join however.

>>15549038

give them tactical shotguns and call it madness

>>15549072

Sounds like a job for modders.

Sell me on Godot

>>15549241

it's not unity

>>15549241

it's not unreal

>>15549241

it's not gamemaker studio

>>15549241

It's not the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine

>>15549241

it's not RPG Maker

>>15549241

it's not Lumberyard

>>15549241

It's not source

>>15549241

It's not Frostbite

>>15549241

It's Godot.

If you like Python or C# and want to make 2D vidya, it's a no-brainer compared to GM:S and Unity which renders a flat surface in their 3D engine and calls it 2D. There are better FOSS 2D engines out there but they're either highly specialised or lack fancy engine IDE shit.

The 3D engine is a mixed bag. Its PBR implementation is great, but the 3D engine lacks some QoL features and is fairly VRAM heavy so it's best suited to games with high-fidelity visual styles. Godot 3.1 is adding lots of stuff to help fix this except occlusion culling, that's on hold until 3.2 but the biggest improvement is a toaster-friendly GLES2 renderer which still supports PBR.

tl;dr use it for 2D vidya but the 3D engine might not fit your game

>>15549241

It's not done.

>>15549495

>highspeedserialsexualassault.gif

>>15550095

An identical fork of Godot with the slave/master names restored.

>>15550095

>sucked the tranny CoCk

>doesn't have a CoC yet

Here's your (you).

>>15550095

You don't have to give any money to Godot and they can't do anything against you if you decide to make tranny-killer-9000 where you play someone who is terrible at driving manual and ruins many automotive transmissions. Just keep using Godot if you like it.

Other than that you can make your own or find some other FOSS engine that can do what you want. I'm currently looking into Armory and it seems interesting, though it's unfinished and still very rough.

>>15550095

Make your own engine. It's actually kinda fun.

>>15548534

>why the fuck are you trying to optimize drawing sprites you fucking retard

Many engines such as Unity, GameMaker, and even Godot suffer from some cases of bloat or poor performance, plus it's good to learn.

And also, because SFML doesn't provide this. SFML gives you a generic draw command that takes a very particular Vertex struct, and gives you the classic >Draw(Vertex[], start, count) pattern, with no optimizations. It even provides a Sprite class, but this are immediately pushed to the graphics card with no batching, and even if I tried to use their class intelligently, it's many many times slower than my own implementation, and I did profile this extensively to make sure I was doing correct design choices.

I benchmark to see relative times, and if they're higher than say, 5-10%, then I'll find a faster way to do it.

>>15550162

Nani? I was told that they had already accepted it or were planning on accepting it sometime in the near future.

>>15550166

>Make your own engine

Nigga you think I know how to do that?>doesn't have a CoC yet

>>15550166

Waste of time reimplementing worse versions of what many people have done before you.

Why not make your own kernel?

>>15550276

Why make a game at all then? You're just going to reimplement a worse version of what many people have done before you.

>>15550212

>>15548534

Hey thanks for bullying me anon. Just to be sure, I went back and profiled my code again and it was just as fast as the default code. Which was strange since individual optimizations were faster and that didn't make sense.

Turns out my textures weren't being sorted correctly. In my compare function I compared a value against itself, instead of the other and as a result, it works correctly now, and is 4x faster than the stock implementation. Thanks!

What do you recomend for a character generator sims-style like?

I'm going to work with Unity and i don't know if i should buy an asset or just try to learn how to do it all from scratch, if there's a tutorial or a course about it anywhere

>>15551465

Just write something to interpret Oblivion saves and make the player start Oblivion first to make their character

>>15551465

dont, its a dead end. like literally development hell from the start

nothing will work

no progress will be noticeable

no one knows how to do it

the people who do are not telling or are ashamed of their work around they kind of got to work

>>15550262

> Nani? I was told that they had already accepted it or were planning on accepting it sometime in the near future.

You're thinking of Linux (which is a much bigger problem considering it's importance to the open source community). Godot's only pozzed move was replacing master/slave with master/puppet.

>>15551549

I have no idea of what am i supposed not to do.

>>15551465

It's a bit complicated, but it's possible.

Also note that they're not using blendshapes, as that's the typical approach, and are using a deformation map technique (CPU based though).

Slides:

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022086/Innovations-in-The-Sims-4

also if this is your first step into gamedev, start with something smaller/easier, as u should know how2 look up these exact resources

Question for Win32 faggots (or enginedevs I guess). How do I use WriteFile() at a certain position in the file? I have use SetFilePointer() to set the pointer at the position I want, but it clears all of the file to 0 and writes to the position I specified.

bool32 WriteFileSegment(char* filename, uint32 startPos, uint32 memorySize, void* memory)
{
	bool32 result = 0;
	HANDLE fileHandle = CreateFileA(filename, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, CREATE_ALWAYS, 0, 0);
	if (fileHandle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
		DWORD bytesWritten = 0;
		SetFilePointer(fileHandle, startPos, 0, FILE_CURRENT);
		if (WriteFile(fileHandle, memory, memorySize, &bytesWritten, 0)) {
			result = (bytesWritten == memorySize);
		}
		CloseHandle(fileHandle);
	}
	return(result);
}

Has anyone else encountered this? Is this a really bad idea and should I just use multiple files (i am trying to write tilemap data into my level format which is in one single file)? Last time I posted about C I got called a retard for abusing the language, so am I doing that again this time?

>>15552305

The lantern is hardly noticeable when you're not carrying any flames. Also, it would make more sense for the lantern to be unlit when not carrying flame.

Is there going to be any action or animation for when you steal the flame and/or light the posts? I presume your intention is that the item is meant to be passive, otherwise it might look better if the character was holding it with their hand while its active.

>>15552365

hard to explain the lore, in simple terms he was a human man who has been mutilated into being a bird like human for fun

>>15552305

Maybe put some kind of crownlike lantern on top of his head to carry the flame, or have it floating around him like a ghost lantern. Considering the flame is probably an important feature, you should make it more flashy. Also i thought for a second that guy is on fire because all the flame particles are coming out of his body.

>>15552379

I think theres a function to set the write position, but you need to know the exact spot. Easier to just write new or append to end

>>15552463

Yes, it's SetFilePointer which I have, but but the entire file gets overwritten with the previous bytes being cleared to zero, so my file header is wiped out. I am not using C++, just plain C so no new for me, unless you are talking about something else. I cannot also just appened to the end because I am storing multiple rooms of tilemaps in one file, however that may or may not be a good idea, I don't know yet. Maybe this problem is a sign that it is a bad one.

>>15552379

CREATE_ALWAYS always creates a new file instead of opening one

>>15552379

Is there a reason you're using winapi for this instead of the C standard library?

>>15552657

That's it, it works now. Thank you my man.

>>15552669

Not really, just autism.

>>15552690

That's a good enough reason in my book

>>15549241

its not good

>>15550346

Games are media. What separates games from other software is that games contain art, music, and story that set them apart from tools such as kernels, engines, and libraries. A tool helps you deliver the final product, while the game can be the final product.

>>15538263

>el jamundí

Hispachan-tier.

>>15550058

Pretty cool.

>>15552885

Mac and cheese explosion.

>>15553134

To me, it looks stuttery pulled out, too. Maybe the player controller is stuttering. If you attach a static camera to the player is the stuttering visible?

>>15552305

He could hold it out in front for better visibility.

>>15554025

it's only stuttery with the OverHead() method, when it zooms in on transform.localPosition it's fine.

but I want it to be over the shoulder

>>15554119

I wish it was basic, I'm not the only one having this problem.

>>15552885

He's burning himself. Maybe he should hold his arm away when carrying the flame?

>>15553134

>>15554040

>>15554351

So what was the problem?

>>15554510

goddamn my grammar goes down the drain with sleeplessness - forgive me senpai

>>15552741

What's your point? Making shitty stories or other "art" is more valuable than making shitty doors or hammers? Why?

>>15555087

That's one badass wizard.

>>15555087

Jesus Christ

>>15555087

I'm somehow extremely frustrated he isn't using his left hand to double the punching rate.

>>15555307

Above a certain attack speed threshold you could start the animation at when the punch should be connecting (or switch to a different animation that does that). That way the player will still see the punches connecting even when going full Kenshiro.

>>15555087

you could just make the actual attack separate from the animation, wow does that

>>15555641

>/prog/ is dead,

have you tried reviving it?

Ah and images are disallowed in /prog/ which is a non-starter.

>>15555682

>>Stickied threads for VB and Fortran for no reason

what's wrong with Fortran?

>>15555703

For no reason as in there's no posts except for the contentless OPs. Having a bunch of empty stickied threads per language is retarded.

>>15548942

>I was running on the assumption you would actually try to solve the problem yourself before confronting strangers on the internet that know nothing about your project.

Not my problem. Sometimes people in a given field like to discuss problems from a theoretical standpoint. No reason for you to be abrasive unless your default mode is "asshole". That's all I was doing as I'm not that intimate with managed code; I've merely read about it a lot.

>the variable is a reference to an object, not the object itself

That cleared up quite a bit for me, thanks (also your previous post on static keyword helped in a different situation). If I understand correctly, now, this example would be two references to one int object:

int x;
int y;

whereas this would be two references, but to two int objects:

int x;
int y = new int;

Anyway, as I had suspected he was creating multiple timer objects inside a loop with some code like "Timer relogger = new Timer;" so I told him to move the declaration to the top of the class outside the loop. No more phantom timer objects.

>>15555768

>If I understand correctly, now, […] [code example]

You do not understand correctly now, no. What the hell do you program in that you would even think that would be the case in any language?

>>15555768

You misunderstand.

First of all, value types, which is all of these: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/value-types

Are different from object types. When you create a variable of a value type, then that variable holds the value, and not a reference to an object.

As for examples that demonstrate the fuckery:

Timer t; // Define a variable t. This is an uninitialized reference to an object.
t = new Timer(); // Create a timer object, and make the variable t point to it.
// some function calls go here to start the timer, using t as an argument
t = null; // We set our variable t to null, making it point to no timer. The previously created timer object still exists!

// some time later
// .tick() is called by the timer we created.
// If the timer was configured to only fire off an event once; then it will be garbage collected sometime after .tick() ends.

Many languages differentiate between value-types and reference-types. A value-type variable is a variable that IS the value, whilst a reference-type variable is a variable that is a reference to the value (the value being an object).

Just because you stop pointing to an object with your reference-type variable does not mean the object stops existing. Yes, the C# garbage collector will clean it up eventually, but this timer is still running and thus very clearly in use, thus unfit for garbage collection.

The issue regarding static is not relevant, because static dictates where that variable exists. Not where the actual object pointed to by the variable exists. If you have an class obj, and obj contains a timer variable, then a timer variable exists for each instance of class obj. If class obj contains a static timer variable instead, then there is one timer variable, regardless of how many instances of class obj you create. Note that this is all irrelevant; as none of these variables are the actual timer object; they are references to it.

The further drive down the notion of "THE VARIABLE IS NOT THE VALUE, BUT A REFERENCE TO IT", take this fun example:

class Person {
    public string name = "";
}

// code
Person p1; // Create reference variable p1
Person p2; // Create uninitialized reference variable p2
p1 = new Person(); // Create new person
p2 = p1; // make p2 point to the same person as p1
p1.name = "meme man"; // Set name of person that p1 points at
print(p2.name); // print "meme man", because p2 points to the same person of p1

p2 is set to p1, and after that, p1 is modified. Because p1 and p2 are both references to the same variable, reading the variable that p2 points towards returns the changes applied to p1. They are two separate reference-type variables point to the same object.

>>15557614

https://www.models-resource.com/pc_computer/metalgearsolid2substance/model/7940/

There's this one model here I found.

>>15557614

This website doesn't have what you're looking for, but if you're wondering about other games, there's https://www.models-resource.com/.

>>15557630

Shit, guess I'm just a tard who only bothered to look in the PS2 section.

>>15557632

>>15557630

>only raiden

I was hoping there would be rips for the soldiers as well.

>>15557678

Here's a couple more I found.

https://www.deviantart.com/solidcal/art/MGS2-static-Models-pack-2-456978092

I can't see much else anywhere, though.

>>15557581

That's common practice for freelance animators. They'll put some useless animations into a "free" pack which is only released to advertise their "pro" pack. Anyways, if i remember correctly Mixamo released shitload of animations for free when they were bought by Adobe, including some decent bow animations.

How much abstraction is too abstract? I keep thinking about abstracting mechanics to the point of switching genre altogether

>>15558905

1.) Reimu is wearing a very baggy slutty shrine maiden top.

2.) Look how baggy their shirts are. It's not tight at all.

Maybe you should incorporate some more folds.

>>15558436

>>15558905

Notice that those shirts are not even designed to go around the waist. Think of it as like a skirt for your boobs.

>>15559379

>your boobs

Tits or GTFO

>>15557847

Neat, I see they also have other animations I couldn't find. Thanks.

>>15553134

>>15554025

>>15554467

fixed it, I am apparently blind I didn't realize my OverHead() was adjusting the start and not the end of the Lerp

>>15558905

>>15558098

will the game have a cutie with a belly like this? You gonna apply some TECHNOLOGY?

Can someone help me with some math bullshit

I want to have my camera orbit around a point like you do in total war games

currently i have this

vector3df cameraTarget = camera_->getTarget();

vector3df cameraPosition = camera_->getPosition();

vector3df cameraDirection = (cameraTarget - cameraPosition).normalize();

vector3df rightVector = cameraDirection.crossProduct(vector3df(0, 1, 0));

vector3df upVector = rightVector.crossProduct(cameraDirection);

vector3df newCameraPosition = cameraPosition + upVector * mouseYDelta_ + rightVector * mouseXDelta_;

this works but as I'm rotating the camera it slowly moves away from the whatever the camera is pointing at

I've tried to google this shit but i can't find a decent answer.

>>15547537

Hey buddy, I think you've got the wrong board. Gamasutra's three blocks down.

>>15559478

why do you need math for that? can't you parent the camera to a pivot and rotate that pivot?

Anyone working with Unity? Me and a couple of friends decided to try and make something, basically just really simple games in order to gain experience and skill up.

What I've seen so far is that they put a lot of code in the FixedUpdate() method which is called multiple times a second (nearly every frame), and I can't help but feel that this is inefficient. Isn't there some kind of event system with listeners that can be better (for example when you reach your destination this triggers an event instead of checking constantly if you have reached it)

As you can see we are pretty much total noobs when it comes to unity..

>>15559495

My first recommendation is to never worry about performance unless you can prove it is holding you back. You should design intelligently around Unity and by that I would mean first familiarize yourself with Unity. FixedUdpate is for physics. You should never add event based systems into the fixed update unless its heavily reliant on the timing of the physics. That said there is nothing wrong with having 1 loop to manage all of your events.

>>15559478

I can't find koekaki and gimp isn't installed so bare with me-

If you're at vec2(10,0) and you're facing vec2(0,0), your right is vec(0,1). If you add vec(0,1) your new position is vec(10,1), before you do any operations your new distance from the origin you're looking at is not 10 anymore, its `(10^2 + 1^2) ^ 0.5`. The issue is to achieve the behavior you want, you would have to split your camera moves into an infinitely small number of steps, recalculating your right vector every time to ensure a perfect circle.

There are two solutions to this

1. Store your camera as the origin you're looking at, a direction you're looking, and instead of rotating the camera around a point, you rotate the camera, and when you're actually projecting, move your camera back a hundred units or so.

2. Do pretty much as is, but before you do your rotation operations, you find the distance from your camera to the origin, and you do norm(camera - origin) * distanceBeforeYouFuckedEverythingUp at the end of your operation to adjust for the problem.

>>15559525

yeah I guess that makes sense, I was just afraid we'd get into the habit of doing things wrong..

and I didn't mean having an event system in FixedUpdate, but transfer some of the functionality there - like the example with the movement

>>15559614

I think it's only visible if you scroll to the top, not in the quick reply

>>15559623

Yeah, I figured it out with my deductive reasoning after seeing that your reply was not a quick reply box.

I was hoping that we could all move on and not point out how stupid I am.

>>15559625

>I was hoping that we could all move on and not point out how stupid I am.

Think again, dork.

>>15559635

>>15559673

I just wanted to help a poor babby anon ;-;

>>15559447

we can try

>>15559552

makes sense i was thinking about just resetting the distance

but i figured i just fucked something up somewhere thanks for the help

>>15559495

Reaching a destination is easiest done with collider overlaps. Put a collider box to the position that's your destination and trigger it on overlap with your player collider. Another useful feature you should look into are coroutines. Also, VERY important as a beginner, FixedUpdate should only contain purely movement code of objects like a player, NPC and camera, else it should stay in Update, especially button inputs, since if you put movement into Update your game will behave all wonky and if you put button input into FixedUpdate you will experience input lag.

>>15550058

Quake Soccer when?

>>15561541

Because you generally shouldn't be comparing whether two structs are equal.

Also before you try to be a cheeky piece of shit and use memcmp, I need to remind you that the value of struct padding is undefined.

>>15561564

>you generally shouldn't be comparing whether two structs are equal

Why not? If you have a Vec2 or something for position, there's a good chance you want to compare if two of them are the same.

>>15561573

Why would you want to compare whether two positions are equal?

Name a legitimate case where you don't have to also handle positions that are not exactly the same but very close, as they would cause the same kind of bugs surrounding floating point extremes.

>>15561573

Then use a class and overload "==".

>>15561587

>Name a legitimate case

Just now I was trying to check if mouse position has changed in a dragging function. I'd use a Vec2 for tile positions in a grid too.

>>15561600

put a safezone, for instance:

A click does not become a drag unless it moved at least 10 pixels.

>>15561611

In that case I'll have to check x and y separately anyway. I just wanted to type "currentpos != previouspos" instead of "currentpos.x != previouspos.x && currentpos.y != previouspos.y".

>>15561628

more like

(cpos.x-npos.x)*(cpos.x-npos.x)+(cpos.y-npos.y)*(cpos.y-npos.y) > 5

>>15562053

song name?

>>15562098

Scrap I/O from Ed Harrison's NeoTokyo OST.

>>15562053

Dang the music takes me back. Probably the closest we'll ever get to ghost in the shell. Do people still play neotokyo?

>>15559495

Your instinct is 100% accurate and the fact that you propose an event system as a solution here means you’re already a way better programmer than the retards you’re working with. Those guys are what we call pajeets: people who lack any deeper understanding of computers and are only capable of generating the simplest of code using templates and SO posts. They will not be able to make game. They will fail. A programmer should strive towards expressing an elegant solution to a well-defined problem. That is what code is. Programming is the process of breaking down an ill-defined large problem into individual, simpler parts, then stringing them back together into a cohesive whole. That is not what they are doing. Their method is to programming what 10yos building a treehouse out of scrap wood is to professional construction. It’s not even amateurish. It’s cute at best, hazardous at worst. The project will crumble under it’s own weight long before it has a chance to manifest performance issues. In fact, the time where you’d see someting resembling a bad framerate is a time of celebration, because it means you actually have something resembling a game. Long before that you will get to a point where you can do nothing meaningfull in the program, as any interaction will cause a crash, hang or spazz-out. You’ll find additive changes, like adding an item will be impossible without touching every single code file, fixing hundreds of compiler errors and debugging dozens of start-up crashes, only to find it impossible to test the feature without interacting with other broken systems, with catastrophic results. Eventually, you’ll understand that there’s nothing useful in the code and that it all must be trashed. It’s at this point that the Pajeet insists that his code does have value, that it can be fixed, that it’s a waste to throw it away. He doesn’t understand that the value of a programmer’s work is not in the Lines of Code he produces. It’s in the solution his mind formulates. That solution must only be written down into code, a process that is quick as long as he is familiar with the language. The reason a Pajeet has no value is because he never formulates the solution. He simply pushes buttons until he stumbles upon a combination that produces the wanted result for the small set of cases he tests for. It’s never optimal, robust or performant. Code tossed is not work lost. In fact, the highest pleasure of a programmer should not be producing code. It should be removing code, as that means a more optimal solution has been found. This applies regardless of if performance or extendability is prioritized.

Beware the Pajeet, for he brings ruin to all he touches.

>>15559478

The correct solution is to store a distance, heading, elevation triplet as independent, primary variables. The last two are of course angles, rotation about global up and local right (important!), respectively. Mouse deltas (scroll, x, y) affects these primary variables. From these, camera position and orientation is calculated as secondary variables. Start at the aim target position, pick a vector orthogonal to global up (ex. +X), apply the elevation rotation (ex about Y), then the heading rotation (about +Z, so Z is up). This order avoids calculating the local right. Use this direction vector to translate the camera away from the aim target. Getting smooth, yet responsive movement is an art in and of itselt and requires lots of experimentation.

>>15562364

That works too.

>>15561965

org-mode

>>15562204

Is this copypasta? That's hilarious

>>15562162

There was a game night for it a couple weeks ago.

>>15562358

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this

but this my current solution is this and it seems to work perfectly

vector3df cameraTarget = camera_->getTarget();

vector3df cameraPosition = camera_->getPosition();

float distanceToTarget = (cameraTarget - cameraPosition).getLength();

vector3df cameraDirection = (cameraTarget - cameraPosition).normalize();

vector3df leftVector = cameraDirection.crossProduct(vector3df(0, 1, 0));

vector3df upVector = leftVector.crossProduct(cameraDirection);

vector3df newCameraPosition = cameraPosition + upVector * mouseYDelta_ - leftVector * mouseXDelta_;

float newDistanceToTarget = (cameraTarget - newCameraPosition).getLength();

newCameraPosition = newCameraPosition + (cameraTarget - newCameraPosition).normalize() *

(newDistanceToTarget - distanceToTarget);

>>15564039

>pick up some crap off the floor

>she eats it

>>15564078

My code comments? Just write down short concise things that will make me go "OOhhhh I need work on this!". Ideally google docs will be very useful when I start getting bug reports. At work I use Jira for professional task management. Kind of overkill though.

>>15564074

>not leaving donuts of the floor to eat later.

>>15561965

Literally .txt files. I just organize topics by tabs, and then use code folding in my text editor to minimize the ones I don't currently care about. I rarely need to visualize something beyond occasionally making mockup designs, which I have in a krita file.

>>15561965

WikidPad.

>>15564372

Make a list of what you needs to be done, break it down as much as possible. The do each part of the list. It's the only way.

>>15564812

I think his problem is he doesn't understand what he's made already due to the complexity.

>>15564915

That's the power of a list. You can take your big obvious problems and break them down into smaller problems. Just keep breaking each problem down into sub-lists and then solve it from there. It sound dumb, but the difficulty in UI usually isn't that it's a hard problem to solve, it's just difficult to think about the inter-workings of all the parts.

>>15565114

The grassy "chk" sound is nice, but the sound of step itself is too low/bass, it should be lighter especially for a cute character like that. ONly heavy monsters should have lower "thuk" sounds.

>>15565949

It's chopsticks

https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chopsticks-game

>>15564039

Probably the most autistic games i've seen on /agdg/, but equally impressive.

What's the best way to handle a complex turn based combat system with a lot of actions and situational actions nested withing situational actions?

>>15566585

Hand-crafted assembly.

>>15566585

What you might be looking for is a program that can write other programs. LISP is the kind of language that is good at doing this stuff. You can construct an AST of actions and execute it instead of encoding all combinations of actions into one monolithic procedure.

>>15566585

Have node based system that "unlocks" actions. You have the parent node which connects to the core actions. Then in order to get to a child node you must meet the situational criteria.

>>15566708

>>15566713

>>15566715

>Torfag trying to hypnotise people via shitposting

Whew

>>15564812

>>15565233

This isn't an idea guy problem, making a list on notepad won't help you organize or manage code that's a sea of bullshit.

>>15564372

Establish the overarching goals, functions, and structure of the UI first.

Make use of UML structure, behavior, and component diagrams.

Study user psychology, which in general is "function > flashy effects" and "give the user what they expect".

Here's how web designers organize content

>Inventory your content: What do you have already? What do you need?

>Establish a hierarchical outline of your content and create a controlled vocabulary so the major content, site structure, and navigation elements are always identified consistently;

>Chunking: Divide your content into logical units with a consistent modular structure;

>Draw diagrams that show the site structure and rough outlines of pages with a list of core navigation links; and

>Analyze your system by testing the organization interactively with real users; revise as needed.

Source: https://webstyleguide.com/wsg3/3-information-architecture/2-organizing-information.html

Make use of the concept of a "wireframe" before you get too deep into particulars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website_wireframe

>>15562053

I like how the skelles lose their ribs when taking damage. A really nice touch. the pile of bones is pretty spooky too but don't all these physics objects cause performance issues?

>>15565114

am I retarded? I can't hear a thing

>>15565737

it's always better to have stuff occluded, though I would separate this into logical chunks instead of cutting it into little pieces

>>15566691

so you're back at making the thief clone? please post more, I missed you

>>15567896

noice. time to buy a VR headset

Requesting a game where you're a long lost samurai in the Japanese War who was awakened from the dead after a atomic bomb landed on your grave, alternative history alright. You are like a baby. Hobo phase for the whole game. No alternatives. Your soul purpose is to sink an aircraft carrier stationed near by. For what purpose I don't know. But you must. You will meet many friend along your journey, mostly lolis who you will raise in an orphanage. These are atomic lolis who will gain new unfound powers. Fuuuuuuuccck, I just realised this sounds a bit to similar to Star Wars in some ways. Forget I said anything and I'll leave this as a testament of my failure to inspire others.

>>15567938

Put down the weed anon

>>15567938

What are you paying?

>>15567938

Go write up a WN/LN about it.

Bumpan for interest.

Has anyone here ever worked on a roguelike or roguelite?

I'm currently learning how to make one in Python. It's easy enough, but I'm interested in the combat system used in Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode. My plan is, by the very beginning of the next year, start working on a small free software roguelike based on the Wheel of Time series.

>>15561989

>>15561965

May I suggest you to use Scrivener or Lyx to keep things organized and/or stylish?

>>15566628

Didn't expect LISP to be pretty cool

>>15567938

How he fuck is that like star wars?

>>15566585

A language with first class functions makes passing around and changing functionality easier. C++ can more or less do it with the <functional> header or functors etc

>>15568289

I have.

Making a game in Python, when you get down to it, is just like making a game in any other language. You have Python conventions and syntax, and you can get fancy with the metaclasses and other metaprogramming constructs if you're savvy to them, but it comes down to structuring things correctly that development scales. The biggest thing that bogs people down is that they design things wrong, in a way that every time they want to add a new item or enemy type, they have to update 20 places in their code instead of just a couple (ideally, just fleshing out the enemy code and then putting it into the world somewhere). Python can make some of this easier with its duck typing, but you can do it in other languages too. Well-structured and planned Python will usually look largely like the same structure in other languages. You can do some other fancy things, like automatically scanning submodules and using metaclasses to maintain a registry (doing things like Django does to scan class attributes on class creation), but you usually don't need to.

Remember, the biggest two reasons people get burned out in game development are either that they don't plan and develop the codebase into an unmanageable mess, or they tried to make a game that takes more assets than they can make on their own and they get burned out spending dozens of hours just making shitty programmer art and audio.

A roguelike is a bit easier than most other game types, but most of the same concerns apply as other games. Collision, pathfinding, and some other things are simpler, but the rest can be deceptively complex and you can hit the same pitfalls that you do in other game types, largely, your codebase can become an unmaintainable, fragile mess. You don't want it to get to Undertale or Yanderedev levels, where it's nested switch statements with hundreds of labels and changing anything is brittle and breaks everything, and adding anything involves touching dozens of files.

>>15562053

When the skeletons die, you should add a force to them in the direction of the attack for better visual feedback that they're dead.

>>15567901

Yeah I'm trying to have something ready for demo day. Thinking of just making it security cameras for the demo, last time I tried to program AI for proper enemies and it killed my motivation.

>>15567997

Lots of exposure, this game will be a major hit and you'll be famous

>>15567602

What?

I literally built an entire game and engine doing exactly this. I don't get how it wouldn't help. It's just dissecting a problem into small parts and tackling each part individually, as a means to be able to fully conceptualize the work you're trying to achieve.

Some problems are just too big to comprehend easily without writing them down, and a simple list is all it takes to grasp complicated problems.

>redoing all my input handling just so I can track mouse dragging and/or lifting off-screen

I didn't want to make progress anyway

>Try to break my game up into updateable components

>Want to have a behavior for Update(), UpdatePre() and UpdatePost()

>All the components will just be stored in a list.

What makes more sense? Doing A.Pre(), A.Update(), A.Post(), or should I do A.Pre(), B.Pre(), C.Pre()… etc?

>>15569828

Lookin good

I'm trying to make a multiplayer FPS, I know programming and networking but the most I've done with game engines is some modding in UDK. Is this tutorial series a good place to start?

https://www.udemy.com/unrealengine-cpp/learn/v4/overview

>>15569828

looks really good so far but the question is how is this game gonna be any different from your typical diablo clone?

>>15570314

The real question you should be asking is: "Can you run/sprint or do you have to walk everywhere like in Diablo 1?"

>>15570562

the series is our big inspiration as you can tell.

>>15570659

Lewd it and you've got a guaranteed purchase/friend

>>15570731

How do you strike that magical balance for character design where you enable the secondary market (fanart, etc) with likeable characters, but without underdoing it?

>>15570748

Just make what you yourself would consider attractive/likable

If your tastes aren't total shit then you'll naturally garner interest

and if not ask friends if they think it looks appealing

>>15570791

>the suffering

a fantastic game

>>15570779

My tastes are more unusual and not normalfag friendly (gfur and beyond). I want to keep that completely separate from my gamedev, and appeal to a large crowd, but without being a sellout or a faggot about the whole process.

>>15570812

Then experimentation and asking for reviews/advice on it is your best bet for something that's not your usual crowd/bag

hit me up if you ever want a second opinion on that.

>>15570840

It's not bad,but the cel shading at times looks like some awful jaggies,are you running any AA?

Also i was just saying show me a textured tit or nipple and i'm game,even if it never shows up

>>15565180

https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Distance-field-fonts

Distance field fonts rendering with OpenGL. Distance fields are what you want for very smooth, pro looking bitmaps font rendering.

You can use this to render true type fonts to signed distance field bitmaps, save them in an atlas, and then use your distance field rendering code to do the rest.

https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_truetype.h

>>15571219

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_transform

Okay so based on this article, it's basically a reverse flood fill algorithm? That is, instead of bleeding out to a point, you work recursively inward and map every point to the step distance to the outside, and then would use this as a scaling factor?

>>15571686

That's just A + B. If b is normalized then multiply it by the distance you want from a to c.

>>15571686

Do B = (C - A), then normalize it.

Incidentally, I just found a bug with SFML .Net v2.2 trying to do this with a Vector3. It literally subtracts A.X from C.Y. What.

>>15571887

Also, realized that instead of dynamically creating a cone collision shape based on range and angle I can simply check the distance to the player and the angle compared to the z-axis basis, reducing the total number of nodes (and probably increasing performance a bit).

>>15568741

What a steal!

>>15570370

hey my dude, nice to see you here. Please come back and show progress from time to time. and good luck with finding that artist

>>15570840

>eyes open

wew. knowing the game's themes, this is kinda disturbing

>>15571818

getting Neon Struct vibes. Can't wait to play it. you still have that sound propagation?

>>15569898