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Noooo you fool!

>>15574522

>>15574357

Why are you samefagging?

Is this the new bread or is this dead bread?

>>15577381

this is moldy bread that will soon be recycled into fresh bread when old bread has gracefully expired

just b patient

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This thread's is now no longer dead

OH SHIT WHAT UP FELLOW GAMEDEVS

>>15579936

oh, and in response to the rest:

I don't think I'll allow the turn order to be changed, it'll be playable characters first, and then npcs in whatever order. I don't think that matters.

However, I wasn't thinking about the case in which a monster could have some fraction of the fastest toon's speed. Maybe I can add a field to the activeField component corresponding to how many turns that character gets on this particular round, and then go through all of them at once.

>>15580291

That makes sense.

>>15580342

Ok. So the highest speed is added to everyone's Tdelta at the beginning of every turn, and the only people who get to play are those who's Tdelta exceeds their own speed. Everyone who played has their Tdelta reset to zero, or as you mentioned >>15580291 maybe it takes the difference and sets it to that.

However with this system it seems like every character would go on every turn.

Player character (PC): sp 10

Goblin (GB): sp 8

Ork (OR): sp 3

Turn 1

>PCTD: 10

>GBTD: 10

>ORTD: 10

Tdelta is greater than speed for all characters, everyone goes and everyone gets reset back to 0.

A way around this is have everyone's Tdelta set to the fastest speed, and subtract everyone else's speed every turn. When they go to zero or negative add the fastest player's speed or reset to the fastest player's speed, whichever you choose. Here it is adding the fastest player's speed.

Player character (PC): sp 10

Goblin (GB): sp 8

Ork (OR): sp 3

Turn 0

>PCTD: 10

>GBTD: 10

>ORTD: 10

Turn 1

>PCTD: 0

>GBTD: 2

>ORTD: 7

the pc goes, the goblin doesn't, the ork doesn't

End of turn 1

>PCTD reset to 10

Turn 2

>PCTD: 0

>GBTD: -6

>ORTD: 4

the PC goes, the goblin goes, the ork does not

End of turn 2

>PCTD reset to 10

>GBTD set to 4

Turn 3

>PCTD: 0

>GBTD: -4

>ORTD: 1

the PC goes, the goblin goes, the ork does not

End of turn 3

>PCTD reset to 10

>GBTD set to 6

and so on.

>>15581493

I guess I can quit now

>>15581638

He's working on overarching systems while you're working on details, of course the progress rate will appear different. Plus he presumably doesn't have a child to take care of.

>>15581660

This. I'm also taking shortcuts everywhere. If something works but has few loose ends (like having ability to equip AK47 to your head) I leave it, I can fix it later. All audiovisuals are temporary free assets or stuff I made long ago because I want a prototype as fast as possible.

I don't have a child, but recently I got my first job and ironically since then I made more progress than ever before, because I just don't have time to get bogged down in detail polishing hell like I used to in the past

>>15581638

If you feel like your progress is too slow, I'd recommend you work more roughly and focus on big things, as if you were during a game jam, especially if you have little time and energy left after being done with your duties Plus, it's more fun to dev this way.

>>15581950

Strapping an AK to your head is a perfectly valid tactic if you have a strong enough neck and telekinesis to pull the trigger.

>QuakeC

>No pointers

>Hacked in arrays that work slowly because no pointers

>Empty string counts also as FALSE with boolean operators, but when they aren't using boolean operators they count as TRUE

>if not(expression) is a thing and works like if(!expression)

> ++ and – operators will cause compiler bugs in some cases

>using function calls and array calls together might cause compiler bugs

What was Carmack thinking?

Even with all this weird shit, it's still easy to mod gameplay stuff. But I'm itching to alter a sourceport to accept lua scripts or some shit.

>>15582247

It was 4D programming like a White man.

Hey, I need an old 3d engine that works on Linux and Windows and won't make a toaster from 2009/2010 lag, what do you recommend?

>>15582307

Source, or maybe an older version of Unreal Engine.

>>15582307

yours

Hello. Am newfag looking to get into AGDG. I chucked this together a few days ago in Bosca Ceoil, and I like it. It's supposed to be for a sub-hub area.

I think it's probably way too repetitive and short, but I would like the input of some anons.

Thanks for any response! ^_^

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xvy1JAgTxHzFFONIch1OXOJTQhrmD_BX/view?usp=sharing

Sorry for the gulag link-my machine is down so I'm stuck using my mother's windows machine and I have no way of easily converting it into an attachable format

>>15581630

pretty nice.

Are you just changing its shape based on the cup rotation?

Looks right enough to me, the only issue is that it does not spill

>making a 2D engine from scratch for the hell of it

>just made a basic particle system

>have yet to implement basic sprite rendering

I know I'm doing this out of order, but I didn't realize how easy basic ECS systems could be implemented. I also got more progress done in the last couple hours than in the past couple weeks.

>>15583239

Similarly, I find it easier to physically write down things I need to do on 3x5 cards, then cross things out in pen as they get completed.

>>15581493

Any throwable items yet? If you have only the ammo for the gun and not the gun, do you punch people with a fistful of bullets? If your character has low INT, can you throw the gun or whack people with it instead? Loving the progress so far.

>>15584165

that looks comfy. needs different music though

>>15584232

It's just what I was listening to.

>>15584165

How do you do the snow in godot?

>>15584232

Here's what I was listening to when I opened the webm.

>>15582247

>>No pointers

>implying that's a bad thing

Thanks to the anon who directed me to the godot docs yesterday and mentioned the extra functions for object ID on detection. I was able to get my object dependent hit detection working really simply with just

func _on_weapon_body_entered(body):
	var name = get_path_to(body)

>>15585615

That's some sweet technology you have there.

>>15586080

Looks comfy, and your lighting looks way better than it has any right to.

>Particle effect.

I could have guessed that. I want to know the details. What sort of math are you using to make them blow around in the wind in different directions individually but the same direction generally?

>>15586212

>here's the ParticlesMaterial itself

Thanks man, I'll look it over.

I'm toying around with the idea of making a Goblin Slayer module for Neverwinter Nights and I was wondering how other people went about designing quests. I have no real prior experience and my outlook is to think about what different options would accomplish, why a player would want to do them, and work backwards from there. As an example, early on the player will be given the choice of several quests, one with a low stated reward killing goblin patrols which considering the subject matter would obviously advance the plot and one with a higher stated reward for clearing out a portion of the sewers for a higher reward and good relations with a merchant which a player would take if they wanted to more quickly become stronger.

Tonight I spent about three hours teaching myself how to calculate the probability of something happening X times out of Y possible times with a Z% chance of happening each time, then slapping together some code to run the calculations for me if I input those three variables. I can honestly say this is something I never thought I would ever need to know how to do.

>>15586233

Here's a pretty good talk on the subject by a dev who was the lead designer/project director for FO:NV

>>15586462

Is it unfixable, or just not worth the effort?

Are there any statistics showing how many games are there per genre? I'd like to explore underpopulated genres, so far I have a couple of ideas going.

I also noticed that indie games are focusing on tycoons and sims lately.

>>15586462

>is getting scrapped

No its not you can fix that shit.

I'm having trouble implementing a function to handle combat, first, each call to the function advances it by a step, so I changed it into a state machine, this is because need to prompt the player and ask him for a set of actions one action at a time to complete his turn, up to this point it is simple, but, when a character makes an attack, the target needs to be prompted to choose an action to defend, so a turn depends on the actions of multiple characters and not just one.

It is a turn based combat, player vs AI, but I have no clue how and where to put the AI code, and how to properly design the state machine that can return within multiple actions for multiple characters, here it needs to return whenever it prompts the player for an answer, the answer has to be verified before further processing.

It's already confusing for 1vs1 let alone a party vs party.

Example for actions:

Change posture, move, attack (has to ask the target for a reaction), Contest (hast to ask the target for a reaction)

>>15587307

>I can move the camera way back and set the fov to something very small - this would end up with a perspective almost identical to ortho. But that fucks with ambient occlusion, which adds a lot to the game's looks. But yeah, that SHOULD be fixable

This is why you write your own engine, kids.

I feel like a massive brainlet, I can't even raycast properly and whenever I try to look for inspiration somewhere else, it's a moron who copied and pasted lodev's raycasting code.

>>15587393

The design that comes first to my mind is: Put it into a class with references to the combatants, and have each phase give specific options to the combatants that could advance it to the next phase. e.g. Player attacks -> combat moves to a state that gives combatant 2 options for response to an attack. Or player casts a spell -> go to a state that just checks combatant 2's spell resist, deals damage, and moves to a state where combatant 2 can act. AI code could have a combatant interface similar to the player but that automatically checks conditions before delivering its "choice" of event to the combat state machine. I hope that's even remotely helpful.

>>15587791

Oh yeah, how is Factorio modding? t. playing it right now instead of my game

>>15589513

The cape physics are oddly realistic compared to the rest, is it going to be a part of the gameplay ?

>>15589528

No it's just that I can't animate and would rather let Godot simulate a softbody.

>>15590023

It looks like a flash game, but one of those well made flash games.

>>15589358

Modding it from 0.13-0.15 was relative painless because they didn't made too many breaking changes but from 0.15 and to 0.16? It is going to take much longer because they broke a lot of shit that needs to be fixed now to make it work, I haven't managed to port it yet due to that. But apart from that it is relative "easy" as you just need a text editor to make mods for it so no specialized tools which is a both a blessing and a curse. The worst part is the action/final_action parameter because it allows you to chain shit it in the worst possible way so you end up ending with spaced brackets such as this:

}

}

}

}

}

}

}

>>15586462

I'm genuinely curious, what engine is this? What engine doesn't allow orthographic projection? Do you not have access to the perspective transform? Can you not just tell it to *dont do that*. Can you not just open the shader and tear out the perspective transform part?

>>15590463

>What engine doesn't allow orthographic projection

but when Beelzebox started, it was using orthographic perspective exclusively. I added it after this suggestion >>>/agdg/29920, the video poseted shows ortho being switched on as well.

If you

>>15590476

po

>>15590477

>>15590476

fuck, VNC went awol and caused me to post prematurely.

>>15590463

if you can help me with tearing the shader up for it to work both in ortho and perspective views, I'd be obliged.

https://github.com/i-saint/Unity5Effects/tree/master/Assets/Ist/ScreenSpaceBoolean

As I always said, Unity shaders are goddamn black magic to me. (this also answers your question what engine this is)

>>15590484

If I remember correctly, to go from orthographic to perpective you divide x y and z by w. If you look at the shaders, you'll generally see a divide by w at some point, and just adding an if there to do it when perspective mode and not do it when orthographic should fix it.

I see three instances of dividing by a "something.w" in StencilMask.shader, and two in Depth.shader. Very first thing I'd try is just changing those things, and if that doesn't work try just the two that are in both files or just the unique one is the stencilmask.

t. guy who has no idea about shaders either

>>15590369

Sorry, I should have more carefully chosen my words:

This is why you don't use Unity (or any other closed source engine), kids.

>>15590509

In shaders, the w divide is implicit, and not something you explivitly do through shader code.

This is because the w divide is used as part of the interpolation process to create the perspective effect.

Anyway, to create an orthogonal perspective you yourself divide z by w, leave x and y untouched (scaling does apply for the scene to fit your viewport!) and w is set to 1 so that the implicit w divide does nothing.

This can all be achieved by using a different projection matrix, which is why literally every engine supports it.

>>15587307

>>15586462

Dude, just draw the character in perspective and the environment in ortho (or the other way around, I am not paying attention on which is causing the problem).

Have two cameras, one that draws the character (and the lights) and the other camera draws only the environment, put one on top of the other, and voila. Issue solved in 2 days at most.

Making the character go behind stuff might be an issue, I am unsure on how the depth buffer would interact, if at all

>>15583937

This is hilarious. I would angle this as a comedy-action strategy-rpg

>>15583937

>that ak melee

Top kek.

>>15592513

They what

>>15593083

And a single carrot can give you a fuckton of seeds

>>15592513

>carrots are flowering plants

well fuck. Potato plants have flowers and fruits too, but they're hideously poisonous.

>>15593099

You have no idea how much i learned since i decided to start making this game

>>15592513

When they flower like that they're usually no good to eat since they're probably woody.

>>15593144

We have quality and many other attributes on food items, so harvesting them late will change their properties

>>15593716

Is that an actual level? It might look better in a more logical setting.

>>15593748

It's a bunch of textures drawn to the screen in the worst way possible

>>15593716

Those black empty squares need to be filled to avoid looking jarring, but the two textures play nice with one another. If you wanted a visual clash assessment maybe you should've had no black empty squares in there.

>>15593846

No that's good feedback, since the empty tiles are probably going to look like that. Well, I could put something that isn't distracting in there instead. We'll see how it goes

>>15593856

Are they walls or floor?

>>15593955

Ah, floor tiles. But the game is kind of a weird perspective. It's a clone of SubTerra / Chip's Challenge / Boulderdash, and some objects fall, some have a top-down perspective

>>15593960

You can always make a concrete tile. Why would they stay black? At least use some gray closer to the other tiles.

>>15594075

Oh, I see. Thought it was top down look all the way. Still, I'd change the black background. Even a dark grey would fit better.

>>15594191

Windows 32bit:

void.cat/feb59d4fc1a41beb9b43b1089bf6fc02cfa1c90f

Windows 64bit:

void.cat/#a8a5fbcd241b0d7f96c4cec244598d996ed9d3b9

Linux:

void.cat/#cbc2ecf2eb2a156cec076dcee674df0683bf0ec0

Okay so my project is currently composed of a mail .cpp file and then a bunch of .hpps that I'm including into the main file.

How do I progress towards having object files for each to speed up compilation?

Try to work on converting each .hpp to .cpp, then work on getting the individual files to produce object files, and then work on linkage?

>>15594895

files: main.cpp obj.cpp
cc -c main.cpp // compile main.cpp into main.o
cc -c obj.cpp // compile obj.cpp into obj.o
ld -o game.exe main.o obj.o // link main.o and obj.o into game.exe

This is the basic workflow. Replace cc and ld with the compiler and linker of your choice (e.g. g++ for both), and configure your makefile to not compile .o's of .cpp's that don't need recompilation. Google for examples on how you do that. And google how to make a makefile that's not shit.

Of course this is all irrelevant if you use an IDE, because IDE's do all of this for you.

>>15594935

I know how to write a makefile, I'm mostly just wondering about how to progress to the stage in which my makefile will work.

>>15594895

I would do it one at a time. Separate the implementation out of one header, make sure it compiles, make sure it links, move to the next

>>15595071

It's on hold iirc. Same dev is working on Die Tokenmask 2 (spelling?). Check the wiki. Music is a remix of Cheryl Lynn's "Got to be Real", don't know it exactly.

>>15595071

Found it.

https://soundcloud.com/architecture_in_tokyo/city-ft-macross-82-99

>>15595611

When you're so afraid of backlash on the internet you end every sentence in a question mark.

>>15595618

>interrogative sentence ends with question mark

>must be afraid

>>15595633

If I talk like this then I never have to commit to anything I say? Because if I'm wrong then I can just say I was being rhetorical? Ummm, racist and sexist, much?

>>15595611

>Massive homophobia

<When they just don't allow for LGBTWTFBBQ to change marriage laws

Pride parades are allowed however, unless President of major city disagrees.

>far right government

<When it's centre-right at best.

What a fag.

>>15595633

>>15595618

>>15595649

Actually the question mark in this context denotes a certain tone. It's not that he's afraid of backlash, it's that putting a snarky comment with a question mark like that is a linguistic signal to be outraged; if he had a period or nothing at all, people would just roll their eyes and continue on

>>15595694

Write a TGA loader. It's dead simple.

http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/tga/

>>15595694

You load the texture data from an image, maybe assemble a texture atlas or something, and batch a bunch of quads (two triangles) that will be drawn with those textures. The efficiency is really about reducing draw calls as I understand it, which is why you batch the vertices together

>>15595727

>>15595694

Reducing draw calls is nice, but the big killer is texture swapping. Of course, it's easy to do both.

For example, even though it's about 120 objects being drawn in >>15593716, there's only 1 texture and 1 draw call, so it doesn't even register as 1% cpu usage on task manager

>>15595668

Anyone who's even slightly right to the extreme left is "far right". Including the classic liberals and moderates.

As proven by the hidden tribes study recently, that's greater than 90% of the voter base in the USA that's labeled "far right".

The extreme SJW left is a very loud minority, but a minority none the less.

As proven recently by the study, they're at about 8% of the voting population. Also, a funny note, they have extreme conformity in their base identifying characteristics: white, upper class… all other voter bases are more "diverse", even the "far right", which is the opposite of what they claim so vehemently; it's fucking laughable.

>>15595618

It's a loaded question, any response is a "good response", because it's just bait.

>>15595741

Ah, good to know. So assembling the texture atlas is really the more important step

>>15595702

You do realize he was talking about the second guy and his "uh, THINGS I don't LIKE?" reply, right? Cause if not, you might want to watch your own webm a few times.

>>15595142

Thank you kindly

>>15595694

>These are the same people that think Trump and Kavanaugh are far-right nazis. It's a fucking circus.

>>15595744

>Anyone who's even slightly right to the extreme left is "far right". Including the classic liberals and moderates.

I forget about this, sometimes.

>>15595694

>>15595889

Whatever you do, don't fucking store textures as jpegs because converting them to a lossy texture format will create more compression artefacts.

>>15595889

>>15595917

>>15595928

So PNG is a good bet, then, or should I go with .tga like >>15595726 suggested? Any quality or speed concerns with .tga?

>>15595958

TGA is simple and uncompressed. It works fine for small/medium projects, but I would look into compressed formats if you find yourself with gigabytes of texture data.

>>15595928

Huh. I thought it was OK to store the albedo part of a texture as a jpeg provided it's at a high quality, high resolution texture, but I looked it up and it turns out in an engine like UE4 they already compress the files for you, so lossy to lossy just gives more artifacts. In addition to this it's data isn't organized in a way that makes it suitable for textures in the first place.

>>15595958

Apparently tga is the industry standard, at least for transferring files from software to the engine.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2819033&seqNum=5

Then when actually storing the images DDS is used by Unreal, which uses the proprietary S3 Texture Compression, allowing for hardware decompression.

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

Here's a list on Wikipedia of these formats specifically designed for compressing textures. If you are worried about speed, find the texture formats that allow for hardware decompression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_compression#Availability

>>15595611

Does that queer not realize that this is exactly why Poland is so great?

>>15595958

I found this, software from AMD that can create DDS files. It is free to use for commercial purposes.

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Tools/Compressonator

Then this open-gl tutorial give sample code for loading DDS files.

http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/beginners-tutorials/tutorial-5-a-textured-cube/

I haven't used this tutorial so there may be stuff on tutorial 1-4 that you need as well to get the code there to work, I don't know.

So the workflow for compressed and fast 3d textures should be as follows.

>Create texture in photo editing or texture creation software

>Export as tga or png

>Run through the Compressonator and get back a DDS file

>Put the DDS file in the game directory

>Load the DDS file in code and use it as you please

>>15596141

Nevermind. That [HideInInpector] method still works, I was just retarded.

>>15592513

I've only seen wild carrots bloom, and their flowers smell exactly like carrots when stroked. It's really a cognitive challenge when you stroke a flower and it smells like the root.

>>15596141

the default value is whatever the value is in the field declaration.

If it is currently 20, then any new instance of this script will have yourint as 20.

However, any old instance of the script will retain whatever value it used to have. It is done like that to avoid data loss (where something you didn't want to change is changed, or deleted).

To revert the value to the defaults, remove and add the script again. Maybe right click on the gear icon will have a reset option, I never tested this with custom scripts

To change the value on all instances of the script, you can delete the variable and then add it again but it might only work on currently open scenes

>>15596183

I almost replied with the same exact response.

Tho, they want a hardcoded value that's updated across all gameobjects that have the component.

Which means they just need to hide it in the inspector, or set it to private, or do a public property instead.

>>15596209

or make it static, so that it does not ever get serialized at all and it's always up to date on every single object at all times

>>15596183

>>15596209

Just to add, [HideInInspector] seems to be the only method that always works because setting variable to private if it is used by other scripts which I forgot to add was the reason I had trouble with this will result in error during compilation, and it'll revert back to previous value when you make it public again.

>>15596238

Please don't clutter up the global namespace with statics like this.

>>15596257

is that a problem on non-javascript languages?

>>15596337

Love it or hate it, good code in an OOP paradigm is organized and tucked away in a sensible location

>>15596358

>good code

that's just like, your opinion man. Unless you come up with a objective argument, like in the case of javascript, you won't convince me

In case anyone is curious about why it's bad in javascript:

This simplified explanation don't go into details because I don't know them, there are plenty of gross oversimplifications

Every single fucking javascript object is a hashmap

The root object, also known as global namespace is, therefore, also a hashmap

The more entries in a hashmap, the slower is to access it's content, even if just a little bit slower

By polluting the global namespace, you make slower the acquisition of every single other global variable

REMINDER: The general idea of why it's bad in javascript can be understood through this explanation, but the finer details are probably wrong

OBS: A hashmap is a key-value pair collection, where you send the key and get the value. It have a look up table that uses the hash of the key. Each entry of the table is a list of all key-value pairs whose key have the same hash modulo, then it goes linearly through the list to find the first occurence of the key. Oversimplified: It's a array of arrays which cleverly finds the first index and then iterates to find the second one

>>15594191

>Silky-smooth 7.5 fps

>Snow flakes clip through everything

>Thought I found a hole

>It just goes to engine room

>Platforming when input delay is at its max

>Camera cannot pan, must move against walls in order to turn it.

>There is a glow that seeps out from the cottage. There is nothing there though.

>Snow flakes give out when you almost reach the end of the fence.

>Foot step sound from snow same even if indoors.

Well, at least the snow flakes aren't in the Engine Room.

>>15597030

>First paragraph

Why can't I rebind them?

>>15597152

Conveyor belts, right? Try a yellow/black pattern instead of red for the bands. Red looks like danger.

>>15597092

You will be able to. When I talk about things that need to be changed I'm referring to the mechanics not the keys bound to those mechanics. For example, is it really a good idea to stop the player's climbing when the "grab ledge" key, in this case ctrl, is pressed? It seems like a good idea but I want more feedback.

Sorry for not being more clear. I can see how the way I put it makes it seem like I was talking about the key-binds. But if you have better default bindings then I'd like to hear them. Also I forgot to mention that alt lets you free look while moving in a direction.

I've already implemented all of this, so I'll flesh out the test level and create a build of the game. That will result in better feedback anyway.

>>15597030

I think I'm confused about the difference between mantling and climbing.

Using the same key for creep and ledge-grabbing would be weird. Why not space to ledge-grab, then space again while facing the ledge to mantle.

>arrows keys to climb the ledge

Do you mean WASD?

>>15597552

Yes I mean WASD. I don't expect Rachmaninoff will be playing my game any time soon.

>I think I'm confused about the difference between mantling and climbing.

There are three states. Grabbing, climbing, and mantling.

Grabbing is where you are holding onto the ledge, but not necessarily moving up or down. (ctrl)

Climbing is when you are grabbing a ledge and moving up or down. (ctrl + w/s or space w/o ctrl)

Mantling is when you finish climbing up a ledge and move forward to be on top of it. (space only)

>Why not space to ledge-grab, then space again while facing the ledge to mantle.

I've put that on my to-do list I'll try to get a method that works that way once I finish the test build. As it is now feels fine to me but that doesn't mean it will be easy for a newcomer to pick up.

The reason for ctrl doing what it does is so that you can hold ctrl while walking backwards off a ledge and the character will automatically transition from creeping backwards to climbing down the ledge without needing code to check for that specific case.

>>15592513

it's beautiful

>>15586129

what happened to his body?

Here's a Windows and Linux build of what I talked about here >>15597686 and here >>15597030

Tab free the mouse. Escape to quit.

Linux

https://files.catbox.moe/ie7cqs.zip

Windows 64-bit

https://files.catbox.moe/l9jg82.zip

I've included an edge case, the hole in the wall, to show where this system currently breaks down. I am working to figure out a fix. Other than that everything should work. Keybinding has not been added to the game just yet, this is testing default bindings. Give me feedback on anything you think I should bring my attention to.

>>15598485

>maybe lose the stance adjustment and do it manually.

I meant adjust the stance automatically when space is pressed.

>>15598485

>>15598486

I thought about adding a HUD element as I was playing around with the system. It really is a problem not knowing what stance you are in without scrolling to the edges and counting as you scroll back. You are correct about the tip toes stance, which really, really needs a HUD element clearly communicating what's going on.

>Alt-tabbing

Good catch, I was able to replicate it and figure out the problem. The "Alt" key is bound to free look, that is, it locks the character's movement direction but lets you look around. When you alt tab you hold the alt key, then leave the game. When you alt tab back in it never catches you releasing the alt key, so it thinks you are still holding it. Pressing the alt key again gets you your directional movement back, but that's a workaround not a fix. At the moment I don't really know how I can fix this, but I'll see if I can find a solution.

>Adjust the stance automatically when space is pressed.

I don't know why I didn't think of that. It's a way better solution.

>it's possible to go to the "peek under door" stance while climbing.

I thought I fixed that bug. I'll need take another look I guess.

>I was able to climb and mantle the tall wall with the hole in it but not the tall wall to the left of it (I guess this is the edge case problem).

That is a problem I am aware of, caused by the wall being built of stacked blocks that fool the raycast, but it's not the edge case I was referring to. The hole is just big enough to climb into, but if you try to climb into it then some some bug will jitter the character around before settling inside, and sometimes you'll be shot through like a cannon.

>I really like the peek under doors mechanic, that feels very natural. Overall a very cool movement system.

Thanks man. I appreciate your input. It really helps.

>>15598591

>Pressing the alt key again gets you your directional movement back, but that's a workaround not a fix. At the moment I don't really know how I can fix this, but I'll see if I can find a solution.

Instead of checking if alt is pressed or released, check if alt is held down with is_action_pressed("freelook"). Be sure to use Godot's action/input binding system, it's God-tier among engines. The new action strength system is great too; it reduces a lot of repeated code: https://godotengine.org/article/handling-axis-godot

>I thought I fixed that bug. I'll need take another look I guess.

Maybe disable going down to peek unless the player is on the floor.

>>15598643

>check if alt is held down with is_action_pressed("freelook)

Hmmm just tried this with alt and it sticks as well. Could be a bug, Godot frankly has lots of problems with alt-tabbing fucking things up in the editor.

>>15598649

Did some digging, it is a bug:

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/18785

Workaround (place in a singleton):

func _notification(what):
    if what == MainLoop.NOTIFICATION_WM_FOCUS_OUT:  # window loses focus
        for setting in ProjectSettings.get_property_list(): # loop through all actions and release them
            if setting.name.substr(0,6) == "input/":
                Input.action_release(setting.name.substr(6, setting.name.length()-6))

>>15598643

>The new action strength system is great too; it reduces a lot of repeated code

Oh sweet. I'll be using that. Reminds me of UE4's axis system, something they mention at the bottom.

>Maybe disable going down to peek unless the player is on the floor.

Yeah, that's the fix I ended up going with. Previously the scope was way too narrow to prevent it.

>>15598649

>>15598679

>it is a bug

Wait a second, I know C++. Godot is written in C++. It already has functions for recognizing when the window gains focus, and supposedly functions for checking input. I'd have to figure out how to run through the inputs and update which are still held and which aren't, but that can't be too hard.

I thought I used godot to escape engine dev, but it follows me like a curse.

>>15595611

I really hate social media cause of shit like this. It's absurd these people feel the need to cram their bullshit into anything unprompted.

Reminder never to answer loaded questions or comments like those. Just ignore them and move on, engaging isn't worth it.

>>15595958

Good luck writing a PNG loader, BMP is an easier option if you are on windows.

>>15599286

I think your two notes cover it, using a template and moving it out into a data file are the main improvements I could think of that would help scaling

>>15596236

Congrats on not being a bridge burner anon. how the fuck do you pull that off? I’ve got to do it in a couple days.

>>15599286

Maybe make some implicit postfix trees for message construction?

>>15599841

>postfix trees

First time I hear about that and it looks sexy as fuck.

However, I'm not sure it'd fit the bill. If the idea is simply to have an objective and quick description of an action, that's more than enough. But if the whole point is to add some prose to them (for the sick fucks that get off to that shit) then this would have a subpar result.

Then again, it might just be a matter of syntax and how big the operands are expected to be.

>>15600139

why are you optimizing an fps graph

also you could do it the logical way and instead of drawing bars, just draw a fucking line. optimally using a line strip

>>15600154

he specifically wanted a mesh, i already suggested just using a texture

>why are you optimizing an fps graph

why not?

>>15600160

>why not?

because its a waste of fucking time that can be better spent making your game run better or, god forbid, actually make your game work in the first place

>>15600177

>on a project that's already past the midpoint

Get on my level, my bossman's soon going to have me work on a game that's already finished.

Anyhow, assuming every bar is a single update I'd go with your first solution, where you can just add two triangles on the next update. Because having to recalculate the new combination of convex and concave shapes each time is both going to be hard and going to be slow as fuck for what you want. Even if you'd find a solution that uses less triangles, there's no way in hell that computing it every time is faster than just drawing the extra triangles.

>>15600139

If it has to be a bar graph, then first pis works best, because theres no guarantee of concave shapes with a fan. And besides, some things don't support fans.

Also like anon said you can just use a series of lines

>>15598719

>I'd have to figure out how to run through the inputs and update which are still held and which aren't

That example code releases all actions when the window focus is lost, which should provide desirable results.

>>15600792

iso view looks a-mazingly like anime when it's in thumbnail form, perspective looks good.

Honestly both look better in thumbnail form.

You want to experiment with some post-processing to capture that level of detail, or more anime-esque look.

If that's what you're going for then maybe some post-processing could assist to give that more "only the important details" anime look.

Maybe even a slight blur for your textures could help too… you can apply that in substance painter in a few moments.

Because honestly the detailed textures sort of clash with the mid-low poly anime-esque artstyle.

As, once I see those textures (enlarged picture, i.e. !thumbnail form), my brain expects similar levels of detail from the characters, and it gives me a bit of an uncanny valley feeling when it's the anime mid-low poly characters. As in, it doesn't quite jive, and feels inconsistent to me.

Just a suggestion tho

>>15600986

cute artstyle, it has character

>>15601089

We are going to play with post processing later, right now we are getting some basic stuff ready to make demos

>>15601135

Not exactly sure what u have envisioned in terms of artstyle so u do u.

Tho, I'd probably try certain things like blurring textures and so on first before post-processing

>>15601192

I don't really know what artstyle we are going for, whatever look better will do

If you look closely the characters are using cel-shading and the clothes aren't, so we didn't even decide what are we going to do with it. First we gonna add some features, my bro started making the farming system and i am modeling veggies right now

>>15601215

thick thighs save lives billy

>>15601210

understandable, artstyle is hard to pin down. it's one of those "I'll know it when I see it" type of deals

>>15601305

Before you do that, best wait and see how that CREEPER bill turns out

>>15601376

I thought that was for sex dolls, not depictions. Also, wouldn't oppai loli be excluded anyway? No IRL child looks like an oppai loli.

>>15601379

Yeah but it depends on the precedent it will set. Even though it's technically completely unrelated, Jews will be Jews and find a way to continue to censor and debase things you enjoy

>>15596142

DDS is a really good option. The loader is pretty easy to write as well.

He could also use one of those runtime compression libraries that provide a virtual filesystem with a file. All the game files get compressed and it's more or less transparent. Then just use BMP or something easy.

>>15599286

Clearly you need to implement or use a natural language parsing library.

Just thinking to myself, localizing a game like this would be sadistic.

>>15600139

do it all in a pixel shader. sphere-traced lines. No polygons! (OK ok, 2 to fill the FPS draw area) MAXIMUM polycount optimization!

Do people talk about modding in here? Anybody make mods for Dungeons of Dredmor?

I'm looking to make a Divine Cybermancy skill tree, along with passive buffs if possible. Suggestions are welcome

>>15602653

Yeah you can talk about modding. There's a section in the wiki that lists some agdg modding projects.

http://8agdg.wikidot.com/general:vmprojects

I'm interested in the Divine Cybermancy mod, though I don't really have any suggestions.

>>15602684

Unfortunately I haven't played Dredmor in a looong ass time, and to make a mod kind of requires an understanding of game mechanics

This is what I've got so far, mind you, whether or not these mechanics would be possible I can't say!

Divine Cybermancy mod for Dungeons of Dredmore

Permanent bonuses

You gain brouzouf

3% bonus to all money received

6% chance to proc status message 'You gain Brouzouf'

Cyber-Necromancy

+3% resistance to all effects/debuffs

Skills

My legs are OK…

nimbleness buff, removes

Deja Vu

Recast all abilities from the previous 3 cycles of guilt(turns)

Don't make waves

Possible stealth related ability?

Jian't Pain

Summons a Jian to fight enemies, will turn hostile when all enemies are dead - awards no XP

Substitution Gate

Lifesteal or however it works in Cybermancy

Triangular Gate

Final skill, causes a fuckton of damage and debuffs, has a chance to fuck the player up in a few 'interesting' ways

>>15602706

Seems interesting. Do you have plans to add weapons from Divine Cybermancy?

I should say that I've played EYE quite a bit, but I have no experience in Dungeons of Dredmore.

>>15602773

Eventually I would like to add in some of the weapons.

Most weapons need to be crafted during a run, so that does pose a challenge if I'm to emulate the research system of EYE. I'd love to have the smg that shoots faster than the minigun, bearkiller, and the nuclear powered hammer.

>>15602800

I imagine my first hurdle once I get some basic mechanics coded is actually having it be BALANCED and actually fun to use in your character's loadout. Something very hard to do for a novice Dredmor player!

>>15602808

coded being used in the loosest form possible as all modding in this game is done with xml files

>>15602963

noooic

what happens when you drop it?

Lesson number 1: backup wiki's when you have the opportunity

The wiki for Dredmor died years ago. Fortunately archive.org has some wikidumps.

The only offline wikidump reader that seems to actually be in a working, maintained order is https://www.yunqa.de/delphi/products/wikitaxi/index

You'll likely need to use the new importer. Also, images don't get imported to the created db and I don't feel like self-hosting a wiki myself right now (shouldn't have neglected learning docker)

>>15602997

The cup has a rigid body so it would just roll

>>15603008

but the water, does it all spill out instantly and end up with a puddle?

>>15603019

No puddle. I wasn't planning on making a puddle. Maybe later?

>>15603031

I'd say they'd be much more spooky if they didnt have the normal eyes.

>>15603031

Maybe they are too shiny. Try tinting the specularity some subtle violet or red. Or maybe give them a subtle red rim light.

>>15603031

any way to have part of their flesh/guts hanging off/away from the body? that would sell it i think

>>15603036

This

>>15603062

It just looks really shiny. For some reason now the first pic looks better. Especially the dude on the back with the light.

>>15603097

Shiny is better, go back

>>15603097

Jesus yeah keep it shiny. How about removing the eyebrows?

>>15603706

>This is the first time I've ever done human modeling

1) honestly i think you are lying anon

2) i know it looks better and all but it is easier to see topology in hard not soft edges

but to flatly answer your question i think the thumb is a bit off from a "proper" rest position. along with the rest of the fingers. but don't worry the fingers are easier to rig that way but the thumb "base?" needs to be brought down/ in and bend the palm not to be flat. or the whole hand needs to be flat.

>>15604537

Change to edit mode so we can see the wires, by the look of that shoulder joint it doesn't looks like it will deform well

Also you should try doing it in T-pose

>>15604411

What does it mean by "loops"?

All I see here is quads. I see no loops.

>>15606317

He means the lööps, brööther

>>15606339

epic instagram meme dude

Shmup anon here.

Did generalize my memory layout with a function, also noticed I made a mistake previously when manually declaring memory usage but it didn't crash since I was using more space than needed.

Made enemy aim toward player, I can add some randomness or prepare pattern if needed.

Fixed player input, I had a problem when rapidly switching direction but now it's fine.

Somewhere I realized I'm also evaluating stuff every frame call, and understood why japs also did this. Simpler to code, and afterward you can arrange numbers that depends on it when balacing gameplay. I will need to arrange that later.

Then I wanted to make lasers and thought hard about instanciation, but since I want a "slow laser" that you see expanding fast and possibly curve I realized that I was retarded and needed something else.

Searching around I found some purely fragment shader laser, but I would need to have some quad covering the screen, or go with a separate framebuffer. But I didn't like this idea much since it forego the geometry and would "bleed" over it in some case, ignoring any possible occlusion.

So it's related with generating vertices, and apparently a polyboard would suit nicely for what I want.

Current roadblock: polyboard for laser.

>>15606447

Instagram?

>>15606317

Are you colorblind anon? The loops are colored

>>15607605

<I only got the gameplay down, can't think of story

>entire post is storyshit/events/setting, with zero actual gameplay aside from "there's a magic system"

>>15607652

I posted storyshit because that's what I'm struggling with.

The gameplay was much easier to come up with since it's standard RPG stuff with a twist (since it's cyberspace). You spawn a character and have three diferent fields you can improve: EQUIPMENT / STATS / ABILITIES.

Standard RPG stuff. The twist is that they only look like it but work in diferent ways:

>EQUIPMENT is given to you at set points (or found in set locations), there's no shops

>Equipment is not numerous, but drastically changes how your ABILITIES work.

>After unlocking a piece of Equipment, you can change into it at will (might limit this to Retrofit stations or some other shit)

>Equipment also symbolizes how powerfull your program is to the world, this changes "social" events and increases threats sent to you if you equip a lot of powerfull stuff

>STATS are the usual STR/DEX stuff, but they start at 1.

>you find hidden data/information in the world, essentially pieces of lore

>you can slot this pieces in a limited memory pool to increase your stats

>some pieces are smaller, 1 Mem = 1 DEX, others are bigger and more complex, 7 MEM = 3 STR, 2 DEX, -1 INT

>hidden pieces open new hidden stats that are not normally available without them

>SKILLS are every action you can take to interact with other programs/processes

>Nearly all EQUIPMENT gives you acess to one or more SKILLS

>Some skills are learnt and you have acess to them regarless of equipment

>there's multiple versions of the same skill, that perform diferent things

>SKILLS are "fired" into a sort of ALU stack: while there they take time to resolve before the stack moves on to the next skill

>on battles or challenging puzzles, you'll need to fire 6 or 7 diferent skills in the correct order, mistakes will cost you

>your STATS determine how fast the ALU stack resolves each skill and their sucess rate

>typical fight: you stack ATACK->DEFEND->ATACK->COUNTER->SPELL and the stack will resolve it

>typical puzzle would be something like: SCAN->SLICE->SCAN->MOVETO->PULL->DISCONNECT

>normally, every enemy has a certain "loop" of actions it performs, same goes for puzzles

>recognizing and memorizing this loop is key to win, the other half is looking at your SKILLS and STATS and coming up with a counter to their loop

>harder fights/enemies will start surprising the player by killing processes in their own stack to throw your plans off-timing

>the player can also respond by killing SKILL commands in his own ALU to re-shape the stack and respond to it

>>15607748

The most important aspect is that everything, be it an NPC, his house, the Statue in the Courtyard or a tree is built with these 3 systems. Everything has one or more pieces of EQUIPMENT, several STATS and one or more SKILLS.

There's no HP or MP, to destroy something, you must perform 3 steps:

>bypass the ARMOR

This is a value that increases with EQUIPMENT, representing how hard it is to gain acess to the inner code of that creature. Basically, how strong it's encryption is. SCANNING is important in this step. Without scanning, your hitting random equipment parts, but scanning lets you pick which part of EQUIPMENT you want to use. Focusing on a weaker part will lower his overall ARMOR increasing damage to ther rest of the parts. Damaged EQUIPMENT might disable the use of skills, lower stats or otherwise hinder. This happens to the enemy and to you.

>Override the PROCESS

The PROCESS is kinda like the Armor but derives itself from the stats. The highest stat will also change the type of PROCESS (High DEX = Runner, High STR = Brute) and diferent types will require that you have a certain configuration of stats higher than his to win this process. For instance, a high DEX enemy (Runner) would require you to pummel him with lots of fast hitting, small attacks, while the heavier attacks that normally cause AoE's would leave him unscathed. Every hit temporarily damages the defenders status (this happens to you too).

>Deploy a PAYLOAD

At this point, you already won, so you fire a specific skill to finish the enemy. On a normal RPG, the fighter would deliver a "Crushing Blow", the Ranger would "Skin for meat and skins" and a Necromancer would "Rise as a Skeleton Minion".

These payload skills are also things you need to find/learn and without them, you can't actually crash a program: you can beat on it until all his SKILLS are disabled and his STATS are 0, but he'll never die completely and might regenerate later.

Kinda like on RPG's you have the "Dying State" so people don't die as easily and clerics have a chance to help them.

It's a simple loop of:

>find new EQUIPMENT/STAT/SKILL

<slot it in and figure out a new combat LOOP with it

>find programs to beat up

>find puzzles to solve

>talk to friendly programs

>repeat

The problem is that I have no story or goal for this. It's a simple loop that should keep the game fun for some 6-8 hours (not planning on making it much longer) but without an actual goal, or a reason for things to exist, it's just a weird-looking crappy hack&slash with puzzle-like gameplay.

>>15607749

One last thing:

>the Ranger would "Skin for meat and skins"

This is basically the way the player would adquire 80% of his EQUIPMENT/STATS / SKILLS.

Beating up a program and derezzing it actually destroys it, but before doing so, you can analyze it and retrive wathever EQUIPMENT/STATS/SKILLS were not destroyed/disabled in the fighting.

That's where the dificult part of the game comes in: you can obtain really good gear by finding an enemy to is currently using it. The downside is that you'll have to fight him without disabling or destroying that gear, which tyipcally means he'll be a lot more dangerous if you could go all out.

The only plot hook I had for an end goal would be having a BIG BAD EVIL that was running a very specific EQUIPMENT/STATS/SKILLS on his memory and you had to fight him without damaging the parts you want to save. After the fight, you rebuild yourself using the gear your took from him. You'd need some equipment to survive some apocalyptical event, some STATS to find out some story-related "truth" or use a specific set of SKILLS to stop something from happen, so basically opening the idea of having multiple endings based on what you salvage from him. Bad ending if you can't salvage anything.

>>15608669

I took those caps with the snipping tool, sorry. After I get a rough draft of the 'full'sheet I'll post it.

>>15608676

i dislike most pixel art unless it has character anyways.

the current stuff u have reeks of generic-ness from early gen titles so it gains none of that usual leniency.

f.e. RoR is super low-res but has character.

Low-res can be done, but it has to have character. Or at least that's how it is for me.

>>15608708

That's absolutely meaningless in terms of how I can improve the sprites though. I'm trying to go for a gameboy style so it's kinda supposed to seem early gen. Bear in mind this is the first time I've ever tried doing something like this.

>>15608731

well I'm just giving u advice that that style is overdone and generic.

Art is the first impression for people who happen to come across your game.

If the game looks like generic garbage it's generally judged as such.

>I'm trying to go for a gameboy style so it's kinda supposed to seem early gen.

Ah, good luck then, there are some purist jrpg people who like that style but the vast majority will stick with the above.

It also reeks of rpgmaker tier garbage

>That's absolutely meaningless in terms of how I can improve the sprites though.

How is, "that style is overdone" not direct advice?

Obviously it's not how you can improve those sprites, because I'm saying that style is overdone; they belong in the garbage or in the 90s or early 2000s.

>Bear in mind this is the first time I've ever tried doing something like this.

I'd look at the pixel logic art guide on the agdg wiki's graphics page.

Look for different styles, and even if you want to get inspired from the early gen pixel art; at least put some effort into injecting your own creativity into ffs.

>>15609003

I still barely know anything about spritework but I'll pay more attention to that. I don't really have to scale anything down though, these were just really zoomed in so I could work on it. Zooming with a touchpad is bullshit, wouldn't recommend it.

>>15609022

Look at the sprites from Pokemon Crystal. Each one has black, white, and two other colors. Every single one. They somehow made it work wonderfully.

Also fuck you for making me go to Eevee's shit website to try and find them as an example

>>15609036

Do you mean bulbapedia or something, because I haven't gone there since the staff started their endless Trump bitching. Crystal seems like a good reference.

I hadn't really planned on limiting the number of colors I used but I guess I'll try it.

>>15609022

Gameboy has a maximum sprite width of 8 pixels, yours are 12 to 13 "pixels" wide when you don't fuck up with the mixels.

You claim you want gameboy style sprites, but you don't use the size limitations nor the color limitations, probably would put more than 40 sprites on the screen at one time, and likely won't use a 160x144 resolution. AKA you don't use a single GB limitation. Why don't you add some soft-shadows to it to make the pixelshit package complete, because you're doing exactly the stuff every faggot hipster indie puts out that causes everyone to hate pixel "art".

>>15609091

I don't really plan on rotating anything so rixels shouldn't ever show up. Though I imagine that and mixels could in theory be put to good use on something that's supposed to look like it doesn't belong in the game.

Would something like LoZ Oracle games be good for reference, because just from a glance those and Pokemon Crystal don't seem like they use 8x8, it's probably 8x16.

>>15609091

I don't see a problem with the one on the right. Yes, it's not necessarily true to the original, but it looks better. As long as the base spritework is correct, I figure any sort of camera tricks is just fine.

>>15609294

I was thinking something like the Ultra Beasts from Pokemon SM but sure, whatever. The 8x8 boxes are a method to keep something looking 8-bit even though it's made of more than 64 pixels, right?

>>15609343

Not exactly a method, it's just how these consoles render their graphics. You can make each tile on a GBC have a different palette of three colors, that's why these grids are important. You can only have three colors per tile.

I can't get myself to finish because the fun parts are done and only the tedious parts are left, implementing hex grids is bad, with facing it's worse, having movement controls be text based is the worst

>move to x y

>face dir

>repeat X times

>do action

But then again without it it won't be much of a tactical game, Is there a better way to handle distance and facing?

Anyone here have experience merging skinned meshes in Unity?

I am having problems with the blend shapes, I get this useless error Bone weights do not match bones. which don't tell me how shit is wrong.

The mesh works perfectly until I start messing with the blend shapes

>>15609091

>Rixels

>Mixels

Cool, I didn't know there were terminologies for these things. Rixels piss me off so much. Low res graphics require a low res canvas to justify themselves. Rixels destroy the illusion and look downright dishonest.

>>15609170

>Though I imagine that and mixels could in theory be put to good use on something that's supposed to look like it doesn't belong in the game.

Don't have things that look like they wouldn't belong in your game. The reason people so quick and easily point out mixels is that they do so clearly stick out, and you realize that they shouldn't be in the game. Everything on the screen will look so much better in general if the style is consistent as opposed to having variably-sized pixels here and there. You might think you can apply them somewhere to some effect, but don't. It will look like a flash cartoon from 2003 where they just downloaded a bunch of sprites from various games.

>>15609063

>I hadn't really planned on limiting the number of colors I used but I guess I'll try it.

A good side note on limiting your colors is that these sorts of graphics are supposed to set off the imagination. If you look at the first picture here >>15609041 and imagine that person standing in front of you, your imagination would fill in the details. That helps a lot when you're viewing such low resolution pixel art. You surely don't have to limit yourself to just two colors on a character, but if you cut down on your color usage, you'll find yourself making your details in more creative ways that look better in this format.

If you're ever having trouble eliminating some of your mixels, post a picture here and ask for ways to eliminate them in your sprite. People here are more than happy to help guide someone who is trying to become better.

>>15609716

I never knew it either, I always called mixels "faggot sticks", because I usually see them when people are trying to cram lines where they wouldn't fit, or make a detail stick out where it shouldn't.

>>15609382

And that's why all the overworld sprites for Crystal use black and two colors, so they can all (or at least the human characters) fit in one 8x8 box? Or do even those use more than one box? Like I said, they seem to be 8x16 at a glance. And if for whatever reason an 8x8 sprite had to be resized into 16x16 would it be enough to just 'double' the size of the pixels?

>>15609766

I think that kind of effect would work better if it was a higher res object appearing in a generally lower res game, like Sigma's final form and that one sword miniboss from X2.

Iirc Pokemon RBG used 4 colors for battle sprites, though black and white might be counted in those 4 colors.

If it isn't obvious yet I'm trying to make an rpg and the shit I posted earlier were supposed to be map sprites

>>15609893

#include <iostream>
int main() {
  for(;;) {
    for(int a = -10; a == 10; ++a) {
      if(a < 0) {
        int c = -a;
      }
      for(int b = 0; c < b; ++b) {
        cout << ' ';
      }
      std::cout << "test\n";
    }
  }
}

That code is messed up. What are you trying to do? Also, c is not going to be visible outside of the scope of that if. That wouldn't even compile. Do you expect the for to be inside of that if?

>>15609893

First of all, the while(69) will always be true, so it'll never stop.

Second, your first for() is fucked. a starts being -10, and the loop will continue for as long as a is 10? You might want to change that middle part from a==10 to a<10. The it'll go until a equals 10.

I'm not reading beyond that, so you're on your own.

>>15609943

C++ isn't like other languages. When a variable is used, it needs to be declared ahead of time. There's no data structure storing the variables. Think of the code structure as a tree. The declaration needs to be equal to or above where it is used.

>>15609959

You recall that you actually declare it afterwards in C. I forgot how though.

Should I keep doing Godot or should I look into modding the Cube 2 Engine?

>>15606715

Those aren't loops though. Those are curves. I see no loops.

>>15610066

Oh and I guess GB (I don't know in which games) and NES (in Mario 3/Contra/others) have a 8x16 sprite mode but that doesn't help you because you don't have a hard sprite count to follow. They don't look any different from two sprites stacked on one another.

>>15610074

That figure is broken into front and back view. If you follow the yellow collarbone "curve", you'll see it loops around the front and back sides, creating a loop.

>>15610069

If the 'small' pokemon sprites like those are 16x16, the human overworld sprites probably are too, which makes much more sense. So in that case, they could have had the other half of the sprite use different colors. I'm not entirely clear on what 8 palettes per room means, though I assume it's basically how many can be shown on screen at once? So if Shantae's sprite uses 5 palettes, the devs would have had 3 palettes 'free' for everything else at a given time right? If that's how it works, would the Link's Awakening devs have been technically limited to 7, since Link himself uses 1 palette? The gen 2 Pokemon games were hard pressed for both time and space. The only reason Kanto exists in GSC is because Iwata himself personally re-coded the entire game from scratch to make it work.

>>15610122

It's still wrong man

>the for loop won't use the a = 10 value, the used range will be [-10, 9]

>it will run forever, it's all enclosed within a while loop whose condition is a positive number. It'll be always true.

>>15610241

Cool. Got anymore in depth tutorials on character creation? Like something written?

>>15610253

yeah, definitely

look here: http://8agdg.wikidot.com/resources#toc17

There's vids on topology, and the polycount wiki for character modeling references and guides.

>>15610280

If you really enjoy coding at the low-level, want to do something current engines cannot do, and wouldn't mind a potentially huge investment of time; then go for making an engine.

It really depends on the level of complexity of what you're going for, for the potential time investment you're looking at.

Making an engine that's "modern" is a giant investment of time (especially for a 1MA).

Look at UE4's source code, godots source code, and so on; then decide if you want to recreate the features you need yourself.

If the complexity of your wanted features is so simple that making an engine isn't too huge of a timesink (multiply that projected time investment by 3 or 4 first tho) then it may be a good exercise, and especially so if you need practice.

So it might be a good idea to at least try it (to gain some perspective on the complexity of making an engine), and that's to say even if you fail; or decide to use an engine later down the line (worthwhile practice and experience).

If you want to, "just like make game", then use a pre-made engine. Most competent engines can be extended to do almost anything you'd want to do even if they don't explicit say it supports x,y, or z.

>is Godot 3 ok for 2d and 3d games

I don't use godot tho the word is that it's the best choice around for 2D atm, but 3D is unfinished (lacking things like (occlusion?) culling and so on).

>>15609294

The only way your limitations would be authentic is if you made it run on actual hardware

>What's next, you're gonna shove shaders and bloom in an NES game and say that's authentic? Gonna add modern lighting to PS1-style models like hipsters do in their nu-poly styles? I bet you think Shovel Knight looks okay too. Fuck off.

And your post was okay up until you started to sperg out

lolis > ara

>be me just now

>try to use printf("Index vals: %d\n", xstart) to print values so I can see what the index is when it segfaults

>THAT'S the line that segfaults

note that xstart is an unsigned int. It is not a pointer.

What the hell?

>>15612737

Nevermind, I've got it.

I think the stack was overflowing and that's all it was giving me.

>>15612737

Whilst it probably isn't relevant to your issue, it's important to remember that values that you throw into var args are never typecasted, even implicitly. So if you're throwing a long long int or short int in there, you have to make special care in using the appropriate size in the printf formatting. Also "%d" is for signed integers and not unsigned integers. You want %u for that.

>>15612737

Pointers ARE integers, to the memory address. This is why you physically couldn't have more than 4gb ram on a 32-bit OS

>>15612820

sizeof(void*) != sizeof(int) on most systems

>>15612844

Sorry, what I mean is that while they aren't directly convertible, they're basically analogous and it's essentially how it works under the hood

>>15612820

There's exceptions to that like PAE or swappable hardware.

>>15612844

Compilers can't agree on how big an int is. C was trying to be platform agnostic by not specifying it.

Pretty cool video

>get everything compiled on godot for gdnative, everything runs smoothly but nothing happens on screen

fug

>>15600388

No, I mean, why is he ripped now? What happened to the old body?

>>15601305

Flat is justice

>>15612603

>turnips have flowers too

okay now you're just making stuff up

Hypothetical question. I have two land provinces and there's a river between them. Let's say that I'm using object-oriented language like C# or C++. Each province is an object with AdjacentProvinces list of type Province. How do I get the information there's a river between those two provinces? Is it even possible or should I rather create class LandConnection in which I'd specify two connected provinces, their distance from each other and if there's a river between them and then create LandConnections list in each province?

>>15614746

This is a graph theory question. What you are talking about is an undirected weighted graph, where there is a number that gives some information about the connection but you can traverse between nodes in either direction.

Because you are developing a game you should be thinking data oriented design, not object oriented design. Do you need fast access? Do you need low memory complexity? What you use depends on what you need the data to do.

There are multiple different ways to store a graph of this type.

There's an object pointer model, where each object contains a pointer to the connected object and a parallel array containing the weights. This has O(n) memory and access complexity, except for the pointers and parallel array which can have worse memory complexity than that.

There's an Adjacency Matix that has O(n^2) memory complexity but O(1) access complexity. Because the graph is undirected the Adjacency Matix would be mirrored along the diagonal, meaning you could do some tricks to cut down on memory usage.

Here's a scientific paper on storing graphs in memory, which also mentions an edge list and adjacency list. It assumes an unweighted graph at the start when talking about storage, but for a weighted graph you would store a third value for each connection in the edge list that describes the nature of the connection. For the adjacency list each number would be two numbers, one for the province and one for the weight.

http://www.sommer.jp/aa10/aa8.pdf

>>15614660

Most tubers do. Potatoes have flowers and even fruit.

>>15614660

Almost all plants produce flowers/seeds, the ones that don't produce spores, but there are other ways for them to propagate as well, but when they do this you get a genetically identical plant, this is generally considered the ideal way to propagate plants for commercial use because it makes the produce homogeneous. the best example for this is Bananas, the most common variety of banana all come from the same tree genetically, probably because it doesn't produce seeds.

>>15614660

Everything you knew is a lie

>>15615573

the slaves better have 3d models too.

>>15616628

because you don't know how computers work.

neither do i.

>>15616628

You need to download more IQs

>>15616628

Get Game Maker.

From experience, depending on what you use, it's usually an overbearingly difficult start since you have no idea where to even begin and you need to learn fifty things right off the bat and no tutorial really tells you WHY you need to know them. It gets easier as you go along, as it just becomes basic logic puzzles.

>>15616644

it was a joke, anon. the rest of my post was supposed to be encouraging.

>>15616628

Knowing and using math makes it easier.

>>15616910

Except that literally only works if one bar is EXACTLY 2x the size of a bar next to it. Which is essentially equivalent to "repeating value" nonsense.

It does save you fucking performance for shit to write code that checks for it. All you do is move some vertex shader computation to the CPU in an extremely inefficient manner.

>>15616929

What part of I suck cocks didn't you understand?

>>15617023

Can you give us a visual example of you doing this?

>>15612942

Any more videos like this? it's really great

>>15615559

Vector3 isnt purely a struct. Unity preallocates them on the stack. There is no performance calling the same new Vector every frame. Hence why you can have Vector3.zero.

>>15614850

Excuse me but what's the deal with strawberries? They have runners, and yet they still need pollination?