/v/ - Video Games

Anyone working with something on Unreal Engine? just asking.

>>15743402

Yeah, anything I can help you with?

>>15743402

I've used it extensively in the past but I am not using it for my current project.

>>15743417

>>15743433

Not really, I am just learning myself if anything I wanted to see if more people were using it, I am more of an artist myself and probably a level designer, I am thinking about making some "test" level layouts with just basic shapes and see if I can share them.

>>15743421

Why did you make base shape to be folded and not open? Wouldn't it be easier to close the fan rather than open it when making the shape key?

>>15743707

Make it co-op, like Mario Kart Double Dash.

>>15743707

full auto is a great game

>>15743500

The closed state is the neutral state because it was easier to make closed and then morph into open than doing the inverse

>>15743707

I think it could work if you plan to base your game around skill. You might just have to map your control scheme properly to accommodate quick menu or control juggling.

>>15743931

>>15743995

>>15744098

I'll just add quick time events to every corner and missions where you need to slowly drive behind a futuristic minority driver as he narrates something about slavery and why you need to apologize.

Anyone try lumberyard? you don't have to pay a royalty to chinks

>>15744382

Thought about it, but you're forced to use Amazon's servers, if you ever do something online. And given how complicated huge engines are, I want to stick with an engine for many projects so I have time to actually master it.

>>15744382

Looks too big and complicated for amateur game deving

Currently working on a project, should be able to put a pre alpha on steam by the end of next week, also considering itch and making a patreon or something, but im not sure if i could offer much.

Also the game will probably get banned or cause a bit of butthurt.

>>15745823

Steam recently changed their policy to only ban games that are obvious trolls (low effort trolly games with no intrinsic value, asset flip games, etc), and not based on butthurt.

If you make a good game, but it causes butthurt; no worries.

If you game's only purpose is to troll, isn't fun, and is low-quality trash; expect to get banned.

>>15745929

You can look into makehuman.

>>15745935

>>15745929

MakeHuman has some decent stuff which you can customize.

Anyone know what happened to that ss13 clone in the doom engine some anon was working on?

>>15745929

I never could find any good animation ready rig with IKs and all. What I advice is to just search for some free rigged model, it will probably have good enough weights, but lack IK controls, just add them yourself.

>>15745929

What exactly do you need? I can make you a quick one in MakeHuman if you want.

>>15745853

well at the moment its low quality, as in pre alpha, still using cubes as graphics, and not all gameplay is implemented yet. think I should wait until more of it is done to avoid the ban?

>>15746659

I doubt you'll get banned because of pre-alpha quality of assets.

Although, I wouldn't start selling it if it's pre-alpha quality, but that's me; as you'll turn a lot of potential customers off at the sight of a "low-effort" game (from the audience's perspective).

Better to play-test it while it's at that stage (free access), and at minimum have it at beta quality to release it as an early access w/a lowered price tag.

Where and what is that Indiana Jones game? Last time he was here it took me forever to get him to spite out his game for some reason. It better be a him too btw or I swear.

>>15746811

Not sure what game you're referring to. The one with the autistic grass ocutting? That has a main character with a hat.

>>15747430

>ocutting

cutting*

How did I even make that typo?

>>15746774

Skip to 4:14. Clean the kitchen house wife.

>>15746038

Would you know how to make your own sound effects via a byte buffer that gets pushed to an audio stream? I guess writing my own synth?

>>15746774

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

IF I WANT TO SPEND MONTHS OPTIMIZING MY FUCKING GRASS I WILL REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>15747917

Stop embarrassing me

>>15748217

>Put all that effort into grass

>Give players the ability to remove it

Don't you want them to see where your effort went?

>>15748350

This is the line of logic that leads to unskippable cutscenes, and it can go fuck itself straight back into hell where it came from.

>>15748379

DO YOU NOT HAVE GRASS?

>>15748350

Wouldn't you put Mexicans in your game just so you can send them back?

It's the same principle

>>15748350

Grass grows back, unless the player builds on top of it, so they can always see the effort unless they fill the entire map with props or crops

Also cutting grass will make animal feed, it is a game mechanic, not just cosmetic

>>15748301

I could do that yeah, or just save the sidetail style for another character that doesn't have animal ears…

>>15748389

>>15748428

GRASS THE REICH

LAWN WAR NOW

The day of the mow is coming.

>>15743402

Not lately, perhaps one of these days I'll get back to deving.

I need a template for a lot of things

I don't like anyone else's templates

how do I make my own templates

how will I know mine will suffice?

>>15751906

Making sprites for a 2d fighter is a nightmare.

>>15751944

What kind of templates?

>>15751906

> I only watched a tutorial series once and I only know how to use booleans and if statements

That's a victory. It's a progressive process. You will learn slowly, but as long as you keep learning, you'll get there in no time.

Don't try to make a fighting game off the bat, though. Start simple and easy, and move up. The first thing you should make is Pong or Tic Tac Toe. One of your first games should be a simple Mario clone.

>>15752002

all things

>>15752002

>Making sprites for a 2d fighter is a nightmare.

Yes, that's why I'm gonna do 3d graphics

>>15752034

That doesn't make it much easier on you. It's way easier to work with 2D sprites, it's just a bit more time-consuming to make them. Even so, making and texturing good 3D models isn't easy. Please take my advice above. Don't start with a fighter. Take a week or so to make pong or something like that first. Start simple and work your way up, or at best you'll get a broken mess and end up burned out.

>>15752099

won't I get burned out even fast from making stuff I don't even enjoy.

I never liked 2D Mario

>>15752008

>>15752099

So it's okay to start out with Unity? Don't have to use visual studio?

Do the Risk of Rain guys hang out here, or did they stay on halfchan?

>>15752326

Unity is both an engine an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) - it has everything you need in a self contained sandbox. Of course, you can use other toolsets to create content (eg Notepad++ or VS, etc).

VS is just a code editor, basically

>>15752326

>>15752334

Unity used Monodevelop as IDE until version 2018, now it's shipped together with Visual Studio 2017 Community as far as i remember. However, i recommend dropping VS2017 in the install option and go with Visual Studio Code which is more lightweight and less of a clusterfuck and also supported by Unity.

>>15752366

I'm just using VS 2010 Express C# edition for my own projects

>Have a Settings class that once passed into the root controller object, shouldn't have any values changed

>Controller and components have a Reset() function

>Not sure whether I should create the array if it's null, and/or initialize missing values if they end up null, or just set everything to 0/default

>>15751906

>>15752099

Fighters aren't difficult if you're willing to ease up on the graphics. I say use squares for characters and make it functional. After it works and you have something to show it'll be easy to find a talented artist to complement you.

>>15752144

>Literal foxy milf.

Any AGDG composers/musicians capable of creating some semi Michael Jackson/dance beat-seque, 8-bit, knock-off tracks? I'm likely pushing my luck, but it would be neat if there were was one willing to make a few tracks (4~5, maybe 6) in their spare time just for the sake of practice/experience.

Not asking for high quality stuff. just something that sounds catchy or funky.

>>15753090

post topology

>>15751906

Learn about state machines, they're used in fightan games.

>>15747848

Sorry, no idea. I'm only using the tools provided with LIKO-12.

>>15754386

How is that different from PICO-8? Is it the same devs? The UI looks similar

>>15755493

>>15755353

Are you using Godot or Unity?

>>15755510

Unity.

>>15753154

>Learn about <academic buzzword>

This only confuses beginners.

>>15755353

now if only you could find some taste

>>15755633

State machine is not an academic buzzword.

>>15755660

It's an overly complicated way to describe a simple concept. It's terminology used by academics and wage slaves to make themselves appear more official and important. It's used by script kiddies to make themselves look smart and look like they know what they're talking about. It's a term used by people that can't explain what they really mean. Can't say "logging", it has to be "data mining". Can't have "programming", it has to be "computer science", as if banging a hammer is "hammer science". Can't have "anonymous function", it has to be "lambda". A Greek letter, how descriptive. It's the same thing in mathematics. Academics like to show off chalk boards filled with arcane symbols and weird formatting to make themselves look like Einstein when what they're doing can just as well be defined in plain English. It's a trick used to sell degrees, acquire grants, makes people that know what they're doing look bad, and assure the job security of amateur programmers. You see this all the time when programming as a career. The boss, who is not a programmer, is impressed by buzzwords. It's unfair to actual programmers that talk like grown ups. If you enter a company and they tell you about how they want to do cool sounding stuff like "artificial intelligence"(unless it's for vidya), you know you're in a bad place.

>>15755776

Wwhile writing this tldr you could have just read up what state machines are or watched an educational video.

>>15755776

>overly complicated

If you're a retard, maybe.

>>15755864

I have no dog in this argument, but that just wrong. I'm leaving now.

>>15755776

I-Is this a copypasta I don't know about?

>>15755776

> It's the same thing in mathematics. Academics like to show off chalk boards filled with arcane symbols and weird formatting to make themselves look like Einstein when what they're doing can just as well be defined in plain English.

This is really good bait. It isn't even bullshit in its entirety, it's just applied to the completely wrong thing.

>>15753158

>>15755353

Is it better to sculpt models or to make them with the boxing and extruding shit manually

I learned how to make models via extruding (my topology is shit though I find it very hard), can't sculpt but if its easier i'll learn how to sculpt

>>15757371

I always extrude, i don't like sculpting

>>15755776

I'll never understand why people get upset when different terms are used in different circles. It's all just definitions; any person with a functioning brain can learn vocabulary. Some people will use academic terminology to sound smart, but saying that's the only reason for academic language to develop the way it has is retarded.

>programming is computer science

>logging is data mining

>anonymous functions are lambdas

If you think you can equate any of these terms, it's time to pick up a book.

>>15758091

The analogy is too good. I'm going to have to refer to >>15755493 as Pygmalianon now.

>>15758571

Don't mess with Unity. It's a sloppy engine hacked together for the sole purpose of profit off of gullible small dev teams. Go with Godot. Even the biggest amount of technically trouble with it surpasses the cons of Unity.

>>15758553

I like the third one better.

>>15758576

Can you use actual languages on it yet or is GDscript still mandatory? As long as it is, it might as well be unusable.

>>15756766

The 2D engine is superior to Unity's, sure, but the 3D engine isn't really ready yet.

>>15758586

meant for >>15758576 and >>15758571

>>15758576

Godot is still unusuable and poorly supported, suggesting it to newfags is somewhere between optimistic and malicious

>>15758584

C# is available, but I don't think that's what you mean by usable languages. There's plenty of bindings for Godot like Nim and GDnative C++.

>>15758589

>unusable

>poorly supported

Only if you're using the 3D engine, stop spreading FUD.

>>15758571

>Graduate from college for programming, perhaps 6 years ago jesus fuck what am I doing with my life

>Needed a co-op credit, apply to a local gamedev studio and work pro bono

>Don't know shit about XNA or C#, fumble my way through

>Didn't write one usable piece of code for the 4 months I was there

>Wasn't the lead programmer thank god, but let the team down

Feels bad man

>>15758623

Want to know how I know you're not from around here?

>>15758625

> hadn't seen before like vectors

Did you drop out of highschool?

>>15758625

In the academic sense, a Vector is a unit of data like an array (several contiguous members). In /agdg/ and general gamedev terms, a Vector is usually a collection of 3 floats, X Y and Z to denote a coordinate. Or a velocity, whatever you wanna use it as.

You get 60 updates per second normally, so the update logic is being called 60 times a second. If the paddle had a speed of 4, it wouldn't make sense to move it by 4 every update, it would go 240 units (probably 240 pixels) per second. Way too fast. Instead, you read the delta time (usually 1/60 of a second, or 0.166667f) and scale your movement by that amount. Thus, it will move the expected amount (4) in one second

>>15758646

It's safe to assume he's seen all of this before and just forgot

>>15758381

Have you checked your physics layers?

>>15758646

I made it past high school but I never paid attention in math class and even fall asleep during exams a few times

hmm..never studied in general tbh

so there is the possibility that I either dozed off on it or we didn't even learn about them, I was put in low education classes after all and in my country you're expected to do an apprenticeship after highschool and you go to a certain school depending on your job.

And well, I am a NEET and never bothered with that.

>>15758381

Did you set collision shapes for them?

>>15757486

Looks nice

>>15758666

You expect to be able to gamedev without knowing basic high-school math? Sorry to break it to you but it's not possible, learn math first.

>>15758625

for loops are very usable bro, here's an example (in pseudocode)

array<ship> ships;

for(int i=0; i<20; i++) {

enemy e = new enemy();

e.x = random(1, 500);

e.y = random(1, 500);

ships.add(e);

}

Here it's making an array of ships (a container for the enemies), then a for loop runs 20 times, creating enemies, giving them a random position between 1 and 500 in both x and y axis, and adding them to the array.

for(int i=0; i<ships.length; i++){

ships[i].blow_up();

}

And here you're iterating through all elements of ships and calling their individual blowing up methods.

>>15758680

Is that an enemy? He looks so happy. Is this a children's game?

>>15758625

>what the fugg can i use for/while loops for?

holy xd, loops are fundamental way of programming, it makes computers computers.

if you don't know what % does, holy epic

>>15758683

Thanks

>>15758704

I understand the for loop there but how does it add them to the array and whats the use of an array

what is an array

>>15758716

>if you don't know what % does, holy epic

isn't it just a different kind of division?

>>15758638

>graduate from uni after studying CS a couple of months ago

>take a break first, then apply at a local game studio

>come out on top of applicants, but don't take the job, because I wanted a higher salary than they were willing to pay

>in meantime, Anon from here thinks about entering a gamejam

>volunteer and get role as lead programmer

>everything comes together nicely and the game is shaping up to become something great (and not just by gamejam standards)

Feels good man.

Don't give up, anon. If you pull yourself together, you can become a great developer. And we need those, if we want gaming to be more than overhyped, but fundamentally simple, AAA games and pretentious propaganda pieces made by the indie clique and their suckers.

>>15758725

% is the modulo operator in basically every language. In C# specifically, it's the "remainder" operator. So if you do 10 % 4, it will yield 2 (the remainder of the division)

Please do yourself a favor and read all of these:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/

>>15758704

>for(int i=0; i<ships.length; i++)

What are you writing this in, C?

>>15758721

>what is an array

Wew. Are you for real? Arrays are basically lists you use, when you want to store multiple variables together.

>>15758735

he said it was pseudocode. It's what all the main game engines like unity use.

>>15758725

ok epic, the % is a modulus operator, i hope you know what operators are.

a modulus operator is useful for whole numbers and finding the remainder after doing division

for example:

>5 / 2 = 2

>5 % 2 = 1

if you use your brain for a second, you would realize that every odd whole number divided by two always have a remainder of 1.

for floating point numbers you don't need %.

read a book or read the manual

>>15758721

ships.add(e) is adding the enemy e to the array ships (your language may vary). The array was declared as array<ship> ships: this means it's an array of name ships that can only hold objects of type ship. The array can grow or shrink as you add or delete it's elements. An array is like a numbered list whose elements you can reference by using its index number. You don't know how many enemies there might be in your scene, so you need to procedurally add them and make them work. By using an array and for loops you can tie some function to all of them, whether its 5 or 500.

>>15758735

C but simplified (vector.add instead of vector.push_back and no pointers).

>>15758754

There's no point in explaining this shit, you're retreating ground that has been covered literally thousands of times. If he has the right form of autism, he'll get it with or without your help. There's a certain futility to it that you'll understand eventually.

>>15758754

ok I just get triggered every time I see an array iteration with for(;;) syntax.

>>15758724

>>15758711

Kek, it might just be my undead bias showing but I can't think of a way to make him seem unfriendly. I'm basically trying to make a SRPG where you play as Dracula/The Dark Lord from the Castlevania series. The skeleton would be one of your starting troops. It would be more like Langrisser than Fire Emblem with you controlling stronger "leader" units and "troops", with leaders having a aura that makes their troops stronger and no penalty if your troops die but if the leader dies the rest of their group leaves or maybe gets a severe penalty.

>>15758763

Occasionally still better than what clang with -O3 can spit out.

Also, muh SIMD instructions

>>15758668

their shapes are a child of area2d, does this cause anything

>>15758778

>area2d

wrong

>>15758781

wat

>>15758812

did you add a rigid body

>>15758812

you use a collisionshape not an area2d

>>15758819

rigidbody -> area2d -> collision shape

>>15758834

I actually like the smiling skeleton, there's something unique about it

>>15758834

The last one he kind of looks like an angry mexican / mongolian.

>>15758834

*shouldn't

Fuck I'm a mess right now

>>15758777

I used paint to take the screenshot so things might have turned out funky.

>>15758845

Maybe I'm being too autistic obsessing over a pixel, lol.

>>15758847

I'm sure he appreciates that anon.

>>15758873

I'm guessing it's the mouth looking like a mustache, kek.

>>15758721

An array is like a list of variables within a variable.

In Unity it would work like this.

< First you set a variable as an Array

> public int[] arrayVariable;

Keep in mind you could also set float[], string[] or whatver type you fancy

< Now you set the "length" of the arrayVariable to let's say 2 of whatever type you set.

> arrayVariable = new int[2];

< Now that the length is set you store the variables within the Array however you like

> arrayVariable[0] = 123; arrayVariable[1] = 456; arrayVariable[2] = 789;

This is useful because

1. You don't need to make hundrends of different named variables to save information.

2. Arrays can be used in conjunction with loops to set or get information. For example if you want to get the information out of the array with a loop:

for(int i = 0; i < "lenght of the array"; i++)

{

Debug.Log("Show array value: " + arrayVariable[i]);

}

Instead of

Debug.Log("Show array value: " + arrayVariable[0]);

Debug.Log("Show array value: " + arrayVariable[1]);

Debug.Log("Show array value: " + arrayVariable[2]);

…. etc.

>>15758959

Thanks anon that makes sense.

Can you give me an example of practical use for arrays? Like lets say in a 2d mario game.

>>15758980

A practical use might be storing player names in a multiplayer game. When player join you store the name in a variable like this:

> playerName[1] = "Dude";

When someone else joins you make another

> playerName[2] = "OtherDude";

and so on.

Now with a simple loop you can display that list when a player presses Tab. You could also store his score, or maybe different enemies with different names and values. You just group everything under one variable name, just like all Citizens in a country are classified under "citizen" but have different ID numbers to identify them.

>>15759031

>>15759073

thank you, it's much clearer to me now

>>15758980

>Can you give me an example of practical use for arrays? Like lets say in a 2d mario game.

Can you go do some practice on your own?

>>15758980

Arrays are for iteration, they are a set of items that have a specific order. You make an array when you got a set of items so you can cycle through them. This whole post is a series of character in a specific order for example, it is an array and the value at position 0 of this post/array is ">".

How the hell do you guys do your GUI menus?

I was hoping to use something like QT, and I've been googling around, but I'm still a little confused; it seems as though I'd have the SFML render target as a QT widget inside my window. I can make that work, but in general I'd like to be able to draw the game in the background while my menu is overlaid.

What are my options here?

>>15759203

Surely you can capture the image of the screen to use as the background for the menu?

>>15759232

oh, like getting the raster image from my embedded rendertarget widget and then setting the background on every frame?

yeah i guess i could do that lmao, i'd just feel weird about it

>>15759203

I can tell you that SFML doesn't natively support clipping regions, so you can't stop text from flowing out, I know that much

>>15759269

Sage for double post. I should mention this is my high poly mesh. Many details will be baked into the texture of the low poly mesh and not actually be a part of the geometry.

Also I didn't mean to reply.

>>15759269

Do you have the tax stamp for suppressor

>>15759269

Looks good but I don't know anything about guns. Is the bullet cannon lips supposed to be that long?

>>15759342

>bullet cannon lips

Thank you for this

>>15759423

Will you use subsonic bullets so the suppressor actually works as pop culture expects?

It's a .45 caliber so yes.

>learn what gimbal lock is

is there any reason to use any rotation that is prone to gimbal lock?

>>15759684

No.

<C#

>Need bitflags on an inventory manager so you can track which items you have

>But this is abstracted and the enum type wont necessarily be known ahead of time

>Therefore I should use int or uint for 32 inventory flags

>But I could just as easily break my internal convention of "int is the largest type" to support a long / 64 flags instead

What do

>>15759718

Ah christ I just tried experimenting with bitflags and no matter what I tried, it wouldn't let me declare 0x80000000 as a value with the int32 enum fields (it was saying the value was too large). I was trying to pass it the lowest value possible at 0x7FFFFFFF or whatever, but couldn't figure out how to express it

So the answer then, is to just use uint32 because it covers the same range of values, but it's more intuitive to work with. And the values aren't going to be added or anything, it's strictly a bitfield, so it should be fine

>>15759718

>>15759774

How about just using an int and not freak out about it? You're not working with 70's moon lander RAM. First rule is not to pre-optimize.

>>15759794

I'm not preoptimizing, I'm making sure my design isn't a clusterfuck

>>15759803

Have it your way, just be careful about overthinking things. There is no end to that pit.

>>15759540

btw i just added a second collision shape but im not entirely sure why it isnt causing problems with detecting itself but whatever, it just werks

>>15759774

>he doesn't want his entire save file to take up 8 bytes a slot

>>15759865

I did think about how to format things a few ways. Replay files would be a series of int32 values (bits used are 16 timestamp 8 player1 input, 8 player2 input). As for maps, they'd just be a blob of bytes, essentially an array of which object or tile to create at which location. I could be more verbose and include state or split them if I chose but this could inflate every map file 4x over. Though I'd have the meta information like title and author in another file

>>15759269

>>15759423

Looks accurate to the original. Needs grip stippling. Definitely not my choice of gun with the sloped rear sight and European style mag release.

Unity ECS is getting close.

Cool demo from their recent blog update I meant to post a bit back showing the performance off.

Btw for anyone looking to use it, it's questionable whether or not you should… yet.

It's still not very user friendly due to the point that they have yet to converted all of the needed components/systems to pure ECS.

In the mean time, currently you can do hybrid-ECS (using traditional GOs/components + a bridged pure ECS side) which, yes, does increase performance by a bit; though you'll have to retool it per update, and have to refactor a lot of code when they fully release it.

In the coming years the old OO-component Unity side will get deprecated, and the ECS side will be the first-class citizen; so it's worth keeping an eye on.

>>15760589

Also quick notes of performance:

~4.5million mesh renderers (not sure how many on screen at once)

~5k audio sources

~5k AI agents

So, fully multithreaded engine, automatic DoD memory architecture, and burst compilation to generate optimized machine code per platform (so optimized per CPU architecture).

I wish it was ready for production, fugg, and sage for double post

>>15760589

>>15760619

Interesting, will watch later. Not using Unity anymore, but I'm still interested in seeing where it's going.

>>15760630

I don't mean as a screenshot

How do you trigger it in the game?

>>15760317

Absolutely procrastination, obviously.

>>15760589

Have the Godot devs said anything about multithreading?

>>15761555

I don't know, but I bet they have some type of asynchronous stuff.

Reason I say so, is that it's a standard feature for performance heavy portions of engines in current year + 3

The "fully multithreaded" portion is what's particularly awe inspiring; that is, for a consumer engine.

Afaik this is the first consumer engine with a dedicated API for writing streamlined async game logic that auto-organizes/accesses data in a DoD manner (also handles stuff like race conditions and other pitfalls of multithreading with their implementation).

I bet certain non-consumer engines have this, like frostbite and the engine that mike acton was working b4 joining unity, but yeah, proprietary/non-consumer engines.

Hopefully they're working towards something similar, but I don't know if they use ECS or a similar design architecture that makes a streamlined multithreading API feasible.

goddamn, AI is really fun to code, and to implement neat probably not nuanced ideas with.

Also neat to see it work.

QUICK SURVEY

>What implementation of AI do you use, or plan to use?

>f.e. behavior trees, GOAP, mixture of a few interpretations?

>>15763233

Since the AI I'm working on right now is really simple, I settled for a good old state machine. I was thinking about a pushdown automaton, too, but decided against that. I didn't see the need for a stack and didn't want to make it any more complicated than it has to be.

>>15761555

godot already has multi-threading

>>15763233

Can you give an example of Behavior Trees?

>>15763233

I came up with super simple racing A.I. by using beacons.

First i drive the circuit myself a few rounds and every few meters a script sets a new beacon position (based on where i am) and beacon size (based on my current speed). Now based on which beacon it is currently at i just let the A.I. steer towards the next beacon and it lowers or increases speed based on current beacon size, driving the track similarly like i did.

A very rough and simple but surprisingly well working racing A.I. and if i just vary the position and sizes of the beacons with a randomizer a bit i can have infinite variations of A.I.s driving the track. I can have the A.I. make mistakes be veering off too much from a beacon deliberately. I can also make it overtake other drivers by temporarely setting an "overtake" beacon left or right of the driver in front of it and once it passed it goes back to the track beacons. The best part is that the bit of sloppyness as it follows my path as a base makes it very human like, rather than seeming like robots who follow the perfect path with perfect breaking and acceleration every round.

In a way, the people who will play this game will all indirectly drive against me.

>>15764078

forgot about gamasu being censored

https://archive.fo/xn3VB

>>15755012

It's an opensource knockoff made in Love2D with less crazy restrictions, and still in active development. Currently the only thing it's missing is the music sequencer. The nice thing about being love based means I can export my game to all major platforms really easily.

>>15763233

I use draw.io to rough draft my logic before implementing it. The actual structure is just a bunch of conditional switching. After running 'git ls-files | grep "\.cs$" | xargs wc -l

', I have about 10k lines of code so far. Which includes tooling as well.

I'm kinda stuck with handling my actor movement. Basically the way it works is that one actor can occupy a tile at a time. It flags a target tile and at 50% movement, it actually updates position and releases the previous tile.

My problem is twofold. First, using this exact logic, I can't have objects push each other. Second, I want to have objects able to have one set of movement constraints when something moves them, but a second set when it moves itself. (Eg a tile pushing the player onto dirt would do nothing but a player moving into dirt themselves would remove it)

One idea I had was to set a movement target which gets validated or cancelled but this seems finnicky at best. Not sure of a good way to handle this shit, and it really is the last thing keeping me from beginning to make actual game object logic

>>15764462

damn, that's pretty intense.

It's certainty working well so far, but don't you think it'll get a bit out of hand past a certain point?

Although, the drafted logic before hand makes it feasible for a bit longer, but I'd imagine the lack of an in-engine visualization will give you issues later down the line (or, returning to it after a break).

I'd imagine something like a behavior tree being really useful for shinobu's logic, and nearly matching what you already have; while taking future maintainability into consideration.

As, you'd be keeping the "core logic" of the behaviors you already have, but you'd be making the conditional state switching visually represented via a behavior tree GUI, and be able to visually organize behaviors into hierarchies.

As you'd basically be doing the same thing using conditional logic (put into control nodes), but having a GUI interface in-engine making behaviors easier to extend since it would all be visually laid out and visually editable in-engine.

So, basically what you're already doing in the rough draft for conditional logic (but via arranging nodes), but, actually implemented in engine instead of as a prep step; all you'd need to do is code the behaviors.

Further down the line you could also use her senses for how she reacts to the world.

There's also things like context sensitivity in the form of emotions, and you could change her reactions and possible actions based on that.

While something like games (chopsticks) being a specific state that is only entered when of a certain mood, and having games organized in the "hobby" hierarchy of states.

F.e. activityState -> idle state, social state, hobby state.

Hobby state has sub-states like: fishing, chopsticks, etc; each being different sub-branches in the hobby branch of the behavior tree.

It's just a suggestion. Though I think it would pay off in the long run.

>>15763233

>What implementation of AI do you use, or plan to use?

Old school state machines and utility AI.

Behavior trees are akin to high level languages, you can construct them on the fly at runtime, but you can also hardcode them if they're static, unless you want that runtime behavior, I don't see the purpose of using them, same thing can be said about GOAP, you're using A* to discover the steps to do X when you can code those steps and bundle them in smart objects.

>>15765858

>I don't see the purpose of using them

It really depends.

A GUI can be a life saver when it comes to deep hierarchies of behaviors; while also having consistency in implementation.

It can make things a lot easier to maintain in terms of high-level logic, and then can make the overall behavior of an AI easier to extend, to visualize, and so on than just code with no GUI.

Although, I've seen some implementation of behavior trees where the dev atomize behaviors to the point of making a behavior tree a mess (basically straw-manning behavior trees); which is wrong imo, as a behavior tree should be high level logic, and not low-level logic (low-lvl logic should be hard coded and using different specialized systems).

>GOAP, you're using A* to discover the steps to do X when you can code those steps

This really depends on your requirements.

The point of planners is to perform dynamic problem solving in a non-static environment.

Each tool has its uses.

>Old school state machines and utility AI.

Nice, I really like how many issues utility AI solves; it has a lot of "utility". I plan on using utility functions for certain aspects of my AI.

>>15764430

>love based means I can export my game to all major platforms really easily.

Are we in the same timeline?

>>15766009

love is shorthand for Love2D, it exports to all PC platforms and iOS / Android. So no console releases.

>>15766230

How are you doing that? A mask?

>>15766523

I first use a ComputeShader to add grass to a list of triangles, then I run another to remove any grass from the previous result that fit in any of these boxes. If the boxes move or change size, I need to regenerate the grass tile.

The actual "does fit on the box" is actually a "have a positive height to any of the 6 planes of the box", must be true for all 32 boxes (I do in batches of 32 boxes, I choose 32 at a whim). Since the shader have to go through 32 matrices regardless of how many I actually need, the algorithm happens to always work on identity matrices. The box only care about the source point of the grass, so a tall grass can touch the box, so can a grass swing into it

Since plowing a field is something you don't do more than once every 3-5 frames, there's little issue with it, especially since I can cut the grass that is about to be removed, and then, when the tile is successfully regenerated, I replace the old one.

Should work, and should be done by tomorrow

>>15760522

I'm posting from another computer so my ID has changed.

>Looks accurate to the original.

Thanks.

>Needs grip stippling.

Grip stippling will be added when I texture the gun, along with the text and logo on the barrel. For me at least it's easier that way.

>Definitely not my choice of gun with the sloped rear sight and European style mag release.

What is your choice of gun? I'm always open to suggestions. I need a different gun for the guards and possibly another option for the player.

I have thought about letting the player change the sights, but that's way down at the bottom of the list of things that I need to do.

>>15766795

>This is the best (…) I can manage

WRONG

>>15766795

That's a pretty damn good one.

>>15766795

He looks gentle. That's the face of a skelly dad giving his skelly kid life advice.

>>15766882

This reminds me of old-school 3ds max tutorials.

>>15766269

Right, I do not consider consoles as major target platforms. Win/Lin/Mac/Android don't go obsolete every few years so they're much more appealing targets.

Question. Should my control surfaces (alerons, elevators, and rudder) be separate objects? Should I connect them by bones or should I leave them to be rotated by the engine and simply have them be children to the plane parent object?

>>15764489

Okay I have a decent idea of what I'm going to do.

>Push(actor, direction)

>actor unoccupy self's tile

>call push on actor to the left

>recursive push calls until it hits the end

>then, it attempts to move left

>everyone else moves left

>not a problem since everything unoccupied itself

>movement occurs as normal

The only thing I'd have to do here is track the "movement type" to make sure it doesn't unoccupy the tile again at 50% movement

>>15766795

That's really good anon. Have I just turned this into a skelly making thread?

Shmup anon here.

Working on having a complete level cycle (level intro, game section, mid boss, game section, warning screen, boss, debriefing status screen)

Had to work out some render switching as script event and it work so far. Now for the rendering part with UI/Warning screen and such, I would need some overlay stuff and I've been reading about Frame buffer Objects so that I render separate things and then composite all this on screen.

Need to test this.

On another front, I will need to think about music, and general theme/melody for stages…

>>15768360

If realtime soft bodies are not an option, then maybe a pipeline could be made to simulate them in all sort of poses and automate the weight paints based on that.

>>15768360

>>15768525

Manual animation of the clothing just isn't going to work, especially if you want more than one set of clothes. Imagine doing all of that manual labor for each set of clothes for each character.

>>15767842

I sort my actor array at the start of the update loop. Removed actors get swapped and added actors get appended, theres a pool of 2048 instances. The problem is that after the first update there is no guarantee it will stay sorted. It would be silly to sort the array every update.

Yet im not sure how to maintain a way to find the actors by position without doubling up or a lot of sorting overhead. Theres only ever one actor at a position but i dont want the game to crash because of bad behavior logic

>>15769080

>I just went around this by having my clothes remove the underlying body skin vertices.

This is a good solution to the clipping problem; by the way you describe it each piece of clothing has a list of vertices it hides on the parent body mesh? That was my idea too but I'm much more 3D artist than programmer and couldn't figure out how to achieve this in Godot. Depending on the clothing, eg: underwear or revealing fabrics you often can't get away with it however.

>>15769146

Right some types of clothing you can't do this method but you would probably have a lot less clipping with things like the underwear. I'm not hiding a list of vertices. I'm just literally splitting the mesh into: torso, hands, legs, and feet. Each piece of clothing corresponds to one type.

>>15769080

>clothes remove the underlying body skin vertices.

This is what we are planning to do later

>>15769080

>Some things you can't really visualize because they are so complex.

It sounds like you're disillusioned here.

Also, describe for me what this means: "I use draw.io to rough draft my logic before implementing it."

Is that not drawing out, and visualizing logic?

You can visualize any set of logic, but it has to be at the right level of detail.

>I think the bigger issue is keeping consistent and clean code.

I think these are important too, but they're sub-qualities of the overall quality of maintainability.

You seem set in your ways, with a tinge of defensiveness, and I respect that; so I'll leave u be.

>>15770807

If it's your only shape key you can switch it with the basis and save your work.

>>15770837

No, i did over the Basis because i forgot to make a new shape key, so i modified the only thing in there

Luckily i always make backups, but that was still 1 hour and half of work wasted

>>15770865

>>15770865

No really, you don't need to lose your work. I'll make an example quickly.

>>15770807

>>15770865

Next time make a second "safety" shapekey out of your base shapekey, which in case you fuck up you can set as a new base.

has anyone here used udemy for anything? I don't want to be a faggot but pretty much everything there is cheap today and I might get a tutorial on something if its any good.

>>15770883

Too late bro, i already restarted

>>15770914

I usually have stuff like that, i simply forgot completely to make the shapekey this time because i thought i already had it, since i had made them for the last 3 meshes i worked on

Is there a good resource for documenting shit such as file structures?

>>15770807

>>15770865

>>15770914

Also if i remember correctly you can swap shapekeys/vertex positions from one object to another, so you can load up your old version and give your new version what it needs and the other way around. This way you don't waste your work.

Just search shape key transfer for Blender or whatever program you use.

>>15770931

If i fuck up again i will do, thanks for the tip

>>15770964

thanks, saved

>>15769773

>Also, describe for me what this means

It means just what I said, that some things can't be visualized, implying some things can be.

>you can visualize any set of logic at the right level of detail

Yes but using a tool like draw.io limits my ability because it only goes so far. I can spend a while making my trees in it but because it's so simple without any sub tree instances or live runtime flow demonstration, I'm sometimes left with myself following my graph with my finger. Which again, can make it hard to visualize. I don't think it's ever as simple as "if you can chart it properly, you can visualize it".

>they're sub-qualities of the overall quality of maintainability

That's the entire point of drafting and designing your logic before implementing it, so you can have better maintainability and reduce bugs. It's very important and my end goal. I don't see why being defensive made you need to point it out. If you or I want to improve, challenge it.

>>15771046

Nice. You should make grass cutting similar to how it worked in Wind Waker, because the act of cutting up grass itself for rupees was fun. Also maybe make the hoe patches align themselves so it doesn't trigger peoples autism when all the bare ground is uneven.

>>15771152

>It means just what I said

It was a rhetorical question

>That's the entire point of drafting and designing your logic before implementing it

Where did I say otherwise? In fact, I actually said something similar in my initial suggestion post.

>If you or I want to improve, challenge it.

I suggestion something that you could think about, and if it didn't suit your current design process; then all the more power to u.

I don't have any invested financial, emotional, or otherwise self-assessed value vested in your decision; hence, no reason to challenge what you deem is best for your project.

That's the point of a suggestion. Something to take or leave, and not something to get defensive about; though it's understandable bcs it's about you waifu my bad, and I'm just pointing it out because I can sympathize.

Anyways, it doesn't really matter to me to what you decide, hence:

>so I'll leave u be

Preferably, lets just end this here so we can both get back to developing.

>>15771162

>Also maybe make the hoe patches align themselves

After I finish fixing the grass cutting stuff I will start the grid system, where you will put all kinds of stuff, like irrigation, fences, and of course, the hoe patches.

Using a tool that normally requires a grid will place the grid centered on the item (hoe patch in the case of the hoe) and oriented to the player rotation.

Using a specialized tool, which will be just some sticks and a rope, you will have better control of the grid placement.

We are not sure how we will handle non-aligned grids coming close to one another, however

>>15771255

We already discussed this, anything placed near a grid gets merged into that grid, to make a new grid you have to place stuff far away

Which one of you assholes made this? Why are there gondolas in this? I thought nobody bothered to even register them in their minds outside of 8ch.

>>15771283

>sees a gondola

<*HUH HUH HUH *AUTISTIC WHEEZING AND PUFFING* HUH HUH HUH M-M-M-M-M-M-MM-M-M-M-MUH 8–8-8-8-8-8-8-EIGHT CHAN???!?!?!?*

You have autism

>>15771294

anon, I just haven't seen a gondola mentioned anywhere else

>>15771282

maybe you should ready the last line again

>>15771319

kek You didn't capture my dubs tho

How much time do you guys spend on coding/gamedev per day?

Got a job?

I didn't think this through well enough.

How do I do this? Should I do bones instead?

>>15772345

>until the y-axis with the green line I drew

*until the y-axis aligns with the green line I drew

>>15770162

My old ID is back now.

The HK45 is guaranteed to be in the game provided H&K doesn't find out and sue so any gun I'm going to add in is going to handle differently from the HK45. I'll probably give the guards all Glock 19s w/o threaded barrels. Different caliber. No manual safety. No exposed hammer. No option to suppress.

>Will those differences be modeled in the game?

Yes, except for the differences between European and American style mag releases.

>The sight angle would only matter if you plan on implementing the ability for the player to rack the slide with one hand.

The way I have it is that the player could rack the slide one handed no matter what. I'll add in that they can only pull the slide part of the way back if the other hand is holding something, and if I add in the ability to change sights I'll add a flag that lets the player rack the slide completely with one hand with right angle sights.

>>15771776

Vid related. You can do what he talks about in blender, the tools are just called different things.

>>15773358

Those post dates are pretty far apart.

>>15773526

You better not be bullying your waifu, sir. That's a crime in some places.

>>15773581

>so it's a pretty stale and abused meme at this point

Who cares if its used by other people? You sound like a hipster.

>>15771776

>anyone know any good resources for low poly 3D modeling?

>>>/artass/407/

This is a good place to start. You can see the common trends everyone does

>also does anyone know how much modern computers can handle these days? like for polys or textures?

From what I understand it's not the polygons or textures that rapes the hardware it's the shaders and how you're partitioning your levels.

>>15773786

>Abandon all feti ye who enter here.

>>15773067

Will there be malfunctions like double feeds and stovepipes in your game?

>>15773696

>Hell, try using the NPC meme or the boomer meme here without getting called a cuckchanner and subsequently banned.

That's because the boomer meme is shit

>>15773786

I am at a loss, what does it all mean?

>>15771526

Had a full time job deving a backend, since it's working nicely I'm more relegated to support/maintenance mostly.

Recently there have been some demands for stuff so I'm a bit busy.

Project is going slower than I would like, I've recently did rendering to framebuffers before compositing them. But I might have to add some stencil, or have 2-3 quads for UI rendering.

Currently checking the whole rendering loop and the stuff that I had (rightfully) postponed is now on the front scene, when to run script evaluation and such.

>>15774599

I don't have this planned.

>>15775722

>the NPC meme is another shit and forced meme to appeal to newfags and le epic kekistanis

We've always had a similar sentiment and terminology. You can call them "nigger cattle" if you want.

>>15775802

Terry? You alive?

>>15775722

>>15775802

Nobody canceled normalfag, you know.

>>15775905

It's always nice to let people oust themselves as newfags when they don't even know we've had a wordfilter here for years.

>>15775961

I still hope Mark chokes to his death on a cake for that one.

>>15776220

Be fair, they don't do it for "quirkyness". It's just easy to do low poly and make it look polished enough.

>>15776663

At least they aired the R&M episode and didn't do a fucking crossover

>>15743707

Worked pretty well for Rock'n'Roll Racing 2, granted it's not SUPER fast, only moderately.

>>15766269

There are console ports but they're all under NDA, so you'd have to sign one and then ask.

>>15776220

>metrosexual """""voxel""""" shit that makes the games look "quirky xDDDD"

Has any indie game done voxels correctly? Or is it just minecraft shit?

>>15776220

>>15776919

They don't have texture. They're usually vivid color gradients in place of texture.

>>15776949

Where's that from?

>>15776949

Proper voxel rendering doesn't exist so the term is used to describe any random shit that involves generating graphics from 3d arrays.

>>15776961

3d bitmaps is the definition of voxels. How you render them is irrelevant.

>>15776965

Shaders, hard shadows and gradient textures.

>>15776965

Toon shading and stencil shadows I'd guess.

>>15776964

Voxels is just volumetric elements.

Volumetric pixel is the general definition as the word itself is generally seen as a combination of these two words (vo = volume, xels = pixels, or in a stricter sense: el = element).

Voxels being volumetric elements also means a field of volumetric elements is a voxel data set.

That can be data stored in a 3d texture, 3d data set (3d array, octree, etc), and can also be the result of different field functions (SDF, noise, other such functions which properties I forget); which spits out volumetric data sets.

>>15776965

Celshader with multiple levels (pretty easy) w/a gradient texture for each level, and rim lighting effect (but shadow color) for the characters.

Looks like different materials w/cel shading or flat shading between the character and environmental objects.

Harder shadows for general lighting (i.e. darker shadows).

Also, gradients everywhere.

>>15776220

That's just low-poly with hard edges (split normals, not shared normals). Also this >>15776428 they do it bcs it's easier.

>>15776981

Nevermind that's not blood the chosen. I just realized I mixed the first and second game up.

>>15773526

adorable, as usual

>>15773581

THICKER

>>15773786

I'm at a loss for words.

>>15777412

Observing another game carefully, it appears that while an object is in transit between two tiles, it actually exists in both tiles simultaneously. That is, if a laser or explosion hits either of the two tiles, it will be destroyed/removed in whichever tile it ''actually' exists in. At N/2 ticks, it only exists in one tile, the target and then behaves as expected.

So this means I might actually be okay, since the third case was the one that was confusing me the most; my "reverse movement" might just work.

>>15743707

if you still want to do it look into mario kart, nascar rumble and nier automata, also designing your tracks more like a fps arena might help, finally make the ai control the player car while aiming/shooting

>>15777951

wtf, I love Undertale now

>>15779744

I like it. The sound and atmosphere feel right.

I know it's probably just a test but that secret area isn't that well hidden.

>>15779744

>end screen

>basically puzzle-DooM

10/10

>>15779744

I should also mention, it feels right with no music.

>>15779744

was this inspired by mini ninjas

>>15779785

>basically puzzle DooM

>No Block pea shoter (pistol)

>No Hard block puncher (fist)

>No Fast block cutter (chainsaw)

>No Block throwing Imp (Doomimp)

Anon I…

>>15779744

looks neat!

>>15777951

looks meat!

>>15780170

> lost at trying to make a melody that doesn't sound awful.

What I've been doing is copying melodies/accompaniment I like and learning them by ear. You can whistle or play it on an instrument, for instance. It seems to work so far, by which I mean I enjoy what I do, for what it's worth. You get kind of a feeling of how a melody can go. Traditional music might help as it's a formidable bank of melodies but any song you like would work.

Learning how to improvise using your melodic memories should help a lot. You can play/sing over a Blues chord progression (you can find many of them on youtube).

>>15780213

I've been trying to do that. Finding out the correct notes and timing to replicate a melody is giving me a lot more trouble than I think it should, so I felt like something is wrong my approach. I suppose I should just keep trying.

>>15780213

Does anyone ever fear their melody is an unintended plagiarism of something one heard once and forgot?

>>15780651

This happens in the music industry constantly.

>>15780651

That's a risk you've gotta be willing to take.

Can someone help me comprehend why this shit is not working?

#include "HLSLSupport.cginc"

uniform StructuredBuffer<uint> pos;
uniform RWStructuredBuffer<uint> count;
uniform StructuredBuffer<uint> args;

[numthreads(64, 1, 1)]
void CountGrassBlock(uint id : SV_DispatchThreadID) {
	if (id >= args[3]) {
		return;
	}
	uint prepos = pos[id];
	int pposx = (prepos & 0xFF000000) >> 24;
	int pposz = (prepos & 0x00FF0000) >> 16;
	int pposy = (prepos & 0x0000FF00) >> 8;
	int index = pposx / 32 + (pposz / 32) * 8 + (pposy / 32) * 64;
	if (index < 0 || index > 511) {
		index = 0;
	}
	InterlockedAdd(count[index], 1);
}

both InterlockedAdd(count[0], 1); and InterlockedAdd(count[511], 1); work, so I know for a fact that my RWStructuredBuffer<uint> count is at least 512 long. By the intrinsic nature of how pposx/z/y are read, they are bound to be between 0 and 255, so index shouldn't ever be outside of [0, 512)

Why the hell is this shit not working? I am going crazy over this

This shit here:

void CountGrassBlock(uint id : SV_DispatchThreadID) {
	if (id >= 512) {
		return;
	}
	uint prepos = pos[id];
	int pposx = (prepos & 0xFF000000) >> 24;
	int pposz = (prepos & 0x00FF0000) >> 16;
	int pposy = (prepos & 0x0000FF00) >> 8;
	int indexx = pposx / 32 + (pposz / 32) * 8 + (pposy / 32) * 64;
	indexx = indexx % 512;
	count[id] = indexx;
	//InterlockedAdd(count[id], indexx);
}

is writing 15659 15915 16171 1075 1331 1587 2867 3123 3379 4659 4915 5171 6451 6707 6963 8499 8755 10547 6180 (… etc) to the count buffer. How in the fucking hell a number % 512 is ever higher than 512? What the fuck is going on?

>>15780943

>Why the hell is this shit not working? I am going crazy over this

So what is the actual problem? The count buffer being written to incorrectly (it's not being written to elsewhere, is it?), or are you getting OOB errors on InterlockedAdd?

>>15780943

I assume this is HLSL code?

Are you sure you're allowed to dynamically access the RWStructuredBuffer? In GLSL/OpenGL it is not legal to access a resource dynamically (e.g. by an array index that varies per shader instance), and all accesses to it must be dynamically uniform. Then again it might be a special kind of object, I don't know how the rules deviate with atomic counter objects. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/direct3d12/resource-binding-in-hlsl#divergence-and-derivatives

If that's the issue here, then all the shader cores might be writing to the same counter.

>>15780943

Could it be that you're writing an assigning an "int" value into a "uint" typed buffer?

Modulus operator on a negative value from a dodgy index unpacking would still result in a negative value.

Also, if you only need a power-of-two modulus of positive values then use:

result = val & (mod - 1);

Compiler probably did this already but % is real slow on GPU

Just realized that since delegates are the same as any other object in C#, I can shove a bunch of event handlers into a dictionary. That is, instead of having a dozen functions like

>event EventHandler<MyEventArgs> Foo;

>OnFoo(this, e)

I can just roll it all up into a dictionary and compact it significantly. Cool.

>>15780977

>So what is the actual problem?

indexx should be a number between 0 to 511, but it's not

Neither

if (index < 0 || index > 511) {

index = 0;

}

nor

indexx = indexx % 512;

could enforce it being between 0 to 511

>>15781019

>I assume this is HLSL code?

yes

>Are you sure you're allowed to dynamically access the RWStructuredBuffer?

yeah, the first code is actually correctly accessing it dynamically, I have the complete output of the second code, and indeed it is accessing values between 0 and 511 at about 60~ times, and the result of the first code shows about 50~ ones and 5~ twos

The problem is the indexx value

>>15781035

Could it be that you're writing an assigning an "int" value into a "uint" typed buffer?

that could explain pposx having a negative value, which would fuck the whole thing up

but that does not explain how the

if (index < 0 || index > 511) {

index = 0;

}

does not work to ensure indexx falls into [0, 511]

index being renamed to indexx was to check if index was some kind of special variable name fucking shit up, it's not

>>15780651

You just have to keep moving and give it some new context before you finally remember and can't unhear the original.

>>15780651

>>15781233

One of Final Fantasy's composers worked on Expand Dong Tropical Freeze's soundtrack. This is the music for a giant owl boss.

>>15779744

Looks fucking great anon.

>>15779744

It looks great anon I can't wait to try it out.

One day I'll become as good at making games as you are, I promise you

>>15780943

can't remember the exact cases (can't be bothered to find my notes on it), but sometimes you need to overwrite buffers w/blank buffers between dispatches

>>15781181

looks like you method for getting the index is wrong. also you're doing int division which is almost always a red flag (unless every posi input is divisible by 32, then it is fine).

modulus works fine in compute shaders w/uint and int, and you have proper ordering of the operator so it should be fine (if the input address was fine).

Usually getting a 1D index is something like:

int id = dispatchID.x + dispatchID.y * groupSizeX + dispatchID.z * groupSizeX * groupSizeY

Good resource:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160416003055/https://scrawkblog.com/2014/06/26/directcompute-tutorial-for-unity-kernels-and-thread-groups/

>>15781181

Further testing

count[id] = pposx; returns between 0 and 255 as expected

count[id] = pposx / 32; returns between 0 and 7 as expected

count[id] = pposz; returns between 0 and 255 as expected

count[id] = pposz / 32; returns between 0 and 255?????

count[id] = pposz / 256; returns 0 as expected

yeah, that's the fucking issue, somehow dividing by any value between 2 and 128 is not working

pposy is also wrong in the same manner. It's like on some operations it only lets me use the first 8 bits, and in others it lets me use all of the bits

changing their types from int to float fixed the issue

Now I can count how many leaves of grass there are in each 2x2x2 block inside a 8x8x8 tile, and thus, not try to process blocks with no grass

Sample result:

0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	16	24	32	40	48	56	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	
64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	64	62	61	60	59	57	54	54	53	51	49	49	47	49	50	52	51	50	
50	50	49	47	46	46	52	51	48	44	40	42	40	38	39	38	42	44	43	45	25	17	25	32	24	16	8	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

>>15781430

final shader, if anyone cares

[numthreads(64, 1, 1)]
void CountGrassBlock(uint id : SV_DispatchThreadID) {
	if (id >= args[3]) {
		return;
	}
	uint prepos = pos[id];
	float pposx = (prepos & 0xFF000000u) >> 24;
	float pposz = (prepos & 0x00FF0000u) >> 16;
	float pposy = (prepos & 0x0000FF00u) >> 8;
	InterlockedAdd(count[pposx / 32 + (pposz / 32) * 8 + (pposy / 32) * 64], 1);
}

>>15781400

How the fuck should I know, your whole god damn screen is covered by OBS

>>15781447

Anon, it's a video.

>>15781455

And during the entirety of the video the screen is blocked by OBS

>>15781233

The fear is that you won't know, thinking it's entirely original, only to be proven wrong after release.