/v/ - Video Games

Dead thread?

I'll post some music. It's two versions of the same song, the second being an underwater variation.

https://files.catbox.moe/bywfts.mp3

https://files.catbox.moe/s90fkt.mp3

>>16227876

Nice. Very comfy.

>>16227919

How much will they pressure you into adding interracial cuckolding into your game?

One day, I'll finish a demo instead of having a dozen half-baked ideas per year

>>16228020

You could always make games WITH you gf, I suppose, but you'll have to fucking leave normalfags get off my board fuck you get out

>>16228322

What is the point of either the IRC or the Discord group? What purpose do they fulfill that the threads don't?

>>16228422 (nice)

Namefagging and drama, I suppose

>>16228422

To nodev all day instead of actually making progress.

>>16228422

In the past I know the Discord has been used to participate in game jams. Personally I don't use IRC regularly or Discord for gamedev in general so I can't speak for the people who do. I made the image because if people are going to use a chat application I would rather the IRC be used instead of discord.

>>16228444

Impressive. Very nice.

>>16228322

I tried joining that a while back, but Rizon doesn't allow my VPN to connect. Any way around that?

>>16228590

Do you have tides in the game or did you bring the water down just for the moment to work on textures?

>>16228322

irc pls go

>>16228590

but where's the gameplay

all i remember is the pseudo working farming and wall climbing

>>16228613

The water right now is transparent, quite hard to see from this angle, but it is there

We want to add tides and waves later, i am building with city with this in mind, but right now its stationary at a fixed level

>>16228635

My brother is making the new cooking system while i fix the city, we gonna have gameplay for the demoday

>>16228549

You can try using a web client like Mibbit.

>>16228020

Have one? Yes. Find one? More difficult.

>>16228915

No, sorry. There's always Khan Academy for basic math.

>>16228915

Not a book, but this is a very game specific overview of some math stuff: http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-developers-part-1/

where can I get some really good substance painter tutorials?

I've already tried toe ones Allegorithmic has and I'm not a big fan of most of them, right now I've been watching Mike Hermes on youtubes stuff, but would like to add more 'retard proof' guide guys

>>16227919

>Shinobu Project

Is that real? Shinobudev is EU-subsidized?

>>16228661

Still blacklisted. Keeps directing me towards dronebl. Feels bad. Maybe I can try SOCK5 connections or something.

>>16228322

>>16228549

>>16229941

8/agdg/ IRC is pretty dead though.

>>16229953

There's some anons chatting. Hardly dead.

>>16229941

This anon again. For future reference, if your VPN has SOCK5, you can bypass blocks.

>>16230068

He's already in the IRC.

>>16228322 (checked)

I have joined this IRC channel already for several months before you made this issues more apparent.

t. skullshit modder fag pro

>>16228020

Just get a waifu of your choice, problems were not.

How do you keep the motivation to program games for fun while being a professional programmer who's dealing with code 8 hours a day? I get to lunch time and I can't wait to get started on my project after work, but by the end of the day, I'm just fucking burned out on programming and play a video game or work on another hobby.

>>16230125

Just start. Write down what you need to work on, put on some music, and work on the game for 10 minutes without distraction. If you don't enjoy it then stop. May not be enough every day, but some days just starting is all you need to work the entire afternoon.

>>16230125

Work on your game at your job if you can get away with it. Work on something that you can use both at work and in your game.

>>16230347

That's neat. I'm guessing you'll change the Cloud Map Texture to something less ordered than a circle in the future?

>>16230352

That's the plan. Also to encode in other stuff in the channels. Need to optimize it for VR first though. Shit is expensive.

>>16229479

unfortunately not

https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/eacea-site/files/eacea_24_2017_list_of_selected_projects.pdf

I think only companies can apply and afaik Shinobudev is not Sir Hal SA

>>16229625

>can i apply to this

depending on the country, it can be easy as pie or horrible. I wouldn't want to start a company, knowing all the takes and expenses that calls for over here

>>16227919

Wait wtf is this? I didnt apply for shit. If they offered me $150,000 I'd say fuck off. Calling Fake and Gay.

>>16230455

That isn't me. But Sir Hal is my Steam name.

>>16230466

lol, identity theft.

>>16230467

They got everything about me wrong so. I believe you've been rused.

>>16230470

Worth a chuckle anyway.

>>16230466

>That isn't me. But Sir Hal is my Steam name.

yah I know, My point was you not being a joint-stock company either

>>16230466

>>16230470

Relax and look at that image again. Notice the anti-aliasing on the font.

>>16227919

oh my god trine 4 is going to suck isn't it?

>>16231087

Just like the last 3

>>16231090

i don't mean to be optimistic on 2019 on 8chan of all places, but they've returned to 2D scrolling movement and the soundtrack sounds as good as ever

>>16227876

I'm gonna put it in my game without permission

>>16232176

(M)SDF's cost fucking potato to render since they rely on usual linear texture filtering.

Whether the compile-font-to-texture is fast enough for your purposes is something you have to test for yourself. But I don't see much reason to compile during runtime since you can just ship your game with a precompiled version.

>>16232498

Yeah I don't mean the rendering, the rasterization to bitmaps. You want to compile during runtime since it's impossible to know what glyphs might show up during runtime if you have arbitrary input. Otherwise you'll have a bunch of unsupported glyphs. Preferably the texture atlas is refreshed at regular intervals to prune glyphs that haven't been used in a long time.

Alright I tested out C# in Godot and I didn't like it. Removed the script and reattached the GDscript script I was using previously but when I try to compile it I get errors about the C# script that was just. Is this fixable or just a bug and I should make a new project?

>>16233983

that was just removed*

>>16228322

They're always an inevitable circle jerk. Consistent handles and all that baggage carries over and taints the point of this discussion format

>>16228020

Nothing worth doing is easy, and nothing hard is ever done without sacrifices

Unless you're lucky and one your donned responsibilities complements the other, but then again its more stress/shit you need to deal with.

Tho u do u, you'll figure out what u can handle

>>16233983

When you remove a saved script it will still exist in the project folder unless it was a builtin script.

>>16233983

If need be, join the Godot official Discord.

>>16235751

var rooms = []
rooms.append([])
rooms[0].append(Room())

>>16235809

For clarification, you don't so much construct a 2D array of an object as you fill an array with arrays containing the object.

>>16235809

>>16235815

>Parser error: Unexpected token: Identifier: rooms

This is very tiring. Found a video example of drunk walker procedural generation in Unity but I don't think I'll be able to port it.

>>16235914

What's your code?

>>16236140

Absolutely nothing so far. I think my problem stems from the fact that a C# script in both Godot and Unity has a defined class in where I should two dimensional array should be, whereas a GDscript doesn't and declaring >>16235809 outside of a function causes an error. I wanted to avoid C# because it's buggy and not using it causes issues outlined here >>16233983 and deleting the scripts in the project folder doesn't help. Maybe I should check the discord like one anon said.

>>16229653

NICE

>>16228020

If you have a gf I would spend more time on her, projects can be come back to and done periodically, good relationships cannot.

>>16228020

Work on your project and don't worry about the feelings of some whore. She doesn't really care about you and the minute she thinks she can live without you she'll turn her back on you and you'll regret not doing more /agdg/.

Women only give you the illusion of feeling loved in exchange for emotional validation and security.

Ask yourself what's more important, anon.

>Getting your dick wet for about a year and then getting your heart broken

>Improving yourself and conquering all skills you wish to master.

Pick one.

>>16237614

Enemy skills work just like player skills. The relevant text boxes should be right there under the skills tab, just replace the text.

>>16237666

So, I would need to make custom skills for enemies that I want to specifically describe their action, such as: "The Old Boomer Man lectured you about young people ruining golf." Right?

>>16237676

Yes.

>>16238310

never post code as an image

>>16238310

works on my machine

>>16238320

Wouldn't usually but it's simple and short, and the image tells it for me.

>>16227771

>that pic

What the fuck is that? What is it even meant to do? Has the author never heard of containers or algorithms?

>>16238310

needs to be inside a function like _ready or _process

>>16238331

:^)

>>16238357

Alright, thanks, I didn't even think of actually browsing the documentation. I'm dumb.

>>16238335

nice stuff

>>16228516

Instead of

For each light:
  For each tile affected by light:
    Find chunk containing tile
    Do light on chunk

Do this

For each light:
  Find area covered by light (rectangle approximation)
  Find chunks covered by area
  Subdivide area into subareas covering a single chunk
  For each pair chunk,subarea
    Do lighting for tiles covered by subarea

Your light code becomes simpler, because you only need a single chunk and a subarea (which obviously is just an area) as input. You can cache chunk,area pairs to do certain updates faster (flicker) and obviously all these operations are super fast. You can queue light updates easily if the chunk isn’t loaded (instead of searching for lights affecting a chunk as it’s loaded).

Cull work early and simplify for the lower abstractions. Simpler code is smaller code. Smaller code is faster code.

>>16239403

In case anyone is curious, this is what 3.1 adds.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#unreleased

Notable features include

>optional static typing in GDScript

>Constructive Solid Geometry, think brushes in hammer or the Boolean operator in blender.

>Better 3d grid, can be toggled with ctrl and configured in the settings

>Ragdols in 3d

>Cloth/Softbody simulation in 3d

>Improved auto-complete in the editor

>Improved Animation Editor, Animation Tree, and Inspector

>File and folder viewer unified

>>16239511

>After so much work on improving usability and compatibility, the main focus will move into further improving rendering. The current GLES3 renderer will be deprecated in favor of a Vulkan-based one and 3D rendering will once again become prioritary. The goal is to release Godot 4.0 one year from now (or less, I hope) with a top notch modern renderer capable of everything the other big engines can do.

>In parallel, other contributors will continue working on other areas and usability will keep improving. We plan to release Godot 3.2 in the second half of 2019 with those improvements (the Vulkan work towards Godot 4.0 will be done in a separate feature branch). Some of the areas we want to focus on are:

<Adding typed instructions to GDScript to improve performance of typed code.

<Adding FBX support, either via Assimp or OpenFBX (the official Autodesk library cannot be used due to their restrictive licensing terms).

<Improve the Android and iOS export workflow, in particular adding a simpler way to integrate mobile SDKs such as AdMob, without having to recompile the whole engine.

<Getting the Godot editor to run on a web browser (ideal for public teaching institutions).

<Improving networking to better support dedicated servers and modern protocols.

>And many, many more features. Of course, always keeping priority on stability and usability.

Using GLES2 and Vulkan over GLES3 is probably a good call. Many of the GLES3 renderer's features are kind of heavy on GLES3-tier hardware anyways.

>>16239550

I started with Javascript and had no trouble moving to C.

>>16239549

So what I'm gathering from this, is that Godot 4.0 will be the version of Godot that will finally be a proper rival to Unity?

>>16239550

Look into pointers and C++'s manual memory management. If it doesn't seem like a terrifying prospect, then learning C++ with C# knowledge won't be too bad.

>>16239579

Assuming they finally add some decent culling, yes. If you're targeting toasters and don't need much for culling, 3.1 is probably good enough in the meantime.

>>16239579

> So what I'm gathering from this, is that Godot 4.0 will be the version of Godot that will finally be a proper rival to Unity?

No. Putting aside how far ahead Unity is in raw tech, they also changed the development schedule of the engine. There are a lot of impressive developments going on in parallel right now.

Unless things go really, really wrong, you can expect Unity 2020 to be even further ahead of Godot 4.

That's not to say that Godot will be useless. I just don't think an engine deserves to be called a "proper rival", if it's only a viable alternative for a few select cases and people who insist on using free software.

I've been thinking about game development for a long while, would like to start looking into making a 2D game of some sort. Have some limited experience with C++, what game engine should I look at? Love 2D?

>>16238349

It's meant to ensure the author's job security. He's also your manager and best friends with the boss.

>>16241447

SDL2

>>16238877

Oh okay, so basically figure out a rectangle region per chunk and only poll those as appropriate

>>16241447

What >>16242535 recommended isn't exactly an engine, it's a framework. I've used SDL a little bit, and have been meaning to get back in to it so that I can work on a more ambitious project I think it's a fine tool to use, but keep in mind that it doesn't really have any engine capabilities. You can use to to display graphics and handle mouse/keyboard/controller input, but all of the tools you need for creating a game (tiling engine, collision detection, etc.) will have to be created on your own using C++ code. This will give you much better insight into how the game actually works, but if you just want to get started prototyping or something, you would be better off poking around with one of the engines listed in the wiki (see the OP).

If you decide to use SDL, I have a few links to help you get started with it. I would recommend making a very simple game first to learn how to use the libraries it offers. Something like Tic-Tac-Toe, or Snake, or Tetris.

https://www.libsdl.org/index.php (There's a link to the main downloads, and a wiki with all the documentation)

https://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/tutorials/shooter/shooter1.php (This is written in C, but the concepts are the same)

http://www.sdltutorials.com/sdl-tutorial-basics

http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php (probably the best one to use, in my opinion)

>>16243630

Looking at how other games do it, it seems like they just have the wires with an on/off state, and an object that traverses them to set the appropriate state

>>16243630

>I'm not sure how to resolve loops and NOT gates.

You don't resolve them.

There's two ways to deal with it:

>Delay activation. A NOT gate connected to itself produces a "blinking" state, switching between on and off every tick.

>Set a maximum "depth" on resolving object changes, and when its reached, either refuse to process objects further down the line, delay the activation as described above, or do something like throw an error or have the gates flatout explode to make it clear to the player he's retarded.

>>16244146

>(1) and done

I kid. I've always wanted to make a GBC Zelda clone. What are you doing this in?

>>16244149

Java since it's the only language I know so far. Wasn't going to do much with this but get some beginner gave dev exp but the idea of making a gb zelda clone grew on me so yeah who knows.

>>16244647

>make games with no coding experience

>>16244149

Template software and template ideas are the reason why the indie gaming scene is irrevokably pozzed.

>>16244740

Gee, sorry for setting the target for my first amateur game to be something familiar and safe

>>16244791

Way to aim low faggot. It isn't hard to learn some pajeet language and make a simple first game. It will pave the way for better creations and give you experienceto boot. How is a template going to teach you how to render tiles and make ai? At the end you'll end up with something no better and no different than the crap that's dumped on newgrounds by the truckload and get nothing out of it, not even the sadisfaction of creating something.

Should /agdg/ be renamed to /gdg/? Is "amateur" a misnomer? It implies a lack of skill. All the best games are made by "amateurs". One of the primary motivations for us getting into game dev is how much modern studio games suck. The name "AGDG" is a relic from 4/v/.

>>16241400

What is godot good for in your opinion?

>>16244881

>it isn't hard to learn some pajeet language

Actually, it is hard for a first timer and takes commitment but that's no reason why you shouldn't do it.

>>16244964

replace amateur with autistic, done

>>16244881

It's a good tool to figure out whether you actually like the process of making games - designing stages, telling stories and so on. What if anon comes to the realization that he'd much rather just play Zelda instead of make it, and that this isn't for him?

>>16245052

The correct term for that is hobbyist.

Amateur implies both doing it for fun and a lack of professional skill.

>>16245063

Amateur has its roots in French and means lover/admirer etc. Using the word Amateur to imply a lack of skill is a misnomer and incorrect idiom that sadly is way too prevalent in our society where everyone who doesn't earn money with something is automatically assumed to be shit at it. Same goes for Professional, which is wrongly used as a synonym for skilled even though Professional simply means you're doing x as a profession/earn money with it.

>>16245104

From a pure grammatical standpoint, you're probably right, though the general correlation is inescapable. It's like every single word that niggers have co-opted to their coon-speak - they might be legitimate words in their own right but you instinctively avoid using them.

>>16242194

Not sure what else to say but cool stuff, anon. I probably wouldn't be able to do something like this.

>>16245000

>What is godot good for in your opinion?

Right now? Small-scale games. Mostly 2D and mobile-tier stuff.

Long run? Hard to say, but I think there is a real chance that Godot could effectively displace engines like RPGMaker and GameMaker. Nice tools with a nice workflow, an active community is already building around it and from a technical perspective it's a much more capable engine than either of those. Maybe someone will create a really good project template and a set of editor plugins to help devs create RPGMaker style games on top of a much better engine.

VNs are another example. You could totally build a powerful VNMaker based on Godot today, if you wanted to.

>>16245014

Would a tool that lets you put premade sentences together help you figure out if you actually like the process of writing books? Does customising a subway sub let you figure out if you like the process of cooking an actual meal?

>>16247322

You have to put hard work in to get to do the easy work, yes, that's how game development works. But if a person can't even enjoy the easy work, what chance does he have of enjoying the hard work?

>>16244964

No. The "Amateur" part is important because it makes it very clear you should take any advice from these threads with ample amounts of salt.

>>16233983

Did you delete it from within Godot or in your native file manager? If you deleted from your file manager (and occasionaly this happens from within Godot too) the script is still referenced in the solution files. If you delete the .sln and .csproj files from your project folder and let them rebuild it should be fine.

>16 day break from school to get some dev time in

I think I can make something playable in this time. Which is good because once I get back to school there won't be a lot of time to get something ready for the 5/5 demo day.

>>16247901

Also to specify that if you see something absolutely horrific, it's because none of us are AAA programmers with ages of experience. And when that fag who was making the waifu tank game outed himself as one he was promptly chased off

>>16248743

>And when that fag who was making the waifu tank game outed himself as one he was promptly chased off

Wasn't he chased off because he was shilling his paytreon? I haven't really kept track.

>>16248794

He wasn't actually participating in discussion. He was just using these threads as a marketing space to shill his Twitter and Patreon, yes.

>>16248794

He was chased off because he talked like a huge fucking faggot with emojis and wouldnt take part in any thread conversations.

>hewo its da waifu gamdev guy mkay xP

>>16248834

>writing your game in a meme language

Shitposting aside, this has to be one of the most useless error messages I have ever seen.

I know jackshit about Rust, but I have two guesses:

- map is destructive and returning a modified copy of diffuse_map breaks the memory management rules (you do seem to make an explicit copy of diffuse)

- iter is somehow necessary (you don't use it before mapping over diffuse_map, unlike with materials)

>>16249385

>map is destructive

That was it, diffuse_map needed to be a reference:

m.diffuse_map.as_ref().map(...)

>iter is somehow necessary

The iter call makes an iteration object for the Vec<> of materials by reference, similar to using std::vector::begin() in C++. Diffuse_map is an Option<> that doesn't need iteration state, it's a single value which is mapped destructively.

That said, Rust also has an iter() for Option<>!

m.diffuse_map.iter().map(...).next()

Both of your guesses are spot on! If you find Rust intuitive, maybe give it a try? Thanks for the help.

>>16248834

>rust

based

I've already made a bit of a game (FPS) in UE4, but unity's ECS + data-oriented system looks really appealing, especially considering how shit the performance on unreal can be. Would it be worth it to try to port everything to unity? I've got about 3,000 lines of code btw.

>>16250748

>You can write C++ safely

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-search.php?f=1&vendor=&product=&cveid=&msid=&bidno=&cweid=&cvssscoremin=&cvssscoremax=&psy=&psm=&pey=&pem=&usy=&usm=&uey=&uem=&opmemc=1&opov=1

>>16250748

I guess you're a shit-flinging pajeet then.

>>16252140

nevermind, there was a setting for the lighmap uvs that i missedm 9/10

>>16250748

>You can write C++ safely if you're not a shit flinging pajeet.

I'd go farther and say that as long as you write actual C++11, and not 'C with classes', it's pretty difficult to find any unsafe corners in the language.

>>16252140

>Press E to talk with TestAI

>Punches you

Perfect.

>>16252656

I think the sad reality of it is that we don't have enough active users to keep a separate board alive. I can't say how much, but some of the activity in these threads comes from regular /v/ Anons dropping by. That would stop, resulting in even less activity.

>>16252656

mfw I would like to post more but I'm far from doing game/engine dev posting because I have to learn C language first, and even then learning the language itself is tiresome - though for me everything nowadays is tiresome.

polite sage for blogpost

>>16252661

But how much of that is useful activity? Because it seems like most of the activity these threads get from drive-by posters are just language autists that want to argue DDP vs OOP when that's probably the least useful conversation to have when talking about making video games. Especially since most of the publicly available engines (most anons here are using one) are built around OOP.

Then there's the issue I see all the time of anons not posting something because they don't think it's "enough progress".

LISTEN, NIGGERS. EVEN A SIMPLE BUGFIX IS PROGRESS ENOUGH TO POST ABOUT.

>>16252665

You need to seek support from fellow /agdg/ posters. We're all try to just like make game, so take all the help you can get from us.

>>16252656

I think the /agdg/ board is good where it is. More traffic would just mean the progress threads would get buried under people asking for help and shitflinging over which language is the best.

>>16252713

From what I've seen from /agdg/ the board, it seems that almost all of the shitflinging over languages comes from /v/ anons coming into the /v/ /agdg/ threads. Language decision could be it's own thread on /agdg/ to prevent filling the progress threads with uselss shit.

>>16252656 (e7ab13 here, switched locations and thus IP)

I personally really like the threads on /v/ archive on /agdg/ way we handle things. If these threads were made on /agdg/ with the same frequency as they are here, they'd just wind up burying people's personal threads, especially for people who can't dev very often. And I like scrolling through people's personal threads as they really give a sense of progress over time, like a devlog with more occasional shitposting.

>>16245162

>I probably wouldn't be able to do something like this.

Nah, it's a lot easier than it looks. I thought it was pretty daunting until I started breaking it down into smaller chunks, like figuring out what creatures want to do, followed by what they can actually do, and then weighing the options. I think turn-based AI is a lot simpler than most people realize, since you really only need to perform the majority of the work once per turn.

I watched some interview from one of the old Command and Conquer devs when I was fighting the urge to start 5 different projects and finish none of them. He made a good point about not having to make units appear smart, but simply avoid having them appear stupid. He was talking about pathfinding, but it inspired me enough to try. It just takes a few simple tests to prevent archers from running at characters and shooting at them from melee range, or making sure that monsters don't waste all of their AP rushing at targets that they wouldn't be able to attack. But as long as the player doesn't keep stopping to ponder why the AI is a continuous colossal fuck-up (except for intentionally dumb enemies), then it's smart enough.

>>16252698

>You need to seek support from fellow /agdg/ posters

Thanks for being so kind, well I'm going to apologize ahead if I can't describe my problem clearly enough. I have the will wanting to learn how to program my own 2D game engine and I already got a idea what kind of type I would like to make (Tactical/Strategical game akin to X-Com/UFO Aftermath), so this is the least concern for me. I am already aware it will be a daunting task, especially the engine side of things but I think the long term benefit of that way will be much better than just modding games which I never had full "satisfaction" of doing so since I am familiar enough with this sort of process. Over the course of times my concentration seems to have reduced to a new low, even simple things such as using Python which is a much easier language to work with feels like a big hurdle to me, I can't even bring myself to make several very little programs and forming together into a bigger program. I did managed to do that about 6-7 months ago, but now it just doesn't work for me at all, like my brain just refuses to put my will into action to put it that way. Even if I go out for a walk (30 minutes to 2 hours~) doesn't help me, well to put it short can it be there is some kind of health related issue or something that prevents me to make progress even when it is just making little text programs?

>>16253312

>Unity or Godot?

Try them both, there's no way of knowing which you'll prefer. They both have good parts to them, Unity perhaps a few more but lacks the total freedom benefit Godot has due to being open source and libre.

>what should I do exercises in?

If you're on windows, you can do them with just any text editor if you have the .NET framework installed (which I think is installed automatically anyway?). Pretty nice for learning the basics of C# with small exercises.

You open command prompt in the folder your .cs file's in, type csc filename.cs, and it compiles and can be run by typing filename.exe

It may say it doesn't know what csc is, in that case you have to add C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[version number]\csc.exe to your PATH, or type C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[version number]\csc.exe instead of just csc every time you want to compile. I think it should work our of the box if you have only one version, though. Not 100% sure.

>>16253609

Oh, also,

SOCIALIZE

Nothing is better when you're feeling unmotivated than grabbing a drink with a close friend and shooting the shit.

>>16253423

Thanks, I'll give them both a shot. I want to get some practice them start with some basic games to get a feel for it. After that start on something larger.

>>16253624

>a close friend

what do you do if you're emotionally incapable for forming close bonds like this

>>16253680

You browse imageboards.

>>16253331

It's hard for someone else to say why you're having problems.

Maybe you're a bit too hardworking and overworked yourself, or maybe you're intimidated by work and just have trouble starting.

Maybe you're depressed, or maybe gamedev just isn't very stimulating to you compared to your other hobbies and/or work.

We can make assumptions, and we can suggest solutions.

Maybe you need a gf or waifu or tulpa to motivate you.

Maybe you need to start meditating, clear your mind to aid your focus.

Maybe you need to ask yourself what you're doing this all for. What exactly you want to achieve.

Or maybe your life is just too monotone, and you just need to break your habits a little bit to make your brain a bit more flexible.

Anons on the internet, on virtue of often straying far from the norm and often being shut-in NEETs themselves, aren't really reliable when it comes to good advice.

I'd tell you to visit a professional, but they're often shit at giving advice too, since they make their money getting you to come back for more.

The best advice I think I can give is "just try shit and see what sticks".

>>16253732

No, he wasn't replying to you.

>>16253716

Shooting the shit is a term used to describe hanging out with one or more people and conversing leisurely, though technically may either refer to "shooting back" some of "the shit" meaning alcohol, or be a term originating from trench wars where soldiers did indeed just set up targets and shoot them to pass the time.

As for your problem with finding friends, you'll either just have to work on it or live with depression. Our dumb monkey brins require human interaction, some of us can satisfy that with just imageboards, most can not. Generally more direct online interaction (like chats) works better than indirect ones (like 8chan or for instance facebook posts), which is why IRC could be useful as discussed earlier in the thread. Voicechat would be one level above that, and face to face interaction is ideal.

Like most things in life, actually getting these things set up if you didn't get them automatically growing up is a massive pain, but would do wonders to improve your hormonal needs and thus how happy you are. Exercise is another one of those, and even a decent routine and cooking skills apply. I myself only have half of those things and it's better than when I had less of them, though fuck me is it exhausting to get to the point where they become routine. It's really tempting to give up, best advice I've figured out so far is to just cause something external to force you to do it, but that might not work for you. I'm not certain I'll get everything listed working with my level of energy though. Hope my brain won't crave more than just good cooking, a routine, and semi-regular IRL socializing.

>>16253716

"Shoot the shit" is a phrase meaning to just have a good time and ignore whatever's going wrong in your life for the time you're hanging out with someone. From what I'm reading, your body chemistry does seem out of whack or that you're suffering from some kind of clinical depressive disorder (For me, sometimes I wonder if my depression swings come from the hard things I experience in life or if I've inherited my dad's bipolar disorder and the timing of shitty things happening to me is just synced up to that) at this point the best advice I can offer is to take everything one thing at a time. Un-complicate your life as much as possible while you figure out what's going on.

>>16253747

>It's hard for someone else to say why you're having problems.

I know, I thought maybe just maybe some anons or something knows better about this sort of stuff than me which made me decide to bite the bullet and just post it anyway.

>Maybe you need a gf or waifu or tulpa to motivate you.

No matter how hard I'm trying to concentrate on my waifu is just doesn't work at all, I don't know how other anons are doing it but maybe my method is a bit flawed or something. Is there uhh a reliable source of tulpa ism or something? I would like to know more. If it works to fix my motivation why not.

>Maybe you need to start meditating, clear your mind to aid your focus.

I have thought about meditation too, it is something I haven't tried yet.

>Maybe you need to ask yourself what you're doing this all for. What exactly you want to achieve.

Well I already know myself why I want to learn programming in the first place, because with the few games I have played recently did gave me a new ideas and made the idea of 2D turn based tactic actually less bad than it is. The first reason obviously is that the current state of games is fucked so I would only preach to the choir here. The second reason I do still believe that open source software would benefit games really a lot but it is something that is only visible in long therm and I really want to invest my time with that.

Well fuck it I will post anyway what games I have modded and why, it is not a big secret here anyway considering it is on the wiki already.

First modding attempt: Spring RTS. I considers this engine because I played a lot of spring RTS in the past which was during the times when it was also much more active, the major project I have is called Panzerstahl (I know probably not the most creative name), well I really like tanks and making models out of it is very simple so that's why I wanted a heavy tank RTS focus thing in the first place. I know already that Spring RTS seems to be awfully flawed nowadays mainly in the performance stuff, because from what I can remember with the much weaker machine I used to have I played with the RAI AI a lot which was fun for me, and the maps were fucking big and fuck it is like a total war going on and I really like it. But now even the chicken AI thing from complete annihilation seems to have serious performance bottleneck and I know that I did played a few matches of it and the performance was pretty okay with all the shit and effects going on. But now with the 100-104 engine version it is not as a good then.

2nd Mod: Microtank, well I experienced times where I felt too burned working on my Spring project so I decided to make a skullshit focused mod, I tried to ignore the inherent flaws for very long time and tried to make progress anyway but… It just doesn't work that way anymore. And since the ACS tank turret script was made by somebody else and the version I have doesn't work at all on the multiplayer part of Skulltag/Zandronum I decided to give up because I very well know my ACS knowledge is 0.

3rd Mod: Factorio ARWM mod, the story is kind of similar to my Zandronum mod with the exception that since Factorio has a native support for tank turret it I managed to push more a bit more, but with all those tank models I have but only being able to use one of them at a time and having such a large and complex base just to supply one single tank is… I don't know it just doesn't work that well, I don't feel like learning lua even more just for a single game whose main focus is more of a production thing then combat.

4th Mod: Moonman mod, I tried with my best ability to fix a few bugs and improve this mod a little bit more but considering it requires a lot of sprites stuff which is a skill beyond my abilities I was not able to make more progress and having to rely on other team members that takes forever with their new sprites was the final nail of the coffin to decide to give up with this mod maintaince.

>>16253822

>Is there uhh a reliable source of tulpa ism or something? I would like to know more. If it works to fix my motivation why not.

No and that's actually a terrible idea. But if you really want to research the subject, there's a board on 8chan dedicated to it.

>>16253940

>No and that's actually a terrible idea.

I only know this subject very briefly, how comes it is a terrible idea?

>But if you really want to research the subject, there's a board on 8chan dedicated to it.

You mean the /tulpa/ board?

>>16253774

>>16253773

>shoot the shit/shot

Oh alright, thanks for explaining it.

>>16253773

>As for your problem with finding friends, you'll either just have to work on it or live with depression. Our dumb monkey brins require human interaction, some of us can satisfy that with just imageboards, most can not. Generally more direct online interaction (like chats) works better than indirect ones

Well I'm lurking this thread for a good while by now, most of the time I am also too afraid to make posts because I would probably harm the overall conversation more than doing good. For the IRC part I already did it but most including me aren't making any chats attempt and honestly I don't even know what I should start with in the first place.

>Like most things in life, actually getting these things set up if you didn't get them automatically growing up is a massive pain

Yeah I can feel this pain already, programming is one of the unexplored things that I have never done before, I know already crude hard surface modelling and basic modding so doing that again is a bit easy because I don't have to start from scratch. Learning programming in the context of game development is something I have avoided for years I guess that is also why I was sticking with modding for so long because its easier to start with.

> It's really tempting to give up, best advice I've figured out so far is to just cause something external to force you to do it, but that might not work for you.

Yeah it fucking sucks being in such a disarray, as in having so many plans and ideas to do it and the general idea to approach but actually doing that is a different story. So yeah I did opted out for giving up and doing that, fucking nothing or playing games for the purpose of killing time.

>at this point the best advice I can offer is to take everything one thing at a time. Un-complicate your life as much as possible while you figure out what's going on.

So I have to stick with my initial plan for now, kill the time somehow and try to find as many doctor as possible that takes my health issue seriously and not shrugging it of as it were nothing. Maybe then once I find a reliable doctor I will be able to make progress one more time. Uhm is there some other thread which is more directed for general programing where those anons don't mind if the programing is a bit more "games" related or something?

>>16254024

>I only know this subject very briefly, how comes it is a terrible idea?

1. It's a very subjective experience. Results vary wildly. (Guides vary wildly too.)

2. There's plenty of cases gone wrong.

3. A lot of people never succeed. Which is terrible considering it's a big time investment.

4. It's a big change in how you live that isn't trivial to undo.

I only threw the suggestion up as a joke/example of bad solution. It's not something you should consider without sufficient understanding of the subject.

>You mean the /tulpa/ board?

ye

>>16254163

There's two schools of thought on the matter.

1. The more planning you do now, the less rethinking and refactoring you'll have to do later

2. It's easy to get stuck in a constant loop of planning and re-planning and never getting anything tangible done

The best way to approach a design doc is to set a deadline for yourself. Example: Spend one day working out how the player character should work, down to the data and methods contained within. Then after spending that whole day planning the character, unless you're not satisfied with it to a big degree. You should start working on it and actualizing it. Because there are certain things it will need that you will never have thought to have planned for, but thankfully you planned for the 90% of things it needs you could think of.

>>16254830

FBI, please…

>>16253839

>pic

that must have been a remarkable event.

>>16252698

>But how much of that is useful activity? Because it seems like most of the activity these threads get from drive-by posters are just language autists that want to argue DDP vs OOP when that's probably the least useful conversation to have when talking about making video games. Especially since most of the publicly available engines (most anons here are using one) are built around OOP.

I disagree, since I quite like those discussions and I chime in, whenever it's something I'm knowledgeable about or it's something I'm interested in. It's still on-topic gamedev discussion, even if it's not about a specific project from a specific Anon.

>Then there's the issue I see all the time of anons not posting something because they don't think it's "enough progress".

>LISTEN, NIGGERS. EVEN A SIMPLE BUGFIX IS PROGRESS ENOUGH TO POST ABOUT.

You're right, I should post more progress. Maybe I should make it a habit to write daily reports.

>EVEN A SIMPLE BUGFIX IS PROGRESS ENOUGH TO POST ABOUT.

i've only been fucking with archimatrix

i got question, is there a way to flip a reflection probe in unity?

i put one somewhere near a room, doesn't matter if it's inside or out, and from the outside it's reflecting the inside, from inside it's reflecting the outside, should be the opposite

>>16256907

Look into multithreading or asynchronous I/O.

>>16256907

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/WinSock/getting-started-with-winsock

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/single/bgnet.html

You should probably use a library.

>>16257362

>You should probably use a library

I'd rather eat shit and die.

I got a basic server of sorts working in 40 lines of code which removed all of my interest in reading 235 fucking thousand characters worth of explanation like in your second link. I've been staring at the first link but I keep running into the same thing I already did, and everything else contains either missing windows 8 DLLs or some kind of object oriented cancer that's impossible to translate to C.

>>16256907

Sockets by default behave similarly to files. Which is to say; functions like read and write either succeed or fail, blocking in the process.

This isn't ideal for creating proper network applications, but there are two ways to go around solving this.

1. You can configure your sockets to be non-blocking. Instead of read and write blocking until either it did some work or failure, they'll either do some work instantly or return a "would-block" error. (this also possible for connect() and accept() calls)

2. You can use select() to query sockets. That way, you know which sockets are safe to read and/or write from.

Usually you use both as it's the easiest & simplest way to do it.

Configure socket

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fcntl.2.html O_NONBLOCK

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winsock/nf-winsock-ioctlsocket FIONBIO

Select

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/select.2.html

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/winsock2/nf-winsock2-select

Also if it isn't obvious, linux and windows sockets look very similar but are not the same. There's small differences all over the place.

Solving platform issues with "use a library" is alright advice, but I used SDL_Net once and it was awful.

>>16257421

You have to compile with "-lws2_32".

You might also need to add:

#if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__MINGW32__)
#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "Mswsock.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "AdvApi32.lib")
#endif

>>16257540

>You have to compile with "-lws2_32".

Shit, that fixed one of the more useful looking examples that I couldn't get working before. Apparently -lwsock32 is for some older version and now I want to strangle whoever told me to use that.

Thanks, that also cleared a misunderstanding I had about how the linker parameters work.

>>16256907

>>16257421

Even if you don't use it, you could try reading the source to a library. I've heard enet is good and that's under 5k lines of code.

I have a game design question related to stealth. So far as visibility goes, what should I take into account?

Right now I measure the amount of light, the position (against a wall or not), posture (standing, crouching, prone), items in hand (open laptop is more visible than a lockpick set), and speed of movement (moving quickly increases visibility more than moving slowly).

Is there anything else I absolutely need to add? At the moment I'm just considering visibility. The other senses will come later.

>>16259431

Human eyes are evolved to detect motion. This should be the biggest factor, I would think

>>16259431

Camo? Might be hard to implement but I can think of two ways:

>you could give each surface type an int, give each nearby guard a low rez camera that renders just those ints as a color, then check how many of the pixels of the player have neighboring pixels that don't match it

>what metal gear solid 3 did, just have the player check nearby surfaces and see how similar they are, then use the resulting number in your calculations

>>16259445

whoops sorry didn't mean to reply to that guy

>>16259445

Is it a left handed rifle? It looks like the forward assist and brass deflector are on the left. At the same time, the ejection port is on the right.

>>16259445

I don't know anything about /k/ stuff, would call it an AK-47 / 10

>>16259458

i started modelling it in the wrong side view and didn't realize for a while, i can just mirror it to fix it anyway

>>16259463

The proportions are good. It just needs more detail. Which optics are going to be added?

>>16259445

rated

>>16259433

I will keep this in mind. Thank you.

>>16259443

Thank you for the suggestion, however a camo system doesn't quite fit with the game I'm going for. Camo seems like a good fit for a game where the player character is in the wilderness and sees multiple different environments. My game is mostly urban, and if I do have a level in the wilderness it will be a singular environment and will be book-ended by a time-skip or a visit to a central base. There isn't enough room for interesting or fun decisions to justify adding it.

The low res render seems like a good idea to check if the player is standing in shadow with a well lit background, but the visibility being affected when prone/against a wall already approximate that somewhat, and as someone not too familiar with the nitty gritty of rendering it's not worth the time. There are other things I need to work on.

>>16259482

its intentionally low detail to fit my games art style

probably an aimpoint by default but there will be unlockable alternate variants that have different optics and setups

>>16259529

Well I call it camo, but it doesn't mean you need different outfits for the player or camouflage print. If you're wearing a black Sam Fisher suit and stand against a white wall, you're going to be more visible than when you stand against a black wall, even if it's near-pitch black and people rely on their night vision. But you're right, it may make the trouble of implementing it not worth it.

You should definitely add >>16259883 though, can;t believe I didn't immediately think of that.

Shmup anon here.

Can't make the simulation run stable with only air first, limit value don't converge probably due to rounding error and since I'm evaluating on a wide area. It's fine if it's only 4 pixel around the current pixel but it make the propagation slow.

I think I shoudl start thinking about another method, and put a few more hours in the current attempt.

orz

>>16259987

Can you post some pics for the Anons among us who don't remember your project from the top of their heads?

>>16260059

That's a lot to get done in one day, considering how little I get done on average. But by now, I usually see it as, if I get any progress done during the day, I don't see it as a waste of time. Maybe not the best way to look at it, but as long as I'm inching along, it's gonna get made one day.

>>16260059

What's the name for the phenomenon where you can see a texture/pattern repeating? It's not the same as a Moire Illusion but something similar

In case anyone remembers the FreeGameDevWiki (it has a bunch of links to old freetard engines and software libraries), it went offline earlier this year. I found it on the web archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20181208154748/https://freegamedev.net/wiki/Main_Page in case anyone is interested.

>>16253331

When you say "making X is a daunting task", you're wrong. 2D games have been made for decades. Many, many companies have made them, big and small. We're not talking about rocket science here. Most of the big, commercial, well-known game engines you see are big because they are designed to make money, or they are designed to have a very broad scope. If you constrain your scope, you will reduce your lines-of-code immensely. There's a reason why /tech/ people complain about bloat. Sometimes a 20% increase in features can result an 50% increase in code.

Don't even think about making an "engine". Who the fuck even invented the word "game engine"? If you look at older games made in the days when more devs still made their own "engines", those engines were nothing like UE4. They were made to work for that game or for those types of games that the dev made, and that's it. When you start using the word "engine", you are scaring your brain by making the project sound harder than it needs to be, and you are also constraining your brain by setting a very strict goal that may not even be the goal you want to reach. Most games on NES didn't have "engines", because the games and machines were so simple that they wouldn't need or want to organize their code that way.

Just like, make a game, or game components, or whatever you want, and see where it goes from there. One step at a time. That said, I myself cannot get barely anything done, so I don't think this advice is very helpful. I just wanted to interject for a moment.

>>16259528

>Be retarded

>Image takes up like 1760x620 or some really weird non-power-of-2 resolution

>Realize I can just expand the cardinal arrows into full 32x32 tiles, and then only need one of them with a corner tile because drawtime transformations

>Image now fits into a proper 1024x512 texture as God intended

>>16259883

Thank you. That whole writeup is very good.

what would be the most effective way of bait-and-switching SJWs as far as gaming goes? I was thinking something this:

>Game starts out with a multicultural strike team, complete with obligatory trans character as mission control on an operation to stop a conflict (FOR PEACE!).

>Characters have their share of conflicts but otherwise get along, eventually you rescue the big bad's abused son (who wants to destroy the big bad).

>early game bosses including an abusive general who treats his step-daughter like shit, and a charles-manson-tier paranoid schizophrenic.

>as the game goes on, drama within the multicultural strike team slowly escalates, it being instigated by the tranny character, and the fat feminist.

>Optional scene has the abused son wanting to do a PG-Tier cuck scene with his girlfriend and the black dude. Black guy tells him to the effect of "Nigga, you need a fucking shrink!".

>Realistic depictions of narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder.

>Halfway point has a massive difficulty spike, super hard area with a super hard boss.

>After the halfway point, Plot twist: you were deceived, the mission is a false flag, once you find this out, you take control of the op, and make effort to avert a crisis.

>The big bad isn't the abused son's dad, it's his mom, the dad is an emotional slave and scapegoat to her, taking the political fallout in the process.

>Tranny is the mole, and is working for the big bad bitch on a contractor's basis. Fat feminist was a mole too, but got cold feet, tried to rat the tranny out and got killed for it.

>You carve a corpse-ridden path through the BBB's fortress. You're treated to intercepted radio chatter where she's screaming denial about 'masculine concepts' like willpower, heroic action, courage and how they "don't exist, will not exist, must not exist,"

>You hunt down the tranny only to find that it killed itself out of guilt and shame. You find a suicide note on it showing how much it regretted everything it ever did.

>Final Boss is the BBB in a giant diamond-encrusted and pink-gold mecha. When you destroy the boss, she survives, but you finish the job by kicking her off the tall-as-fuck-building you're on.

>The emotionally-enslaved dad gets uncucked, the kid gets therapy.

>Whichever team member you had the highest 'friendship' score with becomes your waifu in the end.

content will obviously be subject to change, but the idea is to show realistic depictions of mental illness, show facts about cult mentality, and counter SJW ill-logic.

>>16262073

Buy the rights to a game they like and then make a shitty sequel.

Do you really need someone to tell you how to bait and switch? The games industry does it all the time.

>>16262088 (checked)

>Do you really need someone to tell you how to bait and switch? The games industry does it all the time.

This is amateur game development general, bro. besides, I like to be honest to people I truly want to please, but as I cannot please everyone, I want to make fun of those who will never be pleased.

Also,

>>16262149

>that fragmented "Also" that I don't need in this post.

damnit jim, let me delete my post so I can remove this mistake.

>>16262149

Bait and switch is not some obscure hidden programming technique. Look at how others do it. Imitate them. Or don't bait and switch at all, since it's a waste of your and others' time.

>>16261580

I would totally play it. Would it have alternative scenarios?

>>16262189

Some variations but not completely new settings.

>>16262218

A bit less variation in the color under the stripes I'd say, right now it looks like yellow cobblestone under there

>>16266133

Visiting communities that have been dead for +15 years is always weird as fuck

>>16266492

Well, 4chan isn't really archived well, either. Think of all the memories are lost every day when a thread prunes or falls of or is outright deleted like /new/. Same deal on 8chan, I don't think there's a proper archive for all posts.

>>16266522

>>16266937

This was meant for: >>16266133 , fuck

>>16266999

This is used in level creation all the time. See the Hammer and Unreal level editor. Using this when 3d modeling is called a "boolean workflow". It works extremely well for hard-surface modeling but generally isn't a good fit for organic models.

CSG is also used extensively in procedural generation of models. You can see this especially in the approach of using grammars to create 3d models, common when generating buildings.

The storage benefits you mention aren't seen except in proc-gen. Usually the model is baked into the vertexes and polygons before being stored.

>>16267175

and again, i've replied to the wrong person… i'll stop mentioning it, it's for, >>16266999

>>16266999

I've seen this before, but I always forget it exists.

>>16266937

Have a link, sounds interesting.

>>16267185

You always have such great music in your webms.

>>16266857

Where are the mag and bolt releases? Why aren't there holes in the hand guard? Why isn't there a lever to adjust the stock? Where are the sling mounts? The charging handle is stubby and angled the wrong way. It should be a hook so that the finger doesn't slip off. There's no texturing on the grip.

Here are the rules I've finalized about my object behaviors in my puzzle game:

>The game is divided into Tiles and Actors (eg static and active objects)

>The playing field is 256x256 Tiles in size, with a limit of 8192 Actors

>A Tile may contain exactly zero or exactly one Actor

>An Actor may occupy one or more tiles at a time (eg moving from one to another)

>Actors are updated from the bottom right, towards bottom left, then working upwards to index 0 (eg reverse array order)

I'm trying to work on a sort of API that object behavior can work against, without having to expose a lot of code to it. So I'll have stuff like MoveActor(a) or GetActorAtPosition(xy), that sort of thing.

The one thing I'm having the most trouble with is trying to work on position based commands, like GetActorAtPosition, or ways to look at adjacent tiles to see which tile/actor might be inside it. I know I can put down a 256x256 array, but this feels wasteful and doesn't scale. Meanwhile, quadtrees seem like a lot of busywork for a sparse number of objects (7 or 8 branches deep to find a single adjacent tile, for example). I've been fucked with this for months, so I've drifted away from devving seriously, any ideas on how to solve this?

>>16266133

Had the same feeling when I was learning RTCW modding last year.

>>16268195

How many actors are you expecting to be in a typical scene? Design around that. If you don't know yet I'd say stop agonizing over a decisions that's going to only cost you a few MBs of memory.

>I've been fucked with this for months, so I've drifted away from devving seriously, any ideas on how to solve this?

In the past I've suffered from that type of design paralysis too and know how bad it can hurt productivity. Nowadays I go with the mantra of going with the most simple solution if I don't know enough about the problem to know what more complex solution is more fitting. Even doing stupidly simple stuff like stepping through your actor array until you find a match would probably work fine until you stopped having trivial levels which are more representative of real use. I think you've been given this lecture before for worrying too much about minutiae.

>>16268419

Yes I have.

But a typical level would have maybe 500 actors at most, and they'd only poll it when idle, so yeah you're right, it is trivial. Hmm… I'll have to play with it.

This sort of thing happens to me on every project i try

>>16269556

You're not gonna become a good programmer by penis posting.

>>16238335

looks like a 3d noise panning around another noise, in movement, it does not seem as awesome as I assumed it would be.

The thing that makes it look like clouds might be pretty complex, but the thing that decides where the clouds are seem so simplistic that you can't even make a raincloud pass through your house

It's great depending on what you want to achieve, but not that great otherwise

looks very nice, regardless of how useful it is

Okay so it's a horror game in Unity that's has 3 levels consisting of 90% empty map, and AI that has direct walk towards you path finding and I'm never going to finish it but I'm releasing it on itch as a work in progress. and lootboxes

Did I pass?

>>16228020

> Is it possible to have a job and a wife?

Yes. It's just hard to find.

>>16266133

Don't remind me about the days when game communities were creative…

https://web.archive.org/web/20060628041028/http://art.counter-strike.net:80/art.shtml

>>16271619

If you're worried about how viable dev is, you're already out of hobbyist territory. At that point it becomes a product and arguably has a wholly different approach to it. If you want to make a game, then make a game.

>>16266133

You should check out Quaddicted's web archive, it's full of such gems: https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/.

>>16271729

>I don't even want to think how long it will take till the modders and mappers stuff prosper again one more time.

What's their incentive? Games seem to come out so rapidly, there's basically a game that fits their niche, so except for them and a few autists, there isn't much reward for doing so.

>>16267229

It reallly depends on what he's designing it for, a lot normalfags will ignore it like they did with Counter Strike 1.6.

>>16267185

Nice Kraftwerk

In C#, is it a sin to use strings as identifiers?

What I want to do is have object behavior depend on whatever attributes/tags they have (eg IS_FALLING). Rather than hardcode an enum type, I thought it would make more sense to just leave it open ended and have it interpret whatever tags it has. I could make a Token object, but the only information it'd really have at the moment is it's name, so it seems redundant to wrap a string inside another object if I only need the string.

>>16273583

>In C#, is it a sin to use strings as identifiers?

yes, in literally any language it is, unless it's something used only once or twice and everywhere else it's changed into a unique procedural int or long

What engine are you using? there are probably better solutions already built in

>>16273583

It is a sin any language but especially so in C# where everything is on the heap. You lose safety features like compile time error checking. If you misspell an enum, the program won't compile. If you misspell a string, you have a hard to find bug.

>>16273739

He can also just delegate the behaviour to another object, so the object will behave differently based on what object it's attached to

>>16273689

I'm pretty sure that In C#, objects have an internal ID attached to them that's used by the CLI so it can resolve reference identity (a == b), including strings. Additionally, all objects use GetHashCode() when used in dictionaries and hash sets, so it being a string is just semantics, it behaves exactly the same as other objects.

>>16273739

>>16273749

I want the "engine" part of my game to take a set of game objects and behaviors defined in a second assembly, and correctly update them and work with whatever they throw at it. So basically, it would define all the rules and pieces, and then the secondary part would shape those into actual game objects

>>16273773

use interfaces or abstract classes to define the rules of the stuff other people will implement on their mods.

So basically:

Your Object

->behaviourObj1 : MyBehaviourInterface1

->behaviourObj2 : MyBehaviourInterface2

->behaviourObj3 : MyBehaviourInterface3

then for instance:

behaviourObj1.DoBehavior(behaviourObj2.myVariable, behaviourObj3.DoThing(true))

So you can have any number of different MyBehaviourInterface1 implementations (same for 2 and 3) and those objects will be the responsible for implementing the behavior.

You can freely swap them, and the code will end up clean and easy to understand

>>16273835

That's basically what I'm doing… I have a Behavior object that is contained on each game object instance that needs to get implemented, but I want an API of sorts that limits what the objects can do (eg I don't want it poking against raw arrays or instantiating game-level objects or the like)

So I made a GameState object that tracks the map and actors, but I don't know whether to make it monolithic, or how granular to make its components

>>16273848

> (eg I don't want it poking against raw arrays or instantiating game-level objects or the like)

You are up for one hell of a headache, it's better to just let modders do whatever the fuck they want.

It's basically impossible unless you put them into a sandbox, which is a terrible thing on it's own

>>16275698

Imagine how many people will care when playing the game

>>16276175

The contentmanager isn't too fancy but it works. It's a pool of threads that use a separate transfer queue and a command pool per thread. Right now I just allocate new memory and command buffers for every new piece of content I load but I have integrated the VulkanMemoryAllocator from AMD with an interface that easily let's me pool memory in the future. I know queue submits are externally synchronized but is something like vkCreateImageView? Man pages says nothing about it so it's hard to know.

>>16276367

Fucking fantastic anon, thank you.

>>16276423

no problem, I'm glad it helped

How would you go about making mods for games? I'm interested in making a combat mod for VTMB but I don't know where to start.

>>16277100 (checked)

Well those are the things I would go look for if I would want to mod a game.

1: Is it open source? If not does it provide some kind of a additional tools or SDK needed for the archives?

2: Check if any documentation or tutorials are available

3: Does it provide a native mod support via command line or directly from the game?

4: Is it 3D or 2D? If the former what kind of model format does it uses and is it easily available with other tools such as export/import plugins? If the latter what kind of image format does it uses?

5: Entity definitions, how does the game store its information how does the variables get defined? Such as health, ammo, weapon types etcetera.

If you are familiar with reverse engineering than it is also highly probable you would also need to resort to this method which takes much longer because you spend a lot of time finding out what the fuck those hex values are. When it comes to old games, chances are that a lot of information is much less accessible because websites for it or something are not hosted anymore so you probably have to check the internet archives or whatever is called too.

When I was a kid I could spend entire days doing nothing but fucking around in RPG maker, now I can't put any effort at all.

I want to die.

>>16278584

Fucking around is a lot different than putting in meaningful effort. I catch myself messing with the scene's lighting a ton when I should be programming.

>>16275698

I recommend using 8. You can try a 5 to see how it will look but be careful with topology. Topo tends to favor even numbers as far as I know.

>>16280182

Hey that looks pretty fucking cool.

>>16280182

God damn that's gorgeous.

>>16280182

It looks like Tiberian Sun, are you using their assets directly or as inspiration?

>>16280374

That's pretty neat. How's performance? Does it work with Unity's occlusion system?

>>16281095

Go ahead big guy, tell us what game they're stolen from.

>>16281147

Do you have the copyrights to use them ?

If no, then don't touch them.

Not only did several completely non-profit projects get "cease and desisted" for using stolen assets, but it also brands your game as an asset flip.

Also im really not sure if just being on kickstarter is enough to gain any popularity. Look at this:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1529168956/ghost-fight-a-competitive-rpg-battler

I have no idea what this is or who made it, but it has 4 backers. What makes you think that another RPG maker game will be able to surpass that ?

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?term=RPG+maker&category_id=35&sort=end_date&seed=2588940&page=1

Here is more RPG maker games. Look at how many died and reconsider your choices.

Not trying to shit on your idea, but i just don't see it working out unless you have the golden goose of ideas, and i want to prevent you wasting your time.

>>16281197

Also to add to that, just go and grab some copyright free music from a site like

https://incompetech.com/music/

Pretty standard stuff and overused, but 100% safe.

>>16281147

>"Kickstarter…"

No.

>"…for my RPG Maker game…"

HAAHAHAHAHA FUCK NO

>>16281147

Nobody will care about your kickstarter and it would just be demoralizing and unproductive to do it. Is your fetish being bullied on the internet?

>>16281112

>>16281147

>I just don't want to spend a year working on something that literally no one ever sees

Just stop being a bitch, you get used to it.

>>16280426

I'm using OpenRA as an engine, with the OpenRA iteration of Tiberian Sun as a basis for the game. As far as environmental assets go I am basically just going in and replacing every single environment tile (ie the clear tiles, grass, water, cliffs, roads, etc) with custom graphics, but since it's only about halfway done there are still stock TS assets visible in some of those screenshots, like the Tiberium and civilian buildings. Also I should point out I had to change the color index palette to accommodate my more lush terrain, which is why the stock TS assets are grainy and weird looking.

>>16281706

How do you produce the graphics for buildings and units? I'm guessing making sprites of 3d models?

>>16281689

>OpenRA

I hope you at least try to optimize it