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Asking again.

What resolution sprites and character sprites can RPG Maker (the last one) can tolerate?

Decided to start working in making my twin peaks-esque RPG and I decided to draw EVERY single character and scenario, and I already want to kill myself because I don't know how to draw and I spend an hour doing one fucking shitty character.

>>16499160

From the documentation:

>Characters (img/characters)

>Images shown for the characters on the map.

>The size for a character image can be changed freely (normally 48x48), and consist of 4 directions (down, left, right, up) and 3 patterns for a total of 12 patterns that will be arranged in the provided order. A file for 1 character will be arranged into 2 rows and 4 columns equaling 8 images. The size of the character will be calculated using 1/12 of the width and 1/8 of the height of this file. Moreover, characters will be shown 6 pixels above tile so that they appear more natural when on top of buildings.

>It is possible treat 1 character as 1 file by including "$" at the beginning of the file name.

>Including a "!" at the beginning of the file name will prevent the image from being shifted 6 pixels and will no longer appear half transparent by bush elements. This is primarily used for objects found in the map such as doors and treasure chests.

>It is also possible to use the "$" and "!" special characters together.

Presumably there'll be some limit to total graphical memory, but that's probably dependent on your graphics card more than the engine, and if you're hitting limits on that you're probably just doing something stupid in the first place.

>>16499234

I guess helpful programs to make sprites are more abundant than the stars in the sky, but I want to have some personal style and I'm doing the sketches in a drawing tablet. Spent a few hours doing them and I still feel unsatisfied. It is hard to make a pseudo anime chibi character that is both doodly and not overly retarded. And having to draw the animations of each character already feels like a pain, that if I don't count making my own music, dialog and have to learn some code and download some add-ons not to make the usual shitty RPG Maker game.**

>>16499341

Please tell me she's going to have buck teeth.

>>16499350

>>16499341

*and huge tits

>>16499160

You're better off using Godot. RPG maker is too limited and unstable if you try to push it beyond it's level. It's easy to do turn based stuff as well.

>>16499400

oppai loli is still good

>>16499411

Supposing I only want to create the combat system for a turn based 2D RPG, with no levelling but consumable items and equipments that affected character passives, would Godot or Game Maker Studio be a better choice for implementing a proper turn queue, different classes (more classes than party slots), skills for those classes and

a consumable item inventory system?

>>16499681

You can do it in either assuming you can write custom events in either. And if you can't write custom events in a game engine, why the hell are you using that game engine.

>>16499807

Makes sense. Guess I'll use Game Maker for simplicity's sake and if I find it lacking down the line I'll try again in Godot.

Looking for anons with Blender talent who would be able to help out with a site project I'm working on. I'm going to need to human models either edited or completely replaced, and the whole thing is going to be a big old inter-board event/competition. I'm willing to throw some $$$ down if necessary. SKF at 8chan dot co

>>16499433

>>16499506

Furry game dev, rise up. Might as well make her full anthro.

>>16499138

>Googling the error message

I genuinely don't know what else to do when the manuals aren't helpful at all.

If I have say, four random points/nodes, how do I do that HVH line segment connection with them to find like a minimum distance? I'm trying to figure out how to generate my room placement/size better

>>16500010

The joke is that most problems are literally that simple and people don't know how to fucking solve them.

t: IT major

>>16500128

Adult body, adult treatment.

>>16499973

What do you need done? I can do some basic bitch stuff but that's it, can't even really animate.

>>16500252

You won't need to animate anything, the "skins" of the base models just need to be edited. It's not like you'll have to pull a design out of the air either, I'll have references to work off of.

>>16505715

If you want simple 3D and multiplayer you can't go wrong with godot

Does anyone know of any good guides on how to get into sound design?

I've been getting pretty decent results (for prototyping) by recording things with my phone and playing around with the sound in audacity, but I'm trying to find a good field recorder that isn't thousands of dollars.

Is the Frank Luna book worth getting for $6 to learn DX11?

>>16507612

Im not that anon, but thanks non the less.

Pirating FL studio is one thing, but producing something that isnt either shit or a 10 second loop is unusually difficult compared to other digital arts.

Your character art has really gotten slick, man. Respect

Quick question. If you're a dumbo who doesn't know enough physics/math to implement certain features in your game, is it better to try to learn only what you need for each feature, or to read through a whole textbook before you try anything?

>>16508336

Just learn for that specific feature or you will not be here to post progress

>>16508336

Unless you are really good with retention you will probably forget most of it before finishing the book, You learn better doing instead of reading.

>>16508336

Do what is most fun. I find it more fun to learn an entire concept from the foundations up, but most people will have more fun implementing things as they go.

Either way, you'll have better retention if you experiment as you go, and never forego actually learning the foundations and fundamentals of what you're doing (eg. If what you're doing depends on dot products, fully learn dot products and be able to do them on paper on demand), otherwise you'll have no idea how to debug when something goes wrong.

Either way, you're a hobbyist, so making progress is always better than not making progress. If you were doing this professionally, you'd want to fully learn everything first and take steps to reduce technical debt. For you, fun is the top priority.

Is there an image format that has transparency, has layers, and includes the layer names (unicode if possible)? I found ora (OpenRaster) which can be unpacked as a zip. Is there anything better?

How crucial is it to understand computer science for a game? I want to make what is essentially a Doom mod, but getting through SICP and other recommended introductory books is such a pain.

>>16509081

Not.

>>16509081

Programming is mostly logic. You don't actually have to understand the theory and mechanics behind it to effectively code something.

Crudely, you can compare programming to art in this respect, I guess. Knowing computer science is akin to having formal artistic education: it's certainly nice to know about concepts like perspective and color theory, but it's not necessary. You can paint a pretty picture as long as you have paper and paint.

>>16509118

>Programming is mostly logic. You don't actually have to understand the theory and mechanics behind it to effectively code something.

What? The theory and mechanics is the logic. You're mean the contextual shit on top of that. The syntax and other junk.

>>16509045

Why not just make your own? It doesn't sound like you need Photoshop to support it or anything.

>>16509081

"Computer science" is effectively an expensive Jewish facade over very simple concepts that just take time and work to understand.

>>16509132

Theory is explicitly not logic. You do not need to know the theory behind data structures, even of the particular data structure you're using, to know how to code the algorithms for it.

Language syntax is entirely unrelated. You can be fully versed in all aspects of computer science and be mystified by a language's syntax. Even if we ignore a language like Brainfuck, we can look at any form of assembly and I guarantee you'll have a devil of a time telling me what ir's doing quickly.

>>16509045

Depends what you want it for. If you want simple storage and interchange, use your image program's native format. If you're looking to load it for a game or something, you're best with a pile of independent files. Even a zip of pngs would get the job done fine.

>>16509172

> I have no idea what this term means, but I'm desperate to be upset about something.

>>16509351

Tiny hat and boots. Maybe she stores snacks in her fluffy tail. Add something poking out of her fur.

>>16509351

Moccasins, faggot.

>Those train bugs

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-296

So I just asked a bunch of artists at a con if they were willing to do concept art for me. Some said yes and gave me their cards.

I have no idea how much I should charge or what I should even ask for exactly. I'm looking for something to send to whatever 3d modelers I can get my hands on (might know a guy who knows a guy) and basically ask them to pump out things to this specification. How do I not get ripped off/not make it look like I'm trying to rip them off and get laughed off?

>>16509351

>>16499341

that's cute anon

>>16510598

is the final game going to be black and white? Because its a bit hard to see what's going on.

>>16510922

rhythm game

>>16510989

A switch statement will unroll into an if/else chain by the compiler. They are equivalent and come down to style. I personally hate them because they only allow for checking exact values for each case, and take up a lot of whitespace

>>16511020

Did that dumb gay mother 3 combat system patent expire yet?

>>16511002

Switch statements typically use jump tables, and are faster than an if-else if chain.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6805054

>>16511037

They also don't work on floats

>>16511002

If you expect the exact value - don't use < it's shit practice that makes your code harder to read.

I prefere switch because it emphasizes that you expect one value. But I'm fine with ifs.

But don't use < 6 if you expect 5. It's plain obfuscation.

>>16511040

Yeah, it won't work for your specific case, but in general switch cases should be faster.

Ah, I take it back. I cast the Hue value from a float into an int and compared that in the switch statement. After generating 100,000 colors 50 times, doing it with the if/else chain took 67687 ticks, while doing it with the switch took 54130 ticks, or about 20% faster

>>16511050

Oh. I think, you should crash if value is out of bounds (below 0 and above 6), but your solution is all around fine.

>>16511027

Sorry, I didn't get that.

>>16510922

Ever heard of Toribash?

>>16511081

Interesting.

>>16511098

I had a feeling that something like I've described already exists. Thanks, anon. I'll give it a try.

>>16511119

Default values feel like cheating

>>16511119

what about Lua

>>16511132

You could just admit that you are a terrible programmer.

>>16511172

Except I'm not? The base C# library rarely uses default parameters if ever, and I'm just following convention

Actually better yet maybe i wont post my projects in here then

>>16511194

>using default parameters feels like cheating

>i-it doesn't h-ave them in the first place, g-guys!

Haha, okay anon.

>>16511197

Go right ahead.

>>16511132

What does cheating even mean in this context?

>>16499681

I'm tremendously sorry that I didn't answer this sooner. Here's how I would solve it.

If you want to do a turn queue in godot, you don't really need to do things complex as state machines. Just increment your turn, set your allies turn to equal 1, and your enemies turn to equal 0. If you want your ally to start late as a result being attacked from your enemy behind, then increment your turn to 1 so that your enemy would start first.

if (turn %2== 0)

{

allyturn();

}

if (turn %2==1)

{

EnemyTurn();

}

The % operator divides the number and obtains the remainder. So if you start at turn 0, it would be divided by two to return the result of 0, making you .

There are at three scenes that you need in Godot:

The overworld, menu, and the battle scene.

How would you set up a battle scene in Godot? It's simple. Just create a battle scene that your members iwll spawn in with their respective data (class, sprites,stats, etc).

I can do this as a project for you if you want.

>>16509081

It won't teach you to make a game, but it will give you full control to make it with ease. I think that the most important part of it is Data Structures and Algorithms along with mathematics.

>>16508336

I have plenty of helpful books/resources that cover this type of subject matter. Just practice it if you have no clue about what you're doing.

https://www.3dgep.com/understanding-quaternions/#Adding_and_Subtracting_Complex_Numbers

This book is might seem a bit "gaming", but it contains the majority of math that I've learned in my four years of uni. It's authored by a former AAA game dev and a mathematician to give the practical and theoretical application of your games, so it might be helpful for you if you don't want to browse several sites for this info

https://files.catbox.moe/qs7dr7.pdf

https://ufile.io/n901rafl

>>16511365

>I'm struggling understanding godot's scenes, too. In the case of a map/level transition, would the one map scene load a new map internally, or would there be one scene for each level, made visible when I want it to be used?

A scene can be a prop, player, menu, or a level. You can switch scenes by following this guide:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/tutorials/misc/change_scenes_manually.html

>>16510980

As longs as you don't compile with something retarded like MSVC your compiler should figure out that those are exclusive branches but honestly fucking use a switch statement.

>>16510980

If (hue > 6)

else if (hue > 5)

…

Thats not a colour selector thats the AI programming for Brazilians.

>>16499138

>first webm

it so fucking accurate that it hurts

>>16499138

Is there any good source engine tutorials I should know of?

>>16511423

There's a good one at the top left of your post, click the arrow and then "Delete post"

>>16509165

That may be unavoidable if there isn't something already.

>>16509190

A zip of pngs could work, thanks!

>>16511541

My disc drive will come in on Wednesday so I will upload it then.

>>16511040

you could cast into an int using fixed-point math. mult by 255 or whatever you need for precision of your float.

So how is Godot these days for fairly simple 3D games? My demo/game uses smallish rooms and a portal culling system written in opengl 4 and bullet3d. I just don't want to bother adding shadows, animation, etc systems, so I'd like to move to a pre-built opengl game engine.

I've messed with the new Blender game engine but it's still broken in many places, and I don't like the language they chose. I'd like to keep doing the modelling in Blender though, so an easy translator from Blender would be quite necessary.

>>16511560

Also, anyone else looking through the leaked city of heroes code? It's pretty interesting.

>>16511197

>>16511250

>>16511230

>>16511208

Sorry it was 3 am when I posted that and I was already behind on my sleep. Gonna keep plugging away

Sage for blogposting

okay, making a castlevania clone in godot, how the hell do I do stairs? I want the player (KinematicBody2D) to:

>walk in front of the stairs tile of a TileMap

>player presses up

>it detects that the stairs are there and the character moves up the stairs

Adding collision to the stairs tile means the player just hits the stairs and stops moving (because move_and_slide() thinks it's a wall or something). Fucking with the collision layer/masks lets the player fall/pass through the stairs, but then there's no way to detect it. I've tried to separate the stairs to a second TileMap, so now the player knows the stairs are stairs, but only when he's colliding and stopped.

I've tried looking up how to do this and there's no good answers and anything related to TileMaps are useless. Shouldn't there be a way for the player to interact with a tile on the TileMap, like a button on a wall, or entering a door, without having to individually instance and place a sprite? Or am I thinking of this wrong?

>>16512027

>Castlevania stairs

I swear I saw a question like that this year in here.

My naive approach would be:

>Press up

>If within a short distance (1-2 tiles), character moves towards the base of the stairs

>If the character is at the stairs, set a flag, disable gravity, and begin moving up the stairs

>If the character is hit, clear the flag, enable gravity, and start falling

>>16512027

Not versed in Godot's specifics, but:

>make the stairs some kid of trigger, so you can check if the player collides with them but they don't interfere with physics

>if he does and pressed up, set some kind of onStairs state and disable physics

>when pressing up while onStairs, move along a set path easily calculable (it's a straight line)

>when pressing down, move the opposite direction

>have some other similar logic at the top with an invisible stairstart thing

>when hit by an enemy, move out of the onStair state and reactivate physics

You only need an object at the top and bottom, the segment in between can be handled entirely by tiles

>>16512068

>>16512059

>>16512082

Sorry, maybe I didn't make myself clearer. My problem isn't the moving up or down (yet), it's getting the fucking player into the tile where the stair is in the first place. If I make a tile with a collision box, the player can't move into the box. He'll see the box as a stair (which is what I want), but he won't be able to pass through the stair because the collision is there. I need to know a way, in Godot, for a player, controlled by the dumbass move_and_slide() function, to move through a tile, while also being able to see that tile.

Normally I'd use a physics body and the body_entered() signal, but TileMaps don't have those signals. Any script I build into that scene is removed when compiled to a TileMap (as far as I've seen)

>>16512127

this is almost helpful. How do I make things collide or don't collide? player hit collisionshape and player stop. me want player not stop. how godot do this pls

>>16512133

>if (player.X < stairs.X) { player.X += speed; }

>>16512133

>player hit collisionshape and player stop. me want player not stop.

Huh, I only used Godot 2 a while back but you should be writing the collision and movement code yourself right? Or are you using some premade code?

>>16512164

Sounds like bullshit to me honestly. You should have direct access to the collider shapes and be checking whether or not the player collision shape will overlap with another shape and perform your own collision logic consequently. It seems like they are trying to make things easy for newbies by not having to write collision code themselves or something, but that's just going to make it so you have much less control over it. I would ask in a dedicated Godot chatroom because this seems to be engine specific. Perhaps you can use these functions still while having more control over the collision logic.

>>16512191

Okay, thanks for the help. Thought I could go without writing collision code since it seems like it's supposed to handle this shit in an intuitive way.

Not gonna complain in their IRC though, would rather just make progress.

>>16512284

Yeah, I've got a good enough understanding of trig to understand and write it myself. Besides, I'm not gonna have any slopes, since I'm using level design limitations of the NES games

>>16511439

too late for that it's old now :)

>>16512027

Can't you just use one way collision?

>>16512406

Sure, a one way diagonal collision up the stairs. It would work, but you'd have to always jump on the stairs, and could only go beneath the stairs by walking on the floor.

But that would feel more like Metal Slug, or whatever else that does slopes/stairs like that, instead of Castlevania which has stairs that work more like ladders.

>>16512736

ow, my eardrums

lower the sound pls

>>16512821

Sorry, it's a test.

>>16512808

Make it an unlock able cosmetic ya fool

>>16512808

The axial control for the modeling software made me think that one of her boots had flowers inset to the leather.

Might be a cute bit of asymmetry to add.

Floral tail feels like a no but it would be fine if it was a yes.

From the description I would expect her to pounce on acorns like a jew that saw loose change on the street.

>>16512861

we are making it so all cloth pieces are interchangeable between the girls (it adapts to the body dimensions), so we can do it like an optional, no piece is a fixed part of the girl model

>>16512133

I dont use the move_and_slide function in godot. I just get the position of the kinematic body node and set the new position in the loop.

>>16513515

>input is something like 0 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

>it would compress to 0123 (12)(12)(12)(12)(12)

>but that compression needs to encode itself and detect the chain of (12) and become 0123(12x5)

>>16513515

>because FOSS

Do you mean because they're not FOSS or because they are? What's wrong with them being foss, if it's the latter?

>>16513749

No no, there's a dll library called LunarCompress that's used a lot for romhacking, but it's closed source. There's open source hooks into the dll that you can download, but the underlying logic isn't open

>>16499506

Woah. Did they fix the artstyle?

About progress. Refactoring Curse of the Azure Bonds engine. And I Understood how it works with fonts.

>Just load 8 by 8 pixels into memory and take their index from input char by bit shift magic

>Whole screen is tilemap to draw letters on.

>You give the engine char and tile number to draw a letter

I was thinking about making font, but than I remembered that Godot has bitmap fonts. I still need to create some kind of Widget so it would translate better to Godot.

Mad lads they were back in the day.

>>16513515

>>16513622

>getting bogged down writing compression algorithms because autism

Please stop

>>16514236

The ultimate tease.

>>16514183

I agree with another anon. That foam looks way too much like underwear. Make it cover a little less and more foam around the body so it would look more random.

>>16514183

I always wanted to tell you that i am afraid of your shit, i am even afraid to click that. I have some irrational phobia of realistic people in video games, but cute girls especially dig that up from depths of my brain. I don't want to see them acting human-like and see them looking fragile. I'l never play your "game" or simulator whatever you call it, because i literally fear this shit.

>>16514297

When i see cute girls i just want to die or disappear this instant.

>>16514315

>>16514310

He's probably not gay but so depressed he can't stand to look at something he feels he'll never have.

>>16514351

Isn't it what we call gay here? :^)

In reality we shouldn't let him feel comfortable about his psychological issues. We should bully him until he change his ways or commit suicide. Sage for derailing

>>16514379

Don't worry I'll sage for you

>>16514220

Why shouldn't i learn how to do them?

does anyone know how to turn off that annoying feature in Blender 2.8 where whenever you move the camera it instantly changes the view to perspective instead of static?

>>16515673

Wristband? Necklace?

>>16515723

i was going to add a big ribbon on the chest

>>16515673

how about some pink or green edging around the arm holes and neck.

>>16515762

I was looking at the model for places where there is visual monotony, the shirt and the arms are pretty bare so that's where I suggested those additions.

>>16511560

I started looking into Godot 3.1 in detail. It's Blender importer is good. It has navmesh and an excellent animation system. I can use C++ if I wish, but GDscript seems pretty good. I think I might be home to stay.

What do you guys use for pixel art? Preferably something that works in linux (though I don't mind using wine if I have to). I want to use aseprite since it seems it's actually free if you just compile it yourself.

>>16515890

I still have mine.

>>16515673

S U G O I

>>16515847

Aesprite. It's free and the free version is the same as the premium one.

>>16517072

https://github.com/GoomiChan/TS-ReSplit/tree/master/TS%20ReSplit this is literally a unity project folder

>>16515132

Nothing weird about it. People in charge of banning your anime girls on sony platform also have it.

What is the legal standing with making a virtual novel-like game based off of copyrighted work? Like if I wanted to make a Mario virtual novel could I be shut down immediately at any time, if I made money off of it or not?

>>16517113

You're walking a dangerous line depending on how litigious the rights-holders are.

>>16517113

The legal standing doesn't matter because if such a big company wants to bankrupt you by shitting lawyers at you they fucking will.

If you want to make something that makes use of other people's copyright, trademark or patents, then simply release it anonymously and don't try to get attention by blogging about it. Most of these projects target niche communities that will gladly share it through word of mouth, so reach shouldn't be a problem.

If money is involved, don't even fucking bother if you can't get a license first.

>>16517113

You can't even sell fan art legally, how do you expect to make a videogame based on someone else's IP.

>>16509173

>All this retarded nerd shit

If you have a functioning brain you can ration out half the data-structures, minus things that require math such as hashing functions.

>>16515627

You probably figured it out but it's numpad five to toggle orthographic view permanently on

>>16517208

>>16517113

>>16517135

>If money is involved, don't even fucking bother if you can't get a license first.

If it's a first-party franchise like Pokemon, anonymous is the only way to go. Even faithful projects like AM2R got shitcanned, and they existed for free.

The only workaround if you want to make money is to advertise your patreon/kofi/etc as a way to support your studio, and make no mention of patreon or your studio's site in the released work. Just something like "as presented by Faggotgames Inc" or whatever, and leave it like that and hope for the best.

>>16518771

Burning damage, or a very specific fetish video aimed at a niche audience

>>16515673

>flowergirl

cute, but remove two of the flowers from the pouch, it looks gay. if it's one flower it could be justified as the button, but having three on an otherwise plain bag looks like shit.

>>16518771

those are just sex noises though, what if i want them to be screaming in pain as the flesh melts from their bones and their fat crackles like roast pork? fuck, just the thought of it makes me hungry

>>16518955

> it looks gay

makes her look like a hippy more like. I guess that's the intention

>>16518841

It's funny, because the game and engine is so simple, you can go fucking crazy with fun item effects and projectiles

>>16518955

>those are just sex noises though, what if i want them to be screaming in pain as the flesh melts from their bones and their fat crackles like roast pork?

Hey dude, I'm limited in what I can work with. These sounds are stuff a voice actress made free for everyone to use and she hasn't made anything since 2016 and I will probably wait in contacting her until I have money or something to show. They work as generic pain grunts which what I intended them for.

I also realized that I still had Heavy Metal FAKK2 installed so I will use that game's pain sounds as placeholders for now. Those have what you are looking for.

>>16519614

>Squirrel nose.

You're in dangerous territory, anon.

>>16519620

She's the Krita squirrel, you autistic raccoon sniffer.

>>16519651

e621 happens to disagree.

https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/

This is really cool!

But I can't figure out how to force the rules to apply to a particular cell. Do I just iterate all the rules and make a list of each one that fits and then pick one?

Shmup anon here.

Level loading is working fine and I have mostly finished linking menus, there is still bugs related to inital state not correctly set but it will be fixed tomorrow.

Also while looping the first level with reloading it, I've noticed and increase in memory usage.

I initially thought it was in my scripting objects. But after investigation, turns out it was in a model loading section I haven't reworked since going from OpenGL 1.2 -> 3.0+: materials loading.

I swiftly put a "FIXME: Memory leak inside" and ignored it. I'll go back to it eventually when tightening the graphix when I have to load reflections, occlusion mapping and whatnot.

After that I should be thinking about boss battle, but I think my current scripting functions should be enough.

If it's indeed enough, what remains on top of my head is implementing sound and creating music, level design, models and animations, effects, some additional screens like game over and such, and hopefully it will be finished.

So, a good chunk more related to creativity.

>>16520383

Perhaps it is and the hair just makes it look like that. Besides, those people that are born with tails have it about there.

>>16519181

Very cute

>>16519604

not enough tail/10

>>16520383

>>16520484

i can angle it a bit more when making the animations, will try something later

>>16520825

thanks!

>>16522999

I know right?

The Blood wiki is run by very dedicated people and has a lot of interesting notes about the people involved and the game's development. Might wanna check that out.

https://blood-wiki.org/index.php/Development_of_Blood#Game_Balance

>>16522841

Thank God you made him faster.

I was thinking about 8chanmania 33 and thought that since it's on the same day E3 wouldn't it be neat if all the commercials between the mania brakets would be for upcoming games that /v/ is making.

So if you guys want to show off whatever game you're working on in trailer form, I guess you can post it here or a gameplay video and I'll make a trailer for you out of it if you give me the propsed name.

might be interesting.

might be a stupid idea

If you have a large, dynamic map with multiple chunks, how would you handle water spawners? Since they could be far off screen, despawned, but you wouldn't expect all the water you can see to just slowly fade out and disappear.

>>16524677

Maybe store the chunk of the origin inside the water and keep that one loaded in the background? Kind of difficult to say without more info about the game.

>>16524677

move the water spawner to the nearest point where it's needed

>>16524677

Your question is too vague. Be more specific.

Are we talking minecraft block chunks?

Are we talking finite amounts of water, produced by water spawners, or are we talking about minecraft-style water where some water blocks are "sources" and everything else flows from it?

If you are asking how Minecraft did it, then the answer is that you should experiment with Minecraft yourself. Chances are you can easily break stuff and produce "bad" states of unsourced water.

You just don't run into those situations in normal gameplay because the time it takes for water to flow or shrink is much less than the time it takes for a player to run away and unload the chunk.

>>16525282

Daggerfall 2 looks good.

>>16525289

>if the water works as it does in Minecraft

Why the fuck would anyone want to copy that highly specific and highly retarded water mechanic?

>>16525386

Beats me, but Anon didn't tell us anything more specific.

>>16525282

I like it. There's not enough dungeon crawlers around nowadays.

>>16499138

Has anyone ever come across the source for a graphical game written in FORTH? There were apparently a handful of Atari games written in it, but the only game I've ever found the code to was an ASCII version of Snake.

Or maybe someone knows a graphics library for FORTH?

FORTH seems a comfy language to write in, so I want to try my hand at writing a game in FORTH.

>>16525282

If one is already making full 3D terrain, why stick with the tile movement? Is it just nostalgia or is it easier for enemy behavior?

>>16525934

That's like asking why someone would make a turn based strategy game in 3D instead of a realtime one. First Person Dungeon Crawlers are a genre.

>>16525950

Fair enough. I never played those games so I can't see their merits.

>>16525282

wew, looks fucking amazing

>>16525934

I have some experience with this -

Player collision detection, stuck in corners/geometry is a non-issue with tile movement. Creature AI and pathing is easier. A few other minor things are a bit easier. Mostly automated functions that build, cleanup, or distribute things can be integer-based and less error-prone.

I've experimented with both tile movement and free movement in my Dungeon Master - styled game. They're both fun as far as I'm concerned, but tiled was easier and I don't have much free time so..

>>16526425

Nice parallax though.

>>16526442

I figure, it's more doable.

Quick question: I want to upload my Programming 102 game when it's done. Where can I upload a binary that anons will even want to open?

>>16526725

Pain training.

>>16526725

Training it to do tricks maybe

Give it personality, spoil too much and gets stubborn, be too rigid and it becomes afraid

>>16526725

>>16526745

Following the personality idea, give it a rebelliousness temperament parameter: it could change how much training or how much discipline would be optimal.

>>16526725

Campaign combat. and evolution.

Have you played wit the pendulum digivice toys?

They had a pendulum inside that worked as a step counter, every swing the pendulum made was counted as a step that you digimon would take and there would be random battles.

In battles the strength of your attacks was partially based on how hard you shook the device as it moved the pendulum as well. additionally, the ones based on season 2 also had the digimon eggs in as battle items but the intricacies of the game are lost in my memory.

Its funny, my dream game is basically those digivices but on a smartphone with screen taps in place for battles instead of shaking it, and actual travel distance based on GPS info instead of a pendulum swing.

I'd also incorporate image recognition software for training and collecting digimon. Like if you pointed your phone's camera at a refrigerator you would see an ice digimon.

Too bad I don't know if that kind of software exists and that I'd have to work on projects for practice, many of which I would have to go into knowing that failure is a real and expected outcome before going to the dream game.

>>16526715

Please answer.

>>16527293

Can you change the font so the thin lines aren't blurry?

>>16526745

I don't want feels over a small idea like this, anon.

>>16527696

Just use one of the pomf.se clones and post screenshots with it.

github.com/tsudoko/long-live-pomf/blob/master/long-live-pomf.md

>>16527708

I once uploaded a flash projector (.exe) of a game I made as a teen and no anons would open it for security purposes. Pomf doesn't seem to solve that. I've heard that itch.io scans binaries for viruses.

>>16526776

If my motivation was as great as the size of their mouths I would have released an entire series of games by now

>>16527699

Unfortunately not in the terminal, otherwise I need to expand the entire graphic for more text space. I might do it for the item windows though, I agree it looks awful.

>>16527715

Anon, we get people to open our executables every demo day. As long as you post here there's implicit trust for at least some anons, and once they've tried it and shown it's safe others will likely trust it as well.

>>16527715

uploading it to virustotal if they have security concerns is always an option.

So what's coming out in Godot 3.2?

>>16527861

If you're using a dynamic font (.ttf or .otf), you can turn the filter off. You might also need to play with the size, sometimes only sizes of a certain multiple work.

>>16528837

The visual shader editor seems to be the big thing.

>>16529756

Foxgirls are better when they're loli's. Just saying.

>>16529875

You will be able to have a fox girl daughter if you pick either Karen or Reiko as wife

>>16529820

No lewding, missionary position for procreation only, also no handholding in public

>>16529892

>missionary position for procreation only

You have my blessing.

>>16527293

I'm deleting my old youtube because the url has already been changed once, made an update video on that as well as cover some Godot quirks and project objectives. New channel if anyone here was subbed:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2CjO_5rH15qrQCz7AfE0SQ

>>16529500

This looks so much better than what the demo had.

>>16529756

What's the girl in the long purple dress supposed to be? Not the fox girl, of course. The other one.

>>16531305

>This looks so much better than what the demo had.

Thanks anon. Did a playtest today and got the same feedback, by far the best change we have implemented.

I'm having an issue, I need to figure out a good room locking algorithm. So far I've just randomed what rooms to lock which breaks down on circular maps like pic related. I'm pretty happy with placement of spawn and goal, but figuring out what rooms to lock along the way and where to place keys is a bit tougher.

>>16531773

You could use A* with each room being a node and the doorways connections. When you lock a room, disable the connections, then pick a room for a key location and see if you can path to it. If you can't, pick another room until you find one that you can path to.

>>16531821

Dijkstra would be a better algorithm for that if you store a simple representation of your rooms (room node, its connections, if the connection is locked and if the room has a key).

I'd place keys and locked connections on the representation randomly, then I'd brute-force it by running Dijkstra trying to find the keys in order.

And as a bonus, you'd be able to calculate the shortest path to every key and the total shortest path to the end of the map. You could use this to calculate the difficulty of a level.

>>16532461

Yup, this is pretty much how I ended up doing it. I basically random out all the rooms that will be locked. then I use pathfinding to find all locked rooms that can be reached by only unlocking those rooms. Place keys in rooms between those rooms and spawn. Unlock rooms in my temporary datastructure, repeat for rooms that are deeper in the structure. It's brutish but works fine since a map is at most 150ish rooms. As a bonus I added some more statistics and data to rooms that avoids clustering of key spawns.

Speaking of room generation, I'm still having trouble trying to figure out the logistics of shaping rooms for my Metroid hack. Rooms need to be hallways, or square, or irregular shapes, they need to be interesting, etc., and some are 1x1, and some are large, and nothing can overlap or be larger than 16x in one axis, or have an area larger than 50 screens.

I can expand a node into say, 3 or 4 rooms and have them join in series, but I'm not sure how I'd determine their shapes in an ideal way

>>16509293

That's pretty fucking clever honestly. Doesn't Godot already have some hi-tech audio-physics engine though?

>want to mess around with procedural generation as well

>have no game to try it on

Life is so hard

>>16534377

So don't worry about the game aspect, work on the procgen part of it and get individual parts of it working until you have a working idea

>>16533650

I'm guessing this will be the hardest part of your game as rooms are more important than layout in Metroid. I guess you need to build some kind of metrics based system using character abilities as the starting point? How the player can jump, climb etc.

>>16534377

>just like make gaem

>>16525282

That's quite amazing.

>>16534460

I have a few ideas how I'd approach the actual tiles in the room, but right now my hurdle is connecting screens together to make things fit. Making sure doors and stuff connect the way they should. I don't even know if I should do doors, then rooms, or the other way around, or just do them both at once and expand out a door into a room and repeat.

However, since it's node based, each edge contains a mobility item flag, so I could say that to go from Door A to Door B in a certain room needs a particular item, and try to incorporate that

>>16534485

Aren't doors in Metroid basically portals? I'd do rooms first, mostly because from where I'm looking it's the biggest hurdle to make fun. If you can't generate fun rooms (just in terms of layout) the idea doesn't work.

>>16534522

they are, and if you look closely most of them (if not all, not sure) connect to the edge which prevents rooms from overlapping

otoh the layout's not randomized anyway, so there wasn't any need for it.

>>16534522

They are portals, but the map design is such that there are no overlapping rooms on the minimap. You could always override this and do whatever bullshit you wanted to.

>>16534527

>>16534529

Alright, yeah in that case I would argue that the connection and movement between rooms is essentially trivial, at least in comparison to generating compelling rooms.

It's an interesting issue which I am also working with, what makes an interesting room? We have no platforming elements so essentially we can play with shape, enemy placement/composition and trap placement. The dude who did the mapgen for Gungeon said he thinks it's more about the layout of the map than the actual rooms but I'm not sure I agree.

>>16533732

Godot has nice audio mixing tools and lets you specify per-area reverb, but it doesn't have 3D audio features besides simple positioning. I'm not very satisfied with my solution right now but I have an idea that should greatly improve it.

>>16536059

>but then the first one has them all black?

Probably has the data encoded into the least significant bits.

>>16536090

Because quality is by far the most important attribute, i wanted it to attract the user's eye

Freshness could be reviewed, it is less important unless you are preparing something raw (like sushi or a salad)

I think i will make it in 3 stages

Fresh: [time until starts losing freshness]

Fresh: percent% (at this point it starts dropping to zero)

Stale (when it dropped to zero)

I like the idea of aligning the numbers, indeed looks better

>>16536115

Freshness is probably fine as-is, I was just curious as to why it (and quality) got special attention.

>>16536071

How would you lay that UI out on the screen? Could you show us a mockup? Just take a screenshot and put this on it (to scale).

It would be easier to judge, when seen in context.

>Morrigan is my idea of perfect succubus design, so no, Elly doesn't have a tail

Disgusting. Just joking. I may prefer horns & tails, but Elly and Morrigan are still cuties. It's kind of how I prefer lasagna over pizza, but if you serve me pizza, I'll still be really satisfied.

>>16536157

So it's a tooltip. Yeah, that looks like it could work.

I'll play hour last demo again tomorrow. I found the interface quite bad, but I can't tell you what it was from the top of my head.

>>16536190

I know it was horrible, we put it together hastily, we couldn't finish the cooking system, this time it will work and look great

>>16536071

Its like the sad panda od vegetables.

>>16536238

I'll give you an itemized list of everything that bugs me. Hope it'll help.

>>16536257

yes please

>>16536253

you mean the tags? since tomato is a raw ingredient it only has the descriptive tags, if it was a dish it would have content tags that would say which ingredients were used in the dish, so some foods will have tons of tags

>>16537150

>study alchemy

>make a new body

>transfer your soul to it

Worked for me

Spent the last day working on a priority queue / minheap since C# doesn't natively have one in it's standard library for some reason.

https://pastebin.com/raw/zimGKUYg

Now that I have that, I can go back to my waveform collapse thing, and hopefully get my progress back on track

>>16537355

>>16537150

It doesn't even have to be that hard. Download the free version of GameMaker, use their built-in tutorials, and learn as you go. Do the simple drag-and-drop stuff if you're truly braindead, then learn how to do the same thing but with code blocks. It's all done in a basic scripting language that is very similar to Python, and it compiles to run on anything.

The problem, I think, is that you care too much, so you've put too much pressure on yourself to succeed at making your dream game. I've done this too.

All I want to see from you, 747anon, is a game where I click on jews and then they explode.

That's it.

Can you make that in GameMaker for me?

>>16537401

Saved, thanks.

>>16537150

There are no magic words that will brainwash you into action. For every yesdev there must be hundreds of dreamers who never make anything. Do or die.

>>16537548

>hurr durr muh energy

You sound like a lazy faggot. If you already know how to program there's no excuse. No energy to make vidya an hour or two in your spare time? How the fuck are you ever going to take care of a family or home? Might as well give up life right now.

>>16537369

You could make a good game with almost none or none of those pillars.

>>16537150

I've been in the same boat until just very recently. I'm gonna reveal a trick to all of you which worked wonders for me.

1. Learn how to study

This is probably the most important thing you can know in life and I wish I learned it sooner. Basically you must know how to properly sit down and read about a topic and letting it sink in. If you do that right then everything will open up to at least beginner's level which is usually all that is needed to advance further.

2. Learn a bit about everything!

Gamedev is a combined skill. That means there are many different fields that come together to create the experience. Learn about texturing, learn about programming, modelling and everything else. That way if you don't feel like doing something specific, you can still do something else instead and in the end you will still build up your game instead of doing nothing.

I'm not sure if this will be of any help to you but others might benefit from it. I know it worked for me.

>>16537369

>Push hardware capabilities

No, there's plenty of games that don't.

>Testament to makers

Often, but not a pillar since thhere's even anonymous games and FOSS.

>Test capabilities of players

Easy modes exist.

>Entertainment and intrigue.

What about those educational games that aren't interesting nor fun?

THE PILLAR OF GAMEDEV

>Just like make game.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

>>16538399

You're all, including the idiot that reposted it here, incapable of reading it seems. Actually bother to take a look at the image:

>the "four olds" upon which video games were invented

The first certainly pushed hardware capabilities. People did do so to leave a legacy. Easy modes still test your capabilities, just with a lower bar. And edu"""""gaymes""""" are shit and don't count as actual games.

>>16538563

Notes taken

>>16538628

Elly's cape had a problem on the demoday build (same as Adam's jacket) i fixed those

The boobs is just the toon shader, we need to configure it better

I have no idea what is causing the roof, wall and hat texture problems i properly UV mapped those

>>16538657

>I have no idea what is causing the roof, wall and hat texture problems i properly UV mapped those

(Shoddy) parallax mapping. If you're using the old standard shader from Unity, you added a height-/displacementmap to just about everything. Normal maps, Anon. Use normal maps. You can use normal maps everywhere you use them, but they might require different meshes. It's about the angles you're trying to fake using normal maps. They can't be too steep.