Game Development

2:02 AM

Alright. Try putting the robot in the coffin. (Beware bad physics and beta Unity).

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Joe

~~not quite~~ vvv This. "Nailed It"

NAILED IT

hahaha

@BlueBug you rock dude

2:34 AM

@snake5 How about this:

It's over a little over 1300 tris, but I was thinking something along these lines.

If you actually want the model, you can have it BTW.

2:48 AM

@SpartanDonut I figured out what you meant about my mic being too sensitive

ah good

well, maybe

I know what you mean, but not how to fix it

see, my voice when recording locally, when streaming, and when streaming after league goes full screen, they're all different

like some setting somewhere is being changed automatically

no freaking idea where or how

According to my analytics page, Finnish people are impatient. :P

Windows does that to some extent. It's quite annoying

only thing I know of that windows might do automatically is ducking

2:51 AM

not familiar with the term

would would be very useful if it wasn't so damn glitchy, so I have that disabled

Except that was on one video.

ducking is when all sound channels except one (usually voice) get their volume lowered

Looks like the overall isn't bad.

ah

I've had Windows automatically adjust mic levels on me

Can't remember if I fixed it or if I just deal with it

Might have just been a driver issue...

2:53 AM

vOv

at any rate, it's annoying

According to the overall analytics, people from Romania are the most impatient. It would be Switzerland, but Romania has a better sample size. Plus it only beat Switzerland by 1 second.

3:16 AM

@snake5 Did you make gunplay?

I think I've seen it somewhere before I ever spoke with you.

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@SpartanDonut objective complete!

3:58 AM

anyone curious to see the layout I slaved over today?

nobody here; done working for now then. talk later :)

I am curious now lol

hang on a sec

Lemme get it broadcasting

twitch.tv/almo2001

so there you can see in the corner the iOS simulator

i'll go to the submission page now

which took me all day to set up

sweet

the ugly, ugly thing was moving the text box for the keyboard not to overlap it

I can imagine

looks smooth though!

Q: How to make a UITextField move up when keyboard is present

4:07 AM

584

With the iPhone SDK: I have a UIView with UITextFields that brings up a keyboard. I need it to be able to: Allow scrolling of the contents of the UIScrollView to see the other text fields once the keyboard is brought up Automatically "jump" (by scrolling up) or shortening I know that I need...

look at the TON of answers there

I went through about 4 of them till I got something that worked for my setup

one guy has a huge collection of cool ui tools, but they don't use ARC so won't compile in my project

jeez

ARC = automatic reference counting

but it's working now

so it remains to hook it up to the webservice, and I can submit numbers to the game

getting used to Interface Builder

this layout looks fine on any iphone or ipad

though the ipads look funny with a ton of empty space at the bottom

hehe

nicely, the code does not move the screen unless the keyboard will overlay that text box

iphone 5 moves it less, iphone 6 just nudges it

anyway, thanks for looking :)

will talk later :)

:D

SpicyWeenie

4:43 AM

hello out there

4:58 AM

@Chris nicely done

he was a fidgety bastard

did not want to go in

Yeah bad physics are bad

lol

We need to get a model that cooperates and then work on the controls

Just using the autogenerated / built in physics on that model you can't move an individual limb without moving the whole body

At least with the implementation we put in place... there is probably a better way

I could turn other parts kinematic but that would mean you couldn't pull him by the leg because his torso would insist on staying still... I'd need to come up with my own mechanism to apply additional force to the torso

For a 2 day prototype we're pretty happy

try different masses for the rigidbodies

5:01 AM

We've got a whole game idea we're hoping to expand upon

like heavy torso, light arms etc

Different masses did help

Definitely will be playing with those numbers more

excellent, keep going :D

6:44 AM

I was looking for a #include statement.

Then I realized that I was looking at a javascript file.

user92578

7:13 AM

Morning

8:03 AM

@AidanMueller yes, I did

@AidanMueller that propeller looks good, though it also looks a bit heavy, like it was made for a plane; I could put something like that under the device, for elevation, though

11:39 AM

I, uh, added networking: webmup.com/3M8iT

user92578

208hrs long video?

lol nah

user92578

that looks awesome!

ty!

I will try to do a chat lobby tomorrow

user92578

So this is what it's like to do stuff in Unity: you get stuff done :D

11:41 AM

That's the idea lol

12:19 PM

@Tyyppi_77 it depends

sometimes you just don't and there's absolutely no way to continue

gotta spend enough time in preproduction to determine if your requirements are low enough for unity

2:20 PM

that original auto rotate issue for unity question seems to have been deleted

user92578

I gotta start practicing for my math exam tomorrow and religion exam on tuesday :(

user92578

once again life comes in the way of my computer time

user92578

also I love how the religion e-book is centered:

user92578

OH WAIT, IT ISN'T

user92578

2:31 PM

great design, great design

@Tyyppi_77 religion exam? wat

user92578

yeah, I have to study three courses of it in high school

but.. an exam? what questions are there and what are the right answers?

is it about art/history of religion?

because I can't imagine it being about anything else and needing an exam at the same time

user92578

well we have to write one long answer (essay?) and then we have this "conversation" about a subject

user92578

it's about interpreting the bible, and some general religion concepts

2:43 PM

Our religion tests mostly contained questions like "who are the primary hinduïstic gods?" and a couple of those questions where there's no wrong answer as long as your reasoning is sound.

user92578

"what is sacred?"

user92578

"the dimensions of religion"

user92578

this sucks

heh

user92578

ah, "mana" is a religion term too :D

5:18 PM

I could use some more experienced advice on something if somebody is willing to help me out

pfft experience

@IcyDefiance Yeah you'll do.

nooo :'(

So I'm using Java for one of my current projects and I need to build a Swing UI

Now I hate Swing, hate it. So I'm thinking about using one of those SwingBuilder plugins for my IDE so I can just design it with my mouse instead of typing in the code manually to build it

The problem is that these things are kind of infamous for generating sloppy code, so I'm not sure whether it would be best of me to use it or not.

Opinion?

5:40 PM

@hasherr oh, sorry, I actually did get distracted XD

if it doesn't take too much time, I'd try a builder

worst that'll happen is you scrap it and start over after your first 2 buttons

more likely, you'll build the whole interface and just clean up a little code manually once you're done

WYSIWYG editors seem to be the worst when generating HTML. I haven't had experiences that bad anywhere else.

Cool, thanks.

wow. banished had to require that source code be included with any mod uploaded to steam

it would seem the bottomless horror of gamers extends to people plagiarizing mods and reuploading

> bottomless horror of ~~gamers~~ humans

Jesus, I installed a plugin for IntelliJ but it won't work and I ahave no idea how to make it work, and googling provides no answers.

the more popular something gets, the more assholes it attracts. it's not really a gaming thing.

5:49 PM

oh sure, NOW you're a humanist

wat?

spot of deja vu there, i'm pretty sure we've talked about humans before

you are right, no doubt

no, we talked about how much of an asshole zoe quinn is before. then you tried to take that conversation and twist it so you can call me sexist and a SJW hater.

but that's a totally different thing, not relevant to this

also I don't think you know what "humanist" means, because that's not relevant to either that conversation or this one

you were also talking about people deserving to be hated, i think that's the part where we disagreed

i don't really care to argue about pedantic stuff either

well, yeah, if you go around ruining the lives of random people just to get more book sales and twitter followers, I'm gonna hate you

I didn't understand that argument either

5:54 PM

i know you don't, we definitely talked about that already

uh oh

getting into a situation where I don't feel right if I'm at home and not working on my game

recipe for burnout

that's bad? i am in deep trouble

well, I don't like getting burned out and having difficulty at work :)

I don't love programming for its own sake

so there's only so much fucking around with stuff not working that I can tolerate :)

and yesterday was quite a fight

I can stream it if you want to see what I did yesterday

took about 8 hours

link it, sure

Q: How to make a UITextField move up when keyboard is present

twitch.tv/almo2001

you'll see the iphone app in the lower right corner

it's delayed a bit

but now I'll forward into the screen I did, which has the submit button on it

the displayed contests are real data from the server

the big ugly thing was moving the view so the keyboard didn't cover up the text box your editing

584

With the iPhone SDK: I have a UIView with UITextFields that brings up a keyboard. I need it to be able to: Allow scrolling of the contents of the UIScrollView to see the other text fields once the keyboard is brought up Automatically "jump" (by scrolling up) or shortening I know that I need...

ios iphone objective-c uitextfield uikeyboard

look at the fuckton of answers to that question

had to filter through a bunch to find something that worked

anyway, that submit page just needs to be hooked up to the server now

6:07 PM

heh, i'll save it for later

i'm mostly hooked on people on twitch.tv playing "Game Development" though

ghehe

the stream is live though

you won't see anything if I'm not on

unless you tell twitch to record it :O

hmm

i'll look at that

it just archives it for 2 or 3 weeks or something like that

it's not permanent

how do i do that?

6:10 PM

in your settings somewhere. forget the name of the tab.

just a checkbox you enable

here: twitch.tv/settings/channel

ok I told it to save broadcasts

how do I see a list of the archives now?

video manager on the left bar

excellent

thanks

@SethBattin here's a link

twitch.tv/almo2001/b/592003682

it shows the same keyboard movement thingy on iPhone 4, 5, and 6.

4 moves a lot, 5 a little, 6 not at all.

I figured out with my stream, the mic volume changes between recording locally and streaming

then it changes again while streaming, when league goes full screen

like, I get it working perfectly when recording locally, then I start streaming and it gets quieter, then league goes full screen and it suddenly gets really freaking loud

I have no idea why

:(

6:17 PM

I don't even know where to begin looking for a reason

6:51 PM

so... apparently I am crazy over at unity answers

It is completely normal for an application to override system settings

seems really odd to me

I'm on your side with that one

What I don't get, is why this isn't an issue.

And if it isn't, what is the work around?

"hold your phone still"

lol ;/

I tested like 30 apps just to see, and all of them do not rotate when the orientation is locked on the device

submit it as a bug, make a test case app

7:04 PM

I even tried it on an older version of unity 4.3.3

playin some attack of the titans

twitch.tv/almo2001

because someone said it worked for him on an older version .

@Almo have you tested this yourself?

I have not, since I don't use unity at home

Does anyone else have unity, and is able to try this? I have tested on 2 different pcs

i write my stuff in obj-c using either cocos2d or interface builder

7:05 PM

If they would provide a way to interface with the android code , then I could manually set it myself

but as it stands, it seems I would have to do a lot of work to accomplish this.

oh.. and my girlfriend is playing minecraft righ tnow

@Almo have you ever altered the android generated code to accomplish somethin gwith unity specific to android?>

Because I nkow you can do into the project/temp directory, and take the source from there

I was messing with it today

I feel there must be some unity pro thing for this

Oh.. don't want your app to override system settings? You need unity pro for that bitch

its a setting. "Don't override system settings" in the player build settings in pro

@Jon I have never developed for android

oh.

sorry man :)

I'll have to find a new mentor

I might be able to do something with reflection, I have some code that only runs in android

I am gonna have to test it out

Might be able to override the orientation when the system locks the screen

i guess i'll write a test now

"HAHA, I'm the Best!" --Luigi, Mario Party 4

@Jon context? sounds interesting

7:16 PM

answers.unity3d.com/questions/835132/…

basically, they are saying this is intended behavior

IT WAS DESIGNED THIS WAY

whoa

computerworld.com/article/2848400/components-processors/…

oh my god

someone stole my idea

lol

@Jon I'd say it should follow the system setting

@Pip that sounds cool

7:23 PM

it sounds awesome :)

Imagine that 20gbps to an external hard drive.... 1.3 Tbps per second server to server

amazing

except when a game has to be played in a specific way

then it could just ignore the setting and set the specific orientation and stick to it

so.... this guy goes to my school......

he's got this thing that summarizes articles for him (a python script)

github.com/Rotten194/summarize.py

a little bit awesome, and a lot lazy

Programming is just motivated laziness.

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true

user4704

This is pretty much what Summly did, no?

7:37 PM

Huh, never heard of that

Hahahaha

Google's picture-taking car left a shadow of itself :P

lol

7:53 PM

So.... I might be taking some dual-credit courses next year

hyped already

would be taking some CS or programming classes at a local community college... there are a ton of those around here

8:06 PM

nice nice

mhm

Anyhow, how's your thing going?

got basic networking going last night: webmup.com/3M8iT

working on a chat lobby server thing atm now

you are an impressive person.... so much work so little time

^

thank you lol
lots of practice has helped heaps

8:18 PM

I believe it

sighs

I don't really want to write this essay, but it's due tomorrow....

I just want to work on something... idk what though

I kind of want to do some C# stuff

maybe work on porting Tarbeyon finally

Write that essay if you want to continue your awesome grades.

true...

alright

You can work on fun stuff after the essay is done.

but.... but..... fun stuff is fun :P

At least the essay requirement is "one page"

18pt font size

8:21 PM

lol

double spaced

It is going to be double spaced for sure. The essay is the final paper of a biology lab we did in class

Listening to an odd mix of electronically adapted classical music, Billy Joel, and quote-unquote programming music (electronica/dubstep/whatever)

I hate length requirements for essays. I'm really good at writing very compact essays with lots of information.

eh, one page is easy though

Yeah one page is doable.

8:23 PM

open.spotify.com/user/theprogramm3r/playlist/…

Yuck. Some of the art in Magic the Gathering can be pretty unsettling.

voice gives it a very grim tone heh

Yeah it really does. The art is also pretty grim by itself though.

one paragraph finshed (136 words, 10 sentences)

on a roll

8:42 PM

@Pip You can increase the period font size. This gives you some length without making it noticeable at all.

nice

how much does that do, really?

It seems to increase spacing between the lines :P

The actual size of the period doesn't really grow either. Not sure on the exact amount but probably a paragraph.

huh, cool

You might be doing it wrong: youtube.com/watch?v=TrwywE2OvxA

The period trick is at 2:48

holy crap

nice

8:48 PM

:) - What were your gains?