Game Development

it did?

user4704

Chatter in the Computer Graphics chat suggests so (plus the chat is now parented here).

user4704

Computer Graphics

General discussion for cg.stackexchange.com

user4704

I can't read any of the links though, because the beta SE program is stupid.

interesting

ClassicThunder

1:48 AM

Yay I got the getting started ThreeJS project running w/ JavaScript compiled from kotlin

cool

ClassicThunder

It's pretty awesome. The inter-op layer is very easy to write and now I get to use the JS library with strict typing, code completion, refactoring tools, and the like.

bitbucket.org/ClassicThunder/kotlin_threejs/src

Going to port me GDSE Game Jam entry to a web game meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/1637/…

2:06 AM

Let's say that I have a game that wants me to port forward port 3000. Can I use port triggering instead? Or will the port eventually close after I start the server?

I don't want to have to constantly be opening and closing mah ports.

3:19 AM

@AidanMueller dmz the whole thing and be done with it :)

@Almo DMZ?

MLM

3:52 AM

@AidanMueller demilitarized zone. Puts the device at that ip outside the network basically. All ports are open

I would recommend a firewall so only the ports the applications use are open if you are going the DMZ route

4:10 AM

yay, refactoring my input handler's done, code's 100x cleaner, better for me and the player even (largely around handling gamepads better).
No longer have to map any buttons for Windows+Xbox gamepads, and no longer using Unity's PlayerPrefs to save custom control schemes
Closer to co-op being done..!

user92578

5:53 AM

Hey!

user92578

Holiday!

6:23 AM

\o/

6:41 AM

@MLM So all connections coming in from the outside go directly to that IP?

I may not hav dmz actually :/

I got a new modem.

And the router is built in.

I could use my old linksys though.

I was kidding.

DMZ = no firewall

I do that for the PS3, but not for a computer.

@Almo How exactly do you hack a network that has open ports?

(not that I am trying to do this :P)

you try shit like getting in through telnet ftp or other services and trying default passwords and using vulnerabilities in potentially old software

Stupid autohotkey isn't remapping caps and space in aurora :(

@Almo What level of control could one get with this?

I may switch to my old router.

I am tired of being treated like I might do something stupid.

Even if I don't use the features, I feel sheltered.

Oh well, gn.

6:57 AM

@AidanMueller depends on your setup really. for example if there are other puters on the network, people could get shared files on all of them

user92578

7:12 AM

How does AI fit in to an ECS?

Christoph

7:36 AM

good morning

@Tyyppi_77 very complex question

user92578

Should it be a system? A completely separate thing?

11:29 AM

anyone here actually use Paint.Net?

user92578

I used to use :)

gimp or paint.net?

user92578

Like which is better?

user92578

Gimp

user92578

11:34 AM

Is that Paint.NET?

no

jpchacha.com/chasysdraw

lol

Finally done with watching all the My Subcription videos at youtube. Have been away from there in a long time

you lucky duck.

Now I am going to try to get exciting about my new big game so I get inspiration to get good ideas :D

have you seen my stupid game? lol

11:40 AM

no

I'm sure it isn't that bad

its a wip

seems like a game people would try one time for fun and enjoy, then throw it away. (no offense)

essentially

You are at least not aiming to make a game as enormous as this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DPgEwcuzvh0cbi9yKstEAsYJ5Y4uNixjuGVuyj1dMaQ/edit?usp=sharing

yeah, this is a under ambitious game

designed by a 6 year old

11:47 AM

I at least need to do some planning for the game I am going to make

I need to connect all the ideas in a proper good looking way

that gives sense

and the AI is going to be extremely hard to do

seems like a very ambitious project

yeah

whatcha writing it in

java

12:02 PM

Q. Why do Java programmers wear glasses?

A. Because they don't C#.

user92578

:D

12:50 PM

^ = image plan of menu

@Jon what do you think?

pretty decent mock up

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@Jon is that good or bad?

i like it

font needs to be more consistent

@Jon your opinion about this: Should everybody start out with the same race, should it be random generated or should it be choosed at the start of the game by the person

1:02 PM

personally i'd rather choose my race

yeah, thats seems reasonable

Then I should plan some races

just have two, black and white

Just because that logo is an egg with an black a black and a white egg I don't know if I would just create two races

But it would be easier of course

So every race needs a curiosity level at least

Not Interested, Average, Curious

better idea, base their stats on the 7 deadly sins

O.o

1:10 PM

everyone ends up being self-destructive in someway

and what are the 7 deadly sins?

I was designing a zombie dual stick shooter, where the zombies each have these attributes

Race 1: Ogli
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Envy: Average
Gluttony: High
Greed: High
Lust: Low
Pride: Average
Sloth: High
Wrath: Low

so fat, lazy, docile losers

Yeah, lazy thing

1:21 PM

so yeah, just by reading those attributes, you can picture something in your head

I think it adds a little change, as opposed to the standard strength/dexterity/vitality/intelligence/charm

Race 2: Armi
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Envy: High
Gluttony: Low
Greed: Average
Lust: Average
Pride: High
Sloth: Low
Wrath: High

Pissed off jerks, seemingly looking for reasons to hate

The armi are douchebags

You got some kind of name generator? or are you pulling these names out of your butt

out of my butt i suppose

Race 3: Gondo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Envy: Average
Gluttony: Average
Greed: High
Lust: High
Pride: Average
Sloth: Average
Wrath: Average

I think that's a fun idea

Don't hate me, but it's like the sims :P

If you end up using this system, you need to give me the game for free

+a mention in a credits

+a tshirt if you make some

1:28 PM

I think I am going to say:
Special Thanks To: The awesome people in the Gamedev Chat

I think I can start out with those three races

I know a fat guy if you need fat voice actors

sup nerds

I loved shotgun in doom 2

Hey @ShotgunNinja

How does being fat affect one's voice?

1:33 PM

breathing patterns

sometimes they eat while they talk

if you are going for authenticity, you need fat voice actors, otherwise you can just tell its a skinny guy trying to be fat

Its a long time since I seen you shotgun

Yeah, how've you been?

good, I think

Nothing special has happened

except two released games

Sweet.

Race selection preview

1:50 PM

pretty standard mockup

consider listing out race details

Oglii, Goondo, Aarmi

?

Whats up with the extra letters

lol, just playing with it

so now I should probably do some code planning for the entity class

docs.google.com/document/d/…

like you can see it is many paths to choose between

is this like, your first planned out game?

kinda

2:28 PM

squish, lol

you're having way too much fun with your falling manbaby gore

gonna release it for $34.99

lol

so, I've returned from Reddit

mostly unscathed, though slightly perturbed and mildly aroused

are you saying you have a semi?

Well, don't look at it - Oh, now it's full.

anyway, one of Reddit's internet superheroes, a biologist named Unidan, just got exposed for vote manipulation.

2:41 PM

votes?

Upvotes/downvotes. Reddit works via the karma system; anyone can make a post, but by default, those posts are sorted by a combination of posting date and number of upvotes.

They're like "likes" on facebook, or +1s on G+/Youtube

All comments can be upvoted or downvoted as well, for visibility.

By making extra accounts to upvote his posts and downvote others', Unidan violated the Reddit terms of use, and lost the trust of all of his followers.

In a thread about the difference between crows and jackdaws.

got a link?

or I could probably check subredditdrama. bet it would be there.

reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2c9ida/…

It's now being referred to as Jackdaw July, or Jackdawgust/Cawgust.

Depending on timezone.

LOL the metabot: pay.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2c63wg/how_reddit_works/cjccfyt

oh well, I hope he sticks around on his new account and continues to post biology stuff.

3:02 PM

6x gold, at least 700 downvotes.

or at least -700 karma.

I do too, but Reddit is never going to let him live this one down.

man, karmanaut isn't getting every comment instantly downvoted anymore. if they forgot about him, they'll definitely forget about unidan.

well, not forget, but get over

Did karmanaut ever violate the TOS?

Apparently he might have

3:25 PM

wow I can't even understand that page

just no cultural knowledge of reddit

woa just voted to close a 5-year-old primarily-opinion-based question on SO (from review queue)

wonder who dug that up

user4704

Which?

@ShotgunNinja worse than that, he was guilty of censoring the bad luck brian ama! :O

user4704

I just closed like ten debug-my-code questions in the unanswered queue. :\

no for real, that's the most downvoted comment in the history of reddit

it was hilarious

Q: How can I script SCCM to change the rate limit percentage?

@JoshPetrie hehe Not really sure which question it was; as soon as you hit close in review, it leaves the page

found it

1

I am trying to script SCCM 2007so so I don't have to manually go through 400 servers and set the rate limit by hand. I want all of the servers to use 75% of their bandwith 24 hours a day. I am guessing PowerShell and WMI is going to be the best way to go about doing this, but any suggestions ...

history in the browser :)

user4704

3:30 PM

There's a "recent reviews" or history thing somewhere.

oh yeah

you're right

:)

@IcyDefiance Link?

I just noticed your message contained a link, which links to the blb thing: pay.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s5guk/iam_bad_luck_brian_ama/…

even better, that guy was an imposter: pay.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/tdl1a/…

between 4chan's /b/ and the popular parts of reddit, it's always fun to watch just what thousands of bored and angry people are capable of doing.

3:45 PM

kotaku.com/how-i-got-my-sex-game-on-itunes-1596684337

4:07 PM

Oh jeez, Facebook is down.

How does that even happen?

Not down for me

It might be a specific set of servers; I'm pretty sure Facebook has different edge servers in different parts of the world.

Joapet, where are you located?

isup.me/facebook.com

norway

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there are two or three locations for European Facebook server farms. Probably one in Ireland, then one somewhere in Central Europe and one in either East Europe or Scandinavia.

Yep: Scandinavian one is in Lulea, Sweden.

user4704

Ugh, the File.Exists() anti-pattern is all over this code :(

4:20 PM

Actually, there are only three major Facebook server farms in the world: Two in the United States (Prineville, Oregon and Forest City, North Carolina) and the one in Lulea, Sweden. They also lease space in the cities of Santa Clara, San Francisco, and San Jose, California, as well as one in Ashburn, Virginia.

@JoshPetrie Forgive me for sounding ignorant, but why is that bad?

if you want to figure it out, you could try a tracert and see where the signal dies. the last hop for me is "edge-star6-shv-13-frc1.facebook.com", so yours will probably be something similar, but different.

Too many unnecessary filesystem hits?

and this is even more cool: edge-star-shv-13-frc1.facebook.com.ipaddress.com

ugh, so ready for lunch

11:25am here

user4704

@ShotgunNinja if(File.Exist(f)) { File.ReadAllLines(f); } or something

4:24 PM

The signal doesn't die. I've been getting inconsistent page loads, and at one point or another, just a Facebook error page.

user4704

You basically should never guard file IO with File.Exists.

user4704

It doesn't do what you think it does.

Why? Does it finger the file or something?

user4704

The file can stop existing immediately after the existence check.

user4704

In which case the guarded operation will fail.

4:26 PM

user4704

Throwing an exception you should catch; but if you are catching the exception, why bother checking if the file existed in the first place? Just try to do the thing you want to do, catch any IO exceptions, and move on with your life.

3

Ah, I see.

I was wondering why they just didn't grab a read handle on it and catch IO exceptions from there.

but yeah, it looks like Facebook is down (at least in the United States).

or when it does (sorta) work, this is all that loads:

erebel55

fb is doing the same thing here

yikes

Meanwhile, in the Facebook offices: ALL RIGHT, WHO BROKE PROD?

erebel55

lol

4:57 PM

@ShotgunNinja How long ago was this? FB isn't down.

It's totally up.

Try a different browser.

LOL.

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Maybe the person who made it was trolling.

I should join coffee.

@JoshPetrie sounds like good advice. Had never occurred to me.

5:27 PM

@AidanMueller It was maybe an hour ago? Probably only lasted a few minutes after I said something.

6:07 PM

breaking the ice

NO

FUCKING NO

WHY WOULD YOU BREAK THAT

because I wanted to

it was effective

►

erebel55

6:22 PM

lmao

7:29 PM

bahahah

That second one is staged.

tbh they both seem staged

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AttackingHobo

@IcyDefiance could be. But the ice guy looks legit angry, esp with the way he tossed his tool

7:36 PM

oh dear

ahaha anyways

eww

7:47 PM

@IcyDefiance does that mean you get lower internet speed?

Congratulations! You are now part of the gang raping.

more likely he had 75/50 and got upgraded to 75/75, but everyone hates verizon so much it's on the front page of reddit now and most of them think he really got downgraded

I find the number of people that think this is likely true to be telling

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Kevin van der Velden

git

7:58 PM

get the extension for visual studio

I want to add submodules and stuff

blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-indie-now-25-dollars-per-month

@ShotgunNinja turns out you aren't really crazy! pay.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2ccg8q/facebook_is_down

oh btw, hello from Assembly Summer 2014

I got a "new" computer from scrap metal and I installed win 8.1, and decided to do some programming

8:15 PM

google translate still needs a little work, lol

but at least they didn't make the text part of the pictures, so it can be translated

@IcyDefiance woot

Q: I am unable to add a reference to System.Windows.Media in my .net 3.5 project

9:03 PM

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2

I'm using VS 2008, with .net 3.5. I need access to System.Windows.Media.Color, but when I try to "Add Reference...", System.Windows.Media is not listed. I'm not sure where to go next since the MSDN documentation seems to think I should have access to it by default, and doesn't give any additiona...

.net

check out the question, two answers, and the dates of the two answers

I don't get it.

Hmm.

maybe he likes to ignore the accepted answers and don't even bother to read them

You know what's funny? I've actually run across this exact issue before, and I think this answer was how I fixed it.

heheh :)

so upvote the question and answer!

m0aR PoinTz!

I've also run into the same issue, but I don't think that answer was how I fixed it

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9:15 PM

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10:02 PM

Wonder if I should commit.

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10:45 PM

keycode64.itch.io/nauts

KEYCODE64 GAME JAM play pls

looks cool

sharing is caring

Source is available as well. I sat this particular jam out due to guitar final, but my team did well

@Grey yo dood

Hi! <3

@SpartanDonut hurgle

11:03 PM

Game making weekend with my bro

:O

@SpartanDonut You guys doing GBJam 3?

No... my brother has an idea for a game and I said I'd participate with him and his friends

I don't expect it to go far but I'll humor him for a while :D

If it turns out we can finish something all the better

.net stuff

    _allLevelsDownloadBundleInfo.OrderByDescending(item => item.RemoteSize);

should I expect that to sort the list by descending order in place?

Is there a return type?

I don't remember off hand

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Q: C# list.Orderby descending

I want to make this return the result, but in descending order. Is that possible? var newList = list.OrderBy(x => x.Product.Name).toList(); Like above, but reversed.

c# list sql-order-by

this question shows an answer that just does it in place, and that has 5 upvotes

the accepted answer creates a new list

    _allLevelsDownloadBundleInfo = _allLevelsDownloadBundleInfo.OrderByDescending(item => item.RemoteSize).ToList();

would be the other way

well, assuming I can do a = a.orderby. might need to do b = a.orderby

ok yeah

has to be the second way

11:32 PM

I bet you can use List.Sort() to do it in place...

for example

List<int> test = new List<int>();
test.Sort((x, y) => { return y - x; });

dang it, I was forced to open visual studio to test that. now I guess I should do a little real programming. XD