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@AttackingHobo I saw it ;)

1:34 AM

@MLM I just tried out another optical effect and it works the same as in real life. awesome

Unity 4.6 beta available: http://unity3d.com/unity/beta/4.6
dat new UI system

Web stack UI master race :)

:P

good timing too, should speed up my chatroom/gamebrowser development

I linked the Unite keynote earlier but no one really seemed interested.

Unity cloud for builds. Video compositing stuff. Awesome lighting without baking. I missed some of it though because of lunch

Oooooo

1:48 AM

@MLM its not like that video could be scrubbed back to any point whenever you felt like it.

@AttackingHobo Yes it is archived... youtube.com/watch?v=5RZBxGexCuk but I haven't watched it yet

Icy Defiance

2:10 AM

whoa, Unity got a new website, and it's horrible

their old site was 100x better

old site was like "I'm sleek and professional and awesome" and the new site is like "I want to follow fads but have no idea how"

user4704

WHoa

Icy Defiance

looks like they're releasing the source for some things, though, so that's cool

Hello every 1

2:27 AM

I like the new Unity site and I feel it is a nice improvement. The font choices are a step up from before which I think was just Arial

man, automatic 9-square sprite splicing for buttons (so you can create a single button sprite with a border, and have the centre of the texture stretch but not the borders).
radial fills (like for WoW button cooldown timer effects).
proper tiling

unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/ui/ui-image

hi stizzle

even proper button navigation handling for keyboard/gamepad input out of the box

They pick any 1 as modles these days

create a button, and using the Unity inspector, click on an object and function to pass in an argument, right from the editor
less typing ftw

multi-line text wrapping

unity's old UI stuff was so crap lol

@Chris Text wrapping was a thing before. Set wordWrap on the GUIStyle

I never used the OnGUI stuff, only GUITexture and GUIText elements

not being able to click on what I was creating was a giant turn-off

2:39 AM

I have been using it for an Editor Window Extension, never for Game UI

PsychO PhobiA

Hi all!

Had to come back right after the chat war

@PsychOPhobiA pong?

PsychO PhobiA

Working on it man. Don't worry about me.

2:58 AM

@MLM I just made a working AR hud that should work in real life

its not ideal, but its a design I've never seen before

@AttackingHobo like projecting and lenses and stuff?

kind of

Whats happening tonight guys?

@MLM @SpartanDonut this

imgur.com/a/klyLC

WHAT IS THIS SORCERY

3:01 AM

light how does it work!?

I don't quite get it. Are those screens. What is that circuit board thing you look at?

Those are screens with a test pattern

its reflecting off the glasses

and thats it

It even works in real life too

I noticed that when light hit by my eye, I could see my eye and the area around it very clearly, almost like a microscope image

using aviator glasses

DIY Oculus Rift: learn.adafruit.com/3d-printed-wearable-video-goggles - just in case you don't follow Adafruit

@AttackingHobo Ooo interesting

Yeah. its weird

@SpartanDonut there is some good DOF in that image too

its cycles so its real DOF and not faked

camera is focusing on the far out square

and you can see the square near the eye that is blured

3:19 AM

feck, UI is now a reserved Unity component. time to rename all instances of my original UI component ;_;

3:31 AM

lawl

ahh, wasn't too bad lol.
Normal game still works okay at least! so I can tuck into this new UI stuff without much issue

ah man, this is now a WYSIWYG editor. Clicking and dragging in the Scene tab, this is a giant breath of fresh air for me

4:07 AM

So here is a way of finding lines in file that are recognizable as english:

grep [b-dB-Df-hF-Hj-nJ-Np-tP-Tv-zV-Z][aoeui][b-dB-Df-hF-Hj-nJ-Np-tP-Tv-zV-Z]

Anyone know how to do case-insensitive in regex?

/i

At the end?

And is that supposed to be a backslash?

Eh, I'll find it myself. NVM.

I am pretty sure it varies from language to language but /i works in lots. Just put it at the end

@MLM Ok, in grep you just do -i as an option

Hi people

4:11 AM

Hey there

@AidanMueller That regex doesn't seem to work for me. For example "Hello" only matches "Hel"

Lol cool name

nvm, just had to add a (.*) multiple match thing

debuggex.com/r/OdxQbwpNGk-Id_lp

@MLM Grep shows you the whole line unless you use -o.

So it should only work with grep really.

4:16 AM

@AidanMueller It doesn't work with "What is this"

Grep is one of my favorite tools on the pocket knife.

It should.

Hmm.

Check out the unit tests here: debuggex.com/r/i0uaIRrpHvpZYboJ

@MLM Something must be messed up with your regex. Did you copy the whole thing?

Maybe I didn't paste the whole thing.

If anything the first chunk is wrong. Does that phrase work for you?

It recognizes part of it but not all

grep -i [b-df-hj-np-tv-z][aoeui][b-df-hj-np-tv-z]

4:20 AM

That is much shorter than before?

Case insensitive.

I was manually doing ignore case before.

As in [a-zA-Z]

aww, still: debuggex.com/r/9DXIE0rUjuiESWsU

@MLM It matched all of these:

What is this
Where is this
Why do people listen to justin bieber
Or niki minaj for that matter

Is it supposed to match the whole phrase?

It misses the W

No. It matches Consonant-Vowel-Consonant.

4:24 AM

Alright, you mentioned it showed the whole line with grep. I missed the point a bit. I guess this finds where english text is but not the phrase itself

Pretty neat

Yeah.

I was using it to sort through a hexdump.

@MLM For hexdumps, I would have to figure out a way to show the lines around the matched lines with grep though.

A: Menu select item stuck on screen after context or command menu has closed

5:28 AM

@MickLH What desktop environment do you use?

Do you use XFCE?

@Almo Oh, I know how to fix that. You have to disable this one setting that makes things fade away when you click a context item. Let's see if I can find it.

Found it.

Here is how you get rid of it:

202

The problem was introduced back in Windows 2000 when fading menu items were added. Originally, the feature was added in kernel-mode code and was tightly integrated into portions of the UI. Since it worked so well, it ended up staying there. The problem has appeared from time to time, but no one h...

(for future reference)

And this is how you prevent it:

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A: Menu select item stuck on screen after context or command menu has closed

Last time I saw this was in Windows 2000 where it happened to me occasionally. I suppose, a workaround would be to disable menu items fading out after clicking in the Performance options:

I honestly didn't even realize that clicked items fade until I had this bug.

Or maybe I did. Didn't really care anyways.

5:55 AM

@AidanMueller Did you see the AR hud concept I made?

Its kind of hard to see whats going on. But the bottom image is from the viewpoint of an eye with 100 degrees fov

@AttackingHobo How would your eye focus on that?

@AidanMueller its reflected

and that focuses it

Off of?

Its below the eye

Wait,

ah.

I think I get it.

5:57 AM

Im using cycles with DOF

That top picture is creepy though.

hahaha

Recalculate your normals.

Just a shitty mesh

I spent 99% of the time on the optics

it was hard getting it to focus properly

see the cube on the first pic?

you can see it in the second but its blury

@AttackingHobo I wouldn't have guessed :P

5:58 AM

But the display is not blurry

I saw this effect in real life

with my aviator glasses

@AttackingHobo You want it to be focused when it's at distance.

it is. its focused on that white cube out there

Do you plan on making this IRL?

the reflection bends the rays

It would be cool.

I wouldn't mind taking a whack at making it.

6:00 AM

Yeah. This or something similar with the light bouncing off

could make a cool motorcycle helmet maybe

wont look as retarded

prob black out the bottom of the reflection?

@AidanMueller another thing I was experimenting with for AR

@AttackingHobo Another cool idea, would be to have clear glasses. Then, put an lcd (the liquid crystal part of it) on the lens. That way, you can have polarized glasses that can be turned on and off.

@AidanMueller yeah. That was another thought. shutters of some kind, either mechanical or electronic

Imagine that with cameras on the back of each one

so you are looking at a camera feed on each eye

I mean like glasses that would be clear indoors, but you could flip a switch and it'd be black.

And polarized due to the nature of lcd.

Wait, would that work like that?

I don't know. Haha.