Game Development

5:08 PM

I'm about to get a flood of email from Facebook. I said publicly that it's time to repeal the second amendment, so that we can actually talk about gun control in a meaningful way.

Jon

dude, just let jim do the dirty work

Jim Jefferies - Guns Are Not Protection - from BARE - Netflix Special

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Almo

I think I saw this one. Very sharp.

MickLH

Honestly, for personal defense, you're not really getting much safer than an electronically controlled gun with facial recognition, like the military uses for snipers...

A small child could take out a room of trained agents with the swipe of an arm.

The comedy is good... But he's guilty of his own "bullshit" fallacies he jokes about.

Almo

It's true that having a gun does not make you more likely to avoid injury in the face of an attack

androidplusios.design

I want to learn to develop games in C++. As, I am comfortable with C++. Is there any Engine that uses C++ as its primary programming language.

Almo

5:14 PM

Unreal

user4704

Many.

Jon

UE4sure

Almo

you can work in C++ or the visual BluePrint scripting language.

androidplusios.design

Unreal is completely for C++

Almo

Oolong Engine might be C++

not sure if that one's still supported

user4704

5:15 PM

Unreal's probably a reasonable choice. Nice infrastructure for easing you into the C++ bits rather than just giving a .lib and headers and telling you to go.

Almo

ORX is another. It's data-driven, but you can also do C++ coding in it.

androidplusios.design

Oolong covers multi platform? Like android, IOS, etc

MickLH

Thank you @androidplusios.design, perfect timing for that question lol

Jon

if I had a gun I would totally shoot him

Almo

Oolong I think interfaces with OpenGL

so it should be able to work crossplatform. though I'm not sure if it's helpful in that regard.

Unreal will do more of the platform work for you I would guess

androidplusios.design

5:16 PM

Ok so unreal engine is pura C++

?

pure * pura

user4704

Pure enough.

Lasse

just pick it up and try it, if you don't like it after one project pick up another engine

androidplusios.design

who all are unreal developers here. So, I might talk better and take useful suggestions

user4704

I'm not sure if anybody here actively uses it (I don't).

MickLH

Actually that's a funny question, has anyone here used Unreal since version 3?

user4704

5:18 PM

But you can probably ask questions you have on the main site, once you have concrete questions (make sure to read the help page about what is and isn't on-topic though)

androidplusios.design

I have used Unity but I seriously don't have C#. Unity is best engine but the programming languages they have used are so noobish

MickLH

lol you're on thin ice buddy

Lasse

@androidplusios.design that's not a valid reason

user4704

There's nothing "noobish" about C#.

user4704

That's a pretty short-sighted observation.

MickLH

5:19 PM

Let just light up the torches and get the pitchforks already

No use wasting time

androidplusios.design

noobish might not be the correct word. The reason is I don't like C#

user4704

But that said, grab UE4 and try it.

Jon

I played this game back when I was 14 or 15 years old, at my girlfriend's house

When we got to this level set - I said "Haw haw haw flat fun, as if"

MickLH

no no @androidplusios.design "noobish" was correct, just drop a few more like that... keep complimenting Unity while bashing C#... we need a good witch-hunting-mob as a team building exercise around here

Jon

only realizing that my girlfriend's mother and sister were sitting on the couch behind me

androidplusios.design

5:21 PM

What might be the correct way to learn Unreal. Should I start with the videos they have provided or I should start with documentation.

?

user4704

@androidplusios.design Try both.

user4704

Some people learn better from video guides than by reading.

user4704

Others, the opposite.

Jon

its a huge learning curve

be ready for challenge.

user4704

If you don't know how you prefer to learn, we certainly can't tell you, so you'll just have to try one and see how you fair.

androidplusios.design

5:21 PM

Jon yes.

I know I learn from Videos.

MickLH

no like, huge lol, I gave up getting UE4 to work on Linux

just getting it to launch.

Almo

@MickLH I'm on it now at work

Jon

you are not supposed to take it out to lunch silly

Almo

@androidplusios.design Unity is NOT best engine. And there's nothing wrong with C#.

androidplusios.design

@JoshPetrie I started with Unity that way. Its pretty easy that way. Documentations are long + boring stuff. My be i'll save it for advance stuff.

user4704

5:23 PM

I can't stand video guides personally.

MickLH

rtfm

androidplusios.design

If I want to develop android games with unreal. Do I need to learn android API's for that?

or unreal provides its own API.

user4704

I don't know, I don't use Unreal.

androidplusios.design

I did little bit of games development with RubyMotion and used android+IOS API's.

Almo

I don't think you'll need to worry about droid API to make a game with Unreal, unless you're doing something very specific.

MickLH

5:24 PM

@androidplusios.design I answered every question you can have from this point forward, until you have an in-game character working.

androidplusios.design

the layer is ofcourse ruby.

user4704

I assume you don't need to really poke around with the Android API unless you're doing something oddly low-level.

Jon

docs.unrealengine.com/latest//CHN/Platforms/Android/…

you can build to android directly inside of UE

for publishing i have no idea

you might have to sign it yourself, however it does look like it spits out an apk, so not sure

androidplusios.design

Thanks I am gonna go now and start leaning it....videos about to download

Jon

3

MickLH

5:27 PM

Sticky please?

Integrate into GDSE design please?

Lasse

it's not possible to understand something when the manual is crap

like unity's

Jon

Unity's manual isn't that bad

MickLH

no no no Unity's manual is fine

Lasse

for some parts it is really crap

Jon

some obscure parts yeah :P

Almo

5:29 PM

I don't agree. Unity's manual does some stuff really wrong

Jon

yeah, i'm not saying unity's manual is good

Almo

I had a Unity Tech ask why I was doing something a particular way. The manual said to. Wtf

Jon

just not saying it is bad

MickLH

I haven't used Unity since back when a G4 was a good CPU, and I still have no issues with their manual today when I need to decipher it.

But I will acknowledge that it's outright wrong in some cases lol, but as a gamedev you should be able to spot it!

Jon

php manual is pretty harsh

MickLH

5:30 PM

Oh man I'm ready to defend all the worst manuals today :P

Thanks for cutting straight to that, @Jon, instead of letting this go on

androidplusios.design

Also please suggest me a nice book for unreal so that when I go to school, I can sit at last bench and learn Unreal and not listen to the boring shit that teachers have to offer :(

@Jon @JoshPetrie

MickLH

I had to figure that shit out by the manual, you should have to suffer too.

androidplusios.design

@MickLH

Lasse

get a tablet and read the manual

MickLH

Back in the day... I had to throw away my homework and take notes on the manuals during my home time, so I could process those notes while stuck in class.

user4704

5:32 PM

@androidplusios.design ...

androidplusios.design

Tablets aren't allowed in my School

Jon

take over the school

re-instate tablets

MickLH

^

Jon

Then read the manual off the tablet

MickLH

If you need a manual for taking over your school, just go back a few days on the log here.

androidplusios.design

5:33 PM

:D

Jon

MickLH

I was searching for a good battery the other day for my solar stuff...

Jon

have you considered a universe in a box?

MickLH

Now I can't take any of them seriously, I obviously just need a microverse battery

Jon

Ahh, good I see that you have.

MickLH

5:35 PM

@Lasse There! We have objective proof that I've become stupider.

I began to enjoy a TV series.

Jon

how can one not njoy it

Almo

hahahahaha

@Jon not enjoy what

rokit leeg? not possible

Jon

Tiny Rick

Almo

not herd of tiny rick

MickLH

@Almo rick and morty

I find it hilarious actually

Jon

5:37 PM

Rick & Morty: real fake doors

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MickLH

I found out about this show because of a friend of mine who I sorta experiment on lol

I asked him to endure something a bit unethical, he said something like "No rick, I won't be your morty."

Lasse

is this the same friend you talked about previously

Jon

lol, have you seen the original pilot? @MickLH

Lasse

or do you experiment on a lot of people

MickLH

I don't think so, @Jon

Jon

5:41 PM

doc and mharti

nsfw

if you wanna youtube it

the original story, was that this was a f-you to unversal studios for a cease and desist or something

Almo

fucking spam phone calls

MickLH

man that was seriously the worst, most vile, most politically incorrect and generally morally horrible pilot episode of anything I've ever watched

ever.

lol I want to go check if a new episode is out now

Jon

you know that poopy butthole guy?

MickLH

You gotta go easy on me, I hadn't done TV in years and I still have really lightweight tolerance

@Jon does your wife freak out if you watch this with your son?

Jon

my ex wife?

I don't watch it with him, he doesn't like it

he watched the scary terry episode though

this is how you dream bitch!

MickLH

5:55 PM

lol is that the nightmare guy who always says "bitch!" after everything?

Jon

yeah

MickLH

@Lasse maybe

Lasse

maybe the same friend or maybe experiment on many people?

MickLH

hehehe exactly, meta-joke-meta-experiment-joke-meta-joke

Lasse

or both?

MickLH

5:59 PM

I wanted to see how you'd react

Lasse

so, you were experimenting on me?

MickLH

Yes, but it would still be a fallacy to infer the obvious answer to your question

@Lasse But just as a "thank you" for participating: 1. Different friend. 2. Yes

My circle of friends has a few "morty"s who are basically dedicated to being experimented on lol

Almo

really tempted to make a crypto-trading bot for poloniex

but I gotta finish cognizer

MickLH

In one of our most unethical experiments, we used only conscious suggestion to have someone hypnotize themself and take on the belief they can be placed into "glass box" that blocks sound

Jon

then, when they fart.. hilarity ensues

MickLH

6:08 PM

After reinforcing that in a controlled environment where we could fully control ambient noise for a while, we took it out in public and found it immediately caused them to differentiate their personality, so we patched that up and canceled the experiment lol

The subject had already given consent to hypnosis experiments

It's not actually unethical.

Almo

Just because someone gives consent doesn't make it ethical. that was decided in part due to the Milgram experiment.

Jon

SHOCK HIM AGAIN

they redid the milgram experiments and concluded that the war effort resulted in more people willing to follow commands

nowadays, people are more likely to say no fuck you

MickLH

Our study group believes that it's only a function of the perceived competence of the instructor.

Jon

that also

its okay, i'm a doctor.

MickLH

But that's consistent with other findings, on the basis that the perceived competence in authority figures tends to go up when the person is experiencing cognitive dissonance in relation to ... fuck formalities... when the person is desperate for something, they believe whoever they think can fix it.

I almost formalized it.

I think this effect is what has led to religious "eruptions of belief" in "prophets" during some of the extremes of caste-based societies

In laymans terms, the slave classes are so desperate for change, they will literally believe someone saying "Yeah big guy god gonna fly down and judge everybody one by one, just have a good heart and you're saved!"

In essence, what I'm saying is that I'm a good guy, and it's not safe to trust your own judgement if it disagrees.

I'll be back in a few hours, I gotta hide from your smart people and to visit my dumb friends while I peak on these medications.

Almo

6:23 PM

@MickLH seen "The Invention of Lying"?

Jon

6:46 PM

would you believe me if I said yes?

Almo

hahahah

Jon

so i want to slow down my taxi when I hit a person

not sure what the best way would be

seems to be fine when I hit one person, but if I hit like 4 at the same time, the taxi pretty much stops

which makes sense, it slows it down 4 times... got any suggetsions here?

Lasse

speed *= 0.9f; or something?

Almo

@Jon I think I'd set a flag. Slowed or not.

1 or 2 or 5 same slow

we don't want realism, we want good gameplay

Jon

i think i might have to add a timer

Almo

6:50 PM

one amount of slow gets the point across

Jon

k k

Kevin van der Velden

if ( velocity > maxSpeed * 0.9f ) velocity *= 0.9f

Jon

maxSlowdownSpeed

yeah I like that

have a minimum speed to hit slowdown on

the old system, if there were like 3 guys, you could literally speed down and crush them

and it would save your taxi

which I kinda liked

but it feels sluggish at the same time, which I don't like

Almo

one guy actually thinks if we repeal the 2nd amendment, that life would very quickly begin to suck and we'd lose all our other rights.

There's one way to look at it.

Jon

the entire point of having that clause in there, was to provide a way to overthrow a government that went crazy

unfortunately, that government has put in safety measures to ensure that people can't do that shit

Almo

6:57 PM

@Jon actually, it can be argued the whole point of that amendment was to allow states to keep slaves in check

truth-out.org/news/item/…

And that without a guarantee of being allowed to keep their militias to hunt down escaped slaves, they couldn't have gotten the document ratified in the south

Jon

silly slaves

Almo

@Jon looks good to me

Jon

need to add females, elderly, children and pets

Almo

:)

user4704

@Jon Nice.

user4704

7:04 PM

So like.

user4704

Are you at any point expected to actually pick up a fare?

Jon

lol yeah

Kevin van der Velden

In one piece?

Jon

Yeah, you need to pick up a fare and bring him to his requested location

i.imgur.com/H8ci9Ag.gifv

Almo

man I need more unreal buddies in here

Kevin van der Velden

7:23 PM

Naah

Just come over to the C++ custom engine crowd

Almo

This is for work :)

Kevin van der Velden

Hmm tricky

Ali.S

7:46 PM

@almo tis is getting hard ...

Almo

yeah, the difficulty curve is well-made.

Ali.S

not for me...

it was pretty easy the first 8 levels... and suddenly it became impossible

Almo

oh haha

I've found it ramping up pretty smoothly

Ali.S

about that level we talked last night... turned out parallel processing actually slows it down

Almo

awesome. again I'm not looking for any hints ;)

Ali.S

7:49 PM

I know...

I was just saying how frustrated I got, when I couldn't speed it up by using multiple cores

it's just the same principle as in actual programming

Almo

yeah

:)

Ali.S

if you can't manage the load between the cores... you might have an slow down instead of speed up

although I broke the record of your friend by far... turned out I had an extra (useless) loop in my code :P

Almo

need moar useless loops :)

Ali.S

it feel pretty much like the same thing microsoft did to vista, while building 7

Almo

8:50 PM

just have to post this song that I have liked for decades.

Whistling in the Dark

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Chris

9:03 PM

gooooooood moooooooorning

Almo

HAI

I felt kind of bad for snagging the comment and making an answer of it.

1

Q: Why does [NSNumber numberWithInt:INFINITY] return 0?

I'm trying to use the INFINITY macro as an integer but for some reason it returns 0. for (int i = 0 ; i<100; i++) { NSLog(@"%@",[NSNumber numberWithInt:INFINITY]); //return -/+ max int } for (int i = 0 ; i<100; i++) { NSLog(@"%@",[NSNumber numberWithFloat:INFINITY]); //return "inf" } ...

objective-c

But the guy who answered yesterday didn't respond to a comment ping I made telling him to make it an answer.

15 moar pointz

Chris

karma life

Almo

:)

I don't get the for loops in his code example though...

Jon

10:05 PM

while (false);

Pip

eyyyyyyo

Just got a whole bunch more 3d printer stuff.... super close to having all of the pieces

Just need nuts/bolts/screws and like two other things

HYPE!

Jon

shit nice

Pip

The guy who kindly printed me most of the printed parts for free also sent me... get this.... STICKERS

and a little boat

(the boat is from 3dbenchy.com, it's a 3d printer calibration test)

Jon

working for production server support

this is a simulation

Pip

how is it?

Jon

10:16 PM

Fix It Futureama Fry [REMIX]

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Pip

lol

Almo

10:29 PM

@Jon you posted that one a year or more ago. It was funny then, it's funny now. :)

Jon

yeah it is hilarious

Almo

:D

TheMuffinCoder

10:55 PM

Wouldn't it be cool if we could make pixel art like this :D

Man, once I finish all my homework today, I'll only practice making sprites

Almo

11:31 PM

I bet you could

TheMuffinCoder

Almo you can too! :D

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Q: Why answers' authors do not up-vote the questions they answer

I will admit: I am new here. Still, one thing that has intrigued me is that: why some one who bothers to give an answer to a given question does not up-vote that question? On the one hand, one might think that a question is worth a reply, but is not necessarily super useful. On the other hand, w...

discussion questions answers up-votes meta

Almo

@JoshPetrie i love how you answered that question without upvoting it.

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