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Jovito

@Almo That's awesome.

Almo

;)

Jovito

@Ali.S I'll have to get back to you on that hidden word.

Ali.S

@Jovito feel free, it's not that easy

Jovito

3:33 AM

Streetlights (Autechre - Eutow)

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@Almo I really like this one.

Almo

yeah, that's a very cool one

the most common complaint I've heard about this track is that it's too goddamn short

Jovito

exactly hahaha

Almo

:D

the LP5 track I really like is Corc

Ali.S

@Jovito unless you known some certain tricks

Jovito

Show me something interesting from Chiastic Slide.

Almo

3:36 AM

pretty subtle how the drum track expands at certain points to fill more space

ok hang on a sec

either Recury

Autechre, Recury

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or Cipater

Autechre - Cipater [HD]

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Cipater goes through a painful transition the middle from (I think) 4/4 to 3/4.

Jovito

What do you mean by 'fill more space' ? That track is pretty sparse.

Almo

the drums sound like they cover about 30 degress of soundstage from the center early on, then at 3:31 they expand to fill much more

it's more noticable in headphones

goin into a HotS game

talk more later :)

Jovito

Sure, cya

Aidan Mueller

4:27 AM

Made some grass.

Chris

cool

Aidan Mueller

@AttackingHobo Got my hands dirty and made some grass.

Aidan Mueller

4:38 AM

I can almost do a 1-arm pull-up now.

OK, apparently I can do 1-arm push-ups.

Ali.S

5:02 AM

@AidanMueller i'm struggling even doing 2-arm push-up

Aidan Mueller

Takes time.

Jovito

How many did you start with daily?

Aidan Mueller

@Jovito I don't really do them that often TBH.

I just go do some pull-ups when I'm bored. I also swim so yeah.

Jovito

My max is 10 with both arms x_x

Aidan Mueller

Work your way to 50.

AttackingHobo

6:09 AM

@AidanMueller cool what kind of node setup for the mat?

that is procedural.

Aidan Mueller

@AttackingHobo I closed it now, but the grass was just a color ramp (with the hair intercept as the fac), that faded from dark green to some other green to a lighter green to a yellowish green.

AttackingHobo

cheating

Aidan Mueller

@AttackingHobo How?

AttackingHobo

the color ramp to simulate lighting

Aidan Mueller

I wasn't using it to simulate lighting.

I was using it to simulate actual grass.

Real grass would have SSS, but that's slow.

It was more about the particle system and making it look right than actual lighting/coloring.

user92578

10:57 AM

How should I structure my game-config architecture?

user92578

Should there be a "ConfigFile" singleton where classes can query data?

user92578

Should I use pointers to keep the data always up-to-date? (example when a key binding is modifies while in-game)

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

12:36 PM

I normally just go with a singleton. There's no point in having multiple configs loaded.

I know singletons are frowned upon in most cases, but sometimes you should just make something that works. :)

user92578

How about when the config data changes while the game is running? Should I just notify everyone to recheck their data or should I pass around pointers that get their data changed automatically?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Could give the Config class an "Changed" or "Updated" event that is fired whenever something changes.

Then whatever parties that want to be notified can subscribe to it. :)

Lokkij

1:21 PM

Turns out I've been playing dungeon crawl on the US server all that time. Latency on the EU server is so much lower. :/

Ali.S

I have a very bad bug in my code...

for some reason, I get access violation exception...

but only if there is no debuggin info available in my executable...

user92578

1:34 PM

Creating smooth but suddle enough explosion shake is hard

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

subtle? :P

user92578

probably

user92578

i just throw words together and hope they mean something correct

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

:D

user92578

it's hard to find the right balance between the explosion radius (strenght), the update frequency, the radius reduction and the offset lerping factor

user92578

1:59 PM

Added lerping to camera, AND OMG WHY DIDNT I DO TIS BEFORE IT LOOKS SO MUCH BETTER AND SMOOTHER AND MORE RESPONSIVE AND FASTER AND EVERYTING

Lokkij

Smooth lerping improves everything.

user92578

Now I just need a right factor for the lerping

user92578

and is the just the linear "normal" lerping good for this? or should I use some other tween?

Lokkij

EaseInOut generally looks better than Linear.

user92578

Is there a site that shows me how to implement different tweens?

user92578

2:09 PM

or "how do I implement EaseInOut"?

Lokkij

This article looks helpful

user92578

thanks a lot

user92578

function (t) { return t<.5 ? 2*t*t : -1+(4-2*t)*t }

user92578

So I pass the X and Y coordinates to this?

Lokkij

I think you pass a t to it (like the thrid parameter of lerp) and it'll return the t you then use in lerp. Maybe.

So instead of lerp(currentPos, newPos, t) you'd do lerp(currentPos, newPos, easeInOut(t))

user92578

2:22 PM

ah, okay

user92578

that seems very correct, thanks a lot!

Lokkij

:)

Be sure to show off a nice gif with the new camera smoothing. :D

user92578

Do you know any gif recorders that allow good framerates?

user92578

GifCam only records at max 33fps

Lokkij

I've only used gifcam, so unfortunately no.

33FPS sounds fine though.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

2:36 PM

I only use 33 fps which seems perfectly fine.

user92578

Okay, they quality is quite bad and it doesn't look as smooth as it actually is, but here:

user92578

ugh, so close to a perfect loop

user92578

I need to figure out a way to keep the player always on the screen tough

Lokkij

Ah, much better. :)

user92578

2:51 PM

I also added a small random Y-velocity to bullets to make them a bit "juicier"

user92578

it was quite boring when they all flew along the same straigh line

user92578

but now back to the explosion shake

user92578

doesn't feel correct at all

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

3:03 PM

My attempt at making it spread better failed ... :P

user92578

god this is hard

user92578

have you guys by any chance implemented a screen shake for explosions?

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Spreading going nuts :P

Veritas

have you trying adding using perlin noise on the camera orientation?

using*

have you tried using * too tired :Ρ

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

Super failed spreading :P

I'll have to fiddle some more when I get home :P

user92578

3:17 PM

@Veritas no, but I feel like noise would be way too overkill for something as simple as this

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

At least it's spreading out nicely on the floor. :P

@Tyyppi_77, It's it just applying an offset to the camera and have it interpolate back to the right position using some sort of fancy interpolation function?

Perhaps just a basic spring effect?

user92578

Basically that, except a new offset that is 150-210 degrees away from the last one is applied a few times

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

$user image$

It's something like that I'm thinking. :)

The graph in the bottom basically.

You should be able to find lots of resources on spring like effects. :)

I'll have to head off. Good luck. <3

user92578

I think I have a bit something like the on on the bottom

user92578

lol wtf did I just watch

user92578

3:25 PM

Camera Shake Effect+Explosion

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Veritas

You could probably manage to do the same using a damped oscillation function but I find that noise works best

jonny.morrill.me/blog/view/14

user92578

fuck my internet connection is having serious trouble loading images and videos etc

user92578

@Veritas Thanks a lot, that looks really promising

Veritas

3:40 PM

no problem, good luck with your game!

guys has anyone over here tried to implement ecs?

user92578

probably everyone :D

user92578

btw that site you linked has really annoyingly narrow text area

Jovito

How to implement a constant size calendar table?

I figured you'd start with a fixed number of places (45, 6 rows, 7 columns), find which day of the week is the first day of the current month, then add last x days from previous month, add all the days of the current month and then, if there were still some places left, fill the remaining places with days from the next month.

Veritas

3:56 PM

I was thinking. I don't really like the artemis framework approach. Too verbose for my taste and I feel that it misses the point. Systems are simple procedures that operate on a group of entities with specific components. Why model the Systems when we can model the entity groups?
Something like this: EntityGroup collidables = entity_manager::get_entity_group<PositionComponent, ColliderComponent>(); And a System can simply be anything that operates on a specific entity group.

Jovito

But I noticed the one on windows sometimes gets a full row of days from the previous month.

And some months have more days from the next month than from the previous month.

Veritas

Weird implementation choices?

Jovito

Doesn't seem to be random.

Veritas

It's hard to tell. Maybe ms did some testing to what is easier on the eye and concluded that symmetric and closer to the center was a good approach.

Jovito

And most calendar widgets do this.

Veritas

4:06 PM

it also seems hard to find google results for this.

Jovito

I don't know about the symmetry, but yeah, I found nothing.

Veritas

Well it's probably so that there won't be any single black days on a row

so they tried to make it symmetric

and thought that it looks better to get them closer to the center

Jovito

by black you mean from the current month?

Veritas

yea

Jovito

not true.

If that were true you would expect to find more or less the same amount of days from the previous month and from the next month, but as I pointed out, some months have many more from one than the other.

I think I've found a consistency. It appears that every month that starts on sunday begins on the second row, leaving the first one to be filled by the last seven days from the previous month.

Yep, that solves the mistery :)

user92578

4:28 PM

Added bullet trails and a small shake when a box is destroyed:

user92578

Veritas

looks cool

maybe reduce the spread a bit? I cringe with the bullets hitting the ground at such a close range but that may be me.

I also really like the shake effect

Lokkij

4:54 PM

Looks awesome @Tyyppi_77

user92578

thanks guys

user92578

I just fear that the constant small shake when the boxes are destroyed will get annoying

user92578

the player wont have to constantly destroy them tough

user92578

but on the other hand it's a bit dull if the screen doesn't shake

user92578

@Veritas this is a great point, the spread is smaller now

Veritas

5:01 PM

you could probably make the shaking default but optional if you worry about it

user92578

that's actually quite good idea

toby

6:51 PM

@Tyyppi_77, what libraries and language are you using?

AttackingHobo

7:13 PM

@Tyyppi_77 that spread is horrible

Lokkij

@toby I think he's using C++ and SDL.

TheMuffinCoder

this has been my first actual python script

labs.codecademy.com/Cjdv/1#:workspace

TheMuffinCoder

8:25 PM

This has been the first time, that I have experienced the pain of using a i3

I cant use 64bit version of pygame

Never had a problem on my desktop with a AMD processor

Noctrine

Sup peoples

Almo

trying to remove soemthing from google drive

and it won't :(

I was given access to it from someone else, but read-only access

I hit add to my drive, now I can't remove it

ok weird

it started working

must have just been a blurp of some sort

Joe

8:50 PM

nm man just looking for a better way to read json in unity C#

Almo

json.net?

I cannot say I am a fan of programming interfaces

Joe

seems like something i should not have to expect to pay for

Almo

making the account page for my number game

@Joe json.net isn't free?

Joe

newtonsoft.com/json

this?

Almo

yeah

that's free

MIT

Lasse

8:55 PM

doesn't say it's MIT

Almo

"Json.NET is open source under the MIT license and is free for commercial use."

look further down the page

Joe

AGPL 3.0 Free*** with limited usage?

Lasse

uhh whats the difference with json.net and json.net schema

Joe

im also trying to figure this out

Lasse

okay so json.net is mit and json.net schema is not

Joe

8:58 PM

ok I am confident I can use this MIT free

now to learn how to use this

Lasse

that website is so confusing

Joe

yes

no getting started in the docs... so someone like me with 0 .net has no idea what to do to get setup

google-ing ensues

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