wtf

Paul Ward and Benjamin Ward

you guys brothers or something?

haha ... whats worse ... the guy that sits next to me at work is called Benjamin Ward too

im not related to any of them

confusing

So had to rename you guys

sine I had no idea which one is which

more so when I get a message from benjamin ward lol

Lol

im like wtf ...

which is that ?

I need another dev to work with

help motivate me

I start feel guilty when I see others making progress on stuff and it gets me going again

lol

thats awesome

use stickmen

I remember a game like that where you used stickmen to attack a castle but you couldn't control the stickmen

this would be mental

lol

i don't like stickmen haha

or i do but

stickmen rock

there's not much fun in that

they're already stickmen kind of actually haha

game-wise, not graphics-wise

saxy

i needs me to eat

Hi jon

Unity is done

So I automagically wrap <a name="thing">...</a> around my headers so I can jump to headers when linking to a page. BUT I don't want my headers to turn blue. How do I un-blue only my headers (and not the other text) in CSS?

@Lokkij a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active

Doesn't that affect all text?

.header a:link etc

Ooh

Thanks for the help!

@Lokkij a[name="thing"]:visited etc if you want to select those

I don't know shit about CSS :P

@MLM Ooh, that looks good. Thanks! :)

I think you should just add a class to those links though

<a class="header-link" name="thing"> then .header-link:visited { /* ... */ }

Hmm.. that looks like a better way to do it, yeah.

@toby You know about Geometry Wars, right? (in regards to this message)

Your game is looking great

@MLM if you hover over a message you'll see an arrow, click on it to reply to a specific message (as I'm doing here)

@KevinvanderVelden ye, wanted to make it a bit more clear this time

Ah

@Jon yes you do :D

@Wardy lololol

:)

Unity 5 is pissing me off

wat doin

They changed "Instantiate" to require Object, Vector3, Quaternion, where it was Transform, Vector3 (or Vector2, with a warning I think), and Quaternion.

Broke a bunch of things

It still... works for some reason but it's spitting errors

yeah

didn't know you could put in a Transform

yeah Unity5 they've really tried to clamp down on a lot of things

yeah, that's what I've been doing (it lets you drag a prefab onto a Transform element, btw)

mhm

probably for their sake of ease of maintaining

yeah, probably

I need to figure out my pathfinding stuff... it's taking a lot longer than it should

@Jon that demo is really nice, thanks

@Pip link to message please?

An A* thing

Thanks

@Jon I am literally using almost identical code to you (except for the world thing)...... I guess I effed something up there

also, I'm using Vector2 instead of Point.... wonder if that'll make a difference.

Perhaps the equality operator isn't doing what you expect?

actually i convert vector to point

but the pathfinding is done with that point Struct

unity vector2 is also a struct

hmmm this is super annoying to figure out

have you tried doing profiling?

not yet, the next step is to introduce myself to the new profiler

i should of added a rightclick add collision block

to the demo

any good tuts or guides that you know of?

no problem, it works fine

i haven't used the unity profiler yet

That's like a 30 second change if I need it

alright, thanks for the help

gonna probably post a couple of pathfinding articles on my blog

for unity

cool

What is that supposed to mean?

i don't use the characterController

I don't either :/

try passing in GameObject? otherwise no idea

@Chris am doing that now

I wrote my own CharacterController2D, maybe it's doing something wonkey

wait how did a Character Controller get onto my prefab?

What did you do Unity 5?

If I pass someone a zip file, can they open it with Unity 4 and verify that it was Unity 5 that put it there?

Also: Holy shit #2 is so useful:

gamasutra.com/blogs/JohnWarner/20130910/194559/…

Some people would say that is horrible design

I've learned that I'd love to use singletons/global vars more, rather than me passing in vars all over the place

It creates issues when you need to decouple things

just gotta keep things logical to avoid those issues :p

Absolutely. I think there's only going to be about 4 or 5 of these things

I like that you have to specify type.instance, avoids confusion a bit

Also: I just broke something.... whoops

Path seems to be created but isn't showing up... hm

odd

even.

I feel like such an idiot

I made like >9000 objects

several megabytes of them to be exact

It's all this method's fault!

Why do I make so many ints :/

why

such an idiot

Much better, I think:

public bool TileIsPassable(int x, int y)
{
    if(!(0 <= x && x < this.size.x && 0 <= y && y < this.size.y))
        return false;
    return tiles[x, y] != null && tiles[x, y].isPassable;
}

@Jon opinion?

I still love it when C++ is the language where you don't have to worry about memory for something =p

:D

I've grown to like C++ in some ways and not in others

It's decent

I still like C# more, but... yeah :D

In other news: I have working tile backgrounds! (That can be changed on a per tile basis even!)

approval

In release mode it takes like 3.5 miliseconds to render a frame, with the very very slow debug text running

looks fine to me. @Pip

thanks

Hmm, what's a quick simple external FPS counter I can use?

I know it's a lot faster without the debug information, but the real question is how much faster

Fraps?

Jeah I want a tiny program

Well meh, no matter

Oh this could work, attach the debugger and wait for it to stabillize and then set a breakpoint

Nope didn't work

OH WELL

Time for bed

I love being a programmer. Was looking for a new desktop mic and the recommended one doesn't have a physical mute button. Made a little utility app that toggles the mute status of the mic and hooked that up to one of the many unused macro keys on my keyboard. :D

Night @KevinvanderVelden

@SpartanDonut :D

hahaha

Addicted to engineering memes

@Almo fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/…

Anyone who knows of a good article that explains how to improve pathfinding? Mine is acting kinda wierd right now :P

Uh

Jon's zip file is a pretty good tutorial

Huh?

heh

yeah, a preview of my upcoming article series

Ill take a look at it

It is a unity pathfinding demo

ERhm

I dont use unity :D

it is in C#

I have a monogame version of it

I do as well, and a old pathfinding thing that is not nearly as efficient. (C#, Monogame)

Which files should I look at?

there is an aStar folder

I'm using Godots polymap pathfinding

in the Source dir

it is basically standalone astar -- then the implementation is the Grid/Square files

I was demonstrating the usage in unity

Ah I see

Damn visual studio wont load the astar proj file

yah, again it is unity 5 ;)

:/

lol

INSTANTANEOUS PATHS

thank you @Jon!

working?

Pip racking up stars lol

yep

lol at the stars

cool , did you figure out what was wrong with yours?

yeah, image repost in a sec

I have something a bit different than yours, but it still works well

I was creating and g'c'ing all of them..... like 4.5 MB of ints at once

oh LOL

so you were basically creating a garbage pool every frame

4ms pathfind

not bad eh

yeah

And that was WITH the garbage pool

hold on a sec, new image

@Pip I had the smoke colored one of those. Ever had a PC stolen from your house? I had that mac stolen from my house. PCs are shit, and therefore not worth stealing.

ah ok, cuz I was thinking that was a long time

Welp. I can't even find it. I say that's pretty nice.

@Almo I have never lived in an area where people were inclined to do that

i drank a bottle of beer.. that was like a bottle of wine

15$ -- 750ml -- 10%

i'm a little light headed atm

you can see the GC spikes, pretty cool

yeah :D

40.1 kb vs 4.5 mb, big difference

:D

hey Techy

ello

live and learn :)

looks like the unity profiler is pretty easy to use

@Pip Me neither. I was living in a very low-crime area. They only took three things from the apartment. Camera, Mac, some cash on my table.

that was when I started with the offsite backup regimen.

speaking of which, it's time for me to do the backup

tl;dr; dx12 is the shizzle to the nizzle

i read that they did massive optimizations.. didn't realize it was 5folds

ooh nice

@Jon all about the Vulkan!

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Did Unity 5 change music @Chris?

I can't get mine to play

Hey

?

@Pip they changed how audio is handled sort of

for music, maybe check the AudioSource's 2d/3d slider

alright

Hi Chris

hello

Hell oh

oh oh

ha ha

hmm

AudioListener is on Main Camera

SpatialBlend

make it be 0

alright

what's that do?