Game Development

Shen Ruki

4:00 PM

Jimmi Hendrix had band members, but it was his guitar.

tereško

I get a feeling that you have no idea who Carmack is

I will give you a hint: guy who wrote Quake

Seth Battin

also doom

he works for facebook these days

tereško

6 mins ago, by Shen Ruki

Minecraft makes him a pioneer for solo game game development

Shen Ruki

nice trick.

tereško

so ... basically, you are wrong .. by about 20 years

Shen Ruki

4:03 PM

~not really.

I thought you were talking about a member of mojang

tereško

which is why I said that you apparently didn't recognize the name

Shen Ruki

before notch making a game by yourself in a 100billiondollar market was laughable.

Lokkij

I'm back! :D

Wow new chat colors

Shen Ruki

Quake is a great game. before it's time

He's like jobs and atari

user92578

@Lokkij I'm not the only one with the grey bar?

Shen Ruki

4:12 PM

when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to help a group of kids steal Apple II computers. To gain entry to the building, Carmack concocted a sticky substance of thermite mixed with Vaseline that melted through the windows. However, an overweight accomplice struggled to get through the hole, and opened the window, setting off a silent alarm and alerting police. John was arrested, and sent for psychiatric evaluation

that's awesome

Lokkij

@Tyyppi_77 Correct

It's super ugly

user92578

Yeah

user92578

Horrible

Lokkij

Firefox?

Maybe my browser is out of date or something

user92578

I'm using firefox

Shen Ruki

4:14 PM

more of an elder than a pioneer.

Lokkij

Is Vivaldi any good? I read about it in Wired.

user92578

The composer?

Lokkij

The browser :P

Oh, I got the popular question badge on my top rated question of all time on the SE network XD

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Q: Why do guys in anime often lack nipples?

As shown in the images (from Free! and Noragami, respectively), guys in anime often lack nipples. This could be explained by vague Japanese copyright laws, but other anime occasionally show guys with nipples. Why do guys so often lack nipples?

tropes

tereško

@Lokkij I have been using it as my "development browser". It's a bit raw still. You might want to check back in about a month or two.

Shen Ruki

like xerox and windows

Lokkij

4:19 PM

Cool, thanks

I'm going to try it now then :P

Shen Ruki

every operating system to date uses a window system.

tereško

@ShenRuki no

my cisco router doesn't have a window system

and it's running linux

Shen Ruki

cool

tereško

neither does my VPS have a windows system, which is running nginx/php on freebsd

Shen Ruki

open source movement is different than what I was referring to.

are you running lynx

user92578

4:23 PM

CFile seems to be a reserved name, any ideas for an alternative class name for something that essentially allows reading and writing simple text files?

Hjorthenify

FileStream

OMGtechy

@Lokkij how have I not noticed this before

user92578

FileStream is good, thanks Hjor

OMGtechy

@ShenRuki this is not true

Shen Ruki

so you don't think Notch is a pioneer>

OMGtechy

4:26 PM

What?

Hjorthenify

No he's not

Shen Ruki

crazy.

Blue Bug

user92578

Looks good, really good

Blue Bug

@Tyyppi_77 Ty man :D.

he's a piggy zombie monster in my game.

Shen Ruki

4:30 PM

you ever do ascii/ansi art?

tereško

@BlueBug requires some AA .. I keep reading it as "free hub"

Blue Bug

scii art? no. AA? What's AA?

OMGtechy

So WordPress pushed a breaking change without telling anyone

Automatically installed on all sites.

user92578

antialiasing

Seth Battin

@OMGtechy got a link?

OMGtechy

4:32 PM

My damn website :P

This is related too wptavern.com/…

Blue Bug

antialiasing? No. It's going to be used as it is.

MickLH

He's actually asking for less anti-aliasing ironically

Just, in an emotionally intuitive way

Seth Battin

@BlueBug the bit about the sign being hard to read is true though, the text it not clear

MickLH

When the G turns about 20 degrees to the right, it becomes ambiguous whether it's a G or a B. I got the idea that he's asking you to make one of the pixels "harder" so it's not ambiguous.

OMGtechy

@BlueBug if you remove the black at -1, 0 on the G (assuming origin is at the centre of the G) it'll look better

Shen Ruki

4:33 PM

It's amazing pixel art. nothing wrong with it.

MickLH

@ShenRuki Is this a true story?

Stack Exchange

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Q: "You may award your bounty in 23 hours"?

I wanted to reward a couple of answers I got, giving both of them a bounty. So I "started a bounty", and picked the "reward an existing answer" option. However, when I try to assign it, I get the "You may award your bounty in 23 hours" message. I don't understand, I'm not requesting attention ...

bug bounty

Seth Battin

ah, the shortcode api has always seemed a bit sketchy, i'm not too surprised it needed a security patch or that it broke when it changed

Blue Bug

Ok so from the feedback...
1. Hard to read, especially G.
2. Could be better if I removed a pixel at -1,0 from center.

OMGtechy

@SethBattin well, it broke JetPack of all things O_O

And some other plugins on my site

Seth Battin

4:36 PM

the api's purpose is to allow arbitrary site features to be executed based on parsing user-content, and on a system that frequently gets hacked content inserted...obviously

Blue Bug

@OMGtechy you mean the top left pixel?

MickLH

I'm afraid to run WordPress in production

Blue Bug

@ShenRuki TY man!

tereško

@MickLH you should be

OMGtechy

@BlueBug no, the just left of the middle of the G. It looks like a 6 and then a B at the moment because it links together with the left side of the character. :)

MickLH

4:37 PM

I've literally never, ever seen a WordPress install being the reliable work horse. Actually every project I've seen come within 10 miles of a WP install had problems with said WP install.

Shen Ruki

very stylistic. reminds me of the NFO files from release grps

tereško

if you do, @MickLH, make a git repository of what code you have, because you will need that for when you get code injections

MickLH

But I work as a fire-putter-outer... so I'm sure I only see the worst of it

@tereško Are you saying, just assume hackers have overwritten the PHP code every time? lol

tereško

not "every day", but it will happen eventually

MickLH

I had this guy with a wordpress site, dead fucking set on adding store functionality.

tereško

4:39 PM

it's not even core WP that you have to worry about

it's the plugins

@MickLH I would have recommended to wither go with Magento or get a custom-made shop

MickLH

It ended badly, I couldn't make him understand how retarded it would be (not just for his customers but his own business) to store credit card info on that same cheap shared host.

tereško

ouch

Blue Bug

Which G is most readable?

tereško

1 or 2. But is this the native resolution?

MickLH

@tereško I'm talking, skeptical that an SSL certificate was just the company trying to gouge him. Type of "ouch"

Blue Bug

4:43 PM

@tereško no. I enlarged it for the sake of display.

tereško

@BlueBug could you post the native version>

MickLH

@BlueBug Can you show the last frame of animation? I thought all the other frames were perfect

Blue Bug

@tereško problem is that they are about 50x100 pixels size. Imgur blurs sucha small image when uploaded for some reason. It may be just for my browser. Ok let me upload the native version

@MickLH "last frame"? What do you mean? The last frame of the animation?

MickLH

yes

tereško

@MickLH this sounds like what I was dealing with about 3 month ago (I am taking a "programmer vacation" now until my cash reserves drop below €2000). Some clients just don't want to listen.

Blue Bug

4:47 PM

if you mean the beginning and the last frame of animation, then here it is. @tereško here is the local size image.

MickLH

I was hoping for the "last" before it reverses

so I guess, the middle frame

tereško

yes, middle one

the other two will have too much noise when changing the angle

MickLH

@tereško I don't deal with clients who won't listen anymore. I literally tell them at the first violation that I won't tolerate it because, by definition, they hired me to do something they don't know how to do. And on the second violation I rudely slap them with "You are being a hard headed moron, pushing your business towards failure with your ignorant decisions and I can't bear to watch that. Goodbye."

tereško

humans are good at pattern recognition, but you have to set the initial conditions

MickLH

I am so much happier being a cocky jerk lol

tereško

4:50 PM

@MickLH you get hired as an industry expert, you get paid for it .. and then they try to tell that you are wrong

Blue Bug

the animation goes like 0 - 1(lifting a leg) - 2 - 3 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 6(lifting the other leg now) - 7 - 8 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 0. I will give you frame number 5 6 as it is the last one.

tereško

with their awesome business school degree

MickLH

@tereško I used to just smile and accept the money, "Oh you want that wrong bullshit? Sure, lets juts write down on paper that I'm telling you that's a wrong bad idea, ok cool we've signed it both? Ok cool now I'll do that for a few grand as a one-off."

Month later, "Why did you make this wrong bullshit?!?!" .... signed paper to the face.

user92578

std::ifstream & std::ofstream are just specific versions of std::fstream?

Blue Bug

MickLH

4:52 PM

Year later, "You cost us so much money!" .... "Actually I saved you so much money, and you wasted it every time going against what I said, see your list of signatures on the Please Do The Wrong Thing lines?" ok ok </rant>

user92578

I always find it weird how there's never an opening tag for rants

user92578

Not that I don't like rants

user92578

They just seem to never start, only end

MickLH

@Tyyppi_77 I believe rants which need closing, are by definition longer than 2 minutes and start on accident.

tereško

@Tyyppi_77 the joys of being a web developer who gives a fuck

MickLH

4:54 PM

So, an opening tag could never be edited in

Also, I think you can ask the browser to parse custom tags nowadays

So I'm gonna start making a "rant" CSS rule

If I ever get around to hacking together a doctype for it

@BlueBug This one seemed to tilt well, but are you going to post the other version?

Blue Bug

? other version?

MickLH

I thought you had another way to draw the G

Blue Bug

I think you are referring to this one? i.imgur.com/m5UwHJr.png Do you want me to post the original size of this image?

MickLH

I want to see that format, on frame 5 6

Blue Bug

oh I haven't drawn the new version, I am drawing it now

Kevin van der Velden

4:59 PM

This game @Pip

MickLH

I love that clean feeling when your algorithm outperforms the one all the whitepapers are talking about

Blue Bug

tereško

well .. fuck

Blue Bug

I like the new G. I think it is more readable....

MickLH

Looks good to me, I agree very readable

Blue Bug

5:06 PM

Good! ty ~~people~~ ~~internet lurking beings~~ chat room wisps for the feedback.

tereško

@BlueBug , btw, take a closer look at F animation

something's off

or actually, something's off with a lot of letters except R and E

Blue Bug

xD half baked amateur pixel art I can now see that my f has a few extra pixels in and out

Shen Ruki

@BlueBug Do you have more assets you need to work on. I feel it's a great asset.

don't be discouraged by pessimism

Blue Bug

I have tons load of needed art asset that I plan on working on @ShenRuki I aim to complete one of them a week.

Shen Ruki

I think it's perfect to tell the truth.

Blue Bug

5:13 PM

perfect is such a overwhelming adjective for me lol. But ty.

Shen Ruki

a puzzle piece isn't that overwhelming

Blue Bug

pentagram...?

tereško

@ShenRuki you are not a real developer =P

Shen Ruki

you're a d&ck

MickLH

Yay! Can't find a patent describing my algorithm either, time to develop

Shen Ruki

5:24 PM

scii?

Almo

@MickLH oh sweet

you going to patent it?

A friend of mine says "software patents are like guns at beach parties. don't bring them unless you're sure you'll need it."

MickLH

I was thinking about making it public domain, I need to research that though to figure out how to do it safely

I'd only want a patent to protect the idea from being whored out against its will

I assume all idea's wills are to be thought about and developed on lol

Lokkij

Mark R Johnson writes about roguelikes

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Shen Ruki

[Advent Horizon]

MickLH

6:14 PM

Alright, definitely gonna try and put it in the public domain. Plan is to put the design, software, and research paper on GitHub and Instructables, and see if any journal will publish it too :P

Now if I can just motivate myself to make a camera rig so my Instructable wont look like shit.... be back later

Jon

6:26 PM

you can do it

Joe

6:37 PM

Unity5 people... how can I set these via script... the documentation sucks

docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-RectTransform.html

I tried RectTransform.rect.xMin ... xMax ... yMin ... yMax... apparantly that is incorrect

well crap... looks like I need to ask a question on the site

Hjorthenify

GetComponent<RectTransform>()

Joe

brb

@Hjorthenify pseudo code above sorry

@Hjorthenify this is very much not a syntax error, just inability to find those values anywhere in the API

Left Top Right Bottom

Hjorthenify

Well.. ow does the code look exactly?

Joe

one moment

		GameObject temp = GameObject.Instantiate(prefab, Vector3.zero,Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
		temp.GetComponent<Text>().text = text;
		temp.transform.SetParent(WorldSpace);
		Rect r = temp.GetComponent<RectTransform>().rect;
		r.xMin = 0f;
		r.xMax = 0f;
		r.yMin = 0f;
		r.yMax = 0f;
		temp.GetComponent<RectTransform>().localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(Vector3.zero);

I make a instance from a prefab, set its parent to my world space canvas, attempt to get the rect values from the rect transform and set them ... then i make sure the rotation is zeroed

I think the problem is xMin doesnt really effect the "Left" field

Hjorthenify

The problem might lie in that Rect is a struct and therefore the changes to them are never applied to the RectTransform as you are performing a copy

Joe

6:51 PM

struct just some sort of immutable thing?

so let me make a new rect and apply it

Hjorthenify

No, but it is copied by value instead of reference

Yes

Joe

RectTransform.rect is read only

hmm

Hjorthenify

Rect r = new Rect();
r.xMin = 0f;
...
temp.GetComponent<RectTransform>().rect = r;

Yeah some variables are like that In Unity

Joe

dude ty btw

Hjorthenify

np

Joe

6:53 PM

but I have no idea how to crack this then

Hjorthenify

Like I send you

Joe

already did doesnt work

cant assign to rect

Hjorthenify

Hmm

Joe

Jon

my god man stop trying to access objects' privates!

Hjorthenify

6:57 PM

The Don is here!

Joe

what do i do Jon i just cant help myself

Hjorthenify

I need a new harddrive...

-.--

Joe

User Story go... trying to instantiate a prefab of a text element with a laundry list of styles on it, and set that text elements parent to a worldSpace Canvas and center it hence zeroing out "left right top bottom"

instantiate and parent set works, but i cant center the damn thing

OOO

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Q: How to access RectTransform's left, right, top, bottom positions via code?

I have a UI Canvas with render mode world space set. For all UI elements that belong to this canvas, I am seeing 'left', 'right', 'top' and 'bottom' variables in the RectTransform component in the editor. Any ways to access these variables via code?