How have I never seen the ?? operator before

If it makes you feel better, neither have I

ahhaah

Alright that does make me feel a little better :P

I didn't see it until... maybe last year.

so yeah don't feel bad about it :)

@jon I can't get Velocity Over Lifetime to work

I think I need it to set the Z velocity to 0

no matter what I put in there, it doesn't seem to have any effect on the particles

Hey do you guys remember the game that you are responsible of making a "factory"?

It's 2d top down game... dang I can't remember name of it

factorio.com

youtube.com/watch?v=9yDZM0diiYc Found it! a ha!

looks fun

The game is all about automatic the process of making stuff. A simple concept amazing game.

infinifactory

I like its smaller scope

and no enemies

I imagine you can disable enemies

oh it has enemies. Enemies don't seem to add much weight but they are a gentle push to motivate players to advance far enough to defend themselves.

Factorio is fun but gets too much of the same fast

I guess so. You get more refined and find the optimized strategy.

Still, I want to make something like that. Sim games get me so high.

@OMGtechy You can

tis tempting

@Lokkij also, did you notice that I've started the Sacul compiler? :D

You revoked my access to the repository, remember? :P

Nope, I open sourced it so you no longer need special rights :D

Ah awesome :D

Documentation for the core language is enough to go on at the moment, it's nowhere near complete still, but I can polish it up over time.

The compiler's called Lucas?

Yes :)

Sacul is my sons name backwards, my son is called Lucas :P

Yeah I figured

Why isn't it written in haskell though? >:-)

Could make a linter called Chloe that shouts angrily at you if you don't follow conventions and such

or maybe I should name the test suite Chloe ...

Hahaha

and because I will be using LLVM, so C++ is the natural choice :P

@Lokkij if you want to contribute, now is a very good time to get started :D

I have not much time, no knowledge of compilers, and no knowledge of C++

So I have to decline :P

There's documentation? :P

I don't know man, I'm busy now and I'll be way busier when college begins

tis cool

Well, I've made this should you ever become interested: sacul.slack.com

Got accepted into college with programming as my masters :)

Congrats! :D

Well done

Awesome! :D

Thanks! :D

Can I interpret that as "I've finished my bachelor and will now do a master in programming"?

@OMGtechy Cool

I've never used Slack before

I use it at work. I've made that to reserve the name more than anything aha

@Lokkij yay :D Doing my best to undo my extremely stupid past self

@Jon Sure :D I'll do my best to help you if u want =^.^=

Magic Duels, an official free-to-play MtG client, is out!

(though people in the reviews seem to be upset by the required internet connection, and, strangely, the unclear release date?)

@Lokkij No I'm starting my bachelor.. I think. Don't really know the translation

Alright

Yeah it's my bachelor. Just looked it up sorry about that, but I got into college nevertheless :D

Yeah awesome :D

Why the hell does my university have its own hotel?

Lots of foreigners?

I guess

Man I'm excited to start. I've never felt like this about school before :D

Yeah college sounds way more fun than high school :D

Though I do occasionally fear I haven't chosen the right study

Yeah :/

Guys you gotta help

what are we, superheroes?

to the rescue!

Does anyone know if having one asset bundle per asset in Unity is a bad idea?

I haven't used asset bundles much, dunno

Well, from what I can see, you can't load a single file from an asset bundle without loading the entire thing which is pretty wasteful. Seems like a pretty big flaw with asset bundles

What do you use? @Hjorthenify

Some lightning pack where I wanted to see the shader

Had to open the whole bundle in my project just to see it

Wait, at runtime?

I would say that's a pro for asset bundles, not a con. It allows Unity to organize the bundle's contents sequentially, dramatically decreasing load time (on HDDs) for assets that are often loaded together. You just need to be aware of it and don't use bundles for things they're not meant for.

but then, I don't use Unity, and I'm not really familiar with bundles. I'm only speaking on what it sounds like to me.