Game Development

Jon

10:00 PM

so, you want someone to admit he doesn't know what he is doing?

haha j/k i know what you are saying.

user92578

Well yeah, I feel like he is just trying to hide it

Jon

ignorance

user92578

I mean listing those filenames :D

user92578

Who knows, I might give him some pseudo code tomorrow

Jon

some people want help, others want solutions done for them

user92578

10:02 PM

Yeah

Jon

some, seem to try to make entire games off code they acquire off gdse

you can lay out a solution and they will ask you for the project files

user92578

^ why I always prefer to pseudo

Jon

cough

18

A: How can I "squeeze" a game object when it is pressed between two others?

This effect is very easy to produce in Unity using a couple of Box Colliders, and some basic math. The effect will ressemble the following: This is a very simple model for this problem. First you need 3 gameobjects added to your scene. Each object will contain a BoxCollider2D and a RigidBod...

this fucken guy

user92578

Oh yeah

user92578

Thats an awesome answer though

user92578

10:05 PM

I've upvoted that a long time ago

Jon

i purposely made the gif animation exactly the same as his images

TheMuffinCoder

lol I log on to find this?

"pro" LOL Im a newbie

Jon

hehe

user92578

How is that question so downvoted though?

Jon

he sounds excited

because the guy is a fucken idiot

he kept asking for project files

TheMuffinCoder

10:06 PM

wait Ehsan from my pic or is this some other guy u guys are talking about?

user92578

No

Jon

he was notorious for a while

TheMuffinCoder

wait who jon?

user92578

...

user92578

The squeeze guy

Jon

10:09 PM

yeah he had multiple questions where he demanded above and beyond help

it was getting ridiculous

and that answer I wrote just as a f-u really, i just wanted to proove he would not be happy with it

Chris McFarland

@Pip aye, overworld maps eh

user92578

@Jon some nice rep from a f-u

Jon

look at the first comment though

TheMuffinCoder

that was a pretty good answer

Jon

That is exactly what I am talking about

user92578

10:11 PM

Yeah

Chris McFarland

Jon "Squeezemaster" Gallant

user92578

"For testing"

Jon

haha

a normal person would ask more information, or pick my brain

he basically says, not good enough, wein wein

It is insulting

Chris McFarland

yeah

> Unfortunately, you have to edit your answer because my project is 3D. Which means that I have Box Collider and Rigibody, without 2D.

just, yeah

you have to, Jon

Jon

lol, he was memorable that is for sure

Chris McFarland

10:16 PM

make sure to treat it nicely, will have a higher chance of executing

Jon

questions like this... are really friggen stupid... like what does it prove if you got this right?

Chris McFarland

ensure all surrounding code is all proper-like, otherwise you'll hurt its feelings

lol :/

Jon

yeah, but you know you had to answer something similar to this for a job in the past

I know i did

One of my all time favorite questions for a job

"What is a back plane?"

The question immediately before it "What are the 7 layers of the OSI model, and briefly describe each layer"

I swear to fucken god.

TheMuffinCoder

@ChrisMcFarland Tallowmere has xbox controller support, I love it even more :D

Chris McFarland

:D

I think I only managed to get the rumble feature working on Win7

Jon

10:21 PM

yeah, rumble on unity is ridiculous lol

you need to install xinput

Chris McFarland

it's weird though, cuz some users have to disable XInput otherwise it lags hard

Jon

oh really

TheMuffinCoder

on windows 10, rumble works :D

Jon

that is interesting

Chris McFarland

@TheMuffinCoder oh really? nice lol

yeah it's just a mish-mash of finger-crossing

luckily the InControl plugin comes with its C# source

Jon

10:23 PM

fdid you buy it?

Chris McFarland

Yeah

Jon

those gallants are pretty smart aren't they?

TheMuffinCoder

poo it stopped working with the controller :(

it start to rumble randomly and died :P

Chris McFarland

@Jon well worth. yeah it's a good surname ;)

@TheMuffinCoder nooooo

TheMuffinCoder

wait just checking

Jon

10:23 PM

this does annoy me, lol

TheMuffinCoder

did u test with 360 controller or xbone?

Chris McFarland

hahahahahaha

TheMuffinCoder

Im using xbone rn

Chris McFarland

@TheMuffinCoder I mainly test with Xbox 360 but I did test with an Xbox One controller at some point

the InControl dev has a beta version of a lot of core stuff re-done, much more closer to the metal so to speak

I haven't bothered to try it yet tho

Jon

i bought that font the other day, still didn't get it

dude better fucken deliver

TheMuffinCoder

10:25 PM

nooooooo

controller died in game and I died D:

oh well :P

no more controller it is then :)

Jon

haha, multiplayer tallowmere is going to be epic

can't wait

Chris McFarland

aww, my apologies
I don't think I coded a thing to see if your controller disconnects suddenly

aye I'm keen to get it prepped well enough for some testing

gonna have my work cut out for me

Jon

yeah for sure man

you are well on your way though, what you have shown up to now is really great

Chris McFarland

thank you!

Jon

you have a knack for making stuff satisfying

which is great for gamedev :D

Chris McFarland

10:29 PM

:D

It's just sound effects and particle effects and extra physics checks, honestly

Jon

yeah but that makes a world of a difference... great sound design is ridiculously hard to do

Chris McFarland

makes the world come to life

Jon

and great gameplay for that matter, just sound is hard for me, haha

Chris McFarland

I've been searching for random words on Spotify, discovering lots of new tunes that sound pretty cool (for when I wanna try tackling music)

Jon

talk to Mick, he rocks :)

Chris McFarland

10:30 PM

bfxr.net for sounds is my go-to

Mick's stuff is too heavy for me

Jon

the guy can make soft stuff too, he just doesn't like it

Chris McFarland

hahaha

Jon

but it could be his bread and butter seriously

tone it down

Chris McFarland

for music it feels you either wanna go for super catchy, or super ambient/vague

aye

I'm on the fence of wanting to buy FL Studio for Windows

I've got the mobile version which is very nice, but kinda hard to use at the same time

or dunno if I'd just try to contract a musician later on

Jon

i was listening to a megaman2 cover

like, holy shit man that game had terrific music

entire soundtrack of great songs

user92578

10:34 PM

Megaman songs are awesome

Jon

Mega Man 2 guitar medley - Rockman 2 - 24th anniversary tribute - Daniel Araujo

►

this one

its just so badass..

Chris McFarland

Megaman music is very fast-tempo'd eh, to keep you moving

yet the game, you run pretty slowly usually? lol

Jon

megaman 2 was so epic

yeah but you didn't really stop

Chris McFarland

yea

Jon

the gameplay was frantic

the powerups were so well thought out

you could defeat dr.wily with the bubble lead, lol

the one powerup that did nothing except kill heat man

Chris McFarland

10:36 PM

I often have to laugh
I look back at Super Mario RPG
which is just a turn-based RPG
and it has the most happiest, fastest, exciting music
when most of the time you're just standing still waiting for turns to execute

Yes, those power-ups were great

Jon

oh man, mario RPG

I rented that game on the SNES when I was a kid, and played it for 2 days striaght

beat it, tried to get to that godamn cloud place

Chris McFarland

haha :)

Jon

they kept talking about a casino in the clouds. and I still don't think I ever got to it

Chris McFarland

it's probably my most nostalgic-laden game for me

I had the player's guide, yo

Jon

was there a cloud casino?

Chris McFarland

10:38 PM

lol

I don't think it was a cloud one? but there was a casino of sorts

some membership card you had to get

Jon

back in those days, you could rent games for like 4$

lol

Chris McFarland

yup

Jon

nowadays renting a game sounds fucken crazy

remember renting NES games, and they didn't work very good

you had to jiggle, blow, pray

then when you got it working, you said "DON;T TOUCH IT !!!"

Chris McFarland

lol

Jon

I had this trick with mine with a piece of paper

it probably didn't do anything at all

Chris McFarland

10:41 PM

it's funny, cuz this day n age if your carts didn't work, you'd go ask for a replacement or a refund

but back then, it's just how it was

feck, I think I wanna create a RoomTransitionSequencer, decouple my spaghetti chain of events

Jon

its crazy too, i played hundreds of games, but never really bought many

rented games every weekend

Chris McFarland

ah real
I used to get an allowance, and it was basically my video game fund

Jon

haha, i'd rent them and play for hours straight trying to beat them

TheMuffinCoder

Hey chris just wondering

is there a android version?

This seems like the perfect game to play on the go

Chris McFarland

Yes
check your itch.io download page for the APK

comes with it

TheMuffinCoder

10:43 PM

WHOOOOO!!!!

Chris McFarland

lol

Jon

:D

Chris McFarland

I never bought Earthbound, only rented it a couple times

TheMuffinCoder

play.google.com/store/apps/…

Chris McFarland

never beaten it

TheMuffinCoder

10:44 PM

I used to have to suffer playing this instead before

Chris McFarland

haha. Your Android device has to be kinda fast to make it run my game well I think

I've tried it on friends phones but it was a bit choppy

Jon

i never played earthbound

TheMuffinCoder

I just bought a galaxy core prime today, so hopefully it'll run :D

Chris McFarland

1.2 GHz... maybe! should at least launch

TheMuffinCoder

LOL

I ran minecraft on a potato tier phone

this should be able to handle tallowmere well :P

amazon.com/ZTE-Valet-Android-Prepaid-TracFone/dp/B00FM7R1WG

Chris McFarland

10:49 PM

all good
the DRM-free version I just let it run on default android texture settings
but the Play Store version I require OpenGL ES 3.0 (instead of 2.0) cuz I don't want a bunch of people with slow phones buying the game and then giving it 1-star reviews

yeah i'm gonna make this sequencer class
let it handle each state, and each method from other classes can report to it

cuz at the moment they talk to each other in this horrible chain of events

and I get confused when trying to debug :(

Jon

are you using the high level network components in unity for your multiplayer>

or the lower level network layer that they expose?

Chris McFarland

what's a high level mean

(I get confused)

Jon

well, the new unity multiplayer layer has two different ways to use

one is, to use the higher layer abstraction

TheMuffinCoder

oh snap if chris is getting confusing with multiplayer

Jon

so you just set IDs on your entities

TheMuffinCoder

10:57 PM

Im going to get crushed

Jon

and it handles the updating automatically

Chris McFarland

I'm using TNet http://www.tasharen.com/?page_id=4518
It supports instantiating objects over the network and assigns IDs automatically

so when a player joins, there's a network-wide instantiation thing for that player, and then the new player tells everyone to create a new creature
supports buffering too

Jon

commercial use?

Chris McFarland

yeah

$100 USD

Jon

nice

bookmarked :)

Chris McFarland

10:59 PM

however, it doesn't really handle sync states? so when something is created from the buffer, I've got it set to request the latest info about the creature or whatever

Jon

Yeah I kinda like writing my own

but i mean...

Chris McFarland

so it spawns automatically from the network buffer, then requests the latest info, and then receives and parses and enables itself

whereas I think UNet has some of the sync stuff more automated

Jon

you can never be as efficient as writing a custom network layer for a specific game

Chris McFarland

It's probably heaps easier if you only allow new players to join at a certain point

yeah

Jon

having a network layer that does everything, is going to be heavy

Chris McFarland

11:00 PM

it's stupidly complex

Jon

but yeah... i'll never have the functionality

Chris McFarland

Currently I'm opting to try and let players join at any time

Jon

there is a ton of work invovled in this stuff

Chris McFarland

but if I have to, I will restrict to only be able to join when you're between levels or something

yeah

It's tough too cuz you can't just have unlimited messages being sent all the time

bandwidth restrictions and CPU usage for parsing it comes into play

I don't really think I'm gonna have like 60+ units going at the same time

for a 2D physics non-lockstep system lol

but, I like to try out other network games on Steam, or consoles, and I know they aren't perfect

so it's okay if my stuff ain't perfect too, but yeah, it's super hard

Jon

yeah man, i know it

Chris McFarland

11:03 PM

and with messages.... I'm largely setting positions and boolean flags

player is moving left, true or false

so there's this boolean-laden abstraction layer basically

it's no longer Player.GetKey("A")

Jon

you probably have an amazing codebase at this point

Chris McFarland

it toggles the boolean to move left lol

I have no idea hahaha

Jon

the thing is, it is yours

so it is efficient for you

Chris McFarland

just tacking it together in hopefully an easy-enough method for me to understand it well enough, yeah

The great thing with TNet too

compared to Unity's shit

Jon

I'm just thinking, doing part 2 of a game is cool

redo all the shit you did wrong :)

Chris McFarland

11:06 PM

is that you can have the host leave and nobody cares

Jon

ah yeah

so its more of a peer to peer setup? how does that work?

is there is server?

Chris McFarland

yeah, doing a sequel is weird but cool but largely desired to make things better

So, you can have a middle server if you want, or do a direct connection

the middle server is just a simple message passer

and if the host leaves, TNet just assigns someone else as the new host

"host" meaning they have the authority

but everyone is synced so it doesn't really matter?

Jon

where is that tnet server?

Chris McFarland

I have a DigitalOcean thing in san fran

Jon

i guess what I am wondering is.. who authorizes the game logic? lo

Chris McFarland

11:08 PM

it'll be prone to hacking, sure

so I'm not going to tout pvp as a selling point lol

but for friendly co-op, should work a treat

Jon

fair enough

Chris McFarland

you see all the shit these days

Jon

its a never ending battle really

Chris McFarland

basically if you don't have an authoritative server, your game goes to custard

yeah

Jon

you need a dedicated coder to battle the hacks

Chris McFarland

11:09 PM

it's a lot of work and never ends
I ain't got time for that

Jon

even with authoritative server, if you have a popular game, it will be tested

Chris McFarland

yup

Jon

I used to host one of the top terraria servers

for about 1.5 years or so.. shortly before my divorce

They laid a fiber line to my house one of the first in Canada, and I was getting 100mbit/s up/down

i think they forgot to cap it or something, but it was ridiculously fast

Chris McFarland

haha cool

Jon

anyways, the hacking going on was rampant

Chris McFarland

11:11 PM

:(

Jon

we had all kinda of anti-hacking measures

but it ultimately required 24/7 staff

Chris McFarland

;(

Jon

yeah haha

it was fun for a while though, we did manage to keep the hacking to almost 0

Chris McFarland

that's good

Jon

i had hourly backups

if shit went down, I reverted to whatever hour

lol

Chris McFarland

11:14 PM

jeez

Jon

Chris McFarland

sounds like MMO-tier maintenance

Jon

here is a world

i refreshed the world image every day

Chris McFarland

heh

Jon

encouraged building

Chris McFarland

11:14 PM

that is crazy

Personally, I just don't enjoy building and crafting

I'd rather just destroy things

Jon

yeah but consider someone taking 5 hours to build bald bull

then some asshole destroy it in 5 seconds

Chris McFarland

yeah

Jon

I mean ultimately it is all meaningless

But it is still a dick move

Chris McFarland

I just can't get excited over virtual crafting
me coding = creating stuff
I play games to knock things down

TheMuffinCoder

lol I was that asshole in minecraft >:)

Chris McFarland

11:16 PM

haha

TheMuffinCoder

I used my xray textures and greifed the spawn on purpose bwhahahaha

Chris McFarland

lol...

Jon

lol..

i am trying to think of the biggest dick thing I have done in gaming

TheMuffinCoder

They had spawn protection but minecraft had tnt physics where one exploding tnt could project another next to it far away

Jon

and I can't really I was always pretty nice

one time I had my g/f speak in the headset while I killed everyone as CS

TheMuffinCoder

11:17 PM

LOL

their responses must had been priceless

Jon

lol yeah, they were all calling bullshit, lol

Chris McFarland

haha

Jon

guys I got the star system working

Chris McFarland

woot

TheMuffinCoder

Press the konami code to unlock all the levels at once

Only the wise will know

Jon

11:20 PM

:D

hard to do that on a mobile

TheMuffinCoder

They must show dedication and plug in a usb keyboard

Jon

entire thing is designed for mobile from day 1

TheMuffinCoder

lol I used to use a keyboard with my tablet

but all the apps were pretty bad at using it so I gave up

Hey guys

Whats the proper term for pushing a projectile along an angle?

Jon

thrust

lol what do you mean

TheMuffinCoder

Im going to enable my ship to fire projectiles (plasma bolts) in the direction its facing

But I don't know the physics to do so I was going to look it up

My current plan was to determine the slope using trig based on the angle but thought there might had been some euler efficient stuff better than that

Jon

11:24 PM

keep a forward vector

and a forward velocity

TheMuffinCoder

ouch vector as in <strength, direction>?

Jon

there are two things to consider... the direction you are facing and the direction you are traveling

TheMuffinCoder

ooo

-1

Q: How do i move a 2D object with angle and speed variables in unity?

I want to move an object with a certain angle and speed, is there a was to set this as an initial velocity so that it is still possible for the object to collide and bounce of other objects using its rigid body?