Game Development

12:10 AM

@JoshPetrie Oh, ok, because Gnemlock has started the work on it already. I don't complain about him removing the tag, it's just that I would have guess we'd have waited a bit more...

PearsonArtPhoto

I learned how to do custom inspectors!

Stephane Hockenhull

neat

PearsonArtPhoto

Will have to do it more now:-)

Stephane Hockenhull

12:34 AM

I'm stepping through my collision system trying to figure out which segment-segment collision is blowing up...

^^^ How it makes me feel :P

PearsonArtPhoto

Nice.

Now that I know how to do this, I think I'm going to do it in a few places...

user4704

@AlexandreVaillancourt Ah. shrug

PearsonArtPhoto

I might even have to do something with all of these tools that I'm building.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

12:50 AM

@JoshPetrie Heh! :)

PearsonArtPhoto

1:00 AM

Not quite random, but still, put together by my program!

Stephane Hockenhull

1:47 AM

Found the issue: Parallel lines

sigh It's always parallel lines...

PearsonArtPhoto

2:12 AM

I think I will have the buildings look nicer if they are upgraded, a nice little visual hint.

Upgraded buildings don't do much yet, but...

But that's for a later date...

Stephane Hockenhull

2:46 AM

@PearsonArtPhoto yeah, players need their rewards. plus makes it easy to see which ones aren't upgraded yet.

Blue

8:55 AM

Morning.

user92578

Good morning!

Blue

tips hat

jgallant

9:10 AM

gentle fart mornin'

Chris McFarland

9:31 AM

evening

jgallant

Blasphemy!

It is clearly morning. Off with his head!

Chris McFarland

look

I'm sorry I'm from the future

jgallant

Blasphemy!

Chris McFarland

What's happening this evening / morning

I was playing some Horizon: Zero Dawn finally for about an hour

jgallant

I just got up

Chris McFarland

9:45 AM

Good ol' camera bobbing making me slightly sick to my stomach

jgallant

getting ready to go bring my boy to school

Chris McFarland

Fun

jgallant

i wish I was one of those famous youtuber families

where I just stay home all daya doing stupid shit

Chris McFarland

follow ur dreams

you can make it big

and then youtube will shut down your income

jgallant

and then i'll make videos about how ridiculous youtube is

YOUTUBE KILLING CREATIVITY A FOUR PART VIDEO SERIES

ANNNNNND SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!!!!

Chris McFarland

10:04 AM

like and subscribe

Blue

"Don't forget to enable notifications or that subscribe button means nothing..."

Lasse

I'm surprised how well behaving people actually are in youtube, it's the worlds third largest website afterall

jgallant

10:29 AM

i mean.... youtube has videos, of coruse people use it

Lasse

even better, it has cat videos!

jgallant

it has a lot of really stupid videos.

99% of the videos on youtube are garbage.

But that is the beauty of the internet.

the sheer volume of shit you need to sift through

Lasse

google admob is not behaving, I'm requesting to show an ad from it, but nothing happens. no errors no nothing'

jgallant

good.

fuck ads.

they don't belong in games.

When I sit down to play a game, it is to get away from the stresses of my daily life -- last thing I want is a fucken ad to pop for any fucken reason.

Lasse

they are optional, you don't have to view them

jgallant

10:39 AM

If you support ads in your game, you go to hell, you go to hell right now :P

Lasse

well, it's not my decision to have them

jgallant

Yeah i'm over exagerating

But I understand the need for them... because of the shitshow that is mobile

Lasse

yeah I'm actually thinking that no mobile games ever again after this one

jgallant

And quite frankly... that is a great example of why we shouldn't support this shit

Do you seriously want PC gaming to turn into a mobile shit fest?

its already starting

Lasse

nope, I'm with you on this one :P

jgallant

10:41 AM

i also wanna be done with mobile, but I need to update picross touch another time

Did you know that if you ban a workshop item on steam (like if you are the game creator and ban someone's creation), it temporarily bans their steam account for a day for each banned item?

Lasse

premium mobile games I can tolerate, but I also want the demo versions of them

jgallant

Like.. there is absolutely no warning that this is going to happen

Lasse

wtf lol what

jgallant

I ended up banning like 4 people for 4 days for stupid puzzles.

and they got pissed off

I had no idea it would ban them.

i just wanted to ban their stupid puzzles.

Lasse

can you just remove them instead or is a ban the only solution?

jgallant

10:43 AM

well this is one guy telling me thjis... he might have been fucking with me

Quite frankly i'm not convinced, but he sounded pretty pissed off over it

I can remove them.

"Flag as incompatible"

they are still there because it is their submission, but no one sees it

But I banned 4 people that submitted 4 shit puzzles that take absolutely no effort to make or complete -- and to top it off, they named them like "Achievement bullshit"

Then they come in the discussion forums freaking out calling me a liar and a asshole

Even after I apologized and reversed the bans

They are still super pissed, so I'm like "What else do you want me to do?"

Lasse

give them five copies of the games for free! 1 extra for the 4 days banning

jgallant

fucken paid games don't even provide you with apologies or support like that.

oh no.

I'm working on this ban system inside the game itself.

next person to talk to me like that gets banned from the game

No soup for you.

You can still play, but you are gonna need to use a different steam account.

Lasse

hah

user92578

12:54 PM

C++ers around?

user92578

My dev console class allows classes to bind console methods to instances using std::function

user92578

I just discovered a bug which solved a critical issue but now that I fixed that, I gotta nail this one

user92578

I need a way to remove those std::functions that are owned by a class once the class is destroyed

user92578

How would I do this?

user92578

void*s to the owner that is std::paired with the std::function seems like a terrible solution

user92578

12:57 PM

so going from std::map<std::string, std::function<void(std::vector<std::string>)>> to std::map<std::string, std::pair<void*, std::function<void(std::vector<std::string>)>>>

user92578

and then when the class is destroyed I can check if it corresponds to the void pointer in the pair?

user92578

oh wait I could replace the void pointers with an interface that actually automatically removes all commands mapped to the instance in the destructor

user92578

Does this sound resonable?

jgallant

probably :)

Yeah, that makes sense

Man Hyper-V is friggen awesome

Kevin van der Velden

1:12 PM

Except when it gets into a state where it can't turn off a vm because reasons =p

Kevin van der Velden

1:25 PM

But the management api is pretty decent, aside from the fact that it's powershell of course

Almo

2:09 PM

@jgallant what's this hyper-v thing

jgallant

virtualization software

it is built into windows

Almo

what exactly does it do?

Lasse

you can run guest OSes

the thing is that it's built-in to windows, you don't need any additional crap

Almo

oh so you mean like VirtualBox or some such

Lasse

yes

user92578

2:18 PM

how is the performance jon?

user92578

I'd be happy to try something new since the performance I get on the guest is so terrible on VB for me

Almo

ok cool

jgallant

the performance is fine until you do graphics

then it is pure shit

user92578

graphics as in OS with UI or graphics as in launching a game?

jgallant

game

user92578

2:33 PM

what OS did you run?

user92578

I'm intrigued

user92578

it requires changing something in the BIOS doesn't it?

jgallant

ubuntu

user92578

uuh I definitely need to give that a go then

jgallant

you need to have a proc that supports hyper-v

msinfo32

user92578

2:41 PM

yeah I have support

user92578

always scary to go and fiddle in the BIOS though

Kevin van der Velden

4:54 PM

@Tyyppi_77 if you haven't done that then that explains why virtualbox has terrible performance

The difference between the two is hyper-v goes "lol nope" and virtualbox goes "okay, I gueeess"

@Tyyppi_77 and no it's not =p

Almo

so I can't test with this galaxy note 4 because when I plug it in, my keyboard stops working

Kevin van der Velden

USB port overload?

Almo

I don't know :(

jgallant

5:28 PM

so like... i just realized that if a PC is unable to run at 60FPS, GORB physics break down

the actual threshold seems to be 30fps

Almo

uh oh

jgallant

yeah... lol

user92578

5:53 PM

steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/…

Almo

6:19 PM

interesting

user92578

Yeah, interesting to see what the future holds

jgallant

6:42 PM

interesting indeed.... MUWAHAHAHAHAHA

added a inputbox for a quick GOTO page style browsing. Exciting fucken stuff right here.

i'm adjusting the UI so shut up about the sizes

BTW in that steam newsletter, the communities they said they never expected, was picross touch

user92578

cool

user92578

and a gem to be found is gunhero

jgallant

7:20 PM

Yeah man your game is fucken pimp

Bálint

Hey guys!

I have a 3d grid with a start and an end point on the first and last layer, and I want to create a curvy path from the start to the end

Do you have any ideas how I could achieve that?

I'm thinking about creating a random weight between the nodes and running a path finding algorithm on it

user92578

7:49 PM

Bezier with random values?

jgallant

Snake algorithm in 3d

It is a pathfinder that gets the longest route

user92578

lol

jgallant

I'm serious lol

Compute it stupidly

Get 5 routes and take the longest or whatever

Bálint

8:13 PM

I'm currently having problems calculating 1 route

I think I'll simply go with the pathfinding way, I don't really need it to be the longest

I want to see how fast I can make an android game similar to those arcade things.

Stephane Hockenhull

11:08 PM

@jgallant oh snap! Would it work to clear a level? make the game run at 0.01fps for the green-block is safe check...

@Almo You'll need a good powered hub between the two. That or the cable is borked and shorts out the usb port.

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