Game Development

Jon

12:11 PM

yah

Mutch95

i completely screwed myself over

lol

done all this whiteboard work

and i just realised it won't work

Jon

:)

well at least you did the work and realized it won't

instead of coding for a few hours and realizing

Mutch95

lol.

i have no clue where to start

i understand it

but i don't know how to implement it

and i feel looking at someones code is cheating...

Martin Sojka

Wait ... looks like midpoint displacement. Is it?

Mutch95

yea

user92578

12:16 PM

I just moved box, loot box & barrel sprites into their own files, and after looking at messed up sprite IDs for like a month because of my tileset tile-replacement, it's so glorious to watch the actual sprites:

user92578

Mutch95

thats what diamond square algorithm is isn't it just 2d @ martin Sojka

helena4

@Jon about the reddit ama. As if this is the first time marketing has tried to shove it self into favored community spaces.

Mutch95

i demand a gif >:3 @Tyyppi_77

snake5

@Tyyppi_77 that huge saw (?) looks weird

Martin Sojka

12:17 PM

Implement it in the most straightforward, simple, unoptimised way you can. See how fast it runs (it'll likely run very quickly already). Decide then.

user92578

@Mutch95 lol there really isn't much to show in a gif, nothing new actually isn't there

user92578

@snake5 (yes), and how?

Mutch95

oh alright

Jon

how do you force a animation state to go to another in mecanim, after it is done?

user92578

it probably looks weird because it's a still image captured from a spinning wheel

snake5

12:20 PM

@Tyyppi_77 hanging in the air, difficult to believe it would be there

user92578

Yeah, that's my test level

helena4

@Jon like :) youtube.com/…

user92578

I just dump stuff there to test it out

Mutch95

@MartinSojka am i going in the wrong direction? or is it somewhat right?

snake5

@Tyyppi_77 ah, I see

user92578

12:21 PM

you're just like my brother, he picks on stuff like that always too :)

user92578

of course, he knows it's just a test level

snake5

first time I see it

looks good otherwise, btw

user92578

thanks a lot

snake5

ahh, that reminds me, I must make a screenshot to post for this evening

for #screenshotsaturday

Martin Sojka

@Mutch95 I have no idea what your goal is, so couldn't say.

Chris

12:34 PM

@Jon think you drag the other animation onto the board, and then go Right-click > New State or New Transition or something? You can also right-click on the board to create a state as well? I was mucking around with it yesterday

and drag an arrow to link them up

Jon

yeah, i figured it out.. you have to set the Exit Time to 1

Exit Time is the percentage of the animation to play before exiting -- which is apparently from 0.00, to 1.00

Chris

ahk cool

Jon

Yep :)

I'm rebuilding the animations in macanim -- I had just hardcoded them previously

which was kinda dumb

but I guess it made sense originally, as the prototyping didn't require such nice animations, heh.

Pip

Morning GDSE

user92578

1:00 PM

Morning @Pip

user92578

I seriously don't know what to do

user92578

Nothing interesting on task list anymore

Martin Sojka

What are you working on, anyway?

user92578

GunHero

user92578

Did some sound design, but my headphones aren't that comfortable

snake5

1:06 PM

@Tyyppi_77 nothing interesting from what kinds of work?

got any examples?

Martin Sojka

The platformer above?

user92578

Yup

Jon

user92578

Well the tasks are overly broad or just stuff that I'm not into mood doing

Martin Sojka

Add more weapons.

user92578

1:07 PM

Oh now I remember what I was thinking!

snake5

@Tyyppi_77 slice them

user92578

Like a stand-machinegun-enemy

snake5

make tasks smaller and smaller, slice into tiny pieces

until they're a no-brainer

and then they'll get done almost automatically

@Jon nice

Jon

thanks

its pretty subtle in game

snake5

people should notice though

I'm kinda thinking that you should round those corners, though

seems a bit too sharp for the style

Jon

1:18 PM

naw, the square is a very important piece :)

There is a circle too for rolling motions

I could round it off I guess, and keep the collider square

snake5

yeah

a few pixels wide rounded corners should be enough

Jon

cool, yeah i'm still cleaning up the art, so good time to suggest stuff like this

snake5

just to make box outlines match face lines

Mutch95

So with midpoint displacement does the points need to be in the same place as the multidimensional array?

So point 0,0 is at point[0,0]

Jon

1:33 PM

the point is a corner

if i remember correctly

Mutch95

Yes

But I've been trying to map it

As the centre of the array say [5,5] is also the centre of the map

"First, create an array that represents a blank map."

I've been trying to make the array look like the map

Should I be worrying about where the point is stored in the array?

I'm assuming I should.

user92578

Just a quick mockup, but what do you guys think?

user92578

Mutch95

Yeah it's cool

user92578

1:51 PM

Thanks

Jon

mock up of what?

isn't that in game?

user92578

no

user92578

just drew something in gimp

helena4

@Tyyppi_77 its better than half the stuff i've seen in the genre :)

You can get me to play it just from the shot

but i'd put eyes though

seen how the skull has eyes as a prop but not the character :)

Joe

@Jon needs a shaking lip when the mouth is closed

Jon

2:06 PM

:)

Joe

looking awesome though man

user92578

@helena4 thanks

Jon

thanks for the suggestion

Joe

hey np bro

Almo

you know, The Little Mermaid is a disturbing movie

the sea people are like islanders, shown as a "Cargo culture" treasuring trash from the richer mainlanders.

she loves one, and wants to marry one, despite them eating her friends.

Joe

2:17 PM

lol

MickLH

@Almo yeah you know how women like the worst ... lol nvm misoginy censored...

Almo

haha

MickLH

I'm sure glad to see reddit dying, finally

Almo

is it?

MickLH

It seems like their admins have finally gone "lost touch corporate mode"

And are driving all the users away at an incredible pace

Might not be a smart move for them, when a rival site has just popped up somewhat recently

snake5

2:19 PM

"finally"?

did you expect or wait for it?

MickLH

It was always on the back of my mind as a "nice to have"

Almo

interesting

snake5

@MickLH why?

Almo

how does reddit make money anyway? ads?

snake5

probably

MickLH

2:22 PM

@TheMuffinCoder Nice! That was quick dude, good work

Jon

2:52 PM

fps kinda low there

Joe

yea!

haha awesome

snake5

@Jon btw, how do you make gifs?

Jon

gifcam

snake5

heh, and it doesn't have any strange restrictions?

like, adding a watermark at bottom or not being able to record a part of screen?

the gif recorder I use has some issues so I thought maybe I could try something else

Jon

not sure about the watermark

you can do it, but not sure if you can do it on all frames at once

user92578

2:57 PM

I love it, awesome jon @Jon

snake5

@Jon what do you mean?

Jon

you can add text to a frame

snake5

@Jon the recorder I use adds a watermark of its own, I don't want any

@Jon oh, I wanted to remove it :D

Jon

ah

well gifcam is a standalone, no watermark

snake5

ah, cool

thanks

Joe

2:58 PM

random employment question... my wife is about to get an offer from "School B", but "School A" is her first choice

interview with School A went really well, they are just much slower to reply

how do you say "hold on one second" without being unprofessional

snake5

lying about having private issues is probably the best choice

Joe

like is it shitty to say "I accept" just not to sign anything then if something better comes in, to take it?

snake5

no one will require you to explain and they'll probably agree to give one or two days to sort it out

@Joe it is a bit, especially if the offer with A falls through in the end

Joe

haha we dont know if A is going to come through at all

but A is like her DREAM JOB

snake5

cool, but it's probably better not to burn bridges for dreams anyway

user92578

3:23 PM

They added custom matches to Ghost Recon Phantoms a while back. Basically there, the owner of the match can select the map. Now people have started to lure people in with nice and cool maps, and then quickly change the map to something annoying, and hit start. It takes a while to get out of the game...

user92578

People can be such dicks sometimes

Jon

so now that I am using Mecanim, my eyes won't respond to code

I think it is because it is being tweened in the animation somehow? But the property is not part of the active state, so what is going on here?

yeah fixed it

To overwrite the animation settings, you have to set it in LateUpdate()

helena4

@Tyyppi_77 got a webpage for the game your doing?

user92578

nope

Veritas

3:56 PM

hey guys, haven't been here in a while. 'sup?

Aidan Mueller

@Tyyppi_77 All of them!

Open all the channels.

Jon

4:18 PM

moar animations

user92578

@helena4 this is quite difficulty as the character head is 3 pixels wide... :)

user92578

Hmm, I have no idea how I'm going to program the machine-gun enemy

Noctrine

Has anyone had problems with system instability following windows update?

user92578

What's system instability?

Noctrine

For the most part, windows explorer crashes whenever I try and open - just about anything. Task manager crashes when I try and use it to kill stuff. System freezes when I try and remove an update. System freezes when I try and install more updates.

user92578

4:29 PM

@Jon I really love the ":D", it could be a little longer tough

Noctrine

Just got an interesting error that I've never seen before as well. To many files open in 16 bit programs.

user92578

Oh, no, I haven't experienced any issues

Jon

@Tyyppi_77 hehe thanks.. it is currently set to a random value

i should raise the min

Noctrine

I've been trying to track down my system installation disk, but its missing... somehow.

user92578

I'm not sure if my current gun-system will suit to this new massive and static gun

user92578

4:34 PM

oh oh

Martin Sojka

Remainder: AbleGamers are still doing their AMA on Reddit's /r/gamedev.

If you care about people with disabilities enjoying your games, make sure you follow what they are doing. Maybe even support them a bit, if you can.

If you don't care, you're a monster and I'll see you in hell.

user92578

That's the current final design:

user92578

the colors may seem odd depending on your monitor

user92578

it looks fine on my main monitor but on the chat, my second monitor you can't really tell one color from another

bornander

4:39 PM

@Tyyppi_77 Looks awesome.

user92578

Thanks

user92578

But I really have no idea what's the best way to program that

Jon

looks gangsta

user92578

That looks so awesome

Jon

hehe, can't wait to show my son

user92578

4:44 PM

The smile it's just so innocent and full of pure joy

user92578

They really make me smile too :)

Jon

so much left to do too.. haha

user92578

haha I can believe

user92578

I think I need a separate gun class for the machine gun that doesn't allow moving, and then I need a separate AI controller for the enemy

user92578

Is machine gun the correct term for that?

user92578

4:48 PM

Would something be more fitting?

Jon

yes

Turret maybe

so it is stationary, and you can use it?

user92578

Yeah it's stationary, and I suppose that you can shoot with it once you've killed the enemy controlling it

user92578

Not that it'll be that usefull for you

Jon

i'd make a animation for the dude, and draw it behind the turret, animating both

user92578

Like a small shake/twitch for the turret?

user92578

4:50 PM

Maybe for the dude too

Jon

yes for sure

slight screen shake too rpobably

user92578

yup

Aidan Mueller

I think NASA is using my technique:

nasa.gov/nh/pluto-charon-surfaces-in-color

Jon

oh cool

when are we going to see the closeups?

user92578

I wonder if I could teach VS to put new files in a filter/folder in the project with the same name as the first word of the file name

user92578

4:53 PM

like I just created two files, EntityGunTurret.h/.cpp

MickLH

imgur.com/Yl45zkc

user92578

lol

user92578

I gotta go, thanks for the feedback and help today guys!

Jon

yeah, i think i'm gonna call it a day too

MickLH

I fixed my codebase early this morning, now I have to decide if I'll implement anything over the weekend

Jon

4:58 PM

:)

i need to figure out names for each block type

Joe

@Jon mouse over a block

one of the reactions should be a nervous "GULP" lol

Jon

Clunk, Clank, Clink, Clonk

Joe

Jon

heh

dunno how I could animate a gulp here

Joe

no idea but its the first thing that comes to mind

Jon

5:03 PM

right now they do that fearful look

MickLH

lol that green block is a motherfucker

Jon

the mouseOver isn't actually going to be used since it is a mobile game

MickLH

PC master race benefits

Joe

thats a shame

Jon

Yeah, the Red blocks have a never ending feud with the green blocks

Joe

5:04 PM

make a GUI cursor... and make the player drag it around with touch

MickLH

Lol just the way he's so happy to see him go...

Jon

lol @Joe

MickLH

It's almost scary, like damn gang war about to break out in here

Jon

haha, yeah :)

Joe

or make a touch initiate an event that eventually destroys the block

screen touch -> points death ray at block -> nervous reactions -> fire

they are too good to give up haha

Jon

5:06 PM

i think that would just be annoying for little payoff haha

the only thing I can think that would work, is a double click

1 click selects -- second click kills

but with the gameplay, that would be annoying, as you need to be quick at times

So no.

Joe

then you better get to work on retina sensors for phone front facing camera

so you can detect which block players are looking at

Jon

shut up :P

Joe

haha

MickLH

lol I would think you can use it for the blocks that are at risk of falling off

Jon

yeah, when a block is in some danger, it gets worried -- and then when it is in definite danger, it gets scared

i'm actually having fun trying to figure out ways to give these idiots personalities

fuck artists

imma do it myself

MLM

5:29 PM

@Jon LateUpdate() is the way to go. I forgot to share the link: answers.unity3d.com/questions/612876/…

Jon

yeah fixed that like a while back :P

Blue Bug

@Jon R u drawing them? lmao xD

Jon

yeah i made all the art obviously, its not high quality stuff

Blue Bug

they look professional enough to me. Very funny faces.

Jon

Thanks, people seem to like them, so that is good

I still need to go in with a zoom and clean up the lines

possibly add a bit more depth

The real power is seriously the animation tools in unity

Blue Bug

5:33 PM

Use those powerful tools to express the human emotions the blocks feel.

Jon

i have a pretty weird state machine for it

I designed it so that every colored block is the same prefab

Pip

hell yeah it works

Jon

Because there are so many different shape types

So they all share the same Animator

Pip

I just went to Micro Center and the rep convinced me to get a Ethernet-over-power thing

Jon

Which is a small isssue.. since I have to put all the state machines in the same Animator

Pip

5:36 PM

Best decision ever

So fast

Jon

cool

ok ok, i gotta get the heck outta here.

Pip

:D

Cya Jon

Jon

later

Icy Defiance

reddit drama is fun. veuwer.com/i/2pt7,2pt8

and that's just because veuwer was being used as a mirror for a few fake images of ellen pao saying something bad

most of the traffic went to imgur instead

Pip

@IcyDefiance impressive

Jon

5:54 PM

google.com/trends/…

Pip

Nice

Jon

You know.... that saying.... you either die a hero, or live long enough to become a dick face.

Is pretty true.

As soon as money starts getting involved, bloodsuckers eventually take hold of it

Pip

Mhm

Jon

Then they try to make their investors or the corrupt happy over their own people.

the beginning of reddit's downfall

►

lmao

Pip

6:16 PM

That was amazing

Jon

6:38 PM

one thing that annoys me, is that you cannot zoom the unity State machine window

Jon

6:56 PM

lol, u guys see this question?

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