Game Development

hahah

i found out recently my statemachine system in Cognizer is fragile. changing the game flow once it's in place isn't taht simple

bits and piece hang out and bugs crop up

been using it for a long time. was in crystal shuffle, match-m proto, lane blaster proto, cognizer proto, now in cognizer unity

reusable code is nice

:)

I should come up with something new

I don't like the one they use at BHVR... each state is its own class.

so the state code is split up over a bunch of files

ah yeah

4:58 AM

whoo I can't fall through the floor anymore! :D

such a small accomplishment but it took like a week of ~~work~~ avoiding the headache to make it happen lol

5:19 AM

GRATS

hooray for physics?

yeah...screwed it up again though. trying to simplify things and improve the structure a bit, and apparently the code is more fragile than I thought.

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6:48 AM

eh what?

12:22 PM

i broke my head

user92578

nice

user92578

I bought a wacom

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Now drawing pine trees

lol

thats perspective right there

user92578

12:25 PM

lol I try :D

gpu code == hell on earth ... pine trees == simplicity

user92578

hmm the trunk is way too tall

user92578

12:44 PM

They look a little bland:

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Kinect Star Wars "I'm Han Solo" Dancing

1:50 PM

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So

I've been trying to come up with something interesting to work on that's not a game

No great ideas so far :(

It's not like I'm expecting a great idea out of thin air or anything, but yeah

user92578

:(

a boob simulator

in 3d

user92578

lol

I mean, some product that people would actually use

and yes, I knew you would say that

user92578

2:01 PM

like really advanced GPU calculated boob physics

:P

3:05 PM

do i have to have functions in hlsl include files?

seems a bit wierd

hmmm nvm its the include statement itself it doesn't like

3:19 PM

hmmm could be bug by the looks of things ...

forum.unity3d.com/threads/…

3:40 PM

hello

yo

sup

Everything that happened?

well. i have been working more on my new game

and it is going slow

there is so much logic...

all the methods...

cant keep track of it all any more

user92578

that means that it's time to clean

spring cleaning

and it is also that the logic goes over two main classes

the main logic class and the activity class

well i have to ask you since mods again removed my question; Is it possible to see 1 star ratings without comments on google play?

3:51 PM

I have no idea

someone gave me a one star rating and i think i know who it is but i cant confirm it

someone has also been voting down on all of my questions

user92578

Are they good?

yes

i got more reputation yesterday because of it

got this:

gamedev.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed

so it isnt if a question is good or not(in this case)

Tri hours laetr

NASA crashed into a moon

noone survived

but the emptyness of space

user92578

4:12 PM

what?

idk have been playing too much StarMade recently...

user92578

ideas for flying enemies that aren't bats?

Mutant Eagle,(more comming)

Pterodactyl

that is all i can come up with

@Tyyppi_77 bats?

user92578

every god damn game has bats

4:18 PM

lol

user92578

I think I'll try something like the little ball in Star Wars that Luke uses to practice

user92578

Robot Ball

@Tyyppi_77 baseball bats with wings

user92578

lol

no i dont think he meant baseball bats. maybe he meant crazyguygoinggaroundwithabat bats

user92578

4:21 PM

hmm naw I don't think the robot ball will work

user92578

It needs to be somehow "real"

user92578

Small war drones would be cool

user92578

But I can't draw those

go on google!

google - we are here to solve your problems!

user92578

google can't teach me how to draw drones in like 16x16 pixels

4:22 PM

that is impossible

lmgtfy.com/?q=war+drone

user92578

again

user92578

I know what they look like

@Tyyppi_77 for one thing, drones are rarely square =p

user92578

That does not mean I can draw those

well it is still impossible to make one in 16x16

user92578

4:23 PM

drones are way too big

unless....

user92578

maybe I'll just do something else

how do i upload an image here again?

Go with eagles!

@Polarbear0106 with enough rep the upload button

user92578

hmm, maybe falcons?

4:24 PM

Otherwise just upload it to imgur and paste the image link here

how much is "enough rep"?

user92578

trained war falcons

@Polarbear0106 dunno

user92578

100 I think

halfway there

one moment....

little blurry due to scaling from imgur

user92578

4:29 PM

lol

it is about 15 pixels used - totally

finnally i got through!

5:05 PM

any unity folks around?

my exception does not seem to be caught when reading data past the end of a file

oooh catching wrong exception type

@Tyyppi_77 what about giving the regular enemies jetpacks or wings

6:37 PM

Any ideas how to improve the performance of a huge 3D tilemap in Unity? Right now I'm only instantiating tiles that are in view and using an object pool to cache tiles that go offscreen so the actual size of the map is not an issue. It works fairly well, but I can't zoom out very far. The scene begins to lag once it starts showing about 30x30 tiles in view.

you're already doing everything I would know how to do

make sure your textures are optimized properly. square, power of two, proper compression, etc

I think it has to do with instantiating so many GameObjects :/

the lag happens when trying to scroll the map, IE instantiating new objects

you mean "choppiness" or some other word. "Lag" means "network latency"

Pool

he is pooling

6:50 PM

lag doesn't mean network but yes, choppiness (iow fps drops)

it does mean network

it refers to latency with your commands getting to the server

people started using lag to mean "bad framerate" sometime in the last 10 years I think

if I'm walking with a person and they are walking slower than me, they are lagging behind

the word is not specific to computing

yeah "stack" means to pile things on top of each other.

has a different meaning in programming

anyway, yes choppiness :)

time to make the pause menu :(

6:57 PM

@FuzzyLogic the trick with pooling is to pre-init your blocks

when you are moving, you re-position them instead of instantiate

I can't just reposition them since the tiles may be all unique

if it were 2D, I would do that.. also instantiate in chunks with custom mesh

Yeah you can if you rethink the way you set your tiles.. do you have a screenshot?

tiles are not 3d

these are 3D tiles. what do you call them?

they are arranged in a grid

blocks, lol i dunno

anyways, the point of pooling, is to not have to instantiate

if you are destroying, recreating the objects, then you are defeating the purpose of a pool

well with the pooling I can reuse objects that have already been instantiated once and haven't been pushed out of the cache yet. it's not a pre-cache

7:01 PM

still no point in using a pool if you are creating an object for each instance

I know what you mean though. guess I should just call it a cache.

you would be better off using an octree

it does make a substantial difference

Lokkij

I don't think I've ever had to work with a tool as bad as Flash Builder.

each block is a different type -- but the gameobjects are re-used

proper pooling :P

Lokkij

7:03 PM

Even after using it for a while, a simple task such as 'create an empty project and don't immediately lose it to the program's weird workspace stuff' takes >1 hour

Upgrading the AIR version is also hell.

hey jon... I have a button on an object. the object also has a black sprite to hide stuff behind it.

if I set the button to z = -100, it shows up above it, but so do other elements not related

Yeah, I should call it a cache, not a pool. So if I pre-allocate GameObjects, how do I assign different 3D blocks to those GO's?

some idea what's going on?

button is UI element?

z = -50 does not show above it, though I think it should

yes

7:06 PM

what is the canvas order?

I don't see anything about "canvas order" on it

the button has a canvas attached to it?

has a "canvas renderer"

but that doesn't have any settings

ah yeah

its in the canvas object

but it's already open. no properties in there

7:08 PM

Canvas has sort order. UI elements are ordered based on position in hierarchy

add a canvas to the button object

ok and I can "override sorting"

thanks man

should probably do it

@FuzzyLogic a 3d block is always the same size?

What is different between your blocks?

Also @Lokkij you should have used Microsoft Frontpage back in the day

yes, right now at least, they will be all the same size.. I could break them down into component parts to be able to pool properly.. Right now I'm just testing with sprites though anyway

what I do, is provide a spritesheet to the pool manager

7:12 PM

this will be for a dungeon generator, so each tile would be an intersection with floor, walls, columns, lights, etc

Then when I Set() a object from the pool -- I adjust the texture position

based on the terrain type

super fast operation

alternatively, you could pool an X amount of each terrain type

But that isn't very efficient

yeah, I can't do that with 3D tiles though, since it will be actual meshes, not just texture

wouldn't it be the same mesh though?

the component parts of each tile/block will be mostly the same, but their configurations will change

can't click the buttons now :( Set their local Z to -10, so they should be "above" the black sprite

FUN

7:20 PM

lol

so the black sprites is to hide it?

the black sprite hides the rest of the interface

the buttons are supposed to be on top

they're visible, but they don't receive touches

why not?

I set their "sorting order" to 1, and the black sprite is 0

so the button is on top?

seems to be

the Override Sorting means it's visible regardless

but I have their z to -10

the black is 0

7:25 PM

ah

ok, well you can fix it

the pause menu owning that is -100 to the rest of the scene

if you don't mind manually raycasting to see if your touch is on top of your button

I don't "mind", but I shouldn't "have to".

I want to know why this button isn't getting touches the normal way

or what is going wrong with the layering in the first place

if you question unity too much you will go crazy

it's why I wanted to use spritebuilder

but I really need x-plat

7:27 PM

can you make a minimal example of the problem?

i will if I have to, trying to fix it first

MEHHHHH

and my save game stopped working without warning :(

WARNING! WARNING! YOUR SAVE GAME IS ABOUT TO STOP WORKING!

that would be a lot weirder.

save game fixed, that was stupid on my part. hope the button is too

7:33 PM

bought a second xbox controller for pc

no comment

i need to look into the vive

i have a feeling it will be pushed back

I think the buttons themselves are busted. turning off the blocker in the editor, they still don't get touches. so it's not the blocker

they don't block touches either... goes through to the items in back

in 10 years from now, people are gonna look at this like it was the stupidest thing ever

how about 10 minutes from now

7:36 PM

I was already thinking that, lol

anyone play Brothers?

ok created a button from scratch, still doesn't work.

answers.unity3d.com/questions/889908/…

that's all done

A button that is a child of a canvas object

The canvas object must have a GraphicRaycaster component

There must be an EventSystem object somewhere in your hierarchy.

wow this is weird

yeah

i like to do my own raycasting

there's another "button" in the scene, and it works fine

7:54 PM

just picked up Brothers and Guacamelee on the steam sale

I keep seeing "make sure you have an EventSystem" as the solution for this

it also needs to be in the same node as the canvas root

hmm, i seem to recall that you can only have one

you have have to make both buttons share the same one

I have the PauseMenu on an object that's beside the pause button in the hierarchy

the pause button works

ok got it to work, can't have multiple "canvas" components. but now I can't get it to display on top of the blocker :D

took blocker out of pause menu, put at -100 z, put pause menu at -150 z, still can't see the buttons

something weird going on with the damn layering

putting -100 z on Exit makes it visible, but makes other things appear on top of the blocker as well

@jon got it... forgot that hierarchy order is draw order, not z-order.

good stuff

Brothers looks like a game me and my son are going to be able to play together

cool

8:05 PM

one is a weak, agile character -- the other is a strong, larger char

Brothers looks like a nice game for $2.50

it's not consistent... lower items supposed to display on top, but it's only on top of some things, not others

seems to be a single player game.

it says co-op

i know that is what pisses me off lol

you need to use the same controller

8:17 PM

oh re-read 'co-op in single player mode'

so I can either A) have the buttons work but not sort properly, or B) have them sort properly by adding a canvas component, then they don't work

until I figure out what basic UI shit I am doing wrong

just raycast yourself

it is really easy

you write the script, then attach it to your buttons

However, you would typically have a "event system" that would run a raycast over all buttons in the scene

Easy if you tag your buttons, then run a GetByTags

ok got it

made a seperate canvas at the top level for the pause menu

that's on a PauseMenu Sorting Layer

hehe, ok

that layer is set to draw on top of everything else

8:21 PM

To play Brothers local co-op, you need to install JoyToKey

so you can't nest canvases, but you can have several at the top level

then controller 1 can control both brothers -- and controller 2 can only control 1

sounds like a hassle

what's it written in that it can't handle multiple joysticks :(

They are saying the game is meant to be played single player (it was the whole point of the game)

the developers were insistant on not having the option.

I thought about remapping the controller to two joysticks, but what about buttons?

8:22 PM

which to me... is fucken stupid.

the mapping is hardcoded.

you can only remap the keyboard.

So.. JoyToKey comes into play

map your joystick presses to keyboard presses

sounds like it's a very short game anyway, probably not worth playing two-player co-op

:(

some of the reviews are saying 2-hours gameplay

yeah brothers is definitely a single-player game. some of the puzzles would actually be really hard with coop, just because you wouldn't have enough coordination.

also you really want a controller to play it with. a keyboard will just make you rage.

as for its length, I think it took me more like 4 hours, partly because I was using a keyboard. it's pretty short.

mostly it's just a cool story with pretty unique puzzles. worth the experience but I wouldn't pay more than $5 for it.

ok i think that's it for today

8:44 PM

So I just found out my domain was expired...

without any notice it seems :|

there is a 2 month grace period

you can buy it back

emm... it was actually free

it's "alis.cf"

so I just registered it again

cool

i had the chance to get jon.ca a long time ago

should have gotten it, lol

problem is... didn't they used to warn it's going to expire?

yes

but it is your domain provider that typically emails you

8:46 PM

@Jon I wanted to register a domain... "bigfatdudes.ca"

but it was not free... so I gave up :P

why?

jon.ca would have been nice

@Jon I don't have any money to spend (yet)

maybe after I've distributed mergeit on Windows store, i'll consider it

Verdun made with Unity. Can't say I'm surprised. :)

bad ui?

9:07 PM

@FuzzyLogic 3d tiles??? Do you mean like voxels?

no, not blocks. above is just a basic prototype of one permutation

for a T-intersection

Oh ok that's 1 tile right?

yes

Are there a lot of different types of these tiles or could you basically cache the whole set then billboard them

there are 15 different types, plus variations

9:12 PM

@Jon Small team, 3d game, probably unity

I think I'll worry about it later.. for the most part it shouldn't be an issue unless I zoom out to a map view, in which case I might be able to render to a texture

Hmm ok so its probably possible for you to instantiate all of the tiles on load then just billboard as you need

don't think I can billboard.. I think I'll have to pool the components and generate the tiles instead of prefabbed

if you were working more directly with opengl I'd tell you to look into instanced rendering

but with unity who knows where the bottleneck might be. you might need to do some profiling to figure out where to focus your effort.

for now, increasing my cache size helps and for the most part the view won't scroll very fast, so I'm getting ahead of myself. the low performance is due to Instantiate/Destroy being called too often when scrolling

9:19 PM

@IcyDefiance matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/…

rammus went afk around 25 minutes

we could have won that if he hadn't :(

10:11 PM

we are right now playing with the worst kind of player... he is literally killing his own team mates

I just want to cry right now...

MASSIVE Yellow Jacket wasp nest in Florida

10:31 PM

cry.

►

these are not like bees ... they will attack, and send a signal to others to do the same

take down a human fast

scary shit

crikey

11:00 PM

oh yeah, yellow jackets. they're actually even worse than that 'cuz the nests are usually underground and nowhere near that big. so you'll step on the nest without realizing it and about 10 of them will swarm you.

you won't usually get thousands of them like that, but instead you just can't see them until too late

Zupoman

Yo

and the stings hurt waaay more than a normal bee too. like a normal bee hurts a bit, but I can just rub it away and be fine, but a yellow jacket will put me in a chair with an ice pack for the next hour, cursing life the whole time.

'lo zupo

i had a nest under my deck

i went out, scooped it off with a shovel, then ran inside

which was a ridiculously stupid idea

Zupoman

Did the bees kill you?

11:22 PM

no