So apparently we are supposed to let net neutrality die in fear of the ISPs forcing another recession / depression upon the nation

what happened?

fuck ISPs

Man I love my SSD so much. Im encoding some videos with handbreak and its using 100% of my cpu and I didn't even realize it was still encoding because my system was perfectly smooth

@Joe it's a link ;)

was watching bunch of youtube vids, browsing the net, and other stuff. no stutter or lag at all like I normally would have got

@IcyDefiance we playin lol?

or should I go hots

@Almo lol that timing. just got home and sat down.

pissin people off with my mad sucking skills on hots

I'm not too good at it

new jungler released

he looks tricky htough

I'll avoid him like I am kalista till I get some normals in with K

ooh did they release him today? :D

he does have a learning curve, but unlike kalista this one looks awesome. I want to use him.

looks like it

yep, got a patch

so we goin?

already got my daily quest in hots

so no real need to keep playing

@SpartanDonut theaxenalmo.blogspot.ca

there's my analysis of LoL and HotS

it's long though :)

patch complete. now I'm gonna buy the new champ.

be back in a minute or two

don't want to take him to ranked right away though. on the other hand, we won't get an easy game in normals, unless I hit team builder solo...

@SpartanDonut wtb good link color

@Almo Thanks for the ping! I appreciate your conclusion on the article. Glad to see you were open minded about the differences.

:D

I don't dislike DotA 2 just because it's not LoL. I have good reasons for it. :) @SpartanDonut

hi

@Shadow hello

when talking about a vector, do you think of the container? is that the only kind of vector?

I keep wondering if vector is some kind of 3d thing

@Shadow it can be lots of thing

Vector is pretty much an array

its an ordered list of objects

It can be 2d. 3d. 4d. etc

Vector3 is usually a vector used in 3d space

it has a x y and z component

while Vector2 is 2d and only has x and y

Some languages use Vectors as dense lists. Actionscript3 does so.

ah! thank you

so its always the same type of thing (vector) but with more dimensions

@Shadow what are you looking at in particular

Depends on the context

I was trying to understand if when vector is said, what it refers to

What is the context?

I'm reading about vector in a c++ book

Ah. Ok. in that case its a dense list of objects of a specific type

That is more of a programming question rather than a gamedev question

most time people talk about vectors here, we are refering to spacial vectors

with xyz

oh, sorry!

It's alright. Stick around you might learn some interesting stuff here.

@SpartanDonut your image uploading script isnt working.

I'll try to just watch from the 'shadows' and learn :)

We talk about a bunch of stuff here. not only gamedev

Google I/O 2008 - Open Source Projects and Poisonous People

@MLM watching

@MLM pretty interesting and informative.

@Jon what's happening?

Made that for lunch today.

@AttackingHobo grilled cheese, I assume. What is the crust?

Full details: Multigrain bread lightly toasted in pan with butter . Mexican blend cheeses melted pan side down on one side. Gruyere and Swiss melted pan side down on the other side. Mexican cheese melted and crisped pan side down. American cheese in the center with cracked pepper and a small amount of sea salt.

Why would Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") == 0f && Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical") == 0f alternate between true and false each frame?

I imagine it might have something to do with whatever input devices you have plugged in. Also that's not how you check if a floating point value is close to zero ... (check for absolute value being smaller than some small value instead).

Thankfully, at least C# doesn't get stupid with negative zeros (though if that's Unity, I'd verify if it is true for their implementation of it as well) ...

@AttackingHobo im trying to make a sniper weapon... with a very fast bullet and a particle emiitter to leave the shot trail for a second or so like in common fps

but when the bullet goes off camera the particle system stops rendering all of the particles not just new ones

Just draw a line. :P

i guess that can work but the bullet can deflect off whatever it hits and no longer will be traveling on that path

@AttackingHobo did you update it with your own API key?

And what browser? I really only tested it in Chrome

I'm still using it to this day

@Almo I still argue that your "good" reasons are subjective especially considering your HotS review. You do have some points but I know some of your gripes are about unnecessary fluff like denying creeps, couriers, etc. which HotS simplifies things even further than LoL but LoL doesn't get the same hate from you. I'm fine with you drawing the line and saying LoL removed enough fluff for YOU to like the game more than DotA and that the simplifications in HotS kept things fun but lacked depth

I just think that with the analysis you've done on HotS you realize that you should change your view from DotA is bad to DotA is different in a way you don't like :P

Where as HotS is different in ways that you do like

If we are using LoL as the gold standard

:D

@SpartanDonut I am only saying that I have thought it out, not that it is not subjective. That it is not just a knee-jerk "it's different" reaction. :)

You don't choose your words so wisely when debating the topic though :P

That's because DotA 2 is bad. ;)

anyway gotta head to work. will talk later :)

haha later dood

high five

Yay!

Go you guy!

Huzzah!

morning all

THERE HE IS

que?

wutdidido

oh so I ran into a weird thing last night... apparently particle systems stop rendering all partciles ("even those on screen") when the particle system goes offscreen

uhhhh

Fascinating

im trying to acheive like a halo style sniper round trail effect

on a new fast moving projectile weapon im coding

and as soon as the bullet leaves camera view the particles go away

someone else showing the issue im having

Other than manipulating the system's position (and maybe size, or size of a parent or child object) I don't have a lot of ideas :(

Question for the site :D

yea

issue is my system goes far off camera quickly

ill post up today

lol yea didnt notice that i had it on mute

That's a sensitive microphone combined with loud PC fans

Wouldn't you normally just draw like a trace for fast projectiles, instead of using particles?

sup dudes

hey

broke my sales record yesterday

7 sales!

:D

:D

@Joe what's the scale of your particle system's transform?

might buy myself a mac mini early 2015

do you need special keyboard mouse to work with that?

no

@SpartanDonut its small but i played with scale made it 10x larger... but its still around 1.0f

suprising.

figured apple would have proprietary mouse and keyboard sets for 300$

@William'MindWorX'Mariager what do you mean by this?

i was looking as LineRenderer after your suggestion

@Jon hahaha no

they probably want you to use their touch mouse and bluetooth keyboard

but it's not necessary

i probably will only use it to publish

which is sad

@Joe less than 1.0f?

love it

Now you need a level that starts out during the day time, fades to sunset, and eventually night time :D

@SpartanDonut to start the bullet had a scale of 1/10th

that's pretty awesome

@Joe in general people seem to say they need the particle system to be greater than 1.0

And that parent objects scale it down

so if your bullet is .1 maybe your system needs to be 10?

I dunno

grasping at straws since I don't have your project :P

but you do pretty well when grasping at straws in general

I like to try and be helpful

if to at least give the person needing help more ideas

:)

@Joe Well, rather than using particles, just draw a few quads that look like a bullet trace.

@SpartanDonut lol im just looking to see if anyone ran into this before... i googled it last night and tried all the stuff that turned up scaling and what have you

@William'MindWorX'Mariager that makes sense just didnt want to have to add functionality to get the effect

BUT HAVE YOU TRIED 10?!?!?!

:P

but possible

touche! lol

you don't want to operate on an int as if it were a float

that will break

Yeah I don't know C++ but that sounds dirty

I'd probably just write a class that makes the transition to and from nice and clean

I think you're misunderstanding something somewhere

it's ok to pass ints and floats as values, not as pointers

you pass things as pointers when passing by value would do a large copy operation

or if something needs to be changed inside the function and the changes seen outside

why does my profiler in unity not show anything for memory under "Simple"

@Tyyppi_77 you hsould probably have whatever reads the sliders to make the colors do a simple cast: color.r = (int)redFloatValue

Why do you want to avoid getting data from the slider?

So write a class that hides that shit

GreenSlider->GetValue();

@Tyyppi_77 argh! you have an architecture problem

@Almo was just going to say something along those lines :D

just getting values from your sliders shouldn't be this complicated

@SpartanDonut they need to hurry up and open hots to more people. so we can play together

though there are still a lot of things they need to fix, like in replays, the chars don't animate. they slide around in T-pose.

@Almo I checked earlier this morning and realized I hadn't opted in xD

I've now remedied that issue

hahah

woops :)

@Joe use a trail renderer instead of particle renderer.

ooo interesting!

@Joe remove your fake particles using boxes and use the particle system for that

like for explosions and stuff

explosions. sparks. flames

@AttackingHobo those "fake particles" are causing "explosion damage"...

probably a poor implementation

Just use a sphere to cause explosion damage

and use particles for visuals, sphere collider for damage

Much more efficient

love it ok ill add it to the list, ty @AttackingHobo @SpartanDonut

@Joe you're welcome. I hope to see some nice improvements to your game. :D

@SpartanDonut I didn't have the api key before. whoops. I added it but still have issues

It says, Uploading, then undefined.

im coming close to the end of my laundry list of mechanics... and ive begun planning for actual game logic... and started thinking about art

Joe. Add tanks

Add limited fuel for air travel

add advanced movement mechanics

holy shit

lol wtf is that

Read it. They are being extorted.

who would send that shit

True Cyberpunks

if you threaten to contaminate someones food with mercury... isnt that like a death threat

quick test

i think you should color the numbers somehow

lol

yeah, the numbers are not done yet, heh

also that damn lightning bolt.. took me forever to figure out

lol

some of them are really hard

up until that point everything was straight forward.. then it was like "OH ITS ON"

:)

@AttackingHobo I see my example isn't terribly clear

xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Client-ID [replace this - keep Client-ID]');

xhr.setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'Client-ID abcdefg1234768990');

If you did it like that and still have problems.... ummm

undefined

Can you send me your script?

And are you in chrome?

hastebin.com/omajalimuw.coffee

edited api key in the paste

In Chrome.

if slider <= sliderMax

@AttackingHobo did you allow anonymous usage when you created the app?

yes

My redirect URL is imgur.com

That's the last setting I can think of

https

yay

:D

That's looking cool

@Jon I have been playing Picross regularly. Finished 15x15 #60 (don't want to spoil) which used all of the special tricks I know.

3 minute sculpt

@MLM good to hear :D

Will color picross be a free add on or a new game?

new game

nice

@SpartanDonut I had to make the url imgur.com instead of imgur.com

good to know

Didn't exactly turn out how I wanted. Was trying to make a background for rad stacking

i like it

should work as a phone or desktop background

I want the depth of the blocks to be animated based on where I touch though :P

Hello

hi

Is anyone familiar with Voxel Engines?

Or Chunk Based generation in general?

I have a small problem with threaded generation

gamedev.net/topic/…

When generating chunks on a thread

(Because it lags too much)

It creates random crashes / glitches

Why not?

Hm, Because. Someone told me he used unordered_map on a multithreaded voxel engine.

I tried vector too BTW.

Ah okay, Like that

What is thread safe?

Only thing it does is add and remove chunks

In one class.

I only have one thread writing to it, the other one just reads (I run at max 2 threads)

Oh, like that

Doesn't mutex.lock() help?

The points where I write and read from the map

@ADGDeveloping work on multiple chunks at the same time

I'm back

Uhm

You wanted code?

pastebin.com/sLBQeCij

And

Updated the thread

And

I am new to threading :P

:P

Do those have to share the same mutex???

And

Let me look

t-free.deviantart.com/art/CrossCode-Shizuka-Special-499801920

Hmm

I usually don't care for those type of games but that animation sequence is awesome!

it is

^

oww

haha, that was the second guy

lolol

legitimate lols over here

You know they mean business because they also followed Justin Bieber

@JoshPetrie not enough abreviations