Game Development

user4704

12:00 AM

Use a hierarchy, or at least a collection of collision volumes.

Oliver Schöning

So you think it would be ok to make it more complex. as long as I don't have to much going on you mean?

user4704

12:35 AM

Hierarchical collision volumes are extremely common.

hasherr

1:02 AM

@AlexM. #thicke?

As in, Robin Thicke?

Icy Defiance

1:14 AM

@hasherr not that I'm aware of. /r/learnmath or /r/math are probably your best shots. worst that'll happen is they direct you to a better subreddit that I don't know of.

or there's a math SE site

hasherr

There's a VERY small subreddit, only ~3k people called /r/AskPhysics

I might post there :P

I'll wait until tomorrow at hot time though

Aidan Mueller

2:21 AM

@JoshPetrie When should you use headings in answers? I feel like I am drawing attention to myself.

user4704

I never do.

user4704

It's up to you.

Aidan Mueller

2:41 AM

i just realised that most of my edits are gramer edits

BlueBug

my edits are mostly about nothing really; doesn't even improve grammar.

Aidan Mueller

@BlueBug i was just beeng ironic

BlueBug

I was being sincere sob well I am trying to improve the quality of my contribution, but it's a bit tough to find questions that I can provide a concrete answer.

hasherr

I feel the same way, but it's more due to my lack of experience

I try desperately to contribute to the site through legitimate means with good answers, but it's like every 1/1000 questions have content that I can fully provide for.

Aidan Mueller

@BlueBug You wanna know a little secret? Click on questions that don't start with a capital letter. It doesn't always work, because sometimes there are only a few mistakes. But it seems to work about 65% of the time.

@hasherr There are many contributions that can be made. You can flag posts, edit posts, in addition to answering.

hasherr

2:50 AM

Whoa, did the ping sound change?

@AidanMueller I never feel like i have the authority to do that :(

Aidan Mueller

I don't know. My sound is off.

@hasherr Do what?

hasherr

Flag/edit

Aidan Mueller

@hasherr Why not?

hasherr

Idk

I normally feel like because I'm so inexperienced I don't have the authority to moderate at all.

If somebody tried to argue against me because I flagged them, I don't think I'd be able to hold up.

Aidan Mueller

@hasherr It's anonymous though.

Raven Dreamer

2:53 AM

After struggling with 3dsMax for an hour

hasherr

O_O MODD

Raven Dreamer

I have officially decided that I have too much OCD to ever be a 3d modeler.

hasherr

Did somebody get a flag?

Raven Dreamer

I'm a mod for Arqade, not GameDev.

hasherr

Oh

Raven Dreamer

2:53 AM

I come in here on my own, because I develop games. :P

hasherr

:) What kind of games do you make?

Aidan Mueller

@hasherr I used to not flag either, but it's pretty obvious that these kind of questions are off topic:

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Q: Which game development software is it?

This question may be asked on wrong place but it may be the best place to ask it !!! I recently watched a video of a company which develops mobile games. here is the screen shot of a software/studio shown in video. can any one tell me which game dev studio it may be?

engine

Raven Dreamer

@hasherr Currently... more of a helper program for folks running D&D sessions and the like.

@hasherr reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/1yuz40/…

hasherr

Mwaha, now i have your reddit username

Raven Dreamer

Well, yeah, I kinda figured that was a given, considering I've posted that link in SE chat before.

hasherr

2:56 AM

That's pretty cool

I'm just finishing up my first game that I'm actually going to release

Which is nice :D

Raven Dreamer

Congrats!

hasherr

:)

Sucks though because I can't release it for at least a bit over a week :(

Aidan Mueller

I need to make a game so that I can pay off a planned SCUBA diving trip.

hasherr

lol

Aidan Mueller

What?

hasherr

3:01 AM

Somebody sent me a message on Fiverr asking if I could do an assignment for them.

Aidan Mueller

Didn't you mention that earlier?

hasherr

I had to turn it down because I'm going out of town this weekend and I won't have time, but I sent him a message back and he thanked me for being fast response.

Also the assignment seemed pretty difficult

You had to use a grid to make a fake map of the London underground

And then write programs to find the distances between different streets and things like that

Aidan Mueller

4:40 AM

I was about to post an answer, and it wanted me to verify that I am a human. But it came up with this incredibly creepy image:

BlueBug

4:54 AM

what is that... I like the shader effect of her left arm. It's very reflective; reflecting color of things around it, I suppose. very pretty.

user92578

6:48 AM

I'm trying to create a system where I can easily add shaders(effects) to objects/meshes. Is it possible to stack shaders?

user4704

Not without building such a thing yourself.

user4704

As far as the GPU is concerned there is one shader of each type active at a time.

user4704

You can do things like write your shaders to utilize additive blending, or combine all the shaders you want to "stack" as a preprocess step before compiling the real shader, etc

Ali.S

7:33 AM

@AidanMueller seems like 3dsmax to me

though it's certainly off topic

user92578

7:44 AM

Turns out that I can't draw a MiniGun

user92578

I probably should've been more interested in Guns as a kid...

user92578

Why do I capitalize random Words?

MickLH

Because you're schizophrenic

Leggy7

sonds reasonable

user92578

7:47 AM

Yeah...

user92578

Should probably Call my Doctor???

Leggy7

the same reason because I miss some character sometime

user92578

"I was told in the internetz that I am schizophrenic"

user92578

"What now, doc?"

Leggy7

"you got unoperable lung cancer" <-- I bet this answer would erase any possible smile on your face

:|

I'm so horrible! especially early in the morning

user92578

7:51 AM

...

Lasse

That would actually get me an excuse to get all the money from my bank account and go somewhere

Leggy7

hoping that you got more than I have :)

user92578

I'm off for now, but I think I'll come later again.... cya

Leggy7

bye

Leggy7

8:20 AM

anyone experienced in blending terrain (procedurally generated) in unity?

Martin Sojka

8:58 AM

Half-arsed guessing: You're probably generating a 2D height field (if not, ignore me) and from that create or move around vertices of a plane (2D array of quadrants, split into two angles each). You also have some kind of beginning and end point for the blending, and can split that into 1D blends (one in the X and one in the Y direction for a Z-up system). In this case, I'd suggest using a cubic Hermite spline.

You can create a new terrain (patch) by using the spline's value, and you can make sure it blends smoothly by using the height and slope values of the input terrains as the parameters of the spline.

It's also quick enough that you can implement that in the vertex shader if you desire.

Leggy7

hmm, actually I'm generating terrain with perlin noise, not from an height field

Martin Sojka

Perlin noise generates a height field (well, if you constrict it to 2D, the noise function itself works in any number of dimensions).

Leggy7

yay, but I'm using it in 3d

Martin Sojka

As I wrote: If you're not using a 2D height field, but a 3D one (so your terrain generator outputs caves, overhangs, floating islands and so on), ignore me. :)

Not that the Hermite interpolation wouldn't work in there, but I simply didn't try to make it work so it might be a waste of time.

Leggy7

thank you. I just wanted to give some feedback for having read what you wrote :)

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