Game Development

oh.. yeah i think that is hardcoded into the unity api or something

but when I build the plugin, how does it know UnityPlayer even exists?

when you build for android, it spits out a bunch of java classes

maybe it links it

9:19 PM

but I have to build the java plugin seperately, then dump it into the unity project

in a plugins folder

you put .jar files into the untiy plugins/android folder

yeah unity knows about it

so how do I make the .jar of my plugin if it references UnityPlayer

like some "extern" type definition or something?

hmmm

you mean your plugin is using UnityPlayer?

9:21 PM

yeah, I want in my plugin to call UnityPlayer.UnitySendMessage

oh... in that case I have no idea.

the way the plugin does that I posted code from

My understanding was that sendmessage was to communicate with the plugin code

dafaq

Anyone ever had this happen?

using UnityEngine;
public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour {

    void Start () {
        AndroidJNIHelper.debug = true;
        using (AndroidJavaClass jc = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer")) {
            jc.CallStatic("UnitySendMessage", "Main Camera", "JavaMessage", "whoowhoo");
        }
    }

    void JavaMessage(string message) {
        Debug.Log("message from java: " + message);
    }
}

there's unity's example

it calls the java function UnitySendMessage, which then in turn calls JavaMessage in the C#

9:23 PM

hmmm

that is kinda reverse as to what you would use a plugin for though??

when i use plugins, it is to interface with android funtcions that unity can't do

the plugin will be a GCMReceiver, and when it gets a push notification, it will UnityPlayer.UnitySendMessage to send the incoming data from the notification into unity

ah

that's how the plugin I found for this does it. But I have to avoid looking too closly at the plugin, or I'll copy it, then there are licensing issues.

that's why I'm spending all this time reinventing the wheel :(

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK

FUCK

FLAGGED

just kidding :)

9:25 PM

:)

:D

omfg this is aweful

just like your spelling

I just did a git checkout --orphan gh-pages and wrecked everything

man

9:26 PM

all of my pathfinding stuff is gone

4 days of work

I think if you add it as a Unity plugin, it will automatically be linked to those Unity Player libs

I'm stickin with P4 until someone forces me to use Git.

but I don't know how you would write it in , say Eclipse

I am an idiot

that's the problem i'm having: how to write the plugin in the first place

9:27 PM

you'd almost have to guess

I'll just reread the docs

They're just gone. Fuck

I might have missed something

well keep me posted

@Almo prepares the pointy sticks

9:27 PM

I'm interested in knowing

ok

sorry to hear it pip :(

:(

I apparently haven't been including that folder in any commits.... I have no old copies of it even

hmmm

so all your assets are deleted?

i had my assets wiped out once when I first started with unity...

still no idea what or how

Those scripts, yeah

git checkout --orphan doesn't delete untracked files?

9:28 PM

the other stuff looks fine

@KevinvanderVelden I checked out, then deleted all, then checked out to master :/

that did it

Oh

Yeah, that does kinda break all the safeguards

yep

hacker.

Well... I have a functioning build but no code to make it work in the editor

uh

can you make a web build?

9:30 PM

Nope

y

Code is gone

welcone to unity

Missing whole pathfinding folder

Somehow I think it should be harder to delete your code

9:31 PM

@Almo Yes

like in P4 you need to do an "obliterate" command, which is something you're advised never to do

yeah, doedsn't make sense here

It was never part of the repo (considered "untracked")

alright, gotta head out :/

ooooh

cya all

9:32 PM

ouvch.

he's gonna go cry himself to sleep

So get this... now when i try to debug any project in unity, it crashes visual studio

i'm forced to use monodevelop again, lol

WHYYYYYYYY

wtf happened

got latest unityvs version?

yeah

reimport unityvs into unity project?

it happens with brand new projects

vs2013 community

hmm

9:36 PM

i'll have to try removing it all and re-installing i guess

yeah

better try that than be stuck with MD

seriously.

:( grrr i hate waiting

wish amazon would hurry up with those dam drones already

Genius dog climbs fence - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE-STYLE

►

@Wardy Would you really trust a drone to carry your TV?

9:52 PM

@Hjorthenify if it turns up broken i just send it back

but sure why not

probably more than I would trust the likes of yodel round here

@Wardy and if the drone accidentely drops it on someone? :P

amazon are liable for that not me

I just get a free replacement

its not mine till i sign for it on delivery

@Wardy True... What a sight it would be though haha

I just got an email from Twitch saying that

there may have been unauthorized access to some of your Twitch user account information, including possibly your Twitch username and associated email address, your password, [and more].

login > change password

9:53 PM

I this a general thing or me specifically?

just you, change pass

twitch got hacked a few months back

Yeah they reset the password and terminated possible connections with other services for me.

do you think alexander graham bell would be all like, yeah internet woo

@Jon no, general thing

9:56 PM

Maybe a Dutch thing?

in The Bridge, 2 hours ago, by Tim Stone

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Tweeted by TwitchSupport on March 23, 2015 at 7:48 PM

Naah

Oh nvm

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i had the client from hell

wanted a website, that did literally everything, and wanted it for less than 500$

oh so you wanted to tell me that you had a 500 dollar cap after this boring 20 minute meeting

buhhh-fucken-eyyyyy

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something wrong here.

madeon.fr/adventuremachine/?t=2,10,15,19,22

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The Adventures of Square - Trailer

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oh man...

10:18 PM

Looks fun actually

@Jon Youtube thought I wanted to watch this video next: youtube.com/watch?v=ttei3eau21Q

MLM

Anybody know how to find your Unity Asset store publisher ID if you don't have any packages released? I want to see my profile page like this one is 743

Nvm found it by just by "brute force". Since it is just a incrementing number, I just looked for the latest.

anyone got any ideas why this won't work ...

hastebin.com/muxicogono.cs

if I put a breakpoint in the task code I never seem to get to it for some reason

this used to work

I did something to break it

10:36 PM

Yay work is over

nice

@Jon I want to print this so I can put it on a wall next to my desk

at work

10:53 PM

@Jon I tried the square game. It's alright, but fucks with your brain when looking down :D

@Wardy code looks right to me, but...why are you remaking .NET's Task type?

its my existing unity code

oh right, Task is .NET 4+

i deliberately followed the .Net model for when unity finally gets a bloody clue

for some reason though this isn't working

what does your Task class provide that docs.unity3d.com/462/Documentation/ScriptReference/… doesn't?

11:02 PM

oh, @Wardy, change _expr() to _expr.Invoke()

example: dotnetperls.com/func

UnityEvent has even inspector support, it's fun fun

Events are not tasks

actually, both invoke() and just () should work...odd

@Lasse this is a threaded work queue item

ah

well, unity does not like threads either

it needs a lot of duplicated types that are not unity dependent

11:04 PM

hastebin.com/uzesimazom.coffee

hastebin.com/ewutasokuv.cs

thats basically m full implementation

i call it like this ....

Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { some code });

its basically designedto mimic the bits I want from .Net 4 without going all the way

up until yesterday it worked fine

now for some reason execute in the task class just hangs

no idea why

damn it I always forget I have to get up an hour earlier nowdays

later ->

later @Lasse

@IcyDefiance btw i have tried both of those

ok now im really confused

in one scene it works and the other it dont

oh well there you go. it's a unity problem. evil unity.

dammit time to file a bug report with unity

AGAIN!

lol I was joking. I actually have no idea. might be some other problem.

11:18 PM

I can't see why the same code works in 1 scene and not in the other

although the other is using my planet code this scene uses my terrain code

maybe its something to do with the terrain code

so...C++ can't do type introspection... meaning if I have a Mesh<T>, where T is the vertex type, that vertex type needs to "register" its members with Mesh somehow so a shader can be generated for it...

seems redundant. I don't like it.

@IcyDefiance what?

I was looking to go down this route with c# and SharpDX

@IcyDefiance if you're saying what I think you are, it can

the problem is that you basically need to dynamically define the types in the shader code on the fly

that said don't all shader calls at that level basically involve defining a chunk of code compiling and pushing to the gpu

at runtime

11:21 PM

doesn't need to be on the fly in C++. it can be at compile time. that's how templates work anyway, which has some pretty awesome implications. I just want it to be automatic with any struct that someone using my framework might create.

forcing inheritance of a Vertex type is an option though

@IcyDefiance elaborate on what you're trying to do here

okay, so someone using my framework makes a struct VertexP3 { Vec3 Position; }

then he says Mesh<VertexP3> mesh; or however the heck you instantiate a templated class in C++

how can the Mesh class know what members VertexP3 has?

don't need the names of the members, only their types and order

does it need to know ?

presumably you would have to implement a method or 2 in the mesh class

like Push()

it does need to know, because the shader needs to mirror the members of that struct. I could force the user to create that shader, but I don't want to.

Push would iterate your Vertices<T> and build a buffer on the gpu

11:26 PM

@IcyDefiance that should work as is, unless I'm misunderstanding?

you can use CRTP if you want a compile time interface of sorts

you're basically now in the realms of dynamically writing shader code too

I need the Mesh class to generate a string with something like "in (location=0) vec3 member1;"

that's where I backed out

if the vertex struct is different, I need different "in" statements

yeah, I'll be dynamically writing shader code, at least as best as I can

@IcyDefiance const static member?

11:28 PM

I did similar to unity

but went for something like a Mesh<T> then a Material<T>

the other option is to just predefine a set of shaders for "standard" vertex formats, and let the user choose one of those. if none of them work because the vertex format is crazy, then the user will be forced to write his own.

@IcyDefiance LoL?

So when using materials on a mesh you had to have a material that was compatible with the vertex type

not tonight, Almo, I'm inspired to actually get some work done for once

@IcyDefiance I'm still struggling to see what the problem is; just define the template as is

11:29 PM

ok no rpoblem :)

good luck with it!

it saved you having to try and figure out the code

@OMGtechy the problem is generating a shader inside the Mesh class based on the members of the template parameter

making sense @IcyDefiance

@IcyDefiance simple code snippet example?

uhh I can try

11:31 PM

@IcyDefiance hastebin.com/ijaqiwetus.avrasm

its c# and DX based but the idea i guess is the same

struct A
{
static void foo() { /* ... */ }
};

struct B
{
static void foo() { /* ... */ }
};

template <typename T>
struct M
{
void doFoo() { T::foo(); }
};

use fixed font man

wtf

:)

omgbbq

I am trying to xD

@OMGtechy now make struct M generate a shader, and make the shader contain the same members that T contains, whatever T ends up being.

shader is a string

11:34 PM

@SpartanDonut ranked LoL duo?

sure

cool

@IcyDefiance hastebin.com/soticiyita.avrasm

[pingspams omg]

one of my materials

hopefully theres enough sample code to get you going

11:35 PM

@IcyDefiance oh hey didn't see you there

@IcyDefiance sup dood?

@IcyDefiance what's pingspam?

I'm going to bed and didn't want to leave you totally stuck sry about the pings dude

struct A
{
	static void foo() { /* ... */ }
};

struct B
{
	static void foo() { /* ... */ }
};

template <typename T>
struct M
{
	void doFoo() { T::foo(); }
};

there we go

YAY format

Turns out his actual code had no formatting so he needed to fix that first

11:36 PM

lol

night all

:(

More like I copied it from ideone.com which tried to do its own formatting and failed :P

Ya ok. We believe you ;)

xD

@IcyDefiance so you want to generate types at runtime or compile time?

You have to imagine that as an IRL very exaggerate wink

Like someone really putting their head into it

I did, don't worry ;)

more like ;D

11:38 PM

haha yeah

@OMGtechy gist.github.com/IcyDefiance/5272e51499ace31aad19

whether this happens at runtime or compile doesn't matter. compile time is probably better, but it won't be happening every frame so a slight speed loss for doing it at runtime won't hurt anything.

I don't know if "template <struct T>" is valid either. Take this all as pseudocode, lol.

It isn't, but I get what you mean :P

AFAIK

pretty sure it's just class and typename that are allowed

ah okay

I prefer to use typename because...well...it's the name of a type

As Far As I Keyboard

11:42 PM

How far is that really?

Have you keyboarded coast to coast before?

@IcyDefiance will it only ever be some combination of a known set of members?

@SpartanDonut 42

42 keyboards? holy shit

@OMGtechy uhh, regarding the intent of that question instead of the technical details, the answer is yes

@IcyDefiance in other words, all possible member names / types are known?

Vertex might contain any type, and that type might contain any other type, but then that type would contain Vectors or floats or whatever. if you dig deep enough you'll get just a known set of members.

so yeah, I could list them all out in an enum or something

11:46 PM

hmm, gimme a min to type it out

SFINAE and type_traits are your friend here, although frankly you might want a different solution because it isn't going to be pretty

actually, you could define everything as a sequence of either floats, doubles, ints, or longs. a Vector3 would be a sequence of 3 floats.

float would be a sequence of 1 float

the Vertex class in my gist would be 3 floats, 3 floats, 2 floats

if you make them POD types you could just pass a byte array and reinterpret cast

this is going to take a while to type out aha

yeah POD types are best. translating pointers or anything complicated like that into a shader would be painful.

@IcyDefiance to save me typing all this out, do you know what SFINAE and type traits are?

nope, but I'll figure it out. my googlefu is pretty good.