Game Development

1:06 AM

Am I alone here or does anyone else like to code with TV in the background? Gun to my head I can do without but I prefer it.

1:50 AM

I don't do TV pretty much ever

though I listen to music through my nice headphones all of the time

I don't know why but background noise (not music for me because I get caught up in my songs lol) has always helped me work.

2:18 AM

@Almo Wake up.

League?

I started playing LoL last week

A full week and I still don't know how to play as adc

I'm not that good at ADC either. I mainly play top, mid, or support.

I suck at jungle and adc.

Dota <3

2:38 AM

Never got into it.

3:14 AM

DotA is even less noob friendly

The learning curve is steep and there's no real place to practice

I just wish that newbies could get divided from the average joes

@DH. i can help with ADC if you want. that's my main

Well, thanks for the offer, but I don't think that would be possible

I mean, from here where I live, connecting to the NA server will give me a high ping :P

well you can ask me general questions about it

4:21 AM

Well I simply don't kill and die too fast, so I don't know a good build as adc

user92578

9:19 AM

I made a menu song: soundcloud.com/olli-samuli-lehmus/gunhero-menu-theme/s-7LY2p

user92578

Probably not my best one but I think it's good enough for a menu background

@Tyyppi_77 you sure are one man army

are you using SDL_AUDIO for playing audio too?

user92578

9:42 AM

Yeah, I use SDL_Mixer. All though the audio quality isn't very great, but that might just be me missconfiguring the device.

Kevin van der Velden

10:20 AM

@DH. I mean, that's what matchmaking is supposed to do =p

user92578

Plus there's the "Least played" matchmaking where you can only pick heroes you haven't played a lot

@Tyyppi_77 have you ever thought about switching to opengl for graphics? i mean instead of SDL stuff, writing your own shaders on such

user92578

Yeah I have, I just don't think it's worth it ATM

just lost a game with ck

@Tyyppi_77 IMO lots of visual effects will become easier, when you have access to shaders

user92578

I know, but I'm so late into development

user92578

10:24 AM

It would take me a while to get everything back to where I am right now

let me see... when are you planning to publish the game?

user92578

Not sure, hopefully by the end of this year

ok... that makes sense then...

i had a feeling you were more than a year away from publish date

user92578

Yeah, that might also happen

11:54 AM

Finally finished the config file, for now!

Next up to bat, figuring out bitmasking...

user92578

nice!

user92578

can't wait to see your bitmasking results

Yeah, I'm still trying to decide the best way to go about it.

Right now as I'm using a mesh, it's a bit tricky to do... I've got a few thoughts, but I'm going to ponder on them a bit more before I go too far.

user92578

12:28 PM

wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=MeshSmoother

user92578

Not sure if that applies, just something I found

12:54 PM

for some reason my windows decided that it had restart it's UI

result: after lots of slow motion working, it's responsive again :|

don't even know what happened

That just smooths the vertices, so no, it wouldn't work.

I think I'm starting to get an idea of how to do it, however.

user92578

Oh, okay, nice!

The problem I'm seeing, however, is that I'm going to have to basically stitch together one large texture...

Well, I guess I better get started then... Sigh.

user92578

1:10 PM

My awesomely productive week's weekly recap! gunhero.surge.sh/#WeeklyUpdate17

1:20 PM

This is going to be a pain I think...

I think I'm going to go with the full 8 bit bitmasking, which means I've got to create 256 images.

user92578

No, you can do some hacked but clever masking to cut that down to 48

I've decided how I'm going to do it is have 3 colors per biome.

Yeah, I'm sure I can figure that out.

@PearsonArtPhoto why does having curved sprite would not work with your architecture?

The 3 colors will be a boundary color, primary color, and accent color.

user92578

Like I mask with the following values instead of just powers of two:

user92578

1:22 PM

const unsigned int tileBitMaskValues[8] = { 16, 32, 64, 128, 145, 50, 100, 200 };

I am not using sprites right now, that's why.

user92578

Then those result in 48 unique values that cover all the tiles

imho sprites would give you more versatility while choosing you land aspect. why wouldn't you use them?

That's what I've decided actually...

I started by playing with a height based mesh.

I've got a few ideas still, I might be able to make it work.

1:50 PM

Going to seperate levels into worlds

24 levels per world... 7 worlds

That's a good idea.

ideally i'd have a seperate theme for each zone

Cut the Rope introduces a new item each world, and that item is featured in most of the levels in the world.

Okay, I think it's time to attempt my second shader...

Or I could give up the idea of having a mesh. Hmmm...

Yeah, add/use a new feature each world

2:09 PM

I wish people had a desire to be correct that matched their desire to teach others. Too bad being correct doesn't validate the ego the same way being praised regardless of being right or wrong does.

2:43 PM

i.imgur.com/ImHFvWu.gifv

yikes.

user92578

> so many genetics

user92578

kek

how did she get in there?

word on the street is she had been living off store samples for 2 years

2:59 PM

@DH. for builds, check your champ on champion.gg

it does statistical analysis of most winning builds for plat-rated games and up

wtf

those builds may not always be the best for your situation, but they're a good starting point

I was watching a video, and EA is releasing FIFA 1?

FIFA1?

seriously

also shows most winning and most common runes and masteries

Battlefield 1... Doom 1.. Fifa1

wtf is going on

3:00 PM

it's like XBOX ONE

at work people still say to me "it's a game on xbox one" and I think they mean the first xbox

morons (MS)

Wii U One

Kevin van der Velden

@Almo see, this is why you should just call it xbone

heh

3:29 PM

anyways, you need to smarten up peole

wake up and smell the goddamn sunshine

Someone suggested I add a "slow down time " mechanic

and flashing hints when you fail multiple times

user92578

lol slow down so you can hit those quicktime events

the rest of his comments were pretty good

So I think I've got a reasonable compromise for player's convenience vs security

When you create an account, the program tells you to plug in a blank flash drive (and it will be erased), a backup of the account is stored there, afterwards the user is instructed to lock the flash drive in a safe.

Forgot password? Get the drive out of the safe.

Account hacked? Get the drive out of the safe. (After securing your machine.)

Basically any action that should require "admin" privilege, like deactivating your account? Hit the safe.

I'm afraid some people will still be lazy and blow it off, but I don't think I can make it any easier without compromising security for everyone.

4:32 PM

@Jon um no :)

5:25 PM

7 worlds

Collect the 7 orbs to unlock the GORB

user92578

sounds good

It's about brushing your teeth

5:40 PM

@KevinvanderVelden Well, the problem is that when you play unranked games there's little matchmaking in the process

@Jon This only would help if someone couldn't understand the mechanic, but you made tutorial levels, no need for that

6:00 PM

Watched my mom play and I can do better

Someone with C++ metaprogrammingskillz here?

I have gas does that help?

I don't think so

But glad you at least answered me, Lounge<C++> ignores me :(

user92578

Not me, I have one templated class in the whole GunHero codebase

user92578

Lounge sucks, don't go there

6:08 PM

They were mostly mean to me, that's why I'm rarely in there now

Well you look like a Harry Potter bubbles, people are gonna pick on you

@Tyyppi_77 Well, maybe you got another idea to get this to compile? coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/6ab60b497ae5be5d

@Jon I don't care about that one, I do that too lol

I look like a 007 agent so I get picked on a lot too

user92578

I have no fucking clue what any of that does

But that's much cooler tho

@Tyyppi_77 okay

The main thing I want to archieve is to check a predicate for two different (type lists/variadic templates)

6:11 PM

Just kidding I look like a retired gamer

still cooler than Harry

I dunno about that

You can talk that snake language

6:27 PM

SSssSssno

user92578

haha

@Jon Does Unity have any built in way to revert a game object to it's prefab state? Or will I have to come up with a manual solution?

I see there is PrefabUtility.ResetToPrefabState but that doesn't look like it's meant to be used at runtime.

Dunno

How do you handle your levels? I assume each one is a scene.

6:43 PM

Sounds tedious

level design on games like that is tedious

he did good job though. there's plenty of variety in GORB

level 56 is hard :)

Well I'm talking more about level management here. I mean for a game like Jon's having each level be a separate scene makes the most sense to me.

I'm looking for a way to revert objects to their prefab state as part of a check point system.

true

If there isn't a built-in way I could just destroy and instantiate.

user92578

7:03 PM

user92578

Instead of just spawing some white particles around the player when morale points are received, they now spawn at the enemy killed and then pull towards the player

looks good!

ya it is

What do morale points do? Some type of experience?

It seems that the particles are going for the feet

Better put an offset to go the body or head

user92578

They are destroyed when they touch the player

user92578

7:07 PM

@Sie Yeah, kinda, you get morale points for doing what you're supposed to do (killing enemies and releasing prisoners), and enough morale points award you a powerup (explosive bullets currently)

@Tyyppi_77 Make them glow, something like in slither.io but less strong? Think you get the idea :)

user92578

I don't think I have the resolution for that

7:23 PM

okay

7:38 PM

oh someone really did reply with a working solution. I don't know what the template keyword after :: is for, but... okay, I guess

coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/f9763c57f9180334

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6

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@Tyyppi_77 yeah looks good

7:59 PM

guys, if I want to instantiate a prefab like a drop item in 2d top down game and I want to give some jump-off effect how should I proceed? the ortographic camera I think would not sense the z position to elarge the item scale properly

should I build an animation ad hoc for the purpose?

8:11 PM

I think I'll try to go building an animation that takesthe sprite adjust its scale

then I can control rotation and scattering via script

Would do that, too

user92578

Woot, apparently Sony Vegas has a no-limit 30 day trial period that's separate for each product, so looks like I've got 90 of free Sony Vegas for my GL trailer needs

Is it possible to fucking zoom in and out mechanim view? this shit will drive me crazy

user92578

apparently not

8:30 PM

gz tyyppi, hopefully you'll need less than 90 days to get your awesome trailer

user92578

gz?

user92578

but yeah I will need an awesome trailer, and I really hope I have an awesome enough game to make it and get lit

user92578

I still need a recording software

user92578

OBS sucks

kazam, fraps, write it yourself

user92578

8:39 PM

This is a great page on trailer making if anyone is interested: kertgartner.com/…

user92578

fraps costs money

kazam doesn't

user92578

is the quality great?

But I'm not sure if it's available on Windows as well

Never had any problem with it

I already used one provided by Razer

Trying not to be a fanboy, but it were good for me

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5

8:42 PM

vokoscreen is another one

But I had slight sound problems with it

Blue Bug

10:42 PM

NSFW

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@Sie yep each level is a scene

Assets used everywhere... So if I update the win screen all scenes get the updated asset

I have had issues where asset copies reverted back to their default values when I updated the source asset

messed up levels on two occasions -- nothing too major though

11:34 PM

people are asses

sorry playin some duelyst, and my opponent instead of surrendering just disconnected making me wait for hte timeout

Anonymous - Google manipulating Hillary Clinton search results

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I find that very interesting

@NaCl ?

@NaCl lel. Lounge is too raunchy even for my taste

Solved already

4 hours ago, by NaCl

http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/f9763c57f9180334

no clue what the ::template does, but well

Well I had a huge user-acceptance breakthrough today

Blue Bug

@Pip blablabla too much boring intro to get into the real details. I gave up within first 10 seconds.

11:46 PM

:P

Mostly, people are willing to create an account now :D

@MickLH great job on the gorb music

Basically Google is extremely biased towards Clinton-positive autocomplete results

nice!

They now don't reflect what people are searching for according to Google's own public data

11:47 PM

@Almo I'm trying man, no need to guilt trip me!

maybe people who search for clinton only click on the positive ones, giving google an impression that they are more important

@MickLH hahaha

don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

@Almo I doubt the soccer moms voting for her would be smart enough to manipulate Google to do that.

they're not "manipulating" google

they're clicking what interests them

I'd need some proof of people at google actually bothering to manipulate this

not just suspicious results

Ya. I would think Google would be more sneaky if they were going to do it.

hey mick you know anything about Funk?

11:50 PM

I know of some funky older-ish music that is called Funk?

well

there's a particular strain of Funk that I like, and I don't know how to find more of it

You might have to share links because I have trouble finding the specific types of Funk that catch my ear :P

I'm looking for a link now, but they seem to have taken it down

ok gonna email you a link

it's instrumental, and has a certain kind of groove to it. I think you'll know what I mean.

this is 1969 before Kool and the Gang sold out.

Oh crap I haven't unpacked my audio stuff yet

had this been recorded 10 years later, the bassline would have sounded wimpy and lifeless, even if it had the same notes. It's played with more life.

anyway, I would love to find an artist that makes this kind of stuff.

gotta go make dinner

talk later :)