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PearsonArtPhoto

12:21 AM

Will try streaming again, should be fun.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

12:44 AM

Cuphead was released on PC!

PearsonArtPhoto

12:57 AM

Playing around with giving the ocean some color.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Do you intend to have it reflected in the minimap?

PearsonArtPhoto

It should be, but I guess I wasn't thinking it would do that.

Do you think that's not a good idea, I take it?

Also, I will be changing the lake colors.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Oh are you talking about these paler blue spots?

PearsonArtPhoto

Yeah.

I probably should tweak the threshold a bit, but...

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Oh, they're fine on the main map but I find them distracting on the minimap.

PearsonArtPhoto

1:07 AM

Yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to re-write how I do the minimap in a number of ways.

And the color too.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

At first I was talking about the different shades of blue for the main sea. But this is fine on the minimap.

PearsonArtPhoto

I want to put all of that information in to a config file. And I think I'll start doing that soon.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

You want to tweak from a text file instead of using Unity's editor?

PearsonArtPhoto

1:26 AM

Right now I have the colors in source code.

I want to have that moved to a config file of some kind.

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Free Internet Points

11:23 AM

Q: Reduce texture switches in UI

I'm working on game which uses LibGDX's Stage2d for GUI. All textures for UI are packed into one texture atlas. Fonts (BitmapFont) are generated in runtime by gdx-freetype for different locales and font sizes (at least 6 locales and 4 font sizes for each locale) and then placed into separate t...