You can only guess and hope the speed matches what you intend to. Those are simple DC motors, not steppers, so there's no speed control.

I assume it's like making music. A guy sits on a chair with a PS4 controller in his hands and uses a tool to create the rumble

Then he runs it, tests it on the controller, tweaks it, test it again and repeat

Or he uses one of those vibration equations

I'm pretty sure there are stuff like "given a ball with a certain weight rolling on a wood plank

What's the amount of vibration it generates?"

I was able to gather this much

The patent was probably the best source

I don't think sonic accuracy is necessarily the goal. Just that audio pipelines are useful for specifying / visualizing / blending intensity over time, so in some cases they can be repurposed to help author rumble. It's not expected to echo an audio track exactly, just to be a tool a designer can productively use to change the rumble from "this" feel to "that" feel.

reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/71agw2/…

@Wally Is that spam?

Is it? I just posted a reddit post requesting to convert Mario C# code to psuedo code so that every one can use it

I don't know if that's considered spam here

I thought it might also be useful for others since many people are interested in Mario speeds and other mechanics of Mario

@Wally Well that seems to be your first post here (at least first in a while). We're not used to see your face here and you only post a link. No introduction, no text, nothing, just a link. That's not a good first impression :P

@Tyyppi_77 I changed the request to comment the code

No, lol. It's by the guy who made SuperCharacterController. Ryan ross

If I could understand it I'd comment it myself

I want to make a Opensource version of Mario in Unreal Engine using blueprint

archive.org/details/SuperMario64HDUnityProject

Nintendo took it down and some one made a Mirror

pastebin.com/yEbmMbsZ

Just one function

Run_SuperUpdate()

Do you mean that's a lot or less. lol

My sarcasm detector was confused. lol

I added the comments in the function. I don't even know if the comments are right

The function was completely uncommented

Will try. Can you tell me what you mean by splitting into smaller methods? Do you mean convert it into functions and call the functions?

Cool. I got it right. lol

BTW are my comments in the top correct?

lol. There's no such thing as reduntant comments in code for the special kids

insert more self deprecating humor

Looks like reddit took down then reddit post or shadow banned me

Probably for nintendo IP

They don't even seem to have a bot for auto invites to slack chat

They are manually sending invites

reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2sg7p6/…

The heroku app also seems to be down for invites

Wow! If kenny said it then it's better to stay away from there

Wow, I've now really improved the speed of my game.

All it took was reducing the size of the A* node considerably:-)

Just need to do some code cleanup, but...

Off topic question: What are your guys favourite genre(s) of music?

I can now create a world on my (Admittedly good) machine in only a few moments.

About 10 seconds. Before it was taking closer to a minute...

And there is still room for improvement!

Metal Core

Is that like guitars and shouting

Surprised you're not into the tech- scene, being European. I heard that's very popular over there

Not quite. Namely Techno and Tech- House.

Is unreal Blueprint a thing here?

Oh! Well back to Discord then. It's pretty active

I once made my own Blueprint system for my Java game engine

Was fun

As you mentioned the Math parts seem to be the parts that are giving me trouble

But I'm making progress in commenting the code

I would probably get tons of Panic attacks if I listened to loud metal

There, done for now. It's amazing how a few optmizations can make a huge difference!

@Wally until you got used to it. it's an acquired taste. :)

@Almo I'll never get used to it. I have problem with high sound and beats. I don't even go to the Movie theater. It'll only add to the trauma

sorry to hear it. :(

Ok, this is amazing

A bus company made a website that would enable you to buy tickets online

But they didn't hire the best programmers to do this

:D

It was buggy, it didn't have even a 10% uptime, etc.

But one of the bugs was awesome, if you knew javascript, you could've just rewrite the prices of the tickets and buy them like that

hahaha

The guy that reported this issue was taken away because of "hacking"

After he brought a single $1 ticket for 20 cents

:(

Which he couldn't even use, because he doesn't live in the capital city, where this bus company resides

Customer service is awesome

@JoshPetrie Could you by any chance put the "make games, not engines" post back on your website?

It was a great resource and it was the number 0 thing I said to people asking for recommendations

Aww

Yes, I had to use that one a while ago

Hah

Well, as with technology, old stuff works for the longest

@PearsonArtPhoto You should create a question with an answer about your finding about the pathfinding performance

I'll make a blog entry.

Maybe I'll even do it out of cycle for my normal updates. Hmmm...

Does < sub > work in here?

x₁

Nope

chat.stackexchange.com/faq#formatting

It seems the desire is to use the unicode subscript characters.

Strange, the main site allows it

Subscripts aren't perfect

They don't allow for advanced stuff

Now that I think about it, I think I know how to really speed up my pathfinding...

I'm looking at HPA*, but just the very introduction of the paper has helped me to realize I'm making a pretty critical mistake.

Basically, I'm doing pathfinding from one city to a list of cities, but I'm throwing away the data that is used in the mean time.

I probably can do a slightly modified Dijkstra's algorithm to do the initial population, which is all I'm trying to do. It should be much faster then doing 40 long pathfinds using A*.

Maybe I can come up with something. I suppose I should read the paper, it might help me even further.

@PearsonArtPhoto How many cities do you have?

Around 40.

So, as far as I understand, you have 40 static cities and the ship can't just sail to any random position on the ocean

As it is right now, you can sail to random spots on the ocean.

But you intend to change this

But the cities need to know how far apart they are from one another.

I'm considering it.

I guess I could do a much simpler method to determine how far apart the cities are from one another.

Then that would be the best candidate for pre-calculation

That is what is being precalculated.

Again, for the distance of the cities

THe ship can only go diagonally and along the axes

Right now I pre-calculate 2 things. The first is the distance from each tile to it's neighbors. The second is from each city to each city (Distance only)

That is correct, although the speed can vary.

So the distance between two given points (A and B) is

The time from A to be will likely be different than from B to A.

Oh right, the wind

And the route will almost certainly be different.

Yep. That makes things quite a bit more interesting.

Then there's no real way to optimize this

There are tricks that I'm starting to learn.

I mean, I've optimized it quite a bit from where I started.

But honestly, the one time pathfinding cost is only around 200 ms at worst case.

The problem is calculating the city to city pathfinding, which is fairly large.

200 ms? Man, that's a lot

40*40*200 ms is a lot.

Well, 200 ms is worst case. Typical is more like 40 ms.

That's still a lot

Yeah, I don't doubt I can improve it further.

It's getting better every time I play with it.

That's nice

The next thing I'm going to work on is a better heuristic.

I want to try something BTW, can I have a gif of the water in motion?

Actually, the next this is going to be a test suite...

Video work?

Sure

I suspect I can use the fact that I have a city to city mapping to improve the heuristic calculation

Right now basically I need to prune the net faster.

Each time I test around 1000 hypothesis.

@PearsonArtPhoto My take on your pathing question was to pre-calc all of them, even if it means extra "loading" time while generating the level. People who like this kind of game don't mind waiting for the algo to set up the world if it does a good job.

What I'm doing at the moment is to have the pre-calc loading in the background while I let the user still play with things.

The faster I can make the system the less lag will be apparent.

Man, it would be really nice if the SE chat and facebook messenger didn't use the same exact sound when there's a new message

I have my pathfinding system mutex protected because I am trying to be memory efficient in my allocation.

@Bálint wow yeah

That's the only thing that slows it down anyways.

Solution: Don't use Facebook Messenger.

hahah

All my friends are on it

It's really bad on my phone

Well, I've just made another small improvement...

Found that I was adding data to a list I wasn't actually using.

That might actually be a fair bit of my GC memory, now that I think about it...

Actually, the time that I'm determining for the algorithm to run is when using the profiler. I bet it is much faster without the profiler.

Think I found another memory leak...

i hate memory leak hunting

@PearsonArtPhoto Based on my experience, unity games run much faster outside the editor

This is very much true.

The 10-15 second initialization was from a test I did.

But I'm just continuing to improve it where I can.

loading time is entirely relative to the type of gameplay

The loading times on War of the Monsters seemed interminable. But they were 6 seconds, which is not bad for a PS2 game. But the game itself was fast-paced, so 6 seconds seemed long. Your game having 15 second initialization seems fine given the type of game it is.

:D

The other point is, if I can reduce the load time for my own version then I'll cycle faster.

:)

And also, I'm on a decent machine, on my test laptop I wasn't getting that great of performance at all...

I think it's faster, but...

@PearsonArtPhoto This might interest you: valvesoftware.com/publications/2010/…

I'll have to give that a shot, looks interesting.

But fairly low priority.

Wow, I'm finding tons of little ways to save memory...

Okay, now loads in 5 seconds, no noticable lag. Whew!

I'm done with this for now!