Game Development

Jon

16:16

1,054 hrs on record

jesus christ

that's like 45 days non-stop playing DOTA2

Almo

who

Jon

a guy on my friends list , from work

Almo

55 days LoL for me

Jon

haha

just bought rocket league

aka, bbl :P

Almo

297th on the NA server for time spent playing...

:o

@jon have fun man

RL rocks

Jon

16:19

gonna have to share with my son atm

says it should run on this pc

Almo

:D

Rajveer

is this the right place to ask about collision detection and stuff?

Almo

16:38

sure

if anyone who knows the stuff is on they'll hekp

help

Jon

holy shit this game is fun

he won't let me play now

Joe

lol

Jon

he's going to bed early tonight

lol

Almo

@Jon it's amazing right?

Jon

i can see myself playing a few rounds every day for the next while

Almo

16:52

yeah

i play an hour at lunch at work every day

Jon

should of purchased it a while ago

Almo

plus some at home

Jon

i soldered my controller back together

that was a pain in the ass to do

Almo

"It's not possible to overstate how much fun Rocket League is." - Almo

yeah i bet

Jon

i couldn't get the plastic off the wires, so i just burned them off

used rj-45 copper wire to bridge it, since it was all chewed up

duct tape the shit out of it

good as new

Did I ever tell you I made my own guitar hero controller back when Frets on Fire was the shit?

Almo

16:55

hahah no you didn't

Jon

bought 6 push buttons

5 for the buttons, 1 for the strum

wired it all up to a PCB of a broken controller

put it in a shitty case, and had myself a custom made guitar hero controller, lol

I'll take pictures at some point.

Almo

yeah do that

Jon

i have no idea where that is now... probably in the basement somewhere

pretty certain my ex wife didn't take that

Almo

:)

Jon

I wish someone would ask questions about collisions

Joe

17:06

If a blue car is traveling 60mph heading south on route 33 and a red car is traveling north at 45 mph on route 33 and they collide, what is the probability that a third purple car will be created from the event traveling east at 15 mph?

Pip

eyo

Hjorthenify

Can I install some custom software on my router to make it port forward? (Its not available by default)

TheMuffinCoder

I must be Sodium Hypobromite because Na BrO

Jon

@Hjorthenify what kind of router?

I use DD-WRT, but you need a supported router

There is also Tomato

Pip

@Joe 0% because it will be (one) a blue and red car because the colors don't combine and (2) because it will be going under 15 mph because of friction/other factors related to collision

Hjorthenify

17:15

@Jon Netgear Trek

Pip

@Jon rj-45 wire is decent quality for that

Jon

dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

@Pip works awesome now :)

Pip

I believe it

Hjorthenify

@Jon Not on the list :/

Jon

tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=69

shittier firmware, but also goood

if it is not supported by dd-wrt, probably not supported by this, heh

You could get a WRT54GL

for 50$

Hjorthenify

17:18

I might have found a workaround

Jon

flash it with this and it makes it a 1000$ router

(not really, but featurewise it is pretty awesome)

Hjorthenify

Nope :(

@Jon Sounds great! I'm just trying to get the IP of my pie

My current setup is quite complicated

Ooooh neat!

TheMuffinCoder

@Joe Hey Joe just wondering, what did you use to encode your images to base64

Hjorthenify

@Jon No worries I figured out a way to do what I wanted :)

TheMuffinCoder

Joe and Jon have three letters

They both start with J... it must mean they both like jelly

Hjorthenify

17:26

potato

TheMuffinCoder

Next they have O... that must be they're both omnivores

THAT MEANS, Joe and Jon are the same person!

Joe

@TheMuffinCoder i ended up modifying a tiny node script someone wrote to do the same foraudio

TheMuffinCoder

Oh i see

Joe

but i must be the EVIL Omnivorous Jelly lover? and Jon is the NICE one?

TheMuffinCoder

xD

Yep that's how it is

Joe

17:27

that script should be in my github

i think i called it something super hip and rad... like "sixFO.js"

TheMuffinCoder

bwhahahahah free scripts

lol thx Joe!

Joe

np

Pip

17:45

@Hjorthenify pie? Raspberry flavored?

Hjorthenify

Yup

Pip

I'm going to be using mine in my 3d printer build

Lokkij

Battle for Zendikar Trailer

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Pip

Deadpool | Red Band Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX

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Jon

Im' gonna use my old PC as a linux server

Wellll... i'm still considering that actually, I also wanted to use it as a secondary gaming pc

Hjorthenify

17:48

Dammit my game isnt supported in a web build it seems..

Almo

17:59

i have a UI button in unity

I can't drag its anchor arrows

should I be able to?

Jon

i'm starting to get good at this

yes you should be

this usually happens if the parent container is messed up

Hjorthenify

@Jon Not quite sure. I'm thinking of removing nodes which are extremely close to each other.

Jon

I got 2 scores last game -- averaging 20ms ping -- friggen fun as balls man

soon i'll be in next year's championships... you'll see

Almo

@Jon ok

Jon

@Almo we should play 1 vs 1

Almo

18:10

I'm trying to use an Aspect Ratio Fitter

I'm very close

yeah we could

in a while though

trying to get this thing working

Jon

hehe, np

i understand

Almo

but i'll definitely play some with you

Jon

@Hjorthenify seems like a shitty pathfinder though..

Looks like you are updating every vertex to every vertex on each frame

Hjorthenify

Explain?

Jon

that is exponential

might be fine for what you are doing

but that seems like a lot of calcs to me

Hjorthenify

18:12

Once the grid is calculated, then its quite efficient

Jon

but you are doing it on each frame

Hjorthenify

Right now I am due to debugging

It can be calculated once and then only recalculated once the map has been changed

Jon

ah

well that is cool

Hjorthenify

Its very easy to add to a game as well

Also.. Im only getting 43 fps when calculating each frame :P

and 66 when im not

Takes 10ms to calculate the grid

MickLH

Aug 18 at 19:48, by Ali.S

@MickLH I guess you are right completely.... though the formula you found did not what I had in mind... that was why I was so arrogant...

@Ali.S formula I derived*

Almo

18:21

Unity text rendering bug

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unity bug

in action

Pip

sup Mick

Ali.S

@MickLH yeah... right

Almo

@jon i have something working, but I have to adjust the positions, sizes and anchors of each button's text object by hand

I have to set "Best fit" for the text to size itself to the rectangle, but then the rectangles must be exactly big enough to fit the text

hmm

maybe I just need the heights set

Hjorthenify

@Almo Maybe a Content Size Fitter can help you there

Almo

will check that thanks

and now the unity forum has scrolling text on top. very fucking distracting

do these people just randomly add shit without testing to see if it's annoying or not?

@Hjorthenify my buttons are in a vertical layout group, which wants to control the size of the objects in it

Hjorthenify

18:38

@Almo Yes?

Almo

it says I shouldn't use a content size fitter on it

Hjorthenify

Sounds like my inventory system

Almo

I have the vertical layout thing working, it resizes. but the text doens't resize properly

to get it to, I have to make the text box sizes exactly the width of the text by hand

if not, then the text ends up too big

since there's no "scale text with size of box" there's only "fill available space"

like, I'm tempted to render these button texts as images.

I could get it to work then

horrible to work with if i need to change anything though :(

and will never be localizable

Hjorthenify

Hmm I have something similar for my storage containers, but I have never seen that bug

Almo

I should quit bugging you guys. Unity is making me want to scream and I'm just projecting frustration in here. Sorry about that.

Lokkij

18:48

Guild Wars 2 is now free! Check it out, it's awesome.

Hjorthenify

@Almo That's part of what we're here for :) But perhaps its time to ask on gamedev.se?

Almo

yeah maybe

forum.unity3d.com/threads/…

Hjorthenify

Try to use a content fitter on your vertical layout and make it adjust width?

Almo

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Q: Problem with UIText in VerticalLayoutGroup in Unity

I have a Panel with an AspectRatioFitter on it. In there, I have a vertical layout group, with three buttons, Standard Mode, Speed Mode, Chaos Mode. I have the Layout Group's anchors set to keep its size relative to the parent Panel. The problem is that the text doesn't resize when I change th...

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but I don't want the widths all the same

each text needs its width set seperately

Hjorthenify

Why?

tereško

18:56

@Jon looks acceptable.

Almo

because if the box is bigger, you get the third picture in the question

the font scales up to fill the room

since you can only "best fit" not "scale relative to screen size"

Hjorthenify

Right

Almo

once i get this screen size shit fixed I can get on with making the damned game

Hjorthenify

:P

What's the game about?

Almo

it's a puzzle game

and I know I shouldn't do this because it's mean, but I'm moving sOoooo slow on it (been 3 years since i made the proto) that I'm not actually making it public.

at least not until I'm closer to being done

Hjorthenify

19:03

:/

Almo

so I expect once it's working (not just working on menus any more) you guys will get to see it early

Hjorthenify

Looking forward to it

Chris

19:26

@Joe My game doesn't do networking, but for other prototypes, yeah just Unity's networking API

Jon

I'm hooked on rocket league

get it you idiots

you are stupid if you don't have a good reason to own this game

Kevin van der Velden

@Jon I am lazy

Is that a good reason?

Chris

19:46

ugh, f Windows 10

Jon

windows 10 -- you are the product

Chris

so I installed like UE4, couple of games onto my Win10 partition in a folder
boot into Win10 to check something, folders and files that were created in Win7 don't exist.
boot back into Win7, chkdsk during the boot, heaps of corrupt files supposedly, spends several mins deleting and "fixing" file entries.... whole folders are now missing

had like Unreal Engine, Unreal Tournament, and Guild Wars 2 in there. all gone. waste of time >_<

yeah I've switched back to 7 cuz I just can't stand 10's UI man, it's a frickin joke

Hjorthenify

@Chris could be worse

Chris

@Hjorthenify yep. luckily caught it early, but sdfsdfsjhdfjshfsdf

win10 still couldn't see my other 2 harddrives cuz it's dumb

think I'll just format it and give it the smallest partition size possible, waste of space otherwise taking up the whole drive :(

Hjorthenify

In my experience then the only thing Win10 excels at is corrupting files.

Chris

19:51

damn

this is some ME-level shit

anyways. how are y'all? what are we working on?

Hjorthenify

Pathfinding.. Or that was until Win10 decided to lock me out

TheMuffinCoder

js13k!

Chris

@Hjorthenify lol, feck :(

nice

TheMuffinCoder

Chris you can still make your own entry :D

Hjorthenify

I am now reopening my workstuff

Chris

19:53

I'll be right, but thank you

TheMuffinCoder

Kevin is doing one too, and check out Joe's finished one

js13kgames.com/entries/desrever

Chris

@Joe cool entry :D

good stuff

Pip

@Chris electronics project :D

Chris

ah yes :)

Pip

For one of my robotics teams we're required to use two Android phones (bleh)

And I'm working on converting the 12v robot power to power the phone as well

(I'm not a fan of the new Android control system)

Joe

20:05

@Chris haha ty man

im playing with UNET on the version 5.1

trying to see whats what

Chris

sweet

Joe

I cant say im in love with it yet... but its interesting

Chris

cool

ugh, the disk mishap corrupted my project as well as my backup. this is why I backup offsite every day at least

TheMuffinCoder

20:22

GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI

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Almo

20:36

chris!

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Q: How do I make UIText scale properly in a VerticalLayoutGroup in Unity?

I have a Panel with an AspectRatioFitter on it. In there, I have a vertical layout group, with three buttons, Standard Mode, Speed Mode, Chaos Mode. I have the Layout Group's anchors set to keep its size relative to the parent Panel. The problem is that the text doesn't resize when I change th...

unity

if you know

Chris

lemme see

do you have a CanvasScaler component on your Canvas?

Almo

yes

the box the menu is in scales fine

has an aspect ratio fitter

Chris

:(
are you willing to send me a copy of your project? this is the sort of problem-solving that requires tinkering cuz there's so many stupid components, it's confusing as

Almo

yeah sure

email?

Chris

[email protected]

Almo

20:49

setn

Chris

got it, lemme tinker

Almo

ok thanks man

I'll be afk a while I think

really appreciate the help

the way I test is by changing from iPhone tall to wide

you'll see the word "Cognizer" changes properly between different resolutions, but I set its anchors and size by hand

Jon

my car has a hat

Almo

hahaha

Chris

@Almo on your CanvasScaler, set it to Scale With Screen Size, then slide the Match slider either left or right all the way.

I can see what you're going for with the aspect fitters, but

it's like it doesn't honour things when there's children within children eh

unless maybe there's this ContentSizeFitter component

but the appeal with a working screen size on the scaler... you can just worry about working with one resolution more or less, and it will respect screen size changes

@Jon sent you a friend invite

Jon

21:16

all you play is DOTA2

Chris

lol

I don't play very much these days

Hjorthenify

Any easy way to increase the size of a polygon by 1 pixel?

When you have an array of the vertexes

Jon

no

Hjorthenify

Aw :(

Hjorthenify

21:40

float multiplyLenght = (point.magnitude + 1) / point.magnitude;
Vector2 worldPos = collider.transform.TransformPoint(point * multiplyLenght);

Pip

21:59

*length

Hjorthenify

I'm a mathematician, not an author :P

Almo

22:35

@Chris ok i'll look at that, thanks

Chris

check out the docs for that ContentSizeFitter too

Almo

I couldn't figure out how to get CSF to work with things inside a vertical layout thing

complains that you should let the VL do the work

which only sizes the buttons, not the text within them

Chris

yeah I dunno :( the whole thing is confusing

trial and error, bit of video tut watching, just blehh

Almo

cobbled together from a bunch of disparate parts

Alex M.

23:39

Chris

@AlexM. Come back~

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