Game Development

Sie

2:38 AM

@jgallant Go on...

Also I found a great little application that shows folder sizes in Windows 10.

foldersize.sourceforge.net

Pip

WinDirStat is pretty nice

shows a breakdown of disk space by folder structure and individual file

Sie

Ya but this is more for the explorer.

I don't know why there is no option to display the folder size in the explorer (not the details hover thing). I heard it was due to performance issues but at least give us the option plus an SSD should be fine to handle that.

Bálint

7:52 AM

Stackoverflow election: first candidate - 6500 votes, second - 650 votes. Well, that's going to be close

jgallant

11:11 AM

Gibsy

Kevin van der Velden

11:27 AM

Original, annotated by the designers, design documents of original Deus Ex on google drive

^ is a link btw

jgallant

11:57 AM

That green clickable link is a link?

Kevin van der Velden

Yes

I've taken to labelling full-line-links as clickable since the bitcoin hilarity comment

May 19 '14 at 17:43, by Kevin van der Velden

So, did everyone hear about the newest bitcoin hilarity?

And context

jgallant

Is that a link?

user92578

wait there are links?

Kevin van der Velden

12:29 PM

Links are lies, don't believe them

Alexandre Vaillancourt

12:49 PM

God I hate windows 10

jgallant

1:07 PM

He's not listening.

user92578

gah level editor needs a new feature :(

user92578

who incompetent idiot even made it?

Almo

@KevinvanderVelden "and every time it deletes the file, the bitcoin client will simply re-download the missing blockchain."

o_0

the blockchain is HUGE

unless it can download just pieces of it, but that wasn't my understanding

Kevin van der Velden

Not if the entire file has been deleted, but yeah you can IIRC just work on the last bits if you want to only transfer funds

This: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/6065/…

Almo

1:23 PM

blockchains are a parasite on our computers' harddrives. the crypto guys need to figure out an alternative to having to download the whole chain. I know therer are "light wallets" but they have issues if you do "a lot" of transactions.

Kevin van der Velden

The reason for having a full copy of the blockchain is security and paranoia, you can't verify others are telling the truth if you don't have the original

As such, you need to either trust people or have the same data

Thin clients (which are a thing) trust more so they don't need the entire blockchain

Almo

yeah, I understand that

but if BTC keeps going for another 10 years, how big is that chain then? 40 GB or something?

Kevin van der Velden

Then do you understand there's no "figuring out" an alternative, there isn't one. Trust or verify, you can't do both =p

Almo

I don't know enough to be convinced there's not a possible way to fix it.

Kevin van der Velden

@Almo it's already 90 gigs blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size

It was 54* gigs this januari

Almo

1:28 PM

it was 16 at the time of the MS article you posted... so that's pretty serious growth

holy shit

i own about 2 BTC worth of various cryptos, but I don't have a BTC wallet on my computer

just a couple alt-coins

digibytes blockchain's only 4 gb

Bitcoin is a conspiracy made by the hard drive companies!!!

ok I better head to work

talk later :)

user92578

1:54 PM

spent the last 30 minutes looking at the wrong place, trying to find out what's wrong

PearsonArtPhoto

I think I'm just going to give away my copy for the "Your Dream RPG" course.

user92578

Does anyone have grid resizing code with offsetting laying around?

user92578

2:17 PM

hmm I don't think I can do this without separate cases for downscaling and upscaling

Almo

2:35 PM

kotaku.com/…

I can only say "I'm not surprised"

someone on my FB page said "I went to a KKK rally... they weren't that bad." o_0

PearsonArtPhoto

They might not be these days, I really don't know...

Almo

hahah

they're evil incarnate, just waiting for enough power

they'll seem nice until they can do what they want

the guy who said it is... well, he's nuts.

not unfollowing him on FB is good because I can take the pulse of that undercurrent in our society

PearsonArtPhoto

Until Facebook hides it from you.

Almo

it wouldn't hide what he says. they're considering hiding the fake news websites

PearsonArtPhoto

Facebook tends to show you things more it thinks you are interested in.

Almo

2:45 PM

and since I comment on the things he says, it thinks I'm interested

:)

PearsonArtPhoto

Yes, if you click on someone's page you'll see everything they have, but if they think you won't like it, they might hide it.

Almo

I do drive-bys... comment then hit "turn off notifications"

PearsonArtPhoto

LOL

Almo

the people whose opinions I hate the most I see the most since I comment on them the most

FB thinks I like that shit

user92578

what'd you comment on that?

Almo

2:46 PM

I'm sure it doesn't have an opinon about whether or not I agree with it, but I'm certainly interested since I interact with it.

"The KKK 'aren't that bad'? So we really are headed for dark times. I was hoping not. America will only have itself to blame for the coming madness."

user92578

nice

Almo

I have a pretty strict policy about not insulting anyone on FB, regardless of how fucking crazy they are

I fail on occasion, but I'm pretty good about it :)

PearsonArtPhoto

This RPG class seems interesting, the more I look at it the more I think it could be really neat, if they do it right.

And I'm fairly confident it will happen...

> craft memorable moments for your players

> entice the target emotion in your players

More I'm sure, but... Hmmm...

> From the concept and early community feedback, to in-game analytics and releasing patches to your game.

user92578

Aight now I just need to recall what I was working on before I realized that I need to add resize offsetting...

PearsonArtPhoto

That's always the trick, isn't it...

jgallant

3:06 PM

Anyone know of an algorithm that creates a path given a start and end point, that has intersections and overlapping in the path?

Basically a shitty pathfinder that has no idea how to find the end

PearsonArtPhoto

?

Kevin van der Velden

@jgallant biased drunken walk?

(A* it, start a drunken walk and have 50% chance of moving in the proper direction rather than a random one)

Sie

This bugs me WAY more than it should.

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jgallant

Kinda.

I think I will use some cellular automata

Sie

I'm trying to figure out how I want the logic of grabbing multiple vertices to work. I guess what makes the most sense is having the player click on an edge and then find the vertices on that edge makes the most sense.

Sie

3:25 PM

@PearsonArtPhoto It feels kind of weird kick starting a Unity tutorial.

PearsonArtPhoto

Yeah, it does. He's done a number of them in the past, so...

Sie

Especially given the sheer free amount of resources out there that are freely available. I guess it would be nice to have one class focused on that topic.

PearsonArtPhoto

And quite frankly, the courses he's done are really good.

Sie

Ah.

PearsonArtPhoto

You can find a patchwork of other resources out there that will get you more in a lot of ways, but his classes tend to be very focused and at large scale.

Also, the Blender course he did is absolutely fantastic.

Sie

3:26 PM

Part of the problem with long YouTube tutorial series is that people tend to not stick along once they get longer and thus the incentive for the makers to do them diminishes.

PearsonArtPhoto

click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=MfHvR/…

Yes, that is a problem, which is part of why doing the Kickstarter gives more incentive to do so.

There will essentially be a team of 4 long term professionals who will be dedicated to making the class awesome. Most Unity tutorials out there are taught by those who don't have a lot of experience, at least in my opinion.

Sie

Depends on where you look. There are some really experienced Unity devs. who make a few tutorials but usually it's on one topic and a one off thing because they have bigger fish to fry.

Cooking With Unity makes some awesome tutorials: youtube.com/user/PushyPixels/videos

PearsonArtPhoto

There's two guys who do free videos I know that do anything that approaches what these guys do.

Sie

He hasn't really been active much but he is on Reddit.

PearsonArtPhoto

Quill18 and Sebastian. Also, I've heard a bit of PushyPixels.

Not a lot of recent content, as you mentioned.

Quill18 did do something approaching the order of magnitude of this project, he did it over about 9 months being funded at about $1800 a month.

Sie

3:31 PM

ETeeski (or now known as Master Indie after that Ant game debacle) has some good tutorials too. He's doing paid tutoring now with some offhand videos.

PearsonArtPhoto

And even then, it ended up not quite being a full game, but rather a good start of one.

Sie

Well I think that if you're serious you're sort of expected to take the lead yourself.

Part of being a game developer is being able to take the reigns and create gold from shit.

PearsonArtPhoto

But seriously, if you are interested in really learning Blender, that blender course is awesome.

The Unity course that he did was what got me started with Unity.

This is true, I suppose, but, well...

I will admit, I branched out quite a bit after I first learned Unity from Ben's courses, but it was a good start.

Actually, the Blender course is on sale today, $10. Well worth it! click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=MfHvR/…

Free Internet Points

3:51 PM

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Q: Lighting doesn't work properly in WebGL build only at one place

So I have a 2d game where a player walks around the level (top view) with a flashlight in front of him. Everything works fine in the editor, however whenever I build it for WebGL and test it in my browser, one room only one, has a problem with lighting, and as I walk in different parts of the roo...

S. Neut

5:05 PM

Hi

Lasse

yo

S. Neut

I am making pong and I want to make a dotted line in the middle with a for loop, how would I do this?

Lasse

depends on what api/tools you are using

S. Neut

the command we use to do this in the custom game engine is: GAME_ENGINE.FillRectangle(X.Pos, Y.Pos, size x, size y

now the size is gonna be 10x10

Sie

Lasse

5:07 PM

easiest is probably just to draw a textured quad

S. Neut

and the X.pos is the middle of the screen

I just can't figure out what to fill in at the Y.Pos

Lasse

well you can calculate how many dots of certain size can fill in to the screen and then for loop that many times and use the incremented value as multiplier to the position

like

for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++) drawpos.x = offset.x * i + originalpos.x;

S. Neut

I can fit 96 blocks of 10x10 in the screen

so that would be 48 if you split it

Lasse

if the screen was 1000 in width, and offset.x is 10, then it would draw 100 dots

S. Neut

my screen is 960 in height

its a vertical line :)

Lasse

5:10 PM

ah

well, that does not really change the algorithm much

S. Neut

I got this now: for (int i = 0; i < 96; i++)
{
GAME_ENGINE.FillRectangle(GAME_ENGINE.GetScreenWidth() / 2, 10 * i + 10, 10, 10);
}

but that just draws a line instead of a dotted one

Lasse

if the dot size is 10 you need to use larger offset, like 20 if you want the space to be equal width to the dot itself

S. Neut

that did the trick

thanks!

Lasse

np

Bálint

5:28 PM

Anyone knows how to program android?

Lasse

I've made games on Android with Unity but not natively

Lasse

5:51 PM

Is opengameart broken or something? I can't search for textures

ah nevermind, there was just nothing matching my cc0 requirement

Sie

6:10 PM

Does anyone know why GPU's with multiple outputs usually only have on HDMI port, and two DVI?

Kind of annoying I need adapter to use another HDMI monitor.

Lasse

HDMI ports are licenced, they need to pay for each HDMI connector

Sie

OH. That makes a lot more sense now.

jgallant

6:59 PM

so I am writing a random walk algorithm instead

I also need to send this mouse to corsair for a replacement

or maybe not, shit I think I just fixed it

Bálint

7:25 PM

@Sie do you need an eyefinity setup or just a simple copy? If the latter one, then you can use an hdmi separator

Sie

Just a third monitor for work.

I like to keep Unity one one, VS on another, and the other for YouTube or whatever.

I still use this old bad boy...

jgallant

@Almo almost at a gold star in doubles

well.. almost at my third stripe, lol

Almo

oooh congrats man

I like playing RL with you; you're a good team player

jgallant

hell yeah

Almo

7:40 PM

There's something seriously deficient in my play, and I don't know what.

maybe I try for aerial shots too much

jgallant

i need to go for aerials more

Sie

How well do the cars control? Whenever I see people playing it looks like a bitch to learn how to control them well.

jgallant

great

its like driving a tube down a waterfall

Almo

the cars control quite well

but since you can rotate around all three axes, it's not your usual super-simple car control scheme

PearsonArtPhoto

8:14 PM

Well, my code compiles at least... That's better than it's done in almost a week...

I really wish C# had a default value for a dictionary built in... Sigh.

Almo

it does; it's null :D

PearsonArtPhoto

Actually, it throws an exception, but...

jgallant

I picked up a knock knock joke at the grocery store and read a random one. it was so bad I died.

PearsonArtPhoto

Nice knowing you I suppose.

jgallant

was it really?

PearsonArtPhoto

8:26 PM

Well, I was trying to be polite...

jgallant

when you start a sentence with well, it typically means you are lying.

so I started writing this procedurally generated pipe game I was talking about

I think the best way to lay down the pipe, is to have a custom random walk

one that will favour the direction it is currently in more than switching

with overlapping

anyways, no one really gives a shit -- but the point is you will see soon enough

jgallant

8:48 PM

steep.ubisoft.com/game/en-us/news/152-273904-16/…

GEAR UP

I'm pretty stoked for this game -- you can lay down lines in this open world mountain

then share your line with others

basically unlimited tracks.

Almo

being a video game developer suddenly seems a useless endeavor in the face of the coming storm in the US

I hope I'm wrong about it, but it's not just me that's worried.

jgallant

Nothing you can do about it

Almo

:(

jgallant

Current players 71
Median time played 1 hour 16 minutes

Almo

oh sweet!

Alexandre Vaillancourt

9:22 PM

@Almo @jgallant This could be relevant to you guys (or your audio artists): factor.ca

André Marques

hello could someone help me with an unity thing? :s

i have been following some unity tutorials and there is something that doesnt happen to them and happens to me although i have made same things they done

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@AndréMarques Just ask it :P If someone is here, reads your question and is able to answer, they will :)

@AndréMarques Do you have the same version?

André Marques

no but above said that will work to my version

the thing is

i have a script to move a character that works

but it has a bug that is when i start move if he is idle he will run idle anim until the end and only then will play walking anim

is there a way to break it and pass imediatly to walking anim?

jgallant

9:45 PM

Yes. Set no exit time

Default is a blend

André Marques

thats an anim property?

do i do it in the animator or have to go to the player model and then set it to that thing u said?

jgallant

Animator state machine

André Marques

o.O

i dont have that7

sorry im new to this

jgallant

10:02 PM

Alright. When you create an animation it creates an animator

For that object. That animator component has a animator file associated to it

When you open that file in unity it opens a state machine editor

André Marques

yes i think i have that open in there i have some anims and entry and any state

and where i but exit time?

jgallant

Ok hold on I'll go to my pc

yeah

so okay, you see all your states?

and its transitions?

André Marques

yes

jgallant

click on the transition

the line between the states.

if you do not have a condition set for the transition, then you will need to have exit time checked

if that is the case, ensure you have the transition durations set to 0

If you have a condition set, then you can simply remove the Has Exit Time tick

André Marques

oh i see and just have to uncheck right?

jgallant

10:15 PM

If you have a condition set for that transition

If not, set the transition times to 0

yes i have

untick it.

its work thanks :)

np

with 2d animations, this default state is not very useful

unless you want your animation to complete before starting the next -- which in most cases you don't

André Marques

yes thanks for the help i was struggling because didnt knew if i had done anything wrong in tutorial

jgallant

10:19 PM

Feel free to buy my game if you like me help

André Marques

ur game ? :o

jgallant

10:37 PM

Haha I'm joking but yeah check out my games

If you like puzzle games. Picross Touch and GORB

Http://jgallant.com

André Marques

i will check it :)

jgallant

try gorb online

its pretty cool

jgallant.com/GorbGL

John McDonald

11:45 PM

Sup guys?

jgallant

Holy fucken shit

John big Mac McDonald

John McDonald

Yeaaah

Only been, what? 6 months?

Alexandre Vaillancourt

Back from MIGS

jgallant

No idea. Time is like a dream after 30

John McDonald

(r)amen

So yeah, I'm a professional web developer now! Woot!

Alexandre Vaillancourt

11:49 PM

You like it?

John McDonald

Hells yes

Best job I've ever had

jgallant

Oh wow nice

Alexandre Vaillancourt

The world needs ppl like you!

I ran way from that job :P

jgallant

heh

John McDonald

C#, 7-hour work days (+1 hour paid lunch), foseball, no timesheets!

jgallant

11:50 PM

i have been doing web dev for about 6 years straight now

i had done it before

but I took other jobs

I'm gonna tell you man

after a while, it gets to be pretty depressing

everything is a goddamn form, validation, data access, database.... its just tedious

good luck.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

He'll be able to look for something else when the time comes :)

John McDonald

heh, yeah, probably eh? I have never been at a real development company before.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

(If the time comes)

jgallant

yeah, i need something more challenging at this point in my life

i feel like I am under appreciatedc

I mean you can assign me bugs

they are goddamn jokes

I get them done so fast its just stupid.

and lately that is all it is... goddamn fucken bugs assigned to me

probably the main reason why I am so negative

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