@TheMattbat999 I'd have concerns that it would be too overwhelming for the dev ;)

hah

@AlexandreVaillancourt nah, I can handle it. Implementing their effects if a different story, however ;)

Mainly because some skills are used for building houses. May not be easy for a system for doing so, but I will cross that bridge when I get there.

just make sure you've got an easy way to serialize everything to disk :D

@Almo Alright so pong? Except in 3D.

@ChrisMcFarland I usually use PlayerPrefs, though I have been looking into other methods... I think it is JSON serializing?

Balancing that is also going to be a pain.

@Sie Mainly something you would enjoy working on so you want to finish it.

@OMGtechy Balancing that is also going to be a pain impossible.

But that's ok. MOBAS are impossible to balance

it only needs to be close. :)

@TheMattbat999 As the others have pointed out, the implementation, the balance and making it all work together is what would worry me :P But heh, that's your game :)

@AlexandreVaillancourt nah. It is 10 elemental stats (determines element resistance and weakness), 9 Warrior skills, 9 Mage skills, 9 Thief skills, 9 Builder skills, 7 traits, then Health, Magic and Stamina. Balance won't be hard to manage, at least I think.

@TheMattbat999 Oh ok, well I guess you'll see when you get there. I suggest you simulate that on paper first, though :) Maybe now your concern about the user is right: if the Mages skills stats range from 1 to 100, while your Warrior skills stats range from 1 to 10000 and your Thief skills stats range from 1 to 5, the challenge will be in your users hands when they're want to switch class or if they loot an item for another class (for instance).

@AlexandreVaillancourt hmmm.... each skill ranges from 1 to 100, and there isn't much restriction on transferring play style. Your class determines what skills and traits are boosted at first. Though in late game learning a new skill would be difficult, since you would be weak in it. (The game's RPG style is similar to The Elder Scrolls, where using a skill trains it, and you level up by boosting your skills by so many points)

@TheMattbat999 Ah, ok, it seems to make sense then :)

@AlexandreVaillancourt elemental traits range from -50 to 50, negative meaning you are less effective with spells under that element and are weak to it. Positive means you use spells under it and resist it.

Normal traits range from 1 to 100, like skills. They affect your character much more generally than skills.

That seems ok, worst case scenario, you change it if/when you realize it does not work well!

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@Almo ?

when i have a bunch of notifications from leaving this on overnight, the easiest way to clear them is to say something

I had nothing interesting to say, so I said "."

Oh ok

:)

Dave Whittaker was awesome

The Amiga had 4 voices. Two for the left channel, two for the right.

so that's how we did things in 1990

compare that audio to anything any PC could do, and you'll realize how fucking good it was. :D

you could set it to do mono I think

same guy

also this:

one of the Lazy Jones songs was even ripped for a pop track

. youtube.com/watch?v=z5LW07FTJbI (mildy NSFW)

About match games, if you're interested. Kind of academic. gamasutra.com/blogs/JonathanBailey/20150227/237544/…

Are there existing resources for loading model data from a file?

Honestly, both.

But I think right now a tutorial

Converting the format

OpenGL vaos and vbos.

At the moment I don't have a format for that, but I'm thinking of vectors of vertices and triangles

using an exisiting format is a good idea even if you do write your own tool

gives you a way to sanity check things when the go wrong

Is there a reason to keep the actual data loaded once I bind the arrays in OpenGL?

As in, should I keep the model information in memory somewhere once I'm done with the file?

my opengl knowledge is pretty old, but unless you expect that you need to re-load the data, I would say no, don't keep it in memory

@TheMattbat999 PlayerPrefs sucks. Hard to inspect, annoying to delete, inconsistent at times, does not play nicely with game consoles or cloud uploads since it's not an actual file you can manipulate. Better to use your own method. JSON, XML, even your own binary format, yeah

If you don't mind storing JSON in plaintext, FullSerializer is nice: github.com/jacobdufault/fullserializer

anyone know articles on how translate visual programming nodes into code?

@Sidar in what context?

you want to make a visual node editor that generates code?

Ok, thanks!