I'm trying to move enemy towards player, while enemy also tries to avoid an obstacle if it's in its path. Here's a simple illustration of what I want to do:
What I've tried:
Making circular collision around the obstacle. It works but that
makes the enemy impossible to hit.
I think going with...
@TheMattbat999 So I'm guessing you custom coded responses for the dialogue system (thus only one NPC can use it?) At least you have a model you can extend to other NPC's as needed, with elbow grease!
@DukeZhou sorry I haven't gotten back to your last email on PCG stuff yet. The subtitle for my response is "how are you managing to get copies of my dev logs :)"
@TheMattbat999 Don't forget to think about scalability in your code structure. It's useful to limit the game in scope initially, but if the game is good, you might find you want to expand it.
@Pikalek No worries! You're busy, and I write a lot ;)
@Pikalek Myself, I wouldn't know when such a list is "complete" or "correct" so I think that would be a bit broad. I think any evaluation of the benefits involves a fair degree of personal opinion & judgement too.
I always thought (at least for general software) that for foreigners a Masters program at a US university is a good way to start a student visa -> OPT -> work visa pathway.
if you can afford it, that gets you a year or two time to line up a job
That's the trick of it. It looks to me like the asker in this case has already considered a set of pros & cons, and is trying to figure out what weight to assign to a particular anti-masters-education opinion they'd heard. More or less "is this opinion right?" which... ends up opinion-based, any way I can think of to slice it.
well, the "anti-masters-education" answer is probably more directly "the interviewer doesn't care what degrees you have", which is different than "it's easier to have 2 years of OPT to interview as a local than to try to interview from the other side of the globe"
@Pikalek Yeah, I think a tweet of "Hey #gamedev, what's your opinion of applicants with masters degrees in...." or "Hey #gamedev folk who have immigrated to the US, how have you found educational credentials affected your experience?" would get what OP is after.
Also a tool for inserting icons into UI text, though I keep expecting Unity to make that a built-in feature before I get it tidied up enough to share. ;)
@Almo Very cool. :) I don't know yet exactly what my schedule's going to be like, but if you'd like to meet up for a coffee/bite/etc. please let me know!
The theme was interesting, mix two non-compatible genres. Cards and space shooters seems pretty non-compatible. I hope it turned out to be an interesting mix.
I'm currently writing an entity-component-system framework for my hobby project in C++ and was wondering what kind of data structures and memory management techniques I should use?
From what I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong), it is required for ECS to:
Iterate over entities fast.
I...
@Almo we see this a bit on AI. They're working on an AI, but what they're asking about is not specifically AI, rather some general function that contributes to the overall project.
@Almo Generally we've been loosening up on shunting programming questions to SO, unless it's a straight-up syntax / programming 101 question that has nothing game-related at all.
Here I'd say a game developer's specialty would be relevant to answering the question well. Though I do worry it may be too broad. I'd feel better about it if OP showed us some profiling results from their first attempt and had a particular bottleneck they could ask for solutions to improve.
The intro to this problem is a bit of a long one so my apologies in advance. In short I am asking for suggestion as to what type of collection I should use to store data for a particular part of my system.
I have an entity component system in place where a static EntityManager creates and stores...
I think that one is better-scoped, identifying a specific link in the chain to improve, in the context of a particular implementation, rather than trying to cover it all at once.
I'm currently writing an entity-component-system framework for my hobby project in C++ and was wondering what kind of data structures and memory management techniques I should use?
From what I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong), it is required for ECS to:
Iterate over entities fast.
I...
