Hello!

hi, is D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL in directx 11, the same things as D3DCAPS9 in directx 9

or is it the newer version however you put it? btw I am looking for the equivalent of D3DCAPS9 in directx 11....

They certainly don't look the same .

Morinig!

Or something...

Good morning!

How are ya, @AlexandreVaillancourt?

I'm good, thanks!

It's a "summer is coming soon-ish" day today! What about you?

Good. Mississippi hasn't decided on the weather yet. It fluctuates from freezing to broiling in a matter of days, and it has been raining ALOT. Seen more clouds than sun this year.

But my RPG is coming along

So i got that going for me

That's great :)

Having trouble coning up with quests... of course fetch quests are easy to make but i haven't gotten any good ones that are a pittle more lively

What have you been working on, Alex?

Hmm, well I'm rebuilding the entity-component architecture we have at work. Not much time for anything else at home.

Ouch. Where do you work at, by the way?

A company that builds construction and mining vehicles simulators for training purposes :) It's like games, without all the fun :P

Lol

We're a small team, so there is a lot of different things to do and not too much politics ;)

That is nice.

Back looking at some of the baseline scripts for my game, i am now wondering how do they work.

You wrote them yourself?

Yes, and commented, but i must have been a friggin genious or mad scientist back then

Cause there is some serious complicated mechanics behind the inventory system

Haha, one learn to write code for their future self at some point :P

Well it works independently from everything else and is rather low maintenance, considering all of the items, so i have left it to do its own thing

Most systems are designed to rely on one another at a minimum. Saves alot of time from searching for kinks

That's the way to go :)

Adding new content is actually super easy, it is the ideas for the content that are coming slowly

Well i could always add a new weapon...

There is only one axe in the game, so i will work on that maybe...

Do you have "multi steps" quests? The kind of quest that takes the player through a mini story?

Well there is the main questline, but no mini stories per se

Once i finish this new axe, i need to come up with one of those

I think they add a bit of fun!

Yes, they can. I just need a good story...

The warrior who asks you to find his "Dear Mary", which was kidnapped while they stayed at the inn the other night... then you realize that Dear Mary is not someone, but his faviourite weapon, and that it was not kidnapped/stolen but that he gambled and drunk so much that he lost it during a poker game. Then you realize that it's not his but his mom's... :P

I have been thinking about this one for a long time, but never considered using it:

There are these 12 cursed clocks hidden aeound the world. Each with someone's soul inside

You gotta find each clock, learn that person's story, and it will lead ya to...

Idk yet

..a hat :P

Assassins's creed tend to reward the user with a special armor with such quests.

No, maybe the key to a big castle with a crazy monarch all 12 had tried to slay?

And he gives you super armor

Well, mor eof he is wearing the armor and you gotta kill him

@AlexandreVaillancourt has died

That's an idea; I guess your game is not Assassin's Creed :P

Uh no

Mine is better

Just joking my game, and I quote from my father , "looks like cheap Minecraft" 😂😂😂

@AlexandreVaillancourt ^

Hey, it's a game, and you built it. If you can work on it enough and release it, and people buy it, then it's a great line on your resume :)

Yes, or a great start to the studio i wanna start! No offense to anyone, but i would rather not work for someone else. Just seems ultra boring to me

Working for someone else as its advantages: you don't have to worry about the money income (unless it's your job), you can generally focus on a specific set of tasks, you can learn a lot.

But yeah, if you can afford to start your own thing, go ahead :D I have kids to feed, so my tolerance to risk is low :)

Lol i doubt i will have kids, so. .

But i really wanna be successful, share the wealth, and fulfill my dreams

Then you might want to read this book: the1thing.com

It states the obvious, but often we need to be reminded of it.

That's the story of half the best books I own.

Yes. Do you think they have their use?

Well my phone is going crazy. What is the ONE thing?

Also i do not have $16

Then your ONE thing is to find a way to find 16$ :P

Also pretty much i wanna start a studio and give back to local church and be happy

Do you think your local library has it?

Eh... probably not. I am unsure if the library is still there to be honest

Hardly anyone still goes in there

@AlexandreVaillancourt Morining :P

Morning

@Kevin well it turned out that they the same thing as in old and new version. i found the answer in the wrong site stackoverflow, I studied programming, as long as they serve the same functionality and you can swap them and get the same functionality, they are pretty much the same thing. it doesn't matter how the implementation looks like as long as they serve the same logic

morning matt

How are ya, fido?

I am good, how about you?

Good.

Did a little bit of work on my RPG, now walking in woods and stuff

I trying to make a render engine so I am learning directx and moving between version 9 and 11

Nice. That is above my pay grade, to say the least 😂

what is it that you do

@TheMattbat999 Does the Church has some kind of book sharing activities or something like that? That might be an avenue to explore :)

@AlexandreVaillancourt not really. We are a small church

We got a radio channel on the internet, however

We are trying to do stuff to involve the community.

My school library might have it. might

I will find a way to get it tho

@GabrieleVierti Hey! It's lunch time now :P

@TheMattbat999 I guess sometimes schools have budgets to buy new books for the library. Maybe you could ask them if they could buy it :)

@fido9dido i make games. Just a high school kid tho, so bothing is fancy looking

@AlexandreVaillancourt they might

@fido9dido a screenshot from my RPG

Me fighting a skeleton, wolf, and rat

hopefully the silence is a good thing

If everything else looks hand-made, to keep a bit more homogeneity, you might want to re-redraw the texture of the walls and the floors, but you most likely already have plans for this :)

Um... no plans to change those textures alas.

I could, but i am a horrible texture guy

Well... idk i could...

Dang it now i am considering it

hahaha

Well... i tried drawing a grass texture and it looked like crap

Lemme see if i still got a pic of that

nice, it looks like final fantasy

the early one

Lol

That second pic i uploaded was before i changed the grqss texture. Looked way too flat

I am also considering, instead dumbing down terrain, upgrade entity textures

I think the most important thing is that all the graphics seem to follow the same style.

Yeah that is why entites gonna fet new graphics

Well new textures

👍

Either way, textures should match up better in dtyle

Trust me, i am not simply shrugging off suggestions

I have been considering how i could upload game to the net so you guys could try it for yourselves...

Oh I did not take it this way, don't worry :)

Ok good.

Usually people here on SE dislike ne because they think i simply shrug off their statements or suggestions.

Or because i sometimes have .mixed emotions about something

Or they do not like what i stand for.

Ya know, the usual stuff

@DukeZhou

He needs to come back

Bah... there is rubber-duck as a tag for this channel... someone can come here, ask for stuff and it will help them continue, even if they did not "accept" the suggestions...

I guess it depends on who you ask..

Hmmm

@AlexandreVaillancourt i just mean that they see me as a troll or whatever

@AlexandreVaillancourt Oh that's great ahahahahahaa :D

@TheMattbat999 Ah, I haven't noticed.

@AlexandreVaillancourt well that is good to know

The 80:20 rule :P

Yep.

Been through that situation in the meme before

Well that's a programmer's life. Create problems just to fix them :P

But when it does work you get a rush of joy

Yes! 🎉

By the way, qhen did this room get so dead? Uh oh i got to go

"so dead" is subjective :)

yup

we are still alive and healthy here :P

btw, i think the meme should say "well yes, but only if you write the right code"

the computer is 99.999999999% never wrong, it's pretty much always your fault :D

@GabrieleVierti the question posed is whether the code written is correct

"well no, but actually yes" :P