Game Development - 2020-08-07

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12:29 AM

Is this too broad?

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Q: Optimizing spawning 500 objects every 3 seconds

Using Object Pooling, assuming I'll like to spawn 500 cubes once every three seconds. How do I make it performance friendly? I need ideas, not the code itself.

unity c# optimization

@DMGregory could use that feature to make a core war style game!

I think there are decent answers for that one, like using ECS, but we could certainly make better answers with more context about what these 500 cubes every 3 seconds need to do / what they represent in the game.

12:59 AM

hello!

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

1:18 AM

good evening!

How are ya, Arthur?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

fine, just kinda in a food coma because I ate too much mc donalds

o o f

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

hahah

hope ya don't die from all that grease ;]

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

1:21 AM

i feel like i am already \o/

and you, how are you today? :D

i am doing alright.

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

cool! Working too much lately?

nah, maybe not enough, lol.

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

hahah, by you saying that i'm sure you are doing a lot already, don't put yourself down :)

well, did some yard work, made a bit of cash, and been adding enemy death animations to my game

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

1:32 AM

see, that is a lot for a day! We have our own pace and time to create! :D But I do feel the same often.. xD

Well, i still have a while before i go to bed. I play on having all enemies done, and add a few more equitable items

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

yeah, that's a good plan for relaxing before bed, hahah

ye. you got anything else planned for today?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

hmm, today before leaving the computer i think i'll rewrite and program in a more clear and legible way my saving and loading files system.. My code was a mess, now i'm using a new formatting

Oh? What sorta project are you working on?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

1:39 AM

just a simple unity game of editing terrain and building, not too big, I guess

Oh noice! I am using Unity also!

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

cool!! what's your game about??

It is a fantasy Role Play game, in which the player is tasked with determining the fate of a legendary artifact called the Amulet of Light. Whoever wields it can control the cycle of night and day.

rn, the only ending is where the player defeats the vampires trying to steal it, but i wanna add another where they aid the vampires instead

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

wow, that's a great story! I've been watching some games in youtube that show a second ending only after you follow secret steps, hahah

yas, i might do something like that

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

1:46 AM

cool! Nice to read you have all going smooth! Any bugs implementing animations so far?

not too much, really. i had to adjust some of the objects' weights so that bigger enemies don't instantly go flying

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

hahah

also had a full issues with a few particle effects, but i think i got them fixed

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

these issues are so awful to deal with when we don't find a solution fast \o/ I've been going through a lot of them lately, so I started recoding

oof..

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

1:54 AM

first time i was going to implement animations i didn't know what the settings did, and simple "bugs" showed. if i had someone with experience to show me the solutions...!

like, setting an animation to be able to animate to itself and the animation getting stuck at the first frame. it's kinda crazy, lol

oof... are you scripting it in?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

i am! \o/ but just for processing the attack, and controlling the speed of its animation. Unity handles the others

i don't know if it's a good idea, but i don't have much experience with it yet

it kinda worked well, lol

may i see your code, if you are ok with it?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

oh, ok, no problem, it's kinda messy, if you don't mind

it's fine, i am used to ugly code :]

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

2:00 AM

ok, it's not long, where can i paste it to show you?

uh, here ig?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

ok

[NonSerialized]float _motion_time;
[NonSerialized]float _motion_timeNormalized;
[NonSerialized]int _attackStanceSet;
[NonSerialized]float prevSpeed=1;
[NonSerialized]public float AnimatorDetectHorizontalMoveAdjustment=1f/3f;
[NonSerialized]Vector3 _horizontalMoveSpeed;
[NonSerialized]public float AnimatorDetectTurnAngleAdjustment=1f+1f/3f;
[NonSerialized]Vector3 _lastForwardDir;
[NonSerialized]float _turnAngleInRad;
[NonSerialized]public bool BackwardAvailable=false;
void LateUpdate(){
if(Actor.PauseAnimator){

hmmm... it seems all your stuff is in place... maybe use print(); in certain parts of your code, that way the editor console will show what is going on?

just a suggestion, animation is not my expertise

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

oh, ok, thanks! Of course, every suggestion is appreciated, i'll do that later!! :D i'm doing the file edit stuff now. a lot of try{}catch{} xD

oki

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

2:10 AM

i'm waiting for my lawyer for a doc i can put in my github project/repository so i can open it to public. I plan to let it be used freely except for comercial purposes, then it's case by case

hmmm... interesting

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

i wish to help other coders and keep all my stuff open. But i'm really affraid to have it stolen from me because it's kinda my life project

:P

dang.

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

it's the only thing i know how to do, lol

code

but i never published a game before

Well, you will figure it out

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

2:19 AM

and you, how many did you publish?? The feeling must be so good! \o/

i haven't published one either ;-;

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

ooh, I feel so much anxiety. But at the same time, I keep dreaming for the day! xD
I think I won't have too much content in my first version, but as we have today the internet and the possibility of "early access/alpha/beta", I think I'll add more content with time

your game has story, characters, I think you are closer than me

i've been working on it for... 2 and half years now.

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

nice!! do not give up!! Creating something new from nothing takes a lot of time!!

yes, yes.

it has been a huge learning process to.

i rewrote all the scripts at one point

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

2:28 AM

wow

i rewrote my scripts, like, ten times, lol blush

oof

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

so-much-spaghetti

understandable, my code is pretty ugly too

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

sometimes I feel like trash because I can't resolve a bug. other people make it look like so easy. but it's not for me, it's difficult. :P

Nah, don't beat yourself up

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

2:35 AM

lately i've been feeling better. but sometimes the way people talk, i know it's not personal, but at the end i kinda took it personal, it was not healthy. But now I've been working on that feeling, I guess i'm more mature. \o/

I do understand the feeling of seeing someone who clearly knows more than you discuss topics

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

yeah, i just don't know it and then, I think "ok, I'm going to listen and learn". But like, i'm not totally worthless, I did create a terrain based on the marching cubes algorithm. Many people did, sure, but it's not "nothing", I did have to read a lot, test a lot, go through the weirdest bugs

I honestly couldn't do that

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

i'm planning to open my code to public so everyone can use it to learn too, whenever they want

noice

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

2:44 AM

"I honestly couldn't do that"
like, to my beliefs, and after understanding the algorithm, I'm sure you can if you want! don't say that, hahah.

I think it's not your objective now, so you are doing the animations, the story, the art. That's something I can't nowThat's something

i am mainly doing a bunch of fit and finish, i just put off doing that last set of animation

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

it's still something I can't do. at least for now.

i'd have yet to train and test a lot before I can do what you are doing now

nah, i am no expert, i promise you

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

xD lol, like, i'm not either. it's just I believe we shouldn't say we can't do something, it's just maybe we don't have the spare time, or we need to practice before.

ye...

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

2:53 AM

anyway!! how you doing with those animations there? Are the characters 2D or 3D?

3d, but they are stupid simple. you can probably scroll up and find some gifs i put up

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

@TheMattbat999 beautiful!!!

Thanks!

i am going for a more retro-style, since that is easier

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

nice! is that a castle? i loved it! did you build it?
The terrain is great, full of obstacles, mountains, did you model it with Unity's Terrain?

snow looks great!!! :D

yep. and that is an abandoned fort i was testing at, been in the game since the very beginning, although i have moved the layout around a lot since then

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:01 AM

the map looks so much fun to explore, are there going to be "monsters"[enemies] apart from vampires?

like, it's like a skyrim starting area, lol

yes, rn there are 22 enemies.

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

snowy, full of mountains, castle

wow

22?! cool! Did you make the AI for them already?

there are 3 main islands: Isle de Mire, Solsavire, and Morogar. and yes, they all run off of the same Ai, althoug certain variables are unique to each

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

cool!!

Mire is the first island, featuring multiple terrains, Solsavire is a snowy wasteland, and Morogar is a volcanic island

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:06 AM

are you going to put like "traps", for example, volcanoes exploding if the character goes too close, or deadly cold lakes in the wasteland?

i thought about it, but none yet.

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

i love snowy wastelands. even more when there's a safe house with a bonfire right in the middle of it, lol, so cosy

the southern half of Solsavire is somewhat settled, but the northern half is pretty desolate

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

are there going to be good npcs?

yes, yes, plenty of those, the islands are more of a frontier. Like, to the west is the more settled down lands of Centaria and Avelaroar, while these islands (the Trinity Islands) are the frontier

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:11 AM

ooh, so exciting!! When you launch your game, please call me, i want to play it!!

Ok! Well, i have a free download link if ya wanna try this incomplete version-

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

sure!

do you have Windows, Mac, or Linux?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

windows 10

ok, it's downloading xD

i love creating AIs

noice

ima delete that link now

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:15 AM

i was starting to create my AIs some weeks ago. I finished the movement and the "combat"[just move to and start attack], but that was all for now. My character first skill was Ragnarök's homunculus Amstir's Castling

lol

just a teleport skill

noice. that is most of my enemey's Ai, although they also will wander around their area when the player is not close to them.

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

the story coming up in slow motion, lol

y e s

should i speed that up?

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

a little, lol

like, i could go away feed my cat and go back and still didn't move up enough, hahah

that first rat is scary

lol

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:23 AM

i can't seem to find the way to aim up or down

there isn't, but you won't need it

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

oh, ok

the npc's red eyes looking at me are scarier than the rat's, lol, but everything is going smooth so far

LOL

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

"where am i"
"in the tutorial, silly"

"need help on a project"
"no"

LOL

y e s

his last bit will get you outta there

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:30 AM

i loved the city but i'm kinda lost with the controls, i sometimes shoot the npcs, lol

maybe strafe with a and d and turn camera with arrows, if there's no mouse usage?

oohh

qwe, no asd, plus arrows, got it

@Arthur'Gibraltar'Condino use QWEASD to move, RTFGH to attack

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

i found a hidden chest!!! But it had nothing inside, lol, i forgot to talk to the guy in the inn, going back

all chests have stuff inside, check your inventory

brb, shower

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:46 AM

it had a book.

found a helmet

noice

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

i got to level 2, i guess. There was an evil cloud following me in the city, i ran away in panic. lol

not going back that way, ever

LOL that was probably a ghost

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

hahah

they are pretty tough

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

3:52 AM

sometimes i can't aim to the enemy before it gets to me, it takes a long time to turn. like maneuvering a car, lol, but i'm enjoying the game

in the options menu, you can adjust the look sensitivity

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Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

i did, it's better now xD

good!

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

idk what did unity do and the camera rotation can be done with arrows, so my brain like
auto-changed to move forward and strafe with q w e and rotate with arrows

what ever floats ya boat. don't forget you can walk backwards

Arthur 'Gibraltar' Condino

4:02 AM

ok! xD

i'm going to need to save and continue later! gotta prepare to sleep. tomorrow i'll play more and give you feedback on the quests! found the gost questline, lol. And your game is really "grabbing the attention", there are things to do, there's combat, exp, rpg attributes, it's already full of resources, places to explore, caves, i loved it!!!
Congrats for all your hard work and this amazing result!! :D

ghost*

13 hours later…

4:47 PM

@Arthur'Gibraltar'Condino thanks for trying my game out!

also proud i actually posted something semi-useful on this site

@TheMattbat999 At some point you'll probably realize you know a lot more than what you think you do :P

@Vaillancourt maybe so :}

ALSO i took your suggestion, and now some enemies go up in a puff of smoke (or flames/mass of leaves, depending on their respective element)

@TheMattbat999 Hey, that's a good idea!

@Vaillancourt so Vampires go up in a puff of black smoke, Yetis go up in a puff of icy fog, Fire Elementals explode upon death, and Life Elementals shoot leaves out everywhere

That's good :)

4:54 PM

I also took the time to change the Life Elemental model, since previously, it was just a recolor of the Fire Elemental

Model reuse as a first step is OK, you need data to work with!

ye, but the model itself didn't fit them well

since the Fire Elemental is based on Solrock from Pokemon

My knowledge of Pokémon is limited.

hold on, i will find an image :}

I found one :)

It's cute ;)

4:57 PM

yes, my Fire Elementals are a cycloptic version, pretty much

5:09 PM

Cool :)

5:19 PM

ok, i think i only have a handful more enemies to finish up, and i will have gotten the animations done

(y)

nephew is forcing me too take occasional breaks :}

Ah, those kids...

he just runs in, slings a toy in my hand, plays for a minute or two, then takes it backs and runs off

Oh, well that's easy stuff ;)

5:31 PM

yes. funny and confusing

5:58 PM

aight, time to get work done

2 hours later…

7:56 PM

Since it was recently mentioned in a what'cha all playin' convo, here's a GDC Summer talk follow up about the dev of Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Ooh, thanks!

You're welcome! Was hoping I wasn't recycling things that have already hit the collective radar.

Interesting to see that it was several different things as it made it's way thru the dev process.

I also like that at one point it was "simplified as “Fruit Ninja in space” ".

A couple of times I've felt my own stuff to be too reductionist - chances are it probably wasn't.

Sounded like the full thing will be on the GDC vault at some later date. Something to look forward to.

Hardspace is loads of fun

it's not even done

2 (or more) digit hours loads of fun?

Not trying to be reductionist - more wondering about the depth of systems / skill ceiling...

8:21 PM

I am at 24 hours of play

Still on the first campaign, still trying to be good enough to tackle the "no deaths allowed" version

I had a really good session going, and I cut into some glass, forgot to check if that room was still pressurized. When the air blew out, a floating thing in the room smashed my helmet and killed me.

It's got this really interesting "boring kind of like a job" vibe punctuated by moments of intense stress.

The controls are so fun; once you untether yourself from trying to keep your head "up" and operating at 90 degree angles to things, it gets to be even more fun.

I can't recommend this highly enough to people who enjoy what I call "controller challenges".

Challenges are not yet released, and they add a new ship about every week or two.

clips.twitch.tv/ChillyNastyFishVoteYea

here's what happened when I was going to fast, and tried to grapple with a stationary object to pull myself toward it

I get out of single digit hours on single player games very seldom

1 hour later…

9:31 PM

Hi

9:52 PM

Hello

How are ya, DMG?

Doing alright. Wrapping up for the day and on my way to pick up some pizza for our end-of-week tradition. :)

Noice, Noice

Nearly snapped my controller testing the game build today. XD Streaming lag is not my friend.

How are you doing?

ooof. i am doing fine, finally finished all of the enemy death animations, added a torch for the player to carry around

10:13 PM

Very nice.

not sure what i wanna do next tho.

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