lounge

[quasi mantle]

And selling bootleg consoles.

[deep glen]

a zelda to the future

[thin aspen]

Which is the point that they seem to miss

[hollow dawn]

uhm, discord crashed, now everything is so narrow lol

[fleet tangle]

A break to the future!

[trail wedge]

The Legend of Link: Earthwards Axe

[hollow dawn]

squeeze me discord baby

[fleet tangle]

Hit maximise.

[deep glen]

exhale of the tamed

[thin aspen]

Ice pendant?

[fleet tangle]

Dawn Spinster.

[quasi mantle]

Go seek for the Naniteforce

[hollow dawn]

not working :/

[fleet tangle]

Hit minimise first?

[deep glen]

charted

[quasi mantle]

use the magic bullet

[deep glen]

XD

[fleet tangle]

Manbat!

[quasi mantle]

Now hits #1 heavy rotation on Billboard Spotify

[hollow dawn]

🍆 its just a purple cucumber

[trail wedge]

Gun -> Shoot Computer -> Task Ends

[trail wedge]

no... but watermelons are just sweet cucumbers

[fleet tangle]

Lol

[quasi mantle]

[hollow dawn]

cucumbers are berries

[deep glen]

"the Reals"

[trail wedge]

lol is your bank self hosted on your desktop?

[quasi mantle]

Simply call a scammer completely real tech support

[thin aspen]

Glass piston liquid

[hollow dawn]

"It was a “baby wormhole,” according to Caltech physicist Maria Spiropulu," People come to me and they ask me, ‘Can you put your dog in the wormhole?’ no,” ...CNN -.-

[fleet tangle]

Oh dear.

[hollow dawn]

https://tenor.com/view/jinsoulery-jinsoulburger-sad-dog-gif-22585005

[fleet tangle]

Some people are idiots.

Some=most

[hollow dawn]

poeple sent Laika to space.... she never came back... what is it with astrophysicist and dogs....

[fleet tangle]

I wonder if they'd get hits on Steam, though.

Poor Laika.

[broken sigil]

I'm getting mixed signals here 😅

[quasi mantle]

Girls und Panzer, but the girls are the panzers themselves.

[celest musk]

https://tenor.com/view/absolutely-outstanding-bgt-britains-got-talent-spectacular-excellent-gif-19920318

[subtle hatch]

no context

[unborn lotus]

Woah looks like the callisto protocol is off to a bad start

[deep copper]

which one is callisto protocol?

[regal pecan]

Looks like a Dead Space homage.

[unborn lotus]

Yup

21% negative reviews 😬

[cursive crypt]

And here, I was thinking about a new ethernet/infiniband protocols.

[unborn lotus]

Well it is made with UE4

[cursive crypt]

eww

[cursive crypt]

Not interested

[proud jay]

ngl, I think jonathan blow thinks way too highly of himself

I used to like the guy because of his games

but "getting to know him" he's a real pompous bastard

yeah don't know him personally either 😄 I meant from videos and stream snippets

he pops up in my youtube recommended quite often cause I'm into programming and tech

he kinda reminds me a bit of terry davis, but instead of a mental health issue, it's just his personality

just make one successful game and live of it for the rest of your life

easy

[broken sigil]

Oh you are? I wouldn't have guessed

[proud jay]

ok I lied, I'm really into 🥔 farming, and his face kinda looks like a 🥔 so I guess youtube algorithm got confused

braid and the witness

at least that's where he got his money

[broken sigil]

Can confirm, it's fun
Recently was working on a designer friendly, simple interpreted scripting language (with a visual interface) that guides and controls our asset import and organization tools and have to say that is probably one of the most fun things I was paid to do

[proud jay]

I feel like if I made a scripting language, it would just become one of the language I already know pretty much lol

like idk what I would change about languages

still waiting for operator¯_(ツ)_/¯

[broken sigil]

Operator<-–—··—©™>()?

Looks like perfection to me

[cursive crypt]

Isn't that operator for co_await ?

[ancient ingot]

lalala la la lalalalala la la laaaaaaaaaaaaa

@proud jay make me coffee? 😄

[proud jay]

no u

[foggy path]

Has anyone tried using RealityCapture now that they made it free? 🤔

I tried doing a scan yesterday out of curiosity to see how well it works and... it's just been stuck in "processing"

[ancient ingot]

not yet

waiting for my iphone 14 to turn up

[proud jay]

hope it was as a company expense

[ancient ingot]

no....

UPDATE 2/12/22: Ubisoft has now officially confirmed its Assassin's Creed and Destiny crossover event, which will see sci-fi armour for sale in Valhalla later this month, as well as AC styles in Destiny 2.

oooooooooo

and @sand oxide good morning 🌹

my copy of Dante's Inferno arrived this morning ♥️

[brisk salmon]

That's a really tough piece of literature to crack. Worth it in the end though

[ancient ingot]

yeah it looks like a good read though.

[brisk salmon]

Your first time reading it?

[ancient ingot]

yeah, ive been meaning to get it for a while

[brisk salmon]

Oh very nice then, enjoy! Would love to hear what you think of it when you're done

[proud jay]

rip gonna be broke

[proud jay]

the book?

[ancient ingot]

yes

[ancient ingot]

nooo

[proud jay]

that shit's expensive

[ancient ingot]

£1200

[proud jay]

yeah rip

[fleet tangle]

£1200 for a book?

[proud jay]

isn't dante's inferno like annoying to read cause it's like a 200 page poem

[fleet tangle]

Was it hand written by Dante?

[proud jay]

I assume that was the iphone

[fleet tangle]

Oh.

[proud jay]

you can read dante's inferno for free on google books

if you want

at least the dutch version

[brisk salmon]

reading something like Dante's inferno should ideally be done on paper, for the experience. Most libraries should have it

[fleet tangle]

I really need to replace my phone, it's a second hand s8+ I got like 5 years ago from a friend for cheap.

(it has numerous issues)

[proud jay]

I thought paper books were all about the experience as well

[fleet tangle]

But they're all so expensive to actually get a better phone.

[proud jay]

but then I got an ereader ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fleet tangle]

Paper books are good for being on book shelves.

[proud jay]

yeah

that's what I miss the most tbh

[ancient ingot]

nothing beats the smell of a new book

[proud jay]

filling up my shelf

[fleet tangle]

I generally buy the paper book and pirate the ebook.

[proud jay]

I wish more stores would sell them as a combo

might be less inclined to download them legally

this sounds weird but I can't break rule 5

[quasi mantle]

#StutterStruggle?

[fleet tangle]

Rule 5?

[brisk salmon]

5. Don't encourage or facilitate piracy.

[fleet tangle]

I still reckon games should be sold cross platform so when you buy one, you can play it anywhere. It's a pipe dream.

[quasi mantle]

It will be a while before developers catch up to 5.1 and reduce runtime stutter across the board.

[fleet tangle]

It'll never happen for books, not mainstream anyway.

[quasi mantle]

Though it must be said that this only happen in PC with current gen graphics API. Consoles don't have variable setup like PCs so this is a non-issue for consoles

[proud jay]

amazon used to have something for it

but they canned it

there was also an app shelfie to get the books you have as ebook free or at a discount

but also canned

[fleet tangle]

Probably because it didn't make them more money.

[quasi mantle]

For English books, probably
But IMO manga (not to be confused with webtoons) are more accessible in print form, legally.

[fleet tangle]

I mean, if I bought a book and the ebook was an extra £1-2, I'd totally buy it.

I just don't like the whole digital asset thing.

[proud jay]

same

just having them on the shelf is nice

you can look at it and feel accomplishment of what you read

and dread what is left to be read

[ancient ingot]

sat here for 10 mins trying to figure out why this piece of code has the dam red Squiggly and i haven't added the include 😐 🤦‍♂️

[fleet tangle]

Hehe, yeah.

[fleet tangle]

If you mouse over the squiggly, it'll tell you what's up.

[ancient ingot]

yeah it did but it didnt make sense at the time lol

i hate cpp 😡

[thin aspen]

Is there anyway one of you can just write my code for me and let me take the credit

[quasi mantle]

revshare with pump and dump cryptocoin?

[thin aspen]

You know me well

[ancient ingot]

Genius

[lime saffron]

What code do you need?

[thin aspen]

MMO rpg/fps for the PlayStation 6 it’s gonna be call of duty but better

Pay?!?!?!? No this would be for free totally out of the kindness of your heart

[lime saffron]

Write an AI for it

[thin aspen]

It’s also gotta be able to use NFT’s and blockchain

[fleet tangle]

Willing to bet this doesn't get anywhere near as much coverage as the Russia stuff.

[lime saffron]

I just checked some Google and it seems as if the situation deescalated since 2022

[proud jay]

if you compile it makes even more sense

[ancient ingot]

thats where ive been going wrong all these years 😂

[quasi mantle]

And then unity build doesn't exclude your classes.

I wish it's possible to compile the engine with unity build but not the project files

[ancient ingot]

😂 dream on

[proud jay]

that's a good song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89dGC8de0CA

[quasi mantle]

I mean, holy shit, if it weren't for unity build doesn't exclude my project codes, it would've gone faster by now. But then disabling it also affect engine code, which makes compiling even slower (and eats up my storage)

[proud jay]

just don't use a source build

easy fix

[quasi mantle]

haha funny

[proud jay]

is it?

[quasi mantle]

I'm not one of those guys using source build just for dedicated server 😛

[proud jay]

if you only need to make engine changes sometimes, you can make a binary build of your engine version

that's what we did

I had source on my machine, did the adjustments we needed

packaged it to new engine binaries and gave that to artists

since we only needed a few small tweaks

[quasi mantle]

Except I haven't done ironing out the problems after porting the changes with rendering code from 4.27 to 5.1, and I'm (still) burnt out to do so

Well, my custom shading model works except the specular, I might left out changes needed

[proud jay]

what did you change about source

[quasi mantle]

Custom shading model (ported from UE4, specular doesn't work for now, considering to do a bit of refactor on it)
Fixed wide aspect ratio FOV (done)
Custom bloom/lens flare (done)

[lime saffron]

@fleet tangle I just read this stuff: https://www.google.com/search?q=armenia+attack+2020&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj9n6P1gdv7AhWjhc4BHW-yBzoQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=armenia+attack+2020&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECAAQQzoFCAAQgAQ6BAgAEB46BwgAEIAEEBM6CAgAEAUQHhATOggIABAIEB4QEzoJCAAQCBAeEMcDOgcIABCABBAYUNQDWNURYJETaABwAHgBgAG5AYgB_QeSAQQxMi4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=PvqJY_2IEaOLur4P7-Se0AM&bih=492&biw=1152&client=firefox-b-d&hl=de

Looks like they were not that oppressed after all

[fleet tangle]

Erm. Okay?

[proud jay]

that just opens google images

[fleet tangle]

Google image search isn't doing much for your credibility there.

[proud jay]

is that what I'm supposed to see?

[lime saffron]

Yeah there are a few reports

However I deleted the previous post, it was uninformed I suppose

[fleet tangle]

It's actually pretty easy.

bUseUnity = false; in the build.cs of the module

Or is it bUnityBuild?

Good good.

Lol

I've done that before.

Adding the modules to the target.cs unity exclude list.

[ancient ingot]

i want to be a treeeeeee

😂

[fleet tangle]

Branching out?

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-iliketrains-trains-gif-4905803

[ancient ingot]

rainbow!!!!!

[fleet tangle]

https://tenor.com/view/choo-choo-train-wreck-fight-gif-15994683

[ancient ingot]

i seem to have a ghost server running at Oracle 😐

lol i bet

it's up and running, but seems to be tied to none of the accounts i manage 😐

i'll protect you with flower power !! 🌹

😂 nooo

i type REALLY slow which makes this coding malarky very very slow work

[proud jay]

just type faster

5head

what is really slow?

like 20 wpm?

[ancient ingot]

probably like.. 50

[hollow dawn]

better to type slow ant crafül then to mage mißdages

[ancient ingot]

lol

[proud jay]

have you never tried to learn typing faster?

at least you use all your fingers I hope?

[hollow dawn]

thats what assitants are for

[ancient ingot]

i use 8 fingers

[hollow dawn]

worked in the wood industry?

[proud jay]

like which are you not using?

[ancient ingot]

my thumbs

i hate using my thumbs

but im just weird so

[proud jay]

how do you press space

[hollow dawn]

thats why spacebar is huge, so clumsy thumbs can slam it

[ancient ingot]

with my index fginger

[proud jay]

wtf

[ancient ingot]

finger*

[hollow dawn]

O.o

[ancient ingot]

lol

[proud jay]

how do you live with yourself

[ancient ingot]

i know weird right

[proud jay]

I swear if you just used your thumbs your wpm would go up at least 10%

[ancient ingot]

i only ever use my thumbs for space when gaming

😮

[fleet tangle]

Alt is thumb territory too

[proud jay]

what method

wait, you look at your keyboard while typing?

omg

[ancient ingot]

only reaon i find coding harder than normal typing is all them stupid special characters

[proud jay]

how

[ancient ingot]

i do too

most of the time

[proud jay]

lol

how do you type fast with 2 fingers lol

[fleet tangle]

I never look at my keyboard.

Right now, I'm not even facing in the direction of my keyboard.

[hollow dawn]

you could build a mashine that moves the keyboard to those two fingers

[ancient ingot]

@sand oxide that's it, we are now outcasts 😂

[proud jay]

revolutionary

[fleet tangle]

I imagine it's like the knife game, darting in between your fingers.

[ancient ingot]

it took me about 15 seconds to type this

    WeaponMesh->SetCollisionResponseToChannel(ECollisionChannel::ECC_Pawn, ECollisionResponse::ECR_Ignore);```

[fleet tangle]

Just with keys.

That's a lot time, it should tkae about 2s with autocomplete.

[hollow dawn]

sometimes, being the noob blueprinter, makes you feel smug

[ancient ingot]

i dont use autocomplete much, it normally breaks on me

[fleet tangle]

It breaks on me all the time with tmap and tset

No, I don't want to call emplace. Damn it.

[ancient ingot]

lmao

[hollow dawn]

did you know, blueprints and materials have different node shortcuts... like m and * for multiply

[ancient ingot]

what is a blueprint?

😛

[fleet tangle]

Baby don't code me?

[proud jay]

[hollow dawn]

its the stuff people with finger disorders usually do

[ancient ingot]

😂 im joining

[hollow dawn]

less typing, more pictures

performance is a user issue

[ancient ingot]

pictures of margot robbie too ?

[hollow dawn]

oh go watch Amsterdam, shes pretty there

[proud jay]

send noots

https://youtu.be/K0nCC0sPSes

[ancient ingot]

ooo

i cannot watch that for 4 minutes Dieter! lol

[fleet tangle]

Whenever I see candid pictures of celebs, they always look utterly awful.

[ancient ingot]

she looks nice there

just a "normal" pic

[hollow dawn]

normal instagramm pic

[fleet tangle]

You could probably make anyone look good with enough photoshopping and makeup.

[proud jay]

is that underwear or a sexy diaper

it looks diaper fabric

[hollow dawn]

hotpants dieter, hotpants... theyre hot

[fleet tangle]

And pants.

[ancient ingot]

hot..nevermind

[proud jay]

why the fuck does the win 11 font window use different text for the different font samples

that's so dumb

makes it more difficult to compare

who thought that was a good idea

[ancient ingot]

😂 oops

[quasi mantle]

Ah, I thought it doesn't work, I'll try it again later

[quasi mantle]

Seems like they stole it from Google Fonts

[deep copper]

so you can't even type what text you want to compare either ? now that's bad

[fleet tangle]

I don't think I'd be lulled to sleep if somebody mooned me.

[proud jay]

no

[proud jay]

you can, on another screen, for the one font that you selected

[deep copper]

google fonts atleast allows you to write whatever and compare then and there i believe right?

[deep copper]

awesome! i knew it worked in some way!!

[proud jay]

nice I restarted my pc and now my start menu is broken

thanks bill gates

[deep copper]

i thought people said win 11 was good

[fleet tangle]

But apparently Win11 with StartBack (?) is better than Win10!!!

[proud jay]

roasted in thumbnail

[quasi mantle]

Yes and no

[fleet tangle]

You've just got to be suspicious of anyone called "bank man"

Whose name is almost "bank man fraud"

[unborn lotus]

my only concern - do you still keep your apps and everything after installing?

[proud jay]

apps?

[quasi mantle]

The taskbar got nerfed quite hard: Initially you can't drag something to an icon to bring up the app, you (still) can't reposition the taskbar

[proud jay]

you mean programs?

[quasi mantle]

Yes, if you upgrade from W10 and prior

[unborn lotus]

yep

[proud jay]

yeah that works fine

[fleet tangle]

I like my vertical taskbar. 😦

[proud jay]

not being able to reposition the taskbar is fucking aids though

[unborn lotus]

ah I'm terrified of redoing all my configs again

[proud jay]

and you can hack it with the registry, but then it's barely functional

[quasi mantle]

Putting it to the top broke it so hard lol

[fleet tangle]

So what you're saying is, Win11 is the "every other version of Windows" that has the aids curse?

[unreal ether]

Just seen this and it's sooo dumb.

Why can't they stick with the usual "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

If I'm changing fonts I want to know what every letter looks like damnit

[deep copper]

oh no, i use that a lot

[unreal ether]

I love my taskbar too

One more reason to not upgrade

[fleet tangle]

It's clearly specist.

[brisk salmon]

I really can't say I have strong feelings for my taskbar, it's just a rectangle after all....

[unborn lotus]

I had a coworker always using a thick right side vertical taskbar

[unreal ether]

Traitor!

[brisk salmon]

🤷‍♂️ If they made it square then I'd have a problem. For like 5 seconds, maybe

[deep copper]

it's useful for dragging and dropping for me .. the only feature which is now gone

[quasi mantle]

They do brought it back in recent update, but it should've been there on day 1

[deep copper]

well not like i was planning to upgrade anyway

[quasi mantle]

It is one regression that I hated the most

[brisk salmon]

I dont know what you're talking about and I'm too afraid I'll have FOMO if i found out

[deep copper]

it sounds more unstable and chaotic than ue5.0

[deep copper]

fomo?

[unreal ether]

It took me like 3 years to upgrade from win 7. I have a strong feeling a similar thing will be happening now

[unreal ether]

Fear of missing out

[brisk salmon]

fear of missing out

[deep copper]

ah

well, yeah, it was super useful. it's difficult to explain in text

so no fomo!

[proud jay]

I'm a top bar kinda guy myself

[brisk salmon]

I learned using computers on 4 different computers, each running something different, and owned by someone else. I guess that made me easy-going when it comes to features

[unreal ether]

I'm a bottom bar with centered icons kind of guy myself

[proud jay]

then you'll love win11

[unborn lotus]

hands up who else is a bottom kind of guy

[proud jay]

you should ask that question on grindr

[quasi mantle]

Me as well

[unreal ether]

I won't tho...
I have seen win11. It looks horrific

[brisk salmon]

Its really not that bad

[deep copper]

win 10 felt kinda awkward at first too

[quasi mantle]

But it would be nice if I can position it on the top for a moment, as I can have something obscuring the clock on my desk

[deep copper]

my sister kept it on the side

right side

[quasi mantle]

It's where macOS and Linux DEs like GNOME and Ubuntu's Unreal Unity DE got it perfect for me

[brisk salmon]

Have you considered a watch? But yeah, I've got the same issue with my headset blocking something at times

[quasi mantle]

My current watch broke lol
I'm going to buy one of those Casio hybrid calculator watch thing

[proud jay]

a calculator watch?

[quasi mantle]

Yes.

[proud jay]

why

how often do you calculate things lol

[deep copper]

for emergency math

[brisk salmon]

That's brilliant. I think watches are such a cool opportunity to represent someone as a person - making unique watches amazing

[quasi mantle]

Sometimes when I'm away from computer and need a quick calculation

[deep copper]

watches are generally so small with their input area though

[quasi mantle]

And no, I'm not going to grab smart watches

[proud jay]

and you don't have a phone?

[brisk salmon]

Why is everyone hating on the watch??

[proud jay]

I'd get buying it for style

but not for practicality

I'm not hating

[quasi mantle]

I do, but it's slower to turn it on and open the calc app

[proud jay]

I just don't see the use

[brisk salmon]

Would you settle for a practicality style?

[deep copper]

because watches have become more cumbersome than phones to use for its functions

[proud jay]

what does that even mean

[deep copper]

well analog watches are still quick with time

[quasi mantle]

Also plain old LCD calculator watch because I don't need to recharge it every so often

[deep copper]

idk what a calculator watch is like but it can't have buttons bigger than a phone calculator, which would be my issue

also tiny output display i imagine

[brisk salmon]

You get many different ones though

[quasi mantle]

Though I've seen many Casio ones share similar profiles

[hollow dawn]

is that fir people with really tiny fingers?

[deep copper]

that is kinda tiny yeah

or that person is a giant

[quasi mantle]

I have large fingers but those are easy to use, particularly protruding button ones

Not the kind of flat membrane ones though

Also it's the same as the one seen in Back to the Future

[deep copper]

a big watch is impractical to wear and has risk of getting damages easily and added weight, so they will have to keep it small, like you say, the button type could be the saving grace only

[brisk salmon]

Don't go destroying my pip-boy dreams with your realism

[deep copper]

pip-boy?

[proud jay]

seems I have a lot to learn about the factorio oil business

[quasi mantle]

Fallout

[proud jay]

I'm just plonking some hit down and hoping for the best

[brisk salmon]

I haven't played factorio in ages

[quasi mantle]

Also hey, I found one CA-53W (the one in BttF) with good price deal
I'm going to order one later

[brisk salmon]

Nice!

[quasi mantle]

All the other ones listed for around $33, I found one for $20, hope the sale isn't gone by the time I got the money

[brisk salmon]

That's a pretty decent price, in my country they go for the equivalent of $40

[hollow dawn]

sometimes pathtracer really goes bonkers lol... all renders 3-4mb, suddenly one with 16mb... and its just uhm, abstract art XD

gee... and i gotta redo all those fine gifs and upsize to 400px cus artstation is picky -.-

ragdolphins

[quasi mantle]

So the anime group I'm part in were collectively mad about the new font lol

Maybe it's my programmere eye playing tricks on me that I liked the new fonts, because it does look like monospace fonts. Or maybe I have mild case of dyslexia without me knowing it (I've seen some discussions that those shape were supposed to assist on dyslexia)

At least I have yet to wear glasses though.

I'm going to eventually wear one if I can't go for laser surgery

[hollow dawn]

why not go for a stylish monocle?

https://tenor.com/view/danielbruhl-kingsman-monocle-gif-21318822

moustache optional

[brisk salmon]

This isn't a moustache though

[hollow dawn]

hu? no lol, thats why its optional... monocles look good with or without a moustache... but a moustache can help against blinding sunglare, like those black stripes that football players have under theyr eyes sometimes

[brisk salmon]

Totally not gonna use this as an excuse for my own moustache

[hollow dawn]

doing a mouvember?

[brisk salmon]

Nah, I cant shave in general, and I really dislike trimming. This + my long hair means I've got a pretty good caveman going

[hollow dawn]

yeah, shaving and haircuts were invented to oppress us mate

and to make our facial skin sensitive and vulnerable

[brisk salmon]

Aint that the truth

[hollow dawn]

why do you think currassiers and musketeers had such fine facial hair? it prevents saber cuts! but those bare cheeks, they hurt alrdy when you merely get slapped

a proper beard is like a natural chainmail hauberk aventail

[brisk salmon]

I feel like I need to build this into my game (RPG)

[hollow dawn]

would be a fine and historicially accurate detail :D

[brisk salmon]

I'm literally keeping track of stuff like this, lemme go grab my pad and jot it down

[hollow dawn]

and random events "your beard got stuck in your jackets zipper"

[quasi mantle]

I haven't actually thought how I'll do mustaches in 3D anime

[brisk salmon]

Don't think I'm adding jackets with zippers, any other ideas?

[hollow dawn]

beards add intimidation +1, speech vs the opposing gender +2
but it also depends on the beard type i think... a thin moustache might improve rogueness... a thick one prowess

[quasi mantle]

Maybe one of those thick jackets like those in RDR2

Assuming your project takes place in later part of 19th century western

[hollow dawn]

if your beard grows really long, you become a wizard but might trip over it randomly

[brisk salmon]

relationships are LGBTQ+ appropriate, but yeah, think I can add the speech thing in the appropriate contexts...

Also definitely adding the trip over it - but only for people with magic focus

[hollow dawn]

google has some nice articles about the effects of beards, scientificially

[hollow dawn]

ye true, guess its simply intimidation, and if they like you they think such an intimidating beard will protect them and love you even more...

[proud jay]

blue science secured bois

now making sure that I don't run out of iron

fuck

I did with a whole bunch of shit in my inventory

cry

phew

recovered it in time

saved

[bleak remnant]

Ok

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/inventory-inventory-robot-restock-restocking-shelves-checking-inventory-gif-12659979

[bleak remnant]

I don't get it

[hollow dawn]

unreal 5? what you do and what happens on screen? no, noone does

[bleak remnant]

I do

[hollow dawn]

its like every single render i do, and i do like 5 in a row since doing only one doesnt work sometimes, often, so like each render looks different... light changes, quality changes, size changes, the whole thing changes... textures and all... like literally different textures

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-the-gif-24707533

[bleak remnant]

Pov me

[hollow dawn]

whats povving?

sounds lewd

[bleak remnant]

Point of view

Aka I'm super elite hacker

[brisk salmon]

Can we link spotify playlists here?

[quasi mantle]

Guess we now know who's the most perverted loungian in here

[proud jay]

I don't think there's a rule against it

[quasi mantle]

There's also doesn't seem to be a rule dictating music taste

[bleak remnant]

Link anything here except nsfw & discord links (also IP grabbers)

Well

Don't just go around advertising

[brisk salmon]

Noooo I lost it!! There was a playlist with a title something like "Feel like an 80's cyber villain hacker" - some amazing synth tunes

[hollow dawn]

80s hackers simply talked to people... they didnt have keyboards yet

"hi, im your admin, whats your password, i need to change it to something really secure"

[brisk salmon]

Isn't that modern hacking though

[hollow dawn]

guess some things never change

[quasi mantle]

I mean, you can assemble playlist of musics from Mitch Murder, Timecop1983, Com Truise, etc.

[brisk salmon]

I've got a few playlists, but really liked that one. Serves me right for not making a private copy

[hollow dawn]

check this classic tune from the actual times the retro tries to capture, you gotta type with the beat, and code somin nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiQFME5bym8

[quasi mantle]

Also I felt like it's rare to find a synthwave with real drum sounds (of course with gated/big room reverb)

[brisk salmon]

That's actually nice though

[hollow dawn]

if you enjoyed that, lets go back further
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QilYy09A-dI

that song even made it into GTA5 i believe, and other vids from that show, "the scene", are pure retro disco tunes

the words to look for, i presume, are "detroit house music 80s"

[brisk salmon]

The lyrics are distracting though, I enjoy almost all types of music, but I'm picky when vocals are involved

[hollow dawn]

at least it aint autotune lol

[brisk salmon]

I said picky, nothing about the quality of my pickyness....

Nightcore, for instance, is amazing for certain parts of the day

[hollow dawn]

one of my pers favs are the playlists and accompanying vids from this dude here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChyD12aF2M
lo fi chill house somin stuff

cool vids from early80s to 90s vhs times too

[brisk salmon]

Found it on spotify, I've got like 4 large-ish lofi playlists I listen to, know none of these songs. Giving it a listen

[hollow dawn]

many of those lists have a few songs in common which seem somewhat famous, the wynona rider voice over one for example, you prolly will come across it haha, super chill tune

ah, here ya go XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9qA3WJInk

[brisk salmon]

Oh I like this. I love voice over songs, it's a weird niche. The best one is "We chose to go to the moon" by "There's a light"

[hollow dawn]

lemme check dat

made a vid for some house group, their song had voice overs from Gil Scott Heron, some 70s civil rights poet, really good stuff

[hollow dawn]

ah ya nice, thats fitting, powerful

[carmine frigate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNV4ZW33fA

[zinc matrix]

I'm not watching the world cup

I'm listening to the radio transmission

[proud jay]

ok factorio for 5 hours on end does get a bit intense

[carmine frigate]

did u pee in a bottle?

[proud jay]

no lol

[proud jay]

yup

gonna try to focus on getting robots going next

but taking a bit of a break first 😄

I was running out of iron in my base

so I started a second mining spot, with trains and solar panels and the whole shabang

but I think I overdid it

all my belts and chests are full in my base lol

can't use it fast enough atm

I need to construct additional pylons machines

the hard part is keeping everything clean-ish

I researched substations

but haven't made one yet

It's hard to organize where I construct what

like I'm gonna go to a fourth spot to get some more oil, but wanna produce stuff there that also requires steel

so I need to play the train game again

man I was so frustrated with the fucking signals when setting up that mining spot

even replayed the tutorial for it lol

still doesn't make sense

just happy it works

I'm not an electro man

electro gal?

I think what confused me was that I was going in two directions on the same track

so had to put most signals on both sides

ah, haven't used those yet

cause idk wtf they do lol

yeah but like what do you use them for

not very

made some sulfur and that acid thing for batteries

sulfur for blue science of course

but I need a bigger oil patch for serious stuff I think

oh

cool

definitely need to get my oil game up

like how bad is pollution

does it just make aliens angry?

or other things?

so we solve global warming with guns you say

I wish those trees would die

jesus, my whole base blocked in by giant forest

I started shooting the trees to clear a path for my train

almost felt american

[bleak remnant]

Ok

[trail wedge]

WC3 let you remove trees to take shortcuts with fire spells and catapults...

feels right

[trail wedge]

Wanna take a vacation to Venus?

[primal summit]

cut down the forest to make a pollution factory

[proud jay]

that's the plan

[proud jay]

I think you can flamethrower it as well tbh

[trail wedge]

there were flamethrowers in Warcraft 3?

[proud jay]

no

in factorio

[trail wedge]

I said WC3

🤣

[proud jay]

but my trees are in factorio 😭

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/astroneer-arid-suit-lone-missus-single-ladies-astronaut-gif-14266009

[carmine frigate]

damn my neck hurts

[proud jay]

headbobbing too hard?

[carmine frigate]

no idea

dunno

[proud jay]

oh no

was kinda hyped for this

this already makes me not want it anymore though

seems like most bad reviews are about performance though

[carmine frigate]

season pass is usually some bs

[proud jay]

yup

I hate that

[carmine frigate]

i allso hate rankup shit and upgrades in my shooters

thats a big no for me

and most shooters do that now 😦

hell i buy silly hats or cosmetics.... but i dont buy guns or level boosters

[regal pecan]

Should make a game where the DLC is more than worth it. Just to flip the formula on its head.

[carmine frigate]

or make the game 300 bucks but you give refunds with every dlc

[regal pecan]

The disappointment when your DLC sales are only 99.99% of the base game's.

That's a philosophically interesting way to highlight cut content, though.

[deep glen]

you need to pay extra just to see kill-anims when you die.

[proud jay]

Legit?

[regal pecan]

No. Haha. goes to check

Callisto fell off the front page of Steam awfully quickly.

[deep glen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2tgmWFkI-w

[proud jay]

Oh no

[thin aspen]

This like a unique to steam thing?

[deep glen]

https://www.gamebyte.com/the-callisto-protocol-death-animations-not-locked-behind-a-paywall/ better updated story

https://twitter.com/GlenSchofield/status/1595513458618818560

Glen A. Schofield (@GlenSchofield)

To be clear: We’re not holding anything back from the main game for the season pass. We haven’t even started work on this content yet. It's all new stuff that we’ll be working on in the new year. Fans have asked for EVEN MORE deaths, so we’re making it a priority next year.

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guess IGN started a rumor for clicks & bate, and many took it

[thin aspen]

Yeah I was gonna say I’ve seen so many death anims I’m tired of watching them

[regal pecan]

Well, yes and no. There's no indication the animations are going to be included in the base game.

[proud jay]

That article has more ads than text

[deep glen]

welcome to the interwebs where watch this 5 minute ad to read luos's conclusion are.

[soft night]

luos conclusion there is the conclusion to be done

[deep glen]

hehe

[carmine frigate]

hahah it is legit

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/caveira-da-capoeira-break-dance-skeleton-gif-13582427

the death animation you get

[regal pecan]

Not a great thing to sell since the player is spending most of their time avoiding the death animations.

[carmine frigate]

i tend to never die in games so its wasted on me

i actually died with tomb raider on every single spot cuz the death animations were best part of the game

[regal pecan]

And if you are seeing death anims frequently, you will be sick of them very quickly.

90s Tomb Raider?

[carmine frigate]

nah rise of the tomb raider

i got that pack of all of em on epic for free so might play the others too

never actually finished the 1st

played with controller on 3d tv at the time so that made it a lot harder

mayB i can rig something up in unreal so i can play it with oculus

i made my own 3d movie cinema once

hmm i could mayB even sell that on the MP

was playing around with the panorama viewer and thought... lets watch some porn .. so i made a 3d movie viewer out of it

also did a few stereoscopic explosions from blender mantaflow

thats really coool but the size of textures goes up 2fold on flip animations

but you get stereoscopic movie quality explosions

render times are just insane tho

[carmine frigate]

proof i totally did that... with the custom node code

it was a huge kaboom

[hollow dawn]

pretty boom

[carmine frigate]

also i made some 2 camera record a 3d obect to make a 3d tv in vr for some reason

[hollow dawn]

sick... i mean, to get sick

[carmine frigate]

must have been completely wasted

nah it worked fine

[hollow dawn]

do you need 4 eyes for vr 3d?

[celest musk]

3, one for every dimension

[carmine frigate]

actually you can do wild camera swings and show em on a 3d tv in VR and not get sick

so it kinda prevents sickness

[celest musk]

because you still have visual feedback of the real environment?

[carmine frigate]

yea

but it uses 2 cameras and 2 render targets

but u can get away with fairly low render targets

[celest musk]

and the tv get's what? a split view where both render targets are joined to a frame?

[hollow dawn]

just a split view, and you have to hold a carboard between your eyes

[celest musk]

😄

[carmine frigate]

yes, its exact same material as i posted with 2 render targets

the actual moving explosion was that material with 2 flipbooks

or you could do 2 planes and have both materials mask out on diffrent eyes

vr 3d tvs are the future!

[hollow dawn]

im still very much into holodecks tho

[celest musk]

hmm, you can probably do those red/blue 3D stuff pretty easy with UE too

by rendering each render target to a specific color channel?!

[carmine frigate]

instead of his crappy multiverse zuck should have gone heavy into high quality 3d movies

[celest musk]

sure, you will end up with monochrome, but whatever...

[carmine frigate]

yea you could but there really is no need for it

also it can do SBS 3d

[hollow dawn]

ye but you also got chromatic abbrevation which might do the same if set right

[hollow dawn]

otherwise "component mask" node in materials, and you can select each color channel seperately

[carmine frigate]

I also tested that impossible colot stuff but it just makes my brain hurt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_color

[hollow dawn]

ye, sometimes i try to push the ground down so the earth would be flat, but it hurts my hands

[celest musk]

imagine a color that you can't even imagine

[hollow dawn]

reading that wiki link, those examples probably make you blind

"stare at this painfully bright image and cross your eyes"

feels like corrupt cops during a traffic stop

[carmine frigate]

i dont think i can cross my eyes

[hollow dawn]

then you will never see the colors you can not see

but maybe you can use your stereoscopic stuff to fake eye crossing

[carmine frigate]

i tried but didnt really work for me

[zinc solstice]

Seen on twitter

You can also switch Java by Godot.

[carmine frigate]

i suggest you pretend to use Java while u just check the internet

so with the cross my eyes thing best i could get was 4 red and green boxes and they were moving around

[hollow dawn]

woha... maybe digital drugs are a market you could tap

[carmine frigate]

i could most def make ppl puke

[hollow dawn]

theres a market for that for sure, police loves that stuff

[carmine frigate]

yea ill just sell my impossible color test too the CIA

bet they know the best drug coctail to go with it

[hollow dawn]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-pet-white-cat-gif-8867628

[primal summit]

I wonder if an important trend is reversing...

For decades, in general computers have been gaining in performance per dollar. $1k used to get you a functional entry level computer, now a far better entry level can be had for half of that.

[fleet tangle]

For decades they used to fill entire room as well.

That trend has no reversed as the 4090 takes up an entire room for it and its external psu

[regal pecan]

It can't really reverse, because that would require the next generations to be objectively worse than previous gens and you'd benefit from sticking with the previous gen. But the fact it's slowing is significant.

[celest musk]

intel proofed it works

[pearl elk]

I cant wait for arcade boxes to make a come back

[quasi mantle]

[primal summit]

power per inflation-adjusted dollar

[tawny hollow]

Does anyone know if there is some sort of API for Epic Game Launcher but for Unreal Engine Marketplace and owned staff etc?

[celest musk]

no official one

[tawny hollow]

what about unofficial? 😄 The thing is, it always drives me nuts to run unoptimized luncher..... I would love to work on minimalistic version of it.

[celest musk]

well, open source launchers exist

[trail wedge]

just use the website if you're trying to use marketplace

[tawny hollow]

the issue is not just marketplace but that I do own 1k+ assets and have many projects etc. Even with categories it is still a nightmare to deal with all of it.

[trail wedge]

I only use the launcher to interact with marketplace and dl launcher engines, I launch all my projects from the IDE

so can't relate but the launcher does suck ass

[tawny hollow]

but, how do you manage plugins?

[trail wedge]

What do you mean by manage?

also I don't really use alot of stuff made by other people/marketplace

[tawny hollow]

I see

[trail wedge]

I just snag the free stuff and never use it lol

[tawny hollow]

it explains a lot

well, I have tons of them and the once that I always love to use

[trail wedge]

still not sure what you mean by manage but I just keep my plugins in a folder on my perforce

[tawny hollow]

well, with each new UE version I have to digg thro my owned plugins to see if they have support or if support has been dropped. If it did happen then I usually try rebuild libs by my self.

[trail wedge]

I see

well I dunno about switching versions just cause a new one's out unless there's a good reason (and to be fair there usually is)

but yeh that's a pitfall of counting on other people to provide support for stuff instead of making it yourself

the only thridparty assets I would really use are art and music assets and they don't care about the UE version

[tawny hollow]

also @trail wedge as on example this is half of the list that I do own 😄 of course I do not use all of them and here is also a problem. There is no way I can remove or categorize what is unusable. PS: this is just list of plugins.

[trail wedge]

that list is tiny and I only get the free stuff

[trail wedge]

but yeh I agree the launcher sucks for many reasons

it's actually kinda amazing how Epic can screw up on something so simple

[tawny hollow]

yea, it is shocking that so amazing engine creators just go so bad with launcher.

[trail wedge]

if the editor ran like the launcher people would use Unity more

they must just use interns for the launcher dev work

[tawny hollow]

yea, we can only guess that they did hire some side contractors that built that launcher.

[carmine frigate]

when they bought quixel megascans i hoped they would use that store instead 😛

[tawny hollow]

but it is only guess

[carmine frigate]

megascans is actually decent

also you dont have to download a 10gig pack, create a project just to get 1 texture out 😛

[tawny hollow]

@carmine frigate I wish I could remove this megascans assets from my launcher because they always loading with tons of other useless assets that I do own 😑

[carmine frigate]

why get the pack when you can get the single assets from megascans? 😛

[quasi mantle]

Trees, probably

Even then Megascans Trees is basically rebadged Project Nature stuff

[pearl elk]

Megafam

[quasi mantle]

If you want to make your own tree, you can use TreeIt

[deep glen]

https://twitter.com/amu_mhr/status/1598752851790290945

Amit Mehar (@amu_mhr)

Wasted another day doing stupid shit 🥲
#UE5

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[celest musk]

plot twist: that goose exists for a while in the official UE branch and is invisible

[carmine frigate]

ionly does it when ur not looking

[quasi mantle]

h o w

[deep glen]

think Amit also made the angry-birds inside blueprint one XD

[carmine frigate]

well the coords of the nodes is stored somewhere

so it shouldnt be too hard once ur into that

[carmine frigate]

tell him to make grapler nodes... so instead of dragging lines you can shoot graplers 🙂

[quasi mantle]

Or the hard mode, connecting BPs but you must mind the polarity

[hollow dawn]

ye, trying out some megascans aswell atm, for example that cyberpunk pack is just like 8 decals or somin and 2 meshes, and its 8GB...

good to get an idea but better to really go make your own assets if possible

or material packs are like 10GB for 20materials, however, at 120mb a pop i can use 1million tri photoscans (usual nanite downside of reflections and transparency of course)

[quasi mantle]

Textures are the largest space eaters (before video files)

High poly meshes alone don't take up that much space

[hollow dawn]

yeah true

but...but.... UE5 POOOOWWAAA

https://tenor.com/view/comedy-parody-adult-swim-ntsfsdsuv-piper-gif-3454000

yes, always look at your target audience

[quasi mantle]

Why look for your target audience when the game will stutter all the time

[hollow dawn]

15fps in my low poly game are not stuttering, its tense

[proud jay]

just here to post my battery percentage

[thin aspen]

Nice

[hollow dawn]

affectionateuser was so right :D <3 hehe

robolog, fighting dendrocrime for justice

[proud jay]

about what

[hollow dawn]

the adorable thing and levelling all the small fine things in life, spotify runtime, battery levels, and such

[hollow dawn]

sry had to quickly save the laundry....
affectionate explained it much better than me, its a wholesome thing, attention to the small things in life... happiness by breaking your own record in spotify, crawling closer and closer to 0 shaders to build, seeing your tomatos turn red... stuff like that

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/eye-blade-runner-voight-kampff-machine-test-gif-12841286

[quasi mantle]

Speaking of shaders
Can't wait until Epic also improves PSO caching for Vulkan.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/fascinating-star-trek-spock-vulcan-leonard-nimoy-gif-7449018

[hollow dawn]

not just for vulcan please :P
i know its not an easy feat but the constant lag during material creation cause it needs to build, read, write and cuddle its shader cache is a bit tedious,
and somewhat related, texture streaming is also silly, like it gives me the butt version of textures in pathtracer, but lumen gets the high def?

[foggy path]

Oh hey RealityScan finally finished processing my test scan after two days I think lol

[hollow dawn]

wtf did you scan lol?

[foggy path]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/scan-2022-12-01t201040578z-6529e6369fc34702b5d12cdfbec416cb decent result given I just took this in the middle of my apartment which is not very well lit and didn't take gazillion photos of it

[foggy path]

I think the service was just insanely slow for some reason :P possibly a large influx of users trying it out since they made it free

Yeah the result is pretty good, the colors are pretty much correct... the main issue I see is that some surfaces look rough when you look very closely

[hollow dawn]

a bust took 2 days? O.o

are we seeing the same thing?

[foggy path]

Yes

Need to try to scan my car... I tried it once for fun with my old android phone's builtin 3D scanner app and it got pretty janky because of all the reflective surfaces lol

[hollow dawn]

try the 3DFZephyr Demo, or Meshlabs (free), or any other app you can run on your own pc maybe

60-100 pics, 60% overlap, no blur, no hard shadows

[foggy path]

Yeah I mean I know there's a whole bunch of those, I was mostly just curious on what kind of quality the results would be with this app since it's very straightforward to use

[hollow dawn]

but if it takes 2 days mate....

zephyr does it in like 1h

[foggy path]

I'm not looking to use this for any actual use, was just curious

so don't really care if it took a while lol

[hollow dawn]

quality seems fine

nooooo -.-

cpu heat i assume

[quasi mantle]

If it's CPU heat, your computer would be turned off by itself.

Source: I had it happen back when I was a novice at building PCs

Also reading on how to build room-in-room soundproofing, holy shit it's a lot more involving than I expected

I don't know if I can get the materials locally lmao

[fleet tangle]

Just stick egg cartons on the walls.

[quasi mantle]

Nah, acoustic drum kit sounds will still bleed through

[hollow dawn]

cardboard egg boxes?

[thin aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/hustleandflow-whoopthattrick-gif-9409142

[quasi mantle]

For e-drum kit, simple acoustic panels are most likely fine, though I haven't exploring on combining multiple e-drum kits to have 6 toms and 4 cymbals

[hollow dawn]

somin is wrong with my heat dispersion, getting to 100C if i dont run in eco mode

[quasi mantle]

Alesis Nitro Mesh Kit has 3 toms and 2 cymbals (though the pads are rather small 8"), so I'd buy two of them and merge them for practicing and recording

[hollow dawn]

the good thing about sound proofing is that it also insulates youfrom the harsh winter weather

[quasi mantle]

Thankfully I'm in tropical weather

No snow though

[hollow dawn]

https://tenor.com/view/i-guess-i-envy-you-idubbbz-idubbbztv-im-jealous-envious-gif-19673258

[quasi mantle]

Why so many toms? Because prog

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/corgi-dog-cute-box-whats-in-the-box-gif-12646769

[hollow dawn]

chicken ref

why do chicken have neck testicles?

[unborn lotus]

that's the neck stomach

you gotta fondle it and see if they ate or not 😅

[warm bloom]

where is the free December assets 😠

[unborn lotus]

it's saturday

[warm bloom]

true

[primal summit]

gizzard, which is a hard-coated organ that holds dirt, small rock grains, and hard foods like seeds, the dirt and rocks help grind up the seeds before they move to the stomach

[hollow dawn]

so... king gizzard and the lizzard wizard is named after chicken neck sacks? :O mindblown

[primal summit]

most fowl have them

[hollow dawn]

penguins too? :O no, not the penguins :O

[primal summit]

turkey gizzards and necks are usually bagged inside the turkey's cavity if you buy a whole one

[hollow dawn]

why would you buy a whole turkey neck?

oh nvm me

i shall look differently at xmas dinner this year -.-

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/hammis-gif-25613767

[deep copper]

unrelated but have you seen that red wig and red beard jiggle when their head moves ? that's so cool

[topaz depot]

AU!

[thin aspen]

Just now realizing AU == affectionateuser && != Australia

[primal summit]

or Astronomical Unit

[thin aspen]

|| Astronomical Unit, yes

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/andromeda-universe-galaxy-gif-15978631

[turbid spindle]

:question: is AU astronomical Unit?
:8ball: It is decidedly so.

[thin aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/bot-gif-26095706

[turbid spindle]

:question: is it also for Australia?
:8ball: Outlook good.

[thin aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/skeptical-futurama-fry-hmmm-i-got-my-eyes-on-you-gif-17101711

[soft night]

🇦🇺

[primal summit]

it's spinning wrong

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/mass-effect-andromeda-initiative-coffee-gif-11476980

[proud jay]

It’s just the underside 🧠

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/galáxia-girando-orbita-gif-18303897

[primal summit]

the radial velocity of stars decreases with distance from the bulge, it's not fixed like the stars are glitter on a spinning pinwheel

[midnight plank]

@ocean ferry Apologies for what happened. It was a hacker who hacked into my account. Recently got it back. Just wanted to let you know

doing a lot of clean up

[carmine frigate]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-hackerman-kung-fury-gif-7953536

[carmine frigate]

did you hack him back harder?

[deep copper]

Horizon!

[celest musk]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-pupper-dog-hacker-computer-keyboard-gif-17954501

this was the hacker

[slim atlas]

Does anyone here by chance know how many polies

a metahuman character has

just the skin no hair

[ancient ingot]

Millions

[celest musk]

at least 2

[carmine frigate]

they have LODs

[slim atlas]

that

😄

isnt wh

its 30K

they have 30K polies

in tris that is around 70K

[carmine frigate]

they have LODs so saying its 30k is wrong 😛

think they have like 10 LODs

when level of detail get higher polies and detail gets lower... cuz logic

[celest musk]

cuz easier to maintain

[carmine frigate]

also now u can have an LOD for every poly

u could also make LOD0 super low poly and LOD10 super high

but it is not recommended

my sister once baked a cake and mixed the sugar and salt amounts

she asked me if it was good ... i said yes ... but im goin to stop eating it or else ill have to puke and my kidneys might fail

[stray orbit]

We are getting closer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shy51E-MU8Y

How far this has come in just a year or so is absolutely insane.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/tesseract-3d-gif-25484297

[hollow dawn]

quite a few month old by now, and really just an automated photogrammetry to seperated model thing, also assigns materials and iterates colors.
the only semi AI part, and its imo not really AI, is to detect some material types as to be able to seperate windows from walls etc.
cool stuff nevertheless, but AI would be able to learn and use that gained knowledge in creative ways

one could even argue that true AI would have to be self conscious

[celest musk]

nowadays you can sell anything as AI

[stray orbit]

It's a little more complicated than that... since it's more of a generalized AI system that do many things

The system first has to understand what objects are... and how to apply textures to it... because it does much much much more than photogrammetry.

[fleet tangle]

Lovely tesseract.

I do like how they called the sequel to cube, cube 2: tesseract.

Shows somebody was thinking.

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/tesseract-gif-20247150

[waxen folio]

I haven't heard of UnityAsync before. I'll look it up.

But to re-share the block, I identified the problem:

{
    Vector2 OriginalPosition = transform.position;
    Vector2 MoveDestinationPosition = OriginalPosition + new Vector2(Direction.x, Direction.y);
    List<GridEntity> AllGridEntities = GetAllGridEntitiesAtPosition(MoveDestinationPosition);
    if (CanEnterDirection(Direction) == false)
    { // ...
    }
    else
    {
        Vector2 Movepoint = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y) + Direction;
        yield return this.transform.DOMove(Movepoint, MoveTime).SetEase(Ease.OutExpo).OnComplete(InvokeMoveCompleted).WaitForCompletion();

        foreach (GridEntity OtherEntity in AllGridEntities) // Fire overlaps
        {
            if (OtherEntity == this)
            {
                continue;
            }

            OtherEntity.InvokeBeginOverlapOtherEntity(MemberGridEntity, Direction, OriginalPosition);  // <-----
            MemberGridEntity.InvokeBeginOverlapOtherEntity(OtherEntity, Direction, OriginalPosition);
        }

        yield break;
    }
}```

I am using a callback so that other components can react when an overlap occurs, but after the overlap I need to identify if a new command was created in reaction.

My trouble is needing to resolve some actions instantly (For stuff like achievements and scoring) with needing to resolve some over time (like stepping on a trap).

Yes it is. DamageCommand(Lava, Hero, 1.0);

I'd have a similar problem if it weren't movement related. For example: Hero attacks a orc, orc has a reaction where it strikes first if the hero's dex is too low.

Yes, that sounds correct.

Something like that.

In my case I have an event (overlap) and need to determine if any reactions were triggered (lava damage) and how to wait until reactions are resolved.

What?

That's interesting! I was wondering what you meant by impossible.

Where did you learn that? I follow PoE

Okay I think I see my real problem. It's easy for this command to wait for a list of coroutines to resolve one by one, but it's getting that list which I'm having trouble. As a dumb solution I could iterate over components in the other entity to see if there's a OverlapReaction component but I feel like there's a better way.

I was thinking a delegate event might help but I'm not so sure now

Wait, delegates can return IEnumerator, right? Maybe I can execute them one by one.

That would be the next iteration when I want to optimize, yeah.

For now I'm okay with searching.

I have a few entities that move but also respond to overlap.

I think I've got it. Create a callback that instead of using .Broadcast, iterate over each and use a Coroutine to resolve them.

It will be a bit of extra work to ensure each reaction coroutine creates a command on the stack and run it immediately but I can deal with it.

And in case you ask, I need to use commands because I need to keep a record of everything that happened during the level.

[primal summit]

this almost sounds like an XY problem

[waxen folio]

XY problem?

Well, I have two things I am trying to accomplish: 1. commands call coroutines that can trigger other nested coroutines that can be waited for. 2. I produce a history of the game state that I can review after the fact, and eventually Undo. I am using the command pattern for that part.

[quasi mantle]

Asking about attempted solution instead of what you're going to achieve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

[primal summit]

"I don't know how to solve X, but I think I can make do with Y instead, but I'm having trouble implementing it, so I'll ask about Y (which is probably confusing to seasoned experts) instead of the real problem, X."

[fleet tangle]

https://xyproblem.info/ !

I think the real problem is here trying to explain the situation to Grug, but all we're doing to linking him random websites instead.

[waxen folio]

I understand the concept.

[quasi mantle]

Race to the top, if you will

[fleet tangle]

(I was making a joke based on the xy problem)

[primal summit]

https://dontasktoask.com/
https://xyproblem.info/
https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2010/08/29/writing-the-perfect-question/
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
a collection of my favorite "how to best get help" articles

[bleak remnant]

ok

[quasi mantle]

Inb4 Jon Skeet trigger the AutoMod again

[fleet tangle]

Smart questons: The ones you ask while drinking smart water and checking your hard drive's SMART status

[primal summit]

thought I had the stackoverflow page in there too

[primal summit]

why would that happen?

[fleet tangle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ this video explains it quite well

It wasn't for you!

[primal summit]

saved by the ad

yeah

I can't be bothered to upgrade

[quasi mantle]

Don't give up and don't let down

[primal summit]

mobile firefox with no adblocker

chrome is awful

almost as bad as edge

that it is

hrm... I could send it to the TV in the bedroom where my wife's lounging around playing with AI art and NFTs

[quasi mantle]

Mobile Firefox is a mix bag, it can't install usual assortment of extensions

[primal summit]

extensions are like a modded game: not as the developer intended, impure and dishonest

[fleet tangle]

That's just not true.

[quasi mantle]

Well, it's true for the impure part, but with website these days, as the developer site runner intended led to more problems.

[primal summit]

But revenue for content creators! It's all they have after giving up their 9-to-5 hoping to get rich letting other people watch them!

[fleet tangle]

If they want revenue for being watched, stick to onlyfans? 😛

Indeed.

[primal summit]

not after the onlyfans ToS change

[fleet tangle]

Patreon is great.

Did they do that "no more nudity" thing o whatever it was they were doing?

[primal summit]

last I heard yes

[quasi mantle]

In the context of YouTube, I actually found a video ranted about this issue

https://youtu.be/_--LvdAHfVo

[fleet tangle]

I like sponsors. They make good stuff happen. I don't like to be forced to watch 5m of ads before a video.

They take it too far.

[quasi mantle]

But for everything else like news sites, yeah, they can go fuck themselves for putting excessive ads and autoplay videos
I hate them with burning passion

[fleet tangle]

I had a funny incident with youtube the other month. I wanted to watch a video someone linked me while pooping. It took longer, on my phone, to load the video and get past the ads than it did to poop. So I watched it ad free on my pc.

[quasi mantle]

This and followed by news articles splitting articles into multiple page to exploit AMP and make pages slower to load and read

Though thankfully I don't have to deal with them very often, local journalism is absolute garbage anyway

[fleet tangle]

AMP?

[trail wedge]

I think it's called YouTube Premium, but I've had it since the Youtube Red days

[bleak remnant]

Myb

Mb is maybe

[fleet tangle]

mb would millibit?

[trail wedge]

got it to turn my phone screen off and keep playing music, I use Ad Block on my computer and only listen to music on my phone so I'm not really getting everything out of it (don't watch the premium content either)

I do like that the creators I watch get more from me than if I was an ad user (who didn't block)

and I don't mind since I only pay for youtube (no other streaming services) and I watch it all day every day

[fleet tangle]

I pay for far too many streaming services which I don't use.

[quasi mantle]

I don't have much money to pay for subscription services (yet)

[trail wedge]

lol YT just replaced my old WoW sub

[quasi mantle]

Still haven't resubbed to FF14 yet

[trail wedge]

I just can't bring myself to make a purchase on a game aside from purchasing the game outright or paying a sub subscription.

Although I have made exceptions, but it's only been 2 so far.... I bought a few LoL skins back in the day and I bought some tabs in PoE... I only made the exceptions because the games were F2P and I felt I had played enough that I should throw the devs something

I kinda wish F2P didn't exist though... I'd rather every game just be an upfront purchase and any new content be forced to be bundled as an XPack

Subs are OK as long as new content is constant imo

(and WoW failed on this)

I haven't played in a few years but I keep hearing good things might have to check it out again

yeh you need monthly content to justify a monthly sub

PoE/Diablo was always a hard sell for me... I just don't like random loot and endlessly grinding the same thing over and over

[fleet tangle]

I never liked PoE's skill tree. It was far too boring. 😦

[trail wedge]

lol I was trying to get to the core of what I don't like but you're right it's much more random than I made it sound

[trail wedge]

nah I like the FFX style sphere grid they have going on

talent trees are only boring if you're the kind of player that looks stuff up

you're just robbing yourself of the fun of learning the system and trying your best at it if you just go look up a guide and follow it....

sorry I was adding on to my previous statement and forgot to use reply

I don't think you need to look up anything to understand that

I guess that's the thing... caring about how good you are at a video game is how you kill the fun imo

unless useless means impossible to progress with (and that's just bad design) than I'd say it's not useless just sub-optimal and that's the part I don't care about

[fleet tangle]

I liked the FF style. I don't like PoE's.

[trail wedge]

yeh that would be bad design but I don't think I've personally run into anything like that in my playthroughs

[trail wedge]

FFX was better because it all the characters had connecting grids and the closer you got to another character the more of their trait you took on (and that's just thematically cooler imo)

yeh but knowing what is and isn't meta involves all that fun killing research I mentioned earlier... I guess I just chose well enough on my own

that's a neat chart

I agree that's just always bad design imo

dying in 1 hit gives a player no chance to respond.... instant kills are just bad 99% of the time

you could say the same about armor or health though... some stats are just going to be part of progression

[fleet tangle]

You respond before dying by avoiding!

[trail wedge]

from an offscreen attack?

from an offscreen mob?

[fleet tangle]

Absolutely

Depends on the situation, of course. Good game design generally telegraphs such moves.

Not always visually..

[trail wedge]

...but they don't because everything is offscreen

[trail wedge]

it's not intended to be off screen... it's not like this is a sound puzzle or something... it's just bad tuning and bad coding

right they're just like the people who play rouge likes that don't save progress or the people who play ironman/hardcore modes in other games

[fleet tangle]

Let's be fair, if you're at all worried about your character or progress, hardcore isn't for you, in any game.

[trail wedge]

there's 2 camps from what I see.... people who actually care and get hella depressed when they eventually die and people who are just fucking around and live to see people in the first camp cry

[fleet tangle]

That's not an excuse for it to be shit, though.

[trail wedge]

Playing games is always a waste of time but hardcore mode just makes it that much of a clearer waste to me

it's only intense if you care... and if you can loose everything in 1 mistake I just can't care

so it has the opposite effect on me

[regal pecan]

In a way, it's basically devolving into blackjack.

[trail wedge]

more like roulette but yeh

fine you get poker at best

[fleet tangle]

Playing games is only a waste of time if you considering being entertained and having fun as a waste of time.

[regal pecan]

Both are games of chance. Blackjack you can slightly adjust the odds through decision making, as you can through builds and tactics in RPGs.

[fleet tangle]

HC in WoW was always a game of chance for me. "Will random guildy from Serbia lag at just the wrong time?"

[regal pecan]

A mostly unexplored approach might be partial hardcore, where you lose your items but not your character.

Furthering the blackjack analogy by imposing a wager.

[trail wedge]

either way, I mainly play 3 types of games....

Games that have story (and that's the main thing I care about in it)
Games that are a creative sandbox (think Minecraft, The Sims, Stardew Valley, etc)
Games that are self contained matches (Overwatch, Starcraft, Leauge of Legends, etc)

[fleet tangle]

Isn't that Fortnite? 😛

[trail wedge]

when I finish my game you can tell me how well I blended them lol

[fleet tangle]

No idea. I've literally never played it or even seen a screenshot.

[trail wedge]

Fortnite is the 3rd type on my list imo

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/wake-up-wake-up-neo-wake-up-ula-matrix-the-matrix-gif-19179687

[trail wedge]

never played it though, I did play PUBG so close enough

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/save-the-whole-goddamn-world-save-the-world-rescue-the-world-be-the-worlds-savior-protect-the-world-gif-16067691

the save the world I used to play

[trail wedge]

nah I think Batte Royal sucks tbh

I like TDM

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/paragon-moba-twinblast-gif-26353879

[quasi mantle]

Fortnite was a tower defense kind of game and early trailers were hinting at zombies

[trail wedge]

Factorio is a game I'm almost certain I will like but I haven't played it lol

[quasi mantle]

Like way back when Fortnite is being developed with UE3

[trail wedge]

my main problem is I can't bring myself to play anything because I should be working on stuff but then I just sit here and talk to you guys or something because I don't wanna work on stuff

so games that aren't installed already have that against them too

[soft night]

things happens Zero

[fleet tangle]

Snap

[trail wedge]

bye UE5.1

jk

[soft night]

instal UE5.5

[trail wedge]

time machine is broken atm

[quasi mantle]

okay it was more of monsters than zombies
https://youtu.be/hHTE5xg9E-g

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/back-to-the-future-back-to-the-past-flying-car-gif-14179778

[trail wedge]

you gotta get chrome too tho

or whatever web browsers

[regal pecan]

Cured by a voluntary ban.

[soft night]

Azure gaming game dev vm could offeer some ue5.1 and vs2022 with some nvidia stuff

[trail wedge]

I am 💯 % THAT ADDICTED to not doing my own tasks that I made for myself lol

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/doggo-meme-firefox-gif-14524252

[trail wedge]

let's be honest this server isn't the cause... I'll just go watch YouTube

my family never remembers I have work to do and just assumes I'm free to help them with whatever