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zinc matrix
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do you like the game

sage tendon
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unfortunately not

zinc matrix
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why not?

sage tendon
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i didnt like any of the gameplay mechanics

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also there didnt appear to be a respawn

zinc matrix
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xD

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why u didnt like them

sage tendon
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didnt fell natural or intuitive

zinc matrix
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omg

robust gulch
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GWjiangoOmegaLUL I tried to build unreal engine from source to find unreal engine 4.22 taking up about 58 gb of my storage

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IT KEEPS ON RAISING

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83 gb in total

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๐Ÿ˜ญ

robust gulch
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This had nvidia flex too

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wait wouldnt that be more

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i need to for dedicated servers :(

zinc matrix
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ponnkis

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saw my gaem?

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doubt

fathom wadi
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because of fkin course they should. Said me years ago

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Where is my peer status?

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I hate to be the guy who said I told you so, but really I don't. I love being that guy. So I told you so.

carmine frigate
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im not a fan of lootboxes, but im also not a fan of the gov regulating all sorts of crap they have no business regulating ๐Ÿ˜›

fathom wadi
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its about protection of the public, so its their job. Social health and well being.

carmine frigate
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social health and well being capsulates everything

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i dont need protecting

fathom wadi
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there is a specific issue with addictions caused by promoted entertainment. Would you allow a child to visit a las vegas casino and play?

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thats awesome, but some people do

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like myself

carmine frigate
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well mayB i should be regulated too, but i dont wunna

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i cant even cut down a tree in my garden w/o filling in 5 forms in triplets

fathom wadi
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All I ask, as a responsible but addicted gambler, is that they age rate them appropriately. Any Ultimate Team style slot machine should be 18 rated and continue to have the "in-game purchases" warning

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the government are going one step further here and recommending regulation by the UK Gambling Commission, which isn't good news as they are often lacking too. They can take years to catch up on simple things like recently, they banned casinos from allowing a gambler to reverse a withdrawal. Something everyone hated.

carmine frigate
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if ppl were just less scummy they wouldnt have to bitch as much ๐Ÿ˜›

fathom wadi
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There is a positive for anyone who likes their games of chance though. This will force games to have audited random number generation that will have to give exactly what the weighted items list says. No tweaking it because sales are down this week. Removal of psy-ops that instigate a whale cycle or cash cattle situation like online casinos get away with. Or at least, if they do, they are 18+ rated so who cares right? Adult choice is important, as you state, but protection is important too.

carmine frigate
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yea its 2 evils

fathom wadi
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this is going to cost a lot of money for the game industry but being that there will be a flood of games that need RNG certification and there are only 4 that the UKCG recommend, there may be an increase in that industry overall. Swings and roundabouts but fuck lootboxes and EA and Take Two and the rest of them and I hope the shareholders miss their yacht repayments this month.

carmine frigate
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dunno how much of that 5 billion comes from the UK tho

fathom wadi
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All eyes on the US then as they dont like online gambling unless its done through their own sources. So they will get a slice.

carmine frigate
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well i would never play a pay to win competative game

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i dont like losing, and i dont like unfair wins either

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stumping ppl with less money invested in a game is not something i dig

fathom wadi
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I've seen people who have spent thousands on a single game. But don't have a gambling problem. The market is there for all of this stuff, as evidenced. It just needs appropriate age rating and making sure there isn't any untoward practices that exploit customers with problems.

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skin gambling in CS though was disgusting to be fair

carmine frigate
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CS skins were lame AF

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no added value

fathom wadi
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worse than that, implementing the cycle of addiction. It's something I wouldn't wish on anyone. My own compulsions have lead me to gamblers anonymous in the past. Hitting rock bottom is an eye opener.

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Seems strange to me that in a world of cameras, people are still predators. Unless they move around like Snake in MGS1.

soft night
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its other side of that mental stress

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well some seems to other way like a viewer who use female streamers "relationship" as a swinger to other females if the streamer is popular

carmine frigate
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i didnt follow the whole twitch stream, but its virtual sexual harrass?

uncut otter
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I seem to have slide a slider in blender on remesh the wrong way. I've brought my computer to its knees

carmine frigate
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pass the slider to the left hand side ๐Ÿ˜›

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you know i care verry lil about all that internet drama

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people gunna be people, why should i care? ๐Ÿ™‚

tulip orbit
carmine frigate
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is that like an escape pod to get out of the tide?

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usually the water comes up pretty slow and i just move my towel

tulip orbit
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laundry detergent

carmine frigate
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that makes absolutely no sense to me

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but whatever

tulip orbit
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dumb ppl were eating tide pods

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now its trending under "food" again. thought was funny

carmine frigate
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i wish i was hip like that ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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mayB i should sexual harrass some twitch streamers while eating some tide pods

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turn this life around :p

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is planking still hip, gunna do that right now

tulip orbit
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I was planking all afternoon. Tho I just called it "napping"

carmine frigate
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ill just plank my chair in seating position

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ill just put my legs up and call it a half plank

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now imma yeet some beercans in the bin

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do some T pose

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i think this half plank is gunna be huge, its kinda comfy ๐Ÿ˜›

karmic moth
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Hey folks! At KitBash3D we are seeking Unreal Engine game devs to chat with regarding their development journeys, challenges, pain points, asset sourcing, and more. Your insight in invaluable to us, and we'd love to hear from you!

In case you havenโ€™t heard of us, we make premium 3D assets for movies and video games, have recently been featured in Last of Us Part II, Terminator: Dark Fate and Elder Scrolls, and were just awarded a MegaGrant from Epic Games to develop an upcoming top secret project.

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If you're willing to meet with our team, we'd appreciate your time filling out the survey above, and we'll get in touch!

fathom wadi
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who hasn't heard of Kitbash3d? We are all asset flippers here :p

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I hope the top secret project is Kitbash3d plugin that links with Houdini to make procedurally generated kitbashable meshes. If not... I shall continue my journey to the ultimate "make game" button.

carmine frigate
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i heared of kitbash with 3d objects

karmic moth
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@fathom wadi Daww, you make me warm and fuzzy. If you fill out the survey and we get an NDA signed, we can let you in on what we've got cookin up ๐Ÿ˜›

carmine frigate
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its when u slam 2 premade objects together to form a new1

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its how robots are born

fathom wadi
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@karmic moth ill fill it in because I recall i got the Sci-Fi Industrial pack for free some time back. So reparations and all.

karmic moth
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@fathom wadi Oh, cool! Did you end up making anything cool with the kit?

quiet narwhal
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you heard it here first, they are making assets for the new make game button in UE5. Confirmed!

karmic moth
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lol @quiet narwhal you are trouble ๐Ÿ˜›

quiet narwhal
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I am definitely that

fathom wadi
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@karmic moth Not yet, im still doing core mechanics in my game. I plan to though. I do a bit of modelling but I need way more than I can make in a reasonable time so kitbashing is key to workflow

karmic moth
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Any screenshots yet?

carmine frigate
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I kitbashed udders onto a crab

karmic moth
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This...I want to see

carmine frigate
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its my profile pic ๐Ÿ˜„

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not my finest moment, i have it there to remind me how uddercrab i am ๐Ÿ˜›

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its not 3d but the basic is the same

karmic moth
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If I pulled that up from the deep in a crabpot I would nope my way outta of there reaaaal quick

carmine frigate
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i still think uddercrab is goin to be a moviestar ๐Ÿ˜›

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@karmic moth how do i watch stuff in VR on the site?

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it asked for access but my set didnt turn on

celest latch
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anybody know where is a good place to get help for blueprints? really need access to something like a teacher to get better. cant do much on my own in this distance learning time as i have no access to my teachers currently. someone who'd help me find solutions for certain things that go wrong with my blueprints. is there a service out there that does that? sorry if this is not relevant for this chat but the other channels just ignore my message.

karmic moth
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@carmine frigate Admittedly that is a question I don't know, lemme hit up the web team and see whats us

quiet narwhal
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its possible your question needs more help in order for them to help you?

celest latch
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oh my god. matthew! love your fundamental tutorials

carmine frigate
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i can enter VR on sketchfab just fine

celest latch
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nah, what im doing doesnt have much written about it.

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tutorials can only go so far.

quiet narwhal
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but generally if you are having an issue and not getting help, either people can't help or they can't help with that problem due to understanding issues. I guess if you are interested in paying #looking-for-talent might possibly have tutors available?

carmine frigate
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it asked for permission and i gave it, i wunna see some kits bashed damit ๐Ÿ˜›

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in vr

celest latch
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thanks, that might be where i look to put it. figuring by yourself can only go so far :>

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but i guess everybody is a born genius

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just instantly says 'go read a tutorial ' even if people obviously have blindspots because not everything is covered :>

quiet narwhal
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so there is no way to break down the issue into a smaller goal that is covered?

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its very rare something is just completely brand new

celest latch
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to be honest, i was looking at how you saved games,

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but as i examined another projecf and how they did it,

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i realize they use gameinstance as a temporary work around.

quiet narwhal
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there's many ways to save and it differs based on SP/MP/C++/BP, and what is saving

celest latch
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i havent entirely reached a bottleneck, as ive found some more resources to deconstruct... but for a start, i think with what i have now and what ive gathered can be turned into a product. but next is just finding a way to rebuild the system.

quiet narwhal
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I know there are some data handling courses coming to the learn website in the future, including data save/load. just uh.... in the future lol

celest latch
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yeah its frustrating. especially because i cant ask my instructors in school to look over what i did and tell me what i should look into to get better...

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that's the thing i hate most about these times.

quiet narwhal
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yeah but that right there is nothing new

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I would say the majority of people DONT have instructors they can just ask

celest latch
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the way i work is counter to how programmers probably think.

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so id say my way i learn is more about being told on what i can improve on, rather than obsevring what i can improve on.

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so, i dont expect to find many people to sympathize with me on that level

quiet narwhal
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could always post your work in like #work-in-progress and ask for feedback, same with reddit

celest latch
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ah that's a good reccomendation

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im going to get back to trying to alter the code ive got now

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with some other things ive found

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i might have a solution to my initial problem

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but its not a full save/load workaround.

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ill figure that one out once i get a new version running.

quiet narwhal
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full save / load systems are quite complex depending on the game and usually very specific to the game itself most of the time

celest latch
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yeah, your example didnt contain float variables, but i imagined saving those would have been similar

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for something like loading a player character where you have sliders to set body morphs..

carmine frigate
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emulators do a save state, makin a complete copy of the game, + the state

celest latch
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easy save? ill look into that..

real palm
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Can you actually explain to me what easy save gets you that you can't get without it?

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You can make something more flexible & robust with only BP

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takes you just as long as using easy save

quiet narwhal
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saving out value types is generally not an issue, one type saves/loads just like the rest. the issue is when you get down into non value types or you need to track/restore the values and state on so many objects and systems that it just goes to hell lol

real palm
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The better way is to make most things in the game be a custom struct

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the built in save system then makes that trivial, easy save only deals with atomics/builtin

celest latch
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mm yeah.

real palm
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For example: inventory

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make a struct covering durability, stack count, item ID

celest latch
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i have a lot to figure out today.. waiting for my zoom course to end before i can start

real palm
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save the array of that in a custom save game child class.

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Can't do that with easy save (without modifying it)

quiet narwhal
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its more of an issue when you start to get more robust. Say that item has random stats...

real palm
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But I'd love to know what you get with that particular asset that makes it worth a recommendation

carmine frigate
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mwah just store all the vars in a slot

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or in a json and upload it

celest latch
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yeah, ive been told to just buy an inventory system because it is tedious to make. really a lot to learn about to get it working. so better to buy, examine how it works, and reproduce your own.

real palm
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You know that checkbox on properties, "Save Game"?

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does nothing on it's own

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You're meant to iterate properties and serialize them to disk/slot/etc yourself. This plugin does that and some other stuff

celest latch
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my current game build i think wont really need an inventory. not yet. its really just meant to be a prototype to see if i can get it to work.

real palm
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This is along the lines of what I'd write/use for a save system

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Call me a purist if you like, but there's already a simplified slot system that ships with the engine and you don't need to pay out $5

celest latch
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yeah

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i think id need that

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because

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it is eventually meant to be multiplayer, so its more about just saving the options someone chooses in character selection.

proven thorn
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The main thing I don't like about UE4's standard save game stuff is that it is binary.

carmine frigate
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the whole does savegame exist node is allready a bit too much help if u ask me

real palm
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pffft

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why

carmine frigate
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just makes things more confusing

real palm
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does it?

bronze axle
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๐Ÿค”

real palm
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I think it'd be helpful for fixed-slot games

carmine frigate
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yea u should just equal a string instead

real palm
carmine frigate
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cuz i have no idea what that node does, other than isequal a string

proven thorn
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Human parse able formats FTW

real palm
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it scans the saves directory and does a comparison of the items in it

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it literally checks if the file exists.

celest latch
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so if you set something in the save file

carmine frigate
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but so does an equal string

real palm
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If it does, then you can load it & UE4 will give you the UObject representation

celest latch
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itd try to change that when it loads

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within the current game instance

real palm
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No, an equal string doesn't iterate your file structure

carmine frigate
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forloop equal string than?

real palm
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I mean solid troll attempt

carmine frigate
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well thats what u get when 10 ppl discuss a 5 node setup ๐Ÿ˜›

bronze axle
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I suppose you could write it yourself with the new file system utilities. lol

real palm
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Heh

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Yeah that might be cool

bronze axle
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They did a stream on save/load systems 3 years ago.

real palm
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Pog!

bronze axle
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Heck yeah, debug menu.

dense storm
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finally upgraded my previous cheat widget from 2 years ago ๐Ÿ˜„

bronze axle
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I keep meaning to make a debug menu for my games, and I never get around to it. ๐Ÿ˜…

dense storm
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so handy

bronze axle
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Welp, I don't think that guy's gonna make it.

carmine frigate
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perma death, now u have to buy him again from MP

dense storm
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he is my baby ๐Ÿ™‚

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i created him with love and care

carmine frigate
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takes after the mother ๐Ÿ˜›

dense storm
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lol

carmine frigate
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๐Ÿ˜›

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gunna get som zzzs

dense storm
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that isn't even the best one ๐Ÿ˜„

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๐Ÿ˜„

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revives with no head tho ๐Ÿ˜„

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nah we put the head back,

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heh ๐Ÿ˜„

tepid wren
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@austere glen I also liked the idea, but I dont have a whole lot of hope of it getting finished anytime soon

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so I've just kind of forgotten about it and remember it from time to time

austere glen
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yeah, same. I'm not sure what they've done recently, they have some roadmaps up and a bunch of iterative titles coming out I think.

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The wing commander guy has good ideas, but they forced him to finish freelancer because it was taking too long back then too

alpine fern
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50 years later... playing star citizen on the pc in my space ship, just released

tepid wren
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lol

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needs a whole dyson sphere to power the computer to play it at 30fps

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scope got changed to actually simulating the universe

alpine fern
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can you simulate the universe with a computer that is smaller than the universe

tepid wren
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probably not

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well actually depends I think

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smaller yes probably, but less mass than the universe has probably not

austere glen
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how you know we're not in a simulation ๐Ÿ˜„ And the universe is not as big as it is

tepid wren
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its simulations all the way down!

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holy shit I'm sore, worked out for the first time in 4 or 5 months or so

alpine fern
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sometimes one of the servers crashes, deleting all memories of the people running on them

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but you never know because you don't remember them existing

tepid wren
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quarantine really just requires sedentary nothingness lol

austere glen
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too many people these days...AI simulator doesn't have enough processors, that's why it's making us stay in

pearl elk
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jeebus Evo Online cancelled... still trying to work out why Dr Disrespect was banned

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I get the impression maybe him and Twitch do it on purpose to generate news which helps with view counts when he comes back

real palm
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I'd agree if it was a trend that he is getting banned all the time and then comes back

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this is the second time ever, right?

pearl elk
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Lol no like the 5th or 6th

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second ever permaban

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least it seems perma, we dont even know that much

pearl elk
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wooo Cyberpunk 2077 with RTX on

north torrent
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I wish my life was raytraced.

pearl elk
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I wish my wife was raytraced

real palm
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I gotta side with Mons on this one

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we need more RTX spouses

zinc matrix
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we need immu

real palm
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Oh you got immu

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right here

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I'm all the const-incorrectness you could ever want ๐Ÿ˜‰

sage tendon
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๐Ÿ˜ซ

zinc matrix
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remco has still butterflies in belly from my mmo

zinc matrix
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<@&213101288538374145> if i have a question that relates to VR but also to Blueprint which channel would i post it in? or does it not matter?

pearl elk
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VR channel would probably be better suited to specifics regarding that platform

zinc matrix
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ok

pearl elk
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woo we reached the boss level Covid, Melbourne might have a Super Spreader ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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wonder if thats like a Boomer from L4d like a bloaty greasy person

foggy path
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some old woman was getting a shopping cart at the supermarket and she just kept talking about how she needs to put on her gloves before she touches the cart

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like.. yeah okay but why you talking about it to my face?

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do you understand how this works?

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:D

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there has been zero reported cases in my area so tbh it should be pretty safe but it was kind of dumb...

gilded lichen
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What relation has Python tied to Unreal engine?

sage tendon
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Plutonic I would think

median wraith
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Editor scripting ?

grim mesa
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Any programmer that got a minute over? I am trying to figure out how I can improve my post looking for a team, would appreciate if someone could take a look and let me know if anything puts you off: https://redd.it/hiyj2d

foggy path
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Seems alright, there's nothing that made me think wtf

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It's a bit "you" focused in that it talks a lot about what you want out of this person, and not so much as to what that person would gain from this and why they should want to work with you on these

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but I don't really have any particular ideas on what you could change on it so maybe it's fine

grim mesa
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Hmm, thank you! I get what you mean, gonna look over how I can write it differently.

zinc matrix
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BROROOROROR

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brothers

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today big dayyy

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Muhaha

grim mesa
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What's happening today

zinc matrix
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i shall rework one system

tulip orbit
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its friday ๐Ÿ˜„

zinc matrix
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idc friday or not

tulip orbit
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not that it being friday makes any difference to an unemployed person such as myself

zinc matrix
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XD

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you forgot to mention you also dont party at fridays

tulip orbit
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party never, sleep always.

foggy path
tulip orbit
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I need to come up with a story for my game today. Got a pretty solid back-end for it, but that doesnt make a game...

foggy path
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the aliens stole your chicks, shot down your ride, and you are out of gum

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pretty solid backstory.

tulip orbit
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๐Ÿ™‚

zinc matrix
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@tulip orbit did u see my game

tulip orbit
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think I saw some screenshots

zinc matrix
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u can play it in browser free

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its my marketing strat

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to make it work in browser

tulip orbit
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should make it work in bowser.

zinc matrix
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dont know whats that

tulip orbit
foggy path
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I tried to play the browser thing

zinc matrix
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i must remake

foggy path
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but it wouldn't let me register or login

zinc matrix
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hand system

foggy path
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:P

zinc matrix
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@foggy path then server was off

foggy path
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it was pretty much when you said to try it out

zinc matrix
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yea

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try now

foggy path
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I wonder if it was because I tried to use <'"รครถรครฅยด+ as my username lol

zinc matrix
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uh

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wtf man

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it doesnt allow special

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characters

foggy path
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gotta test for SQL injection

zinc matrix
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reported to ISP

foggy path
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rip

zinc matrix
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yeah disallowing special characters was first thing

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i did

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only a-z0-9

foggy path
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you probably should add error messages to the form

zinc matrix
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nah

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gameplay more important

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than menu

tulip orbit
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still needs to be there

zinc matrix
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no

pearl elk
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Id prefer error massages

zinc matrix
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error massages best

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i must make my browser version gameplay very attractive before spreading the game

foggy path
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you do realize that if you're showing your game and people point out issues like forms needing error messages it's probably a good idea to make a note of those kinds of things

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unless you want it to miserably fail when you actually do get actual users zomgmoFace

pearl elk
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MMOs dont need users what you on about

zinc matrix
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keep coping

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hmm

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tbh my game is such a mess i wanna do it from scratch

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to sattisfy my perfectionism

foggy path
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you should see what kinda garbage gets released

pearl elk
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Yeah did you see John Carter and Men in Black International

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If I had only the money those movies lost boyo I could make some awesome games

tulip orbit
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dont need money to make a game, just lots of time

pearl elk
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oh is that why Im still doing this shit 25yrs later ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
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just think, another 20yrs and you might make some profit! ๐Ÿ˜„

pearl elk
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By the time Im ready I'll be too grey to appeal to those young Korean estars

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Maybe I should get a face lift

sage tendon
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to sattisfy my perfectionism
Fixed encryption yet?

pearl elk
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Spelt protectionism wrong

foggy path
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who needs encryption, you got something illegal to hide HUH?

tulip orbit
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*Spelled

sage tendon
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Ye like login credentials

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Super illegal

pearl elk
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either/or, I have looked that one up in the past ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
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Hmph!

pearl elk
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Spelled might be the past tense of being under a spell too

sage tendon
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I bet his database stored the login info as plain text

foggy path
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why would you need login credentials, you tryin to hide something illegal? zomgmoFace

tulip orbit
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database? prolly just a txt file

foggy path
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considering the password prompt didn't even show * * * when typing probably yes

pearl elk
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I feeled great yesterday ๐Ÿ˜›

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also just an FYI, games arnt too long just The Last of Us 2

zinc matrix
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they see gut mmo

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they hatin

pearl elk
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I hate on all MP games, youre not special ๐Ÿ™‚

zinc matrix
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yo why my color is yellow but unity makes the planet

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GREEN

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ill rebuild lights.. hope it will work..

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its long af process..

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nvm canceled it

sage tendon
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Other than yourself, who said it was good? ๐Ÿ˜…

zinc matrix
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man

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you dont understand anything

pearl elk
#

Who is funding this MMO?

sage tendon
#

Unity Mirror

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That uses an a dead framework base

pearl elk
#

so basically they get paid by Unity to advertise on an UE4 server?

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That could be against the rules ๐Ÿ˜›

sage tendon
#

I assumed he would be banned from unity

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And he is here to still be able to talk about it

pearl elk
#

Oh what a lovely bunch of people those UE4 peeps are, so tolerant

sage tendon
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So tolerant, its unreal

pearl elk
#

Epic are the new Google

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now they are all evil bastards all the non-evil people needed somewhere to go

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So here we are, in mega free stuff land

tulip orbit
#

speaking of free, whens the new monthly assets come out again?

pearl elk
#

feels like its been ages tbh, second tues of every month

#

but I feel like we missed a month

tulip orbit
#

hopefully there is some stuff I can actually use this month

zinc matrix
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bros

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@sage tendon im not banned from Unity

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bcuz

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im making very huge game in it

sage tendon
#

Why not make the gameplay mechanics playable?

zinc matrix
#

i accept suggestions

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am trying tbh

tulip orbit
#

Crap. Working on the story for my game. The main thing about my game is the procedural dungeons, and I just wrote the player into exploring an overworld that I'd have to hand make...

pearl elk
#

Just put it on the chopping board

tulip orbit
#

?

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its all changeable, just writing notes in notepad. Just not sure how to steer the player back into dungeons...

pearl elk
#

its a flashback they never left the dungeon

zinc matrix
#

how to Remove more if number is bigger?

tulip orbit
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if (Bigger){ remove.more();}

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er.

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if (number == bigger) { more.remove();}

pearl elk
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if (Biggie == smalls) { remove(number); }

zinc matrix
#

no

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i mean

tulip orbit
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if (SlimShady.real() == true) { SlimShady.standup();}

foggy path
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MomsSpaghetti.exe

zinc matrix
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i mean if differrence between numbers x and y is smaller, then create bigger float

pearl elk
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LookAtMe(White && Nerdy);

zinc matrix
#

and the float has to be

foggy path
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actually MOMSPA~1.EXE

zinc matrix
#

not hardcoded

pearl elk
#

I know a word which rhymes with spaghetti

zinc matrix
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salami?

pearl elk
#

Yeti

mossy nexus
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etti

mossy nexus
#

i

foggy path
#

@zinc matrix you can do 1 - number, this way the result is always bigger the smaller number is

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or something similar to that

pearl elk
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confetti, morisetti, joseppi

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but I dont know a word which rhymes with pizza

zinc matrix
#

gate

mossy nexus
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what rhymes with orange

zinc matrix
#

true zomg

foggy path
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door hinge

pearl elk
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borange

zinc matrix
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clockwork

mossy nexus
#

correct answer is "No it doesn't"

pearl elk
#

so what rhymes with pizza?

zinc matrix
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pizza gate

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ibizza

pearl elk
#

I cleaned the leaves sir?

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What rhymes with Stonehenge? apart from borange ๐Ÿ˜›

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melange

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florange

tulip orbit
#

Whats brown and rhymes with snoop?

pearl elk
#

Dr Dre

tulip orbit
#

yup

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Whats red and bad for your teeth?

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a brick.

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What was four legs and will kill you if it falls out of a tree?

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An elephant.

pearl elk
#

what goes round and round and flings meat at you?

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leper on a merry go round

tulip orbit
pearl elk
#

omg lol thats so wrong

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I was watching Richard Pryor doing stand up, he's great

normal prism
#

I was hoping the early access train would help fund further
Could you say a few words about that @gloomy pulsar, is that a naive hope?

short plaza
#

Hell Let Loose looks like an amazing game

gloomy pulsar
#

I honestly couldn't say as I'm not partial to that sort of info in this case

short plaza
#

And I might end up buying it too

gloomy pulsar
#

EA gives you some leeway when it comes to your players, especially when launching

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People are a little more tolerant

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But if you have anything major, you need to be on it very fast

normal prism
#

How do you mean, be on it fast?

gloomy pulsar
#

So anything your players hit on early, you need to get it fixed / added ASAP

normal prism
#

Ah yes, indeed

gloomy pulsar
#

In our case, players were really unhappy that we had no leaning and vaulting in the first release

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So we got squeezed it into the first update IIRC. Other stuff had to be pushed back as a result ofc, but keeping an open chat with your players is critical IMO

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Eventually you find a rhythm that works for the specific game I think

normal prism
#

I agree with those points, makes a lot of sense

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It's tricky to strike a balance between how much to share and involve the community, but I try to keep a dialogue open and listen to people when they discuss the game.

gloomy pulsar
#

Also building a community before you release is important to

normal prism
#

Yeah, exactly. Trying to do that now.

gloomy pulsar
#

Even if it means giving people earlier access

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Keep it a "professional relationship" if you like, but chat rooms etc. are super important

normal prism
#

Discord is awesome

gloomy pulsar
#

Yeah Discord is great for it

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I'm not sure what the others did to build that community up beforehand, I joined post-KS

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But they did a good job

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A lot of the time a fair proportion of very-early adopters will stick with you to the bitter end

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As they consider it their own investment in the project too

normal prism
#

Right, they attach to it, it's interesting to see that happen

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It's something you do all the time as a player yourself, but seeing other people having that experience with your own project is a curious one.

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Pleasant.

gloomy pulsar
#

Yeah it's a good feeling for sure

normal prism
#

And a little terrifying ๐Ÿ˜„

gloomy pulsar
#

No matter how terrible you might think your own game is at times, someone out there will love it

zinc matrix
#

I was watching Richard Pryor doing stand up, he's great
@pearl elk not this time Mons, he's dead

pearl elk
#

So who did I see ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

zinc matrix
#

doctor?

pearl elk
#

It was a recording, on youtube ๐Ÿ™‚

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him and Robin Williams were in it RIP

zinc matrix
#

good news, Robbie Williams is still alive

pearl elk
#

oh really, I must be reading that fake news again

zinc matrix
#

guyysss

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gimme suggestion towards gameplay mechanics

tulip orbit
#

when the player presses the "w" key, he moves forward

pearl elk
#

HE.... did you just assume gender ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

tulip orbit
#

girls dont play video games :p

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๐Ÿคช

pearl elk
#

that bottom one is Freddie Mercury

zinc matrix
#

girls dont play video games :p

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interiti broking mysogyny meter

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its over for u boyo

#

perm ban in my mmo

tulip orbit
#

woot

zinc matrix
#

ban everybody from playing your game john of omnia

#

no

tulip orbit
#

well once word gets out that I'm not playing it, nobody else will

night grove
#

Now I feel bad for the poor sod who inadvertantly takes the same name as interitus...

tulip orbit
#

"now"? its never been a good thing ๐Ÿ™‚

zinc matrix
#

i feel like eating chocholate

tulip orbit
#

I'm still getting cravings for a cigarette, but I quit 3 days 5hrs ago

zinc matrix
#

how many times you quit this year?

tulip orbit
#

this'll be the second time

zinc matrix
#

my mother is probably at 10 or so

tulip orbit
#

first time I lasted 3 weeks

zinc matrix
#

but

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cigs are awful

tulip orbit
#

yup

zinc matrix
#

idk how can u get addicted

tulip orbit
#

for the first time ever, I agree with you

zinc matrix
#

to something so bad

pearl elk
#

lol youre counting days thats cute, I wish you luck

tulip orbit
#

๐Ÿ˜„

pearl elk
#

Id forgotten how many years since I quit, its on my facebook so I can look it up ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
#

I'm looking forward to not feeling the need for one

pearl elk
#

You will get to that point, it gets so much easier

tulip orbit
#

most of the physical withdrawl is over, now its fighting the mental addiction of it

pearl elk
#

I still get occasional cravings for whatever reason but they pass really quick

tulip orbit
#

its part addiction, part habit. Morning routine was pour cereal, make coffee, eat cereal, smoke. have coffee... been a steady habit for a long time.

#

one good thing about smoking was it got me off my computer on a regular basis to go outside for a few min. "fresh air" ๐Ÿ˜„

pearl elk
#

Yeah you might find yourself trying to replace smoking with other things for awhile

#

I'll just have a snack, a snack, a snack... oh shi...

tulip orbit
#

so far when I've been getting a strong urge, I go for a nap ๐Ÿ™‚

#

part of the reason I was smoking was to help deal with anxiety, and I still have that,

#

slept a lot the last 3 days

zinc matrix
#

should i add

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space ships

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and then market my game??

foggy path
#

yes add all the spaceships

carmine frigate
#

quitting is easy, i done it many times ๐Ÿ™‚

#

but yea, you cant really stop an addiction, just replace it with something else

#

sport could work, but that can also take unhealthy shapes

tulip orbit
#

I find whats helping me the most is if I stay busy

#

whether is working on my game (in one of my rare super-productive modes), or sleeping...

#

if I start to lose productivity and space out, I start to get the cravings..

carmine frigate
#

that wil work until u crash and lose a few hours of work or something ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
#

๐Ÿ˜ฆ

carmine frigate
#

could also link the crave to something unpleasant

pearl elk
#

like really smelly farts

carmine frigate
#

like hitting ur hand with a hammer when u get it

tulip orbit
#

my quit smoking book says to change it to something more like "Yippee I'm free!"

#

positive reinforcement works better

#

smoking already smells and tastes terrible

pearl elk
#

"Yippee I have money!"

tulip orbit
#

yeah

pearl elk
#

You'll save atleast 5k a year ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
#

part of the reason I'm quitting is cause I literally dont have the money anymore ๐Ÿ˜„

#

its worth a shot, I didnt fully buy into the book, but some of it made sense. most of it was too preachy

pearl elk
#

Quit smoking and find Jesus

carmine frigate
#

toss the book and just say ur smarter than whatever he has to say

tulip orbit
#

eh, its just sitting in my bathroom with the other reading materials

#

I know I'm better off in every way by not smoking, I just need to stay smart and not give in to cravings

#

No try. do, or do not.

#

Calling it an "attempt" or "trying to quit" is just starting by failing

#

need to convince yourself that its going to work, right from the start

pearl elk
#

It will work, you already know how shit it tastes and smells ๐Ÿ™‚

#

Your sense of smell will come back and things will slowly begin to taste better

tulip orbit
#

And how terrible I felt when I visited my dad and he commented on me smelling like smoke

pearl elk
#

I really had no idea I smelled so bad until after I quit, my jacket was so rancid I threw it out

tulip orbit
#

yeah, I've got a smoking hoodie and a smoking coat.. both probably smell terrible

#

just one more game, one more game...

pearl elk
#

One more lootcrate

zinc matrix
#

a

fathom wadi
#

its strange because this week I have been asked about this more than anything else I remember

#

now my answer can be "cut and paste" ๐Ÿ˜„

#

yeah like when I asked about bandwidth limiter on the launcher and suddenly after 3 years, it appeared ๐Ÿ˜„ They should listen faster.

open pawn
#

This thing is driving me insane, can someone please help me. Its been like this for a week now. I contacted discord via email but no help so far. I cant see peoples discord profile pics, emojis and some server icons. I have been told by someone that its a issue with the firewall blocking download or something. Its not just in here its also on some webpages and some games, the stuff doesnt load in properly

#

Please help out, if you know anything, google has nothing to offer

quiet narwhal
#

if it's on some web pages, you can open the web console and look thru it for the errors. it should point you to items that are being blocked.

#

you can also do the same on the web version of Discord to narrow it down

#

then you can do network diagnostics to see why those are being blocked

zinc matrix
#

hell yea 3 players and alrdy server crash

zinc matrix
#

I am OpticalNoise

tulip orbit
#

I doubt that

fathom wadi
#

I saw some optical noise once on an army base when I looked through the anti-tank missile sights that had heat sensors and one of my classmates farted.

#

true story

#

fart races are cool. I can do a marathon after burrito night.

tulip orbit
#

I'd get about 5ft before being disqualified. ๐Ÿ˜„

atomic barn
#

.

zinc matrix
#

.

mossy nexus
fathom wadi
#

yep thats what it looked like through the tank optics too. A little more purple tho

zinc matrix
#

m2^3

#

smoke bomb

#

wtf

#

gross

sage tendon
#

That small bending forward for maximum pressure just makes it complete

#

Note the divx logo on the bottom right, its that old

zinc matrix
#

so disgusting

#

i never fart when around ppl

#

and not even when alone

#

but i would near remco

sage tendon
#

Havent you seen the south park episode where people just start to burn up because they hold their farts?

zinc matrix
#

oh

#

neverwatched soucz park

#

but horse shit doesnt smell like human fart

#

more like farm

analog bone
zinc matrix
#

looks low iq

analog bone
#

He is

#

It is just a makehuman base model

#

Im going to redo the head tho

zinc matrix
#

@zinc matrix hi

#

cutie

zinc matrix
#

such men are best

rich quiver
mild root
#

SDFGI stands for Signed Distance Field Global Illumination. It means this technique makes heavy use of Signed Distance Fields (an euclidean distance based representation of the signed distance function of a grid) to create this lighting.

#

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant.

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looks like lumen is based on it

alpine fern
#

lumen will be way better than this

pearl elk
#

As far as I heard distance fields are a part of how lumen operates, its a mix of techniques to get the best results at different ranges.

#

GI isnt really a single algorithm either, it is also a combination of techniques to achieve an over arching concept. If you look into how light works in the real world you wont find GI anywhere ๐Ÿ™‚

#

It really makes it difficult to compare GIs, just because they use the same technique maybe the implementation makes sacrifices in quality for speed. People tend to just look at the marketing name and think they are all the same same.

versed torrent
#

Hello everyone ๐Ÿ™‚

fathom wadi
#

I was reading about distance fields the other day. Seems like a nice medium between baking and realtime for that kind of thing. Kinda mind bending tho

#

heya

versed torrent
#

what's everyone's favorite game genres

fathom wadi
#

anything you dont get fooled into buying half a game and the other half in microtransactions or season passes.

versed torrent
#

frick

#

yeah I hate that ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

#

purposely sell a game that has built in inconveniences that you have to buy in game stuff to remove

pearl elk
#

I got tricked into buying two full games with Last of Us 2

zinc matrix
#

guyss

#

my discord has 5 peeps now

#

a way to succezz...

versed torrent
#

heck yeah that's stonks

stiff crystal
#

Godot rendering dev:

  • lets make realtime GI
  • lets make realtime GI again
  • lets not bother making LOD system
  • lets not bother making occlusion culling
  • lets not bother fixing already once functional node graph shader authoring
#

like, what's the thought process that leads to that?

#

they could do things that would actually make their 3D rendering feasible, instead they do things that get them more publicity

#

..which doesn't really help if people who then come over to godot can't actually use it

pearl elk
#

Lets be fair though, Epic and Unity do exactly the same thing ๐Ÿ˜›

#

usability meh... drake pointing wooo shiney!

zinc matrix
#

monso<3

#

i hate cold fried eggs

sage tendon
#

Warm them up

pearl elk
#

Or dont let them go cold to begin with

sage tendon
#

or dont fry them

pearl elk
#

boil em

#

peel em then cut em in half, take the yolk out, mash it all up with some paprika and chilli powder then you got curried eggs ๐Ÿ˜›

real fractal
#

I'm still in favor of cryengines lighting so far

#

Something about it makes it just so nice

#

Too bad it suffers from legacy systems

pearl elk
#

Im kinda partial to Northlight for lighting, wonder how look it would good now RTX is getting more mature

#

Still lots of proprietary engines that look amazeballs

proud pier
#

Good Morning everyone.

zinc matrix
#

hi lad

#

fixing big bugs rn

zinc matrix
#

cute

#

ue5 is past bro

zinc matrix
#

what is this

zinc matrix
#

I need more beer tbh

#

I just don't want to explain to parents why stuff stinks of alcohol

tulip orbit
#

drink it , dont spill it

zinc matrix
#

One can leaked as I was cycling

#

Didn't drink any but it got all over the plastic bag and some clothes I had

tulip orbit
#

shoulda drank it before you went cycling ๐Ÿ˜„

zinc matrix
#

Right now though I am feeling a little drunk, I'm lying in my bed at home. I just feel messed up

tulip orbit
#

inserts helpful comment

pearl elk
#

who gets drunk in bed, thats like next level shit I thought drinking before midday was bad ๐Ÿ˜›

zinc matrix
#

No, I had food but felt so drunk in a while I decided to lie back down

tulip orbit
#

I havent had beer in so long...

pearl elk
#

I only drink beer as whiskey chasers ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
#

I finally wrote somewhat of a general storyline for my game, and now I'm making a list of all the enemies/npcs and stuff that I need to make.... aaaauuuuggghhh

#

so many assets... <_>

zinc matrix
median wraith
#

@tulip orbit I need that

#

Wops

#

The roads and train thing

pearl elk
#

Time to bomb the US with teabags

tulip orbit
#

yeah, the AR level editing is getting pretty good

zinc matrix
#

@tulip orbit That's truth, justice, and the American way for you

tulip orbit
#

glad you kept "American way" seperate from "truth, justice" ๐Ÿ™‚

pearl elk
#

Fake news and street justice are the American ways ๐Ÿ˜›

#

Thankfully liberty is blind so she doesnt see any of this shit goin down hehe

zinc matrix
#

Our government has our bad eggs, no doubt

tulip orbit
#

even she's not wearing her mask correctly

zinc matrix
#

But the good spirit of the people still lives on

tulip orbit
#

where?

pearl elk
#

In the gunpowder of the fireworks

#

and I think I just decided how I want my ashes scattered

#

Shoot me to the moon

tulip orbit
#

lets get a head start and do it now

pearl elk
#

What happened to dwarfs which shoot goblins out of cannons at you?

tulip orbit
#

dwarves/goblins dont fit the story I went with :/

pearl elk
#

Welp you screwed that one

tulip orbit
#

I have a habit of that

pearl elk
#

Wait a sec, how did you even write a game story with no enemies in it?

tulip orbit
#

there are enemies! just not dwarves

pearl elk
#

You know characters have to be put in danger for it to feel engaging right

tulip orbit
#

I know nothing

pearl elk
#

Zombie unicorn

#

cannibal unicorns

#

they could still stab you and let your body rot on their horn

#

while eating other unicorns

tulip orbit
fathom wadi
#

reminds me of my Warlock mount in warcraft

#

@shut bloom I would settle for a word filter that works. 2 years since I blocked the word "Trump" and I still see his arsehole face every day.

tulip orbit
#

next they''ll ban languages like french where words have masculine or feminine forms

carmine frigate
#

french is a made up language anyways ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
#

yeah, I'm all for banning french ๐Ÿ™‚

#

just used it as an example

real palm
#

If people wanna move to using the new terms, I don't see the problem

pearl elk
#

jeebus I wish people would stop acting like man is always a male, sometimes man is a shortening of human... such as mankind, man hours, man power etc

real palm
#

I write list filtering so rarely that it's an easy change

pearl elk
#

Even men in military terms refers to multiple humans not multiple males

#

What happens when we want a person to man a boat? That obviously requires a penis ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
#

to be fair, you dont want a woman driving a boat. ๐Ÿ˜‰ runs

pearl elk
#

Hey you dont have to run that fast they wont catch you ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

tulip orbit
#

I cant run very fast, or very far... need the headstart

pearl elk
#

Penis gets in the way aye lol

tulip orbit
#

๐Ÿ˜„

pearl elk
#

I do agree with some of these terms just others are alittle silly

tulip orbit
#

yup.

carmine frigate
#

spartacus was pretty cool tho ๐Ÿ˜›

pearl elk
#

because blacklist and whitelist refer to colours not skintone, there are also greylist or is that gonna offend middle aged people

#

Well I should say they refer to tones but still

#

Lets repaint all the pianos

tulip orbit
#

Allow/denylist does actually make sense

pearl elk
#

yeah but for garbage collection for example you have a greylist and a blacklist

#

grey means its getting ready to be blacklisted, allow list doesnt really work in that context

tulip orbit
#

greylist -> maybelist?

fluid bloom
#

just switch to speaking in finnish

#

problems solved

#

no gendered pronouns, world peace

tulip orbit
#

except now you're speaking in finnish

pearl elk
#

I bet people will complain cuz it sounds like finish

fluid bloom
#

meh, finnish is far more expressive anyway

pearl elk
#

its like what about the startish people

#

or the people who didnt even start yet, finnishing first is just rude ๐Ÿ˜›

fathom wadi
#

Some wiccan feminist once tried to bash me with her logic by saying "History is written by men. That's why its called His-story". I had to refer her to a place of linguistic education on where the "hist" part comes from.

tulip orbit
#

cant call that bush a hedge anymore, its got the word "he" in it

pearl elk
#

Were younger people taught that words cant really hurt you unless you let them?

tulip orbit
#

not the newer generations apparently

pearl elk
#

I mean Im cool with someone changing their name to whatever the hell they like if they want to be called somethin, just dont expect me to be a mind reader

carmine frigate
#

id like to go out and loot me a new TV , but nothing happenin here

#

total bummer

fathom wadi
#

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but progressive liberalism is a lie.

pearl elk
#

Its crazy cuz I am a progressive liberal ๐Ÿ˜›

fathom wadi
#

I jest of course

#

Im just a capitalist who likes to make a joke at the expense of those I exploit :p

#

again, joking.

pearl elk
#

Im just not progress is my middle name at any and all costs

#

no authoritarian bone in my body

fathom wadi
#

The only thing Im capable and/or worried about progressing is my own bank balance so my family doesn't end up living in this shithole for any longer than necessary. I just can't get a break atm.

#

bear in mind im not blaming anyone but myself.

pearl elk
#

How dare you sir, you have all that privilege how bout try using it ๐Ÿ˜‰

carmine frigate
#

cant u pin it on 5G?

fathom wadi
#

I keep trying but then other white people tell me im scum and privileged and hurt my feelings with words. So I call them a c**t and move on :p

pearl elk
#

Yell oi c**t in Australia and watch everyone turn around and look ๐Ÿ™‚

#

preferred pronoun of an entire nation

fathom wadi
#

@carmine frigate I'm saving the 5G issues. 6G is where all the cool kids are complaining these days.

#

@pearl elk being northern english, I tend to reduce the word "couldn't" to the other word and nobody says anything. but if I call someone it, I get a ban and have to watch Ricky Gervais use the word without a ban and wonder where it all went wrong.

pearl elk
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Yes well, the cops will turn around and notice you too if you go throwing around in public

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Laws about decency n all that, cant walk around topless everywhere either, even blokes cant

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Unless its Mardi Gras week then you're all good

fathom wadi
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I'm not a person to curse in public unless im with friends and people im comfortable with. I keep a clean mouth like a respectable person. But catch me in relaxed mode, out of professional scope and I curse like a sailor.

pearl elk
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I like to be more creative with my cursing, stringing them together is quite the art

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Man some of these death sequences in Last of Us 2 are brutal

fathom wadi
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yeah I noticed that and it put me off. Im not sure why but the more real violence I see via the internet, the less I want to see it in a computer game. Gory stuff I mean. Which is entirely ironic as one of my "to do" list items is a full soft body physics based gore system.

pearl elk
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Well its pretty realistic gore I thinks the thing and its hard hitting like in Tomb Raider

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Its not that over the top horror type gore which is fun

soft night
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well i have seen real violence close by

fathom wadi
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yeah the old days of Soldier of Fortune just making you laugh is gone. Now it's brutality for brutality sake

soft night
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more i want to burn that energy in video games than in real

fathom wadi
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I would rather see it in video games for sure, I see your point there.

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Same with those paedo guys fetishizing anime because they love kids.

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prefer them to do it in a video game than real life

pearl elk
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well violence in the real doesnt just hit hard it has the smell too

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blood stinks

soft night
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about blood, would you eat your steak medium rare`? what oozing blood?

pearl elk
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Ive eaten bloody steak, depends on the steak though whether it tastes any good. You need a really great cut for rare to work

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bit like fish, any raw fish doesnt do

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I think Id try human meat if it were a zombie apocalypse

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Only thing there is they take awhile to mature so not the best for farming ๐Ÿ˜›

tulip orbit
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I still havent matured ๐Ÿ™‚

foggy path
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you need to live in a barrel for a while to mature

zinc matrix
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bros

broken sigil
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Lounge keeps getting weirder and weirder every time I take a peek in here lol

pearl elk
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Welcome, would you like to volunteer to be a member of the people farm?

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Also I have a recommendation for people, if youre making a cinematic game too many fades to black is bad

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If you look at a typical screenplay for a movie its not something they do

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Infact great cinematography is about letting scenes flow together, not jumping from character to character and spending time precisely where you need to

real palm
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But it's just so easy to fade

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it's one node

pearl elk
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Just in general, its something some movies fail at too like Crimes of Grindlewald.

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If you watch a movie like Saw theres a scene, if I remember right, they are in the police station then it pans down and they are in the bathroom basement. No fade, not even a cut just pan to the next scene, its super clever.

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You really dont have to respect the laws of reality ๐Ÿ˜›

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Im guessing the entire thing will be similar, maybe not one big oner like 1917 though

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They use objects near the camera for hidden cuts in the Black Panther oner fight scene

foggy path
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tbh I always wonder about this

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people here are like OH I NEVER USE TICK

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meanwhile everything I even need to use tick for basically have to use tick or it won't work

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:P

pearl elk
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Timers are called in Tick ๐Ÿ˜›

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the real benefit of timers has to do with the polling rate

real palm
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Well timers are also called outside of the main tick pass

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If that entire pass gets to be native code, it's going to run better

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but timers aren't exclusively BP so you're just moving that cost there

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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

foggy path
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I actually had to use tick to position something in viewport because it would always get positioned wrong if you tried to position it based on events and the player pawn was moving..

real palm
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Profiling is king, if the profiler doesn't suggest an improvement then it isn't worth restructuring for perf.

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If it doesn't look bad in the profiler, it's not worth your time (for perf)

pearl elk
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I think the main suggestion to not use tick is for people who dont know what they are doing rather than to never use it. It should be more like, use tick wisely but then if youre a noob you think youre wise

real palm
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Indeed. Almost everything can be event based

pearl elk
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Some people come from a school of "whats an event"

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running all your states through tick is bad mmkay

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As an example if you have an event which always takes place 5 minutes after another event its much easier to use a delegate and timer rather than calculating it in tick. If you need to retrigger, pause, etc it just makes the logic easier to follow than a big tick

foggy path
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some of that is a lot easier to do in tick if you're not using BP's I think

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I mean I haven't really looked at how you'd do it in C++ if you wanted to use a timer/event, but using a float to track how long it was based on deltaTime in tick is pretty trivial

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blueprints make it super easy to do it in a more sensible way with delays and stuff though

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so it's pretty easy to take that kind of thinking into BP's even though they have better options

pearl elk
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Dont assume assignments have no cost though, even comparisons can slow code down when theres enough of em

foggy path
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well it is pretty cheap though

pearl elk
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sure its quicker in C++ than BP but bad code will still cause issues regardless

real palm
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I dunno

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I can set up a timer fairly quickly

foggy path
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yeah it was just an example that if you don't know those kinds of mechanisms exist or how to use them it's easy to just do what you'd expect you have to do

real palm
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I almost never do the whole countdown thing

pearl elk
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I actually rarely use delays, timers allow for more control

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If I need anything more complex I consider Timeline before I do Tick but it depends. I like the ability to rewind timeline

bronze axle
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I wish timelines would get the Sequencer interface. There was discussion about that happening years ago, but it never materialized.

pearl elk
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Yeah thats the main downfall atm its Timelines kinda stand on their own when they should be more integrated

bronze axle
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For sure.

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UMG even got the Sequencer refresh.

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For widget animations.

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I think timelines are the only animation tool left without the new interface.

pearl elk
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yeah curves are very shoddy in timeline, not as good as the other tools

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Im assuming the idea is to get all similar curve types to have a code interface so they are interchangable

rain summit
hasty hinge
pearl elk
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man Horizon Zero Dawn is gonna look so good on PC ๐Ÿ™‚

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gonna be way easier for me to hit those crit points on the robots

zinc matrix
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guys

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i changed

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game much :3

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will soon again reupload.. hopefully works now... wew..

thorny dock
tulip orbit
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talking about cracking software is pretty much a bannable offense, so...

real palm
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nah

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be willing to say we're both equally amused

ocean bone
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I have a pretty random question. How much of the game is usually the code? Like how much space does code usually take up and how much do assets? I'm guessing that the code is like 5% max of the game size

foggy path
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pretty sure piracy is against discord tos, so any larger discord server would most likely ask you to not discuss that topic

thorny dock
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pretty selfish and ballsey to come on a discord filled with real epic employees and ask for someone to give you illegal software, possibly getting the discord taken down

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well if wasting time for nothing is worth a try to you then best of luck lol

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anytime!

tulip orbit
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somebody asnswer koko's question, I'm also interested

real palm
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Well if you don't get an answer to your question, perhaps ping mods

tulip orbit
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^I'm sure thats aimed at kappy, not koko

real palm
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Bins tend to be < 5% sure

foggy path
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Code probably takes quite a small amount of space yeah ๐Ÿค”

real palm
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content rich games can get down to 1%

tulip orbit
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Is it possible to clean the project directory? of unused stuff, old logs/backups, etc..?

thorny dock
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doesn't one of the mods here like Allar or something have some sort of asset cleaner plugin?

real palm
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Dangit I wanted to see if kappy would do that themselves

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all good

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I think we all know

thorny dock
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haha he deleted it just now

tulip orbit
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I was hoping for a non-paying option, I'm also broke af

real palm
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@spark gulch they keep a log when you delete or edit bud

thorny dock
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#auditlog

real palm
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gonna be a womp womp

thorny dock
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womp womp with the chomp chomp

real palm
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you really just love doing things for nothing then

foggy path
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I think he took the hint you guys can stop being dicks about it lol

thorny dock
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but... but... if I can't be a dick then what am I going to do all day? ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

foggy path
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At least he didn't start arguing about it like some people do when they get told to not talk about piracy

ocean bone
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So if a lot of your game assets are procedural the download size can be very small since it either generates them after launching the game and saves it to your storage or ram or how would that work

foggy path
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I gotta balance all the shitposting somehow zomgmoFace

tulip orbit
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zomg being the most mature here
...woah, yeah... thats actually really wierd...

real palm
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I'm in this gif and I don't like it

foggy path
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@tulip orbit pee pee poo poo

tulip orbit
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There we go. thats more like it

foggy path
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lol

real palm
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@ocean bone Sure

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Interesting strategy if you can pull it off

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Proc gen would be more useful to amplify the content you ship with though, as opposed to attempting to be the means to have a small footprint

thorny dock
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Well yes and no, if you have 1 wall asset, but a blueprint to create 30 of them at runtime, does that increase the filesize of the game in real time or something?

tulip orbit
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what if they made one of those 1mb games? those super-compact games, but with ue4

real palm
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You have to aggressively cut down the engine to do that

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but it's possible

tulip orbit
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most of the engine is crap anyway ๐Ÿ˜„

real palm
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@thorny dock it would take the same amount of ram

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doesn't create more on-disk stuff

thorny dock
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ahh okay that makes sense

ocean bone
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well ms paint offers more colors

thorny dock
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well, honestly to use either of those programs you need to have some level of problem solving

pearl elk
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man thats a long game, jeeez

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I think all up with those cuts its about 5 mins of black screen I watched ๐Ÿ˜›

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lol its even doing it in the credits

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actually MS Paint doesnt offer more colours

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the UE4 material editor can do more colours than your screen can display

thorny dock
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your acting like hes serious

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until the mods wake up hes going to be another john lol

pearl elk
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No you should use MS Paint since you had to ask

deep glen
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im reading

tulip orbit
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Good job ๐Ÿ™‚

deep glen
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we have a log of every text that gets removed or edited.

thorny dock
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oh I wasn't aware it was okay to ask for other users to pirate plugins here

deep glen
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its not

real palm
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... how'd you get that impression?

deep glen
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waiting for you all to grab some popcorn

real palm
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Luos is just reading

tulip orbit
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๐Ÿฟ

thorny dock
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we also have a low fat butter option for any interested

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made from plants in a lab

tulip orbit
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what about high-fat? tasty real butter?

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and some salt made from the tears of my enemies

pearl elk
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Im watch Last of Us 2 credits

deep glen
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so @spark gulch how do you want to be banned?
do it yourself? 3 infractions? or just me giving you the boot?

thorny dock
real palm
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hands mod tools

foggy path
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lol

real palm
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there ya go, we trust you'll ban yourself

thorny dock
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goes for extra pumps of high-fat butter

foggy path
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good old times on IRC when you'd get opped on a channel and then just massban everyone zomgmoFace

pearl elk
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just kick everyone with auto-rejoin

real palm
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@zinc matrix -selfban

thorny dock
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@zinc matrix !flashban kappy

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@zinc matrix !gameidea

zinc matrix
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Want game ideas? Send me a DM!

real palm
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A flashban has started for Kappy

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React with a this to vote yes

foggy path
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Wait does unrealbot send you game ideas if you dm it?

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[11:30 PM]
BOT
Unrealbot: A fighting game where you run away from mermaids during the Machine Age.

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lol

pearl elk
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Ive played that game

foggy path
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Disney's Little Mermaid: The Videogame

thorny dock
deep glen
tulip orbit
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๐Ÿฅณ

foggy path
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rip

pearl elk
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holy trolly

real palm
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that's the most fun I've had watching somebody get banned in a while, thanks @deep glen

tulip orbit
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1 down, 10823 to go!

thorny dock
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that was a good time, and honestly mixing the high and the low fat butter is so dank

real palm
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Have to try that next time

deep glen
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if he went "oh sorry, will not do it again" that would have been the end of it.

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instead acting like nothing happened, kthnxbye

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k, back to my gamedev hiatus for the time being :p

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np hehe

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take care, ill be back later :)

ocean bone
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๐Ÿค” the unrealbot won't dm me back with an idea :(

thorny dock
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definitely one of the top gifs i've ever seen lol

tulip orbit
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shows over, I'm heading for a nap.

thorny dock
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@ocean bone try right clicking the server > privacy settings

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make sure dms are on for the server

ocean bone
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I'm on my phone in bed rn I'll try it later on my pc when I wake up

supple crystal
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Hi guys, as i promised, here is Gronions Official Gameplay Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6r7I7bcwKE

Gronions wishlist now on Steam!
Experience battle across the universe, like never before. Gronions for PC, is coming this summer! Learn more:
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1353070/Gronions/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPXzFIdrvY9NhEZJx4lnPYQ
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gronionsgame
Website: http://gronions.com/

Place yourself at the heart of a battle for the Universe, GRONIONSยฎ for PC, is coming this summer! Wishlist now on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1353070/Gronions/

Follow Gronions:

Website: http://gronions.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gronionsgame

#Gronions ...

โ–ถ Play video
fluid bloom
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could we keep lounge free of drive by ads?

supple crystal
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Hi, i shared this trailer because it was requested by people from this chat, you can check!

sleek furnace
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Wow! Gronions trailer is awesome

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Congratulations

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Already in my wishlist! cool

gilded vigil
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wait who got banned lol i missed a whole thing here

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and the messages were deleted

foggy path
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@zinc matrix yeah I wonder if there's someone with two accounts pretending they're not using two accounts zomgmoFace

supple crystal
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Congratulations
@sleek furnace thank you very much, it was a lot of work and sacrifice, iยดm glad you like it!

foggy path
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so how long are you going to talk to yourself with your second account lol

ocean bone
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Imma give some unrequested critique: Keep the art style consistent.

fickle oriole
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Hi

real palm
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Hello self Random Discord User

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Oh Hello other me Original Discord User

hasty hinge
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Oh sorry my post deleted. Yeah check out this game I found on Steam. Will blow you away
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1353070/Gronions/#:~:text=Action Games > Gronions-,Gronions,evolution of bio galactic dominance

Long time ago, a great galactic battle took place, where a Gronion hero sacrified himself to protect the Ether NIX, an energy that provides the power of life or destruction, during this battle, a giant Droppah and legions of evil creatures were defeated, and now, a new hero ha...

Release Date

This Summer

โ–ถ Play video
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I take it you don't like Gronions, then

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It was a joke man. He's a beginner. Go easy on him

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lol little uncool in here

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I am aware. Thanks ponkkis, have a good one

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Might want to google ' woosh '
edit: wow they really blocked me ๐Ÿ˜ข

civic dome
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hey guys, I can't find the foliage settings under the foliage menu, I only have mode toolbar and it doesn't let me get a density over 1 which is too low.
How can I increase the density and also is there a way to get the old foliage settings menu back?

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I know this is lounge but it seems like the only place with people so sorry

supple crystal
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hi guys, i did not sleep at all while i was finishing Gronions trailer, so i kind of fainted after posting the video, now i come back and there is a lot of talk about the game, thank you all very much for your support, whether comments are good or bad, everyone is thanked, because this project has been very hard to finish, while working alone; Thanks for your comments, wich have been very well accepted. the worst comment is the one not made. ๐Ÿ‘

real palm
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@civic dome You might try resetting your layout but I doubt that would bring the old UI back

analog bone
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Toughts on the new MainMenu on my game? The background will change to a my game and the top right corner is a steamprofile picture

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I will add a level bar next to the profile picture when i add the level system!

zinc matrix
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hi