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unfortunately not
why not?
didnt fell natural or intuitive
omg
I tried to build unreal engine from source to find unreal engine 4.22 taking up about 58 gb of my storage
IT KEEPS ON RAISING
83 gb in total
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This had nvidia flex too
wait wouldnt that be more
i need to for dedicated servers :(
because of fkin course they should. Said me years ago
Where is my peer status?
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.
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 ๐
its about protection of the public, so its their job. Social health and well being.
there is a specific issue with addictions caused by promoted entertainment. Would you allow a child to visit a las vegas casino and play?
thats awesome, but some people do
like myself
well mayB i should be regulated too, but i dont wunna
i cant even cut down a tree in my garden w/o filling in 5 forms in triplets
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
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.
if ppl were just less scummy they wouldnt have to bitch as much ๐
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.
yea its 2 evils
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.
dunno how much of that 5 billion comes from the UK tho
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.
well i would never play a pay to win competative game
i dont like losing, and i dont like unfair wins either
stumping ppl with less money invested in a game is not something i dig
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.
skin gambling in CS though was disgusting to be fair
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.
Seems strange to me that in a world of cameras, people are still predators. Unless they move around like Snake in MGS1.
its other side of that mental stress
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
i didnt follow the whole twitch stream, but its virtual sexual harrass?
I seem to have slide a slider in blender on remesh the wrong way. I've brought my computer to its knees
pass the slider to the left hand side ๐
you know i care verry lil about all that internet drama
people gunna be people, why should i care? ๐
heh
is that like an escape pod to get out of the tide?
usually the water comes up pretty slow and i just move my towel
laundry detergent
dumb ppl were eating tide pods
now its trending under "food" again. thought was funny
i wish i was hip like that ๐ฆ
mayB i should sexual harrass some twitch streamers while eating some tide pods
turn this life around :p
is planking still hip, gunna do that right now
I was planking all afternoon. Tho I just called it "napping"
ill just plank my chair in seating position
ill just put my legs up and call it a half plank
now imma yeet some beercans in the bin
do some T pose
i think this half plank is gunna be huge, its kinda comfy ๐
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who hasn't heard of Kitbash3d? We are all asset flippers here :p
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.
i heared of kitbash with 3d objects
@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 ๐
its when u slam 2 premade objects together to form a new1
its how robots are born
@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.
@fathom wadi Oh, cool! Did you end up making anything cool with the kit?
you heard it here first, they are making assets for the new make game button in UE5. Confirmed!
lol @quiet narwhal you are trouble ๐
I am definitely that
@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
Any screenshots yet?
I kitbashed udders onto a crab
its my profile pic ๐
not my finest moment, i have it there to remind me how uddercrab i am ๐
its not 3d but the basic is the same
If I pulled that up from the deep in a crabpot I would nope my way outta of there reaaaal quick
i still think uddercrab is goin to be a moviestar ๐
@karmic moth how do i watch stuff in VR on the site?
it asked for access but my set didnt turn on
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.
@carmine frigate Admittedly that is a question I don't know, lemme hit up the web team and see whats us
its possible your question needs more help in order for them to help you?
oh my god. matthew! love your fundamental tutorials
i can enter VR on sketchfab just fine
nah, what im doing doesnt have much written about it.
tutorials can only go so far.
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?
it asked for permission and i gave it, i wunna see some kits bashed damit ๐
in vr
thanks, that might be where i look to put it. figuring by yourself can only go so far :>
but i guess everybody is a born genius
just instantly says 'go read a tutorial ' even if people obviously have blindspots because not everything is covered :>
so there is no way to break down the issue into a smaller goal that is covered?
its very rare something is just completely brand new
to be honest, i was looking at how you saved games,
but as i examined another projecf and how they did it,
i realize they use gameinstance as a temporary work around.
there's many ways to save and it differs based on SP/MP/C++/BP, and what is saving
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.
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
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...
that's the thing i hate most about these times.
yeah but that right there is nothing new
I would say the majority of people DONT have instructors they can just ask
the way i work is counter to how programmers probably think.
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.
so, i dont expect to find many people to sympathize with me on that level
could always post your work in like #work-in-progress and ask for feedback, same with reddit
ah that's a good reccomendation
im going to get back to trying to alter the code ive got now
with some other things ive found
i might have a solution to my initial problem
but its not a full save/load workaround.
ill figure that one out once i get a new version running.
full save / load systems are quite complex depending on the game and usually very specific to the game itself most of the time
yeah, your example didnt contain float variables, but i imagined saving those would have been similar
for something like loading a player character where you have sliders to set body morphs..
emulators do a save state, makin a complete copy of the game, + the state
easy save? ill look into that..
Can you actually explain to me what easy save gets you that you can't get without it?
You can make something more flexible & robust with only BP
takes you just as long as using easy save
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
The better way is to make most things in the game be a custom struct
the built in save system then makes that trivial, easy save only deals with atomics/builtin
mm yeah.
i have a lot to figure out today.. waiting for my zoom course to end before i can start
save the array of that in a custom save game child class.
Can't do that with easy save (without modifying it)
its more of an issue when you start to get more robust. Say that item has random stats...
But I'd love to know what you get with that particular asset that makes it worth a recommendation
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.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/savior this is the Cadillac of save systems
You know that checkbox on properties, "Save Game"?
does nothing on it's own
You're meant to iterate properties and serialize them to disk/slot/etc yourself. This plugin does that and some other stuff
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.
This is along the lines of what I'd write/use for a save system
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
yeah
i think id need that
because
it is eventually meant to be multiplayer, so its more about just saving the options someone chooses in character selection.
The main thing I don't like about UE4's standard save game stuff is that it is binary.
the whole does savegame exist node is allready a bit too much help if u ask me
just makes things more confusing
does it?
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I think it'd be helpful for fixed-slot games
yea u should just equal a string instead

cuz i have no idea what that node does, other than isequal a string
Human parse able formats FTW
it scans the saves directory and does a comparison of the items in it
it literally checks if the file exists.
so if you set something in the save file
but so does an equal string
If it does, then you can load it & UE4 will give you the UObject representation
No, an equal string doesn't iterate your file structure
forloop equal string than?
I mean solid troll attempt
well thats what u get when 10 ppl discuss a 5 node setup ๐
I suppose you could write it yourself with the new file system utilities. lol
They did a stream on save/load systems 3 years ago.
Pog!
Heck yeah, debug menu.
finally upgraded my previous cheat widget from 2 years ago ๐
I keep meaning to make a debug menu for my games, and I never get around to it. ๐
so handy
Welp, I don't think that guy's gonna make it.
perma death, now u have to buy him again from MP
takes after the mother ๐
lol
that isn't even the best one ๐
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revives with no head tho ๐
nah we put the head back,
heh ๐
@austere glen I also liked the idea, but I dont have a whole lot of hope of it getting finished anytime soon
so I've just kind of forgotten about it and remember it from time to time
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.
The wing commander guy has good ideas, but they forced him to finish freelancer because it was taking too long back then too
50 years later... playing star citizen on the pc in my space ship, just released
lol
needs a whole dyson sphere to power the computer to play it at 30fps
scope got changed to actually simulating the universe
can you simulate the universe with a computer that is smaller than the universe
probably not
well actually depends I think
smaller yes probably, but less mass than the universe has probably not
how you know we're not in a simulation ๐ And the universe is not as big as it is
its simulations all the way down!
holy shit I'm sore, worked out for the first time in 4 or 5 months or so
sometimes one of the servers crashes, deleting all memories of the people running on them
but you never know because you don't remember them existing
quarantine really just requires sedentary nothingness lol
too many people these days...AI simulator doesn't have enough processors, that's why it's making us stay in
jeebus Evo Online cancelled... still trying to work out why Dr Disrespect was banned
I get the impression maybe him and Twitch do it on purpose to generate news which helps with view counts when he comes back
I'd agree if it was a trend that he is getting banned all the time and then comes back
this is the second time ever, right?
Lol no like the 5th or 6th
second ever permaban
least it seems perma, we dont even know that much
wooo Cyberpunk 2077 with RTX on
I wish my life was raytraced.
I wish my wife was raytraced
we need immu
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remco has still butterflies in belly from my mmo
<@&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?
VR channel would probably be better suited to specifics regarding that platform
ok
woo we reached the boss level Covid, Melbourne might have a Super Spreader ๐ฎ
wonder if thats like a Boomer from L4d like a bloaty greasy person
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
like.. yeah okay but why you talking about it to my face?
do you understand how this works?
:D
there has been zero reported cases in my area so tbh it should be pretty safe but it was kind of dumb...
What relation has Python tied to Unreal engine?
Plutonic I would think
Editor scripting ?
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
Seems alright, there's nothing that made me think wtf
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
but I don't really have any particular ideas on what you could change on it so maybe it's fine
Hmm, thank you! I get what you mean, gonna look over how I can write it differently.
What's happening today
i shall rework one system
its friday ๐
idc friday or not
not that it being friday makes any difference to an unemployed person such as myself
party never, sleep always.
Music video by Eddie Murphy performing Party All the Time. (C) 1985 Sony BMG Music Entertainment
#EddieMurphy #PartyAllTheTime #Vevo
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...
the aliens stole your chicks, shot down your ride, and you are out of gum
pretty solid backstory.
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@tulip orbit did u see my game
think I saw some screenshots
should make it work in bowser.
dont know whats that
Bowser? from mario? https://i.imgur.com/yamBQ1G.jpg
I tried to play the browser thing
i must remake
but it wouldn't let me register or login
hand system
:P
@foggy path then server was off
it was pretty much when you said to try it out
I wonder if it was because I tried to use <'"รครถรครฅยด+ as my username lol
gotta test for SQL injection
reported to ISP
rip
you probably should add error messages to the form
still needs to be there
no
Id prefer error massages
error massages best
i must make my browser version gameplay very attractive before spreading the game
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
unless you want it to miserably fail when you actually do get actual users 
MMOs dont need users what you on about
keep coping
hmm
tbh my game is such a mess i wanna do it from scratch
to sattisfy my perfectionism
you should see what kinda garbage gets released
Yeah did you see John Carter and Men in Black International
If I had only the money those movies lost boyo I could make some awesome games
dont need money to make a game, just lots of time
oh is that why Im still doing this shit 25yrs later ๐
just think, another 20yrs and you might make some profit! ๐
By the time Im ready I'll be too grey to appeal to those young Korean estars
Maybe I should get a face lift
to sattisfy my perfectionism
Fixed encryption yet?
Spelt protectionism wrong
who needs encryption, you got something illegal to hide HUH?
*Spelled
either/or, I have looked that one up in the past ๐
Hmph!
Spelled might be the past tense of being under a spell too
I bet his database stored the login info as plain text
why would you need login credentials, you tryin to hide something illegal? 
database? prolly just a txt file
considering the password prompt didn't even show * * * when typing probably yes
I feeled great yesterday ๐
also just an FYI, games arnt too long just The Last of Us 2
I hate on all MP games, youre not special ๐
yo why my color is yellow but unity makes the planet
GREEN
ill rebuild lights.. hope it will work..
its long af process..
nvm canceled it
Who is funding this MMO?
so basically they get paid by Unity to advertise on an UE4 server?
That could be against the rules ๐
I assumed he would be banned from unity
And he is here to still be able to talk about it
Oh what a lovely bunch of people those UE4 peeps are, so tolerant
So tolerant, its unreal
Epic are the new Google
now they are all evil bastards all the non-evil people needed somewhere to go
So here we are, in mega free stuff land
speaking of free, whens the new monthly assets come out again?
feels like its been ages tbh, second tues of every month
but I feel like we missed a month
hopefully there is some stuff I can actually use this month
bros
@sage tendon im not banned from Unity
bcuz
im making very huge game in it
space minecraft https://i.imgur.com/a7naaWU.png
Why not make the gameplay mechanics playable?
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...
Just put it on the chopping board
?
its all changeable, just writing notes in notepad. Just not sure how to steer the player back into dungeons...
its a flashback they never left the dungeon
how to Remove more if number is bigger?
if (Biggie == smalls) { remove(number); }
if (SlimShady.real() == true) { SlimShady.standup();}
MomsSpaghetti.exe
i mean if differrence between numbers x and y is smaller, then create bigger float
LookAtMe(White && Nerdy);
and the float has to be
actually MOMSPA~1.EXE
not hardcoded
I know a word which rhymes with spaghetti
salami?
Yeti
etti
i
@zinc matrix you can do 1 - number, this way the result is always bigger the smaller number is
or something similar to that
gate
what rhymes with orange
true zomg
door hinge
borange
clockwork
correct answer is "No it doesn't"
so what rhymes with pizza?
I cleaned the leaves sir?
What rhymes with Stonehenge? apart from borange ๐
melange
florange
Whats brown and rhymes with snoop?
Dr Dre
yup
Whats red and bad for your teeth?
a brick.
What was four legs and will kill you if it falls out of a tree?
An elephant.
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?
Hell Let Loose looks like an amazing game
I honestly couldn't say as I'm not partial to that sort of info in this case
And I might end up buying it too
EA gives you some leeway when it comes to your players, especially when launching
People are a little more tolerant
But if you have anything major, you need to be on it very fast
How do you mean, be on it fast?
So anything your players hit on early, you need to get it fixed / added ASAP
Ah yes, indeed
In our case, players were really unhappy that we had no leaning and vaulting in the first release
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
Eventually you find a rhythm that works for the specific game I think
I agree with those points, makes a lot of sense
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.
Also building a community before you release is important to
Yeah, exactly. Trying to do that now.
Even if it means giving people earlier access
Keep it a "professional relationship" if you like, but chat rooms etc. are super important
Discord is awesome
Yeah Discord is great for it
I'm not sure what the others did to build that community up beforehand, I joined post-KS
But they did a good job
A lot of the time a fair proportion of very-early adopters will stick with you to the bitter end
As they consider it their own investment in the project too
Right, they attach to it, it's interesting to see that happen
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.
Pleasant.
Yeah it's a good feeling for sure
And a little terrifying ๐
No matter how terrible you might think your own game is at times, someone out there will love it
I was watching Richard Pryor doing stand up, he's great
@pearl elk not this time Mons, he's dead
So who did I see ๐ฒ
doctor?
good news, Robbie Williams is still alive
oh really, I must be reading that fake news again
when the player presses the "w" key, he moves forward
HE.... did you just assume gender ๐ฎ
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girls dont play video games :p
interiti broking mysogyny meter
its over for u boyo
perm ban in my mmo
woot
well once word gets out that I'm not playing it, nobody else will
Now I feel bad for the poor sod who inadvertantly takes the same name as interitus...
"now"? its never been a good thing ๐
i feel like eating chocholate
I'm still getting cravings for a cigarette, but I quit 3 days 5hrs ago
how many times you quit this year?
this'll be the second time
my mother is probably at 10 or so
first time I lasted 3 weeks
yup
idk how can u get addicted
for the first time ever, I agree with you
to something so bad
lol youre counting days thats cute, I wish you luck
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Id forgotten how many years since I quit, its on my facebook so I can look it up ๐
I'm looking forward to not feeling the need for one
You will get to that point, it gets so much easier
most of the physical withdrawl is over, now its fighting the mental addiction of it
I still get occasional cravings for whatever reason but they pass really quick
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" ๐
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...
so far when I've been getting a strong urge, I go for a nap ๐
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
yes add all the spaceships
quitting is easy, i done it many times ๐
but yea, you cant really stop an addiction, just replace it with something else
sport could work, but that can also take unhealthy shapes
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..
that wil work until u crash and lose a few hours of work or something ๐
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could also link the crave to something unpleasant
like really smelly farts
like hitting ur hand with a hammer when u get it
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
"Yippee I have money!"
yeah
You'll save atleast 5k a year ๐
part of the reason I'm quitting is cause I literally dont have the money anymore ๐
its worth a shot, I didnt fully buy into the book, but some of it made sense. most of it was too preachy
Quit smoking and find Jesus
toss the book and just say ur smarter than whatever he has to say
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
It will work, you already know how shit it tastes and smells ๐
Your sense of smell will come back and things will slowly begin to taste better
And how terrible I felt when I visited my dad and he commented on me smelling like smoke
I really had no idea I smelled so bad until after I quit, my jacket was so rancid I threw it out
yeah, I've got a smoking hoodie and a smoking coat.. both probably smell terrible
just one more game, one more game...
One more lootcrate
a
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" ๐
yeah like when I asked about bandwidth limiter on the launcher and suddenly after 3 years, it appeared ๐ They should listen faster.
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
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
hell yea 3 players and alrdy server crash
I am OpticalNoise
I doubt that
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.
I'd get about 5ft before being disqualified. ๐
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reminds me of https://youtu.be/_kzECuJnfBg
For the people who DO NOT believe in the supernatural:
An Infrared camera captures the exact moment when an evil spirit leaves the body from this Woman at the airport ... Extremely Shocking !!!
yep thats what it looked like through the tank optics too. A little more purple tho
That small bending forward for maximum pressure just makes it complete
Note the divx logo on the bottom right, its that old
so disgusting
i never fart when around ppl
and not even when alone
but i would near remco
Havent you seen the south park episode where people just start to burn up because they hold their farts?
oh
neverwatched soucz park
but horse shit doesnt smell like human fart
more like farm
looks low iq
WOW HUMAN WITH NO EYES
He is
It is just a makehuman base model
Im going to redo the head tho
such men are best
At midnight tonight my tenure as a contractor at Valve and Steam Labs will come to a close.
It's been a wild ride, and I got to do a lot of fun stuff, and now the wind blows me elsewhere.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
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.
looks like lumen is based on it
lumen will be way better than this
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 ๐
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.
Hello everyone ๐
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
what's everyone's favorite game genres
anything you dont get fooled into buying half a game and the other half in microtransactions or season passes.
frick
yeah I hate that ๐ฆ
purposely sell a game that has built in inconveniences that you have to buy in game stuff to remove
I got tricked into buying two full games with Last of Us 2
heck yeah that's stonks
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
Lets be fair though, Epic and Unity do exactly the same thing ๐
usability meh... drake pointing wooo shiney!
Warm them up
Or dont let them go cold to begin with
or dont fry them
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 ๐
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
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
Good Morning everyone.
what is this
I need more beer tbh
I just don't want to explain to parents why stuff stinks of alcohol
drink it , dont spill it
One can leaked as I was cycling
Didn't drink any but it got all over the plastic bag and some clothes I had
shoulda drank it before you went cycling ๐
Right now though I am feeling a little drunk, I'm lying in my bed at home. I just feel messed up
inserts helpful comment
who gets drunk in bed, thats like next level shit I thought drinking before midday was bad ๐
No, I had food but felt so drunk in a while I decided to lie back down
I havent had beer in so long...
I only drink beer as whiskey chasers ๐
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... <_>
Happy 4th to my fellow Americans
Time to bomb the US with teabags
yeah, the AR level editing is getting pretty good
@tulip orbit That's truth, justice, and the American way for you
glad you kept "American way" seperate from "truth, justice" ๐
Fake news and street justice are the American ways ๐
Thankfully liberty is blind so she doesnt see any of this shit goin down hehe
Our government has our bad eggs, no doubt
even she's not wearing her mask correctly
But the good spirit of the people still lives on
where?
In the gunpowder of the fireworks
and I think I just decided how I want my ashes scattered
Shoot me to the moon
lets get a head start and do it now
as I come up with enemies for my game: https://i.imgur.com/rrVoP45.jpg
What happened to dwarfs which shoot goblins out of cannons at you?
dwarves/goblins dont fit the story I went with :/
Welp you screwed that one
I have a habit of that
Wait a sec, how did you even write a game story with no enemies in it?
there are enemies! just not dwarves
You know characters have to be put in danger for it to feel engaging right
I know nothing
Zombie unicorn
cannibal unicorns
they could still stab you and let your body rot on their horn
while eating other unicorns
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.
next they''ll ban languages like french where words have masculine or feminine forms
french is a made up language anyways ๐
If people wanna move to using the new terms, I don't see the problem
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
I write list filtering so rarely that it's an easy change
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 ๐
to be fair, you dont want a woman driving a boat. ๐ runs
Hey you dont have to run that fast they wont catch you ๐ฎ
I cant run very fast, or very far... need the headstart
Penis gets in the way aye lol
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I do agree with some of these terms just others are alittle silly
yup.
spartacus was pretty cool tho ๐
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
Allow/denylist does actually make sense
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
greylist -> maybelist?
just switch to speaking in finnish
problems solved
no gendered pronouns, world peace
except now you're speaking in finnish
I bet people will complain cuz it sounds like finish
meh, finnish is far more expressive anyway
its like what about the startish people
or the people who didnt even start yet, finnishing first is just rude ๐
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.
cant call that bush a hedge anymore, its got the word "he" in it
Were younger people taught that words cant really hurt you unless you let them?
not the newer generations apparently
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
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but progressive liberalism is a lie.
Its crazy cuz I am a progressive liberal ๐
I jest of course
Im just a capitalist who likes to make a joke at the expense of those I exploit :p
again, joking.
Im just not progress is my middle name at any and all costs
no authoritarian bone in my body
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.
How dare you sir, you have all that privilege how bout try using it ๐
cant u pin it on 5G?
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
Yell oi c**t in Australia and watch everyone turn around and look ๐
preferred pronoun of an entire nation
@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.
Yes well, the cops will turn around and notice you too if you go throwing around in public
Laws about decency n all that, cant walk around topless everywhere either, even blokes cant
Unless its Mardi Gras week then you're all good
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.
I like to be more creative with my cursing, stringing them together is quite the art
Man some of these death sequences in Last of Us 2 are brutal
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.
Well its pretty realistic gore I thinks the thing and its hard hitting like in Tomb Raider
Its not that over the top horror type gore which is fun
well i have seen real violence close by
yeah the old days of Soldier of Fortune just making you laugh is gone. Now it's brutality for brutality sake
more i want to burn that energy in video games than in real
I would rather see it in video games for sure, I see your point there.
Same with those paedo guys fetishizing anime because they love kids.
prefer them to do it in a video game than real life
about blood, would you eat your steak medium rare`? what oozing blood?
Ive eaten bloody steak, depends on the steak though whether it tastes any good. You need a really great cut for rare to work
bit like fish, any raw fish doesnt do
I think Id try human meat if it were a zombie apocalypse
Only thing there is they take awhile to mature so not the best for farming ๐
I still havent matured ๐
you need to live in a barrel for a while to mature
bros
Lounge keeps getting weirder and weirder every time I take a peek in here lol
Welcome, would you like to volunteer to be a member of the people farm?
Also I have a recommendation for people, if youre making a cinematic game too many fades to black is bad
If you look at a typical screenplay for a movie its not something they do
Infact great cinematography is about letting scenes flow together, not jumping from character to character and spending time precisely where you need to
Just in general, its something some movies fail at too like Crimes of Grindlewald.
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.
You really dont have to respect the laws of reality ๐
Im guessing the entire thing will be similar, maybe not one big oner like 1917 though
They use objects near the camera for hidden cuts in the Black Panther oner fight scene
tbh I always wonder about this
people here are like OH I NEVER USE TICK
meanwhile everything I even need to use tick for basically have to use tick or it won't work
:P
Timers are called in Tick ๐
the real benefit of timers has to do with the polling rate
Well timers are also called outside of the main tick pass
If that entire pass gets to be native code, it's going to run better
but timers aren't exclusively BP so you're just moving that cost there
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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..
Profiling is king, if the profiler doesn't suggest an improvement then it isn't worth restructuring for perf.
If it doesn't look bad in the profiler, it's not worth your time (for perf)
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
Indeed. Almost everything can be event based
Some people come from a school of "whats an event"
running all your states through tick is bad mmkay
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
some of that is a lot easier to do in tick if you're not using BP's I think
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
blueprints make it super easy to do it in a more sensible way with delays and stuff though
so it's pretty easy to take that kind of thinking into BP's even though they have better options
Dont assume assignments have no cost though, even comparisons can slow code down when theres enough of em
well it is pretty cheap though
sure its quicker in C++ than BP but bad code will still cause issues regardless
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
I almost never do the whole countdown thing
I actually rarely use delays, timers allow for more control
If I need anything more complex I consider Timeline before I do Tick but it depends. I like the ability to rewind timeline
I wish timelines would get the Sequencer interface. There was discussion about that happening years ago, but it never materialized.
Yeah thats the main downfall atm its Timelines kinda stand on their own when they should be more integrated
For sure.
UMG even got the Sequencer refresh.
For widget animations.
I think timelines are the only animation tool left without the new interface.
yeah curves are very shoddy in timeline, not as good as the other tools
Im assuming the idea is to get all similar curve types to have a code interface so they are interchangable
To all my bugs today:
I'm sure you fooled them all by saying https://tenor.com/view/terminator-arnold-schwarzenegger-come-with-me-if-you-want-to-live-youre-safe-with-me-gif-5600422
man Horizon Zero Dawn is gonna look so good on PC ๐
gonna be way easier for me to hit those crit points on the robots
guys
i changed
game much :3
will soon again reupload.. hopefully works now... wew..
ahh, good morning, heres how to remove microsoft edge from the latest windows update, cheers!
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/uninstall-microsoft-edge.html
talking about cracking software is pretty much a bannable offense, so...
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
pretty sure piracy is against discord tos, so any larger discord server would most likely ask you to not discuss that topic
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
well if wasting time for nothing is worth a try to you then best of luck lol
anytime!
somebody asnswer koko's question, I'm also interested
Well if you don't get an answer to your question, perhaps ping mods
^I'm sure thats aimed at kappy, not koko
Bins tend to be < 5% sure
Code probably takes quite a small amount of space yeah ๐ค
content rich games can get down to 1%
Is it possible to clean the project directory? of unused stuff, old logs/backups, etc..?
doesn't one of the mods here like Allar or something have some sort of asset cleaner plugin?
Dangit I wanted to see if kappy would do that themselves
all good
I think we all know
haha he deleted it just now
I was hoping for a non-paying option, I'm also broke af
@spark gulch they keep a log when you delete or edit bud
#auditlog
gonna be a womp womp
womp womp with the chomp chomp
you really just love doing things for nothing then
I think he took the hint you guys can stop being dicks about it lol
but... but... if I can't be a dick then what am I going to do all day? ๐ฆ
At least he didn't start arguing about it like some people do when they get told to not talk about piracy
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
I gotta balance all the shitposting somehow 
zomg being the most mature here
...woah, yeah... thats actually really wierd...
I'm in this gif and I don't like it
@tulip orbit pee pee poo poo
There we go. thats more like it
lol
@ocean bone Sure
Interesting strategy if you can pull it off
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
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?
what if they made one of those 1mb games? those super-compact games, but with ue4
most of the engine is crap anyway ๐
ahh okay that makes sense
well ms paint offers more colors
well, honestly to use either of those programs you need to have some level of problem solving
man thats a long game, jeeez
I think all up with those cuts its about 5 mins of black screen I watched ๐
lol its even doing it in the credits
actually MS Paint doesnt offer more colours
the UE4 material editor can do more colours than your screen can display
your acting like hes serious
until the mods wake up hes going to be another john lol
No you should use MS Paint since you had to ask
im reading
Good job ๐
we have a log of every text that gets removed or edited.
oh I wasn't aware it was okay to ask for other users to pirate plugins here
its not
... how'd you get that impression?
waiting for you all to grab some popcorn
Luos is just reading
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what about high-fat? tasty real butter?
and some salt made from the tears of my enemies
Im watch Last of Us 2 credits
so @spark gulch how do you want to be banned?
do it yourself? 3 infractions? or just me giving you the boot?
hands mod tools
lol
there ya go, we trust you'll ban yourself
goes for extra pumps of high-fat butter
good old times on IRC when you'd get opped on a channel and then just massban everyone 
just kick everyone with auto-rejoin
Want game ideas? Send me a DM!
Wait does unrealbot send you game ideas if you dm it?
[11:30 PM]
BOT
Unrealbot: A fighting game where you run away from mermaids during the Machine Age.
lol
Ive played that game
Disney's Little Mermaid: The Videogame
k, guess you arent polite enough to remove yourself from the server.
guess I'll
https://giphy.com/gifs/PixelBandits-pixel-joker-3o751XbGLXpORSxtQY
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rip
holy trolly
that's the most fun I've had watching somebody get banned in a while, thanks @deep glen
1 down, 10823 to go!
that was a good time, and honestly mixing the high and the low fat butter is so dank
Have to try that next time
if he went "oh sorry, will not do it again" that would have been the end of it.
instead acting like nothing happened, kthnxbye
k, back to my gamedev hiatus for the time being :p
np hehe
take care, ill be back later :)
๐ค the unrealbot won't dm me back with an idea :(
definitely one of the top gifs i've ever seen lol
shows over, I'm heading for a nap.
@ocean bone try right clicking the server > privacy settings
make sure dms are on for the server
I'm on my phone in bed rn I'll try it later on my pc when I wake up
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 ...
could we keep lounge free of drive by ads?
Hi, i shared this trailer because it was requested by people from this chat, you can check!
@zinc matrix yeah I wonder if there's someone with two accounts pretending they're not using two accounts 
Congratulations
@sleek furnace thank you very much, it was a lot of work and sacrifice, iยดm glad you like it!
so how long are you going to talk to yourself with your second account lol
Imma give some unrequested critique: Keep the art style consistent.
Hi
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...
This Summer
Gronion
I take it you don't like Gronions, then
It was a joke man. He's a beginner. Go easy on him
lol little uncool in here
I am aware. Thanks ponkkis, have a good one
Might want to google ' woosh '
edit: wow they really blocked me ๐ข
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?
I know this is lounge but it seems like the only place with people so sorry
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. ๐
@civic dome You might try resetting your layout but I doubt that would bring the old UI back
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
I will add a level bar next to the profile picture when i add the level system!
hi


to vote yes