you think neo kinect is worth it for $50's?
#lounge
crystal badger
humble remnant
In my case, no
I bought the Kinect for ~40$, a cable for ~10$, had the transformer lying around, and the plugin will come out 50$ on top
crystal badger
I guess it is more for using the kinect in your game play
crystal badger
so you are able to record the data and play it back all through unreal ?
humble remnant
With sequencer, I believe so
crystal badger
I am want to try that but that means getting another source version. I wish I could avoid it but meh
you using 4.19?
humble remnant
4.26 preview
crystal badger
oh yea you said that and since id be using git i don't need the source.
humble remnant
I can send you the edited plugin so you don't hassle with fixing it
crystal badger
🙂
humble remnant
I'm dropping it here for convenience and anyone else trying it out
Should be drag-n-drop to project plugins, build and go
crystal badger
Your the best!
humble remnant
Aight so one thing while making the animBP
Seems like the X for joint position is inverted, but I believe that's caused by the Kinect itself
crystal badger
good to know
If this works this is going to be amazing. Here is my issue. I have to animate the character then import them into sprite synergy. If I do it this way, I can use the Kinect plugin with sprite synergy and be able to create my animation and sprite sheet all from the same project.
Could even create the sprite sheets in real times as it receives the Kinect data.
crystal badger
I don't mess with Kinect unless I need to and there is so much other stuff i am doing. It is nice you lit this fire for me.
humble remnant
Aight, I made some modifications so it works without much hassle out of the box
Namely, added a bool FacingAway which determines if it keeps the inverted X or multiplies by -1
And also added a GetJointTransform node
Lemme cleanup pdbs and I'll send new version
crystal badger
I was updating so I didn't get to adding the plugin yet 🙂
humble remnant
Updated version for Kinect in UE4, PLEASE READ THE README, I DID NOT MAKE THIS PLUGIN, I MERELY FIXED IT TO WORK WITH LATER VERSIONS, REQUIRES BUILDING FROM SOURCE
Github repo: https://github.com/mehtehtrollface/FLKinectPlugin
crystal badger
My life when you have more than one source and did not label the folders correctly. Press start in visual studio and engine starts building. Well not going to stop it now 😄
humble remnant
Aight, testing the Kinect was fun, small break and I'll be doing coding for a jam
That's as far as my support goes at the moment
crystal badger
anytime i add a runtime or add an sdk I have to set my environment variables. I added the location to the bin folder but source is still saying that it can not find the environment variable
frosty halo
Updated version for Kinect in UE4, PLEASE READ THE README, I DID NOT MAKE THIS PLUGIN, I MERELY FIXED IT TO WORK WITH LATER VERSIONS, REQUIRES BUILDING FROM SOURCE
@humble remnant If not done already - I recommend you put it on GH and reference it as a fork of the original.
Might be enough people wanna use it with that fix in the future
crystal badger
ah it says KINECTSDK20_DIR does not exits. I guess i need to use that when adding the path
humble remnant
You simply need to install the Kinect SDK and restart VS
And did that already https://github.com/mehtehtrollface/FLKinectPlugin
crystal badger
Yea I had to add the KINECTSDK20_DIR and the location to the bin to my environment variables then log out of the use on windows and back in.
KinectFunctionLibrary.cpp, line 54 and 55 An explicit Category specifier is required for any property exposed to the editor or bluprint in an engine module.
humble remnant
Huh
crystal badger
UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadOnly) EFLKinect_HandState HandLeftState;
UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadOnly) EFLKinect_HandState HandRightState;
those two lines im looking into it
humble remnant
I got no errors when compiling
Wait, engine module
I have that as a plugin to the project
Maybe that's where it fails
crystal badger
yea i am adding to source and I think i got it
I need to figure out what category the EFLKinect_HandState HandLeftState and EFLKinect_HandState HandRightState need to be set to
humble remnant
I tend to keep plugins to projects only, the projects I have vastly differ in what they're for, so having a plugin on the engine just bloats it
crystal badger
I tried Kinect but then the error was can not find Kinect.h so i am getting closer
crystal badger
Actually this is a leaning process for me
humble remnant
I don't think you need to import/export anything
In the UPROPERTY(<over here>) add a
, Category = "Hands"
crystal badger
I mean I do not mind doing it project per project if I can not get it
and thank you that is what i needed and will fix it
humble remnant
And it's in the .h, not .cpp
crystal badger
i did that but I am still getting the Kinect.h no such file or directory and that is coming from the ufunctions that are using the category = "Kinect" i think
humble remnant
That seems to be a system build path
No idea how that popped into existence, I only know that restarting VS got everything to work properly after installing the Kinect SDK
crystal badger
Kinect.h is not in your include paths (then you need to add the props file as mentioned in the readme)
i understand whats happening there are a bunch of steps
Ill worry about that later and try with just a starter project
crystal badger
so yea no Kinect.h on my computer
crystal badger
it is probably because this is our new computer all the sdk stuff was installed on the old computer. I am installing the sdk now dope
humble remnant
You only need to restart VS for the environment variables to refresh
No need to log out
crystal badger
yay i atleast now have an inc folder that has the Kinect.h in it now 😛
foggy path
with time and effort I'd imagine :P
light spruce
the answer is almost always "sorcery"
Unless the question is "how did I just eat all four Twix bars in less than three minutes?"
north torrent
Every hack who thinks he is a tech new journalist : OMG! This new Nvidia GPU nobody can buy has made the RXT 2080ti irrelevant. OMG! This new AMD CPU that nobody can buy has made Intel irrelevant. OMG! This AMD GPU that nobody can buy has made the Nvidia GPU that nobody can buy irrelevant. OMG! You can't buy a Playstation or Xbox either.
fresh heath
Gee thanks, Microsoft
cursive crypt
That is bad colouring. Also yeah, maybe on the 100 time being asked, you will accidentally click "ok".
fresh heath
You can't even close it normally until you click through their nonsense
I had to use the task manager
cursive crypt
They can do whatever they want with their product 🤷♂️
It is not like ppl have other equal choice (Mac & Linux are not really competitors)
foggy path
What is that message?
cursive crypt
Sorta, "New Windows offers you the absolutely new browser, created specially for Win10"
aka Edge
foggy path
oh lol
yeah I think I got that once, I don't know what's the big deal, I don't think it changed anything did it
cursive crypt
Who knows, lol? Maybe he put his edgie tentacles under the hood of your pc.
light spruce
the absolutely new Chromium-based browser that is largely the same as any other Chromium-based browsers you are probably using
foggy path
lol
I use Vivaldi sometimes in addition to Chrome, it's actually a little bit different :P
light spruce
I stopped using Vivaldi.
I forget what fundamentally stupid thing they did that pissed me off endlessly.
light spruce
I think it was some video overlay shit
foggy path
Vivaldi is basically what modern Opera should be but they sold out and the original founders left and founded Vivaldi
light spruce
I used it for quite a while
cursive crypt
Damn, was fan of Opera before years.
light spruce
I just use Brave now across like.. five..six things
foggy path
Yeah I used Opera as my main browser as well back when it was running their own rendering engine
When it hadn't yet fallen completely off the wagon :P
light spruce
Man, the only wagon I want to fall off of is one right back into far too much bourbon
light spruce
[REDACTED] that was a really weird thought.
fresh heath
frosty halo
^some people might bust a nut to some PCBs. I know I tend to look seductively at my motherboard and mutter “fuck yeah, Those are some nice mosfets”
YouTube has become increasingly awful at this demonetising/flagging stuff.
Same thing with mentions of COVID. Some videos are fine when the person in them says the words coronavirus, others get immediately flagged because of the mention. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
median wraith
@fresh heath maybe the only video she made where don't show a 97% of her body
frosty halo
But isn’t that the issue? She’s saying it’s the video where she’s covered up that was demonetised.
It’s not really about her body but about the fact that it allegedly is a misjudgement.
median wraith
well yeah the youtube checking system is mediocre as hell
frosty halo
Twitch has been going in that direction again
median wraith
I used in a jam the music the original creator gave us, and asked for permission for example
I got a strike in the video
because used the music from that guy
😂
frosty halo
It’s not as bad as the guy who got a strike on his channel for music he himself wrote
Welcome to automated copyright protection.
north torrent
I think it can also become an issue if you are using music that you bought rights to use, but it is also used by many other people who paid for it.
frosty halo
Oh im not implying it's not complex. But it's one of those things where if you cannot do it right, doing it at all is hurting more people than it helps
Kind of vaguely comparable to when Police wanted to use ML models for face recognition. Sure, it says 95% accuracy, which on paper sounds amazing. But 95% of a city of 12 million is 600,000 false positives. So potentially more than half a million lives affected
Same here, in a way. Most channels are OK, but a small percent are being absolutely bent over by this system
north torrent
And that's why the world has cycles of old companies becoming too big and corrupt with new companies popping up to take their place.
That's why we aren't all sitting here typing on our IBM computers.
north torrent
YouTube will be the next Xerox.
mossy nexus
IBM first predicted the be would be at most 3 or 4 computers in the whole world... 😄
north torrent
And honestly, I have no sympathy for streamers. They played the get rich quick scheme, some succeeded some didn't, but the ride was going to end eventually.
But not that the platform has become so bloated with advertisements it is only a matter of time till people go somewhere else.
frosty halo
And honestly, I have no sympathy for streamers. They played the get rich quick scheme, some succeeded some didn't, but the ride was going to end eventually.
But not that the platform has become so bloated with advertisements it is only a matter of time till people go somewhere else.
@north torrent I mean.. why not? That's what overpaid actors get as well? Same can be said for any hugely overpaid gig. It's not that they need sympathy, it's more that the service has grown beyond being able to sustain all functions properly
north torrent
The system itself should be split into more manageable sections.
Then you can have rules that apply differently to different kind of content.
Obviously people reporting on the New can't easily be governed under the same set of rules as tech reviewers or cat videos or whatever else.
Obviously if tech reviewers have certain benchmark tests they run to test hardware, and they use the universal test because it gives a common variable, then it is insane to flag videos for using the content from that benchmark.
But that is going to be totally different and unique to that niche and not all types of videos.
humble remnant
Or maybe those streamers got popular because they're likeable?
north torrent
And that's just stupid in my opinion.
humble remnant
I don't see why we need to split streaming anyway
north torrent
I'm not going to stop them, they can do their life and I will do my life. But I don't have to think favorably about it.
humble remnant
The entire thing was built on viewers interacting with a person they like for whatever reason
Maybe they have the best reactions in the world, make something funny out of a situation, idk
But I won't support whatever restrictions are put on their content like that
Apart from age groups that separate PG/swearing/the other streamers
That one makes sense to me only
The DMCA needs to be rewritten since it was done in a time where streaming as a concept maybe didn't exist as an idea
Or other types of content too
It gives too much power to labels to control the Internet
And those labels aren't even winning anything, simply the consumer is losing
north torrent
The idea that musicians and labels think they still have the right to be making profit off of something they made 40 years ago seems insane to me.
You had your time, you made your money, you sold it and now it belongs to the world.
fresh heath
Say thanks to Disney
north torrent
But I am one of those people that supports a complete and total overhaul of Intellectual Property Laws because of the digital age.
fresh heath
Disney fought hard to extend copyright
humble remnant
Public domain exists, but popular things go there only if they have no right holder or whoever releases them freely
north torrent
Walt Disney is dead in there is no reason Disney should have the rights to Snow White. It is insane.
I get that if you are still actively making Mickey Mouse content, which Disney has been doing, that they should own that copyright. They use the character on new stuff for their parks all the time.
But a finished product like Dumbo where everyone who made that movie is most likely dead...
Intellectual property laws are just designed to keep rich people rich and poor people out of the loop.
frosty halo
I agree to a degree. Death should cease IP held by an individual
But then you can just transfer it in your will
At the end of the day the issue is fundamentally - greed
nothing else
The world is built around screwing others over.
And getting ahead selfishly
Its not nice, but it works like this now
north torrent
The reason regulations exist is to stop the greed of some people from destroying society.
Even rich people need protected from themselves. They are like junkies who would keep taking and taking until they bankrupted all their customers and then realized there is nobody left to buy their products.
Without regulations the world used to have children working in factories 12 hours a day 6 days a week.
Without regulations Walmart and Amazon would pay such low wages and control such a large amount of the market that they would hurt their own business by not having anyone in the general public with enough money to buy from Walmart and Amazon.
mossy nexus
How dare people who make something say they own it! booooo
cold heath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYXIIB_JlYU This seems pretty dope 
sage tendon
It all boils down to capitalism
As long money keeps being used as benchmark, people want to set highscores
fresh heath
Seize the means of production, comrades
north torrent
You own something for a few years, but 10 years later... nah, I don't personally think you really own it anymore.
Not digital stuff.
cursive crypt
Example?
north torrent
Facebook. We should take it from Mark Zuckerburg. He has zero right to control it anymore.
He has made his billions, now get the hell out of here.
humble remnant
Can we just return to rewriting the DMCA for now
lucid walrus
yeah, discord is weird today
frosty halo
discrod acting up for anyone else? failed to load messages
@zinc matrix yeah slow as hell on some channels. Guess someone nudged their BEAM VM too hard and it pooped.
We are WhatsApp now bois
How dare people who make something say they own it! booooo
@MOA.d#6266 I mean... I see no issue in making a profit or owning some IP. But if you own that as a person you shouldn’t have it in perpetuity. It creates problems.
Anyway dead horse
median wraith
Someone having issues with discord today?
lone grail
Yeah it crapped out for me too
rigid quartz
who else wants 2 steps from hell victory played at there funeral or is that just me?
discord was down for a while for me
@fluid bloom oh so thats why it was being crap on me got it
soft night
Happy N7Day
fluid bloom
the what
cursive crypt
Maybe Fat Effect
Mass Effect
Dunno what is tho that day.
Yeah, its action sci-fi, some basic talks, small upgrades, rpg
fluid bloom
I liked the games
cursive crypt
Parts 1 up to 3. There is 4th which is quite popular for badly made.
cursive crypt
See ^
It may needs a bit of remake. Depends whether you will be fine with the a bit old school cgi nowadays.
fluid bloom
first game had an epic soundtrack too
cursive crypt
In fact, if they do remake, I think many ppl would buy it.
fluid bloom
second and third went to a more orchestral kind of sound, wasn't a fan
cursive crypt
Yeah, first more electronic?
fluid bloom
yup
cursive crypt
I remember. Yep
fluid bloom
second had some
cursive crypt
Anyway, they are good. I even liked the ending. Many ppl didn't lol
fluid bloom
yea the overall ending was good
cursive crypt
I mean it was a bit stupid to choose at the end, but 🤷♂️
cursive crypt
haha
Might be cheep. I think ME1 was even free at some point.
Might be wrong. Cheap tho.
dense storm
RIP my pc 😦
cursive crypt
RIP
dense storm
feels sad
cursive crypt
Ah... hmm... interesting.
dense storm
put it to sleep last night, never wanted to wake up 😦
cursive crypt
I did this too last year. Before that I always finnished. Nowadays I just went off doing other stuff even if I advanced well.
@dense storm what happened?
dense storm
no clue, was using it last night, put it to sleep, like i normally do, then it wouldn't come out of sleep
cursive crypt
Restart?
dense storm
reset the pc, and error code 07
dense storm
AP initialization after microcode
cursive crypt
This happened once to me btw. It was some issue with the nvme disks
Had to update my bios.
dense storm
right, but pc was working fine for months
i got a new RTX 3080
i am putting my money on that
going to go round to my brothers with my GFX card, and put it in his pc
and see if it boots
cursive crypt
Yeah, do. You think it is from the gpu?
dense storm
well i need to do some eliminations
dense storm
considering that was the last thing i changed
dense storm
motherboard
zinc matrix
Um
cursive crypt
@zinc matrix no clue, check in #ue4-general
can that laptop run a UE at all, lol? @dense storm
cursive crypt
Yeah, well, looks powerful.
I have kinda ultrabook for laptop, can't imagine doing something outside coding or light texture/modelling work.
soft night
today have bioware stream and there is tease too
dense storm
this should be ok, i got a decent cpu laptop so i can do ue4 stuff
soft night
mass effect voicecast have panel as well
cursive crypt
tease what?
soft night
cursive crypt
Yeah, but these are the same ppl who did 3+1=-4
north torrent
I think Mass Effect Andromeda was pretty awesome overall.
fluid bloom
can't say I even tried it 😄
cursive crypt
Mao, gat to show you how I saw a fuckin whole mountain suspended in the air. In one of the first maps.
fluid bloom
I was pretty flabbergasted to hear they removed squad commanding from it
north torrent
Is squad commanding even a thing in Mass Effect?
lone grail
I've never done it
I've never played mass effect though lol, oh I did find the steelbook trilogy for ps3 earlier this year I grabbed but didn't play it yet
north torrent
I just choose my squad based on who I want to give commentary...
I didn't realize they actually did something in battle...
median wraith
cursive crypt
I was kinda annoyed by the non-stop respawning of enemies.
median wraith
don't do this in a shooter guys
median wraith
the whole weapon cover the whole screen and the aim point is 25% over the center
cursive crypt
Dirthy bath, disgusting
fluid bloom
well that's how it really is if you hold your weapon at the ready position
north torrent
All guns are the same.
fluid bloom
though
lone grail
Ah yeah, watch the talk someone at Bungie did about first person animations and having a guideline for weapon placement
fluid bloom
it looks odd there I agree 😄
cursive crypt
Dudes, somebody spent hours making that model and textures. These must be seen.
Maybe pay 1$ to switch to pink holo tho 🤔
lone grail
Dis the video anyone doing FPS should watch, I'm doing first person melee and still find info in it useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFLu8cityA
median wraith
Well I never seen someone holding a weapon over the head but well @fluid bloom
fluid bloom
yea that's what stood out to me too after looking at it for a while
lone grail
..yet
median wraith
the weapons on games must be under the middel line
fluid bloom
I guess it is abnormally high, I guess it's due to low FOV
median wraith
FOV don't affect these
are different FOVs
is a fast food design where you reuse the same
lone grail
When I do first person projects I set a wireframe cube in the area a weapon should be in and shouldn't be out of, 2 rectangles making a backwards L shape for melee weapons since you can hold along the bottom or side
Making yourself guidelines help
fluid bloom
I mean that IRL you see the weapon easily because your vertical field of view is like... 130 degrees
whereas there it's like... 50?
80?
lone grail
UE4 is 90 default, unity uses 60 by default I think? I never know what a good number is so I leave it at 90
fluid bloom
vertical?
lone grail
I just mean FOV in general
north torrent
Well, if Unity uses 60, then that certainly isn't a good number to use.
lone grail
Lol
north torrent
Just going by the logic that Unity never does anything right.
lone grail
I googled, it is indeed 60
median wraith
FOV is calculated with the distance to the monitor
there isn't a ideal one
but the weapons are rendered differently
lone grail
I did set the FOV in unity to 90 to match unreal and it didn't look the same or even similar at all so 🤷♂️ dunno what they doing over there lol
median wraith
usually in a monitor you go good with 85 and 60 in a TV
north torrent
Drugs.
lone grail
Lol, well I plan on making a slider in a menu eventually so people wont be mad at me
lone grail
Sliders are nice lol
fluid bloom
I just hope there's a textbox for typing too 😄
north torrent
3rd person is life.
lone grail
But I'm making a first person 😦 lol
fluid bloom
lone grail
Oh no
north torrent
Best way to make a 1st person shooter is to close your project and start making a 3rd person game.
lone grail
I'm not making a shooter, I'm making a first person Earthbound, y'know children busting kneecaps
north torrent
Well, first person view in general is just kind of... meh...
lone grail
I have thought about switching to third person though
cursive crypt
@north torrent Far Cry 5 lastly I played as 1st person. Was fitting.
Ofc, too bad there were no mods for 3rd person
But it fits the narrative and the gameplay.
Well made.
lone grail
I have a directional combat system and I would need a lock on system in third person to make it work so I decided to make first to make life easier
hmmm maybe I'll start a new project in third person to see how it can turn out
I was also doing it in first person to get used to C++ in ue, but I could start from template C++ and should be okie dokie
north torrent
Just make Mass Effect.
lone grail
No I wanna make my Earthbound inspired ARPG
I have sworn to not switch projects again because I keep doing it over years and never finish anything, I also swore to not switch engines beacuse I do that too, y'all stuck with me now lol
fresh heath
lone grail
Nice
frosty halo
If they learned anything it’s that open world would only work if they didn’t half ass the writing or mission design
Or at least I hope they have
ME:A didn’t deserve as much criticism as it got. But god it was boring.
cursive crypt
I think the release was the best, with all these funny expressions.
lone grail
They would have had a much smoother development if they could stay with Unreal engine, the engine they've used for years instead of swapping engines and learn as they go
frosty halo
But it wasn’t the engine’s fault their quests were repetitive and dialog was un-engaging and bland.
I mean that’s subjective
But my two cents.
I did play it a lot. I enjoyed the graphics and the skills system. I really liked the environment hazards.
cursive crypt
When I played, I wrote down a page full with bugs/issues.
That was like last year.
... but tbh, that was not deal break. I still enjoyed what I can. But I agree it was somehow... bland?
soft night
the frostbite have evolved in after me:a and anthem release
as EA finally started to remove old spaghetti code from it compiler
cursive crypt
... is there something about furries I don't know? I was just browsing gumroad for substances and half of the pages are all about furries 🤔
cursive crypt
Ah? Was hard battle I heard.
fluid bloom
it's pretty amazing how evenly split the US is politically
the relative map is better imo
soft night
texas is also changing
fluid bloom
reddit is having troubles dealing with all the traffic there too 😄
fresh heath
I had a weird hiccup right now with everything not loading for a minute
cursive crypt
No any troubles.
median wraith
the people seems happy at Twitter by the elections result
does it will change anything really ?
fluid bloom
senate says no
carmine frigate
well twitter stock price is gunna drop prolly 😛
fluid bloom
😄
Biden got the most votes in the history of US presidential elections
Trump the second most
real palm
pearl compass
fluid bloom
as if that is an accomplishment
fresh heath
Some people like to be clowns
fresh heath
solid aurora
I really hope
Mass Effect is not just remaster
those games
really need gameplay updates
especially ME1
solid aurora
Playing ME1 is just painful now
the graphics and animations are ok
but shooting, just hurts
or using abilities
or using covers
or actually doing anything beside talking to NPC
median wraith
"Kamala Harris the first black woman and descendant from india"
thw what
so why is black but no indian
or both
lone grail
The UE4 units is confusing, I had blender set to 0.01 metric units and it was 1-1 with Unreal, I set blender to default settings and set the units back to 0.01 and now it's too small in ue, I'm confused
I was exporting a skeletal mesh and it's too small at 0.01
Okay I set units to 1 and it's too big
Yes
When I change the units I change them in scene properties and viewport overlays to see it properly
The size of my character is 0.062m, 0.056m, 0.0308m when it's 0.01 unit scale
I just exported a cube as a test with 0.01, if I scale in UE to 50x50x50 then it's the size of the cube primitive in Unreal
I dunno how
lone grail
That's what I've always done but I now have problems
Blender export is 1
I had this issue last time I set units to 1 and then back to 0.01
setting blender to 1 is the correct size in unreal, the character is really big because I used 2x2 cubes as a base for each body part so I need to use a cube for a height reference when making characters and stuff in blender
fathom wadi
ue4 units are fine. its blender that is confusing.
@zinc matrix Its tripped up a lot of people because of the 0.01m setting being efficient for the physics stuff in Blender. Being that Blender doesn't actually have units though, then m/UU representation is the same thing. Just an output scale. Inside blender, it only has relative scale to each other but outside of Blender, it can be anything.
frosty halo
ue4 units are fine. its blender that is confusing.
@zinc matrix set mine up as meters and set translation in export. No issues at all in UE
fathom wadi
I leave everything in 0.01m scaling and it's fine too but I don't use SendToUnreal right now
frosty halo
Neither do I. I just export using FBX and a Python script
It puts exported items at cursor (origin) before exporting, exports them and puts them back where they were.
Can do a whole scene in one shot like that.
Blender in general was so weird for me after years of 3dsmax
But spent a good day on it and it’s now pretty smooth. One complaint is that when I switch from UE back to Blender I keep instinctively right clicking my mouse to zoom around the world. And in blender that just doesn’t work.
Doh
fathom wadi
same
3dsm was great fun to use. Maya not so much. But Blender when you get some shortcuts under your belt. Holy moly. It's like a third arm.
frosty halo
Oh yeah. If you look at how someone like Blender Guru used it - it’s incredibly efficient
Kind of like VIM or VI
looks odd as hell.but if you know how to - you’re gonna fly.
fathom wadi
I found the Edge Loop Slide tool yesterday. Somehow missed it in my travels. So simple to just alt-click a loop, then double-tap G (GG) and you are good to go. Helps so much in terms of workflow speed when doing mesh work.
frosty halo
It took me a bit to remap my brain to not use the click-drags. Instead just use - G>X/Y/Z and shift for granularity.
Also what I love about blender vs the last time I used max
Booleans aren’t consumed
fathom wadi
its nice you can fine tune your movement with holding shift too
frosty halo
Last time I used max they got consumed on operation apply. Here they don’t. Which is awesome. Although I don’t use them too much.
fathom wadi
the modifier setups in Blender don't force me to apply them most of the time. I just run it through before export
not yet. still working on a model so not worth testing things
frosty halo
I’ll be honest - I tried a bit on 2.90 and I can say this. As much as everyone loves zbrush - I will be sculpting in blender. Cause I downloaded a trial of zbrush and honestly the interface can fuck right off
fresh heath
I think that's not in the main branch of Blender yet
frosty halo
4K display makes it look like dogshit. If they have figured out how to make a industry leading sculpting app but haven’t figured out good UX and UI that doesn’t pixelate when scaled up to 4K then I’m sorry but that’s just a pass from me.
fathom wadi
i used zbrush once. Didn't have any need for it though. I seem to model better with geometry in verts/edge/face modes anyway. Not that I wouldn't use it but if Blender has a viable option, I ain't switching.
@frosty halo not had an issue in 4K tbh. I scale the app in windows mode but I use the in-app scaling to adjust it.
frosty halo
I tried all I could and fonts still looked jagged
Plus the layout of their UI is atrocious. But yeah my bitching is just that - bitching.
fathom wadi
Not had a problem with the UI really. It's not as bad as 3dsm in some areas either. It also has more "in front" than 3dsm for speedy access if you use the tabbed window setup. I can only say it's way better than Maya that kept 75% of it hidden in wheel menus and sub menus and such.
frosty halo
Are we still talking about Zbrush?
fathom wadi
oh no I meant Blender 😄
frosty halo
Oh no blender is beautiful. I haven’t got one single complaint. My moaning was about zbrush
fathom wadi
I haven't installed zbrush for a couple of years at least
it reminds me of ArmorPaint in a way (zbrush). Looks like the basics are all there but I haven't gone into specifics with it
cursive crypt
Err... I really like Z interface tho 😄 Ofc, many ppl say otherwise.
frosty halo
Doesnt mean you’re wrong @cursive crypt , it just means everyone’s different.
And I’m a picky SOB
cursive crypt
Blender interface is kinda fine too. Tho shortcuts are the best.
frosty halo
I will say this though - I still haven’t quite figure out the whole PBR thing yet.
I’m reading lots of stuff, but the more I read the more I realise that in both blender and UE - setting up a really accurate physical material is a painstaking process.
Unless you can get away with doing foundational ones to copy paste later.
I was trying to do concrete last night and I downloaded a free one off CC0, didn’t like it, downloaded a bunch more from other places, didn’t like any. Turns out I’m too picky and I need to make one myself out of parts I do like. Hence my deep dive.
fathom wadi
PBR is copy/paste work really
I highly recommend checking out the list of PBR setups on the Unreal website too. Probably linked in that course.
frosty halo
Amazing. Thanks for the link!
Yeah I’ve been looking at other peoples work
But I wanna know HOW and WHY not just rehash stuff.
Even though later it may be that I just copy paste a bunch.
It’s useful to know nuances.
fathom wadi
that's probably where being a metallurgist or geologist comes in handy. For the rest of us, we just fuck with the specularity 😄
frosty halo
“What is Fresnel and how do I eat it. “
cursive crypt
Simpler, the better they say. Gonna scratch 3 days of work 🤪
plucky pagoda
Oh wow, that army of one laptop prize is the thing that stands out to me with the mega jam prizes.
I was going to try and find a team, but I'm drooling over the laptop.
tulip orbit
I'm currently not a fan of wintery scenes. Its a blizzard outside 😦
I shovelled an hour ago and you can barely tell
I need a nice tropical game to play 🙂
fresh heath
tulip orbit
i heard about that. its like +30cm of snow on some places?
@zinc matrix 15-25cm forecasted for my area, I'd say we've got aleast that already
and its still snowing
so I'm gonna try and nap some more
fresh heath
At least it's not Fiorina https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1325182716984225795
north torrent
I think I am going to buy RAM today.
ancient hornet
foggy path
hahah
it sounds like a major big time fuck up in terms of confusing the hotel and the landscaping company
north torrent
Mass Effect is life.
foggy path
and nobody bothered to be like "guys I think you meant the hotel"
ancient hornet
what? contradicting the orange baby in his most angry moments? 😄
foggy path
yeah... lol
north torrent
I'm trying to figure out what RAM is going to work best with the new Ryzen processors.
fathom wadi
8mb of edo ram should be enough.
north torrent
I heard the new processors work best with 4000mhz as opposed to the 3600mhz or last generation.
north torrent
The tRump people have been so nasty over the last 4 years, we are not going to forget and just let things go.
winter zealot
Imo it's always best to de-escalate trolling when possible unless it's about raising awareness on an important issue
Also nothing says that people posting offensive memes are specifically biden voters
Having said that, it's true that there's a lot of right winged youtube channels having a buisness of insulting ppl and it's just apalling
Also yay Biden has won 😄
hah yes i've no idea about that tho
north torrent
Alt right people love tRump more than their own mothers.
hasty cargo
depends, alt right is kinda a brand now, it's been slapped on center right, religeous right etc
but the actual alt right don't support trump
north torrent
The actual alt right are the biggest tRump supporters out of all the different right groups.
static plover
What is alt right? Alternative Right?
hasty cargo
nope
static plover
Alternative Right the QAnon?
north torrent
The center right are more 'complacent' for tRump and the religious right 'sold their souls for pro-life judges' but the alt-right are in love with tRump like he is the only true love they will ever have.
hasty cargo
you're wrong though
north torrent
You can say what you want to, but you will just make yourself look foolish.
hasty cargo
sure thing 🙂
foggy path
They sure as hell like Trump more than Biden lol
hasty cargo
well the alt right doesn't really support any of it, they see it all as a fixed system and are moving into 3rd position like the far left
trump distanced himself from them around chartlottsville and that's where the split was
but he maintained center right etc
I think the good take aways were that trump didn't put the no fly zone over syria and made a libya 2.0, and he stopped funding to alnusra etc which really stopped that war
he didn't stop funding to the war in yemen though so big failure
kinda stole the golan heights another failure
will have to see what biden administration does
dim ruin
There is an awesome documentary on Curiosity Streams right now called "Out of the Cradle". Its about the most current knowledge of the evolution of man. Seriously well done.
Neat side note: The CGI is done by Square Enix 🙂
light spruce
How long has it been since they've actually made a real game?
dim ruin
negative 5 days
lol Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory comes out on the 13th
Trials of Mana shows as April 24th 2020
FF7 remake was April 10th
Oh shit, they're making Dying Light 2! nice
light spruce
I played FF15 and I still can't tell you why I did such a thing
I actually liked some of the ideas in it... but they implemented them in a shit fashion
fluid bloom
a friend sent this
cursive crypt
- Where is she from?
- Python land
- 👍
median wraith
Are you sure you want a Gf from Python land ?
frosty halo
a friend sent this
@fluid bloom ottaa hänet takana saunan
frosty halo
Although my Finnish idioms are rusty as fuck
fluid bloom
I guess you mean "vie hänet saunan taakse"
frosty halo
I was more referring to “take him behind the sauna and end his misery”
light spruce
a wood shop is for that
fluid bloom
frosty halo
The dangers of trying to write Finnish without it being a language you’ve mastered. Haha.
fluid bloom
viedä is the word you want when you mean "to take somewhere"
carmine frigate
i dont believe finish is a real language
frosty halo
There’s a 50% chance Finland doesn’t exist
carmine frigate
they actually speak english but make weird sounds when outsiders are around
north torrent
cursive crypt
So... which kit? Have no 6 minutes to listen.
mossy nexus
whatever works, man, whatever works
frosty halo
@north torrent
This may also be useful: https://youtu.be/-UkGu6A-6sQ
north torrent
I watched that earlier today as well. But he was just testing 16gb setups... and who uses 16gb in 2020? Not game developers.
At the end he says, "But this other guy reports that 2x16gb is the best overall" which is what I was going to go with regardless...
But no tests on that. Maybe he will have a follow up video on that.
The Unity people?
frosty halo
I watched that earlier today as well. But he was just testing 16gb setups... and who uses 16gb in 2020? Not game developers.
@north torrent I am. Works fine for me. But also my setup isn’t R5 5X
I’ve not yet run into a memory issue either.
north torrent
Though in general I seem to lean more on the art side than most people on this server. I have a bit different demands from my system.
frosty halo
Tbh my system is primarily for gaming and 16 works really well, especially when maxing out Infinity Fabric.
But then again ram is relatively cheap these days
north torrent
When you have multiple programs open at the same time as Unreal it starts to eat up a lot or ram.
frosty halo
Yeah I noticed that.
north torrent
Have you ever had Blender, Zbrush, and Unreal open at the same time?
frosty halo
I’ve got unreal and blender open 24/7
north torrent
Or add Substance Painter into that...
frosty halo
Plus stuff like chrome, quixel mixer and vscode
Although admittedly VSCODE is very memory efficient compared to say Atom
Or something similar.
north torrent
So I never even considered going with 16gb on my rig.
64gb seemed a bit overkill though.
frosty halo
I’m sure I’ll run in to some sort of mem issue eventually.
soft night
would you get 1TB ram?
zinc matrix
somber pasture
would you get 1TB ram?
@soft night would be useless
light spruce
you wouldn't download a ram
grizzled mural
somber pasture
Does unreal engine use paged ram?
frosty halo
Any app should.
Windows manages what goes to paged what doesn’t and so on unless for some explicit design decision Unreal was made to bypass that.
frosty halo
He didn’t become Batman? That sucks.
zinc matrix
a good analogy for brewery would be animal farm youre right
thus are also known for many many bacteria and viruses
which you dont wanna inhale etc
frosty halo
I’m genuinely just being silly. In order to avoid corona talk. Purely cause I hear enough of it at work during break meetings.
frosty halo
I just don’t think a UE4 discord is a place for chats about virology and pandemics.
zinc matrix
what if the game is called pandemia
frosty halo
Nothing against you or the topic.
Only if that game has you eat a bat while dressed as Ozzy
I guess I’m just tired of talking about it.
And grumpy.
Anyone played this?
For some odd reason this popped into my head earlier. Was a fun game.
Was it Spore that succeeded it?
crystal badger
Ok what should we do to make the biggest market release hype? We use Facebook Twitter youtube. Any others I am missing?
frosty halo
Reddit?
dim ruin
ooh the slums
crystal badger
Oh yea thx
frosty halo
Insta - but that’s only good if you have a ton of followers
crystal badger
We will soon so I will look at that
dim ruin
If your game is on UE4, wouldn't hurt to see if you can get epic behind it
crystal badger
We will have epic behind it soon
dim ruin
nice, grats
frosty halo
You COULD go word-of-mouth by finding streamers on twitch who play similar games to yours and emailing them and asking if they would be interested to play your game for a free key on stream - that may end up giving you exposure.
crystal badger
Oh yea that is a good idea reach out to streamers
frosty halo
What type is your game?
dim ruin
the 4 second version 😛
crystal badger
It is PaperFlip3D. It is a template for the marketplace. It puts 2d characters in a 3d world with 3d rotation. The kit has inventory and everything
To build a first game
dim ruin
ah I see. That changes things
frosty halo
Oh right. Yeah there should be game dev streamers for sure that would be interested.
There’s plenty of channels who do live coding / design.
crystal badger
I would like streamers to build games with it so thx for reminding me
frosty halo
Unfortunately peeps I can recommend are actual gamers. You need to dig out the devs.
dim ruin
crystal badger
And tags for twitter I should use?
crystal badger
Ah ok
frosty halo
Just remember - if you’re targeting what is publicly perceived as technical to a non technical audience - you have to be damn sure your UX and your overall concept is solid and digestible by the non tech crowd.
crystal badger
Yea that is the point of it to teach new dev's how to finish their first game
frosty halo
Every time I try to explain dev work to PM’s they glaze over. Over ten years I’ve tried various ways, it just turns out that unless you make it super digestible - people switch off quick.
Then again my profession isn’t game dev.
So idk if people starting it would be more amenable to the influx of new technical methods.
crystal badger
It has in app purchase save player date when switching maps monster ai buy sell npc and more
So yes I'll target customers that want to get into game dev and streamers
frosty halo
Well start with the people who have easy access to an audience and that would give you a good base.
Easier when influencers trickle down the info for you.
crystal badger
The doom modding community is going to go crazy
frosty halo
Just make sure that you don’t predicate free samples/version of your product by asking for favourable reviews. That can backfire fast and hard.
crystal badger
Yea here what my plan is. Make promo video and let the product speak for itself
frosty halo
I wish you luck. 🙂
crystal badger
Thx
cursive crypt
Instructions unclear, smoked aspirin - called an ambulance.
light spruce
at least nothing happened to your dick
cursive crypt
True. Left at home.
dense storm
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433170279951499264/775062625516126228/20201108_182023.jpg rip for a while pc
need to give it a good clean, least i have an excuse now 😄
cursive crypt
My box is also white. One even said it reminds her of the white helmets from Star Wars.
But now is mostly dusty.
- maybe a dead bug or two 🤷♂️
frosty halo
Blender sculpting is amazing
Objectively, I was just testing out brushes and whatnot, but its so damn.. smooth
fathom wadi
Blender everything is amazing. I'd be happy if they stopped all updates and bugfixes (not that I ever find bugs) and added the open mesh effect framework though. I guess they might be waiting for some kronos implementation later on or something. Because if you ask me, it's the next major thing in 3d mesh editing to have that level of parity outside of USD files. Or who knows, perhaps USD will bridge the gap of interoperability of modifiers.
frosty halo
What's kronos?
fathom wadi
the people who make standards for techs. Like Vulkan and OpenXR etc
hmm just noticed https://www.khronos.org/openvg/ ... I wonder... stares at plugindev project in launcher🤔
frosty halo
I mean.. this is sort of whooshing above my head
I'm literally a week and a half old in terms of the 3D graphics world
fathom wadi
They are like the W3 consortium but for 3d graphics and stuff
ahh I see. Welcome to the party 🙂
frosty halo
Thanks. SO these guys are trying to standardise the toolsets / formats / frameworks?
fathom wadi
yeah and they are well respected. If you look there, you will see OpenGL. Which has been am alternative option for DirectX for many years as you will probably know. Vulkan is the next level of that, and it's sweeeet. But they deal in other stuff too.
foggy path
interesting to see how it goes with Vulkan
fathom wadi
I would like to see them do a standard for non-destructive mesh editing where any modifiers applied in your 3d editor can work just as well in any other editor that supports the standard. The problem is it's kind of been a "tools of the trade" scenario where money was involved. So they closed the loop to make you buy more products instead of being open and sharing methods for a standard. But since Blender, free and open source editing is a huge deal and part of the major industry
foggy path
DirectX has been pretty much the defacto on windows, but OpenGL and derivatives (ie. WebGL) everywhere else
frosty halo
I am a big fan of Vulkan as a player.
fathom wadi
I've started using Vulkan when possible now. DX12 has been really bad for me. Crashes a lot with my 1080ti for no reason. Just locks up a game and dies. So I have to dump down to DX11 or use another option. Vulkan has been excellent in it's place
frosty halo
I actually never heard of it, before I played RDR2, and then did a bit of digging.
It's been stable for me whenever I used it as the default renderer.
Not only that, but sometimes more performant
fresh heath
If you shoot a full diving tank, does it explode with dangerous force?
foggy path
Sounds like something Quora would have an answer to :D
mossy nexus
If you shoot a full diving tank, does it explode with dangerous force?
@fresh heath If a tank is diving it is unlikely anything you shoot at it will hit it. 🙂
fresh heath
Someone actually filmed that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L4UNKTGeF4
They do a strong whoosh but don't blow out that much
mossy nexus
Explosions would require some kind of chemical reaction.
foggy path
I guess in theory if the puncture compromises the structural integrity of the whole thing the internal pressure could cause it to shatter and "explode"
zinc matrix
Ummm... hello I am new to the server, is there any server room where I can get help with Unreal Engine?
north torrent
What's Unreal Engine?
foggy path
I have watched japanese game shows where they pump air into the contenders butt and then have them arm wrestle
north torrent
I think I'm going to watch some YouTube videos about the best possible PC builds you can make only using parts that are impossible to buy.
foggy path
the one who farts first loses
zinc matrix
@zinc matrix wait lol is ur propic a strange version of the long dark?
north torrent
NVidia's new GPUs that have zero stock vs AMD's new GPUs that have zero stock.
zinc matrix
Idk... looks strange
north torrent
Well, if there is a 1% chance of getting something that means out of 100 people 1 will certainly get it.
north torrent
The 3080 and 3070 are going to be exponentially harder to get than the 3090 though because of the price.
foggy path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvZMl50tps oh hey here's a clip 
north torrent
Nvidia can't provide stock - YouTube People - OMG Nvidia is horrible
AMD can't provide stock - YouTube People - OMG Intel is obsolete now, never buy Intel again, throw your Intel in the trash and then maybe in 3-4 months you can get one of these AMD processors and finally use your computer again. We love AMD!
foggy path
it's always been like that ¯_(ツ)_/¯
north torrent
It is the reactions of the YouTube people that I find comical. When it comes to buying new tech I never even plan to buy stuff on release.
foggy path
Harder to get views if you're a middle of the road type guy
north torrent
It just seems like as time goes on the YouTube tech people become more insulated in their own bubble and lose more and more touch with what computers and tech are like outside of getting shipped tech samples of things nobody else can get and reviewing that.
foggy path
I dunno, it's just some personalities who post that type of content
I don't watch them :P
north torrent
Any sort of video about laptops especially has gotten entirely absurd.
OMG this laptop weighs more than my cellphone, it is so hard to carry!
foggy path
lol
yeah I mean... why even watch those channels
if that's the extent of their expertise
north torrent
Mostly just to see what a laptop looks like if the manufacturer's website doesn't offer a variety of photos.
I guess I should just mute the video.
foggy path
:D
north torrent
But seeing the laptop in actual human hands gives you better perspective than the kind of white background photos you get on HP and Dell's websites for example.
foggy path
I suppose
I've never bought a laptop so I have no idea tbh and I've never bought PC bits based on looks either :D
north torrent
A desktop is about functionality, but a laptop is about a trade off of power and portability.
When looking for a touch screen laptop with a screen that can flip around and be used as a drawing tablet, it is important to see the product in multiple views and how well it actually flips around.
foggy path
yeah makes sense
north torrent
If the screen bezels are too big it feels like you are carrying something bigger without getting a better screen. But if it is too small you end up having trouble holding it without hitting the screen when you draw.
There have also been laptops I was thinking about buying, then I watched a video and saw that the hinge was too loose so the screen wobbled every time he used the touch screen. So I decided to look at other laptops instead.
foggy path
I have to wonder how many miles does that take away from the range lol
hasty cargo
recalls for hummer EV's launching into orbit when driving over a curb
ancient hornet
I have to wonder how many miles does that take away from the range lol
consider how little power is in a smartphone battery
lucid walrus
consider how hot a smartphone gets when it runs an unreal game...
ancient hornet
During an overnight charge, the iPhone consumed an average of 19.2 Wh.
According to figures published by the US Energy Information Administration for July 2018 (the latest figures currently avaialble), the average cost per kWh in the US was $0.13.
Remember that 1 kWh equals 1,000 Wh.
So, take our average of 19.2 Wh per day, multiplying that by 365 days, we get 7 kWh, which works out at $0.91 a year.
Tesla battery capacity depends on model and age/quality or so but I see figures going from 50 kWh to 100 kWh
bold fulcrum
Your are driving your hummer and suddenly... the device was lost.
Also, you can't start it, until it compiles all shaders.
cursive crypt
Then on the next version your tires loose traction, because somebody forgot to bind the Roughness channel in the shader.
... or worse, the physics engine hiccuped.
bold fulcrum
And you can't drive one more than 20 km from the place, where you bought it, otherwise it will start jittering and destabilize.
hasty cargo
I'm sorry you need the world boundary option pack
fresh heath
fluid bloom
are there any canadians here?
median wraith
we are all canadians
fresh heath
frosty halo
Does anyone have a decent online repo of textures (pbr mats) for unreal they can recommend?
Idk why I forgot about it..
Thanks, I'll check those out 🙂
Presumably quixel's setting for download saying "Material Preset" for Unreal is accurate?
fluid bloom
I always hand tweak the materials
lone grail
Goodmorning everyone
zinc matrix
are there any canadians here?
@fluid bloom i am
fluid bloom
@zinc matrix I've been watching love it or list it Vancouver too much for a while now and there is one thing that bothers me: Why on earth do people mount their TVs over a fireplace?????
zinc matrix
tbh I dunno.
I think usually wealthier people do it
at least my real estate family member did
fluid bloom
I guess they either don't watch it at all or like neck pain
zinc matrix
personally my cousins is beside the funarce/tv mounted on the wall.
but we put it a height so we werent looking up
it also depends on the size of tv
lone grail
I'm Canadian too
zinc matrix
lol tfw this server was where all my country brethren were at
lone grail
Lol
lone grail
The great white north has class
zinc matrix
the two canadians in my other server use unity sadly
I think only like 4 people use unreal that are active there
lone grail
I have used unity and unreal both for years, only recently I removed unity and staying with only unreal because I actually want to finish a game so I can't get distracted
zinc matrix
I joined here to lurk and since it was slackers I could procrastinate
Soon ill be getting started.
lone grail
I gotta force myself not to procrastinate later I need to start working on my game and try to make a lot of progress
zinc matrix
Tbh I got game.dev.tvs courses from udemy and got through one section than had life and didnt hop to it yet
Yeah I only procrastinate atm cause I was thinking a lot about my goals
lone grail
I got 2 courses on Udemy but it moved too slow for me so I never touched them again, but I don't need courses anymore, that's good to set out goals
zinc matrix
Yeah tbh the udemy courses were better for me mainly cause the quizzes and you actually get mini games done using knowledge that you can apply yourself
lone grail
Yeah I liked the quizes, I did an Unreal engine course but I skipped all the learning materials and just went to the quizes lol
zinc matrix
But youtube is a good resource for some I would use it to fix errors or if I needed a quicky tut
Yeah the quizzes makes you think your paying $15 for a legitimate college or higher course
im mainly kidding though but the courses at least had some great instructors
lone grail
Youtube is good, I just hate how most people on there explain stuff or the lack of, and a lot of tutorials I've seen do things a way I don't really like, if I need to learn something I look at forums and different threads to see multiple ways of doing a thing and doing it which fits me best, this place is good help too
Yeah they do explain well in the courses
zinc matrix
yeah for game dev stuff generic or theory I use TIm Ruswicks server GDU but now ive finally joined here ill prob default to it for unreal questions
mossy nexus
stretches and yawns..
lone grail
Oh I'm in that one but I don't think I've ever been active, I'm in a few game dev servers but only active here, I'm active in the unity one when I'm using unity but I gave up on unity
spice viper
Time to make a PC
lone grail
What game is that?
spice viper
apex legends
lone grail
Ahh I reconize the ammo UI now, haven't played in so long
spice viper
someone on apex subreddit photo shopped the guns to grapics cards lol
lone grail
Oh lol, I've never seen the black market thing in the game before, pretty nice edit
spice viper
Ya i wish i had the that ability
lone grail
I'm pretty good at photoshop, I used to make emotes for a discord server all the time
I've done some graphic design in my day, photoshop it fun at times frustrating though lol
spice viper
yeah i dont use photoshop but i have been working on making modern UI for my game both in godot and UE using images and materials
lone grail
That's cool, I haven't used photoshop in a while but I got Affinity designer for all my UI needs, it's really good and easy to get sleek designs
spice viper
ive used pixlrX and Kirta
also photoshop isnt on linux so that a big deal breaker for me
lone grail
I've used krita, it's pretty good for drawing but I can't draw lol, Affinity designer is an alternative to Adobe Illustrator with less bulk and one time purchase and quite cheap so I had to get it lol
Relatively cheap I should say
spice viper
ill look into trying that
lone grail
There's a free trial, I just made a health system using a image of a heart that drains top to bottom, I'll probably swap the image to something else and have a more interesting effect but whipped it up in 2 mins
mossy nexus
timber viper
Anyone knows whats the ideal price for a particle designer? I will just ask for blood and muzzle flash particles from a freelancer but no idea about prices
lone grail
Dont hit a rogue bird lol
runic briar
Any good suggestions on how to find people to play fortnite with? I would just use the fortnite discord but the majority of the people look like 8 year olds spamming
broken sigil
well that's because 90% of the player base are 9 year olds
cursive crypt
lmao
lone grail
Lol, maybe join some gaming groups and find people that way?
There are adult gaming discord servers I'm sure would be better to look in
cursive crypt
Adult servers? 🤔
lone grail
Lol
median wraith
wat
lone grail
There are adult servers without da pron stuff dont worry
I was apart of a gaming server that was created so people can chill, hang out talk about gaming and play together without kids mucking about
fathom wadi
lone grail
Maths is great 🙂
median wraith
she did an extended lib actually for Unity
light spruce
I just watched some week old video about a Star Citizen sale and it was one of the most batshit crazy things I've ever seen. I can't figure out if it made my migraine worse or not.
fresh heath
humble remnant
median wraith
whats going there ?
fresh heath
Stonks
median wraith
Armor Lv 100
lone grail
Jeez
fresh heath
fathom wadi
I showed my 7 year old the trigonometry video from Freya and said "Check this out. In 3 hours you could learn how to calculate a circle around a triangle". She said "3 hours?" like that's it? Shes got a math brain already but seeing that I can show her beyond her level at school is about the only thing that interests her in lockdown.
lone grail
That's pretty cool
fathom wadi
Its a shame some kids wont get the same education with covid around and missing school. I hope a lot of people increased the pace to compensate
mine are lucky in that sense because I know a few things.
lone grail
I never got that kind of education with school, it was until after school I educated myself on the more complicated things I wanted to learn
fathom wadi
same my schooling was awful and restrictive
lone grail
Same, small school in the middle of no where got no funding for decent courses to take to college or do anything with
fathom wadi
Funny thing is we were home schooling one already, so the transition was smooth
Even so, I know that I did my best in math at school but other factors were on my mind. Its better to tackle it with purpose. Its only fun that way
Strange thing is, I learned 2 years worth of math in 2 weeks when I was more comfortable. Ever since I've just picked things up and tried to remember at least a pointer to it in my mind 🙂
calculus gets interesting when you are making games tho
we did basic trig but for some reason all I remember was "there were these 3 triangles in a bar..."
Something no math class should ever do either, is have a print out of Pi to the Nth number as a border at the top of the wall. I wasted my attention on that thing for about 32 places at one point.
fresh heath
For some reason trigonometry was the easiest part of geometry in school for me, it was everything before trigonometry that I struggled with
I was really bad at proof problems in geometry
fathom wadi
its tough on teachers to have to deal with so many kids sometimes. My class had 30 kids in it. How do you teach that to 30 different brains?
Catch a few on the first pass sure, but a lot will tune out. Some won't even bother and the rest wont get it until it's repeated or visualised in a way they can understand.
I think the first thing Neuralink should do is organise a Math class with a potentially infinite floating point, then preload it as a "Free Neuronal Launch Lootbox - Can you get the Legendary class?"
I'd take a neuralink for a math upgrade though. For sure.
lone grail
Ayyy my new headset just came in 🙂
soft night
looks lovely
tulip orbit
Yup, that looks like an area that got hit a little harder than around my house
They're not mandatory (afaik), but strongly suggested
I'm broke so I'm still on all-seasons
havent left the house since the snow hit, have to go out tomorrow, hopefully the main roads are decent by then
how so?
soft night
tulip orbit
I've driven in some pretty bad conditions with just all-seasons, just gotta drive carefully and not make sudden turns or movements.
heck, first vehicle I was driving in winter no problems with bald tires 😄
got home after passing people uphill in real snowy conditions, looked at my tires and I could see some of the steel cords
its not ideal 😄 My biggest concern is that somebody else will do something stupid and cause an accident
nobody here knows how to follow at safe distances or merge.
cursive crypt
fluid bloom
designers gone wild
median wraith
tbh is clear
cursive crypt
Nope, it is too uniform for many people.
warped pine
It's 3 AM and I'm eating a slice of ham wrapped in a spinach tortilla roll.
How has my life come to this?
cursive crypt
Its lunch and I'm eating mayo + cheese, ditto.
sage ermine
Aight
zinc matrix
@median wraith - I just bought it, will give it a go.
cursive crypt
Blender is no bully 😒
sage ermine
This is need to node information
misty cedar
Does anyone have access to CGPeers anymore?
fringe sundial
mossy nexus
Isn't that a pirate site?
fresh heath
mossy nexus
Uh-huh. Trial versions of stuff you can get trial versions from the creators...
solid aurora
noone said how long is the trial
mossy nexus
For a discord channel that promotes creators in UE4, talking about using pirate sites doesn't make much sense. But then what do I know?
solid aurora
on serious note
mossy nexus
Yeah that was my point really
solid aurora
without trolling
big corps don't give shout about individual users pirating their software
shit*
because they are never going to buy it
and tracking if company is using it is easy enough to sue them
mossy nexus
I agree, most people that pirate won't buy it regardless
solid aurora
and this is what you can mainly find on cgpeers
or sometimes more esoteric, old software
mossy nexus
More over, it's likely that piracy can and indeed does drive actual sales.
solid aurora
it does, you hire people, they know only autodesk, you buy autodesk stuff
mossy nexus
Particularly with music
solid aurora
spiral of madness
mossy nexus
People get copies of singles/albums like the music and then don't worry about buying something from that band.
As they know they like them
solid aurora
look at other side
without Direct Connect
Trailer music would never get off in public space
cursive crypt
Aah, they shat down that youttube-dl because of music.
mossy nexus
That was their own fault, in the documents they explicitly stated use for downloading copywrite music.
mossy nexus
He started multiple different sites
solid aurora
you can't really take down git repo
cursive crypt
Yeah, they should be a bit more careful. Otherwise, all good. Interestingly it was shat down on behalf of 3 pop musicians who were like last person on earth to worry about, lol.
abstract trellis
Picking up an Xbox series x today anyone have a game recommendation for it?
somber pasture
Mario superkart? Try RTX with it xd
fluid bloom
why the fuck does discord share data to facebook on mobile devices?
frosty halo
why the fuck does discord share data to facebook on mobile devices?
@fluid bloom what made you say that?
frosty halo
Are you sure it isn’t fb mining cookies or other cross-app data?
I mean I’m not saying it isn’t possible, just that it would be weird as no explicit affiliation exists afaik.
fluid bloom
I thought it was common knowledge that they track you whether or not you're on facebook or not 😛
frosty halo
Yeah well, of course they do, but discord wouldn’t have control over this.
It’s like that oculus conspiracy/controversy.
fluid bloom
"Advertisements: You may see our Service advertised in other applications or websites. After clicking on one of these advertisements and installing our Service, you will become a user of the Service. Advertising platforms, which include Twitter and Facebook (and whose SDKs are integrated within our Service), may collect information for optimizing advertising campaigns outside of the Service."
Advertising platforms, which include Twitter and Facebook (and whose SDKs are integrated within our Service), may collect information for optimizing advertising campaigns outside of the Service
fluid bloom
fuck that shit
frosty halo
I know
There’s buzz about how because FB enforces you to pair your personal account with your oculus device means that there’s very little from preventing them from using the sensors on the headset to map you as a person to a degree. I don’t know the in’s and out’s of it, but people are saying it could be used for even more granularity on targeted ads.
Dunno how much truth there is in this. But it was an interesting theory.
Idk I’ve not had a fb account for the last five years or so. It’s very liberating.
I’m sure more and more people are becoming aware that FB isn’t a social network. It’s a personal data farm.
It’s an incredibly smart decision to pivot it that way. The most lucrative resource these days IS data. And if you have personal data on billions of people willingly given to you, you can (as fb does) make billions.
foggy path
a lot of the tracking on the web at least depends on third party cookies and those are being actively blocked by browsers these days
so remains to be seen what comes out as a result
ancient hornet
the tracking part of the Oculus thing isn't even the worst I feel
the fact you can get locked out of your pretty expensive hardware easily sux
zinc matrix
Shower thought - in the Matrix universe, some poor programmer somewhere created the world's most complicated log viewer:
proud prism
Sup guys, how you all doing. how you guys cope with laziness and being not in the mood of making stuff.. past week i didnt worked on my project at all, trying to find a way how to refresh my self, and get some push to do stuff.
abstract trellis
Think of all the people who have disrespected you
Think of the guy who didn’t hold the door for you
Think of the people that laughed at u when u were down
Now prove them wrong.
cursive crypt
@zinc matrix heard that these are actually a recipe for sushi. The designer looked at his wife's recipe book.
fresh heath
@proud prism Try to pick the simplest task you need to do for your project and focus on doing just this task, this will get you going
Don't think about everything else you need to do
Just this one little task
proud prism
@fresh heath yeagh i ma trying to little things, things wont take too long to work on. but sometimes i jsut cant force my self. maybe it's just shitty period around me
abstract trellis
Or just think back to why you started the project in the first place
And if that isn’t a good enough reason then you prob should scrap it and start with a new idea tbh
proud prism
i working on this project for aa while now, not planning to drop it any time soon. thx guys for advices
unborn lotus
sometimes you just don't feel it and it's fine. I do anything else for a few days and I find I get back into work again
tulip orbit
I havent gamedevd in over a month now 😦 makes me very sad
fathom wadi
been 4 months for me. Its kind of difficult in my situation. So I am doing some modelling instead. It's less brain intensive and I don't have to do much planning
cursive crypt
It is hand intensive tho.
fresh heath
Twitter
lone grail
Good day peoples
north torrent
People really let their personal feelings for Intel affect the way they review products.
