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humble remnant
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Hahaha

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No

frosty halo
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What a cold reception

fresh heath
frosty halo
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Hehe

deep glen
median wraith
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what the hell

humble remnant
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When I saw the tree sideways my first thought was "it's gonna rotate and look like a spiky spawn of hell"

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I've had too many nightmares with world position shaders it seems

median wraith
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the foliage shader isn't working for me at all

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the opacity is suposed to change the subsurface intensity tranasparency but does nothing

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only when I set to Subsurface mode

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seems like yeah

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I edited the engine like 1 year ago and I don't even remember what was edited at shaders other than some light changes in the general shader

rare sparrow
humble remnant
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I spy

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With my little eye

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Interesting

carmine frigate
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editor scripting is fun 😛

foggy path
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I made an editor script that generated sprite and flipbook assets, I was very proud of it

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instead of manually going through all the files, renaming them one by one to the correct names, moving them into folders, then going through them to create individual flipbooks... Select all, run custom editor script

carmine frigate
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i used it to select items and rotate em w/o the editor rotate widget

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cuz editor rotator is sux

foggy path
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oh? what's sucky about it in particular?

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just curious since I haven't really noticed anything that bothered me that much

carmine frigate
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it only rotates xyz and 1 at a time

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also the pivot is the same

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more like when u press R in blender

foggy path
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ah

carmine frigate
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i really like blender 3d viewport controlls

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hmm i might make a selected to cursor and cursor to selected button 🙂

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that cursor in blender is usefull for a ton of things

foggy path
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everyone playing Raft these days

median wraith
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Oh no the monolith is gone

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Raft looks different to that

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Yep

foggy path
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Oh lol

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yeah thought about getting Stranded Deep but it's singleplayer only

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I usually enjoy playing these kinds of survival games with friends

rare sparrow
mild root
zinc matrix
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It's been so long since i've chatted here lol

vale agate
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Wow thats pretty cool

frosty halo
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Is that a paint effect @zinc matrix ?

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Fudge, I’ve got a DPD shipment arriving at 10, but the tracking says it’s in Kansas at “final delivery center” even though it was shipped from UK.

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Although DPDs own site says it’s in UK

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One of them is lying

north torrent
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UK as in the University of Kansas?

fluid bloom
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what's a kansas?

rare sparrow
ancient hornet
scenic glen
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Does unreal have anything to counter genshin impact? Hehe
Would love to see something similar made in unreal.

foggy path
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Unreal is a game engine, why does it have to counter a game? 🤔

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Genshin Impact is not a particularly complicated game I don't think

scenic glen
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I mean a similar game made in unreal hehe aside of course from fortnite etc

foggy path
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so it could be easily done in UE as well if someone wanted to make something similar

ancient hornet
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what is there to counter outside of the abusive gacha mechanics?

foggy path
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lol

scenic glen
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Hehe

ancient hornet
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I, don't like the trend, but when you look at it, it makes sense

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games with the most abusive monetisations get more money => more money in R&D and dev => better quality game (outside of the monetisation part) ensues

foggy path
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People seem to enjoy Genshin though so I'd guess it's not the worst in terms of the mechanics

scenic glen
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I just started genshin right now just went to see the gameplay mechanics and art. I think I was more intrigued with the music and sounds.

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Well its so hyped up here in my country hehe

ancient hornet
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well that's not so much my complaint as that "tainted" unethical money is power and no matter how good the end result is, it still is tainted

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if this creates an environment where the only good games that survive are those that with abusive monetization, well I don't want that happening

humble remnant
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The games that earn a kphjiillion money are the ones that abuse whales

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And the infinite amount of gambling addiction they have

ancient hornet
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on that topic

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I'm not sure how Fortnite abuses their whales

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does it even have whales?

humble remnant
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It's surprisingly the least predatory one

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You pay some money and then earn more rewards the more you play

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The only whaling that happens is buying all the skins directly

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But yeah, it doesn't have any of the standard loot box and stuff

ancient hornet
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but you don't need more than one skin really

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once you buy one super expensive you want, you are basically set

humble remnant
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Well, there's collector whales

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Though both collector and gambler whales are resembling each other

ancient hornet
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well when collectors need to gamble to make their collection

humble remnant
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The gambler simply looks for the thrill of getting what they want through a shiny interface

ancient hornet
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but buying flat out skins is just a matter of having the money each month to buy the new ones

foggy path
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So in Fortnite you can buy all skins but they also have random surprise boxes?

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That sounds like the way to go tbh

fringe sundial
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genshin impact would be incredibly hard if not nearly impossible to make in ue4

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people forget that thats an open world game and runs in mobile

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ue4 happens to suck at both of those

foggy path
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I thought Unity sucked at open world games too 🤔

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I always thought UE wasn't that bad with open worlds tho, since it has origin rebasing and level streaming and such

thin storm
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the VFX in that genshin game are really nice.

humble remnant
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@foggy path they don't have boxes iirc, they have a battle pass

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Which gives more rewards the more you play if you bought it

foggy path
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Ah right, sounds like a similar one as PUBG's battle pass

humble remnant
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The infamous John Wick skin is from a battle pass and required a hefty amount of playtime

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Fortnite did it first I believe

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And everyone else started copying

foggy path
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Sounds likely :D

humble remnant
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League, PUBG, Apex, basically the persistent service games

foggy path
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I'd probably consider buying a PUBG pass if I played it more but haven't played that much lately

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It seems like a decent system if you're already planning on playing the game

humble remnant
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I downloaded it a week ago but it loads way too slowly on my HDD

median wraith
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5min per material compilation cannot be good

humble remnant
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Either your material is too complex or you need to upgrade from i3

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Or third option

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Don't dingus and add another parameter to your parameter collection

foggy path
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I wonder how terrible of an idea would it to be to make a mega material which can do several totally different things based on parameters

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I guess you'd be slightly limited by the fact that I don't think params can change the render modes like surface, opaque,masked etc.

feral swallow
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26 hours left guys

rare sparrow
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Oh yeah, tomorrow is the 1st of the month and it's a Tuesday

median wraith
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the layered thing new materials Epic made

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allows me to reuse the same mesh without duplicate them in order to reuse it with different materials ?

zinc matrix
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I think it wont be until next week since there was a prev month we had a first on tuesday

median wraith
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Right now got in mind to duplicate the mesh and use different materials or make a BP and assing different materials

ancient hornet
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but you can already just assign any material to a mesh instance to override it?

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is it me or does 4.26 feels slow to release?
I bet Epic is too busy with UE5 😄

fringe sundial
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given how slow the dev-stuff is going in github....

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they are def very busy on ue5

ancient hornet
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🍿

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can't wait

median wraith
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I feel like will make a new mesh clone....

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the engine should really have a prefab system rather of BP for this kind of things

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the foliage system have an alike but should be for every use case

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now can config the whole thing

frosty halo
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Lookin good

median wraith
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tank you

humble remnant
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Now replace the material with a seamless metal texture and make a scifi game

subtle hatch
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Since this is a partnered discord server ?

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Is it useless to give it server boosts ?

median wraith
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@humble remnant far cry blood dragon 2 ?

humble remnant
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If you're willing to

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I'd rather take an offshoot project like that at this point than the generic AAA experience

median wraith
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well technically that game were AAA

foggy path
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I hope they do make a Blood Dragon 2

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but that game would be hard to improve :P

subtle hatch
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I'm asking because doesn't partnered discord servers gets level 3 perks ?

humble remnant
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Yeah, you might as well skip boosting I guess

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Which reminds me of the daft bastard my bank is

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I had withdrawn too much a couple weeks ago and my acc was left empty

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Nitro payment failed obviously

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Now when I put some cash back in, thankfully no tax, payment fails because of a new auth method

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And this auth method decided to keep returning "Internal server error" in the blandest HTML possible

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Thanks

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At least I had classic lying around from a giveaway so not all is lost

fresh heath
median wraith
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wait don't have PS5 individual realtime hairs ?

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🤖

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lol

plucky pagoda
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Looking at the games that hit the Switch last week and saw this one: https://youtu.be/VzF7OaKYVzg

Cobra Kai is a two-player side-scrolling beat-'em-up in the old-school Double Dragon style. It support couch co-op play, and you can swap between any of eight characters as you play. Those fighters include Johnny Lawrence, Daniel LaRusso, and more across 28 story missions. Ralph Macchio and William Zabka provide the voices for their iconic chara...

▶ Play video
foggy path
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the Cobra Kai show's pretty good but that doesn't look that interesting tbh :D

foggy path
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When I bought Win10 I just bought the english version lol

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I think it was 1 eur cheaper than the finnish version for some reason...

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:P

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and yeah this is pretty much why I don't do customization much on the windows themes... it just causes trouble

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if you google anything the help info is all gonna be in english and good luck figuring out what it is in finnish

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also the finnish translations are abysmal in some parts of win10

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what would you expect to be behind that button?

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and yeah for some reason the image viewer app is in finnish despite my OS being in english so there is that too...

plucky pagoda
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The game didn't look interesting to me either, but it looks surprisingly not bad for what it is. It looks like they did a good job balancing the nostalgia and ridiculousness of it to make a game.

foggy path
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true

median wraith
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who named the snow and sand effect the other day ?

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how you did it ?

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yeah did more or less the same

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yeah looking for a bigger range here

fresh heath
feral swallow
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@zinc matrix marketplace change out is always the first Tuesday of every month regardless of the day of the month. Could be 1st day. Could be 7th.

cursive crypt
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Is your font bugged or is that an actual language? 🤔

broken sigil
humble remnant
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If a Finnish word looks normal

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It's most probably an insult

zinc matrix
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e

median wraith
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@zinc matrix noupe

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Still some shader on hold idk if will use it at the end

fathom wadi
median wraith
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Lmao that happen in a lot of news websites

zinc matrix
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Yes its annoying

median wraith
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@zinc matrix actually I think will port the whole graphics style to this kind of cartoon as want something that looks good even if the time past

north torrent
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VPN

median wraith
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The reflection captures cannot capture movable things mmm

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Feels bad man

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I wanted to give the final users a map editor but seems like will be limited to mediocre graphics

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*basically I use the reflections for real time GI

zinc matrix
median wraith
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Yeah I remember that

rare sparrow
zinc matrix
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alright Im glad Im not alone

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in 2019 maybe

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i just remember my mind being like its supposed to release today. its the first tuesday.

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I guess ill keep an eye on it tomorrow.

rare sparrow
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November 2019 is when they switched from the 1st of the month to the 1st Tuesday. They've all been the 1st Tuesday since then

median wraith
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Well is change time another time then

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😂

feral swallow
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Hush lol

zinc matrix
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Tbf Did they even tell us they were transitioning? I tried looking for articles before so I could point people to it when they were arguing on the asset day

rare sparrow
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It was the start of November too and not the end, but it was exactly a year after it started

feral swallow
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I hope we get sound effects or some audio stuff. Been playing with that a lot lately

median wraith
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People using SSGI and LPV the ultimate nightmare cost as much as run a real GI system x5 times on cryengine xD

feral swallow
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Anyone else finish the challenge?

zinc matrix
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oh cryengine lol

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I was on itch and they have 13 projects made with cryengine

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melon js (which I hadnt heard of) has 26

feral swallow
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I was lucky enough to have 3 of the 5 courses completed previously

rare sparrow
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I downloaded Lumberyard before I discovered UE4 (that's what got me to find Unreal was free actually) and I gave up on it immediately due to lack of tutorials and stuff to get me going

zinc matrix
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oh lumberyard

feral swallow
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I tried lumberyard first also

rare sparrow
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But when I loaded up UE4 for the first time I followed a getting started tutorial and knew my way around the basics of the editor right off the bat and was hooked

median wraith
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@zinc matrix was checking the videos from this year of UE4 with SSGI and LPV the problem is the cost is like x5 the normal cost of any GI solution in other engines and I'm using right now a custom solution that just takes 0.8ms but needs the reflection probes, the problem is these can't capture dynamic worlds

zinc matrix
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ah

feral swallow
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Unity for about a month but believe it or not, a lava shader is what brought me to UE4. 2 years in now.

median wraith
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We won't get the GI until ue5 it seems

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And still I don't feel like will want to move any time soon as indie

feral swallow
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UE5 testing version soon though I bet

zinc matrix
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yeah I wonder what day we get ue5

fresh heath
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I expect UE5 to be unstable early on

feral swallow
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After 4.26 release

median wraith
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Maybe by end of 2021

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Or mid

feral swallow
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I think first release is scheduled for mid but I bet on late 21

fresh heath
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Probably best to stick with UE4 until UE5.5 at least

median wraith
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Lol

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Well that were the UE4 case

zinc matrix
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I think many companies stuck with UDK for awhile

median wraith
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The funny video from 2012 with UE4 features that still don't have

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😜

feral swallow
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🤣

zinc matrix
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I love looking at their egs trello

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every month something moves

median wraith
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Uh

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The store trello?

zinc matrix
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Epic game store yes

median wraith
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Didn't know the store have trello

feral swallow
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Major Hollywood studios are ramping up on Unreal so iteration may happen faster and faster. Just maybe not all game related things.

zinc matrix
feral swallow
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GI is definitely gonna be great for both sides though

median wraith
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At least we got achievements now

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Still kinda bald compared to steam

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The community interaction overall

zinc matrix
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oh they just shipped a ton of things. it was so empty in that section before

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yeah cause no offline sign in made it hard to use Unreal years ago. My school had egs blocked but not unreal

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Looks like they did a lot of offline sign in thing tho

feral swallow
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Playing catch up against 10 years of steam R&D

zinc matrix
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lol

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thank gosh they redid their UI tho

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their library was so old looking

north torrent
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Not being Steam is probably the best complement someone can give you.

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Do you really want a community like Steams?

feral swallow
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@north torrent agreed. I had a bad run in with Valve some years ago. Never dealt with them since

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Hell no

zinc matrix
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yeah minecraft isnt on steam for a reason 👀

north torrent
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I find the reviews on their store totally useless...

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What is the point of having a system that wont let you say, 'I think this game was pretty average. Not great, but certainly not bad for what it is'.

feral swallow
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I never trust game reviews. Best way to review is watch streamers play it I think. I don't like a lot of games though.

north torrent
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You have to either recommend the game or not recommend the game.

zinc matrix
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and heaven forbid exclusive and everyone rages on steam

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although metro did promise steam release so they kinda shot themselves in the foot

north torrent
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I'm too old do get into Streamer culture... I'll pass.

feral swallow
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There is a million indie devs on steam bad mouthing everyone elses game in Hope's of catching the algorithms that puts their game within view of anyone

zinc matrix
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oh damn

median wraith
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Absurd enough, steam reviews are kinda on point overall

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More than any other web

zinc matrix
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I seen some fake accounts giving 5 star reviews to assets

median wraith
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Metacritic is kinda off compared to it

zinc matrix
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I see.

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Stardews reviews are great tho

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"I pirated this game and regretted it instantly. Bought it instead."

north torrent
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I'm still a bit disappointed with Stardew Valley...

median wraith
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Me too but with NMS

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I got less things to do in a galaxy than in a Valley

zinc matrix
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fallout 76 did disappoint me at release with a few things too. But now its pretty much complete other than molerats being the scariest thing.

north torrent
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No Mans Sky is notorious for disappointing people though.

Stardew Valley is basically universally viewed as a surprise success that exceeded people's expectations.

fresh heath
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No Man's Sky managed to un-disappoint people after the launch though

zinc matrix
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since beth is using my fallout first money wisely Ill prob resub. 👀

north torrent
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But there are other games in the same genre that delved deeper than Stardew Valley from over a decade before it.

I liked Stardew Valley overall, but there a certain things that just didn't match the level of games far older than it.

My favorite modern game in the genre is My Time at Portia.

zinc matrix
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huh I havent heard of it.

north torrent
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There were certain things about Stardew Valley that were great.

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But in some ways I would rather just use an emulator and play Harvest Moon 64 from back in the Nintendo 64 days...

foggy path
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whichever gives more usable screen real estate :D

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Then it probably depends on how you plan to arrange them

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honestly I don't think it makes any difference at this point lol

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I'd go with whichever is going to be easier to deal with in terms of mounting it and such

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4K might be nice for movies or something though I guess depending on how big it is

static cosmos
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got our store page approved, steam dicking us around on the demo page.

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finished up the checklist submitted it for review "Oh you failed because you're missing image A, B, and C" those images are marked as required on the store page, but not the demo page, our demo checklist was complete. I added them and submitted it, and get a reply today, "Oh you failed because the demo tag obscures your capsule image" the same capsule image that was in the first submission and that hasn't been change. It wasn't an issue then, but suddenly is now.

fathom wadi
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its probably quicker to find and report back the first problem than to delve into it all in one go.

unborn lotus
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@ionic flame a 42 inch 4k!

fathom wadi
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4k on a 28inch is pointless if you ask me. 1440p is about all you need

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for that size

zinc matrix
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yeah there are some asus 4k 28inch that are under $400. The 1440ps seem to be more more expensive

fathom wadi
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i have an Acer XB280HK which is like 4 years old now. Should be cheap. Comes with gsync though if that matters

zinc matrix
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the tuf one goes on sale all the time

fathom wadi
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I have to say this one has been worth the money. The only downside is it's not IPS. But I sit in front of it and don't get colour displacement anyway

zinc matrix
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ive heard mixed tbh

unborn lotus
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@ionic flame i cant go back to anything else. its like 4 bezel free 21 inch full hd monitors, and using an app maximized is amazing

zinc matrix
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oh canada makes sense

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our currency sucks

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1080p is plentiful

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yeah I havent used ebay since I think 2014 due to import and things

north torrent
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I am much happier only using one monitor now.

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I use two at work, and I miss the simplicity of my home desk.

zinc matrix
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huh. Using one monitor at school for so long killed my happiness lol.
I have 4 montiors

north torrent
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I just go for one really large monitor.

zinc matrix
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oh I see. The ultra wides tbh ive heard have compatibility issues with a lot of things

north torrent
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How do you have compatibility issues with a window in Windows?

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A 32 inch Ultrawide is the same exact width of a 50 inch TV.

Though I don't know what an inch actually is. I'm not up on all the new hip measuring methods people in the State use.

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But for some reason TV screens and phones all use inches for screens and real units for everything else.

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But my ultrawide is the same width as my TV, just a lot shorter.

So if I felt like I needed the vertical space I would just go for a 50 inch 4k monitor as opposed to multiple monitors.

static cosmos
fathom wadi
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I meant for them.

static cosmos
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Yeah, just steam earning their 30%

frosty halo
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So has making stuff in substance designer become some sort of form or rendering/art on its own where you make a single material look like a full on scene?

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I mean it’s crazy you can do something like this...

median wraith
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I got expectations that ue5 let me turn these textures full infinite detail height maps that affect collisions

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🤖

frosty halo
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Once 5 comes out I reckon there’s gonna be plenty of people loading sculpts into the engine directly for nanite to render and there’s gonna be lots of forum posts on “why is my packed game 600GB”

median wraith
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XD

cursive crypt
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I suppose ue5 would be 4, but with updated pipeline. Same stuff elsewhere. Also I doubt you can just throw polys around. Whatever is the trick, there is so much bandwidth and computation power.

median wraith
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that's basically why cannot go realistic graphics these projects take a lot of GB

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the damm Substance takes 1GB file to paint a cube

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some parkour games players in here ? ala Mirror Edge ?

frosty halo
# cursive crypt I suppose ue5 would be 4, but with updated pipeline. Same stuff elsewhere. Also ...

I mean, if nanite works in viewport as it does at runtime there isn’t any reason why you couldn’t feasibly load as much polys into the game as your HDD/SSD can handle. The bottleneck at that point would be a combination of draw distance at which point info is offloaded from ram. So likely a combination of large amounts of ram and large storage would probably end up being sufficient to have pretty crazy amounts of detail

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Those are big if’s and big assumptions though

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God knows what they did and how it works until we get our hands on it

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But seeing as they filled that whole room of statues with billions of tris, it’s feasible that it’s about the direction it’s going.

cursive crypt
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Nah, its far from bigger worlds not to mention open worlds.

frosty halo
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Yeah we will have to see.

cursive crypt
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True.

frosty halo
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I’m excited for sure.

cursive crypt
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I'm not so much. I don't want to migrate yet, also it will be some good amount of time until its debugged somehow.

median wraith
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You cannot imagine how much people copy paste small games without know what were the good point of the original

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Simply Parkour is built of upon a Beautiful Simplistic World of Creatively Designed Parkour Platforming Areas for Endless Running & Unique Movement for First Person Parkour. Titled Simply Parkour. Don't fall off or you will have to start over again, stay on rooftops and traverse through creative but yet complex parkour puzzles to beat the game.

Release Date

Dec 11, 2020

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check the video is the best

frosty halo
frosty halo
median wraith
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that's true

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lel

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you get the game for free when it was free now cost like 2€ and you complain

cursive crypt
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Maybe he/she has no credit card or its a matter of moral goals.

median wraith
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yeah both can be

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I just spend 0,50€ in an asset flip

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well technically if your whole game is based on a single asset pack from marketplace but you made the levels yourself is an asset flip ?

north torrent
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What makes an asset flip isn't so easily defined.

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But what it really comes down to is artistic vision. If you take the time to modify your scene to have a cohesive color pallet, quality lighting, and a composition that moves the eye through the scene, then nobody is going to be calling your work an asset flip.

If you build a scene that tells a story nobody is going to care if you got that firewood off of Megascans or those chairs from the Unreal Marketplace.

It is when a scene was just tossed together without care or artistic intent that people subconsciously notice and call it an asset flip. Most of the time they don't fully understand what is off on a conscious level if they haven't had previous art training. But it is more the lack or a cohesive vision for the scene than where the assets themselves come from that matters.

cursive crypt
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What happened with RTX Mao?

ancient hornet
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a good scene is when you visit a friend's house and say "your appartement is nice"
an asset flip is when you visit a friend's house and say "hey, that's an Ikea chair, I recognize the model!"

deep glen
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a chair is fine

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if even the house comes from ikea is when i consider it an asset flip

ancient hornet
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well it's implied that both used ikea chairs I mean 😛

deep glen
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hehe

ancient hornet
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I might have said the first better as "wow, is that really all Ikea furniture?"

median wraith
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Yeah is basically the zeOrb package for all levels

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and other package or something for parkour wall running

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best part is the trailer is that when features you can press esc to open the menu in-game

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👀

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Yeah in case you ask yourself I'm doing today a travel over the insides of steam to see what I find

tulip orbit
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I'm 143hrs into my playthrough of assassins creed: odyssey....... thinking of getting origins now...

median wraith
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lol

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someone here used DecalMachine with UE4 ?

cursive crypt
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Hopefully soon.

median wraith
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is on sale

cursive crypt
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Pff.... Ofc, I know 💪

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The hoarder in me won. Problem is, I'm kinda far from hard surface work, so I can't tell when I'm gonna start using it.
Do you have it?

median wraith
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nope

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I got hardops and the other from this guy but don't got this

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idk if will give use at all

cursive crypt
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Its okay, it helps to sleep better - knowing you have it if you ever need it.

median wraith
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yeah that true, or you sleep bad when you spend 50€ in a tool you will never use

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XD

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spent a lot back in the days for substance I bet didn't get the invested money back yet

cursive crypt
#

I kinda did some research and there are several same category addons, all looks nice. HardOps + Boxcutter, Fluid -something, as 1-2 others for cutting (lmao, forgot the names)... Some are more easier and newer, others are kinda overwhelming.. fun

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Ah, yeah, familiar story.

median wraith
#

yeah got Boxcutter and HardOps myself

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and meshmachine

cursive crypt
#

I'm kinda afraid they are heavy plugins and change a lot, like what I saw from the UI, its very different lol

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Yes, MeshMachine too. Must be good.

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It's kinda weird sometimes however. All of these are GPL, however they don't publish the code.

median wraith
#

yeah is kinds strange don't need to publish it, but technically

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if someone request it, you have to give it

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but no one acts like that at all

cursive crypt
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Yeah, weird, ain't it? I mean, I don't mind sponsoring the devs, but it makes me wonder however whether the code was ever requested and what happened.

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Hmm... just saw that Affinity, on importing an image as layer does not center it, but just drops it somewhere at the void.

median wraith
#

Affinity is overrated

cursive crypt
#

Tend to agree. At least it is on what I would call Beta stage.
But can I complain? I just drag & dropped few images in UE and it crashed.

median wraith
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lol

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what are you using to mainly for ?

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overall Krita got me covered

cursive crypt
#

Affinity? Because it's faster than Gimp.

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At least for some basic stuff it does the job. I have no use of its hdr/panorama or other more complex algos so far.

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Krita is really good alternative to Gimp. Apart from painting, it has this elaborated layers system.

fresh heath
cursive crypt
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... ah yes, so I do a lot of grayscale / channel / masking / pixel work. Gimp covers this so far. Just... it is old.

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duh, had to post few seconds earlier.

median wraith
#

what a nice game

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it's like a bad version of Subnautica tbh

tulip orbit
#

looks like the siberian mines have two new miners

ancient hornet
#

they even have mining training already, learned on the internet

foggy path
#

talking of levolution alex

median wraith
#

XD

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well you got COD1 too etc

cursive crypt
#

Ha! I remember that game. 1st action game with adult content.

foggy path
#

lol yeah if pixel titties are defined as adult content

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shake it baby

cursive crypt
#

Old school guys need just few pixels to get on 😄

#

Music was nice too.

foggy path
#

the composer Lee Jackson actually released some new albums in the past years, Deviations, and Calibrations

#

some new versions of Duke songs on those too, worth checking out

cursive crypt
#

Oh! I'm impressed you are familiar with it. Might check this out later 👍

foggy path
#

they're on Spotify if you use that

cursive crypt
#

Hmm.. no. But there might be other sources.

foggy path
#

probably on youtube as usual :D

median wraith
#

feel the pain of steam downloads

fresh heath
humble remnant
median wraith
#

will happen the same of Firefox OS ?

foggy path
#

"actual" linux phone?

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how is Android not an "actual" linux phone? :D

#

WebOS also ran on Linux... so did Maemo

fresh heath
#

It's literally an ordinary Linux distro, with X.org and everything

foggy path
#

Ah

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the distinction with that seems a bit hazy tbh

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surely the three I listed use many of the same pieces as a "linux distro" does

fresh heath
#

The graphics system in Android is completely different

foggy path
#

so is a system using Wayland not linux?

fresh heath
#

Android doesn't use Wayland either

foggy path
#

Yeah, but where is the distinction in there

#

Why does Android's graphics system make it "not linux", but wayland does not?

fresh heath
#

It's not used in any major Linux distro

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Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE

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The rest of the userland is also written by Google

foggy path
#

Yeah tbh I don't know how much of the overall stack on top of the kernel is Google specific

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I think Maemo and WebOS ran a fair bit of stuff that you'd find on regular linux distros though so with those it's a bit harder to say

fresh heath
#

Android apps don't use Linux calls, they're calling into Google's VM

foggy path
#

Maemo is based on Debian and uses Gnome so that one I'd say is a Linux based system :D

fresh heath
#

I didn't dispute that

#

My point is that Android is using Linux the kernel, but not the userland

foggy path
#

Yeah you're probably right

#

I wonder which is a more cruel fate for an OS

#

Not used in new devices anymore (Maemo), or end up as the OS on printers and smart TVs and other random strange places (WebOS)

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lol

fresh heath
#

There is more incentive to keep webOS maintained at least

foggy path
#

yeah

fresh heath
#

Maybe someone will try to use webOS in phones again in the future while it's still kept alive by those strange places

cursive crypt
#

Linux is the kernel. GNU / Linux is what is known in mainstream as just "Linux". Its the kernel + tools and stuff to make it an OS.

fresh heath
#

It's more like GNU + Linux + X.Org

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Stuff like systemd is actually maintained by X.Org

cursive crypt
#

Yeah... you never know with these distros... everything, apart from the Kernel is technically optional. I do like more the BSD model. It's more engineered, too bad it sees no effort.

fresh heath
#

FreeBSD seems to be doing well

#

OpenBSD and NetBSD are on the fringe

#

NetBSD is basically Doom of operating systems

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It exists so people could port it on everything

ancient hornet
#

kernel+systemd project does make it a lot more engineered and BSD like

cursive crypt
#

Nah, FreeBSD is not doing well.

ancient hornet
#

though the kernel team still produces something you can use independently

cursive crypt
#

Neither of them are.

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I mean, not enough.

ancient hornet
#

FreeBSD is still in heavy use through pfSense no?

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as a NAS appliance

cursive crypt
#

Yeah, but I think it's quite stripped.

ancient hornet
#

(wait not NAS, as a router)

cursive crypt
#

Well, its good one.

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OpenBSD is kinda cool: "turns goat piss into water" - ad for the firewall, lmao

#

I haven't been following them since few years, but before that I was running FreeBSD for home use. Ofc, the lack of software/drivers was the bane.

ancient hornet
#

FreeNAS is the NAS one 😛

cursive crypt
#

pfSense wasn't based on BSD too? 🤔

ancient hornet
#

I mean it's not a NAS but a router 😛

#

but I stick to "it's a FreeBSD"

cursive crypt
#

It's cool, running home made NAS. Cheap drives + power backup and you are bomb.

ancient hornet
#

you can find pfSense preinstalled on NetGear stuff

cursive crypt
#

Ah... still, there like 1-2 companies behind these BSD distros.. It's sad.

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I even subed to the FreeBSD journal to sponsor them. It's depressing.

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Hope they grow 🙂

#

It's good OS. And saying OS, BeOS comes to mind. Does somebody used it? The one which was rework.

median wraith
#

there is the new content of the month in the marketplace

#

not sure if is what you expected at all

#

tbh are the most cartoon looking ones I have seen

#

Realistic

#

where they post the month freebies thing ?

#

XD

#

a pool and trees you get

fresh heath
median wraith
#

you know 8k textures baked light over 50x50km

ancient hornet
#

the tree pack includes some demo map I presume

#

is there a way to not download that and just get the assets? XD

cursive crypt
#

There was a demo of that landscape. I remember checking it out before months.

#

It was kinda nice.

median wraith
#

this is a joke from Alex or is like that

cursive crypt
#

Nope, that exclusive or. There is damn big channel on Reddit about it.

#

Ah, shit, it was inclusive or, need to check my grammar: For when the answer to a question is all of them.

ancient hornet
#

why not answer "both"?

#

I always though that "yes" answer was meant as a meme joke in those kind of questions

foggy path
#

yeah I think if anyone answers yes to a question like that it's always going to be followed by asking which one :P

#

it's the same with finnish lol

cursive crypt
#

Because, behold the one to rulle them all of all languages, C++: if (cond1 || cond2)

#

So, it must be not yes or both, but true

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  • Do you want water or go out right now?
  • True
median wraith
#

Do you want to live or die ?

Yes.
Mistakes were made, he only knew english.

ancient hornet
#

yeah this!

lucid walrus
#

wow, never knew there was a word for it... I'm guilty of doing that...

ancient hornet
#

so am I

cursive crypt
#

Ah, yes... I remember that one. Familiar thing 😄

lucid walrus
#

oh... turns out I already both liked and retweeted the original tweet from this summer 😅

pearl compass
median wraith
#

okay okay ty

#

yeah is kinda strange tbh

ancient hornet
median wraith
#

lol

#

now Steam is out in Asia

#

I can't even read Guides now or reviews

ancient hornet
#

by default it should only show your own language reviews no?

median wraith
#

I think there is no option for such thing

#

just in reviews

#

oh

fresh heath
foggy path
#

arrow components always pointing out directly from the crotch zomgmoFace

#

oh, yeah they did look a bit weird but not sure what's going on with those

cursive crypt
#

Mr. Handsy

foggy path
#

It's a character from Mixamo using animations from Mixamo

#

so if anything I'm guessing the import went a bit fucky since I don't remember modifying them in this case

fresh heath
#

Robocalls are so annoying

#

I got four calls today

#

Usually they call one time per day

cursive crypt
#

Calling expensive functions? 🤔
It's some static analysis done all the time, sounds nice, but if you don't know you are calling an expensive function you have bigger problems I think, lmao.

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Also, I can imagine situations it will be very wrong.

jovial talon
#

Unreal doesn't really have "expensive" functions like unity does

cursive crypt
#

Hm? Define expensive 🤔

jovial talon
#

stuff like that

#

C# and memory allocations 💩

cursive crypt
#

Ah, its database of heuristics...

dim remnant
#

Any demosceners in here? My groupmember mates wants me to make an easteregg demo in my game ... :S

#

My group Darkzone, we lended our speakers to Future Crew at ASM '93, and released an intro which made it to 3rd place.. all asm, those were the days 🙂

#

I was going to use UE to make an interface to an application to run video effects on images in highres. Then started playing around with some game-scentric tests. Suddenly a friend said "Is it going to be an RTS?" and here I am 3 years later working on an RTS..

turbid spindleBOT
#

@zinc matrix, :8ball: Reply hazy, try again.

unborn lotus
#

looks like this is the one to get

fresh heath
dim remnant
#

You have dreams? Making a game that is gonna be the bomb? Yeah, just never give up 🙂 Keep going.

#

If nothing else you learn a lot.

#

IDK what to say really, just made some toast, chillin. No agenda. Just feel chatty

median wraith
#

I'm listening mechanical noises each 10mins in the computer its like a whole vibration what you think it can be ?

#

the tests says the HDD is fine 🤔

coarse latch
#

My dream with the videogames, is create a whole world that feels alive

cursive crypt
#

lol, is that your hat?

#

Not bad idea, btw

fresh heath
#

I think it would look better if the hat's outline matched the logo's outline in thickness

cursive crypt
#

Gotta ping @bronze axle to add some Xmas mood 😛

#

A bit better.

#

Still, maybe a bit more fluffy?

#

Thicker white, bigger ball.

#

Just wondering basically.

#

Hm... I don't see a difference for the color 🤔

#

Aah... That very subtle indeed.

#

Leave it pure white I think.

zinc matrix
fresh heath
#

Power IK is finally free

median wraith
#

that's doing a whole lerp along the whole UV 🤔

#

Oh these are a old thing

#

I'm old man

#

I don't know why didn't took these to the portfolio tbh

#

need to take these into it

#

if you do an underwater game

#

you can use it for "caustics"

#

on the new versions

#

I think the engine comes with a material to project these on the light

#

for the volumetrics

#

I mean are fake

#

uses the volumetric noise to match the shadow

cursive crypt
#

Wow! Yahoo email just started to charge for forwarding.

deep glen
#

rofl

#

still wonder why yahoo is a thing

foggy path
#

Yahoo's popular in japan for some reason

#

I'd assume that in some ways keeps them chugging along elsewhere as well

lucid walrus
#

i made an account for my phone on yahoo once... it immediately began spamming my other mail accounts

#

and my wife's yahoo mail account has spammed mail accounts of mine that nobody else use

#

so yahoo's security is either utter shit, or they do that crap themselves

foggy path
#

Weird

weak radish
#

Can anyone give me game ideas? I tried to make a zombies game but optimization was just awful with how many zombies there were

turbid spindleBOT
#

@zinc matrix, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

weak radish
#

ok

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!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
#

@weak radish, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

weak radish
#

!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
#

@weak radish, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

weak radish
#

ima pass

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lmao

#

!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
#

@weak radish, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

coarse latch
#

!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
#

@coarse latch, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

fresh heath
#

!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
#

@fresh heath, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

fresh heath
pearl pewter
#

<@&213101288538374145> Why is there no game design chat?

steel jackal
pearl pewter
#

Ah sorry

tall plume
broken sigil
bronze axle
#

Please reserve pings for rule violations.

tall plume
#

ah, yeah

pearl pewter
#

ok

tall plume
pearl compass
#

😄

white sequoia
#

Super offtopic:
So I had an idea recently about a website where game developers can share their development process with people, and get feedback in the comments section from other fellow developers, or from regular users, player-base. Started this project yesterday and I've got the basic main page of the website.

So my main question to you game devs, would you consider registering and using such resource?

forest sparrow
#

Hmm. Tbh there is a lot of that happening here already.

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If you look in the right places 😄 Check out work in progress and hang out in general voice chat.

white sequoia
#

Thanks for the feedback, it's a bit different because you've got your profile, with all your posts organised, comment section for each post, and share counter

pearl compass
white sequoia
#

In some way, yeah

forest sparrow
#

Not bashing your idea of course. It's a cool idea.

#

I definitely think people would be interested at the very least

#

goes back to cooking chicken katsu

white sequoia
pearl pewter
#

Am i the only one who got addicted to !gameidea?

turbid spindleBOT
#

@gloomy badge, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

humble remnant
#

I've gotten very few such DMs despite having my DMs open

#

At most there's a crypto advertiser but that's it

#

Interesting

deep glen
#

we have banned multiple bots like that over last few days

#

old meme I forgot to remove, not related to the text

#

dont even remember what the meme was about

#

he

#

then it wouldve been a kitkat

gilded vigil
#

!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
#

@gilded vigil, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

spare glade
#

My text is also a meme...

deep glen
#

@spare glade most ignored meme ever

spare glade
#

Aye

#

Its an inside meme 😛

forest sparrow
#

@gloomy badge you may have some?

#

Gotta love that spicy Japanese Mayo

foggy path
#

that looks good

forest sparrow
#

Cooking is fun 😄

#

Wait a minute...

#

Cooking show.... Unreal Engine....🤔

deep glen
weak radish
#

@white sequoia I feel like having to register and do all that stuff will be annoying to people. What you can do is add more features to it, not just sharing your ideas. Like for example a docs, videos on how to build your own games, etc. Also if you want the sharing game progress feature to do well, you will need a lot of people on it. I suggest you start off with letting people just make an account with just a username and password, nothing else, so that they can easily get into the action. You've made great progress but you should take this into account.

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ok i done

rose tulip
#

Im wandering around the woods by my apartment and found someone’s weed grow

#

My silence may cost a plant

#

It’s actually marked on google maps. Is how I found it. There’s a marker in the middle of the woods that says “Grow”

north torrent
median wraith
#

look the IK

#

is probably the best

fresh heath
median wraith
#

finally here

#

I remember the VR editor stream 3 years ago ?

#

that's interesting

deep glen
#

dang

median wraith
#

could be interesting if someone make a plugin for an usable level editor for the 2D viewports old school alike

#

Crysis returns as benchmark tool then, despite is using the same assets from 13 years ago actually the foliage is unedited at all

#

but you know the light

median wraith
zinc matrix
#

interesting assets today.
I woke up late so only saw them now.

deep glen
#

doesnt the new renderer not (try) to render one poly per pixel? in that case it doesnt matter if you have billions of polys as it only renders the amount of pixels on screen.
though, i havent read any indepth info about it since its original video.. so... what do I know.
(stuff being loaded to memory excluded)

broken sigil
#

^^

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north torrent
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Using normal maps is much easier for certain tasks as opposed to just making really high poly models.

unborn lotus
#

we need some new, faster tools for those ultra high poly models, it's a pain right now

rich quiver
#

fortnite is know a full blown ad for disney and EGS

spare glade
#

Money attracts money

rich quiver
#

ubisoft fenix rising and Torn Banner Studios Chivalry 2 are in the battle pass

devout lotus
#

I don't but I mean u can just use the buttons on ur monitor

spring wyvern
#

!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
#

@spring wyvern, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

median wraith
#

"7 months ago (edited)
This comment was removed by Epic as requested by the Chinese Government"
lol

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this people in videos

frosty halo
mossy nexus
#

if only landscapes were considered meshes 😄

north torrent
#

Gigabyte is sending me a new motherboard.

dusky shuttle
carmine frigate
#

i hate where it goes minus greaterthan

foggy path
#

Maybe we could adopt semicolon to indicate pretentiousness

fluid bloom
#

;_;

oblique sandal
unborn lotus
#

https://youtu.be/HEXQOgeaBnE?t=7 new retopo looks like magic

Autodesk 3ds Max 2021.3 is focused on modernization, performance, and fit & finish. We have added new capabilities to the viewport, improved modeling efficiency for artists with enhancements to popular modifiers and new 3ds Max Retopology Tools that reduce complex and high-resolution assets, and enhance generative designs and traditional modelin...

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mild root
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4.26 when

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you mean 5.0

rich quiver
uncut otter
#

@brisk coyote nice on that polygon article 🙂

fresh heath
median wraith
#

@zinc matrix well I did the trees thing, posted at WIP, now moving to the next adventure

cursive crypt
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lol

median wraith
#

yeah they showcase that some weeks ago

#

now we got procedural things on UE4 and Blender

pearl compass
#

lol. yeah. oh well throw that trash Houdini out now

median wraith
#

Top have enabled the custom engine changes for realtime GI, bottom don't (:

#

yeah that's why could be good to have something alike by default tbh

cursive crypt
#

custom engine changes for realtime GI what's this? 🤔

median wraith
#

engine changes I did back in the time

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cost about 1ms in total

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@cursive crypt @zinc matrix here you can see https://youtu.be/XU4nPr3hsY4?t=28 the scene there is realtime isn't as you get it baked you can see how it changes between stages

cursive crypt
#

What is the catch? 🤔 Why you are not famous and rich?

median wraith
#

lol

#

because are the rich the famous and the ones that get spot isn't it ?

#

but tbh never wanted to be rich or famous, just if pays me on constant dosis to live month each month I could be happy XD

#

when someone turns rich and famous that's a doble problem I bet

dim ruin
#

why the fuck would Epic give Reallusion a mega grant for their iClone live link plugin? The last thing those greedy assholes need is free money

median wraith
#

the last thing someone needs is free money ?!!! waaaat

dim ruin
#

You familiar with Reallusion?

median wraith
#

tbh no

cursive crypt
#

iClone is used for some motion capturing & animation stuff. Maybe there are enough clients for that.

dim ruin
#

big ass corp def not hurting for epic's money

cursive crypt
#

lol, I don't think they are big. Prolly less than 50-100 ppl?

dim ruin
#

they're pretty big.

median wraith
#

tbh I have seen companies of 10 individuals apply for a devgrant, then after the devgrant fire 5, get another 5 for the same income and then get a publisher like the same month with more money source

#

idk how legal is that

dim ruin
#

oh wow

#

yeah thats shitty. ruining a great thing

cursive crypt
#

Is that some recent grant @dim ruin ? They made free for indies the live link last year.

dim ruin
#

It just sucks to see greedy companies that really don't need the help taking it away from other smaller ones, individuals or open source projects that could use it

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@cursive crypt not sure when it happened. I just noticed the grants badge on their shit now lol

cursive crypt
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lmao, got you on fire? 😄

dim ruin
#

for Reallusion in particular. I've got issues with them

median wraith
#

Now Blender Corporation is on a luxury position tbh

cursive crypt
#

Yeah, no clue what is the situation. It's not bad software per se, but it kinda reminds me of DaZ. Also mesh export license is expensive.

dim ruin
#

oh yeah def happy about Blender getting support

#

blender is a great software and its great to see someone legitimately taking on autodesk for the throne.

#

autodesk is the fucking Adobe of the modelling and animation world lol

cursive crypt
#

Eeeh, that will take time... Also I always think these two should kiss and marry Auto + Adobe

dim ruin
#

they'd be a perfect match alright lol

cursive crypt
#

The industry moves slowly however, it takes years for changes.

dim ruin
#

unless you get athroat punch from Epic 😄

#

that's happened a few times now to certain companies.

#

I seen apple is now going to be drastically changing their revenue sharing for small devs

#

that's pretty awesome

#

with Autodesk, my only real beef is their handling of the fbx file format. Its fine if they want to have super expensive software because it is great software, but fucking with fbx sdk licensing like that when they know how dependent massive portions of multiple industries are on it is just just terribly shitty. They really deserve to get dragged for that

fringe sundial
#

because fbx is a power grab

#

fbx is a "standard"

#

but it only really works well on autodesk software

dim ruin
#

exactly. at this point its basically an autodesk hostage

fringe sundial
#

the autodesk SDK is artificially capped. Autodesk doesnt use it in maya/max

#

yup

#

thats the entire point of fbx

#

thats also why the FBX sdk is shit, phones home, and has an anti-blender license

cursive crypt
#

I don't think the other alternatives gained traction yet.

#

e.g. usd/gltf etc

rich quiver
cursive crypt
#

who?

zinc matrix
#

Oemgie Epic !!

#

NEW ERA mmO!!!

#

epic moment of new pfp

#

assassin

placid thistle
#

@median wraith if you did that 1ms realtime GI, surely you could do some magic for forward mobile Vulkan renderer in UE4 to have mighty visuals on Oculus Quest 2 🙂

median wraith
#

only works on deferred

zinc matrix
#

ue4 has nice graphics

#

TO BE HONEST

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but i gonna do my best

#

to pull up my unity graphics

median wraith
#

in other hand the spanish team that did the Red Matter game did a nice job

zinc matrix
#

its low poly after all

median wraith
#

these are real wizards

zinc matrix
#

hi hevedy

fresh heath
zinc matrix
#

the annoying part is removing debug/console logs after

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from code

median wraith
#

lol

placid thistle
#

@median wraith they sure did.. But, it's only for them

median wraith
#

yeah that's true

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tbh once someone hired me and wanted that to be done in 1 month from ground

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lel

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that didn't finish good

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there is plenty of people that thinks the things can be done easier that it are

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don't even appreciate the tools they have at the time

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could be interesting a project where the people can donate per month and someon makes that kind of contents for the community

zinc matrix
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they prob try to minimize memory usage by making us load things from ssd constantly

shadow venture
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Hey guys, I want to do a UE4 project and I am not sure If I should do a battle royale or open world project. Which game type will be better?

zinc matrix
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not multiplayer

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though my first game ever was...

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MMORPG! eae

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well im still making it

shadow venture
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Maybe Singleplayer open world?

zinc matrix
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sure

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well depends what your aim is

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if for the lulz

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then anything will do

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but if for profit then id add some multiplayer

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okay ima launching albion

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ill either get addicted or quit after few minutes

shadow venture
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Ok thank you

dim ruin
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@zinc matrix Actually, Albion made an interesting usage of Unity really. For the most part, Unity is just used as a thin rendering client in Albion.

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The built their own framework for the server etc

zinc matrix
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oh

dim ruin
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yeah they did a big ass talk about it a few years ago

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gdc maybe or something

zinc matrix
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was it good choice tho

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to be honest i like albion

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so far

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it has League of legends camera

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and its not stupid like path of exile

dim ruin
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thats pretty much the only choice for any mmo looking to use a commercial engine and have massive server populations. Unity and Unreal simply cannot handle it

zinc matrix
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oh

dim ruin
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like, you will never ever see an Unreal-based game with 2000-3000 players per server using just the engine and its systems

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games with that kind of server stress almost always have to be built 100% custom because the extreme optimizations needed to even make it possible

zinc matrix
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damn the tutorial is annoying

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how to leave it ffs

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i see noops

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that game is kinda too clickerish

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clicking around pointlessly

fringe sundial
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@dim ruin and unity itself was a horrid idea

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it limits playercounts

dim ruin
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thats why they only use unity as a rendering layer, so they don't have that issue (at least not Unity's limits

fringe sundial
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@dim ruin its couse unity game objects can be kinda slow in script

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ive seen what a true optimized engine can do

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it would chug through 2000 players no issue whatsoever

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but neither unity nor unreal can handle it

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at the engine level. Cant have 2000 animated meshes running around

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no matter how simple their anims are

dim ruin
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they all are though. UE4's default overhead is huge but it still works fine

deep glen
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meanwhile Cel had 10k skelmeshes running around with good performance more than a year ago

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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and that was in a fully realized city

bold fulcrum
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tis different

dim ruin
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Unity has a different api structure from UE4 (an organized one that you can actually map lol) which I do love but UE4's tools are unbeatable

fringe sundial
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@deep glen what game?

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20k "normal" skelmeshes will already cost you 50 ms (20 fps cap) from blueprint tick in anim bp getting called before doing anything

deep glen
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not a game but interactive city demo thing for a client. (not available for public)

fringe sundial
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and moving 20k actors, even if they arent even animated, would cost around 100-200 ms

dim ruin
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did they use skel mesh instancing?

fringe sundial
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its straight up not possible to move 20k actors

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even if they are a single box

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my guess is that its actually a aprticle system @deep glen

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with vertex animated textures

deep glen
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its not

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trying to find the video if its still online

fringe sundial
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its straight up not possible to move 20k actors and keep framerates in unreal

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from literally all my tests moving a dummy actor with only 1 static mesh, no physics, costs about 1 ms per 200 actors

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and thats "minimum actor possible"

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if its a niagara particle system or something similar to that i can see it

dim ruin
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you could instance them.

deep glen
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maybe @slow gyro knows

fringe sundial
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@dim ruin for instances it takes around 1 ms per 500-1000 instances

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so even if they are instanced meshes it would still take 20-40 ms

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which is far too slow

dim ruin
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skel instancing is totally possible, they just don't have it in the engine by default and you can have tens of thousands of them

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without that massive overhead

fringe sundial
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(unless they significantly edited the engine to hook into the instanced mesh "backend" directly, bypassing most of InstancedMeshComponent)

dim ruin
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there was a vid a few years ago where someone was working on a skel mesh instancing impl and it had no issues like that

slow gyro
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I know how you could do it. Celeste did it for the traffic pedestrian simulation, but i can't tell ):

fringe sundial
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if i was to do it i would run it as a niagara sim

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that would be the easiest

slow gyro
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We didn't use Niagara

fringe sundial
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even instanced meshes (by default) would be too slow if they have to move every frame

slow gyro
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Nor cascade

fringe sundial
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another last think i think of is some mayor material fuckery

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where you do the entire math in the vertex shader

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and the instance actually doesnt move

slow gyro
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:P

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Maybe. It gets warmer at least

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That's all i will say. Gotta sleep now though

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Blame NDAs

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😪

deep glen
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not to mention it had over 10k pedestrians, simulated traffic, and i think even pet dogs walking around

fringe sundial
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well but then its not really actors/skelmeshes, more like a particle system or some heavy material trickery

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like the fish flocks in Abzu

slow gyro
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The expensive part was the avoidance code

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Not the moving

fringe sundial
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interesting ive found avoidance not that hard, i do boids at 100k units in around 3-4 ms

deep glen
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ah found the public video in bookmarks, but doesnt exist anymore :p

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yay for nda

fringe sundial
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in fact

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in my boids experiments ive allways just bottlenecked in unreal

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even moving instanced meshes too slow 😦

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by default at least

slow gyro
deep glen
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ahh yea

slow gyro
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It was later in an actual scene with traffic simulation. But can't show that

fringe sundial
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uhm 10k at 60 fps

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that would be doable on instanced meshes

slow gyro
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As said the expensive part is the avoidance

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By far

deep glen
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k ced, avoid chat and go to bed :p

slow gyro
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😴

deep glen
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and give cel a gnight hug from me :p

slow gyro
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👍

bold fulcrum
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avoidance is never the slowest in such tasks. It being so indicates something going wrong.

rich quiver
fringe sundial
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my unoptimized boids code in the ecs demo i did i think runs about 1 ms for 5.000 objects

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and then moving them takes 2 ms...

median wraith
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wait wait

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that's an huge landscape or an small 2x2 area ?

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nice sparks there

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oh

zinc matrix
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hey can someone help me out with ue

shadow venture
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Hey, is it worth to buy a combat system for 30€/$ as a student?

fresh heath
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Depends on what it actually includes

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Maybe you can implement the same thing in a week yourself

proud pier
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BTW @brisk coyote Congrats on your launch and your success! You're killing it!

shadow venture
brisk coyote
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Thanks Victor :)

weak radish
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!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
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@weak radish, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

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@weak radish, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

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@weak radish, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

weak radish
bronze axle
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@weak radish You can continue using the command in your DM with Manny. No need to keep triggering it here. 🙂

weak radish
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oh really

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sorry about that

bronze axle
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No worries. Now you know! Have fun. It can generate some pretty good ideas.

weak radish
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haha thanks

lofty rapids
bronze axle
weak radish
bronze axle
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Go for it. I'm just having a bit of fun with the bot. Not intending to use it.

rare sparrow
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!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
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@rare sparrow, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

fresh heath
lofty rapids
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I made the music video for that song in UE4

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the one I had just linked above

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it's not much of a music video really, threw it together in a few hours

rare sparrow
rich quiver
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he left konami to join siren and left for new studio

weak radish
bronze axle
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How about a hacker monkey who loves puns and is trying to cover their tracks online.

weak radish
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seems like a pretty good story imo

static cosmos
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Don't you just love it when stuff that has worked for weeks suddenly just stops working and it isn't remotely related to anything you've been working on?

shadow venture
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!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
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@shadow venture, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

cursive crypt
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tbh, ideas have no value. I would suggest new feature for the bot: !make-game

ancient hornet
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!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
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@ancient hornet, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

silk lily
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!gameidea

turbid spindleBOT
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@silk lily, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

silk lily
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Ooh okay it's sounds pretty kewl

median wraith
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Is the bot sending nudes?

ancient hornet
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not yet so far for all the times I bothered it 😄

ancient ingot
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!sendnudes

median wraith
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Steam knows my kind of content

ancient hornet
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oh I remember that delivery service game

median wraith
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somehow at Steam is free to play

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in Epic cost 15€

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they gave it for free

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I think is just free on beta

carmine frigate
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i got civ6 free, so did a friend, another friend see us play it versus each other

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he also wants to buy it, but a week later, so not free, it cost 60 in epic and 12 in steam

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if it was my store i would be pissed AF 😛

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not to mention get some guarantee to begin with

median wraith
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Don't worry all is working as expected

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@carmine frigate actually let me do something for you

carmine frigate
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nice 😛

median wraith
carmine frigate
median wraith
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actually the other day were checking for something like that

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xd

carmine frigate
median wraith
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xd

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well that does zoom to the triangle

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Oh good news

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People that had the coronavirus 6 months ago

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is having it again due a mutation

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and worst

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the vaccine will be a nice fix it seems