game-jam-chat

[knotty adder]

؟

[storm temple]

i tried the game and it semi works sometimes smooth 60 other time it's 20 fps

[tulip viper]

20fps is when the monsters are spawning on top of one another

you have what card?

[storm temple]

a gtx 1650

but keep in mind it's a laptop gpu so it's more comparable to a gtx 1080 or 50

[tulip viper]

thats good

damn, compressed is only 250

[knotty adder]

I'm going to sleep later I will see you goodbye

There are a few days left until the end of 7

؟

[carmine kindle]

Almost halfway there

[tulip viper]

lol I NEED MORE TIME!

[storm temple]

so far I've finished the AI all I need are touch ups

[tulip viper]

got any coders in here

if I wanted to rotate a mesh, how would i do that?

cant use component, cause it rotates the entire BP

i need a transform or something node on begin play

I want that sucker to rotate

[brisk zealot]

the mesh ?

[tulip viper]

yeah

just that mesh

im sure i need to do something with delta

[brisk zealot]

have you tried putting the mesh in the rotation component ?

[tulip viper]

cant

rotation component rotates entire BP

no good 😛

[brisk zealot]

or maybe what you could do you make another BP for only that mesh and the rotation, than put a child component in the power core than put the BP for spinning the object

maybe that will work

[tulip viper]

i thought about that

😛

was trying to avoid nested BP

but might have to

time to get HACKY!

[brisk zealot]

good luck hacking 🙂

bruh post processing is like make up for games

[tulip viper]

coder friend helped out

just made a timeline 😛 problem solved

[storm temple]

nice

i hate how my AI wont go upstairs

[lime crane]

Alright, whats your guys status. I got more coding done, more UI artsy stuff and 90 percent of all the modelling. tomorrow I will texture everything. now the time where all the small things pile up.

[brisk zealot]

nice

[tulip viper]

@lime crane i need AI models hooked up

I need the AI to attack the "objects" to destory the zones

[brisk zealot]

im pretty much done the entire game put just polished stuff up now

[tulip viper]

then i need to link the end game UI, and the win game UI

balance....

and polish 😮

particles!!!

powerups

... FML 😛

[brisk zealot]

@tulip viper are you working solo ?

or team ?

[tulip viper]

nah

my coders are sleepy and I dont code

all 100% art 😛

[brisk zealot]

so you are team ?

[lime crane]

sorry man I use AI toolkit for my games from marketplace.

[tulip viper]

yeah, probably not a bad idea

[lime crane]

I dont have real AI in this jam game.

[tulip viper]

ours wont be too big

the boss fight will be the only MAJOR ui

[brisk zealot]

i make everything my own except MUSIC!!!

i hate making music lol

[lime crane]

good to hear sunnydev, I wish I was there but Im done 90 percent on all fronts.

[brisk zealot]

nice

[tulip viper]

yeah

i got one of those guys too 😛 so just art here 🙂

sound guy takes over tomorrow for allt he smexy sounds

anybody know if cascade works in 5.0?

[brisk zealot]

i think it works

[tulip viper]

if not.. i need to stop with this madness and learn niagra 😛 LMAO

good

cause F learning niagra right now

[brisk zealot]

man niagra is hard to learn but its so good to not to learn lol

[lime crane]

I cant even change parameters properly in Niagara

[tulip viper]

its not bad, they just changed EVERYTHING

so finding what I need is a god damn mission

they even renamed them....

so its like PROPERTY HUNT (should make that a game)

Anybody want to have their name in the game 😛

need filler text 😛

ahahah

[minor hemlock]

I really need to make a menu template for jams

Settings menus are such a drag

[maiden loom]

only settings we have are resolution and fullscreen mode 😄

last year was the same with optional swear filter

only spent a couple of hours on menus tbh

[tulip viper]

ah.. computer screen of sexyness 😛

[fleet finch]

wow! that looks nice

[tulip viper]

😉

[tulip viper]

Anybody know how to "focus" the window after you lose focus because of an ESC menu

it seems I have to do two extra clicks when i do it hte normal way

found it!

man, im a regular coder now lolol

[hollow maple]

Anybody worried about the final file size? 1 gb max zip size unless we use the butler tool?

I think I'm going to have to learn about that butler tool

[glass fossil]

Are you talking about a pause menu? Glad you found it but i think there's a background blur in special effect parts of widget blueprint

[glass fossil]

Yup i learned it 1 day before the jam, it's really easy to use, just paste 1 code in the terminal, i can link you the video i learned it from

[hollow maple]

Awesome! Thank you, that would be great! 😀

is there a max size with the butler, or with that can it be any size?

[glass fossil]

I think 30 GB's the upper limit

[hollow maple]

Whoo, I feel much better then. Will be hard for me to pass 30gb

[glass fossil]

Of course, no one here is making an 8 hour long game

[tepid edge]

I've had a unopened cable sitting on my desk since the previous game jam that I bought so I could test on a controller without unplugging my microphone and I finally opened it this game jam because I had still just been unplugging my mic any time I wanted to test on controller

[glass fossil]

Oooof, epic bruh moment

[tepid edge]

I'm just happy it's currently working with both control schemes. Which might sound like a weird thing to worry about, but my game input is... non-traditional

[hollow maple]

The theme is "running out of space", right? I couldn't find it written anywhere, just the big pic with the floppy disk, so assuming that's it. I haven't watched the reveal video yet

[tepid edge]

Look at the top of the discord window 😛

(But yes, that is the theme 🙂 )

[hollow maple]

Thanks! Just wanted to be sure before I get too far in 😀

ah! now i see it 🙂

[tepid edge]

I'll start worrying about the theme... Any day now

[wintry skiff]

added some flashlights that will trigger in darkzones

[glass fossil]

Looks like a fish from the mariana trench

[wintry skiff]

[glass fossil]

With some fine adjustment i did after just waking up now, it looks satisfactory. Made it smoother with player dashing towards the input directions, smoother hit reaction with rootmotion and that sweet sweet dash integration. With that i have all the basic non theme related mechanics in, gonna take a shower a move on to AI. Wish me luck guys🥲

[fleet finch]

That looks great! Did you make the character models?

[hollow maple]

Looks awesome! Great work!

[glass fossil]

The character models are from the adventure characters from permenantly free collection in unreal marketplace cuz i suck hardcore at hard, only thing i can probably use blender for is make some insects or grass or rocks.

[glass fossil]

Thanks!!

[tepid edge]

Please heap praise upon me for creating the most glorious of fishing minigames Or don't, I'm not your boss 🙂

All-in-all I feel pretty good with it so far. The fishing itself isn't super exciting but it does provide a sort of methodical steadiness to it, something that I feel can be relaxing once you grow accustomed to it. I feel like the exciting moment of a fishing minigame should be when you see what it is that you caught, and find out that it's the BIG RARE FISH ™️ with appropriate sparkles and sound effects on the "victory" screen. Obviously that's not there currently, but that's also not supposed to be a rare or exciting fish 😄

[glass fossil]

Tawny Gilscale........Imma call my friends that from next time onwards

[glass fossil]

Yeah, add some camera effetcs, some particles, make the text pop out faster and make the mechancis faster in general and it'll look pretty damn good

[tepid edge]

Yep, next task is to move all of those mechanics over to an actual level with an actual character holding an actual fishing rod and start tweaking everything to feel good. If I can get catching the Tawny Gillscale to feel good then I just need to make... at least like 3 more fish and I have a winner on my hands.

[glass fossil]

Yup! I'm actually more interested in seeing what fish names you're going to use now

[tepid edge]

I guess we'll find out eventually 😛

[tulip viper]

i have named the plants 😛

[glass fossil]

Bruh i packaged my game to check it's size and it came out to be 1.5GB.......**And i haven't even made a single level, or AI or the main them related mechanics💀

Butler is gonna save my A$$ i knew it

[hollow maple]

Yeah, I'm thinking somewhere between 5 and 10gb when finished. I was shocked that they said most games will come in under 1gb!

[fleet finch]

I'm having lots of fun with niagara

[glass fossil]

That's sooooo damnnn coooool, the game looks real fun to play, Awesome work dude!!!

[fleet finch]

Thank you!

[wintry skiff]

damn that's some cool moves

damn that has some interesting mechanics, the way the human plots rise and fall

[glass fossil]

#mixamo rocks!! Also some animations are borrowed from a friend, i can say he's passively helping me without being on my team

[wintry skiff]

[glass fossil]

I wish i could animate like that 🥲

[wintry skiff]

I spent all my time today so far fixing a water issue hope i can do some fun things again

I'm sure you could if you'd put the time in

but it would probably take quite some time

[glass fossil]

my friend said it took him 3 months for all those animations, and i just snatched his 3 months of work in just 60 seconds

[wintry skiff]

damn lol

[tulip viper]

okay

made plants move (very small)

you will never see it in game 😛

but they move... so you can be happy

made spline mesh for cables and such

and optimized the lighting so i dont get FPS hit 😛

i actually really like this

glass texture turned out nice too

just need to get some some more "polish" as in particles and will be done with most of the major stuff

super hyped to see how it looks in the end

sorry, will stop spaming for a few hours while I go to sleep lolol

[zinc garden]

Holy, that looks wonderful.
Low Poly art really does have something

[tulip viper]

🙂

in the right hands, any tool can be a powerful weapon

[zinc garden]

Throws with a muffin

[tepid edge]

Got ALS connected to my character mesh, with a placeholder fishing rod and a blended animation for holding it steady. With bonus PowerWalking at the end

[tulip viper]

oh nice

[cursive vale]

This actually looks like it'll be an absolute blast to play

Just finish the first major visual pass on my project. I'm pretty happy with how it's looking so far

[tepid edge]

Shiny

[wintry skiff]

neon

[zinc juniper]

Vibe im going for in terms of environment (not using any external assets, so keeping it simple)

[gentle beacon]

I didnt do much yesterday, added some ambient sounds but thats about it. But weekend's over now so back to full speed. Actually about to rework my whole stopwatch system. The current code i have in there sort of works but i'm finding it very difficult to use it for other functions so now seeing how i can streamline it to better work with other functions. Plus i used tick for quite a few things so also fixing that hahaha. You could say that this weekind was mostly prototyping, now it's thenext phase, well after the new timer is implemented. lol

[gentle beacon]

I used just a few anim sequences from als and created my own animbp with them. But usually when i test create characters for projects i use alsv2, i find its the best one for me to work with, not to complicated so easier to modify but imo alsv2 is the best one of them all.

Everybody's progress is looking awesome though

[glass fossil]

I don't know what to say about this, at times he is really smart, sneaks up on me from behind but there are times where he just sits at a place dumbstruck what to do and i couldn't care less cuz im tired of fine tuning him. So this'll be my shooter ai, melee ai is still left, also hit reaction for both and not to mention i have planned 4 bosses, don't know if i can do it or not

[gentle beacon]

That actually looked cool, the ai. I was imagining voices, him coming out screaming and shooting and then suddenly says, Shit, I'm empty and runs back for cover

[glass fossil]

Lmao, i dont know but i find him pretty cute, running around in the battlefield, i dont think it's a good thing that I find a soldier with a gun wanting to kill cute.

[gentle beacon]

He has character which is a bonus for you. :p

[wintry skiff]

Added some sound, flashlight and airbubble for underwater sections

[wintry skiff]

that's pretty sick

[rugged plaza]

There is a 0% chance I am gonna finish my game before deadline. Question is, how much can I get done before deadline? 🤔

[wintry skiff]

lol yes

We've just gotta make something playable with the time we have

[rugged plaza]

I have discovered I am not a game designer. I am a gameplay designer. That is all I like to do :(

[glass fossil]

We usually end up with about 40% of what we actually wished for in our game

[glass fossil]

Thanks

[rugged plaza]

I think I am gonna have to force myself to just finish the loop today and see what I can fill in the rest of the time.

Hafta stop playing and tweaking 😒

I never was interested in being on a team and have just figured out that is where I actually belong. On a team.

[wintry skiff]

a valuable lesson for the future

[hardy rune]

same

[glass fossil]

I think i made the AI too op, look how fast the health bar went down. I think it was a right decision to add the dash mechanism

[wintry skiff]

Yeah that's the thing about guns they're really strong

that's why spiderman limits it to burst fire you can dodge

in batman you have to account for it too

your dodge mechanic works well with it yeah

I edited a niagara asset i had to have some visual indication you use double jump or hover and I like it, it's not great but it's better than nothing

also considering the original asset was this I feel good about being able to accomplish such a big change

[glass fossil]

Yeah that looks good, but considering the jump height, i think the effect needs to be a little bit stronger

[wintry skiff]

hmm maybe you're right, maybe i'll try and increase the size in the settings thanks for the feedback

[placid osprey]

Does anybody know how to fix this error in unreal 4 DX12 is not supported on your system. Try running without the -dx12 or -d3d12 command line argument.

This happens when I open up the file in ue 4.26.2

My windows has been updated

[wintry skiff]

window tentacle? interesting

[zinc juniper]

Handpainted and baked AO on guns, will be making a custom car next

[wintry skiff]

lol nice

[minor hemlock]

172 mb packaged with no optimizations, (other than cook only map, removing prereq installer)

not sure if I feel determined enough to squeeze another 30mb out

[slim pawn]

Everyone's posting really cool stuff, so have a stupid bug video instead

[minor hemlock]

heh I see the submission forms have a new question

is this the new hiring pipeline? 😛 😛

[placid osprey]

Oh this is great because I’m looking into jobs in the video game industry

[rugged plaza]

Now I have to finish my game so I can wait to never be hired by Epic 🤣

[feral wraith]

anyone know how to fix this? "PackagingResults: Error: Unknown Error"

i was packaging my project

i also tried migrating content to the blank projects

[glass fossil]

Whenever i get these errors i just usually delete whatever's not used in my game, like i had this environment pack but i never used it till now so i got this error, and since this isn't a specific error, try deleting unused pieces of assets you have

[terse hemlock]

Huh interesting

[glass fossil]

I'm 17 and still in school, so i dont think it matters for me anyways🥲

[feral wraith]

Thanks. But no luck still can't build project

One more thing i noticed i can't even package ue4 starter tutorial projects.

[glass fossil]

I think you may need to switch UE version, maybe use the latest 4.27, or the one i'm using 4.25

[feral wraith]

thanks. I was able to fix it by just doing the good old restarting my pc. I think GPU drivers or windows messed up.

[glass fossil]

Yeah, my pc is also open from i think the past 2 days lol

[tulip viper]

Got aiming and blends for that in, just need to fix the aim offset for shooting now

make my own gun, and then make hte particle for the tracer + sounds

then we are in action

[lime crane]

okay nice, but you use 3d coat for all the texturing?

[proper vortex]

Anyone else far behind on where they want to be in the jam so I don't feel alone? ✋

[hearty ferry]

Me, though I was only able to start this weekend, so I missed a couple days at the start

[gentle beacon]

🤚 but catching up

[regal swallow]

I had to take the first two days to freshen up my knowledge on blueprints, so i technically started my game on Saturday

I think i'm in a good place, tho

[hearty ferry]

I just finished a smooth camera system, a tracking/on-rails kind of camera similar to the Lego games

Might not be as far as I'd hoped but I'm at least going for something polished

[still osprey]

damn, I still feel like I don't have anything

I forgot how to do so much stuff in blender lol

[slim pawn]

My brain is completely dying on level design but it's one of the last like 3 things I have to do

[mellow condor]

when launching their game in standalone, has anyone encountered the floor/roof of this houdini asset not baking?

its part of the game jam premade asset collection for houdini

what it should look like vs what it looks like at runtime

[carmine kindle]

I have no regrets spending two whole days on a single model.

[tepid edge]

I'm also something of a modeler myself

(Note: This is an actual 3D model that I actually made for this game-jam, and yes I know it is a lumpy potato)

[still osprey]

looks similar to my model that I've made for a game jam lmao

[tepid edge]

Nice 👍

[rugged plaza]

Got my attacks working 😄

[gentle beacon]

https://youtu.be/CdiyWgUOdZA day 4 progress.

[tulip viper]

@lime crane yep i use 3dcoat, Love hate relationship

@carmine kindle looks great! honestly

[carmine kindle]

What do you hate about 3dcoat? I find it to be one of the least annoying ones out of everything I've tried.

[tulip viper]

with the newest update i am getting a calculate AO problem

basic meshes wont calculate

and im getting some odd as truck shader crap

could be a mesh issues, but shouldnt be

cause i almost ALWAYS make my mesh clean

i dont know

just being a pain, taking me 50 min for a fucking texture that should be 5

lol

and now it worked

....

lol

FML

also, im randomly smelling birthday cake.... is that odd?

[gentle beacon]

Have you tried sleep?

[tulip viper]

nope

lol

sleep is for the weak 😛

[carmine kindle]

It's been a little weird for me with the very newest updates, but I used to run a much older version that was nearly perfect for me. It was before they made a huge change to how smart materials work, now you can't paint different masked textures onto the same layer and it blows. Have to constantly make new layers and merge them.

[gentle beacon]

weak is when you randomly smell birthday cake hahaha

[tulip viper]

lmao

i suppose so

[lime crane]

the shader looks so different to substance. I use maya lt for everything and substance for texture. cant complain much.

[tulip viper]

but im still doing gamejam... so 😉 tomato tomato

maya... material management, ew

so ew

[lime crane]

just assign phong and thats its, it needs to be triangulated. udims work fine as well.

[tulip viper]

i have not bought into their system, not a fan, i love 3dcoat too much 😛

[lime crane]

you dont need to use this system, its more for their own render.

but If you happy its okay.

I think you know more then me about this. lol

[gentle beacon]

I got the basic gameplay loop done today, spent alot longer on calculating winning conditions than i thought and was planning on doing some level dressing aswell but forcing myself to take a break now and thinking i should go sleep but gonna play a game to relax and maybe get going again. Not randomly smelling birthday cake yet so :p

[lime crane]

alright we closing in on some more jamming, so Amanda and Victor have somthing to play the coming weeks. lol

[rugged plaza]

Good grief! Don't ever accidentally turn off AI support plugin 😬 I almost gave myself a heart attack

OK game loop and Optimizations done. I have 49Mb to make it pretty 😍

[eager mica]

Hello, sorry for the stupid question, but how to package the game for this jam. I have read the rules, but I do not understand where to indicate my contact information, as well as where to indicate the resources used. Thank you for your answer))

[tulip viper]

winky glass 😛

i am making a new category of art

called, MOUSE PAINTED 😛

[glass fossil]

That's not a stupid question, actually i would like to know that too, from what i know youre supposed to write all your contact info and your teammates too, and give a document file of whatever assets you used

[tulip viper]

loll... FML

[glass fossil]

Looks like like doomguy's helmet

4 am here and im starting to die already, finally done with the melee AI too, just left with the boss AI, Isn't the best AI i can create but in this much time, i think that's enough. Gonna hit the sack now

[tulip viper]

nice man

looks so good

[glass fossil]

Thanks man, it should look good, i spent almost 5 hours non stop at it🥲

[tulip viper]

okay, done with the helmet, mouse only 😉 woot

[eager mica]

yes, but it does not say in what form this information should be provided and it confuses me

[tulip viper]

i feel like a champion

[eager mica]

Nice 👍

[lime crane]

how do you texture something that doesnt make any sense? haha

[zinc juniper]

Got the car textured & modeled. Picture together with the guns

Regular view

[lime crane]

textures are good actually.

[fleet finch]

I love that style! Textures look pretty cohesive too

[zinc juniper]

Thanks!

[rugged plaza]

@eager mica @glass fossil on itch.io game jam page is this submit button. When you click that you will see the info you need to fill in. I think you have to upload your project TO itch before you can submit

So be sure to get your itch account and game page set up first. Then submit it using the megajam page

[hearty ferry]

Still some small bugs with my AI, but otherwise finished with code and ready to spend my time on the art

[rugged plaza]

@hearty ferry I'm lagging myself. Finally just got my game loop and menus finished and the engine stripped down. Hopefully 2 1/2 days just for art and design

[tepid edge]

Making a game is hard apparently

[carmine kindle]

Go go, space power rangers

[tulip viper]

hehe

put your space man in my zone ;P we get sexyness

[tepid edge]

I have achieved swimming.

[graceful oriole]

im restarting from scratch and doing a whole new idea with a simpler version of the previous idea

im making smth more arcade-ish and faster paced

[tulip viper]

oh lawdy

2 days left, bold move cotton

😛

[brisk zealot]

OMG

[graceful oriole]

already have half the mechanics done, all visuals are done

just need a couple enemy types and a few maps

[brisk zealot]

ohh ok thank god

[graceful oriole]

took me 2h for all of it

its gonna look as low effort as possible

[tulip viper]

thats not scraping it all 😛

but yeah

you enjoy that, im busy making floor tiles 😛

so its less repetitive

and something to guide the player when all them lights are out 😛

[graceful oriole]

its mostly scrapping, im cutting from 4 guns to 1, from 5 tile types to 2, and from 5 pick ups to 1

and the style im using is going from ps1 ish to did someone say cubes

[carmine kindle]

I'm finding massive amounts of weird bugs doing animation stuff this jam. If I hit ctrl+z in the anim BP editor to undo a change I made to a vector, the mesh starts simulating physics for some reason and falls over until I restart it.

[fleet finch]

It took me waay too long to make distance field foam work, but it was worth it.

[tulip viper]

damn, compressed the file is 125....

can... I MAKE THE SMALL FILE SIZE 😛

LMAO

[graceful oriole]

got a basic enemy down, ill copy and paste it a couple times tomorow and make variants lol

[tulip viper]

EW!!!!

[minor hemlock]

(: I'm running into obscure editor bugs

I think I corrupted a blueprint with a construction script

good thing I used clean modular design so I can just create a new bluep.... oh I didn't?

[wintry skiff]

oof that's the worst, like literally the worst that could happen

[tulip viper]

no clue why it is donig it either

happens on enemy spawn

so... time for some hunting there

[wintry skiff]

so it turns out unreal5 projects come with a default tiled normal map why create a tiled floor when you can let the normal map do the work

[tulip viper]

FML

[wintry skiff]

huh that's weird, yeah goodluck man

[tulip viper]

😉 less art, more bug hunt

what the metric

it works in editor, why no worky in build

[lime crane]

Guys, whats your status? I textured only one object today, the landscape and its kinda impossible to export. baking takes forever in SP.

[tulip viper]

lol

i was killing it

then said "lets build"

now im getting some random blendspace error crash

no clue if it was because of the player or the monster

so i am now doing some troubleshooting 😛

game looks sexy tough

[lime crane]

Ue5 is not ready for production. so if it crashes you was warned.

[tulip viper]

😛

you are the best type of person, NOT

[lime crane]

lol did I mention you cant migrate backwards? lol

I didnt try UE5 so far.

[tulip viper]

i love it

shrugs

worse case I will take out the enemy's and we will have a space sim game lmao

its def with the blendspace though of the monster, so maybe we can fix that quick lololol

[glass fossil]

Ohhh yeah walking simulator lessgo

[tulip viper]

right? 😛

[lime crane]

I´m happy to try next year. but yeah its so complex stuff running in the background, if they say its not ready, I just obey.

yeah this day was a waste of time, nothing really made. I hope I get something done tomorrow.

[dawn lily]

that crash is because your blendspace is somehow being unassigned or you are using a blueprint that has it unassigned. I guess verifying that would possibly solve your problem

[tulip viper]

yep, we foudn the code problem

deprecated code, NOT LINKED, just stale, was crashing

removed it and walla. no crash

ty 😉

thanks ❤️

one last quesiton for the coder types, where is the compression option for build?

i removed it, cant find it again lol

[minor hemlock]

how hard is it looking to remove 30mb from packaged builds?

Cook Only Maps and compression already enabled

prereqs installer already removed

[tulip viper]

thoughts

background will have a bunch more stuff in it, just placeholder for now

[wintry skiff]

love the ui

[tulip viper]

❤️

[wintry skiff]

Man making assets takes long

Tried to make a modular thing for building some simple pipes but uh it took a chunk of time

[tulip viper]

lol yeah

i hate kitbashing, so annoying

but once you do it......

the sky is the limit 😛

i could make an entire new level in an hour, (doesnt mean it woudl be balanced)

and splines are a god sent 😛

[wintry skiff]

Oh yeah i bet, I've got nothing fancy like that, like models I made in blender to quickly put together different looking pipes

tbh the results wasn't amazing but it does fill up the place

[tulip viper]

ah, yeah, i replaced all my placeholder models today. Took about 5 hours so far

looks good though 😉

[wintry skiff]

nice

[tulip viper]

that looks like a silo

[wintry skiff]

Yeah you're in a giant tube or silo esque part of an facility

[tulip viper]

that is cool, sounds interesting

[wintry skiff]

and that one can connect to different parts

the silo thing works well for rising water

[tulip viper]

oh shit

i forgot UE5 had the water sim crap

going to be some cool games I hope

[wintry skiff]

I'm just using the cartoonwatershader asset I bought at some point

but yeah ue5 has water now too

which is cool

[tulip viper]

lol

i wish i had a fucking menu asset 😛 i hate making these every time

I really should just make a plugin I can pull in

i am sure we get 0 credit for menus

and it would save me hours of work ;P

[wintry skiff]

Lol yeah I bet i'm not looking forward to making menu's work

I'll maybe make a simple main menu with start and option to change res maybe

[tulip viper]

yeah, simple is the answer 😛

DONT DO IT!!!

DONE... escape and main menu finished, now back to art that matters

ALL ART MATTERS!

[tulip viper]

https://riuthamus.itch.io/darkship

newest version, stable 🙂

going to work on the tutorial level now 😛

[glass fossil]

Finally done with Enemy AI, gonna start with levels, by the way i can use modular packs for levels right? Cuz i can't make assets, atleast not within the current time🥲

[tulip viper]

you can use anything

just make sure you notify in the credits thing on submission

[glass fossil]

Yeah i know that, can i just like say that EVERY GODDAMN MODEL IN MY LEVEL IS A PRE MADE ASSET except some blueprints i make or do i have to list every single one out?

[tepid edge]

I've always grouped them together similarly to that "Environment Models - Pack X, Pack Y, Pack Z". Just make sure you're clear enough that there isn't ambiguity between what is yours and what isn't.

[glass fossil]

Thanks, cleared now

[tepid edge]

Thanks everyone for the earlier discussion about packaging I definitely didn't forget to do a test package of my project up to this point

Tonight is a big polishing pass to get everything I currently have implemented ready to ship. After that it's just content, content, content.

[glass fossil]

So does that mean you're done with all the mechancis?

[tepid edge]

I might add more if I have an excess of free time

But the core loop is done.

[glass fossil]

Damn thats awesome, im still left with my level specifec mechancis : ')

[tepid edge]

There's still a lot of stretch goals that I wanted to add, so I'm no where near my original vision, but I'm at least at the minimum viable product.

Also my game about fishing only has a single type of fish in it

[tulip viper]

time to make the tutorial level

[hardy rune]

Probably not a good function in real life

[wintry skiff]

My core loop still could use something

One extra mechanic for the player and maybe an enemy

oh wow i checked to see how much time we have left

and there's already 17 whole entries

[glass fossil]

By one fish are you referring to Tawny Gilscale?

[tepid edge]

That is the singular fish, yes.

[glass fossil]

Definitely

[eager mica]

I know, I am wondering how to provide the organizers with contact information

[tulip viper]

in form submission i think

[eager mica]

it does not say in what form to provide it

[tulip viper]

when you hit submit, i think its part of that process

not sure though 😦

[short grail]

hey guys i have a main menu from where you can open levels. It's working fine withing the editor but failing when i package the project. I am doing simple button -> open level by name. then it's failing in packaged product for some reason. I have no idea why

any suggestions

[stable kiln]

mayB you need to include the maps for packaging

try open with console

[short grail]

might be possible True . let me check

hell yeah i think that's the issue.

i renamed the level

and forgot to add it in package

thanks a lot 🙂 , I guess i am really sleep deprived now. My brain not even thinking properly lol

[eternal cove]

hello. we registered for the jam but can't find where to define who is in the team. Any Help?

[tepid edge]

Okay I know I said I wasn't adding more features tonight but I just created a DanceMove enum and I think this is really gonna tie the game together

[glass fossil]

I think you need to define it in the Epic megajam submition page, where you need the submit your final product

[eternal cove]

ah alright

ty

[gentle beacon]

Man this simple game is so complicated 😟

https://youtu.be/tt8FwzC6KQM do you guys think the music is ok?

[distant ibex]

Who's streaming all the play throughs this time?

[short grail]

hey any good idea to play a video before level starts ?

I want actual video to play not sequencer

[tulip viper]

when you make a tutorial level that needs more code than your game 😛

LMAO

[tepid edge]

I think there's a plugin for that @short grail lemme see if I can find it.

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/async-loading-screen?sessionInvalidated=true
It's meant as a loading screen, but I think it does exactly what you're asking.

[short grail]

actually yes. I have tutorial round in my game and there it's more efforts. walk here , show text and then do something

[short grail]

thanks

[tulip viper]

lol yeah

so annoying 😛

im making barracks rooms for the team 😛 LMAO

and red for Goss, cause he was cut short from helping out

(real life commitment)

nd each room will have a picture of them on the computer

[short grail]

lol so much work

[tulip viper]

indeed

[short grail]

man i am exhausted. day time job and after job i work on my game

[tulip viper]

yeah, that is how my coders are

im on vaca

[short grail]

aah

[tulip viper]

so... nothing but 24/7 art

wife not so happy 😉

but its only for 7 days

she gets the other 349

[short grail]

haha of course . just tell her it's for big machine

saving money long term lol

[tulip viper]

lol, god willing

[glass fossil]

It's pretty easy, Import your video, make a new media reference, add your video to this media.
Then open level blueprint, make a media variable, set it to default media player(the one where you put your video in), then on event begin play, patch the media variable to "Open source" node, then select the video as media reference. Should work i guess

[tulip viper]

for what?

[glass fossil]

playing a video before a level starts

[short grail]

thanks

[glass fossil]

yeah after that you can just plug in the open level node after open source

[short grail]

got it 👍 . what I had thought was to make a widget with media. When you play it opens the level that only has that widget once video finishes it opens actual level

but seems inefficient

i will try your approach

[glass fossil]

Initially i thought that too, but you can try that if for some reason that method doesn't work

[short grail]

🙂

[stuck rampart]

@worn hamlet Hi Skye, can you have a look at my question from the jam forums page?

My team is waiting for an answer

(please ping on reply btw ❤️ )

[median hearth]

Hi there! I actually joined the MegaJam too, we're the team PizzaCallerStudios and it's our first MegaJam. Hehe, we could use some help

[stuck rampart]

@worn hamlet poke

[worn hamlet]

@stuck rampart I responded to your forum post 🙂

[stuck rampart]

Thanks Skye, Im not sure it actually answers the question entirely though.

Does it mean that its fine to replace a member as long as he is aware that he wont be able to join a new team?

[median hearth]

Hi @worn hamlet ! Could I message/ PM you my questions here on Discord or should I post my questions in the forums (which I kinda don't know where)

[stuck rampart]

This is the forum https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/2021-epic-megajam-registration-is-now-open/244059/73

[median hearth]

Super appreciate this! Thank you! I'll ask there

[radiant trellis]

does anyone know of a good way to put a simple leader board into my jam game

[carmine kindle]

I've used this before, was pretty simple to set up http://epicleaderboard.com/

[radiant trellis]

okay, thank you

[short grail]

hello should i include prerequisites installer in my packaged game submission ?

do you guys include that ?

[radiant trellis]

sorry to bother you again is there any other ones you know off as that one dosent support 4.26

[carmine kindle]

Nope, sorry, that's the only one I know of.

[stable kiln]

local leaderboard can be stored in a save file

ive done leaderboard with firebase, its fairly easy but might take a big chunk of ur time if you never used it dont have an account

or that has the source and you can compile for 4.26 urself

[analog walrus]

You should be fine to leave it out since any computer they use for playing the entries will likely already have them.

[tulip viper]

worst nightmare came true

no cascada in UE5

OOF!!!

looks like im spending he day learning Niagra

lol nah

🙂

way more fun to be surprised by the changes 😛

[gentle beacon]

I been stressing like mad. I forgot i set my goal end to be tomorrow and the whole day been thinking its the end tomorrow and just remembered now its only my goal end.

[maiden loom]

13% of valid entries are flappy bird clones 😄

though I guess they don't count as valid themselves, since they're just tappy chicken with different graphics?

[stable kiln]

so far no1 copied the theme to use as the name of the game tho 😛

[storm temple]

2 days left

[hardy rune]

finally

finally finished the game loop

time to model

[short grail]

i think there are some games that used them. Also I thought many will make battle royale or basic version of it lol . but none so far. Maybe that's way too much work for 1 week jam

[stable kiln]

nah there is often a large % that would have *RUNNING OUT OF SPACE as the name of the game

so than u have 10 games with the same name

[slate roost]

No store for me? where are my games? I

[slate roost]

lol im serious, wth?

[carmine kindle]

It knows you need to focus on the jam and not waste time with gaming

Also there might be a thing in the settings that hides games

https://i.gyazo.com/d73564b753b4ee217a07363eae0394c0.png

[tulip viper]

ANybody know of any collision issues with UE5 and not using simple collisions?

im getting some SUPER odd things

[stable kiln]

isnt all collision chaos?

I used UE5 for metasounds a few times for fun and just did some tests

i tried package some default template out of the box and it failed so gunna w8 a bit with UE5

[tulip viper]

😛

[glass fossil]

I have a question for veteren jammer who have participated in jams multiple times
Can we update our games after submitting to itch.io, like say that just for safety reasons i submited my game tomorrow, and made some mchanics after that and updated the game 1 hour before the jam, can i do that?

Like fixing bugs and stuff

[fading widget]

yes as long as it is before the deadline

[glass fossil]

using butler command line right?

thanks

[fading widget]

never used butler

[glass fossil]

oh, nvm

[tulip viper]

Wasn't ue5

Was a vector initial value of 0 0 0

Damn that was hard to find

Silliness

@glass fossil yes

That is why ibam on v5

Lolol last mega jam I had this fucking amazing project. We added a photomode 1hr before submitting

Ended up causing compile issues... missed deadline. Couldn't upload the reverted cause it would have taken too long

So I update the project to itch hourly

After a good build

Butler is great for that. And Jenkins

[tulip viper]

nice

😛 its not too bad

[carmine kindle]

Can't have a spooky space game without some screaming spacemen. https://i.gyazo.com/d87f6bb9981dc281582dc4d7e97bf7b7.gif

[tulip viper]

Lol nice

[chilly storm]

Hello guys, newbie question here. Do i have to submit my game for free on itch io? Can I give a small price so it doesn’t spread widely to the public?

[carmine kindle]

You have to make it free for the jam

You can do anything you want with it after the jam period though. Take it down, put a price on it or whatever.

[chilly storm]

So you mean the period of the submit time, or winner announcement time?

I confuse because there is no rules about this

[carmine kindle]

The jam will be ongoing until they announce the winners. So until then. Once you submit the game to the jam, and the deadline hits, you won't be able to make any changes to it. Unless you completely withdraw from it and disqualify yourself from the jam.

[hardy rune]

team or solo?

[carmine kindle]

I'm in a team.

[minor hemlock]

and we're up! now to coerceask nicely for form answers from the rest of the team so we can finally have an initial submission

https://partlyatomic.itch.io/seekers

[tulip viper]

now time to hand paint this texture, with a mouse....

FML 😛

[rugged plaza]

Raise your hand if your blueprints are starting to look a bit spaghetti 🙋

It was pretty until I discovered a game breaking bug about 4am

[minor hemlock]

hehe mine has a lot of collision weirdness

and lots of workarounds for that

[rugged plaza]

Same I am using like 10 custom channels

[tepid edge]

Whenever I have something kinematic that gets near collision I just have the game yeet it in the opposite direction because otherwise my fish were escaping the pond and flying into the sky.

[rugged plaza]

That was where the bug was. I forgot if an overlap stays overlapped it won't create a new overlap or something

Game has rising lava and you could make it beneath the lava if you timed your death just right

So the respawn locations had to be made to notify the player in the event lava reached the respawn.

[tulip viper]

classic "contractor" look

lmao

[rugged plaza]

Orange vest

[tulip viper]

i meant, military contractor

but yeah

[rugged plaza]

Oh yeah

Needs a scruffy beard 🤣. Looks nice seriously though

I have all of about maybe 8 hours working time I can squeeze in to make a whole game level in 2D now

[tulip viper]

yeah, coder just finished up with tutorial stuff, now i get to finisht he level

get this texture done

fix animations,t hen make the levels look SEXY

😛

i feel the rush

lots of crunch

i did just finish the genewrator though

so... time to get that working and then get the boss to fight you :p

the funny part, all this art and its only worth 5 points

no sound 😛 or shit gameplay and no joy hehe

[tropic wing]

Holy shit the crunch is real fellas. But it's coming together. Need to get gameplay finished by end of wednesday so I can spend some time on sound and polishing ui.

[storm temple]

looks dope cant wait for release

[tropic wing]

Here's hoping!

Also I say I, but it's a team effort. Lots of fun.

[brisk zealot]

https://sunnydevyt.itch.io/incoming-carrots my game have officially released play it here 🙂

[rugged plaza]

Nice

Dang someone uploaded a 400Mb floppy bird 😳

[brisk zealot]

thx

[brisk zealot]

lol

[rugged plaza]

@minor hemlock can you post a video on you guys game

[brisk zealot]

@rugged plaza are you joining megajam ?

[rugged plaza]

@brisk zealot I am. I am working on a 2D underground platform game with rising lava

[brisk zealot]

ohh very nice

btw gtg breakfast bye

[rugged plaza]

Thx. See ya later

[minor hemlock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xS0Gt4UigY there's the raw footage, we haven't made a gameplay trailer yet

[rugged plaza]

That looks awesome!

Y'all always make my games look completely dull and ordinary. I am joining a team next jam lol

[minor hemlock]

teams are the best

[tepid edge]

Yes, teams are great. Everyone should join teams Let me be the last standing solo dev

[minor hemlock]

(and worst)

[brisk zealot]

i prefer solo tbh

[wintry skiff]

Solo in a way easier because you get full control

In a team you have to have trust and generally have clearly defined roles for smooth progress

But it does sound nice to work in a team

Maybe one day I'll join one

[minor hemlock]

full control and full responsibility..

it was refreshing to find an artist that arts as well as I code 🙂

since I art about as well as she codes D:

it does get to be a pain when all you want to do is code and they're all "INTEGRATE MY ASSETS PLEASE" 🥲

[wintry skiff]

That's when you get another team member doing level design for integration

But full responsibility is If I create a shitty thing it'll be all on me I guess

[lime crane]

okay boys, lets do some more jamming

[brisk zealot]

true

[wintry skiff]

I need some general gameplay core refinement and level design today

Also will have to work on a simple tutorial I guess

[tepid edge]

Maybe a weird question since I'm not looking for the "Game-Jam Correct" answer, but: I currently have a pretty decent game made since the start of the jam but it doesn't really have anything to do with the theme. Should I take the next two days to hastily incorporate the theme and make it a better jam entry or should I just keep making it a better game? For context: I'm not really trying to win anything and am mostly using this as an excuse to make something I wanted to make

[rugged plaza]

@minor hemlock that is exactly what I want. I just wanna write game code and let someone else pretty up the set

[minor hemlock]

me too, but I usually end up in a primary project manager role 😄

[minor hemlock]

why not both?

[tepid edge]

Because I only have two days 😛

[minor hemlock]

oh you're choosing between making it a better but unrelated game vs making it a related but okay game?

I initially read it as you wanting to continue the project outside the jam 🙂

[tepid edge]

Yep 😛 Hastily incorporating the theme probably wouldn't make it more fun, it would just make it less confusing when the judges play it 😄

[minor hemlock]

have you seen the scoring metric?

[tepid edge]

"Gee, this fishing game is pretty swell, but I wonder when we'll start running out of space"

[minor hemlock]

running out of space in the fish cooler 😄

[cursive vale]

@tepid edge It's obviously your call, but I'd say fork it. Make a copy and challenge yourself to integrate the theme for your submission, but keep it out of the game long term if it doesn't feel good

[tepid edge]

That would be the hasty incorporation more or less 😛

Ultimately I don't really know what I want to do. It's tempting to just spend the next two days making new types of fish, but since I'm using the jam for motivation it feels like that kind of slips away when I'm not really doing the jam.

[cursive vale]

Depending on how your level is set up you could also shrink the pond over time. Add a little bit of pressure

[minor hemlock]

just keep lowering the water level 👀

[tepid edge]

Maybe I'll make a trophy section where you can store your favorite catches, and there'll be a little otter next to it and when you're running out of spots to store trophies he'll comment "Looks like you're running out of space for all those fish", and it'll play a cheap buh-dum-psshhhh sound effect I downloaded off the internet.

And the otter's line will be fully voice acted and it'll be kind of weird and out of place because the rest of the game won't have any dialogue or spoken words.

Unrelated to that question, but wow this asset pack is really nice.

The light passthrough on the leaves is a bit overkill, but it kinda works in a heavily stylized way.

[tulip viper]

@tepid edge cast a gradiant to world space

and mask that at the end

so the bottom doesnt have that muc glow

that way the foliage shader doesnt effect the bottom portions

[tepid edge]

It actually has some parameters that I just tweaked to mitigate it, upping the opacity, dropping the subsurface and specular a bit.

[tulip viper]

kk well good luck, looks great so far

[tepid edge]

I mean, your suggestion definitely sounds like something I'd want to do, but Materials aren't my strong suit and the asset base materials are a bit beyond my comprehension to go changing willy-nilly 😄

After Tweaks

[tulip viper]

not bad

and i understand

[tulip viper]

finally

got the boss animations in

just need to make him look sexy

[fleet finch]

Oh my, that looks sick!

[tulip viper]

im pretty happy with it, for sure

just needs land particles

and then, some spitting 😛

and roaring

and.... something else

[fleet finch]

camera shake

[tulip viper]

OH GOD

YES

i forgot how to do that, but yes

[wintry skiff]

niiice

camera shake is pretty quick to implement from what i remember

[fleet finch]

black holes + meteors = interesting new level mechanics

• some camera shake 😉

[wintry skiff]

seeing get sucked in is dope

[tepid edge]

🎵 Woo-wah-woo wah-waaahhh! 🎵

[tepid edge]

If I can meet my current Fish Production goal my game will have a total of... 800 different species of fish

Obviously I'm going for Quantity not Quality here

[wintry skiff]

[fleet finch]

lol. how? are you generating them proceduraly (100 meshes, 800 random textures)?

[tepid edge]

Mesh x Color Set x Texture Mask x Particles

[fleet finch]

cool! I can't wait to see it

[fleet finch]

ah, that's pretty interesting. Could be a cool online thing where people have leader boards for catching rare fish

or species speed runs lol

[tepid edge]

It's kind of silly because I know I'm technically creating things that absolutely no one will see in the context of the GameJam.

Even if a bunch of people play my entry they're not going to spend literal hours playing it, and all of the variables will be weighted so getting some of the particle effects on some fish might just never happen

[fleet finch]

Yeah, that's what I've been worrying about. I'm making loads of levels and features all for it to fall away into a dark corner of the internet.

[tepid edge]

The jam game I'm most proud of was... conceptually flawed, so even though I know it's good (in a certain context), I don't think anyone's ever actually successfully played it. Since the whole theme was exploration and discovery, but I'm 90% sure that people just thought it was empty and stopped playing fairly quickly.

Pretty sure people just found the first 2 or 3 things the game hand feeds you, and never found any of the rest of the stuff, even though using the first things to find the later things was the point 😛

Probably needed a "boss" that could be beaten so as to provide a clear goal to work towards without players losing direction 🤷‍♂️

Which is all to say: Make jam games for you, not for them

[fleet finch]

Agreed, I have to keep reminding myself of that between the stressing out and 4am nights

[cursive vale]

Same. Not only has this been my first Jam, it's my first actual game. Keep stepping back from the crunch to remind myself that just getting what I've got done is a huge personal feat

[fleet finch]

it absolutely is! best of luck

[median hearth]

Ohhh! I have a question (as a beginner ot the MegaJam), how do you know if your country is eligible or illegible to participate for the MegaJam prizes?

I heard for some reason that Italy wasn't counted (welp) and I'm not sure about the other countries (or how to know).

[fallen smelt]

Hello everyone! Hope the jam is going well! Just submitted my project and I need some help... I can't record video on my laptop at anything other than absolute potato quality. If someone with better hardware than mine could help me record some footage of my game that I can cut together into a trailer. I don't want to spam this chat with my game link so please DM me if you want to help!

@median hearth It will depend on the laws of your country/state so you might need to check with a local authority to be sure.

[median hearth]

Thank you @fallen smelt , well I'm from the Philippines, so I don't think we even have laws (so, yay? I'm in [I think] )

[oak barn]

Does anyone know if we should list game sounds that we modified from a library in a submission?

[lime crane]

okay guys, I thought my game will look ugly but after messing around with post effect and lighting it looks amazing now, but yeah nothing makes any sense. I failed on merging gameplay with the world building, I kinda running out of time too. lol

[tepid edge]

@oak barn It's always better to err on the side of caution and since you're still making use of assets that you did not originally make I would declare them as well as explain what changes you made to them.

@lime crane you're supposed to be running out of space not time

[wintry skiff]

man even doing this simple vending machine took forever lol I really need to hurry up and do some actual level design

might tweak the glass hmm

and shit i totally forgot buttons

[stoic sedge]

You want buttons? We have some

[wintry skiff]

Oh thanks dude I appreciate but I already did it the lazy ways by moving some cubes around

It doesn't look horrible in gameplay

[stoic sedge]

It looks pretty

[wintry skiff]

Thank you 😄 yeah I need some stuff to fill up the world and who doesn't love vending machines

[stoic sedge]

I'm split between totally stressed out and chill states. They actually flip every few hours lol

[wintry skiff]

Same here tbh lol

[stoic sedge]

Everything's approx on schedule, but 6 hours ago didn't seem that way at all

[wintry skiff]

I can relate to that last part

[stoic sedge]

Jams make you realize how long and how short a week is at the same time :D

[tulip viper]

any coder types able to help me

real quick

im not a coder.. so this is killing me lol

this is making my mesh drop down FOREVER

i need some way to stop it after distance reached

or... if it gets into another trigger, dont care how

just need a method to control its stop

[wintry skiff]

definitely lol

[stoic sedge]

Where do you set this boolean to false?

[tulip viper]

the coder didnt

which is the question

where/how do i set it to falst

the coder didnt

which is the question

the coder didnt

which is the question

the coder didnt

which is the question

[stoic sedge]

When you need mesh to stop

When you need mesh to stop

[tulip viper]

i get that

i didnt code this

the coder did

and didnt put in a false statement

[fleet finch]

it's blurry but you should be able to do: elevator cube -> get world location -> greater than. and set the b of greater than to the floor height and plug that into the if

[tulip viper]

i need to make it false

with an event

[fleet finch]

that's the quick and dirty way without an overlap trigger

[tulip viper]

@fleet finch if you click on the open original its HUGE

lol

[fleet finch]

ah

[tulip viper]

so i get a world location

and then just hard code that value

[fleet finch]

yeah

[tulip viper]

where do i put that

im not a coder

[fleet finch]

1. drag from elevator cube and type get world location

[tulip viper]

at all

😛

[wintry skiff]

alternatively just try this for when it touches the floor possible

[tulip viper]

okay

[wintry skiff]

i'm not a 100% it' ll work but touching the floor should do it

since it's just a temporary one time event right?

if not definitely don't do it like this

[tulip viper]

well the elevator should stop at the bottom

[fleet finch]

2. drag from get world location and type break vector

[tulip viper]

so the issue is

[fleet finch]

2. drag from get world location and type break vector

[tulip viper]

right now when i walk in

there is a trigger that is makingasdfasd

[fleet finch]

2. drag out of get world location and type break

[wintry skiff]

what ymerej said would be a good way to do it

[tulip viper]

can one of you go into video for 2 sec with me

discord is erroring out on type

turck i cant stream in any channel

lol

[wintry skiff]

just copy the nodes and connect them first, if the nodes don't show up you can disable context sensitive temporarily

[tulip viper]

am i not cool enough to stream...

[tepid edge]

Eugh, I have a dynamic material and the vector parameters are all updating as I'd expect, but none of my texture parameters are changing

[tulip viper]

the issue is not that, the issue is knowing where to put them

i can find them well enough

bah, this is a waste of my time, ill have them unfuck this later or when i get more time

i ahve too many art things

thanks anyway gents

[wintry skiff]

gl

[fleet finch]

In case you still want to fix it on your own here's a picture. the orange is what you need to add

[tulip viper]

i fucking

love you

see i knew i needed an and

but i didnt konw where to put it

thank you ❤️

[fleet finch]

You're welcome 🙂

[tulip viper]

and i can make that a parameter maybe?

so i can play with the value in editor?

with the eyeball for exposed variable

[fleet finch]

yeah

yeah

yeah

yeah

chat is broken rn

[cursive vale]

Niagra is scary, but I felt like the city desperately needed some traffic. The results aren't terrible 🙂

[wintry skiff]

niice

it'll definitely help the city feel more alive

[tepid edge]

Fishy Variants!

Only took like two hours to find out that UE4 kept changing the colorspace of my textures and thus was throwing a fit when it tried to set the "wrong" texture type to the material. You'd kind of think there would be an editor warning for that

[tulip viper]

moust hand painted!! for the win

[stoic sedge]

The art style is so great! It's beautiful

[tulip viper]

i love it too

he did a good job

[cursive vale]

Thank you both 😄

[ancient delta]

@tulip viper cool monster anim

[tulip viper]

@ancient delta thanks 🙂

[hollow maple]

Great work! That's awesome!

[tulip viper]

there, in game and ready to roll

[hollow maple]

Your work looks amazing for your first ever game! Great job!

[hollow maple]

Hi Aministo! Here is a link to the official rules. You were right about Italy. There are several others too, but I don't see Philippines listed, so I think you are good! Good luck! 🙂 https://epicgames.ent.box.com/s/8t0dk2lypiaf4xz2z1w7xocjyo3vp4x2

Wow, can't believe there is just a day and a half left. I've barely started. Planning for an all day cram session tomorrow. Just want to finish something that works and is fun, since it's my first jam. Good luck everyone!

[keen moon]

Can someone please tell me how we use UV to texture? I've UV unwrapped my model but how can I apply texture to it? Is it possible in Houdini?

[tulip viper]

they really add to the feel

specially when the main lighting goes out lol

and here is a before, so when i do the after you can see how much work went into this damn texture lol

this is a before of the monster

[tulip viper]

ah yes... much better

now to get the roughness looking good 😛

[pale eagle]

Is submitting on the itch page the only requirement nowadays? Been awhile since I've done a jam

[tulip viper]

ANybody know how i would get a mesh to move forward on a spline?

[tepid edge]

I am getting way faster at making new fish.

That was roughly 20 minutes

[pale eagle]

Grab current postition + some delta and find the closest position along the spline and lerp there, I'd guess

[tulip viper]

woot

ill try it

@tepid edge looks cool

[pale eagle]

Could probably just do a setposition + sweep with a small enough delta

[pale eagle]

Fish seem like a solid option for kitbashing pieces.

[tepid edge]

Yep, a lot of how I sped up was re-using fins.

Then texturing is a breeze too since I'm doing it all procedurally and baking the results out as masks which can then be colored at realtime

[pale eagle]

I cheated at texturing like crazy this jam. World-aligned textures on so many things

Wouldn't work on your fish, though. Worldaligned stuff looks really, really weird on moving assets

[tepid edge]

I'll just make the fish stay still and move the entire level around them

Also I may be getting a bit sillier with my variant designs

[tulip viper]

can somebody download the file and see if it works (dont need to play)

https://riuthamus.itch.io/darkship

make sure to get the 90mb one

[wintry skiff]

hmm sure

[tulip viper]

just need to see if it works on another machine

im being OVERLY cautious 😛

[wintry skiff]

im running a 1070 with a i5 and it works for me, tutorial didn't

[tulip viper]

thanks

😉

you are a true hero

i feel so mcuh better now

[wintry skiff]

it also opened my vr program automatically but that's common

np

looks great so far, i'd increase the projectile speed though

I like that they bleed

[tulip viper]

yeah, that is all placeholder

im doing 5hrs of particles soon

just finishing tutorial level

[wintry skiff]

nice nice

[wintry skiff]

pov: you don't know how to design good levels 😩

[tulip viper]

lol

looks cool

[wintry skiff]

Thanks

Figured time is running out and i should work on level stuff

for some reason the shadows are wonky without lumen

guess i fucked up the uv's in blender somehow idk

thankfully lumen saves the day

no more weird stripes

[gentle beacon]

https://youtu.be/JlEg7wYPS6c day 5 progress and a bit of day 6 lol

[wintry skiff]

ohh nice, the solar panels remind me of that solar farm in the desert. May may for a fun map

like this

[gentle beacon]

I spent ages trying to figure out how to add a stadium and when i saw the panels i thought hey, why not. :p

[wintry skiff]

a stadium would be cool, like the olympics but yeah I imagine running circles is quite difficult vs a straight line

[tulip viper]

damn that looks cool

im working on the boss zone

[gentle beacon]

If it was a two week jam i would have also add an ebnurance oval track. Then i would used a spline for the ai. ATM i'm using a simple ai move to and tbh i actually dont know why its working hahahaha

[tulip viper]

making it look EPIC

[wintry skiff]

"and tbh i actually dont know why its working" relatable tbh, had that multiple times with my water haha

ah looking good

I see the same drop spot for the boss

but now you got an actual enviroment

[tulip viper]

😛 yep

[gentle beacon]

Today i'm working on the ui. Yours is looking good and it fits in nice with everything aswell.

[tulip viper]

yeah, i need to fix it

i have 5hrs of particle work

lol.. that i am avoiding

im makign new models to avoid it 😛

SO MUCH AVOIDANCE 😛 but i need to do it

[wintry skiff]

I tried to avoid an ui so I just gave players instant death

I did have to add a crosshair and oxygen bar

couldn't be avoided

and i quite like the look of deadspace esque ui that's integrated in your model

[zinc juniper]

Starting to feel the additional pressure now

I should just do this with a team next time

[gentle beacon]

I feel the same. I wish i'd also had a team. Would probably be fine-tuning everything now instead of recording progress vids. hahaha

[zinc juniper]

This is where I'm at right now. Need to implement world based gameplay elements & content now that fit the theme

Already got some ideas

[gentle beacon]

That both looks awesome and fun.

[zinc juniper]

Thanks!

Having it all fit the theme well is kind of the biggest hurdle atm

[gentle beacon]

Does the size of the vehicle influence the mechanics?

If not you could create a mechanic where the vehicle grows in size and you have to do stuff to shrink it back to get around.

[zinc juniper]

Hmm yeah that idea has crossed my mind before

Or growing the gun for example

more power, more consequences

[gentle beacon]

Or parts of the ground start dissolving/dissappearing. But then that would create a whole new problem. If where the vehicle has been becomes nontraversable then the player has to choose carefully where to drive, which would mean like hours and hours of playtesting hahhaa]

[zinc juniper]

Yeah I'll be experimenting with some things

will have to keep it simple indeed

[wintry skiff]

haha love the idea

[tulip viper]

confused...

this is the lighting i have in editor

this is the lighting in game....

why is it all botchy

blotchy**

is there some setting I am missing

[tepid edge]

Welp I've been trying to get the fishing rods to have physics like the Advanced Vehicle Sample's antenna and I just do not understand physics components.

[stoic sedge]

lol no windows for android then i guess

[zinc juniper]

Just call the folder Windowz, easy fix

[tulip viper]

i have to be doing something wrong

fucking 65mb....

[stoic sedge]

Found better version online - HolesInTheWalls. Whitelisted the folder, though

[tulip viper]

how is that even possible

i have been adding to the game like mad

how... did the file size go down

dear god, im super nervous now 😛

[zinc juniper]

Well, if it runs? then its fine? right?

[tulip viper]

it does

lighting is...

see how... jittery that is