general-modding

[meager valve]

I understand that her right foot is resting on its heel but it kinda looks awkward with that angle

It points directly at the viewer

[arctic radish]

it's a tad hard to get the perspective to not look jank when the knees are together, so the natural foot position would flow better if it rolled a bit towards the viewer.
this is the ref I made, you can see what I'm talking about

discord really doesn't like me sending both legs, does it?

but this is the angle of the leg

[azure flume]

that style of wall paint is only used in like offices and schools and hallways and stuff, not in actual living spaces

[meager valve]

If it's Eastern Europe it's not living space

[azure flume]

need some extra ugly looking wallpaper instead

as shown in your own reference images!

[sonic cloud]

For some reason HL2 uses these textures, even though IRL houses usually have flower motifs. Though I can try to add my dear comm block walls as custom textures

[azure flume]

Hell yeah, flowers!

[arctic radish]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/650903709194256394/1039661153850236949/cut_0_1.gif

[untold niche]

Sounds fucking awesome

pad chords instantly reminded me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o03pT_foYE

[arctic radish]

I actually know what samples they used for that pad

it's from a Free sample pack that's been floating around on the internet for ages

[untold niche]

Interesting

[arctic radish]

well 90% of the time it's free, some people like to add their own samples to the pack and put a price on the entire thing, which is p scummy

[untold niche]

lmfao

You know what it's called? I always liked that sound

[arctic radish]

The pack I got was from a friend who is a WAY more advanced sound designer both irl and digitally let me ask real quick

because I think the one he game me was one that had some of his samples for me to fuck around with as well

"I got it from a site in like 2008..."

That's what my friend irl on my phone just said

God

[untold niche]

Damn

I was a little babby back then

[arctic radish]

however I can DM you the sample pack if you want because he just said he's fine if you (me) wants to lend the samples to other composers that are interested

and are fine with other composers using his one off samples

[untold niche]

Sure

[real shadow]

how i’m doing atm

[fast vault]

Just ignore it. If a user complains about bugs, they're just not appreciating the artistic integrity enough

[glossy hazel]

it just works, as they say

[azure flume]

Not even 10000 errors? this is fine

[merry lotus]

idea: a challenge where you have to make a game and if you get so much as one error you have to restart the whole thing from scratch

[azure flume]

Well, you just use tools that have no error reporting

Do you really need more excuses to never finish a game?

[merry lotus]

yes

[real shadow]

it unfortunately did not

i got it all fixed up though, now im just struggling through adding these files to a soundfront

[fast vault]

Unity Dev - Nuzlocke Challenge

[cloud bloom]

lmao

[merry lotus]

what if there was a new blood game jam

it's just a game jam but hosted by new blood

[severe fulcrum]

Based on the nb games?

[merry lotus]

no

just your own creations that fit a certain theme

the theme could be new blood themed

idk

[severe fulcrum]

ohh just hosted by nb

[merry lotus]

just an idea

[cloud bloom]

would be fun

I'd sign up

[pure jackal]

Bnu game

[brisk merlin]

challange could be something like only 64*64 res

or exclusively using objective C

[fast vault]

Dave Oshry creates a 3d model and your game has to include it in some main gameplay component

[arctic radish]

3 models, one week, glhf

[real shadow]

just make among us

err i guess unfortunate spacemen, huh

[rustic holly]

pushing source engine to the extreme

Used my Sourcify tool to port Megascans assets into Source.

Basically porting PBR materials into Source-ready mats

[real shadow]

holy hell that’s source?

[rustic holly]

baking down the textures into usable and good looking textures for Source

[rustic holly]

yes hehehe

I've learned a thing or two on how to bend the engine to my will

this is stock csgo branch

[real shadow]

that looks like bo3 engine or hell an unreal engine

absolutely absurd, you’re a wizard

[rustic holly]

yeah I've been aiming for BO3 quality in Source for a while

my last project got close

[real shadow]

i think you surpassed it already

i did manage to take a look at those, absolutely insane

[rustic holly]

thanks mate

this desert scene I threw together (porting the scans and all) in about half a day. In comparison, Cascade took 15 months and I wasn't utilizing scans that much lol

I was skeptical to using scans and licensed assets, but now I've got my tool, it makes it way faster to port licensed content

Handy tool

Obviously not everything can be scanned, but for stuff like these nature assets- it's super handy

As a test these assets are just using megascans, but theoretically it could work for really any PBR asset

It can get into Source Engine fast and I'm aiming for the tool eventually to require 0 hand tweaking.

Some tests with assets I made by hand in Substance Designer

I'm trying my best to mimic PBR shading in Source and it's getting kinda close

Some really swanky results. :p

[earnest lily]

got DAM

Ping on because this is really nice

I know some really smart people were wrestling with source's rendering to enable proper PBR support

[rustic holly]

it's not really pbr tbh. it's just making the stock shader less shite and making the porting process simple and determinisitc

ty tho

Right now I have two template VMTs- one that uses three texture maps, and one that uses two

With both of them you can port pretty much any PBR asset to something that vaguely resembles pbr, but it's just a lot of clever fakery

[real shadow]

damn i can’t get over this

[rustic holly]

Lol haha ty

[arctic radish]

the quality is amazing for source, I can appreciate that
However (for me) Realism in games has worn off, so I don't know what else to really say other than GG on completely outdoing Valve at their own engine

[real shadow]

i haven’t played alyx yet so i can’t say if it looks better than source 2 but DAMN

[humble herald]

ok so

This is incredible

But source two I swear can recreate a NYC street down to the molecule, lighting and all

great work as always celery

[azure flume]

Valve would have no problem 'outdoing' this, but they have to worry about enough people actually having the hardware to run it

[pure jackal]

Eye See You

[real shadow]

ooooh

that’s pretty neat

[severe fulcrum]

Eye am scared :)

[merry lotus]

eye like this

[rustic holly]

I mean I get 250+ fps in this scene lol

My map that’s currently in the actual game as DLC gets around 200 for me

So honestly it’s not really any perf loss

I’m fact, perhaps using large, but high res assets, may be better. It’s less drawcalls in the scene.

And with good culling for a proper level you can get away with using tons of high res geo and textures

Even though Valve ripped out LODing in CSGO in 2012 when the game released, clever usage of culling and combining meshes together could result in pretty competitive levels of FPS.

That is to say, people have their expectations too low for Source

It’s capable of so much more

[wraith beacon]

Wait, CSGO doesn't have LOD's?

[tranquil oracle]

The maps are largely made up of static meshes, and modern GPUs eat polygons for breakfast

So there's not really enough non-static content in the maps to need LODs for the most part

[wraith beacon]

I mean there's more uses for LODs than just reducing polycount

[tranquil oracle]

Sure, they just don't really apply to CSGO maps as much

You could probably get some performance boosts if there was a LOD system anyway, but CSGO already runs really well and just throwing static geometry at the GPU is really cheap on anything remotely recent

[wraith beacon]

It's just more of a surprise considering the game shipped on 360 and PS3

[tranquil oracle]

On those platforms there may be LODs, wouldn't surprise me

[sonic cloud]

Some very important stuff for the map

[spare scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/crankstarting-gif-23929324

[meager valve]

There should be a Combine squadron breaking down the door the moment the song ends and you run into the dark

[rustic holly]

Yeah I can go really hipoly and it’ll work fine

There’s also a weird point sometimes where you also want to split the scene into many objects so things can be culled better, but you have to weigh that with draw calls.

[rustic holly]

They had stronger fades on objects. In CSGO you can set what min specs are for specific models, so they could use that to have less rendered. It’s a shitty way to do it because it means pretty much any way you play the game, there are compromises to either visuals or performance.

But it’s fun to make the visuals pretty in Source. I like making it do what it wasn’t intended to do lol

Source is surprisingly capable when you get clever with a lot of things. I found that just being highly organized and systematic, as well as taking the time to invest in custom tools for your own needs, are massive helps. Trial and error is what it took for me, but I want to end up documenting all my thought processes, pipelines, and workflows for Source. I really want to lower the barrier of entry for high quality art in CSGO.

[real shadow]

damn

whenever you finish up i’ll for sure try to signal boost what i can

[rustic holly]

Yeah hopefully the tool can be used beyond Source. It basically bakes PBR into non-PBR. Like a diffuse, normal, and spec mask (it also generates some Source specific things and also a PBR version of the image processing). That means it could be used in a lot of retro style games if people still wanted to work in Substance for those.

I imagine it could be cool to port photoscans into textures for HL1, Dusk, Quake, or any other game with a chunkier style

[earnest lily]

interested in seeing how the conversion works

converting metalness for ex

[rustic holly]

Eh the metalness gets baked into the diffuse via slider and for Source it gets used as a mask for phong albedo tint as well.

It’s not super complex

But I mean you can always just use the PBR metalness however you want

My tool also allows you to bake some masking into the metalness as well.

[arctic radish]

no, I'm well aware.
just that Valve really didn't care to "upgrade" the graphics of their games, more so the gameplay. (they mostly fix Bugs in gameplay, less so visual things)
either way realism ain't my thing, gets boring if there's no stylization to it
like how HL:A mesh's exotic Xen or Rigid Combine tech into the real world setting graphics and made it work well rather than "adhering" to laws of realism in lighting and models for the sake of realism

[wraith beacon]

CSGO's visual style has shifted a lot actually.

And has kinda lead to a weird disconnect between the launch assets and the new ones.

[sonic cloud]

Some of the later CS GO models do look kinda cartoony

I'm mainly thinking about this one

[azure flume]

Left CS:GO, right fortnite csgo crossover

[rotund garden]

https://twitter.com/danahern96/status/1591029269081509889?t=15cOGqAN3ucr8Bi2kG0w6g&s=19

Dan Ahern 🎮 (@danahern96)

I did it! I figured out why I wasn't getting a job in the games industry for so many years!

It was something so so small that so many people wanting to break in are doing. Once I fixed it, I immediately got a job last year.

Maybe you're doing it too?🧵

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Twitter · Nov 11, 2022, 11:25 AM

[azure flume]

Turns out we have the same problem

Except I don't want a job in the industry

I'd rather work in a factory than a game studio

[real shadow]

yeah but he’s kinda 😳

[merry lotus]

does anyone know how to do vbos and vaos in c# using glfw

i was following some guy's tutorial but i tried to use a perspective matrix for my projection matrix instead of orthographic and i couldn't see anything

and i think it might have something to do with the vertices

since he was making a 2d game

and i wanna make a 3d game

actually i think i know what's causing it

[real shadow]

BETHESDA??

[merry lotus]

no

[real shadow]

sorry it was a bad joke

[azure flume]

No, it was a good one

[merry lotus]

it was good

but I'm not a bethesda fan

[real shadow]

who is

[azure flume]

depends if you mean bethesda game studios or bethesda publishing

[real shadow]

yeah i was about to clarify

bethesdas early stuff is p good

but very few things they have their hands in turn out good anymore

[humble herald]

always good to get something working, best of luck

[tranquil oracle]

I'd actually recommend learning with DirectX instead of OpenGL or Vulkan

OpenGL's actually a really bad idea because it's full of issues

DirectX has by far the best learning resources and documentation, and the knowledge is transferrable to other APIs once you understand it

[merry lotus]

trying to figure out how to do key callbacks

and lambda expressions

I am definitely doing this wrong

i don't know what i'm doing wrong

[real shadow]

isn’t it gflwsetkeycallback

not gflw.setkeycallback

[merry lotus]

that's for c and java

this is c#

[real shadow]

ahhh okay sorry sorry

then i am of no use, i’m pretty worthless when it comes to c# haha

good luck though!

[merry lotus]

ty :)

[real shadow]

try posting somewhere

stachexchange or something

[muted stirrup]

https://twitter.com/GameDevKS/status/1591402890161229826 had to delete and repost this as twitter for some reason in 2022 still has a no edit button lol

KS98 / Retrowave '84 Dev - Wishlist on Steam Now!! (@GameDevKS)

Expect news on the #Retrowave84 Steam demo soon, for now, some small content updates teasing plot elements (and a current work-in-progress on the new tutorial level)!👀

#RetroFPS #Gamedev #IndieGame #BoomerShooter #UE4 #retrowave #Neon #IndieDev #ComingSoon #screenshotsaturday

Twitter · Nov 12, 2022, 12:09 PM

[muted stirrup]

As someone who only uses UE4 blueprints, coding anything seems like a dark art lol

[real shadow]

as someone who doesnt use ue4 blueprints, how do you handle that stuff!

it looks so alien haha

looks good though!

[muted stirrup]

i mean i handle it, but my scripting is...messy to say the least 😅

could only imagine how much worse id be if i had to use programming language

[real shadow]

blueprints are like 70% of the way to regular coding, i just cant get over how it actually starts to look like spaghetti code after a while lol

[merry lotus]

yeah so i put the function in the update method and now it works fine

well at least it works now

[muted stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/it-just-works-gif-13181297

[muted stirrup]

ideally it shouldnt if its all organised, but mine always ends up looking as such lol

[real shadow]

if it works it works

[muted stirrup]

basically my mentality haha

[spare scarab]

https://vxtwitter.com/NewbloodKart/status/1591471829134512128

i made this :)

there's more in the thread btw

[real shadow]

oh my god it looks so good

[spare scarab]

thank u 🙏

[arctic radish]

not bad, Def a vibe

[merry lotus]

I have the castle as my phone bg :)

[real shadow]

that’s sick!

i need a new desktop wallpaper

my options are kinda limited cause i have an ultrawide

i’m rocking the dusk as above png from goodies rn cause i have the so below mousepad

[pure jackal]

We forgot a screenshot

[merry lotus]

here's my personal favorite screenshot put through an image resize ai

so you can use it for phone / desktop background etc

[merry lotus]

yeah i think I'm gonna switch to directx

[arctic radish]

the only weird part of DX is how the normal maps are formatted weirdly as a texture (color wise), whereas OGL and Vulkan shares the same normal map texture style

[real shadow]

vulkan is still so experimental i don’t bother with it

[arctic radish]

this is it, my little SSD has finally written it's last byte
You stored a many Godot projects, 3D mdoels, art, and my past on you.

rip little SSD 2019 - 2022

[merry lotus]

yeah but I'm not gonna mess with normal maps

I just wanna make a game engine that emulates the style of 90's fps games like half life and quake

[arctic radish]

you still have to deal with normals, tho

[merry lotus]

oh you meant normals

I thought you meant normal maps

[arctic radish]

Well both

although normals do act differently in DX overall

[earnest lily]

Oh iirc thats the Y axis

[arctic radish]

ye

Y is for some reason either Inverted on OGL or it's the other way around

[wraith beacon]

It's just an inveted green channel.

[earnest lily]

Normal maps become a lot less GuH once you realize each channel is a grayscale axis

[sonic cloud]

KEX engine?

[wraith beacon]

Most tools have easy ways of flipping the green channel anyway.

[arctic radish]

tru

[merry lotus]

I could use a pre existing engine but

I don't really wanna

I've tried to do this for the past year

I started with LWJGL, then tried c++, then tried plain old c, and now I'm trying c#

farthest I've ever gotten was with lwjgl

[azure flume]

were you able to copy the files over or did you lose everything?

[merry lotus]

I had movement and loading levels down but it was collision that caused me to delete the project

I hate collision

[arctic radish]

if this has any indication

[merry lotus]

[arctic radish]

the last thing that I got to save from it was like 13% of my spriting folder that I had since 2019

no folders of recent shit were saved

[azure flume]

so that's a myth that the drives stop working but everything is still readable?

[arctic radish]

you can't read from it

once it's dead it dead

[azure flume]

rip

[arctic radish]

I tried to replug it in and it lived for a solid 45 seconds

[pure jackal]

o7

[real shadow]

starting an engine from scratch is some commitment, godspeed brother

you said you don’t want to use a preexisting engine but there’s always fte

if you ever give up, lol

[crimson tapir]

We got network synchronized physics objects as well as client prediction / server reconciliation.

[merry lotus]

can't wait for it

are those the final snowman models or are you gonna remake them

[crimson tapir]

I just made them snowmen for now because I don't want to animate legs

I'm still not sure what exactly I'm going to do for the player models in the final build

[merry lotus]

I like the idea of snowmen having a snowball fight

[crimson tapir]

I've considered making them penguins, but I think their hit boxes would be too short unless I wanted akwardly tall penguins

[merry lotus]

what art style are you going for

[crimson tapir]

I haven't fully decided yet, i'm not very good at the artsy side of game design

Mabye an early 2000s look similar to the Dreamcast/Gamecube era?

Idk, cross that bridge when I get to it, I guess

[fast vault]

I'm trying to add a VHS noise effect on top of my camera. I'm currently using a video that outputs to a Render Texture that I add to a RawImage on a canvas. Anyone know if there a way to set different blend modes like Multiply or Screen for this?

[long leaf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1026160561207128144/1039339901809856552/2022-11-08_00-10-32.mp4 oh yeah forgot to post this

ignore the duran duran in the back

[real shadow]

why would i ignore it

[long leaf]

mainly due to the fact its not going to be in the final game sadly

[azure flume]

you better add that soundtrack to the finished game

[real shadow]

nooooooo

damn you copyright law

[arctic radish]

With the death of my SSD now blender just crash's whenever I open textures of any kind...

I will destroy everything

[real shadow]

this is why you use hdds for externals

[arctic radish]

Got my own portfolio site up and running

[real shadow]

nice!

[fast vault]

New treasure chests!

[chrome olive]

What game are you modding?

[rotund garden]

#general-modding is for both modding and game dev progress

so that video is his own game

[real shadow]

can you send this out as a tech demo

that’s so satisfying i would open those chests for hours on end

[arctic radish]

Lootboxes

[real shadow]

they aren’t loot boxes they are wonderful

[muted stirrup]

👀 ...

[lime totem]

No

[muted stirrup]

Yes.

[long leaf]

Here's my thing i'm doing for open fortress

[muted stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/omori-toast-dead-gif-23020543

[fast vault]

haha well we are currently in the process of creating a new public demo, so I'll be sure to add a treasure room

[arctic radish]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/955204824364900363/1042259320311660584/Weeeeee2.gif

hell that is modular animation

[pure jackal]

leezerd tail

[latent pier]

Bean in motion

[arctic radish]

wrong gif iteration

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/538780824955387914/1042409502533763132/Weeeeee3.gif

there we go

[ashen sigil]

uhhh im trying to open unity, but it just says "cant open project, check the logs", how do i fix it?

none of the tutorials on youtube helped :(

[real shadow]

check the logs

file might be corrupted

[ashen sigil]

i tried creating projects multiple times, but it just keeps giving me this error

[merry lotus]

try reinstalling unity

[ashen sigil]

i also tried downloading random unity versions, from 2020 to 2022

[arctic radish]

tmw you cut down and optimize your Verlet simulation code from ~40 lines to 10 lines

this was the old code (the first top 24 lines at least)

[long leaf]

godot user spotted

https://tenor.com/view/predator-hand-shake-gif-12948959

[azure flume]

Ok, you cut the line count down, but did it help performance?

And if it did, was the 0.00000000001% gain worth the 60 hours you spent on it?

[real shadow]

it makes it look nicer

:)

code being readable is more important than most realize

[arctic radish]

well given how every time the tail switched directions / the tail's points got close together it'd cause a giant lag spike (and in general there was a lot of frame drops)
and with that code cleanup it got rid of all of those issues
I'd say yes

[azure flume]

That's nice 👌🏻

[arctic radish]

I am actually seething rn

so I'm trying to integrate some tail collision with the Verlet physics
and It's actually annoying af

[pure jackal]

At what point would it be easier to animate the tail by hand

[arctic radish]

never

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/955204824364900363/1042508008439164938/Weeeeee4.gif

Also figured it out, I got it almost right the first time I tried, just had to get rid of the gravity when it is colliding
I spent 2 hours trying like 5 different ways I could handle it, and then it hit me like a truck

[real shadow]

yeah that’s programming in a nutshell

i spent 2 entire days trying to get something to compile properly and it refused to

i had the data file capitalized but then the call for the file wasn’t

[arctic radish]

added wind

[azure flume]

fart powered jetpacks

[latent pier]

Bean powered double jumping

[cloud bloom]

godot code similar to python?

[real shadow]

yeah, similar

can also use c languages iirc

[cloud bloom]

that cool :o

[sharp vortex]

apparently i'm a fucking idiot

just came across a comment I made earlier this week

don't even remember making it

[tranquil oracle]

lol

[sharp vortex]

One of those moments where you look at a word too long and it no longer looks like a real word maybe

[untold niche]

The downward spiral

[arctic radish]

nope
code wise, no def not
White space wise?
yeah

everything else Python doesn't really have

[jagged loom]

gdscript is performant enough to make games. python isnt

[long leaf]

similar syntax, thats about it

[jagged loom]

i remember learning python

the tutorial showed "look you can make a wolfenstein 3d clone in a 640x480 window that runs at 45fps!"

[long leaf]

pure python isn't performant, never has been

[jagged loom]

i gave up with python

like i understand high level languages not being super ultrafast

but python?

thats unexcusably slow like

what the fuck man

[real shadow]

hey at least you comment your code!

[long leaf]

to be fair if you're doing anything computationally intensive without using a c based library (eg numpy) or cython or something else youre doing it wrong

[arctic radish]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955204824364900363/1042938112852115577/2022-11-17_16-57-29.mp4

[pure jackal]

Preddy

[sharp vortex]

I rarely comment my code actually, just doing it for once in the case I stop working on this for 3+ months and come back not understanding what the fuck I was doing, which is frequently the case

Everytime I come back to a project I dropped it literally looks like I just copy-pasted it from the internet/ someone else wrote it

[real shadow]

LMAO

yeah i force myself to comment my code at least once a week so i keep a general understanding of wtf is happening

[crimson tapir]

Doing a little texturing and environmental work today, not quite there yet, but getting closer

Also, for ammo you now smack snow piles on the ground with your shovel, thought that would make a bit more sense than a spinning ammo pickup in this context

[muted stirrup]

https://twitter.com/GameDevKS/status/1593662553548361729 on the off chance this site goes down the shitter, may as well drop this trailer now

KS98 / Retrowave '84 Dev - Wishlist on Steam Now!! (@GameDevKS)

Boom! I figured no time like the present to drop a brand new trailer for #Retrowave84 with a demo release month! Big thanks to @GetGianni for providing voice work on this! Enjoy!

#IndieGame #Gamedev #IndieDev #BoomerShooter #UE4 #RetroFPS #Retrowave #Neon #LowPoly #ComingSoon

▶ Play video

Twitter · Nov 18, 2022, 5:48 PM

[azure flume]

This makes my eyes bleed

[muted stirrup]

perfect

[azure flume]

Gonna need to doublestack sunglasses to play this

[muted stirrup]

Gonna add a ZX spectrum filter mode next lol

Real talk im probs gonna tone down the bloom a just a little*

[azure flume]

Perhaps a slider

let the player choose how badly they want their eyes burnt

[muted stirrup]

lol, wouldnt even be too hard to do either, could essentially just tie it to the post processing

[azure flume]

Settings are cool!

Dont forget about fov slider

[muted stirrup]

oh yeah, sensitivity/volume/filters/inversion etc

the full lot

[pure jackal]

Shapes!

Custom engine?

[crimson tapir]

Nope, it's unity

Don't think I'm quite that skilled at coding yet

[pure jackal]

Key word

Is

Yet

[crimson tapir]

Yeah, someday I hope to write my own engine, but not right now, I'm already having to wrap my head around networking and online multiplayer, so I'd rather not make it even harder

[arctic radish]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650903709194256394/1043331259843235890/2022-11-18_18-59-30.mp4

[slate python]

Looks fuckin awesome

[sonic cloud]

playing with a phone

[sonic cloud]

actual stuff

[spare scarab]

awesome i love it

[arctic radish]

wall yump and wall climbing

[sonic cloud]

I've tried making the industrial building look somewhat fancier

[real shadow]

wow that is an exceptional improvement

i love it

[sonic cloud]

Thanks Adding a few 45° angles and more texture variety makes a huge difference

[real shadow]

yes absolutely

i think the biggest thing is the new profile on the main building

[pure jackal]

Cassy

I request that you stop
You're giving the rest of us major imposter syndrome
And by the rest of us I mean me

[arctic radish]

[real shadow]

amogus

[long leaf]

[spare scarab]

Amogus

[sonic cloud]

At this point I'm kinda tired of @meager valve putting on my posts

[spare scarab]

god i love this vibe

so much

source engine my beloved

[long leaf]

thats a lot of light coming out of that window

[sonic cloud]

Yeah, I kinda got overboard

[real shadow]

if it can’t cause permanent eye damage what’s the point

[meager valve]

The nearby apartment had strong lights for a few days like that

[real shadow]

yeah see this guys got the right idea

[slate python]

Didn't know that THE SUN lives in the apartment near you.

I'm a big fan of it

[meager valve]

There was some type of filming going on so

Lots of vans were parked at the same time near

[arctic radish]

Me: Idk man, making a button that you can jump on and have it activate things only when the button is down should be easy?
Me, now putting my idea into practice: How do I detect if the player is on the part they need to be standing on? while allowing the player to NOT activate the button by just walking past it?

[arctic radish]

Don't you love it when you need to make a reference to the ground you're standing on just to say "yeah I'm standing on floor and/or button"

[real shadow]

ooh floaty

also yeah making things work is difficult

[desert shard]

Went back to my old beat-em-up and tweaked it a little lol

[pure jackal]

Is this the chainsaw one

[crimson tapir]

Got in some UV mapping practice to make these wall textures

I don't think the middle one turned out as good as the other 2

[tired wadi]

Player/Main Camera/HUD Camera/HUD/StyleCanvas/Panel (1)/Panel/Text stores the displayed style bonuses array

[desert shard]

I finished that already actually lol

This is something else

[cloud bloom]

clamp number to array length
index out of bounds

[crimson tapir]

If you have an array with 6 elements the highest index would be 5, because it starts counting at 0. If you clamp it to be <= 6 and try to get index 6, it would be out of bounds. Try clamping it to length - 1.

[cloud bloom]

It ended up being the array not being populated before being accessed. Just thought it was funny thing to happen after I deliberately clamped the number so it wouldn't.

[crimson tapir]

Ah, ok lol

[cloud bloom]

Thanks anyways though :>

[crimson tapir]

Np, glad you got it sorted

[sonic cloud]

The train slope works, but it's kinda janky

[pure jackal]

No tweening

Lmao

[sonic cloud]

I'm a dumbass for not checking extra option for the train

[long leaf]

who needs tweening just add a shitton of rails

[pure jackal]

Add a "turn" point right before the first turn thats at the same angle as the rest of the track

Since its drifting coming out of the tunnel

[sonic cloud]

I figured. The train used to start tilting right at the train station, I made and extra path track entity to get rid of this shit, but it seems like I need to move it a bit further

[pure jackal]

Have it a single hammer unit before the first turn

[narrow basin]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/905257745589076012/961112770688979064/ezgif.com-gif-maker.gif

[sonic cloud]

I have concerns about the train. The slope does look goofy in terms of the extreme angles and adding additional wagons would be a pain in the ass

However, I definitely need a train to make the map feel somewhat more alive

[arctic radish]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/650903709194256394/1044345090581217290/2022-11-21_14-08-16.mp4

oops

[pure jackal]

Death

[real shadow]

i looooove this look

[crimson tapir]

Thanks m8

[low thicket]

have not posted about this project in here in a while

got a job recently, haven't been able to work on it as much but i had some time today

[merry lotus]

the veins

[onyx elm]

The water physics seem very funky

Me likey

Good job, lad 👍

[arctic radish]

[fair thorn]

Food

[sonic cloud]

More updates

[candid yacht]

took a bite

[pure jackal]

Owie

[sonic cloud]

I've tried adding my walls to the map

needs some work

[meager valve]

Looks surreal

You stole our wall sheets and put them into a game, brother

[spare scarab]

BASED PHOTOSOURCE TEX

[slate python]

I like you.

[arctic radish]

Procedural textures are overrated

Photo textures are based

I think at least one person would use this coding language

[unique crag]

Memester is pro at it

[pure jackal]

DO NOT SPEAK THAT NAME

[green wind]

https://youtu.be/-ZiGcMzaxO0

I used the doom engine to make a battlefront 3 fan game

[pastel cave]

https://youtu.be/-ZiGcMzaxO0

[sonic cloud]

I sent these images to every other discord server I'm part of while also adding a corresponding text on a piece of paper

[sonic cloud]

Welcome to the cumzone

[pastel cave]

heir to the cum throne

[jagged loom]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/627229467294695425/1045836769666531438/2022-11-25_15-00-49.mp4 alright got a basic first person character controller

[azure flume]

First person swimming next!

[jagged loom]

nah

i still gotta do jumping, dashing

i don't know how to setup a proper state machine so ill just uuh

use switch cases or something

[merry lotus]

I found this video of my first unity project ever

[slate python]

what the hell is with the video quality

[pure jackal]

2014

[crimson tapir]

That sounds like the type of music that would be playing int the background of a 2013 minecraft building montage

[jagged loom]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/627229467294695425/1045975584368513084/2022-11-26_00-12-36.mp4 got some shmoovement

[arctic radish]

I joined a Game jam!
Winter N64 styled Game Jam
Thinking about making a "Hitman x Who Dun It" styled game

maybe in a Noir styled one

[merry lotus]

i should join that

[arctic radish]

idk if you can or not it started yesterday

also apparently discord isn't allowing me to send any images

like it's just not giving me the prompt to send an image

guh

[pure jackal]

Vrootvroot

[muted stirrup]

that looks sick, nice job

[merry lotus]

says "no violence" on the jam page

there goes my ideas for a christmas themed first person shooter

[arctic radish]

Wait whaaaat

[merry lotus]

wait did I join the wrong jam

[arctic radish]

https://itch.io/jam/winter-n64-space-jam

[merry lotus]

that's the one i joined

[arctic radish]

Tf

[merry lotus]

also it says on the jam page that it's a N64 styled jam but the link to the unity shader is a psx styled shader

i'm confused

[arctic radish]

not even in the email that the host sent out said anything about this

I smell "quality control"

[merry lotus]

i'm joining a different jam

[arctic radish]

same

I still wanna make the Noir Hitman game

[merry lotus]

well you don't have to join a game jam for that

[arctic radish]

tru

but I know if I don't have a time limit I'll eventually scrap it or slow production of it after like a week of work

[merry lotus]

good point

[untold niche]

"Noooo don't put ultra violence in your games, we want this to be fun for the whole family!!" 🤓 🤓 🤓

"Sir please stop hitting me in the ribs with a sledgehammer!" 🤓

[candid yacht]

chrimsass

[merry lotus]

https://vxtwitter.com/NewbloodKart/status/1596576863136239617

[candid yacht]

oh boy! a stereo sound system! this would go perfectly with my giant gaping wall-hole!

[merry lotus]

what a nice house

hopefully manmade horrors beyond my comprehension don't come through the chimney

(manmade horrors beyond his comprehension are going to come through the chimney)

[arctic radish]

I was in the process of blocking out my first level of the game, and then I got teleported into a fucking cinema with my family to watch a 3 hour musical.

Also nice man made horror

[merry lotus]

thanks

christmas horror games are underrated

[fickle wedge]

[desert shard]

Making something for mini jam

Basically it's a bossfight, but you have to aim the boss's attacks at other enemies

[arctic radish]

Thank god for Godot's ability to export scenes as gltf so I can work on them in blender

[arctic radish]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955204824364900363/1046470466157686784/2022-11-27_10-53-06.mp4

[earnest lily]

anims have a quake 1 vibe to it

must be framerate + lack of interpolation

it reminds me a lot of DRIVER 2's out of car navigation

[pure jackal]

Driv3r GBA animations

[arctic radish]

Shaders (gone very wrong)

[arctic radish]

final rendition

[arctic radish]

okay I lied this is, the previous one doesn't like looking the same when I relaunched the project, so now things are falling in place

[merry lotus]

there are sounds coming from the chimney

and i don't think they're human

[severe fulcrum]

im sure it will be fine, nothing bad happens during christmas right?

[merry lotus]

right?

[pure jackal]

Light the fire to drive it back

The sack coming down the chimney isn't full of presents, it's full of you and it wants more

[severe fulcrum]

satiate ITS hunger.. dont let IT in, IT watches you, IT knows what you did

[iron trail]

https://twitter.com/DrugodTV/status/1597199124578717696

[arctic radish]

title card

[severe fulcrum]

Thats actually pretty interesting, im gonna follow what happens there good luck on the project

[desert shard]

Made this for mini jam.

It's a bossfight, but you have to aim the boss's attacks at other enemies

https://badpiggy.itch.io/ritual

[severe fulcrum]

Gratz on finishing it

[fast vault]

Quick question, how do you get rid of interpolation on an animation in Blender?

[arctic radish]

go to the Dopesheet editor in blender > select all the points you don't want interpolation with > press "t" > Select your interpolation type (constant is the one I used for the player animation)

[sonic cloud]

Bruh, where does Hammer even get these extra visleafs?

[pure jackal]

It

Doesn't

Wtf did you do

[sonic cloud]

I mean, I did make a bunch of cuts

[pure jackal]

Bruh

[sonic cloud]

I'm confused because, well, it's flat as a plank on the outside

but it spawns a bunch of visleafs anyway

[pure jackal]

Switch to JACK bruh

[meager valve]

This looks painful

[merry lotus]

thinking about whether to have a intergalactic horror as the monster in my Christmas horror game or just a random mysterious dude

or even better, monster that looks like santa

[crimson tapir]

I think I'm going to take a short break from snowdown to develop another game. This game will only have local split screen multiplayer (all though you can still play it online with parsec or something) and be much smaller in scale, I think this will be a good way to get some practice in for 3D modeling and animating, so when I come back to snowdown I'll be more competent in those areas. I'll probably release it on steam for like $0.99 and whatever money I make to help fund snowdown as well.

[arctic radish]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955204824364900363/1046882764932255785/2022-11-28_14-11-55.mp4

main menu hours

[iron trail]

thanks!!

[versed harbor]

silly little game for a school project, also it's my first game!!! I made it with python because I want to learn that language a bit ( Pygame library and Sublime Text editor used )

the enemies are janky as hell right now, I gotta work on that

[fast vault]

What about instead of a santa monster (which is kinda overplayed), it's a gelatinous, demonic blob that resembles Frosty the Snowman? And the more people he eats, the larger he gets

[severe fulcrum]

Reverse snake 👁️

[crimson tapir]

Look at him go 🙂

[slate python]

Ah, the thing that every blender user does.

Classic

[pure jackal]

YOU GOT ME
LOOKIN UP HIGH
YOU GOT ME
SEARCHIN DOWN LOW

[sharp vortex]

Every "world" brush you create creates a visleaf in the shape of that brush until you tell it otherwise.
If that building is strictly for detail purposes, turn it into a func_detail.
Otherwise if you'd like to include it in VIS (maybe for the purpose of optimizing stuff out of sight), then make all the "details" a facade. Essentially just a func_detail layer on the outside of the building containing all the complex shit while your normal "rectangle" building resides underneath.

Basically any brush that isn't used for sealing the map can be turned into a func_detail these days generally

unless you have a lot of models that need to be loaded/unloaded via brushes blocking sight lines (and I mean a LOT of models), you can safely make most stuff func_detail in modern Source games

[unique crag]

Will the prophecy come true?

[arctic radish]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955204824364900363/1047199821825593484/2022-11-29_11-11-20.mp4

Gun time

I do have the animations for shooting and code for the gun to shoot, but sadly I need to tweak a few gameplay things so that it looks correct

because rn the bullets appear too late after the animation

[sonic cloud]

some more progress

[sonic cloud]

I don't like it

[arctic radish]

Currently doing research for making my own rasterizer and shader compute

Because OpenGL and DirectX are both annoying to use, where one is stupidly outdated and the other one seems to be for lower level coding (c++)

[merry lotus]

here's a little system i'm working on

basically whenever the player is in a dark area, they start building up fear

if the player has too much fear, they have a panic attack for a couple seconds

anybody got any ideas on how to improve this system or if i should even keep it in

[tranquil oracle]

I would actually recommend DirectX, it's by far the easiest/most well-documented graphics API currently available

OpenGL is just a trainwreck and I wouldn't ever recommend it for anything new, it has serious fundamental design flaws

I wouldn't really recommend making your own rasterizer unless it's just for like, learning purposes, because otherwise it's just an insane amount of work and you'll never be able to match the performance of hardware-supported APIs like DX and Vulkan

[jagged loom]

godot 4 uses vulkan

[arctic radish]

Vulkan's experimental right?

wait how do you use DirectX

like in your project

[tranquil oracle]

That depends

What language, what do you mean by "use", etc

[arctic radish]

C# if possible

[tranquil oracle]

For C# you'll need a binding library

[arctic radish]

because afaik it's C++ exclusive without- yeah

[tranquil oracle]

https://github.com/terrafx/terrafx.interop.windows should cover DirectX

the TerraFX interop libraries are nice because they're basically 1:1 mappings to the C++ APIs, so tutorials for C++ etc can easily still apply to C#

I'm assuming by C# you have a modern C# application, i.e., .NET 6/7/etc

and not ancient like what you get in Unity

[arctic radish]

ofc We went over how badly implemented Unity's Mono support is already

[jagged loom]

in godot 4? godot 4 is in beta and its the default, still in development but i wouldnt call it experimentalr

[pure jackal]

Bless u zomby

[tranquil oracle]

here's some C++ code from the DirectX docs:

here's how that looks in C# with TerraFX:

I left out the #if DEBUG but that one's obviously also easy to port over

If you want something more C#-like and less "raw", there's https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET

[arctic radish]

Why is it whenever I start a project my brain goes "yeah I can finish this"
and then when I start it, work on it for 3 days, there's always something that catches my attention and makes me drop everything I'm making in that moment to work on that new idea?

I've been called incompetent by other devs, but idk if that's incompetency or just me physically loosing interest in the projects I just start to make

because I Do want to finish my projects but It just gets lost in the moment whenever something else peaks my interest more

[jagged loom]

ehh its just a skill you gotta develop. just gotta keep at something

if you have a lot of great ideas you should write them down for later and work on the thing you absolutely want to the most

or maybe 2 if you get burn out easily but probably no more

[arctic radish]

for me I just like chasing new ideas

because when I have an idea, it's only fresh in my head for so long before something newer takes its place

[warm pasture]

ayo hold up thats sick

[cunning wing]

the first part sounds out of tune with the rest of the song

[arctic radish]

The end of the track fucked up because I had a trial FX plugin enabled on the piano that muted the whole FX track
Also the beginning is indeed out of tune

I'll make it work

[merry lotus]

hey guys here's the nbk loading screen

everything is still subject to change yada yada

[severe fulcrum]

ah yes steer by using the wheel

[merry lotus]

it's a placeholder but it's funny

[severe fulcrum]

its a funny placeholder then

[sudden imp]

It stays.

[wraith beacon]

Steer by rotating your keyboard.

[arctic radish]

steer by rotating your mouse

[merry lotus]

steer to steer the kart

[granite kite]

"This game is best played by using the controls."

[pure jackal]

Steer by turning your life around

[azure flume]

Tip: Move Forward by holding the Move Forward key.

[sonic cloud]

Average comm block

[azure flume]

No, this is a luxury apartment

Look at the size of that thing

[fast vault]

Try to play this game challenge (impossible)

[sonic cloud]

Yeah, I figured I need to make things more packed, plus this apartment needs a flight of stairs anyway

earlier VS what I've made today

[rotund garden]

anybody here knows if you can give an APK file inside a steam game? like what David does in the "Goodies" stuffs, but instead giving an extra mini game for android phones

[granite kite]

This mfer really trying to sneak a fighting game inside NBK.

[rotund garden]

no that's not true gulp no that's not true gulp

[merry lotus]

someone's coming up the stairs

[severe fulcrum]

whos coming upstairs

[wraith beacon]

I am.

[pure jackal]

Hatsu the mould man

[green wind]

https://youtu.be/lgczZ_YHO_4

[jagged loom]

got a good anisotropy shader

this is way better than my previous "literally generate a ring" method

[crimson tapir]

I added text chat

[spare scarab]

bruh

@shy hatch

lol

goobye...

[arctic radish]

Absolute bozo

I had that exact person sweep 30% of my servers

[shy hatch]

Oh same scambot?

[spare scarab]

guys please i only need 4 people to give their info 😢

[arctic radish]

yeah

It's the same bot

[shy hatch]

Lol

[arctic radish]

Same scam message as well,
Let me tell ya if all these money deprived people who organize these bot networks actually used their skills for something more than scamming, they'd actually be rolling in a constant flow of money. MANY people are looking for people to try and find loopholes in systems and apps and they'll pay ya good.

my cousin is contract payed to do exactly what I just described and the total amount of money is > my parent's current job which is sad now that I say it out loud

[sonic cloud]

More Sauce stuff

[spare scarab]

Mmmmyes

Good

[muted stirrup]

https://twitter.com/GameDevKS/status/1599000427621920770

KS98 / Retrowave '84 Dev - Wishlist on Steam Now!! (@GameDevKS)

Nothing too fancy for this week's #screenshotsaturday for #Retrowave84 but here's some more assets/content that's being worked on, also the demo isn't too far out from release - expect it in time for the upcoming Steam Next Fest Event 👀!

#IndieGame #Gamedev #LowPoly #UE4 #Retro

Twitter · Dec 3, 2022, 11:19 AM

[arctic radish]

after like 2 months of not touching this C# solution I'm committing to it

[pure jackal]

Vriska shut up about the frog

[sonic cloud]

tried making a balcony for the comm block

[azure flume]

Were any of them actually windowed back in the comm days? I thought all those are modern additions

[sonic cloud]

It seems so. Either way, I wasn't aiming at Soviet times specifically

[sour swan]

SOURCE!?!?!?

[sonic cloud]

Yes

Sauce engine

[idle ravine]

Hello, can somebody help me with something brutal doom related?

[sonic cloud]

the user @low thicket does DOOM stuff, maybe he will be interested

[low thicket]

i've never done anything brutal doom related

so i'm not really much help in that department

[idle ravine]

Damn, at least I tried

Actually, its more of a gzdoom thing, so basically I want to play doom 1 but instead it loads up doom 2 and won't let me choose doom 1, it just automatically boots up doom 2

[merry lotus]

[jagged loom]

unity?

i remember rigging for vrchat, it made 0 fuckin sense and i wanted to commit illegal acts

[merry lotus]

it's mixamo

i don't like rigging human models so i get mixamo to do it for me

also they have a bunch of animations

too bad you can only apply one to the model

[arctic radish]

Antagonist hour

[merry lotus]

🎅 KRINGLE IS COMING 🎅

[arctic radish]

AWH Lawd he come'n

[low thicket]

hold shift while booting gzdoom

~~alternatively, set up and use zdl it's way better for loading mods https://github.com/lcferrum/qzdl/releases/tag/3-1.1~~

hold on wtf is happening in the gif

here i guess we'll keep it transparent

[low thicket]

making some changes to kerg recently, so one of the weapons is being swapped with a different one

should function the same in practice but with a new appearance and new sounds

[merry lotus]

I fucking hate how unity urp has a limit on how many lights can cast on an object

and why is the maximum 8

[tranquil oracle]

8 is the maximum due to how the shaders work fundamentally

I think they were adding a deferred renderer at some point which should support more

oh I guess that's in now https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/rendering/deferred-rendering-path.html

[wraith beacon]

Deferred rendering my beloved and wretched simultaneously.

Mayb one day we'll have like, easily editable shading models in Unreal, or mayb O3DE will actually be like, production ready one day.

[merry lotus]

my guess is that it's in a newer version tho

[arctic radish]

If only game engines actually gave users surface AND lower level access Deferred rendering render passes

Because ik that's a huge hol up for me is wanting to access render passes through shaders but the engine says no

[merry lotus]

⛄

[azure flume]

When in doubt, dynamite yourself into pieces

[low thicket]

lol true

[low thicket]

the dynamite wasn't really made to work with the wad i'm playing with in the clip, the blast radius is a lot higher than the vanilla doom 2 rocket launcher

the final product's levels will be large, so you'll have plenty of room to use the dynamite

[slate python]

heyyy development people, need some audio advice. Imagine there's a finisher move in a game, is it better to have one whole audio file for the whole thing or in separate audio clips?

[merry lotus]

hmm

I'd say separate audio clips but I'm not that big of an expert

well with separate audio clips you won't have to worry about the sounds syncing properly with the animation

[slate python]

Ight got it

thanks plaz

For now check out one of the sound effects i'll use

quite nice isnt it

[merry lotus]

I love it

[slate python]

Same

perfect for what i'm planning

[merry lotus]

can't wait to see what it is

[fast vault]

(Not really modding related but) I've been playing GOW Ragnarok recently and the environment design is just stunningly beautiful

[low thicket]

https://tenor.com/view/psycho-christian-bale-american-psycho-hey-paul-hi-gif-5334705

fantastic sound design, sounds appropriately gross and meaty

[cunning wing]

aive shit my pants

[sonic cloud]

Couldn't resist

[merry lotus]

you could have resisted

[merry lotus]

oh man i'm sure this is going to go well

hopefully he doesn't end up creating a horrible monster despite the fact that intention was to create a fake santa to keep the magic in his daughter's life

[arctic radish]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955204824364900363/1049097279438590022/2022-12-04_16-50-21.mp4

[pure jackal]

Wowie

[versed harbor]

very cool, however you mispelt " reserved "

[arctic radish]

this is the 3rd time I've had to say this to people
it's intentional

[versed harbor]

oohhhhh

sorry bout' that then

[arctic radish]

it's explained later in the game why that character sometimes has fractured speech

[versed harbor]

cool

also progress on the game I am working on!!!

[arctic radish]

Pygame or...?

[versed harbor]

pygame

yes

[arctic radish]

based Pygame user

[versed harbor]

I just wanted to learn the language of Python, i'm wondering what language I should write a game in next

[arctic radish]

C++ or C

[versed harbor]

of course

[arctic radish]

pick your poison

[versed harbor]

[cunning wing]

GML :)

[arctic radish]

Good luck with a Subscription based game engine tho

[long leaf]

godot is nice
but go learn raylib

[boreal imp]

M2 carbine

[low thicket]

m2 carbine my beloved

[boreal imp]

being a .30 carbine enjoyer I am watching with great interest

[arctic radish]

I'm angy
Godot's animation player is fucking broken

and apparently it's a really known issue with it that it just sometimes decides "nope I will not interpolate this property" or "I will corrupt this animation in your filesystem at random"

[long leaf]

tweens my beloved

[arctic radish]

Tweens are inconvenient for animating in engine cutscenes

and they require more code just for mundane things like triggers and stop points

[long leaf]

all my cool animations are done via tweens since they're like 2 lines

i'd be buggered if they didn't exist

[merry lotus]

this is an awful bathroom but i don't really care

[cunning wing]

i like the whole dot effect doohicky

[arctic radish]

dithering

[merry lotus]

dithering my beloved

[cloud bloom]

x86asm for sure

[sonic cloud]

Some car repair facility I guess (I'm not a car person)

[sour swan]

car repair

[merry lotus]

my dream ever since I started programming was to make a software renderer that emulates the style of late 90's PC games

[grand meadow]

is there modding for faith?

[idle ravine]

Does anybody here have experience making terraria mods?

[pure jackal]

No

[sour swan]

Oh hey Sloom

[grand meadow]

do we know what the game was made in?

[pure jackal]

Custom framework

If you want to mod it you'd have to reverse engineer it

[idle ravine]

Hello

[grand meadow]

bet

[sour swan]

Or just

Tmod Loader

[pure jackal]

Ok have fun decompiling the whole game
See you in 4 years

[grand meadow]

dec 6 2026, i'll message here when it happens

[idle ravine]

So no terraria mod makers?

[sour swan]

guys there's dedicated sources for modding terraria.

[idle ravine]

Idk how to make mods dude, thats why I'm asking

[grand meadow]

do we even know what the game was coded in?

yeah no we don't ok

[wraith beacon]

Pretty sure it was actually game maker.

[grand meadow]

wait, really? wouldn't there be gamemaker branding on it?

[sour swan]

@grand meadow @pure jackal https://www.tmodloader.net/

[grand meadow]

im not making terraria mods lmao

though thank you for the link

[sour swan]

You dont need to reverse engineer anything

tmodloader has been a thing for FOREVER

[grand meadow]

wait is tmloader just for terraria?

[sour swan]

Yeah

It's literally a branch of Terraria made for mods and modding

[grand meadow]

im trying to make mods of faith

[sour swan]

Cool

[grand meadow]

thank you for the tip!

[wraith beacon]

Yeah it is Gamemaker

[grand meadow]

oh swag

thank you

[crimson tapir]

Ok, before I start implementing this, can someone stop me if there's a very obvious flaw in this system I'm not seeing

So my idea for the weapons in snowdown is to have the weapons be more like powerups, because I want the actual snowball fighting to be the main focus. Picking up a weapon lasts for 30 seconds, and when the time runs out, it despawns. Weapons use your regular ammo. If you die with one active, it drops and someone else can pick it up and use it for the remaining time, like the Quad damage in Quake. The weapons are practically straight upgrades to the normal fire modes and spawn in slowly. When you pick up a new (not dropped by someone else weapon) you manually activate it to start using it. If you die with an un-activated weapon, you keep it and it does not drop. If you have an active or un-active weapon held you cannot pick up another one. Some replace your primary (snowball) fire, others replace your secondary (icicle) fire, and others are one time use. A notif appears to all players when a weapon spawns or when someone has picked it up. A little icon appears over the head of a player with a weapon, colored when active, greyed out when un-active.

[spare scarab]

The flaw is that u dont believe in yourself enough

[cunning wing]

just make sure the default snowball has actual kill potential

cause dying repeatedly just cause you didnt get to the actual weapons first is kinda lame

[crimson tapir]

Right now snowballs deal 65 damage (on direct hit, less in explosive radius) and icicles deal 50, players spawn with 100 HP and 25 armor (armor takes 2/3rds of damage )

[azure flume]

Weapons working for an arbitrary amount of time sounds strange, why not just have limited ammo?

[crimson tapir]

I'll probably try that, there still are "super ammo" variables in my scripts, because that's what I though to do originally, but I thought if the weapons only lasted for a set amount of time, it would encourage players to go ham with it instead of playing more methodically with the weapons and it would make it more justified to make the weapons extra powerful. Because I want the weapons to be more like powerups than like side-grades to the standard kit, doing things like giving you rapid fire, or turning your icicle into a hit-scan railgun, or your snowball into a big Serious Sam cannon type weapon

[arctic radish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDOF8MvaVBQ

[cunning wing]

the quirky earthbound inspired rpg

[arctic radish]

nothing about this is inspired by Earthbound

[fast vault]

As a Unity dev, I feel it is a rite of passage to make a shitty zombie game. It was mainly because my brother told me he wanted to play a zombie shooter that I made

[azure flume]

Release date announcement at the game awards?

[fast vault]

Gunning for GOTY 2023

[cloud bloom]

Does anyone know how I can get viewDir in a vertex function in HLSL? Is it possible? Should I be doing something different entirely?

[arctic radish]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/955204824364900363/1050621461045448734/Battle_Player_wip0.gif

[cloud bloom]

nvm figured it out

[arctic radish]

and leaving this here for toda- checks time
Alright I'm leaving this here for the next few hours-

[arctic radish]

bacc to work

[slate python]

back to the grind

[merry lotus]

what even is loaf mode

and why is volume a vector3

unless you mean like physical volume and not audio

[arctic radish]

The Volume's a Vector 3 because:
-X axis controls the global volume
-Y axis controls the Music volume
-Z axis controls the SFX volume

better organization than having 3 different keys for the same result

[merry lotus]

oh that's smart actually

I should do that

[merry lotus]

man i love unityyyyyyy

[fast vault]

Unity unites us all in "love" for it

[crimson tapir]

Today I added a color picker to change the color of your snowman's scarf, as well as what will eventually become the spectator cam.

[robust ridge]

https://vxtwitter.com/AlphaEnt_2/status/1601233514703511559?s=20&t=OCFxPaAgtqVebkjOp_CTcA

Geometrical hitman 2 glimpse: The sewer levels (2nd half of the game) are focused a bit more on the action side, also showcasing few new monsters.

(recorded from phone because my computer drops framerates while recording)

A sequel of a gamejam experiment.

[cunning wing]

if you ever have to do an official trailer or something, please do it like this

with loud breathing and crunching in the background

optional: dog barking, parents yelling, vacuum

[sonic cloud]

Average East European garages

[meager valve]

the urge to put

[sonic cloud]

You live there, Kordov. Get used to it

[azure flume]

those are way too wide, reduce the brick parts by like 5x

[sonic cloud]

Yeah, that's fair

[azure flume]

And for some reason they always use white bricks

[muted stirrup]

https://twitter.com/GameDevKS/status/1601574007706648576 just refining some variety into the enemies

KS98 / Retrowave '84 Dev - Wishlist on Steam Now!! (@GameDevKS)

Recently I've worked on refining enemy encounters for #Retrowave84! 💥💥💥

#screenshotsaturday #IndieGame #UE4 #Gamedev #BoomerShooter #RetroFPS #IndieDev #Neon #Retrowave #ComingSoon

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Twitter · Dec 10, 2022, 1:46 PM

[sonic cloud]

Not always apparently

[azure flume]

I guess it could be regional

All of them are white in estonia, probably have a white brick factory nearby

https://www.google.com/maps/@58.3517723,25.5794808,3a,75y,320.27h,94.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPqpFDz1xAB4kxgVnxc0l2Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

a solid example

There is even a rare example of 2 story garages nearby!

[arctic radish]

Help I'm installing VS 2022
And
It's lagging my PC

[long leaf]

VS2022 moment

[merry lotus]

https://vxtwitter.com/NewbloodKart/status/1601647112122687488

hey who's that in the background

[sudden imp]

What the dog doing

[pure jackal]

thats no dawg

dawg

[merry lotus]

i got bored a couple of days ago and decided to make my own small game engine in c++ with SDL2

i got all the way up to input and now i'm stuck on it

[tranquil oracle]

That reminds me that SDL3 entered development a few weeks ago

[merry lotus]

i'm just trying to do the thing i used for every other custom game engine

have an array of booleans that are enabled and disabled based on the key that's currently being pressed

but i have no idea what i'm doing

i mean it kinda works

but it crashes like a second after it works

memory leak i guess

[tranquil oracle]

Crashes?

What's the code look like

[merry lotus]

so here's the whole handleEvents method

and i'm not used to c++ so this is the keyboard array

i tried using a map but i don't know how those work

[tranquil oracle]

Is sym ever larger than 499 or smaller than 0?

A map would be like

std::unordered_map<int, bool>

Requires <unordered_map> to be included

You'd use it the same way you're using the array there, indexing with the [] operator

[merry lotus]

hmm

i'm not sure how _event.key.keysym.sym even works

i checked it's value by printing it to the console and the values were all over the place

[grim wave]

is that for dusk?

[merry lotus]

no it's for a custom game engine i'm making

[tranquil oracle]

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_Keysym

[grim wave]

ah cool

[merry lotus]

got it working

instead of a boolean array i'm using this function now

well it

is a boolean array

but now input is as simple as this

[tranquil oracle]

Just make sure the array is big enough to fit all possible values of a key

C++ won't do implicit bounds checks so if the index is out of bounds you'll read potentially invalid memory and either crash or get into a broken state

[merry lotus]

going from c# to c++ is saddening

why doesn't this work

is THIS how it works

i don't know

c++ is bullshit

[tranquil oracle]

You want something like

Vector2 movement(10, 10);

In C++

[merry lotus]

thanks zombie

[tranquil oracle]

new in C++ is a bit different and is for allocating memory

So new Vector2 returns a pointer to a Vector2 in some newly allocated memory

The exception being placement new which allows you to construct something at a location that is already allocated

For example
Vector2 movement;
new(&movement) Vector2(10, 10);

[merry lotus]

wow that's

confusing

[tranquil oracle]

What does getComponent return?

T*?

[tranquil oracle]

Oh a reference

What is the transform field in Entity then

[tranquil oracle]

Okay that explains it

Use &e->getComponent<Transform>()

[merry lotus]

thanks

[tranquil oracle]

Since atm you're assigning a reference to a pointer

& is the address-of operator which you can use to convert a reference to an address

[merry lotus]

this is my first exposure to c++

dunno why i'm even using it i just wanted to try out sdl

[merry lotus]

oh

still getting errors though

w h a t

fuck this i'm just keeping transform as a separate component

[rotund garden]

NBK moving from Unity to Plazmin Engine

[humble herald]

yeah so C++ is murder to get started with

have you a guide book on it?

[desert shard]

Something I'm trying for 7DFPS

[merry lotus]

baseball player loses it

[spare scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/yakuza-kiryu-bat-throw-up-yakuza6-gif-26934518

[arctic radish]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/955204824364900363/1051573172555747398/uhhhh.gif

I wanted to make the legs look like they're on the ground and have multiple joints
but this is the result of 4 hours worth of work

and I'm not liking it

[untold niche]

idk what the inner working of the code looks like, but with a little bit of tweaking I think it'd look good as floating tendrils

As opposed to legs

[arctic radish]

I'm wanting the ends of the legs to have joints
but
the code just kinda doesn't know which way is up or down so there's no gravity to it all

or pull rather than gravity

[quasi oyster]

Holt fuck Ultrakill has a modding scene let's goooooooo

[minor bear]

My first proper rtcw map. Was kinda fun to make. https://youtu.be/TrL4NXBthRg

[fast vault]

Super Ninja Baseball Bat Man!

[slate python]

Hey lads, a question about modeling

So i want to make a cape thing for my model, but because of the backface culling the back part of the cape is invisivle

invisible*

[spare scarab]

you can disable backface culling on the material settings

iirc

[slate python]

What about unity?

Can i disable it there?

[spare scarab]

unity has this too but only on some shader settings

[slate python]

i see

i'll try to figure it out

thanks vriska

have a great day

[spare scarab]

you can try this shader?

seems to work fine

@slate python

[slate python]

ight ight ill try that

once again thanks a lot bud

you're really saving me here

[arctic radish]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/955204824364900363/1051894669883232266/uhhhh5.gif

hehehehe

[merry lotus]

la creatura

[fast vault]

You can also create a custom shader in Unity and then change which facr you want the material to render on

[long leaf]

so I was thinking of canning my game but then I didn't so here's some cool stuff:
bullets are now lightly affected by gravity
better sprites
"1911" now has a shooting animation! it's a bit subtle but it's there
particle effect for shooting, kinda crap though