general-modding

[noble umbra]

Also how you get to certain places will mostly be determined by the gear you have on you when you get there.

[hazy sky]

just don't do whatever dead island did

having obligatory "all players must be present" areas is bullshit

[noble umbra]

Ideally not.

Theoretically you could get all of the gear that the game has to offer without character-exclusive stuff being implemented. The catch is actually managing to get your hands on it without being eaten.

[noble umbra]

I hate that so much tho.

I hope I can somewhat make it seamless for most biomes.

There's several planned biomes like deserts, swampland with huge bugs, coastal areas with marine reptiles and bony fish, etc, etc.

[hazy sky]

bonefish mentioned

https://tenor.com/view/blood-caleb-fire-burn-it-epic-gif-26152625

[noble umbra]

Yep. The mix of animals is going to vary per region, but the niches will be somewhat the same, save for the marine areas because obviously nothing actually walks there.

[pure jackal]

[noble umbra]

The hardest thing is deciding which animals you want, really.

[hazy sky]

I feel ya

it's always hard to decide what to include

so I just mostly include everything

"no chat I will only have like 12 guns tops" I'm now at 16

and I still have plans to add more

[noble umbra]

"How did you end up with 200 species of dinosaur?"

Decisions weren't made.

[hazy sky]

I'm sure you can get away with one skin for a lot of dinos

I'm thinking about using behavior trees for high-level decisions and state machines for low level control

not sure if that makes sense

[noble umbra]

I mean, to me it does.

[hazy sky]

okay because it doesn't for me

this is very new

[dusky pivot]

I tried shadows and changing fog, the colors of the bottom part are also a bit stronger, now it should be much easier to the eyes to figure out depth

[desert shard]

Added an exploding hotdog guy

[unique trellis]

Reminds me of a certain fella

[spare scarab]

Holy shit is that amon gus.

[pure jackal]

He's alive

[hazy sky]

my list of unnecessary HUD's grow

[hazy sky]

thats a bit too fast innit

[pure jackal]

First time shooting the glock at the range

Thats very funny

[hazy sky]

what a familiar feel

[hazy sky]

yeeessss,,,, we are getting the hang of this

[hazy sky]

basic hud functionality

the glow is now applied to everything and is animated properly to mimic it as well as i can

[toxic hemlock]

u should remake the SMOD hud

[hazy sky]

idk what's that like

i love this so much

technically i'm using nothing from HL2's files, the fonts used are system fonts, the icons are made using a panel with rounded corners and a label with a + in it set to subtract, and the energy icon is an SVG set to subtract as well

[hazy sky]

looks good

love the gradient

[blissful arch]

loving the procedural recoil

[hazy sky]

I love it too, there's so much you can tune with them and they will never feel repetitive

[idle vapor]

dont think this really counts as modding but this is my first ever first person gmod anim

[hazy sky]

this is actually such a mood now

[dusky pivot]

Thank you <:

I made a little vid about it before sleeping yesterday

Ill send it

https://youtu.be/3uofD79lxbk?si=rJlXGz1HGbQ-NI5O

[merry lotus]

wrote a program to package assets into a .bin file for Dead End

i'm only gonna use it for stuff like non-map textures, models, and shaders

[tranquil oracle]

Packaging into a .bin (or even just .zip) has big advantages since it keeps everything together on disk (big deal for HDDs) and you don't waste large amounts of space on small files (there is a minimum amount of space a file can take up, so lots of small files add up and waste tons of space)

So you might see pretty nice benefits doing it for other assets too

The downside is of course the fact that you need a packaging step and modifying files afterwards is a bit more annoying

[hazy sky]

@pure jackal listen here u lil shit

starting to get the hang finally

[tranquil oracle]

now let's see the firing animation

[hazy sky]

you won't

[tranquil oracle]

[hazy sky]

its procedurally handled in game

i only need the equip, deselect, pump and reload animations

here it is before the whole animation shebang, it'll look like this

mostly

[pure jackal]

OH NO

[hazy sky]

not sure how the extra motion from the pumping will look like though

[pure jackal]

Only one way to find out

[hazy sky]

kinda shitty

i hate how the wrist twists upon itself

for no apparent reason as well

i think i will just simply apply the pumping motion without the shotgun moving all over

but i'm having issues aligining the gun in-engine

since i cannot export two rigs at the same time, i have to adjust shit inside of godot

[unique trellis]

Anyone know how to make adaptive dynamic music in phases? I made 3 test tracks and wanted to use them but I couldn't find any good tutorials for what I was looking for.

[hazy sky]

what engine again

[unique trellis]

Unity

[hazy sky]

damn

doesn't unity have fmod or whatever the hell it is where you can modulate music

i hate to bring it up but even ultrakill uses it

[unique trellis]

I'll look into fmod today and try to figure it out

Because right now the music is just playing from an audio source

Also I'm thinking of using blender or learning how to use trenchbroom for mapping

I know trenchbroom has units less than a pixel which is great so I don't have to scale the map by 4x in jack

[tranquil oracle]

Unity has fmod but you can't directly interface with it

There is also a separate official fmod plugin for Unity which I always found funny because it means you have fmod loaded into your program twice

[hazy sky]

why not?

[modern temple]

We need a mod that makes v1 a microwave and turns every single sound into the sound of a microwave exploding

[tranquil oracle]

They just simply don't expose FMOD as an API, it just happens to be what their own audio stuff uses under the hood

[unique trellis]

You're gonna have to ask one channel above

[modern temple]

Alright

[hazy sky]

no we really don't

[hazy sky]

holy fuck chat a real 1934 beretta in a game

[pure jackal]

THE PROPHECY

[waxen plover]

this looks painful

i run into the same issue, i think u should rotate the forearm instead

[hazy sky]

not sure man

[hazy sky]

yea its so cool because i added the 1934 since i saw it nowhere

then indiana jones comes out and adds it

[toxic hemlock]

how many edge loops do u have around the wrist

[hazy sky]

im gonna edge loop you

but 3, 2 actual loops and 1 that is the middle and that's the original loop

[toxic hemlock]

ig u just need to rotate the forearm a bit to get the volume back into the wrist

the thing with arms is that they kinda twist a bit when u turn the wrist

the forearm is made of two bones that kinda twist around each other

so whenever ur character has to twist their wrist like that u gotta also twist the end of the forearm a bit to smooth out the transition to the wrist

u can see just how much the forearm twists if u have like a tattoo or hairy arms

[hazy sky]

why is it so fucking hard to do anything

[hazy sky]

kinda works,,,,

very dissatisfied

[merry lotus]

all assets that are packaged in .bin files are all working correctly (except for models but i'll deal with that later since i'm rewriting their whole system)

there's also this really weird glitch i'm struggling with right now where if i don't render the fuel counter in the bottom right then the entire GUI just refuses to render

well not really struggling with but it's an issue

[limber bramble]

load-bearing GUI

[pseudo raven]

anyone know how to fix gforce recorder

[blissful arch]

no

[earnest lily]

thugz represent

[earnest lily]

[hazy sky]

weapons

i really gotta get the HEV drip outta here

[hazy sky]

quick tour

[hazy sky]

why is everyone fat though is this new york

[earnest lily]

worse....

[hazy sky]

manhattan?????????

regenerating armor and health (recharge rate and delay can be configured via a gamerule global that sets the player's stats)

[hazy sky]

@pure jackal guess what i found

good old tommy with the attachments

originally the mosin and this was made for 7 days to die

which is funny since 7 days modding is what kicked me off on this entire journey

[pure jackal]

Holy damn

[limber bramble]

the stomach hanging out from under the tank top lmaoo

[hazy sky]

inching towards proper game stuff finally..

[merry lotus]

finally got raycasts (or traces as they're called in quake) working in dead end

before they only worked with clip nodes but i finally managed to wrap my head around how this all works with normal nodes

[hazy sky]

got the gamerules set up, they control the player's stats like walk speed, jump height, max health or armor, etc

plus a timesplitters 2-like weapon slot system where my hand places pickups can pick weapons from the list

so i just place weapon pickups from various slots all over the map and the game will spawn the weapons you select from the menu

(for multiplayer modes)

actually i might do this for campaign too

would make things easier

[dry spear]

https://vxtwitter.com/billybob_c10781/status/1865874268489220541

Despite all of its flaws, sometimes Unity really does cook. This is using the wheel collider physics. It took a few days of tweaking stuff in script and in the inspector but now it's so satisfying, it reminds me a lot of how gta car physics work

[hazy sky]

wheel collider,,,

[dry spear]

yes the wheel colliders you can find in Unity

[dry spear]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-WheelCollider.html this is the documentation

[earnest lily]

thug overflow

[hazy sky]

@pure jackal hello hi would you like a test build tomorrow

I need fresh pairs of eyes

[pure jackal]

Yes

[hazy sky]

aight

I hope everyone is using 1080p resolutions because last time I had a lot of complaint about the screen being too big or too small

[merry lotus]

was bored so i set up rich presence

that's a temp logo btw

[blissful arch]

@merry lotus can you tell me in short what your engine is at this time

like is it just a 3d renderer

or does it also have physics

or audio

etc.

[merry lotus]

it's pretty much just a BSP loader and renderer with GUI, Entity, and Audio stuff

I don't think I'm gonna add physics since there wouldn't be that much use for it in Dead End

however there is convex polygon collision detection and response using the GJK+EPA algorithm

[blissful arch]

ah i see

i presume thats how you got raycasts to work

awesome stuff you're doing, thanks for the help

[merry lotus]

well raycasts (at least the way I'm doing them) are reliant on the BSP tree

it's a semi-complicated process that's best explained in this video https://youtu.be/wLHXn8IlAiA?si=YrlE6R0ZGxx7l_ra

I don't know how raycasts work with actual 3d shapes instead of a BSP tree made of nodes, planes and leafs because I've never experimented with that before

honestly I'm considering ditching the whole GJK+EPA algorithm thing and I'm considering just using raycasts for player-world collision like how quake 1 does it (but I'll scale the planes instead of using clip nodes so the player has a sort of ellipse shape)

that way people who want to make custom maps don't have to compile it with brushes even though they're probably the better choice

I'm not sure if it'll work however

I'm still thinking about it

actually no I don't think it would work well that way

[blissful arch]

i'm not experienced with this kind of stuff at all unfortunately, i've been postponing getting my own game going until i get some physics stuff going

[merry lotus]

are you gonna write your own physics engine or use something like PhysX

[blissful arch]

that would be ridiculous

...of course i'm writing my own

[merry lotus]

🫡

[blissful arch]

this is all just so i can get hired anyway

my expectations are not low but definitely not high

[blissful arch]

just imagine how good this would look on a resume

[limber bramble]

Definitely a good look

If you're hiring, you definitely want your programmers to be The Good Kind of Crazy

"made their own engine for fun" type crazy

[hazy sky]

I need to create engine-only visible nodes that spawn weapons in the gamerule's slots

following a similar logic to Timesplitters 2's weapon sets

I would pre-make weapon sets for multiplayer, as well as allow the host to create a weapon set for the server

and this very same thing could come in real handy with the campaign as well

could make sure only specified weapons spawn in the chapter

plus an extra slot for unlockable gun

[minor bear]

cool crate of booze(part of rtcw props remodel effort)

[unique trellis]

Rough tutorial map on the 3 basic movements

[dry spear]

some character faces lol

[unique trellis]

The sun is leaking

[hazy sky]

did you test the game last time

[spare scarab]

Best of luck my man

U make some impressive stuff

[hazy sky]

finally made the engine-only elements for the weapon spawn system

this will spawn the 1 slot of the weapon roster set that is specified for the level

these conveniently spawn the thing they're supposed to, and get deleted from the level instantly

you can also set if they should spawn respawning stuff and stuff

and stuff

[merry lotus]

found a glitch while loading levels but i thought that this looked cool

i also got camera tilt working

[unique trellis]

The no texture room

[merry lotus]

just for fun here's the code for generating the missing texture

[unique trellis]

Making a custom 3D engine would be cool but I don't have the brain power yet to understand what I'll be doing lol

[dusky pivot]

https://youtu.be/CIQv0zXbQcg

:3

[hazy sky]

reception on the small playtest is pretty goode so far

I'm happy as fuck chat

[noble umbra]

Playtest?

[hazy sky]

fuck yea

you want a try?

[noble umbra]

Yes.

Yes please.

[hazy sky]

aight one sec

[unique trellis]

Your game seems really cool. you don't mind if I give it a test too?

[hazy sky]

sure, just don't expect too much because its mostly a showroom than anything

[waxen plover]

little retro surveillance cam

[hazy sky]

very nice

hand painted or real photography?

[waxen plover]

real

did the same for a little floppy disk thing

[merry lotus]

working on simple realtime lights for a better flashlight (and maybe some effects like muzzle flashes)

i have somehow managed to create this

[pale raft]

The hole

[dusky pivot]

Still a bit wip but

Its looking pretty nice :)

[wraith beacon]

Lighting™️

[blissful arch]

nicee

[hazy sky]

hell yea nothing beats the original

[dry spear]

https://vxtwitter.com/billybob_c10781/status/1866614180658237750

animal crossing inspired dialogue

ignroe the cringiest dialogue ever written

[hazy sky]

i love that waddling while running

[dry spear]

thanks lol i made it extra goofy especially with the subtle head squishes

[hazy sky]

@pure jackal can you tell your friend he made my entire week with this

[wraith beacon]

That's a really nice speech box.

Also good luck implementing rich text if you intend on doing that.

[hazy sky]

squishy animals in my game i love

[wraith beacon]

I still have nightmares about the time I tried getting rich text working.

[hazy sky]

I really liked the squishy movement in the ratchet games

like with each step ratchet would squish to like 0.85 on the Y axis and this small detail was so expressive

I heard the goons get squished in @earnest lily's thugg too

[earnest lily]

I hath been summoned

[waxen plover]

love me some snappy combat

he's just a chill guy

[earnest lily]

no

no he's not

there's nothing chill about this guy, he thuggin from the onset

[hazy sky]

mix thug like jello

[slender knoll]

love the always skip leg day build this bozo has

[earnest lily]

[earnest lily]

thug better label they bones cuz we bout to scramble them

[earnest lily]

how it feels one picosecond after leg day :

I forgot ping on...... I am ready to be smitten. I must pay for my crime

[slender knoll]

also whose dad are those model textures from

its ok I'm on permanent dnd mode

I dont get voice notifications

[hazy sky]

can someone remind me tomorrow to do the luftwaffe drilling tomorrow

[toxic hemlock]

no

[dusky pivot]

:3

[proper barn]

By chance, can the v1 pillow be sent to Brazil?

[merry lotus]

trying to animate the stitch again

[unique trellis]

Devious name for a devious creature

[merry lotus]

i just dragged some curves around in the curve editor and came out what with what i think is a pretty decent idle animation

[toxic hemlock]

oh fuck yeah curve editor

never underestimate what wonders interpolation curves can do for your animations

shit that looks like actual physical wet dog shit with default interp can be turned to solid gold just by spending time editing curves

[slim lance]

@rose coral, please do not discuss politics.

@rose coral, please do not discuss politics.

[merry lotus]

i should probably set up inverse kinematics

i should DEFINITELY set up inverse kinematics

[unique trellis]

Jason Boyles you devious dog

[merry lotus]

i set up inverse kinematics

now the legs stay in place

[dusky pivot]

Idk what is going on but for some reason transparent materials are now getting affected by fog and they glow a lot the more they are into it, I swear I havent touched anything?

[merry lotus]

and animating the walk cycle should be easier

[dusky pivot]

Does anyone know why this happens

There is 0 information about this in the intertet, great

OH

GOD YES, I love when somehow doing a random thing fixes it

[limber bramble]

100% real

when I was doing animations for a bunch of weapons in Fallen Aces, the difference good curves made was night/day

[merry lotus]

i'm pretty satisfied with how the leg movements turned out

i referenced the forkmaiden's leg animations from the dusk hd comparison video

now to animate the rest of the body..........
tomorrow

oh wait i can just copy the upper body animations from the idle animation

yeah this came out a lot better than i thought it would

i exported it as gltf and it started doing this

fixed it

[dusky pivot]

https://youtu.be/nBFZWR94Dd0

Im almost done modeling this section of the island

Wich would be like a 20% of the entire map, wohooooo

[smoky parrot]

does minecraft count as general modding 🗣️

[toxic hemlock]

yes

post ur shit sis

[limber bramble]

lmao this guy rules

[limber bramble]

i like your game's visual style

[dusky pivot]

Thank you :D

Although the VHS destroys bitrate so Im considering leaving only the downscaled enabled by default

I can never get a good recording with it enabled

[merry lotus]

what's this game about
I love the way it looks and I'm really interested in it

[dusky pivot]

Its a game about exploring an island, fishing and solving puzzles

Oh, and you can talk with them

With the fish

:3

[hazy sky]

fuck off

[hazy sky]

@simple chasm new fishing game

[waxen plover]

the arm movement is odd

usually while walking you move your right arm back and your right leg to the front

this guy moves his right leg and arm to the front and same for the left side

[merry lotus]

I'll fix that when I get home

[hazy sky]

why he anger

[hazy sky]

it adds to the uncanny tbh, it's a cryptid and not a human I'm guessing

[dusky pivot]

Fishing is kinda the reward for solving puzzles

[hazy sky]

umbalo is a fisherman

he plays valheim for the fishing

[dusky pivot]

Damn

He will like the game then :)

[hazy sky]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/240195284695646209/1316849591542612049/2024-12-12_20-17-24.mp4?ex=675c8b40&is=675b39c0&hm=db7556e88be7f08e6243854f20b7d2fcd16af195b32e39edf356ebc3fb5017f3&

konrad's cooking

btw hitscan is now an option that instantly sets the correct values regardless of settings

[hazy sky]

scope now properly respects the player's chosen fov thanks @pale raft

[pale raft]

!!!!

[pale raft]

How’d they do that

[hazy sky]

idk ask @hazy sorrel

also weapons now respect you holding the aim key after reloading, thanks @slender knoll

[slender knoll]

based

[hazy sky]

also made the weapon audio more streamlined, before, you had to create an audiostream randomizer and assign a sound to that, now you just have to drag the sound into the weapon

[waxen plover]

i mean

that's just gonna make you lose balance lol

[hazy sky]

thanks konrad

[slender knoll]

really fucking bugs me in games when it forces you to press "ads" button again thru a reload

[hazy sky]

this isn't ads

[slender knoll]

thats why I used quotes

I'm just using it as a term for aiming button

same effect essentially

[waxen plover]

made like 20% progress in the animations and realized the floppy disk's too scaled down

now i gotta

nvm i'll change the uv

[slender knoll]

is it?

[waxen plover]

yeah

[slender knoll]

I mean it looks about the right size to your hand but not the pc

you sure you shouldnt be using a different kind of a floppy disk?

[waxen plover]

oh

the ones i'm using are small

[slender knoll]

yea but the slot is too big for that kinda disk

[waxen plover]

yep

[slender knoll]

if you make the disk bigger then it will in turn look too big

[waxen plover]

that's why i'm gonna make the slot smaller in the texture

[slender knoll]

ahh right

I misread

[waxen plover]

all good

[slender knoll]

I thought you were going to make the disk bigger

[waxen plover]

nah i wouldn't redo all those animations

[slender knoll]

haha extremely fair

[hazy sky]

it seems appropriately sized to me

oh okay i see

[waxen plover]

ye it's like trying to put an sd card into a usb slot

[hazy sky]

oh also fixed the weapon index modulo/divide by zero bug

because fuck crashing while trying to switch weapons by the scroll wheel specifically, while unarmed

this has "fixed a tuning issue so that Sims now vomit at acceptable levels" energy

[slender knoll]

yeah that was a great first experience when the game just crashed the moment I took one step

[waxen plover]

I meant the arm should move to the opposite direction of it's corresponding leg

ex

[hazy sky]

brb reverting the change

why are people scrolling the moment they get in game

I think everyone crashed the first 20 seconds into the game

literally everyone, maybe konrad didn't

that's so funny like is that a reflex?

[slender knoll]

to see if I have any weapons

or anything else

[hazy sky]

easiest fix would have been to add a weapon under the player

like that would be so fucking funny and you'd never realize

actually I think this same thing happens in medal of honor if you have no weapons, which is why you start each chapter with guns under your feet

[merry lotus]

this is probably the best animation i've ever made

sure the hands clip through the floor but it looks so cool

[hazy sky]

i mean half life also has a lot of clipping

if it's not too noticeable at the peak of combat then all is good

[merry lotus]

due to the fact that i'm animating using euler angles the stitch does this during the windup part

[hazy sky]

euler angles?

[merry lotus]

rotation based on XYZ instead of Quaternions (XYZW)

i'm pretty sure quaternions are better but euler angles are easier to read and edit

[hazy sky]

oh

I should switch to euler too then

what the hell is W

[merry lotus]

honestly

i don't know

quaternions are scary

[pale raft]

@hazy sky is it supposed to do that

[hazy sky]

fov?

[pale raft]

its on 95

[hazy sky]

yea the sprites are 3d objects still

they get affected by that

I'm gonna do a rewrite it was just easier in 3d than converting a vector 3 value into usable vector 2's that look good out of the box

[pale raft]

also funky how its aiming and letting me move

i am not hilding it down either

[hazy sky]

what

how

[pale raft]

@hazy sky i also broke this

[hazy sky]

bro HOW the FUCK

I added like 4 checks to make sure it doesn't happen

[hazy sky]

@slender knoll kill this guy with stockings please

[pale raft]

i think its only this gun that does it

[hazy sky]

but how did you do that

[pale raft]

no clue

[hazy sky]

hmmm

[pale raft]

i picked it up and it did it immediatley

[hazy sky]

what if you reload

[pale raft]

this one too

[hazy sky]

this feels like a thing on your behalf

[pale raft]

reload fixes it

[slender knoll]

god that's such a good bug

[hazy sky]

is it because this is your first bug find in my game from a year ago

[slender knoll]

no

[pale raft]

i love flashlight machine gun

[slender knoll]

also I dont think I found that

you told me about it

iirc it was konrad who found it or something

[hazy sky]

I wonder why half the checks don't work for you

[hazy sky]

I remember you finding it

[slender knoll]

then it was some other bug that you told me about I'm thinking

[hazy sky]

you were showing me how meleeing disrupts the reload

[slender knoll]

oh right

[hazy sky]

konrad found pretty much everything else

[slender knoll]

wonder what the other bug was then

[hazy sky]

bro disassembled my game first day

[pale raft]

what button is melee

[hazy sky]

not all guns have it, but Q

the pistols should all have it

[pale raft]

is it something on my end thats doing it?

[hazy sky]

the guns aiming should force the mouse to be unlocked, and the camera to stop processing mouse input

yet it does that anyways

and the reloading on the webley should not really be interrupted by anything

[slender knoll]

add the rocket launcher from gunman chronicles and make it have all the functionalities it did

because lol lmao

[pale raft]

i restarted it but its still happening

[hazy sky]

what did it do

[hazy sky]

I'll do a thorough combing of the code tomorrow

[slender knoll]

I cant even remember its been way longer than 20 years lol

[hazy sky]

bruh

[pale raft]

what

[slender knoll]

think it had spider mines, homing etc

[pale raft]

i did it again how????

[hazy sky]

"you should make this"
"what it do"
"idk man"

reminds me that I have to do throwables

[slender knoll]

I wanted to delegate to you not just the implementation part but also the googling part

[pale raft]

throwing beer bottles

[slender knoll]

make a medal of honor spinoff called purple heart and make it just about bar fights

[pale raft]

@hazy sky also reloading the sniper resets fov too

[hazy sky]

yeah but I have no idea why that does it

I found out about this just an hour ago as well

it resets the fov without ever scoping in

however after fixing the fov respect, you don't really notice it anymore

[hazy sky]

unironically wanted to add that

not throwing but as a melee

[hazy sky]

one hit melee weapon that breaks upon knockout

[pale raft]

that would be neat

[slender knoll]

1440p screen I presume?

[pale raft]

nope

[slender knoll]

huh

[hazy sky]

also this I still have no idea why it's acting up, it might be Godot itself

[pale raft]

its at defualt

[slender knoll]

then wonder what causes that

I thought it was a resolution thing

[hazy sky]

don't listen to it

it lies

[slender knoll]

happens to me too

oh so it just takes native resolution?

[hazy sky]

when in full-screen, Godot gives jack shit about your resolution setting

it uses whatever your desktop is at

it's kinda shitty tbh

[pale raft]

thanks godot

[hazy sky]

all fullscreen methods do this

I might just force windowed borderless

there's 0 real benefit to real fullscreen

[hazy sky]

real fake fullscreen

[hazy sky]

let me guess, aiming check doesn't disallow you from swapping guns

[pale raft]

double aim

[hazy sky]

I really need to refactor some of the checks

[slender knoll]

vino are you like wiping your face accross the keyboard while testing

how do u manage to get it that fucked

[pale raft]

its my skill

[pale raft]

i dont swap weapons with numbers i use scroll wheel so no

[hazy sky]

konrad has a real contender for the title

[hazy sky]

wait what

[pale raft]

wdym

[hazy sky]

does it allow you to scroll but not numbers?

[pale raft]

no i just dont use numbers

[hazy sky]

oh

also I saw options for android export

imagine mobile port

[pale raft]

3ds port with the extra stick tumor addon

[hazy sky]

anyways I need a few hours of sleep, thank you vino for opening my eyes to these oversights

[pale raft]

eeping through the game awards

best decision tbh

[dusky pivot]

Ive been cooking some reworks

[hazy sky]

it's literally almost 1 am

I need to wake up by 5 to work

[hazy sky]

that's good shit

I enjoy the fact that it's not flat

diagonality if that's even a word is really cool and makes a scene more organic

[pale raft]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1291498552916443166/1291498960854188053/1285086424126849165.gif?width=57&height=66

[dusky pivot]

Yeah, arched

[pale raft]

i like the water

[dusky pivot]

This is how it looks from the top but I need to add some plants and things still

[dusky pivot]

Thank u

[hazy sky]

you could make blend textures

add greenery to the edges of the floor

medal of honor for example (I'm the most familiar with that for some reason) had a lot of textures for PS1, there are levels where some of the floor textures had 6 variations to break up repetition

[dusky pivot]

I usually break repetition with decal projections of big chunks of moss and grass

Like this

However, I might do that for rlly big chunks of terrain

[hazy sky]

like asphalt, asphalt crossing, asphalt sidewalk, asphalt turn left/right/T/cross section, dirt path/dirt with rocks/ grassy dirt/dirty grass/grass

[dusky pivot]

How would I paint those textures later

[hazy sky]

I have a secret up my sleeve

vertex colors

[dusky pivot]

Oh I know how to use vertex colors

[hazy sky]

use vertex colors, and blend between two textures like that

[dusky pivot]

Oh

You can do that?

[hazy sky]

like vertex colors as a mask

of course

you need an appropriate blend shader

let me show you an example in Godot

[dusky pivot]

I got one in Unity but it blends whatever is from blender

[hazy sky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuasvCOAB8Y

[dusky pivot]

gotcha

I will send this to my friend in charge of code lol

[dusky pivot]

Better imo

[hazy sky]

fuck that is good

[hazy sky]

it's a shader language though, not code

I mean it is code, you are giving it instructions but they are entirely different

[dusky pivot]

Gotcha

[pseudo raven]

anyone knows how to change back to US keyboard?
my 12345 is now !"£$%

[slender knoll]

WIN+SPACE

not related to modding or gamedev tho

[hazy sky]

I'm afraid that i will put too much effort into the visuals

and lose the initial art style i had

but god damn it do the shaders look good,,,

[unique trellis]

Pushing out a movement test build for hot and ready. If anyone wants to test out the movement and give feedback then just reply or dm me.

[marble dust]

the removal of the tech channel has had disastrous consequences.........

[unique trellis]

https://youtu.be/_Cu7YJ6l_lc

[hazy sky]

madre mia

my ears

please take into account that volume is a logarithmic scale

you need some cool math to properly clamp a 0.0 to 1.0 volume

like going from 0 decibels to 10 is a tenfold difference

if 0 is silence, 10 decibels is 10 times louder than the sound of silence

20 decibels are 100 times louder than silence

i hope you see what i mean

[hazy sky]

what is this

chat is it what i think it is

[slender knoll]

it looks like a halo health bar

[hazy sky]

no its not that chat

[unique trellis]

Ah mb I didn't realize how loud it was. I'll tone it down to make sure it isn't as ear piercing.

[hazy sky]

splitten earge

[hazy sky]

i'm starting to have second thoughts

[slender knoll]

I knew it was a halo health bar

[hazy sky]

no its not

i made it work by accident

the healthbar is actually hand drawn, each segment, however it correctly depletes in increments of 10

[slender knoll]

if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then maybe it's a duck

[waxen plover]

yoo try scrolling while looking at it

cool little illusion

[hazy sky]

what

[sudden imp]

Dumb question @hazy sky how do I open the rar file

[hazy sky]

winrar

actually

doesn't windows come with an archive function

like it should open it natively now

[sudden imp]

I’ll check

[hazy sky]

dinosaur doesn't know how technology works

@slender knoll do you think we should teach him how total commander works

[slender knoll]

wot

[hazy sky]

no way you don't know what total commander is

[slender knoll]

doesnt windows come with some kind of an unpacker

[hazy sky]

it might only unpack 7z now to think of it

don't think they have license for rar

[slender knoll]

could be

also no I dont think I knew what total commander was before this

[hazy sky]

man

[blissful arch]

just make it a single 0-health sprite and make a shader to fill it up based on health

i reckon it'll be pretty easy

[hazy sky]

what

[hazy sky]

why a shader?

[blissful arch]

it's more flexible imo

instead of having like 10 different sprites for each state

and if you wanna change the amount of health you can just add a different sprite

i realize though, that might be a little too convoluted for the type of health bar you're going for

[hazy sky]

what

it's

it's a compound health bar

no segments, only visually

[hazy sky]

oh yeah, i don't think its widely known but godot has progress bars, and there is a special one called texture progress bar

and you can do a lot of cool shit with them, you don't need any shaders

you can do radial healthbars, left to right, right to left, clockwise, counter clockwise

or bars that deplete from both sides towards the middle, or the other way around

its all built in

its really easy setting it up too

[hazy sky]

difference between shouldered and unshouldered weapon

shouldered guns jump more up and down when walking, while unshouldered ones sway more left and right

plus shouldered weapons lead the mouse movement while unshouldered ones would be delayed

so in a way this alone should give the different weapon categories enough distinctivity to feel different to break up repetition

[hazy sky]

uh oh

speedrun strats

[slender knoll]

not tanking the FPS enough

MORE EXPLOSIONS

[hazy sky]

i was surprised how little it bogged down the frames

considering the amount of alpha calculations at play here

like 40 grenades going off at once

plus the lights from all 40 explosions

fucking nuke

[warm harbor]

why did i deadass think this was a cooking game

[hazy sky]

it does look like a kitchen

and that looks like a potato masher

[warm harbor]

my replies arent replying to right thing

[warm harbor]

but it does

[warm harbor]

it looks more like a spatula with no holes

[merry lotus]

working spot light flashlight

also i'm making a test level enviroment based off of solace's test level

[unique trellis]

I'm curious what the fuel is for

is that sprint or armor?

[merry lotus]

whenever you kill an enemy it gets filled a little

when it reaches 100% you can return to your car and any enemies you kill from that point forward are optional

[unique trellis]

That's a nice concept

I'm guessing this makes pacifist near impossible to do? (I'm assuming there's infighting)

[merry lotus]

it's based off of this music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=770qoLmHSFA

[merry lotus]

yeah there's no way to do pacifist and i'm probably not gonna add infighting

not just because it'll mess with the gameplay but also because i'm not a huge fan of infighting

[unique trellis]

I see

Do you plan on releasing a demo or just hold off until the game is in a good state for release?

[merry lotus]

i'll probably release a demo of 3 randomly selected levels from the first episode for a demo

and i'll most likely release a build of just the first level here when that's done just for feedback and so people can finally play it

so far in terms of concepts i have

4 ideas for levels for the first episode
3 ideas for levels for the second episode
and every level from the third episode has been planned out

and each of them are associated with a specific DWTD song

like for example

E1M1: Sledge
E1M2: Go! (Introduction to motorcycle)
E1M3: Zombie Night (Stormy Beach Level)
E1M10: Become Wrath (Boss Fight Theme)

obviously DWTD isn't just gonna give me their songs but they're also good references for what i'd like

[merry lotus]

trenchbroom custom models

[merry lotus]

https://bskyx.app/profile/plazmin.bsky.social/post/3ldcapv7bqs24

[torpid oak]

didnt make the model we had a texturing course so all textures are mine

[hazy sky]

i wonder how you did the glass material with substance painter

[merry lotus]

build folder size: 10 MB :)
resources folder size: 80 MB :(

[blissful arch]

future call of duty developer

[hazy sky]

no it's the other way around

resources folder 9 mb build size 300gb

[blissful arch]

isnt the resources folder inside the build folder

also afaik uncompressed textures and audio are the main reasons behind the humongous sizes of cod

[hazy sky]

chat, we are gaming

[merry lotus]

they're separate for my project but when I build it for release I'll put the resources folder inside the build folder

most of the space is taken up by audio

[blissful arch]

custom engine???

now that i think about it, this would make such a good demo

[hazy sky]

godot

[blissful arch]

i guess godot is a custom engine

[hazy sky]

i am not a smart pants guy to create entire engines

im happy that i can create ball roll game in simple engine

[blissful arch]

you need ball physics

[hazy sky]

no that's not the point

[blissful arch]

make the sandstone slippery

[hazy sky]

i want a grid based movement

[blissful arch]

ah thats why it snaps

cool

[hazy sky]

it actually

it actually doesn't yet

i'm trying to figure out how to do grid based movement

but in a loose grid based style

because jumping is also part of the game and i don't want the ball to just stop mid air

[blissful arch]

well you can just keep increasing the velocity of the ball until it makes it to the next cell and then snap it to that position

kind of like how pokemon does it

and then you do that only when the ball is grounded

[hazy sky]

hmm

that's interesting

[blissful arch]

pseudocode:

def update():
    if input_vector != VEC2(0, 0) and grounded:
        next_grid_pos = current_pos - current_grid_pos
        if current_pos.magnitude >= grid_size:
            current_grid_pos = next_grid_pos
        velocity = input_vector * speed
        if getinput(jump_key):
            velocity.y += jump_force

i suppose something like this might work

@hazy sky

[desert shard]

Finally managed to finish this lol

https://badpiggy.itch.io/basebrawl

[spare scarab]

based lol

[merry lotus]

hell yeah

[hazy sky]

https://tenor.com/view/yakuza-kiryu-baseball-bat-throw-gif-27060928

[hazy sky]

i'll have to probe around a bit to see what sticks as i'm planning shifting gravity

[limber bramble]

BadPiggy cooking continuously, as usual

[hazy sky]

playing around with some designs

[hazy sky]

yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

global point system works

[merry lotus]

https://bskyx.app/profile/plazmin.bsky.social/post/3ldela3cnss23

[unique trellis]

Hell yeah

[merry lotus]

i'm not sure if the way i'm doing this is the best way to do it but it works fine for now

[hazy sky]

i would just simply make the stairs with ramp colliders tbh

[dusky pivot]

There is a cool 3d noise efffect when you are looking at something you can interact with besides the yellow glow

[hazy sky]

fuck thats good

[earnest lily]

working on Paolino's moveset for DA BOSS FYTE :

[unique trellis]

Kick jumping and experimenting with slower movement

[hazy sky]

slowly but surely we are gaming

[hazy sky]

root motion

[hazy sky]

free camera time,,,

[waxen plover]

I mean, a mid level programmer can make an engine, it's just time consuming and requires dedication

plenty of resources online

[hazy sky]

feels right at home

[limber bramble]

noice

[hazy sky]

https://youtu.be/NnBffhECImo?si=dEYrtsSw93XOPmaO&t=57

comparison

wish i could get a hold of the higher quality skybox texture

i cannot find a single rip of it

[earnest lily]

wait why are you remaking kula world

[hazy sky]

why not

felt like it

took like 5 hours

[tranquil oracle]

I respect it

now remake Ballance

[hazy sky]

i still gotta make like the rest of the game's mechanics

this is a very barebones thing so far

[waxen plover]

ah yes, i love when unity butchers my 1 weeks worth of work

apparently unity has a weird ui glitch

[toxic hemlock]

imagine using unity

[hazy sky]

same

[waxen plover]

ultrakill

[spare scarab]

and pretty much every other new blood game lol

with exception of amid evil (unreal duh) and faith

that's gamemaker

[wraith beacon]

You forget about Super Galaxy Squadron (also Gamemaker)

And Tenebris Somnia (Also Unreal)

[hazy sky]

what

why is 2d game in unreal

[spare scarab]

https://x.com/TobiasRusjan/status/1862859675093344369

Tobías Rusjan 🧉 (@TobiasRusjan) on X

My conference at EVA 2024 talking about how we're creating @TenebrisSomnia in Unreal Engine 🤓

Check out the dev process behind the pixelated survival horror with live action movies!

It has ENGLISH SUBTITLES
https://t.co/UV7iKUXkhr

Thanks @attar_px for recording it ❤️ #gamedev

Twitter · Nov 30, 2024, 2:02 PM

[blissful arch]

for the cutscenes obv

[spare scarab]

he starts talking about it at about 6:12 in the vid

[waxen plover]

honestly i don't get the hate directed at unity post removal of the revenue thing

unity is an overall good engine

very beginner friendly with lots of resources online

[spare scarab]

that second part is such a huge deal

for most issues you may have there are 1500 ancient wizards who know the answer

or a possible solution

[waxen plover]

yeah

but then again godot is on the same level

even though the resources aren't as much as unity's, the programming language is easy to undertand

it's similar to python or lua

[spare scarab]

im also yet to see a game the size of something like escape from tarkov (yes, it's on unity), outer wilds, subnautica and countless other massive games on godot

maybe it'll just take time but the only finished, feature rich godot game i know so far is cruelty squad

[waxen plover]

yeah like 70 to 80% of godot games feel bland

[waxen plover]

cruelty squad is made in godot??

wasn't aware of that

[wraith beacon]

Godot feels like it's still missing a bunch of odd things.

I recently found out that Godot's asset streaming systems are uhhhhhhh, lacking.

[hazy sky]

because trust is hard to earn again. I wouldn't bother with it either since I've Godot and I love this lil engine

[hazy sky]

I think asset streaming is coming in 4.4 or an upcoming branch

like development really ramped up recently

[wraith beacon]

Yea they've said it's being worked on but it's weird that it's taken this long.

[hazy sky]

just the step from 4.2 to 4.3 was huge

taken a look at the dev and nightly builds, Godot has a bright future and I'm glad I was part of it

[waxen plover]

wasn't the one that set the revenue thing the ceo or something

and he left once he did it

[hazy sky]

yeah

he was

but they've done it once, what if they do it again

[waxen plover]

I get where you're coming from

it's unlikely given the backlash they received when they did it

[wraith beacon]

Never trust a company that's publicly traded 🙂

[waxen plover]

but if they do i'm 100% abandoning the engine and switching to godot

[waxen plover]

apple, microsoft, amazon, nvidia

i think

[hazy sky]

People love the stuff I do,,,

I need to collab with others

[hazy sky]

granted 2 out of 3 project were exact replicas of old games, and one is heavily inspired by it, but it's received well by an entirely new audience as well

[spare scarab]

kind of expected if the game you're recreating is already a good one

[hazy sky]

yea but I'm happy I can introduce old games to people like this

[hazy sky]

@unique trellis

i'll be real honest, it kind of lacks

the movement i mean

plus please add an option to toggle the pixelate filter because its so blurry i cannot even tell what's up sometimes

plus you don't lose momentum when you collide with a wall, you get attached to it until it gets resolved

the other issue i have is how fluid the game is (240hz on my monitor) but the physics process happens very slowly and it's choppy because of that

sliding doesn't feel like sliding, it feels like i'm moving on ice

plus i think the character feels way too fast, and not in the good way at all

plus it doesn't take much to reach top speed, which completely eliminates any kind of skill floor or ceiling

for a small demo like this, it's fine to play around with it, but my criticism is that in this state, it's kind of... meh?

then again i grew up on quake and counter strike/half life where movement was peak as fuck so i'm probably spoiled by that

didn't mean to completely demolish the thing, there is potential but you need to polish what's already there

also in a lot of cases, holding crouch while jumping does 2 or 3 jumps in a row from the same jumps

so much that i go through the ceiling

like i can jump REALLY high by abusing this

[azure flume]

that you yelling 'bop bop'?

[unique trellis]

That's me doing the jump sound

its placeholder

From the feedback I've received so far I'm revamping the movement so its slower and isn't super slippery

[unique trellis]

For this I'm looking into turning it into an official feature called Slide Jumping.

[toxic hemlock]

the problem is that they tried that revenue shit in the first place. the fact that unity thought they could get away with it tells u all u need to know abt the company, they're inevitably going to try to fuck over their developers again. think of it like this: your roommate just tried to stab you and now they say they're really sorry, do you still trust them?

[unique trellis]

I have to work with it because my friend that is helping me work on hot and ready only knows unity

I'd definitely go for an alternative if my friend was down to learn an entire new scripting language

[waxen plover]

valid

i'll still be using unity, though i'm learning godot at the same time

juust in case

[waxen plover]

if you're familiar with scripting in general it won't be hard

except for C++ in unreal engine

we don't talk about that.

[hazy sky]

shaping up so nicely

[hazy sky]

ball customization via simple albedo stuff

[dusky pivot]

Final touches to the cave (start of the game)

[hazy sky]

and yes the game properly handles keys placed in the world

and will follow rules

i'll just make 9 the limit

[hazy sky]

okay level timer really added this time

also added the penalty system too

game over state incoming

remind me to move the sound player to the global script

[tranquil oracle]

more games need ball customization tbh

[dusky pivot]

This took, the entire day, god damn it I need to sleep

[dusky pivot]

SSAO now included wich helps a lot LOL

[hazy sky]

yea I told ya

[dusky pivot]

It sometimes unrenders SSAO on the edges of the screen because it thinks you cant see it

Is there any way to fix it?

[stiff thorn]

Wowee, so many comments

Above every line 😄

[hazy sky]

I had to, I was going crazy

such a simple math function but I kept fucking up until I wrote comments

[merry lotus]

I don't think I posted this here but here's a concept for a new enemy I made

it doesn't get stunned when shot and it has a powerful melee attack that launches you

[dry spear]

lol my 2 cats behave towards each other exactly like that irl, lore accurate

[hazy sky]

yeesss sir

[muted stirrup]

https://fxtwitter.com/GameDevKS/status/1867989717850931559 released a new trailer last week 👀

[hazy sky]

chart,,,

i'd say it's going well

starting to feel a bit convoluted but at this rate, it'll be playable properly within days

also reminder

[blissful arch]

thought some might appreciate https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-spring-2020/video_galleries/lecture-videos/

[hazy sky]

remind me to create the gridmap for the game, create a global variable for the levels current orientation and add a ray cast beneath the player to check for floor

need to figure out how to rotate the world with the player being the pivot point

[hazy sky]

today was lackluster but i reworked the materials for the pickups

most important were the white specular highlights

before, they were colored the same as the albedo and it sucked

i really love the coins

[hazy sky]

the next pass option on the shader does WHAT

dude

i tried cramming every fucking thing into one shader doing complex mathematical calculations to mask shit

you cannot tell me i can just overlay a new shader on top of the other,,

that makes the puddle shader so much easier

[hazy sky]

Phil can you chill the fuck out

[stiff thorn]

Phil knows what we really want

[waxen plover]

isn't the movement in the game grid based?

it seems off in the vid

[dry spear]

full sunset timelapse

[hazy sky]

not yet

it's gonna be if I ever finish it though

[waxen plover]

you should

[waxen plover]

this is cool

[hazy sky]

depends on how hard the movement system is

like I'm no game dev sadly

[waxen plover]

i could try smth

tho i use unity

[hazy sky]

either i'm overcomplicating it, or its really kind of complex

[waxen plover]

u just have to make the ball move forward when the player clicks a key

like ball.transform.x/z += movementspeed * time

it's just an example idk how to write it in gdscript

and check if it's colliding with the ground

[dusky pivot]

https://youtu.be/azuae8hfFrA

[hazy sky]

that's not as easy though, the movement is more complex than this

I need an entire move queue that can store/buffer inputs, and I need rechecks for movement so the ball can move fluidly as opposed to stopping after every move

so if for example two movement inputs follow one another, flow into each other

plus I need to be able to flip the level around

that means gravity is gonna change so I can stick to the level correctly

[blissful arch]

i think you're complicating it, here's one solution i came up with:

you can have a variable that stores the current move direction (can only be in the cardinal dirs, e.x. left) and also store the last grid space the player visited (e.x. 21, 3).
then you keep moving the player in that direction every frame, and after that you check if the current position (e.x. 19.987, 3) is farther than the previous grid position by one unit or more (e.x. distance is 1.013).

if so, set the previous grid position to the current grid position (20, 3) and check for direction input (e.x. forward) to update the new movement direction to that

(of course i don't know anything about the codebase or how movement works, etc. one thing you may want to add if you choose this approach, is that when you're not grounded you only update the previous grid position and don't check for new direction input)

[waxen plover]

That can be solved with a boolean and a timer

If stopped moving and player is still holding the move key, move forward again

[hazy sky]

I actually don't have to do all that truncate stuff, the grid is stored in a Vector3i so it always returns ints

[blissful arch]

edited to specify when to use grid pos and world pos

[hazy sky]

there is a node within Godot that is a Gridmap, and you can paint meshes like a tilemap

and there are neat features like checking the position according to its local coords, as well as converting world to local and vice versa

I was hoping I could utilize that

but actually I can

I'll try something later when I'm not so tired

[blissful arch]

i'm not experienced with godot but i don't imagine it's gonna have a node for this exact thing

it's just a bunch of variables you set and check every frame

but then again idk

[hazy sky]

my only problem is kinda about how to handle this entire thing

not sure why am i complicating this entire thing bruh

like its gonna be grid based, tank controls

that being, you cannot go backwards

[hazy sky]

made an action queue so it does actions in sequence

the actual queue will be something like 2 actions at best

queues get deleted when spiked

feels like a step in the right direction

[hazy sky]

okay i had enough for today

this is so hard

[earnest lily]

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FEATURE ADDED

[hazy sky]

madness combat

[spare scarab]

thug game never dissapoints

[earnest lily]

😳

[dusky pivot]

Summit Ruins almost finished

[merry lotus]

_ _

[limber bramble]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/838785213274128465/1309269286975701052/ezgif-5-d4bc17ccd9.gif

[regal kernel]

does anyone know how to change the textures on the ultrakill guns

[hazy sky]

chat do these look like forbidden snacks to you

[blissful arch]

decided to make a binary tree class in c (of course it's all macros)

[merry lotus]

i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong here that's making opengl think the vertices are corrupt

[blissful arch]

looks fine, try using renderdoc

[merry lotus]

can't
it crashes on startup

[blissful arch]

though i'm not sure it supports c#

[merry lotus]

it does i've used it before

[blissful arch]

maybe try an older version?

[merry lotus]

no renderdoc isn't crashing
Dead End is

when the vertex count is set to 0 it works fine

[blissful arch]

did you change this code at all?

[merry lotus]

yeah

i'm rewriting the mesh system since before they all had the same type of mesh with the same values (positions, normals, uv0, uv1, indices, weights, bone indices)

but now they're customizable

[blissful arch]

i think i know why

are you sure the usage of info.SizeInBytes is correct?

afaik that's the stride

[merry lotus]

yeah
this is now it's set

and logging the SizeInBytes prints the correct value

[blissful arch]

what about the second field in vertexAttribPointer

ComponentInfo

[limber bramble]

I'd set a couple debug breakpoints in SetVertices and check all the values as a sanity test

[blissful arch]

yeah plaz i assume you already ran a debugger on this code?

[limber bramble]

Seems like it might be the result of a sneaky mistake somewhere

[blissful arch]

iirc you can set logging breakpoints in vscode

[merry lotus]

ok

oop

something's happening

i don't know what but something's happening

ok after removing the framebuffer everything seems to be working but some values are messed up

turns out the problem was that these BindBuffer calls were supposed to be after the BindVertexArray call

now i just gotta fix this thing

[limber bramble]

That makes sense

[blissful arch]

@merry lotus if you use git you can diff the changes

helps you see what actually changed

[merry lotus]

oh i found the problem (for the map at least) i was setting the vertex count to the number of vertices instead of the number of indices

the gui still looks like this for some reason

save me renderdoc

oh it's because all the uv values are (0, 0)
thanks renderdoc

hooray!

[merry lotus]

https://bskyx.app/profile/plazmin.bsky.social/post/3ldtokbmdmc26

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[limber bramble]

Ahh a classic issue

[merry lotus]

i ran into the same mistake back when i was making this game in java lol

[hazy sky]

who pinged me

i might make a cool random weapon generator

sort of like borderlands

that would be cool

[blissful arch]

here's your reminder

[hazy sky]

yea i revisited this but i don't need separate raycasts for godot handles things directly via the character's node get_floor_normal() function

[blissful arch]

oh nice

[merry lotus]

working on reimplementing skinned models to support multiple models

i don't know why it looks like that but at least it renders

[pure jackal]

Ourple

[blissful arch]

what model importer are you using?

[merry lotus]

I'm using a library called SharpGLTF

[hazy sky]

how do skinned meshes work

i want to use multiple models for the same rig as well

[blissful arch]

idk how godot does it but in unity you used to have an armature node and a mesh node that you can change the value of

[hazy sky]

there is a skin option inside of godot as well

[merry lotus]

textures working (this time it gets it from the gltf instead of needing to reference an external texture)

[merry lotus]

it's basically the same as a regular mesh (vertices, normals, uv channels, indices) except there's 2 more things (bone indices and weights)

we upload an array of matrices to the shader and that vertex's position gets deformed based on the matrices specified by the bone indices and they're influenced by their weights

the array of matrices is provided by the armature

[limber bramble]

Based

[merry lotus]

got multiple models working

i am not only confused as to why the axe isn't moving but also why there's a giant box surrounding everything

must be a gltf thing

oh i think i know why

YES

[earnest lily]

hell yeah

[hazy sky]

why is there a denim texture behind the player

did you export the default cube

[merry lotus]

no it's just a thing that gltf does I think

there are no cubes in the project file

but for some reason there's a cube in the .glb

[hazy sky]

interesting

it doesn't do that for me and i use glb as well

gltf 2.0

are you REALLY sure you don't have a cube hidden in the blend file

press alt + H to unhide

[merry lotus]

nope

nothing there

[pure jackal]

Try doing export selected with just the mesh, rig and camera selected

[merry lotus]

https://bskyx.app/profile/plazmin.bsky.social/post/3ldwc2nvgg22f

i exported it without the camera and the cube's gone now

[unique trellis]

I felt that idle animation

nice work plaz

[merry lotus]

thanks :)

i think i want to work on enemy navigation now

[limber bramble]

are you going to do pathfinding or some simple AI like doom?

[merry lotus]

I want to try pathfinding

[limber bramble]

wghoa...

you gonna roll your own A* solution or something?