/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

Yes, the engine recommendations are necessary.

If I make a thread on /wsg/ will you post sound webms?

You DO have sounds, right?

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>>158594536
Yep, that was the point of that post anon, thank you. Got a suggestion?

>>158594648
Yes.

there's too many posters here. some of you need to move to 8ch/v/agdg/

>>158594736
Use materials? Even flat shading could potentially work with a good lighting model.

That ship looks pretty cool though.

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>reposted
>>158594705
>Not trying to nitpick but the uneven distance from the eyes to the nose (as in, one is further than the other) combined with the straightness of the nose looks odd.
The uneven distance was something I chose (right eye is 1px further) and I felt the even distance made it too perfect for my tastes

>>158594234
I want to fuck your game

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Ey hol up, where jack da rippa at?

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>>158594648
I have only one sound effect currently that I've made that I was satisfied enough with to the point that I didn't trash it immediately after implementing it. Should probably try making some more.

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How do I commit to a single project?

>>158595040
Maybe 1 or 2 pxl to the right would be the best of both world

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>>158595120
>mfw most of my enemies are nude
what went right

>>158595271
git commit

First for fell for the "just make your own engine" meme

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>>158594958
You first.

>>158594993
The ships are entirely player designed using the builder. Unity's lighting looks like garbage in every scenario, I've found. Here's the panels using a metallic material.

>>158595414
>Unity
kill yourself you simp

>>158595606
:^))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

I take it I should make my own engine?

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Did a blockout for the general form of this mech. What changes should I make before sculpting the final asset?

Do you use a custom cursor in your games? How did you design it, if at all?

It's a real pain in the ass.

I want to make a fan game for one of my favorite series (Bioshock), but doing so obviously will get me 'patent trolled' and there is no reason to do so, it will simply forbid me from ever selling it if I want to.

Pisses me off man.

>>158595692
Where are the guns

>>158595705
fucking cursies, what's wrong with the existing ones?

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>>158595732
It holds them, you nonce.

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>>158595732
Still using programmer art for the guns. I'll get to those next.

>>158595692
>midsection is the same size as one shoulderpad
I dunno, maybe make it look either sleek _or_ robust. Both at once kinda destroys the overall impression.

>>158595673
if you're gonna make a 3d game atleast have some self-respect, learn c++ and use unreal

>>158595228
we wuz constables

>>158595785
Nothing, if you make a game that doesn't need to have a cohesive GUI theme.

>>158595929
It's up to the player whether they want sleek or robust. All the parts are swappable like Armored Core.

>>158596080
doesn't matter literally insane cursie

>>158595929
There are so many good looking mechs that defy this "convention" that it's practically worthless.

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Working on another game right now but I've been doing some concept art for my own original undertale ripoff.

>>158595705
I just set the default cursor to hidden and use a sprite that follows the cursor position.

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frogs

>>158596605
Why do they have clothes pins on their noses?

>>158596605

oh my god do they clothespins on their noses?

So, if i wanted to make a game for the switch, starting with the templates for mobile(tegra) in unreal would be best , right?

>>158596732
>>158596735
it smells kind of bad down there

>>158596605
I feel like making the clothespins the same height as their eyes is a bad move

>>158596740
Maybe

Though I presume it will support the UE4 desktop renderer as well as the mobile one.

>>158596605
>frogs with nose pins
Your game has so much charm man.

>>158597186
Im a unreal newb, do you know if there is any way of simulating a mobile target but building for windows?

I gave up. I started a new, "smaller" project. But this time I will finish it, I swear!

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tired of medusa heads knocking you down pits with no chance of recovery
well now you can recover from any hit mid air either left or right independent of your current direction.
the tradeoffs however are 1 you only get one recovery (can't bounce off enemies forever) and you don't get it back until your feet touch the ground and 2 your invulnerability time is 75% shorter so you can be liable to more damage if you abuse the feature.

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>creating art assets

i want to go back to programming

>>158597594
dropped

>>158597594
first sentence was supposed to be a question.
and sorry about the mouse cursor
also inb4 no medusa heads are in the game yet

>>158597594
>No total cancer knockback in Castlevania knockoff
You just lost the purist crowd.

>>158597683
>not programming procedural art for assets
come on

>>158597749
its okay. im not looking to tap into any playerbase honestly. i made my mind when i started the project that i would recreate the castlevania mechanics using its art, then once theyre in place ill play around them until i get a good feel that i like. im only using castlevania as the base.

>>158597594
What the fuck man

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>>158597097
i think the clothespins need to be pretty big for readability, though i am unsure about the eye shape yet
>>158597261
thanks

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>>158597461

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>>158597857
>procedural

>>158597990
Do you even know what that means? The shitty /v/ meme image hints at no.

>>158597683
>Learning how to program
I want to go back to creating art assets

>>158597990
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=.kkrieger

>>158595414
I think any lighting would be better than that.

>>158597963
thanks mang

>>158597594
I think it's interesting and I'm a longtime CV fan.

>>158597594

PLEASE make this ability cost hearts or something.

It shouldn't be that easy to avoid death. The entire point of Castelvania was dying to stupid shit like that.

>>158598656
thanks
>>158598704
ill think about making it cost magic. i want the game to genuinely be challenging, but i feel like cheap death is a design philosophy thats out of date. i want to challenge the player with good level design and not a bunch of pits that you cant avoid. ill reevaluate it once i start making levels and see if it needs any adjustments like consumption

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Finally imported the model into UE4. Not sure if the bones are going to work, but it seems UE4 places them automatically because when I select the bones they are in different position than I hastily put them for testing purposes. Hopefully it will work because that would make my day. At the very least I got some experience with making materials out of textures and applying them to the model which was easier than I expected.

I'm also pretty impressed with the possibilities of creating materials. You can do so much combinations of textures, effects, calculations, sorts of lighting, transparency, etc.

All in all I love how deep every aspect of game development is. Modelling, rigging, texturing, controls, music, level design. I feel like it's something I can lose myself in completely without getting bored anytime soon.

>>158598929
Getting knocked into pits isn't a cheap death, you put yourself in a position to be knocked into one and you failed to dodge an enemy attack. It's entirely your fault.

>>158599026
>Not sure if the bones are going to work, but it seems UE4 places them automatically because when I select the bones they are in different position than I hastily put them for testing purposes.

It really shouldn't be. They should be exactly where they were when you rigged the model.

Unless you mean you moved them as a test animation in which case you need to import the animation as a separate file.

>>158597594
>getting outsmarted by the enemies

agdg is dead

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learning oop, using c++ and sfml to create simple 2-d game, got it to display environment observations when you hit space.

>Tfw too paranoid to start actually making the game in favor of just working on the design document.

>>158601309
do it already pussy

>>158601491
THE MORE YOU PLAN THE LESS YOU BLEED

>>158601309
Make it, you learn by fucking up and failing, not by writing meme docs and doing no implementations.

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Progress!
I wrote this neat little shader to add some noise to my ground pixels. I couldn't find no other way to do this, I tried pooling a bunch of GameObjects for tiles, but that was incredibly costly. I could barely keep a thousand objects in my pool.
It does look pretty uniform, but I kinda like the old-fashioned look. And it's fast - it's just a 256x256 bitmap applied to a single quad, but I perturb the edges of the pixels with a noise map. I could do this just as easily on a 1024x1024 world, the performance is almost totally uncoupled from world size.

>>158599026
are you using the UE4 skeleton? it's a good idea to rig your character so it can use it.

>>158601703
no real idea what I'm looking at but if you made progress with a custom shader, you're a beast

great job anon

>>158601703
You will get patent trolled.

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also, finally working, level up system with its unique deck of abilities

QUICK, give me more abilities and upgrades

>>158603351
>ability to see next card drawn
>ability to affect the chance of the next card drawn being of disposition 'x'

I don't actually know how your system works. More details?

>>158603726
It's pure rng, also there is no "deck" your card draws are always random.

>>158595040
different guy here: it looked fine until something was mentioned, and it still looks fine in the thumbnail, but I can't not notice it in the full picture now, and it bothers me

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this is my first progress post!

currently still learning how to properly code a game, but this is a start I guess.
if I somehow manage to do something worth showing I'll try to post it here but don't expect me to post often (except as an anon shitposter ofc)

I don't really have any ideas about the game yet but for now it doesn't matter, I still need to code all the basic required things to run a game

pls subscribe to my rss!

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>>158603939
Okay, then the ability to lock in the next card's type to a certain kind. Ex; speed, equipment, ect.

>>158604031
Are you shitposting?

>>158604031
>currently still learning how to properly code a game
That never ends

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>>158603939
but that's wrong, friend

So I'm including between 5-10 minigames in my upcoming RPG.

So far, I'm using the following basic game types for the various minigames;
>Pipemania/pipedream
>Mastermind
>Self enclosed card games

I really don't want to use breakout, but anyone have any other simplistic games I can use for minigames?

>>158604031
what engine

>>158604097
pls no

>>158604472
how about an AD&D 2nd edition minigame?

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>vr is a meme

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SFML

I was just getting a snack from gamedeving and I went to the local fastfood place with my bicycle (I already thought this was a bad idea to drive there with my new bike beforehand because the place is frequented by drunks during the night)

There werse two guys standing infront of it looking at me in a funny way.(both underage) When I was inside I had a bad feeling and I thought I should go outside checking out my bike while the guy was preparing my order.but I didn't. When I went outside with my food the two guys passed by the fast food place from another direction and my bicycle was missing and I already knew what happened. I went the direction the they came from and saw my bike laying on a staircase. I confronted them and they pretended like they don't know what happened "Whoa dude I don't know what happened lol. Just relax dude" (they were obviously bullshitting because they couldn't have not noticed even if it weren't them)

The bike looked mostly fine.

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>get on to work on one thing
>improve 7 or 8 other things instead
I mean...

>>158604954
>>158604554
(You)

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Added a picture of Anubis to the GAME OVER screen.

>>158605212

When can you get your boipucci fucked in this game?

>>158605358
>>158605212
gay furries pls go home

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Set up a proper combat animation system with the help of different Animation Blueprints + switching around between them.

Also got blocking and parrying working

Models/Animations are obviously WIP.

Editor left me with the german localization because i cleaned up the projects saved folder. Gonna reset that tomorrow or so.

>>158605508
>Gesundheit
There's a stat for sneezing?

>>158605508

Looks like Oblivion, even the graphics look like a bit upgraded Oblivion.

>>158605625

Gesundheit means health in german.

>>158605508

>tfw I was going to make an oblivion clone and this guy beat me to the punch

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rate the videogame trailer

>>158605767
Yeah I'm just shitposting

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Played with the proportions some more. I think this is good enough to start the detail work.

>>158605508
I'm gonna recruit your ass when the time comes for my project to need art.

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>>158604446

>>158605508
Needs to follow through way more with his swings.
>KF clone with blocking
HERESY

>>158604939
>his legs were shaking as he was climbing
wut

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>>158606121
and here's the finalized cockpit layout

>>158606121
looks great, go in for the kill

>Tfw just making games for myself and no one else will see them.

>>158606870
How are you going to do the cockpit camera? First person, and just not render the mech? Render textures?

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Working on level select screen.

>>158607183
>tfw making a lewd game for group of like ~50 people to play

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>>158607405
The screens turn transparent. Render textures would be really performance intensive.
The mech is designed so the chest armor is hidden in game to give the player a full forward view.

>>158607754
>tfw making a game I want because nobody else will and holding out the hope for LODSEMONE

>>158607635
wow that looks awesome

>>158605821
Cutscenes are too different from gameplay. I doubt the ingame engine could even render at the 1 minute mark.

>>158595271
>How do I commit to a single project?
Use the thought of the next project to drive you to finish the one you're working on right now.

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Working on a new enemy. The palette is completely placeholder, and I don't have an eye for shading, but I'd love thoughts.

It's an enemy with two forms, this is the animation for the head. Haven't drawn the rest yet obviously.

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>>158607635
>>158609590
Don't be a project-hopping slut like Vine

>>158607635
Vine pls finish a game.
Risk of caverns is already 5 years old

>>158596161
Is your game the one with the baseball spaceman and the plants?

I miss you from the threads on /v/ months ago, tell me about your projects

>>158607635
one or two too many sine wave graphics but otherwise looks ace

>>158595271
Come up with so many ideas until you get one so great you're bursting at the seams to work on.

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multiplayer side scrollers

What do you want in them?

>>158610682
Meaningful interactivity with other players, first and foremost, whether it be positive or negative.

>>158610942
so, being able to carry and throw players by grabbing them from behind for example?

>>158607635
i hate complimenting vine but i admit it looks juicy.

>>158611030
I enjoyed it in Super Mario Bros. Wii.

>>158595271
I'm just working on week long projects for now.
It gets me going but it's not too much work.
Though technically the games I'm making are a series so its sort of one game that will take a few months.

What's your studio called?

>>158611508
(You) games

>>158611508
One Man Army Enterprises

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Added a few really cheesy "ack" sounds that play when the player jumps.
Honestly, they might get annoying after a while. I might just remove them.

>>158611508
ke mo sho co

>>158611508
Black Shell Media

>>158611817
Motherfucker don't even think of removing them.

Make it a random chance on jump to produce aforementioned "ack". Adjust as necessary.

>>158611817
Just make sure they're soft and add some non-ACK noises that can also play.

>>158611960
There are three different sounds, a random one plays each time the player jumps. They're currently the only sound in my game.

>>158611508
Boku no Studio

>>158611508
<first name last name> studios.

>>158611508
Aneurysm HQ

>>158611508

>Spent better part of a month coming up with a name for my game
>This question
FUUUUUUUUUUUUuuu

>>158610682
chip and dale system
where you can hold your friend and throw them to death

>>158605508
>this guy will never make art for you while you focus on implementing features and mechanics
life is hard, boys

>>158611508
Golden Battery Company™
the slogan is
Our company is powered by your gold.

>>158611508
Sarah Alberton Photography

>>158612059
Make it a one in ten for every jump, and when it triggers for a jump, choose between the three.

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>>158611508
Mountainous Development

>>158612478
>I'll never implement MY ideas with THEIR art

pathetic anon, you should be happy to implement their ideas since they're obviously more creative than you

>>158612478
>you will never have remotely good art at all

>>158606870
>substance material drag-and-drop

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>you will never anything

>>158613514
THAT'S why I felt like I'd seen it before

>>158613380
I even work with hundreds of 3d artists, but I'm only more than an acquaintance with a few and they're so overworked anyway I doubt any would want a side project.

>>158611508
Tarl Warwick Studios

Unity question

Any good examples of what a 'player' gameobject might look like?

When designing applications, class hierarchy is pretty straightforward.

I'm having trouble imagining how to get a player to be accessed by outside code, and having separate classes for input, movement/control and updating graphics.

I imagine this is just a case of willingly designing a monster class just to learn and chopping it up later, but would appreciate any advice you guys have.

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Multiple planets. I'll probably need to add some sort of Sins style overview map if I plan to have more than 2 or 3 planets.

I gotta stop recording inside the editor. It's always a choppy mess.

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>Look at analytics
>1 Download
>It's my brother

>>158613854
Don't take an attitude with me you fucking skeleton.

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So where are we gonna go?

>>158614050
agdgchan when

>>158614050
You know where

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>>158614017
>Look at analytics
>26 downloads in the last 2 months

>>158613938
>how to get a player to be accessed by outside code
Singleton that gets populated in Awake()

> separate classes for...
Whenever I add anything it usually gets a new class instead of being added into an existing one, ECS style

>>158614156
Please tell me how

>>158614050
Nothing stays the same forever, anon. Sometimes things end.

>>158614227
its almost demo day, just chill and shill

>>158614050
He's just doing this so people will buy more passes and donate more.

>>158614050
Please don't force us to go to the bloated shitty *ch
I'd rather just go to reddit than there.

>>158614017
>>158614156
>tfw over 4000 downloads
>tfw still not sure if people even like your game

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Started adding elevators. The collision is being a little shit but other than that they work perfectly.

>>158614206
Sorry, but formal education might have ruined me. I'm learning that game dev breaks a lot of rules.

I was told that singletons are always bad. Any alternatives or is that just not the case here?
I hope for no alternatives, as I love the idea of this pattern in dev.

>>158614050
4chan has a large enough wealthy gay / autist fanbase to stay running for the next 100 years.

>>158614347
>*ch
nice

>shitty
Their /v/ is exactly the same as here, except their images load faster and their webms have sound

>>158614227
I uploaded it to DDX, and I have a link to my itch.io page on my Twitter which has 2 followers.

>>158613985
Dude that looks so cool.

>>158614421
sounds like your formal education might not have been great

Recap archive where
Active greenlights where

>>158614412
Will this be a metroidvania?

>>158614480
>>>/qa/789685

if agdg is so good why don't they ma,ke an agdg2

>>158614575
Not in gamedev perhaps.
Just that creating a globally accessible instance is generally a bad idea in any case, and in application design you look for patterns that either
>Allow access to specific functions, given only to the members that need access
Or
>Service location service that ensures that the member making the call is intended to do so.

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>>158614710
>runs 2chan for over a decade
>can't handle 4chan
>not realising Hiro is the biggest OG troll of them all

>>158614721
'cause they can't figure out how they could casualize agdg any more than it already is

>>158614710
>donations don't work
alright now it's obvious we're being rused.

>>158614347
>I'd rather go to a hugbox without anonymity than to the closest thing to 4chan
Well is clearly where you belong.

Do you have to give up video games to gamedev?

>>158614693
I'm kind of leaning in that direction but without as many movement upgrades. If not it will have heavy exploration elements anyway.

>>158614828
>Service location service that ensures that the member making the call is intended to do so
What does this mean?

free released 2D or 3D cute girl when?

>>158615040
it's hard to be a gamedev if you still enjoy playing video games

>>158614828
well, singletons are used all the times outside of game dev and there's nothing wrong with them when used appropriately, so whoever told you that was definitely wrong

>>158615040
No

>>158614871
Obviously.
I'm surprise very little didn't find it suspect the moment he post about 4chan's situation he added "malicious ads", "more pass features", "deleting boards" and "slower servers" before even considering donation, the one thing that 99% of sites do when they need money from a community.

oh do this all on 4chan's birthday while running a pass sale.

>>158614573
Thanks anon!

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Brought in the ancient HUD I made a while ago, and also tweaked the PID machines that were operating the thrusters to smooth them out a bit. Feels more natural now, but this is probably something that will have to be tweaked "by feel" for any ship that gets added. Also added a cockpit/chase camera system that can be toggled between.

I finally got 3DS working again, so hopefully I can put together a crude model with animated landing gear. I'm really curious about trying to figure out suspension.

I really want to figure out a cleaner way to assign the thruster visuals. Right now they're really work intensive to set up.

>>158615515
jesus fuck that looks amazingly smooth, ace combat anon has some future competition

>>158615515
I want to touch those trails

>>158615515
I like that HUD.

>>158615515
wow, nice no man sky ripoff

IVE ASKED FREE RELEASED 2D OR 3D CUTE GRIL WHEN?

>>158615171
It's something I've used in the past for programs that had data that was regularly updated, but vital to the application that it be reliable.

Classes would be given a unique identifier which the service locator would confirm is the ID for the member was created by that program.

If the ID was on the 'whitelist' when the call was received, the service locator would be able to know which class to send to, and what arguments to send.

Not what it would be used for in gamedev, but just an easy example.

Player's bullet flies through a player, and collides with an enemy.

Bullet calls service locator twice, with damageEnemy(enemyInstance, bulletInstance, UID) and damageFriendly(friendlyInstance, bulletInstance, UID)

If friendly fire were on, the player's UID would be on the whitelist for damageFriendly, and it would cause damage.

If friendly fire was off, the player's UID would not be on the whitelist for damageFriendly, and the damage would be ignored.

Horrible idea to use this in an FPS, but I think it illustrates the concept well

>>158615209
>A professor exaggerated the severity of a 'design principle' and there are plenty of exceptions that they decided to ignore.
I'm starting to notice a pattern noPunIntendedPleaseDon'tKillMe here.

>>158613938
Same thing, pretty much, single-responsibility.

Make a movement controller, a health controller, a combat controller.

another thing you could do is to develop a finite state. Look up the SuperCharacterController on github, it includes one that you can take apart and look at, it's pretty well made.

imagine you have an enemy, let's pretend you've made your own character controller using overlap capsule and raycasts for ground, slop detection, collision etc.

what happens when they collide with an object tagged "player"?
raise an event, let one of the player classes decide what happens, the enemy class doesn't care about player health, just raise an event, pass through information that the PlayerHealth class can deal with accordingly.

>>158615813
as soon as you're done with school you'll realize academics are the worst people

you definitely learn a ton in school, but also when we interview new grads we expect them to be completely useless while spending a few months learning how to actually program. that's just the way things are

>>158615618
They're super generic stock Unity trails, although I think these might have the new trail renderer. I forget if that was a beta feature or not.

>>158615609
Thanks, but Ace Combat anon has a much higher chance of actually creating a game with gameplay in it.

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Did my first normal map baking, kind of crappy but I'm going to improve it.

>>158613938
Finding objects in Unity is usually done by tag or name, or linking the object directly in the inspector. You're also welcome to have god-awful "managers" (usually singletons lol) which every other retard will recommend or rig up your own solution (generic events, locator pattern, etc.).

Input should be separate from the player prefab. Have the input send the appropriate instructions to the player object.

Updating the visuals can be done however you want, usually pulling states from the object and updating the mesh / sprite renderer accordingly.

Stop thinking in terms of hierarchy. Start thinking in terms of granular components with their own logic. You don't have entity -> movable entity -> player, you have a player with a humanoid movement component, a sprite renderer component, a health component, etc.

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From yesterday, internet cut out so I couldn't respond to the shitposting.

>>158594497

C-cute!

>>158613985

Which program do you use to record?

>>158616217
It's okay.

Use xnormal if you didn't already.

>>158613938
building on >>158616262, you can use interfaces to generically communicate between objects

a Health component could implement an IDamagable interface that has TakeDamage(amount, damage type) - then when a bullet collides with an object, it does:
IDamagable damable = object I collded with.GetComponent<IDamagable>();

if(damagable != null)
damagable.TakeDamage(10, Physical);

>>158615950
That's literally how I feel. Especially with gamedev stuff. I love some of the problems from my final courses, or higher level foobar stuff. I might get to do something like that if I can get anywhere. Will be fun to learn again, I guess.

>>158615905
So far what I've got is the base class, interface for input, stats (health, resources, equipment) and an 'external interface' (functions that let enemies and object ask about the player)

The player 'base' class loads the interfaces from the resources folder and adds them to the player at runtime, and when other objects collide with the player they get the external interface.

Just feels weird.

>>158616262
Feel free to see above, but what I felt the worst about was linking classes in the inspector. Second worst was searching by tags.

>>158616392
This sounds exactly like what I have in mind.

>>158616309
it actually works better in the latest version of 3ds max.

>>158616298
I just use Application.CaptureScreenshot() to pull them all but it's not very responsive at decent resolutions or complex scenes. I'm too lazy to make a proper build and snap something up with Shadowplay most of the time.

>>158616438
Building your game object at run time is very anti-Unity desu.

>>158616686
This just felt so damn wrong, but is it something that usually happens?

So player prefab saved in resources. All appropriate classes attached to it, and linked in the inspector?

Or is it anti-Unity because Unity thinks badly, and it's actually the right thing to do. I can't tell with you....

>>158609770
Any thoughts/critique/tips?

>>158616853
its anti unity because of the garbage collector, you lose a lot of performance creating things at runtime . The right way is pre-instantiate everything and just turn them on when you need it.

>>158617028
Holy hell. This stuff is not making any sense to me now.

So you're telling me (in Unity) it's better to have all possibly useful components attached and disabled, than to add components at runtime?

>>158617131
Not him, but pooling things like bullets or anything that you will be instantiating a crap ton of is a good practice. Instantiating things is relatively expensive, so if there are things that you know will be instantiating a ton of, consider thinking of ways to keep them around but inactive.

If I'm understanding you right though, you're loading components onto the object at runtime. Why? If you already know what components you're going to have on that object, it should be saved off as a prefab. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something though.

>>158616882
here's a tips.
it's so uninteresting that nobody even bothered to comment on it.
next time figure it out by your own.

>>158616853
I don't use the resources folder at all - I link it in the inspector to my factory class so I can pool things (like bullets). One off things, like the player, I'd just leave in the scene or link to the map controller so it can spawn the player and move it to the proper location in it's Start().

Why do you need to add / remove so many components all of the time? Just enable or disable things selectively as you need them.

I don't know why the other anon suggested it was a GC issue - there's no garbage created when creating an object, only when destroying it.

>>158605508
At least have the decency to make the entire game in English from the ground up or program support for multiple languages from the ground up. It will be fucking shit to do that later in the production cycle and at that point you might be too tired to do it. If you went with German all the way you might not translate the game to English.

Alt-tabbing, what should I pick:
1. Open pause menu (like they pressed Escape)
2. Pause game, but don't open menu, so it restarts as soon as the game has focus again
3. Don't pause, let the user pause first before they alt+tab

>>158616309
lol

>>158617430
I think that depends heavily on the genre. What kind of game?

>>158617517
think like witcher/elder scrolls-type of game

>>158617430
what's ur game?

action game?
then pause it. doesn't matter 1 or 2.

strategy game? turn based game where not pausing doesn't matter?
or real time game that requires you to wait, and player will get impatient and alt tab out to browse web or listen to music?
don't pause.

>>158617430
I can think of situations where I've wished a game wouldn't pause when I alt-tabbed out of it, but never vice versa. If I needed to alt-tab and didn't want things to happen I would pause before alt-tabbing.

>>158617430
If I alt-tab during a game, it's because I want the process to continue while I do something more interesting, don't pause it.

>>158617330
Also not him, god damn pooling things like that sounds clunky and terrible. It seems like the kind of thing someone who doesn't know how to instantiate would do. I guess I should start doing it though, I have enemy spawners that instantiate enemies and enemies that instantiate bullets all over the place.
Programming is weird

>>158617701
Instantiating enemies isn't that bad unless you're instantiating literally hundreds every minute, but you might want to look into pooling bullets. Especially so if you've got stuff that's like a machine gun and you want to get serious about optimizing that shit.

There's examples of pools somewhere I think on the Unity wiki. I think I adapted one of those for my purposes in the case of bullets. What happens is that any time a gun was instantiated into the world, it would also instantiate all the bullets it could possibly have out in the world at a time all at once. Then, instead of a bullet being deleted when it expired or hit something, it was just deactivated and added back into the pool. If you write your pool smartly, it won't be much different (from the bullet or gun's perspective) codewise from deleting the bullet and/or instantiating a new one.

>>158617701
Pooling is super simple mate.

Pool.CreateObject<MyBullet>()
{
MyBullet bullet

if(cache.count > 0)
bullet = remove from cache
else
bullet = make a new one

return bullet;
}

and then in MyBullet.OnDisable()

Pool.Destroy<MyBullet>(this);

That way you don't cause the GC to run

>>158617394
See, I was told that you should use the resources folder so that Unity knows what needs to be loaded.

Same as you. I have the factory class, but it loads the resource prefab at runtime.

>>158617701
This is the kind of thing you would want to do, as far as I know.

You have something that holds the prefab, and loads it from the resources. That way it's already loaded.

Then when you instantiate, you are copying the prefab. The factory maintains the loaded prefab.

Just think about the function call otherwise.

If you have a factory, it's
>Instantiate(loadedPrefab)

If you load it from Resources whenever you need it, it's (condensing it into one line to make my point)
>Instantiate(Resources.Load(prefab))

You have to make the load call every time you instantiate it, versus only loading it once.

Now this is for things you need a lot of, preferably small (like he said, bullets would be a great example.) You wouldn't maintain a loaded copy of something you don't need that often.

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>his game uses bullets
>not toilet paper

>Compiling Shaders (1,435)
Welp

>>158618218
>(1,435)
What the actual fuck

>>158617975
>Instantiating enemies isn't that bad unless you're instantiating literally hundreds every minute
Okay good, right now I spawn at most one enemy per 3~ seconds, and 2~ bullets per second.
I'll keep that in mind if I start to crank shit up, though

>>158618218
HAHAHAHA

>>158618324
>>158618429
It's the AutomotiveMaterials free project from Epic.

That's all it is, materials, and shitloads of instances of them.

>>158618467
They are sexy though

>>158618212
You will get patent trolled.

>>158614050
But I have nowhere else to go
Irl people don't get it and everywhere else is a nightmare
If making games means drinking the hipster coolaid then i don't want to

>>158618324
daily life when importing assets in unreal

>>158618519
I am currently touching myself while viewing the car paint graph.

>Pause event has been registered for this frame

Awe shit
What did I do?
My screen is all stretched out and the frame rate is half of what its supposed to be.
GM btw.

private
setters

I'm gonna make a game tomorrow!

>>158618962
I think you're gonna need to give a fuckload more information for anyone to have a chance of helping you.

Any error message you can't understand you can and should google, because I guarantee someone else has asked about it on stack overflow or the GMC. In fact, any beginner question you have should be googled first.

>>158617430
When in doubt make it an option.
Although It's probably better to let the player pause it on their own.

>>158617430
just make this an option like FTL does,

on ALT-TAB pause yes/no

Any critique? The event currently passes the instance the change occurred on, should it also pass by reference the field itself?

>>158619081
I have never understood shit like getters and setters.

It's one thing when you have some calculations you want to do when you set a value, but a lot of time you just see them as what is essentially a public property.

What even is the point of public properties 99% of the time when you don't care about the C# features that only work with them?

OOP really makes no sense. It seems like writing code for codes sake.

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Added layer support, I can give layers different depth values.

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>>158620180
neat

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>>158620129
ffffuuuuu-

>>158620148
Its a nice easy way to set a breakpoint for whenever a variable is set (or gotten). Unfortunately intellisense isn't intelligent enough to let you jump to all the code that calls the setter vs calls the getter, it just shows everything that touches the property.

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So I've had a pet peeve with certain space sims, and it's something I noticed the last time I did one of these very flight computer physics based space ships. When your velocity vector is behind you, the way that your ship rigidly zeroes out the velocity vector feels weird and unintuitive.

I just changed it so that once your velocity starts to end up behind you (you're flying backwards) the translation thrusters put less effort into zeroing out the slide. Once your velocity vector is more than 45 degrees behind you, it stops trying to zero out a slide completely. This makes for doing those sharp turns where you turn 180 degrees feel much smoother and more natural.

webm related shows the new way. The red line is the velocity vector.

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>>158620295
>those names

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>>158620419
Webm related shows a similar turn with the old alignment rules. What will often happen is in your slide backwards you'll suddenly find yourself flying straight backwards before you start moving forwards again. It feels bad, but it also kinda leaves you a sitting duck in terms of being shot at.

The new flight control rules smooth out the transition from backwards to forwards flight keeps you in motion.

The thruster strengths were all reduced to exaggerate the effect, but even when they're powered up you can feel the difference.

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Progressing well on this texture!
Paying the blood price in UV hell was worth it

>>158620419
>>158620580
The new smooth way definitely looks a lot better.

>>158620620
I like the Vagrant Story-esque palette.

>>158597594
Think about how you could skip parts of levels using that, etc. Do you really want to design a game around that?

Personally I'd just leave in the classicvania knockback, but have it respawn you next to the pit and cause some damage.

>>158620871
A castlevania-like with sequence breaks? God forbid.

>>158620871
if the player manages to find a way to speedrun the game using the mechanics, im all for that.
but like i said well see once i start designing levels

>>158620871
>not wanting the speed running community for free marketing

>>158620419
>>158620580
That's pretty cool. I wondered exactly what you meant until you posted the 2nd webm and it confirmed what I thought you meant.

You've basically created a flight computer setting that tries maintain some momentum and redirects it when doing a flip and burn. I think technically your method is less "efficient" but the trade off is that you don't stop dead making yourself an easy target, correct? Makes a vacuum craft behave like an aircraft.

I think enabling the "old" way as a flight computer setting would be ace since you may not want to veer off laterally when you flip and burn (perhaps there is an object there).

>>158618962
Usually that means you "clicked out" of the game window onto something else. It still runs i the background but is no longer the main focus. Clicking back onto the window should reverse this unless you did something truly fucktacular with your code.

>>158620812
Thanks

Here >>158620419 it feels like your ship has an unbelievable amount of mass and >>158620580 here it feels like your ship has no mass at all.

Are you sure you have your forces right?

>>158620990
>>158621047
>>158621057
Yeah but I think even regular players would see the potential and abuse it. You don't want to make a broken game.

The skips in classicvanias are minor at worst.

>>158615040
Yes, you need to forget videogames exist

>>158621406
"Players taking advantage of game mechanics" and "broken game" are not necessarily one and the same, especially not in this case.

>>158621406
if you time the recovery at the absolute peak, you're essentially getting a double jump, and the horizontal distance is basically a double jump as well. plus you only get one recovery until you land and you need to take damage as a result. i honestly think if a player decides to play with the mechanics like that- its great. i love glitches/sequence breaks/unintended functionality personally. as long as i don't open the door for anything that can break the game, im all for it.

>>158620620
nice are you going to leave the face, you could get away with just eyes or no features probably

>>158621794
Thanks!
I was considering it.
I don't think there's any reliable way of making a face without going either very blurry, or very cartoony...
It's a bit of a waste, though, because I gave the face a lot of texture space with that in mind.

>>158621371
I think it might seem that way because a regular burn and flip (2nd webm) is more efficient since it doesn't muck about and just does a 180 change in heading (going from +10 m/s to 0 to -10m/s, all on one axis). The 1t webm is much more "lossy", it's going from 10 m/s in the X axis to 5x/5y to -10x.

It's putting work into going off on some other vector as well as changing heading.

>>158621371
>Are you sure you have your forces right?
Yes. The physics are all correct. When you break down what's happening to its component forces it makes sense that you get exactly what happened in the second webm.

However it doesn't FEEL right, and that was honestly the driving factor behind my wanting to do that. Both my old physics based space ship thingie and Star Citizen do it the rigid way because that's most intuitive way to write it.

Where Y is up/down motion, the logic is basically:

If Y velocity > 0, apply thrust in -Y
else if Y velocity < 0, apply thrust in +Y

That will do exactly what it needs to do: It will cancel out the vertical velocity. It doesn't care what your forward/back or up/down components are doing, it'll just try its best to straighten out its component with the thrusters it has available.

>>158621072
I can think of specific situations where you might want to have one or the other. Or maybe somebody just prefers it one way or the other. It's trivial to make it a toggleable option, although where I would put such a toggle is another matter.

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>learning 3d modeling
>ez so far
>get to UV wrapping

what the FUCK how does anybody do this? i don't know what the fuck i'm doing holy fuck this process shpuld be way simpler

>>158624146
you can paint the uvs on

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My first boss sprite.
Pretty shitty but I like it.

>>158624146
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texture_Coordinates

>>158624146
I think that's illegal anon.

What video game has the best magic system I should steal?

whats patent trolling?

>>158624558
Skyrim

>>158624461
Remembering now that I should add variety instead of copy and pasting the heads.

Are there any well-known design patterns that are inherently bad?

I know that I should just make game, but I want to know if there is anything that I should just avoid (unity in particular.)

Eg. I want to make an event system, particularly to receive input and either send to enemy AI or player for movement/controls. I just don't know if an event queue is feasible in a game.

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>>158624794
singletons

>>158614050
8ch is decent enough

either that or masterch

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>>158624146
>Bitching about that
Bitch please

>>158624984
This is exactly why I'm afraid to make highly detailed models

>>158624837
I use singleton-like things all the time and I feel dirty about it.

>>158624837
>>158625275
I don't know what's bad about singletons, or how they should be implemented instead.

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I guess OBS doesn't record the mouse when the thing it's recording loses focus. But now the mouse is no longer locked to the center of the screen when you alt+tab. I decided not to pause the game, and was too lazy to add a menu option for a prototype. I'll add it in for the main game though.

>>158625275
>>158625370

Singletons are only shit if you use global variables, otherwise it's not so bad and practical.

>>158624984
>>158625049
Day of the rope is coming for UVs. Modelling has been getting better tools over time, texturing has turned into this insane procedural beast where the process has never been easier (if you've got the tools). UVs have gotten better packing tools aaaaaaand that's about it.

Though photogrammetry does some cool stuff and that kind of changes the rules for UVs, though not applicable to everything of course. I'm waiting for some crazy bullshit "virtual photogrammetry" in Substance painter or similar where you end up with a perfectly good asset that you never had to manually unwrap at any point.

>>158625641
I'm making my own engine with Java and it doesn't support globals.

Is your game FUN?

>>158625753
Why aren't you using assembly faggot

>>158625853
Is anything?

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is this too busy?

https://clyp.it/no4b0kw4

i don't know what i'm doing.

>>158595271
I've stuck with my project for almost two years now and honestly, I have no idea what to tell you. Even if I'm dissatisfied with my game most days and have plenty of other ideas I'd like to try fleshing out, I just... work on my main project anyway. I think it may be a combination of routine, seeing the potential in it that hasn't been fully realized, not wanting to let down the few people who have shown interest, and a bit of autism.

>>158626396
>https://clyp.it/no4b0kw4

i like your left hand but you should cut off your right

>>158625712
Good riddance.

What premade generic RPG system can I take and use in games without worrying about licensing?

>>158614902
>I'd rather stay in my safe space where no one knows I'm a sausage than venture out and possibly get licked

>>158599567
>>158601710
I was just going to the skeleton tab of the model and selecting stuff. I figured that was the same as the bones in blender but from your comments it probably isn't.

Is it easy to re-import the model again later with proper boning while still retaining the work I've done in UE4?

I want to first test if I can get it moving before putting lots of effort into boning something that won't work.

>>158615460
are you fucking serious? that was a list of the things he could do, he didn't even say he was considering doing all of them, just that they were possible
if you don't lay out all the options you're not really trying

>>158627426
any changes you make to the mesh in unreal will get overwritten (like changing the base material or default rotation/scale), but if you have a blueprint referencing the mesh, that will be fine if you reimport

>>158627718
>but if you have a blueprint referencing the mesh, that will be fine if you reimport
Probably not. I just have a list of like 90 mesh parts and just made materials of the textures I had and stuck them on the parts. I didn't do more than that so I'm sure I don't have a blueprint referencing the mesh.

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>>158620620
Noticed how spindly and weird the legs were, so I tried fixing them.
Ended up adjusting the whole mesh, and now he looks a lot more "adult", but I'm not sure that it is better.
Fuck.

>>158627982
if you assigned the materials on the mesh object itself, then it will probably get overwritten if you reimport

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im so excited to work on this game based entirely around UI _______:)

>>158627426
watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDbpHamn2eY

>>158628191
Desktop simulator?

>>158620148
to me the structural elements of it make sense, but the active elements often don't
e.g.
organizing my data? good
organizing my loops? good
organizing my functions? good
vs.
sorting out what can access what? makes some sense but it feels like overkill
setters and getters? makes a bit more sense but seems a bit obtuse and lacking in transparency
patterns and all that meta shit? seems like using keys and modes in music-- just as much (if not more so) a matter of how good pieces turn out as it is a matter of how to make something good
Java? Satan
>>158620295
does it not have line-number breakpoints?

>>158628258
tendies sim, you have to delete shitposts or u'll get fired (and lose), but you also have to throw out your piss bottles through the window if your good boy points drop too low (or else you wont get tendies for dinner and u lose)

>>158615813
>if friendly fire were on, the player's UID would be on the whitelist for damageFriendly
Whose responsibility is that?

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>>158628052
Keep messing with it and before you realize it, your guy turns into this guy.

What's the best workflow for making a cave level environment in Unity? Like, should I be doing this shit in Blender or are Unity's terrain tools strong enough?

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>>158628103
Well bones seem to be working though. I'm trying not to get too excited because it feels too easy. I need to go to work but I'm gonna try and connect an animation to the bones real quick

>>158628356
I don't know why I still have this tab open when working on my game, or why I'm bothering to respond to someone trolling a post where I said 2-3 times that it was not something that it would be used for.

Enjoy the small satisfaction you get in the fact that I was not upset, but at least bothered to reply to you.

Appreciate you reminding me to close agdg though. Don't need this level of bullshit while trying to actually make progress.

>>158628264
>does it not have line-number breakpoints?
The pic is just my shitty cropping, if thats what you mean

>>158627580
>that was a list of the things he could do, he didn't even say he was considering doing all of them
Okay, how does this matters? How doesn't make it questionable how he had really undesirable 'options' first and didn't consider donations until like a week later?

>if you don't lay out all the options you're not really trying
This is meaningless, he knew that saying stuff like 'malicious ads' and 'deleting boards' would scare people and then at the same time run a sale on passes?


I mean by your own metric he wasn't really trying, he didn't even list the most sensible and used method of monetary support for a website.

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>>158628341

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>>158628484
anon I was asking a code question
someone must have trolled you good in the past hour, your jimmies appear to be in orbit

>>158628191
Will it be a judgement call for the player on whether something is shitposting or not, or it will it literally say shitposting, and the gameplay is about clicking fast enough

>>158606254
aren't those marketplace assets?

>>158628863
it will be about judging if somethings a shitpost, it will be obvious though, everything will be about video games except shitposts which will be dumb shit like ALL CAPS SPAM and ponies

>>158605508
Motion blur is normally shit but thats pretty nice, not overdone

The specularity is nice too

>>158628896
he definitely made the enemy and I think the sword, so it seems likely he did the envir too

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526KB, 1440x900px

Well it sort of works...?

Guess I'll need more time to check out if I can get everything to work. I think I know what I did wrong.

Trying to put together a design document of scope for a farming game.

Does anyone think that players would really miss fishing if I didn't have it?

It always seemed like a tedious waste of time to me, and requires a lot of unique assets that will seldom be used. Besides I want a farming game to finally include butchering so it's not even required to get meat for cooking stuff

>>158629605
ditch farming, stardew valley did that. make an Animal Crossing clone, complete with random villagers and real-time gameplay. you'll sell hundreds to me

>>158629568
looks pretty good to me