/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

I posted wrong image sry

My blood runs cold!
My memory has just been sold
My progress is the centerfold (progress is the centerfold!)

I'm glad I kept this in. Goblin Overlord doesn't give a shit if his minions get in the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV5aUghrLVQ&t=1676

>copy A* pathfinding algorithm from internet
>re-work it from java to GML
>it just werks
huh.

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who else /LODmodel/ here

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Like the 4th time I've posted in these threads w/e
Anyone needs music, I'm just bored atm with nothing to do

ex.
https://soundcloud.com/delolo/mub

>>160149769
you don't even have to do it yourself anymore
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Content/Types/StaticMeshes/LOD/

>>160149726
That's the beautiful thing about algorithms. They're just abstract rules. As long as you know how to implement it properly it will work in any language.

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>tfw too intelligent for unity

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>>160149910
>tfw to intelligent to fail for a bad intentionally used meme

>>160149784
can you do ambient

>>160149854
I don't use UE4. I just use decimate in Blender to make LODs.

>>160149784
can you do sound fx
I could use some generic fantasy buff/debuff a guy samples, and a sound effect to signal that something magically teleported in

>>160150086
Depends
Instrumental ambient (like, using real instruments) or with synths?
>>160150154
Mmm, let try it, if it works I'll post it here

I would need some advice for my project's story:

I first created 16 main characters for the very first time, but later decided to expand more characters per different groups:

Alpha = 16 - The main roster
Bravo = 10
Charlie = 8
Delta = 16
Echo = 16
Foxtrot = 8
Golf = 16

In total, they're 90

And with the Alpha Unit's parents are 26 so in total are 116.

The question is, is it bad if I introduce way too many characters at once?

To be clear, I plan to add the Foxtrot and Golf characters for a second game.

But now I realized that I'm kinda talking about a Private Military Company's complete roster so far.

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What would be the most innovate mechanic to put into a traditional turn based RPG or tactical RPG?

Miyazaki came out of retirement to save anime.
Who will be the one to save indie games?

>>160150639
(You)

>>160150631
no worries ideaguy to the rescue
if you time it right you get extra damage

why does visual studio always take so much time to open reeeee

>>160150589
Please tell me this is some sort of bait.
Even some of the best stories ever told rarely have more than like 20 main/important characters.
There's no way an indie dev could make interesting personalities and stories for 116 characters. And to be honest no one is going to care about that many people.
Just keep the story centered on Alpha for now, flesh out those 16 characters. See where it goes from there.

>>160150589
That is entirely too many main characters, holy shit what are you thinking

>>160150705
Damn, that's inspirational anon.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna make a game that saves all indie games!

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>>160150747

>>160150957
You're completely right, at least from Bravo to Golf are nothing but Persona 3/4/5 and Danganronpa 1/2/Another Episode/V3 COPYCATS.

>>160150985
I try to make games with massive rosters like DMM, fighting and Lego Marvel games

>>160150589
If you're talking about that many characters existing that's not too bad
But you can't possibly make the player interested in the individual personalities or stories of that many characters. Even 16 is a stretch

>>160151186
The Danganronpa series have 16 characters, though but that's for like depending on what new entry is coming or something

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>>160150747

you don't have a schedule of when features are going to be complete and you'll be submitting to greenlight?

enjoy development hell

>>160150367
>real instruments) or with synths?
doesn't matter as long as it could set the tone for nature-type environments. i could also use a few songs like the one you posted

>>160151374
Every day I set a goal for something to be finished that day. Usually I set the goal pretty low and I end up implementing multiple things.
Sometimes I get stuck on something and end up spending a day or two on it, but that's okay.

It's interesting how much it helps to just set a small goal.

I could use some advice.

I'm working on a small RPG game, very basic.

I think I have a good feel for the map, the enemies, and setting things up how I want. But I'm having trouble with classes/skills and the characters. I know what the party will look look, but I don't know how I should go about doing things.

How do I decide how much HP a character should have? Or set up their leveling up?

One of the characters is a buffer, his primary job would be to assist the party, but how should I go about making him a buffer and giving the player some control over this aspect besides just giving them the choice of what move the character uses?

Also any advice would be appreciated.

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>>160151484
Sure, I could do it
Any way I can msg you besides here anon?

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>forget microsoft account password
>go to change password
>please use a password that you have never used with this account
>create completely new password that i only use with this account
>forget password
>repeat

EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. TIME.
JUST LET ME USE AN OLD PASSWORD YOU FUCKS

>>160150957
>>160150985
>>160151186
Not even examples like Caligula might even help
http://gematsu.com/2016/04/caligula-over-500-potential-party-members

can we change the dates of the dino jam to be closer together? 2 weeks is way too long of a window

would like something like Dec 10th-11th much more

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Tried to make my own nearest neighbor scaling algorithm since SDL won't scale palettized surfaces

And uh, as you can see I have some work to do

In Unreal 4 is it possible to do a raytrace to get a button in a widget?

I'm trying to make a radial menu where only the angle of the mouse relative to the center matters and I think that's the simplest way to do it

I'm asking because line trace doesn't like 2D vectors and I think it uses worldspace rather than camera

>>160151279

I'd play an Advent Cirno JRPG!

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>>160152109
I swear to fucking Christ, Microsoft. Why you gotta make me jump through a hundred hoops?

>>160152175
It doesn't matter. You can start right now. Or you can start a day before the jam ends.
Do whatever you want.

>>160152316
what do you mean? if you know the center, and you can get the x/y location of the mouse, sounds like you already have the angle

>>160152389
Surely the biggest tech company in the world would realise by now that the actual content of the password doesn't mean shit, it's only the length that matters
Combinations of cases, numbers, and symbols just make it harder to remember and don't improve the security at all

>>160152394
well it does matter, nobody plays games submitted at the end and the more complex games take a long time to work on

>>160152389
https://makemeapassword.org/

>>160152571
I swear to god Microsoft is the only company that I have trouble remembering my password.
I WONDER WHY

Google has the same issue with not allowing old passwords, but thankfully I haven't fallen down the rabbithole yet like I have with M$

>>160152486
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I already tried that system rather than raytracing

I can't get a degree value above 180 degrees so I gave up

>>160152571
it's a herd immunity thing
if everyone has to include the extra characters than the dictionary by definition has to be larger

>>160152680
you probably want atan2 rather than tan

>>160152175
what >>160152394 said
despite what some anons may think, its not a competition. Just say "done in X days" on your game page.
Most people wait till its done to play all the games since there are so many last minute entries

>>160152680
the simple way is probably just do it from 0 to 180 then say if cursor.y < center.y, result *= -1;

>>160152593
What are you talking about? No one submits games until the last day of the jam anyways, because they want to spend as much time as they can making the game. So every game will be submitted at more or less the same time. There's also plenty of people that don't play jam games until the jam submissions are done.

And if someone is making a complex game then they have more than enough time to make it, or try to make it.

>>160152296
spooky

>>160152296
reminds me of missingno

>>160152389
Randomly generate a strong password and store it in a keepass database

>>160150589
Any more help?

>>160152617
>>160153115
doesnt even matter. i made a new password but i cannot sign into visual studio because i get an error has occurred on this page which results in the continue button not working.

this is all garbage.

>>160153415
Typical Microsoft.

I have a struct that keeps what items have been gotten in a stage
When the game initializes, I set the bools to true. But when I use it in a function or print it, it says its false.
Does this have to do with reference or shit? I cant figure it out.

>>160153614
language? code?

>>160153614
post code on pastebin

but probably you are modifying a copy of the struct instead of a reference to the struct or something

>>160153671
>>160153703
I really didnt want to show my shitty ass code but whatever
http://pastebin.com/BV9NvneU

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>>160153501
oh apparently i need to update IE
for
fuck's
s a k e
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Got this fella working. Not sure if I want him to do a hit that will kill most enemies, or a small chip damage hit that's really fast

>>160153819
I don't know c sharp at all but don't you have to call new StagesInfo() for each index in the array?

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Anyone here ever do 3D/2.5D in Gamemaker? I kinda want to try it, looks neat.

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I re-drew all of the ships, but the difference is hardly noticeable when zoomed out.

>>160154414
part of the problem is that your ships and your background are both shades of blue, so they don't really stand out

>>160154372
You mean the constructor?
Its not a requirement for a struct.

>>160153868
>"Maybe if we do that they will start using IE again"
>"Seems like a good idea, let's do it"

I'm going to make a game!
And it's going to be a pixel platformer and I'm going to kill myself

>>160154379
That's completely 2D. Just layers of sprites staked on top of each other to give a 3D illusion.
It is kinda neat, but honestly it's pointless. You could make a game that looks just as good as that with normal low poly 3D in an engine that has proper 3D support. And it's easier to just make a 3D model instead of trying to make multiple layers like that. And you'll get the benefit of being able to do 3D things like tilt the camera, or have 3D character movement.

>>160154826
I never get random statements like this throughout the thread.

normally I ignore them but whats going on here, is it just the same person

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>>160154592
Even if the background isn't a blue planet, it's still unnoticeable when zoomed out, though it looks decent when zoomed in a lot.

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>>160154740
I updated to IE 11. Now it requires a full computer restart (which I can't do since I have a bunch of windows open that I'm working in, and IE doesn't register the update until the restart. Even then there's no guarantee that it'll work.

So here I pirating fucking free software hoping that it'll behave better since it'll probably have forced sign in disabled.

>>160154905
Nope, just me venting my lack of talent and creativity

>>160154414
>>160154414
You really need to change your art style if that is an updated version. The blue battle ships still look like something from a early 2000's flash game. You need proper shading, more detail and totally different colors.

Either go with simple 3d models or do 3d models and render them as sprites or hell, do pixel art if you have to. Just get rid of the terrible MS paint looking vector shit, seriously.

>>160154909
your space by default is dark blueish
your ship is a semi-saturated blue

I was going to post a screenshot from another 2D space game but I just realized the only one that looks any good is FTL

So like, are fonts free domain or do you have to make your own?

>>160154826
Hey man, pixel platformers can be fun. Just don't do the same exact thing that indie games keep doing. All of them are super generic Mario-like platformers sometimes with a weapon or some other little twist.

Try something different. Drill Dozer for example, that game was a platformer, but it had a unique drilling mechanic that allowed for plenty of unique interactions with the world.

>>160155016
Join on another persons project and learn from there, honestly most people are just glad to have help even if it's from somebody learning.

Being able to talk about your project with people who genuinely care and give good advice is worth more than you know

>>160155173
Some of them are, but a lot of them aren't. There are a lot of font websites out there and they will list the terms of the license.

>>160154961
Fresh VS install also requires a restart btw.

>>160155173
Depends on the font, however unless you are distributing the fonts as an actual font file, there's nothing to worry about. If you make font sprites, then you are in the clear, copywrite wise.

>>160155173
Depends on the font. Some are free, some aren't. Just like any other art asset.

>>160155294
i know. i already restarted my pc and got all my projects back up and got back into my workflow. massive pain in the ass.

plus i try not to shut down my pc whenever possible because 1/4 times i start it the fans go nuts and make awful sounds and to this day i havent been able to identify the cause ;-;

>>160152109
you need to write down your passwords, sempaiiii

>>160155389
>plus i try not to shut down my pc whenever possible because 1/4 times i start it the fans go nuts and make awful sounds and to this day i havent been able to identify the cause ;-;

do they use the 3 pin or 4 pin connector?

>>160155491
but then whats the point of requiring new passwords anon? if its a security thing, surely needing to write down passwords is even less secure?

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Progress on airship interior texture.

I think I'm happy with the floor, but the walls might be too messy and/or repetitious.

Thoughts?

>>160154961
This kind of shit is what prevents me for feeling bad about pirating software, specially microsoft stuff.

>>160155552
>download a desktop password manager like KeePassX
>use the built-in password generator to generate strong and secure passwords for websites you use
>create a password database that's encrypted with a master password that you memorize

there, all you need to do is memorize a single strong password

>>160155551
>do they use the 3 pin or 4 pin connector?
honestly i have no idea. built this about three or four years ago and don't remember a lot of the specifics.

did you have any suggestions?

>>160155692
and if you lose the password to the password manager?

>>160155389
>spoiler
I'm having that issue, one of the fans doesn't start properly and I have to give it a small poke with a stick and it starts working perfectly. I should buy a new one.

>>160152818
>>160152761
I'm getting weird angle values with acos and they're so weird I can't explain why they're weird

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>>160155040
I'm doing the best that I can, but I have no artistic ability. It would take forever to make 3d models of everything too.
>>160155163
The ship is blue because it's shaded in its team's color.

>>160155802
that is literally my exact problem. the case fan starts spinning either super fast or super slow (can't tell) and makes a loud buzzing sound. if i power off, push the fan a little bit, and restart, it usually works

>>160155795
>and if you lose the password to the password manager?
That's why you write it down on a piece of paper.

Jesus, is good ol fashioned notepads too good for you peopel?

>>160155947
and if you lose that/somebody takes it and suddenly has access to every single one of your passwords (which you also won't be able to remember without it)?

>>160155889
sure, it's that teams color, but keep in mind you get to pick which color each team is, and the background too
if you want to keep space blue, than just shift everyone else's colors away from cool colors and toward warm ones

>>160155870
>>160152761
>>160152818

Ok so the degree at which the function "zeros" the degree result so either direction results in a larger value than 0 or a smaller value than 180 seems to be at 110-120 degrees if you take straight up to be 0

>>160156108
you're overcomplicating things
the exact formula you need is
angle = atan2(mouse_y - center_y, mouse_x - center_x)

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>>160152109
>using microshit software

you brought this on yourself

>>160153614
>>160153671
>>160153703
>>160153819
I used for instead of foreach and it worked
Fucking gay as hell suck on my dick god damn it

>>160156354
i just wanted to try a hand at making a simple little program (know basic c# because of unity)
then it just turned into a disaster.

>>160155889
>It would take forever to make 3d models of everything too.

It'd take about 10 minutes tops for a rank amateur to build a model, unwrap it and texture it using that vector art as a reference. Blocky spaceships are literally "babby's first blender model".
Then you can just drop it in engine and the engine will do all the lighting for you so you don't need to put shit looking texture gradients on everything. Plus you can do flashy stuff like tilting the ship when it turns really easily.

How much time have you wasted on those assets so far to produce something that looks so bad that it will probably cost you customers?
Just spend a couple of hours learning babby tier 3d and stop being a lazy autist.

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>>160156438
Come to the land of freedom, leave the decadence of microsoft behind!

>>160156358
foreach never seemed to work the way I intended it either

no idea why
think it has weird rules about how stuff works

What's the max number of bones a vertice should be able to be influenced by?

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>>160156193
Ok so the function I made to get the center screen position is just dividing the resolution by half

The function I made to get the distance from the center for reasons I can no longer remember subtracts the resolution from the value GetMousePosition returns to basically move the position to 0 in the middle

I pass these two values into the function pictured as 2D vectors

The first picture is where 180 becomes -180

The second picture is where -29 becomes 150

I am confused

>>160157101
4 is pretty universal

4 is max for unity, standard for ue4

ue4 has some 8 bone mode, but that performs much worse due to the crazy extra amount of matrix multiplication involved

>>160157238
you shouldn't be normalizing them

>>160157356
thanks i've got it set at 4 now so they can be uploaded to the shader in a single vec4.

But i've had some models i've downloaded off opengameart have more than 4 and I was wondering if maybe the system I'm using is deprecated. But I guess i'll either edit the models or find something else. Because doing bone transforms on the CPU will slow it down and passing extra transforms to the shader will slow it down as well.

>>160157454
But not normalizing them makes it so that the Z-depth (X in Unreal) actually makes a difference in the final angle and I definitely don't want that

>>160157509
exactly

most 3d modelling programs don't care, and many artists will use weight smooth functions that can add lots of extra bone influence

I know blender at least has the "limit total" so you can cut off all vertices at 4

>>160154828
>that's completely 2D
no, just because he rolled his own 3D in some weird half-broken way that isn't normally used doesn't make it not 3D. it depends on 3 dimensions.

>>160157715
sweet i'll try that out

>>160157713
they already don't have depth because they're 2d vectors, not 3d
normalizing them makes your 'center' the bottom right corner, which is probably why it doesn't work

>>160157903
But things go truly insane if I don't normalize

This is very upsetting considering the GetMousePosition function returns an X and Y based on screen coordinates, yet if I move the mouse straight up the degrees printed on the screen change even if the mouse position doesn't move any degrees relative to the center of the screen

>>160154379
>>160154828
Why the hell would you do that?

how do you refer to yourself inside of a script in unity

let say i have a script a and I want to set a reference in script b from a function call inside script a how do i do that that's not calling getComponent because a single object may have more than one script a

>>160158994
this

>>160158189
Fuck it I'm too drunk for this shit.

When I wake up tomorrow geometry above finding the fucking hypotenuse (I can at least do THAT drunk) will become clear to me

>>160159040
fuck, I swear i thought it was self for some reason and i was surprised it wasn't working, thank you

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welp, I worked on using various variables and a whole bunch of math to check for being close enough to get on stairs, for like 3 days now, and I just realized I have a collision detection module I could just use instead

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>>160159083
>>160158189
this works fine

I have a pretty shitty old computer, can you game dev on a toaster?

>>160159438
Yep. html5/javascript,SDL,SFML,Gamemaker,monogame, and Unity are all varying degrees of toaster friendly.

>>160159438
Try Godot, it works on most toasters.

>>160159338
Thanks for taking the time to do all that. It works now... KINDA

In a perfect world straight up would be 0 instead of 270. I don't know why it's 270 instead of your 90, though

I can work with that, though I think I might try to beat my head in until getting it to give 0 degree straight up works for the sake of simplifying it if I ever go too long without working on it and forget

>>160159747
the 2 nodes after the atan2 are what I did to normalize it from 0 to 360 following standard graphing coordinates (positive x = 0, counterclockwise = increase angle)

you can adjust the result of atan2 however you want

>>160160458
are you making a school shooter sim?

>>160159546
I really need to learn Godot.

>>160160486
ur ded to me i hope you know

>>160159438
I would recommend not using unity, it doesn't perform very well on my integrated graphics

but if you require an engine I don't have many solutions for you other than buying a better computer
engine development is difficult and takes forever, but if you have programming ability you can do it with not too much hassle

>>160160458
>CSGO.gif

>>160159823
Well it works in a stupid un-intuitive way where the buttons least likely to be accessed are checked first.

I'll probably have to fix it later, but it works enough to start making other systems which is basically what I need. Thanks a lot for your help.

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>tfw you look at some of your old code from a few months ago

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

Anyone know of a good way to impliment a shader manager?

>>160160458
Will this be ready for the next demo day?

>>160160970
in what engine?

>>160161241
uh.. about that..

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>>160155214
>All of them are super generic Mario-like platformers sometimes with a weapon or some other little twist.

>drill dozer
>drill weapon or some other little twist

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>>160154826

What would you rather make, an engrossing first person narrative driven experience?

You're a little one man indie dev, now you fucking get in there and make the best goddamn pixel platformer you can fucking manage.

I am too dumb to code

>>160162392
good, nobody needs you here anyway

Man, working on game systems sure is a hassle. Shits so big and its hard to implement it little by little
But it feels fucking great when it all works out. Ive got a Megaman X starting stage>stage selection style working, with heart upgrades and all. So close to finishing this, and then its just adding content.

By the way, which order do you guys make stuff? I never went too far on making a game to get to save/load, menus and shit, so I decided to make that as soon as I had fleshed out the MC gameplay. Shits rough.

>>160162483
> I never went too far on making a game to get to save/load
well, have fun adding that after you already have 100 things that need to be saved

>>160162439
I am staying

>>160162392
Nobody is too dumb to code.
It isnt about being smart, its about following logic.
And about that problem solving bullshit they say you need to be good at? Any problem you might have coding your game has been solved a thousand times over.
Get into that shit, man.

>>160162392
art? sound? design?

>>160162524
Like I said, I started with these systems before adding content.
But the scope of my game is pretty small, its no trouble at all. Its just a MMX ripoff.

>>160162524
Not him, but fugg, you're right I should do that

>>160162575
General design, usually how objects interact with each other.

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>looking at some old code in gamemaker
>find a variable I'm not sure what it does
>ambiguous name
>no comment
>only used once in the object
>can't be bothered to ctrl+f in every page of code in the game
>too scared to delete it

help

Is there a hidden feature in GM that can help me?

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>>160152296
やった!

I successfully implemented nearest neighbor in SDL, because its implementation doesn't support 8-bit surfaces (Why? Even Allegro supports this)

I was banging my head about the result not turning out correctly and the reason why I was having so much trouble was not because the algorithm was bad like I had thought, but because I found out that the bytes per row were NOT equal to the width like I assumed, so the resulting sprite was a mess. So once I changed all references depending on the surface->w to surface->pitch, everything worked like it should.

>>160162859
Dude just comment it and see if any errors pop up

>>160162927
tumblr?

>>160162962
>Dude just comment it and see if any errors pop up

some bugs are more subtle than others

>>160162859
>whats grep

>>160163013
>gamemaker
>grep

>>160150367
Can you make ambient with synths? And are you on the discord? It's easier for direct contact there.

>>160163003
Still, comment and run it, see if anything changes or bugs up
I dont see the issue, Ive done this plenty of times, creating variables and functions without thinking the problem through, just to solve it without using them and wondering later why the fuck I made them in the first place

>>160162927
Why does your progress always come off so spooky?

>>160163130
>>160162962
>do this
>delete it because nothing changed
>6 months later I spend 3+ hours solving an obscure as fuck bug

thanks senpai

>>160162859
If you had VS you could Shift-F12 and it'd bring up all references to it

>>160163241
Then dont do anything and get a move on your life, you god damn cuck. You own fault for using a shit engine

>>160162976
I have one, but I don't really use it anymore

>>160162859
You should be using version control for this kind of stuff. I'd set a private git repo up on bitbucket or something, and then delete the variable. If you remember why you need it, then you can always revert. You should have a full understanding of your code - don't just barely get by with crappy tutorials.

>>160163207
It's probably because the scale is off and the character is walking past where they should be colliding. The character's palette doesn't match the lighting either. But I'm hoping the game is just a little spooky.

How the fuck does GJK work? I've been trying to wrap head around for an hour.

>>160163013
>baby don't hurt me

>>160163107
I'm on the discord
Look up "Michi" I just joined desu

How do I even use the arm9loaderhax?
The 2.0 downgrade seems like a fucking nightmare, good thing I'm using Gateway.

discord link?

>>160164196
https://discord.gg/zq79bCa

>>160159546

What the hell is Godot?

>>160164290
A miserable pile of spaghetti

>>160164290
A villian prosecutor in Phoenix Wright who rivaled Phoenix and was eventually arrested for murder

>>160164290
One of the characters of Samuel Beckett's play.

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been debugging for several hours now, still no progress

it's not even difficult code, it's like 40 lines

what a waste of time
it would have been much faster to just strip down the entire thing and start over

>>160165269
Are you making a game in blender?

>>160165269
>it would have been much faster to just strip down the entire thing and start over
Thats what I've been doing the past couple days, ripping stuff out figured it'll take 1/10th the time to rebuild it with all the improvements the code has gone through.

Some refactoring has gone awry though, I had to swap out using coroutines and start doing a weird goto setup instead, but its the only way I can come up with to make things plaintext/json-able

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdz0nFLuGKsDE7sssvZGEvP6GWZq0zLcH1yuvHw7dfeUCNk_A/viewform
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdz0nFLuGKsDE7sssvZGEvP6GWZq0zLcH1yuvHw7dfeUCNk_A/viewform
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdz0nFLuGKsDE7sssvZGEvP6GWZq0zLcH1yuvHw7dfeUCNk_A/viewform
agdg survey

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I can haz greenlight votes?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=795765733

How is /qst/ ? I want to get a thread going where someone will DM/GM a game about hacking, then I turn what people come up with into a playable scenario.

>>160165559
What did he mean by this >>160165237 ?

>>160165302
no, just building an object from some values I generated earlier

I am missing the 256 line and the 728 lines, such a bizarre bug

So basically I generated values on a field 1025x1025. I am taking the bottom point and subtracting that, then multiplying by the small offset I had (.0005). Then I place all those values in their correct position on a grid. This is all pretty simple stuff. For some reason, at some point, the 256 and 768 y points never made it in. I have just no idea.
I'm going to do more productive stuff now. Also the grid is 1025 x 1024 (meaning that x=0 shouldn't exist. And yet it does!)
I don't know.

If anyone wants to take a crack at it here's the python that generated it and the c# that interprets it into an .obj

http://pastebin.com/uDjJ9R4x
http://pastebin.com/prTKpB8K

>>160165783
May as well include the link if I'm going to advertise :^)

>>160165845
oh my god I am so stupid

I just realized

I am interpreting a set of values, converting them to a grid and then converting them BACK INTO THE SAME FUCKING FORMAT without the commas

fucking hell

>>160165559
>>160166054
Clever plan to use /qst/ as your slave labour.

>>160165845
not gonna read through that, it's quite a mess, but just for future notice - you can enclose the stream reader in a using statement, that way you don't have to close it yourself and it's generally favored for everything that implements IDisposable

>>160165845
>Also the grid is 1025 x 1024 (meaning that x=0 shouldn't exist. And yet it does!)
Do you mean index 0? Because the grid you have counts from 0 to 1024 then 0 to 1023 (as it should). Arrays in both C# and Python count from 0.

>>160166116
Its been surprisingly hard to get people to ideaguy, there was a /cyber/ board that i thought for sure would love the idea of someone making a setting/story/questline based on what they came up with, but no one really engaged. I figure /qst/ would be free of constraints like resources so it'd focus on what was the most fun experience for the player. I'm too full of spaghetti to run the game myself though, hopefully there are mercenary GMs there that will do it in exchange for nothing.

>>160165845
also, why do you create a new file stream object each iteration? you're not closing them either so hello memory leak.

>>160166547
C# doesn't have memory leaks, it's garbage collected retard

>>160166619
you are one stupid fuck, aren't you?

>thinks GC is a godsent AI so intelligent it can wipe his ass with cheer processing

>not unsubscribing from events
memory leak
>not closing filestreams
memory leak
>not closing database connections
memory leak

>>160166619
Depending on semantics of memory leak, it can still very well happen in garbage collected languages.

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Shaking my head, agdg

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>>160166236
well theoretically I should have 1025 * 1024 values, just by counting the inputs I know that

removing the grid conversion worked anyways.

absolutely no idea what the issue was and now I need to come up with a new method of generating faces I suppose. Normally I would use a similar function to generate faces on their calculated grid (take 0,0 and 0,1 then go up a row and take the first and second position, etc. This builds a square you can include in your obj file and basically have everything you need to import it into a game)

>>160166207
yeah my code always gets pretty messy when debugging. I usually leave the comments in in case I need to roll back some change

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for your consideration

>>160167405
Are you making another spreadsheet simulator goog?

>>160167425
im making the best spreadsheets

>>160167463
Will you ever make a real game?

>>160167360
Keep comments to a minimum, refractor what you can into methods, you can use 'var' in some cases too.


Type something = new Type() //Redundant
var something = new Type(); //Not redundant


incorrect usage:

var something = MethodThatReturnsUnknownType(); //Don't do this

>>160167620
stop replying to me everytime you looking for a mirror

>>160167659
I'll take that as a no.

>>160167360
Basically, the rule of thumb is - if you have to comment it, it most likely should be a method with a logical name.

>>160166119
All of that is correct though

What the fuck. Can blender not export multiple animations or something? I can only ever get one animation from my meshes once they are loaded and it's always the animation active in blender at the time of export. How the fuck do I tell blender to include them all?

>>160168054
"assign"

>>160168405
Where is this button?

>>160168443
funny how people who complain about blender not doing something ALWAYS don't know how to use blender properly and it was already a feature

Like every time someone asks for help with it, without fail.

>>160168578
The actions are assigned to it because I can run them all and they work. It just refuses to export them.

>about to dev
>boss mails me asking for the stuff I had to do.
>what? I already did everything.
>Realize I'm retarded and missplaced a couple of files in the wrong folder so I thought I had finished everything
>I didn't.
>Now I'll have to do that

Did one of you fucks make the Virginia Tech RPG?
The music for that shit was so tight, goddamn

>>160168807
>he doesn't know about the Long Necked Spotted Outback Googer the Meme Man himself

>>160155628
Agreed

>>160167982

it's the same guys posting these images, just ignore him he'll get banned for another day or so sometime soon

>>160168807
>vtech RPG
>RPG
i dont think thats a thing that exists.

>>160166119
Floating point is computing, not math

>>160169175
>implying computing isn't applied maths

>>160169285
Depends on how you define math

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>>160168054
Uhh if you got them all made as separate actions, I export as fbx most of the time and they all show up fine. As long as export all actions is checked.

If you're doing something funky and need them all in 1 animation strip but separate actions, do that in the NLA editor. I would mess with that in a file copy if you never used it before. You can also make separate tracks to be exported here.

I never had to export the other formats so can't help you there.

>>160169502
Give me a definition which wouldn't be rejected by a mathematician and doesn't encompass computing

>>160158813
It's just a stacked cross section images w/ slight offset.
http://www.like100bears.com/writing/2d-3d-in-gamemaker-studio

Amateur modeler here, post your requests
No characters please

>>160169680
"Peirce did not think that mathematics is the same as logic, since he thought mathematics makes only hypothetical assertions, not categorical ones."

How do i get motivated? The genere in which i have fun deving is niche so i know there won't be much interest in my game and it drains my motivation since i don't want to spent all that work, albeit fun, on something that is destined to fail

>one collada exporter only exports a single animation
>another collada exporter exports all animations but no bones

???????????

>>160169924
big juicy arse but made of METAL

>>160169924
a teleportation portal hub/door/thingo

>>160144605

Completely defeats the point of Interfaces. Use Inheritance instead if you want your objects to have that kind of relationship

>>160166619

Using Events can fucking cause those, you moron.

>>160170168
>collada

>>160170618
*grabs by the throat*
BACK THE FUCK OFF??

at any rate I finally got it working

>>160170168
collada is a pipe dream

the specification is so ``free'' that every single importer/exporter implements a different subset of it

>>160170995
>hating freedom

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Could a system like this work?

>>160171312
uh yes?

>>160171312
The Sims?

>>160171312
reminder these are the type of people making games

>>160171312
Seems like one of those flash games back then

>>160170823
Mind to share how?

>>160171312
whoaaa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_and_click
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_and_click
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_and_click

>>160171389
I'm the kind of people making games.
You too.... I think.

>>160171453
Sure, I followed the tutorial at [You must be signed in to view this link.]

Post your demoday entry - receive money

>>160171502
You're retarded?

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>>160171517
>[You must be signed in to view this link.]

>>160171531
I'm not a beggar. Just give money to the game you find most fun

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>>160171569
>Title: Some Obscure Problem You're Experiencing
>[You must be logged in to read this post]
>Register
>nvm, fixed it

i got VR sickness yesterday after thinking that people who got sick from VR were weak sissies

VR sickness sucks

>>160171620
I already did. I still have some extra money

>>160171631
I get sick playing HL1. I wonder if I'd die from playing VR games

>>160171371
>>160171381
>>160171389
>>160171469
I just wanted to know if something like this would be fun. I haven't played many point-and-click games, and my idea is not exactly like one of those.

>>160171631
>overactive vision while your body is moving slower in comparison

sounds like VR has a lot of problems

>>160170287
Sci-fi?

>>160171751
yeah

>>160171694
Use it to pay actors for a sick new demo day video

>>160171630
>problem which you cannot solve by yourself
just quit game dev, you aren't ready for this level of computers yet

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Could a system like this work?

>>160171790
Aight. I'll whip something up tomorrow. If you want, you can post references.

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>>160171631

>>160171797
lmao nice try fagit

>>160171569
>>160171453
The actual solution was using the Better Collada Exporter from the Godot project and fixing an error in the blender file where there mesh of the object didn't have the armature as it's parent.

Now all the animations are in the collada file and I can select between them.

>>160171812
Of course not, are you serious?

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Could a system like this work?

>>160171937
I think it's more intuitive to have the goal on top of start

>>160171705
you might. i had to quit that game i was playing after only ten minutes because i was about to puke and then felt seriously ill afterwards for hours. i've never experienced motion sickness before in my life. i'm fine on boats, i'm fine in rollercoasters etc but this game really did it to me hard.

>>160171812
Too much details, anon. Could you just be more brief please?

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Who else getting /juicy/ here?

>>160172046
>hold rocket button
>either kill or the blocks or get overwhelmed eventually
where's the skill?

>>160172285
>skill based games in 2017
it's like you don't even want to be successful

>>160171860
Cool, thanks!

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>>160172046
>that laser
>juicy

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Flyin'

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Anyone got some tiny sprites? I need to practice tiny sprites and I want examples.

>>160172418
Reminds me of Ecco

>>160172285

there is no rocket button. they spawn on crits.
>where's the skill?

this is barely even a game nigga. it hardly even has gameplay.

>>160172462
Go fuck yourself

>>160172578
That also reminds me of Ecco

>>160172454
>open excel
>change cell dimensions into equidistant length
>paint each cell
>export as xml

>>160172608
Thank you

>>160169108
Kekeke bitch, did you ever end up making any money off it?

Read the first 30 pages of this
https://archive.org/details/GameEngineArchitectureSecondEditionJasonGregory.pdf

>>160172462
Pretty funny considering I was actually thinking of looking at Ecco for (mainly thematic) inspiration at some point, though right now I'm still just working on getting the basic movement down.

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>>160172621

>>160172731
>focus on game engine design

no thx

I voted Hilary
Why did you vote for, AGDG?

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Remember kids, always use references.

>>160173198
I don't live in the third world country that just had the election so I didn't vote for either candidate.

>>160173198
>why did you vote for
really makes you think

>>160172731
but there's nothing of value in the first 30 pages?

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Finally added animation thumbnails to my Attack Editor! It can be frustrating when a mundane-looking feature like this turns out to be complicated to implement.

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>>160172383

mmk. hows this for juice?

>>160173281
Don't you think it's a nice overview of the current game engines?

>>160173469
I'm impressed you've spent so much time writing the tools

looks great

>>160173469
I love that editor extension, I would highly recommend posting that extension (sneak in your game as well) on reddit to get some attention

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>>160173469
Are you a wizard?

>>160171767
Aight. I'll whip something up tomorrow. If you want, you can post references.

>>160169762
It really seems like a pain to make assets for this style.

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>>160173223

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>Dino Jam
>6 joined
I knew we should have done Lewd Jam 2.

Something that I'm surprised I haven't seen more of in indie games are God Games.

Games that sort of play like a city/town builder, except that you generate "worship" to spend on your godlike powers via prayer/sacrifices/games etc. B&W and others are big favorites of devs 30+ so its surprising to not see them doing something like this

>>160171631
It really is unpleasant for any real game.

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>>160173807

>using opengl
>vulkan is far superior now

do i finish my game as is or change it over now?

>>160174405
>using opengl
You were never going to finish your game, m8

>>160174587
get fucked m8

>>160174405
if you've written a proper abstraction then it shouldn't be anything to worry about

>>160174074

The problem with games like this is the inherent requirement for lots of AI with various different behaviors.

Also the one promising Indie God-Game called Godus was a total fucking flop. Actually I have no idea what happened to it, they totally changed their design style like 3-6 times.

>>160174360
not the requester, I think you did a good job but

>using Hexen's W_073 for the platform

it doesn't fit very well

>>160174912
I think you need to read our the dialogue one more time

>>160175115
oh whoops, my bad. in that case it's SHIT

>>160174796
Vulkan is a lot lower level than OpenGL

>>160174587
If you're not using OpenGL for your graphics you're not a game programmer, you're just a script kiddie.

>>160175197
i know, what I meant is that if you didn't tightly couple graphics layer with the rest of the engine and instead wrote an abstraction that only wraps around opengl and is not related to anything else in the engine then you shouldn't worry about it because you can just add support for a different backend later without much hassle (relatively)

>>160150631
Fusions, like Dragonball style fusions where you get a stronger character out of two, I don't think I've ever seen an RPG do this.

My UE4 project is becoming fucking hugs because ever time I start a new project, I just cannibalize my existing projects into it. Now I have all these props, textures and sounds sitting around in my project folder unused. Do I have to delete them manually, or is there a way for UE4 to either delete everything not referenced in the game, or just package only things that are referenced?

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Still no free released cute girl.

>>160175368
Kill yourself.

>>160154229
Looks creepy as fuck, like one of those video game creepypasta characters.

I am supposed to be modeling a spess ship but i just keep staring at a gray cube in the blender

>>160154229
>ZA HANDO
is that a jojo reference?

Memes aside, looks good but yeah it's kind of OP right now.

>>160150818
It sends all your code to Microsoft so the NSA can make sure it isn't terrorist code

>>160175368
>implying you are going to use it

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>>160175471

>>160168917
Is she a store asset? How much?

>>160175407
>>160175590
>blame me for not using something that nobody in this general thought it was worth using
If they were that good someone else would have used them get a clue

When adding text with the UMG in UE4, is there an easy way to make the text typewriter in, instead of just appearing on the screen. Something like Pokemon does for example.

>>160175368
you could make something like that yourself

>>160173469
GOTDAM

>>160175774
>it's easy
You have no idea what you're talking about.

>>160175678
>ignores the fact that what he is looking for can be found everywhere on the internet
>ask for it to an amateur community for free
>get's picky about what he received
I blame you for being lazy and retarded.

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first enemy

I accidentally insulted my team-members and now they all fucking quit. My game is ruined, after all that work.

Fuck everything.

>>160176820
>"accidentally" insulted
>"my" game
lel, you were a piece of shit to begin with, glad they left.

>>160175912
Neither do you since you never even tried to learn. But then again, it's not like you can program, sprite, make music, write, etc. You're just here to shitpost.

How do you get the required data to the shader in a decoupled way?

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>Tfw you test something and forget to return things to normal, and then completely forget about it the next day when you start working on something different.

At least the new moves make fighting mosquitoes easy.

>>160176820
autist

>>160176902
It was a fucking accident, I didn't mean it.

Die.

>>160177227
Explain then. I know you won't because you're a turbo autist who's impossible to work with.

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I'm trying to make a third person camera in Unity, but I'm a bit confused on how to use Quaternions. Does anyone have any advice or recommended videos?

>>160176114
>what he is looking for can be found everywhere on the internet
Except your wrong.

>amateur community for free
I don't see the problem.

>gets picky
So you admit that all propositions so far were shit.

>>160177023
>Neither
Which shows that you indeed had no idea what you were talking about.