/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

16 days till Demo Day Dozen

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>>163468874
Report this faggot now, spam is aginst board rules.

>>163468802
Ahahahah
no
;_;

Udemy.com/blendertutorial 15 bux y/n

Every course on udemy is 15 bux right now

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>>163465291
people savan'

>>163468802
not really but i'll upload something anyway

>>163469397
that is the most important part

>>163469387
I even have the previous one as a background. I just find it good to look at for some reason.

>>163469387
Oh bb, you're my favourite poster.

What's on the rest of the page?

>>163469797
pose tests for the first of the 2 I've posted

>>163469387
I don't understand

>>163469210
What are you trying to learn to do with blender?

I find Darrin Lile on youtube to be a pretty good resource for all the fundamentals of blender for game asset creation, with the lack of texture painting info covered by just watching any digital painters really but I like XRG81 explanations most so far.

The only price I see when I foolow your link is $195 USD, so if you can get all that for 15 bucks that seems like an incredible deal, I checked some of the reviews and it seems positive overall. I'd suggest getting a clear idea of what you are looking to learn, and seeing if you can find that info out there already but if not, i'd say go for it.

>>163468604
>> Engines
>GameMaker: yoyogames.com/gamemaker
>Godot: godotengine.org
>Haxe: haxeflixel.com
>LÖVE: love2d.org
>UE4: unrealengine.com
>Unity: unity3d.com
>
>> Models/art/textures/sprites
>opengameart.org
>blender-models.com
>mayang.com/textures
>
>> Free audio
>freesound.org/browse
>incompetech.com/music
>freemusicarchive.org

I find this absolutely fine and desirable. Very good to help direct newcomers.

>>163470323
I want to learn the fundamentals of 3d modelling, specifically with blender, and attempt to make my own lowpoly models for unity development.

>>163470660
Me too!

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>>163469762
thanks bro

>>163468802
Gonna be programming on christmas to try and make it

>>163471267
nice potato

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>>163471267

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>>163465001
I like your style.

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>>163471519

>>163471060
I would click through the playlists offered by Darrin Lile and Sebastian Lague and see if that doesn't cover enough for you.

As for specifically low poly stuff, 3D models anywhere from 3 to 1k vertices, most of that is just understanding the fundamentals of proper edgeflow and purposeful anatomical shapes that are going to be accentuated with texturing.

Quality low poly is to 3D as anime is to figure drawing.

>>163472104
So i need to learn 3d first. Its not just "easier" because theres less tris.

>>163468115
>>163468115
>>163468115

>>163472407
>half of thread is shitpost
no thanks

>>163472247
Extreme low poly is hard. But, doing 'less' tris is actually easier on all parts of your workflow.

Going extremely low poly is a skill you will develop by doing general 3D stuff. Just like make models for now.

>>163436478
>>163435635
>>163457660


are these clyps all from the same anon?

>>163472537
Ok anon, thank you for the advice! I will buy the course because its a major discount but also look at your recommendations.

>>163472407
That thread is trash.

You are in the real thread right now.

>>163472762
Eh!? I don't recommend buying things! I didn't see that bit at all.

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What does /agdg/ think of Gimp? How viable is it compared to Photoshop?


Does it feel like it was designed by programmers? Is it not what you want in an art program.

>>163472407
Even though this thread will die and that one will live, I'd rather stay here. Too much shitposting over there.

>>163472969
Try Affinity by Serif

>>163472917
I didnt say you did. Maybe i worded that weird.

>>163472969
Personally, I'm not a fan of it. I feel like the workflow of Photoshop is a lot smoother than GIMP's, however I know Photoshop very well while I do not know GIMP very well. So take my opinion with a grain of salt.

>>163472969
When I tried Gimp I went straight back to PS.

While this thread is relatively peaceful, does anyone have an invite for the Discord?

>>163472969
I hate GIMP UI. Krita has a better UI so even thought it's not made for the same purpose sometimes I use it just so I don't have to deal with GIMP's UI.

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What about Krita? Anyone tried it?

>>163473416
check the OP
http://tools.aggydaggy.com/

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>>163469387
>>163471851
More progress, just for you.

>>163473715
breddy gud

>>163473319
yeah, well that's not true at all. there's nothing you can do in PS that you can't do in GIMP.

it's a matter of what you prefer, ease of use, or free.

>>163474041
Have you tried gimp's IWarp (gimp's counterpart of photoshop's liquify) filter? Do you know how bad it is? It's not a matter of preference, it's objectively dreadful. It's practically useless. I can't use this to enlarge woman tits and fap

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meme background activate

I think next up is poly grass and plants to make the transition from ground to wall less abrupt

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How complicated is it to build a dynamic 2D fighting game like Rabi Ribi in Unity? I know that this game was made with Unity as well.

The thing is that I'm very good in creating graphic assets, soundtrack, the story, etc. but apart from some javascript basics I'm not good with programming. Willing to learn though.

why are there two threads? i'm confused about where to shitpost. i'll just do both.

>>163473657
thanks

>>163474565
Do you have a blog or even a name for the game so i can follow your progress? I like the look of it.

>>163474565
your game oozes charm anon. i really really like it. do you have a tumblr that i can follow?

>>163472969
I use GIMP
i actually love it honestly, it can be a bit finicky, but I find myself fully capable with it. It doens't "fall short" in any aspect for me

>>163473592
Drawing program. It is okay.

>>163473592
I'm using it. It's breddy gud.

>>163473592
Its the nicest Open Source Software for digital painting IMHNAO.

>>163473592
I couldn't get used to the interface. I use MyPaint at the moment. It has a clean UI with only the handful of features.

>>163475162
so is sex

>>163474891
>tumblr
Fuck off.

I use photoshop for digital painting.

>>163475405
?
It's a good site to blog about your game, plus almost all the devs I follow are on Tumblr too. It's nice to follow everyone on one site.

>>163475405
Are you new? Tumblr™ has been AGDG™'s de facto standard devblog host for quite a while.

>>163475405
>Tumblr doesn't accept gifs above 2mb
>Twitter doesn't know what a webm is
How are these the top dogs

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>>163475405
>don't you dare have a blog on one of the more trafficked and "safe" websites out there

I guess devs should never ever talk about their game.

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>>163473715

So since I am new I am going to put my TRPG plans on hold, and make a sort of Binding of Isaac game (with a bunch of moral dilemma choose your own adventure bits mixed in) set in the world of my TRPG.

Does that seem like a more manageable project for someone new to coding but experienced in tabletop gamedev?

>>163475689
>gifs
Anon...

>>163475936
I am okay with the sudden burst of Tender Arm fan arts. Keep on going!

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>>163474845
>>163474891
thanks! and yes, as of a few days ago http://twitter.com/_pikopik

>>163476024
Sometimes it's nice to get that loop

>>163476024
on twitter you HAVE to upload gifs and you have like 15MB to fit in, doesn't matter how close you get since it's all converted later anyway - kind of shit, but manageable
you can't upload webms, mp4 is capped at 40fps
tumblr swallows webms, but iirc it's worthless since people pay more attention to gifs anyway, i can't judge since i don't even have 10 followers
my pitiful stats don't matter though, the point here is that it's pretty much impossible to take care of both services at once unless you shittify your gifs completely unless there is something i'm unaware of

dungeon break dev you here? got feedback like i said i would

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I worked on the eyes today, which does AGDG like the best?

>>163476658
left is best

>>163476658
I see your efforts, but the first one is the best. Maybe if the rest of her would be more detailed, it could fit.

>>163476658
middle is probably the best
right is shit to be honest, not sharp at all

>>163476658
Left, mid and right just look off to me.

>>163476658
I like the right's design the best, but it's not sharp.

So I guess left as is.

>>163476658
outer two are fine, middle feels to high res compared to everything else

>facerig on sale for less than $10
>wonder how much the commercial version that lets you export animation costs
>$500
welp nvm then

>>163476193
>Twitter

Well, shit. I hardly visit Twitter, but I'll try to remember since I really like your game.
If you ever make a Tumblr pls post it and I will follow instantly

>>163476658
i'm not realling digging any of those 100% tbqh but if i had to, i'd pick left

>>163476658
I actually think 1 fits with the rest of the character's style the best. Seconding >>163476774's thoughts.
2 looks kind of like a Western artist tried too hard to copy the anime look.

>>163477065
Not him, but there's a Tumblr link in the description.

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longer legs or nah?

>he posted the gif again

>>163477359
I am fucking blind. Thanks for pointing that out to me, anon!

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>>163477065
http://pikopik.tumblr.com/ but posting to both has been really exhausting. sorry, I'm pretty socially retarded. I'll try though, just got to think of something interesting to write about

>>163477391
Is it going to have arms?

I think no arms and very long legs could be good, he could run have a crazy swinging run as a jack-in-the-box type thing.

>>163477304
Drag and dropping half life assets in garry's mod and giving up is not gamedev.

>>163477502
It's okay Anon, I was that way too. Created a Twitter first, got no attention, made a Tumblr, got a good few followers, than pretty much abandoned my Twitter. No energy to invest into both and Tumblr seems like it has more people interested in following gamedev.

>>163477618
Fuck off, you're not funny.

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i added bottles to coop

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>>163477304
>mfw this is the actual resolution you play with on your fisher price calculator

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>>163477391
what am i looking at?

>>163477529
yes he will have fin like arms i should have mentioned that

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Better?

>>163477769
and frame rate

Is that guy making the necromancer game here?

>>163477629
I tried creating accounts on both to find people for when the threads get bad, but twitter demands phone numbers now, and I'm not sure I want my cellphone linked to a possible shitposting account.

>>163477918
>but twitter demands phone numbers now
That shit infuriated me. Tried everything to work around it including Google Voice. I eventually gave in but still not happy about that.

>>163477391
i think it needs longer legs

>>163472969
Paint.net and Photoshop are better. Photoshop CS2 is 100% free.

>>163477851
you didn't listen

Question for anons with knowledge of Unity.
I just started working with it, and have been playing around and I was wondering how you would implement a world map in Unity.
(think along the terms of a 3d psx jrpg)
Is it just another scene?

Also if you made a jrpg project would it be inevitable for you to and up with an excessive amount of scenes?

>>163478068
We're practically living in a cyberpunk world.
Corporations have all our info, just wait until they rise to power in the next century.

>>163478241
>Photoshop CS2 is 100% free
>Adobe later clarified that in order to legally use CS2 users still require a purchased license, and that the move was just meant to assist its existing customers
Anything can be 100% free when you obtain it ILLEGALLY

>>163478640
Yeah because they're going to have so much power with all my neet, taxless, social-less information

>>163478380
You guys all said different things.

Dungeon break dev you here?

>>163478768
everyone and their mother wants bunny eyes, only two people in the other thread wanted the right ones
but then again don't compromise your vision for a bunch of anonymous shitters in aggudaggu i guess

>>163477851
Just go with what you want. I like 3, but I still think it could use some sharpening. 1 goes with it for sure, but you may not like the style. Don't go with 2.

>>163478768
Just remember nobody in AGDG can art or code, but everyone's here to offer you advice.

pro tip

writing down what your algorithms are supposed to do helps a lot

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Changed it up so while it's still side scrolling, you can move in all directions, not just side to side. Gives me more freedom for puzzles which is nice

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Fruits for a score system, because eggplants are the best fruits.
They are spawned by killed enemies or barking at hidden objects.

Wait, paint.net can be used for texturing 3D models?

>>163476658
middle eyes are best
use #2 and change the rest of the model to look that good

>>163479524
Kind of hard to judge depth from that perspective, I hope precise platforming isn't a major part

>>163476658
none of them

>>163478759
They'll just use you for soylent green

>>163479537
ugh
1980 called, Pac-Man wants his content back

>>163479524
The back and forth movement is hard to read, to be honest. Nice idea, but you should check other platformers which are playing with the Z axis to see how it can be done.

>>163479265
putchar ('<');
for (int i = 0; i < (int)myDicksize; i++)
putchar('=');
puts("3 :3");

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>>163479537
nice

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Please send help

My keyframe markers don't show.
I can still insert keyframes and make animations, but the markers aren't there, so I can't move them around or copy them.
(Using AnimAll for vertex animation, by the way)

>>163480000
..wops, throw in some {}

>>163480028
check whether you're editing a strip in the NLA editor

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>>163479537
>spacecorgidev is still alive
there is god

>>163476193
I hope you don't mind another follower

>>163479674
>>163479987


Damnit I thought the same too...Ill check out other games which do the same then and see how I can make it easier to judge player distance from objects, thanks.

>>163480196
I'm in the Action Editor in Dope Sheet view.

Reloading the file doesn't work, by the way.

>>163474565
Is that a cubemapped handmade skybox?

If not, what approach did you take to make your background, I was going to try handpainting a background or two based on some of Bob Ross's painting episodes later today.

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>>163480219
Yes, with slow progress but alive

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>>163480196
>>163480385
>>163480028

>forgot pic

Wait what?
Why have we got two threads up

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>>163476658
Take 1 and 3 and go all squarenix on it

>>163480561
First one was posted with a shortened OP. People couldn't stand change, so they shitposted the other to hell and opened this one.

>>163480384
Usually they let the camera follow the character, as in it goes into a little bit deeper. However, in other cases, the camera stays where it is, thus adding a new layer of challenge. Check out game plays of DKC Returns to see what I mean. Especially the mine cart and the first jungle levels.

How are you supposed to handle collision for objects in Unity if solid mesh colliders result in easily clipping through them?

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>>163480264
I tried to pose her making a heart but she literally has crab hands, rip

>>163480385
yeah but check in the strip editor whether you're actually editing a strip, or you won't see the keyframes even if they're there

>>163480756
don't use mesh colliders for moving objects. arrange groups of primitives

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>>163480482
yeah, it's a cubemap. cropped it because 90% of it is just sky and mountain. it was pretty easy to do, just make sure you're working at pretty high resolution

>>163480028
Did you hide your bones?
Try Alt+H or Ctrl + H

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>>163480792
>strip editor
NLA?

>>163479524
One of the Assassins creed mini game things (the china themed one) was a 2d sidescroller that had different areas where the transition between depths was explicit, press 'UP' while in front of this bridge and the character walks back there which become the new sidescrolling level.

Or if you take cues from 2.5D and isometric beat em ups, add an obvious shadow under the player to help visually determine the depth away from the camera.

>>163480792
Do you know a good tutorial to learn 3d modelling?

>>163481059
No, I'm using vertex animation, so no bones.
Instead there should be one line for every single vertex, but there are none.

>>163481059
This is my guess, or the fact that if you aren't in pose mode or the bones are on an inactive layer and thus are unselectable.

>>163480560
>>163480028

>>163480561
op speaking, made this one to combat multiple kinds of shitposting
feel free to shit over me all you like

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>>163481086
yes. try applying the strip and then editing? you're working on a temp strip. make sure your bones are visible too like >>163481059 mentioned

>>163481183
I like darrin lile, he's a pretty chill guy

>>163481217
>vertex animation,
Wow, I've never known of this.
But from the terminology it sounds like something that works well for low poly.
I couldn't imagine the horror animating using vertices for complex models.

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>>163481086
>>163480792
Fuck, didn't see the drop-down there.

There are some markers here, but I can't do anything with them (I think?)

>>163481298
Again, I'm not using bones.

How do I draw non shit 2d terrain?

>>163481217
does blender even support this shit?

>>163480991
Is it possible to edit those by vertex like Unreal's BSP?
How would you handle something like a thin pyramid or cone?

>>163481183
Sebastian League

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>>163480792
Don't worry the smile is enough

>>163481565
you can build polygonal primitives in your modelling application and export them with the model into ue4. the name must be UCX_yourmeshname. its in the docs

>>163481356
How do I "apply" it?

>>163481462
Yeah, it's tedious as all fuck, but extremely powerful. Grants you total freedom to animate every single vertex alone (it keyframes ALL vertices in a mesh, so you HAVE to move all of them for every keyframe).

>>163481496
Yup, through the AnimAll-plugin (already in Blender)

Why do we have 2 fucking threads with 70+ posts on them again? Can't you stick with one and leave the other one die?

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>>163481679

>>163481679
are you implying vertex animation is powerful? what? how? you aren't doing anything you can't do without bones and especially morph targets. i mean i admire your dedication but lets not get delusional

You here DUNGEON BREAK dev?

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Post your dev setups

>>163481782
>>163480696
Passive aggressive shittiness.

>>163481782
The shitposter is going to bump the other one purposely and there's nothing we can do about it.

>>163481782
we are

>>163481782
because >>163481872 bumped the other one

>>163481915
>>163481918
>>163481913
Report and filter

Is there an easy way in game maker to check how far from 10 I am with a variable, and then subtract that amount from another variable? I decided the way I was originally doing ammo is a pain in the ass and I'd rather not have to do it, especially if I follow through with my plan to have 100-cap guns later on

>>163481782
Report the other one, post in this one. It's that easy.

>>163481356
>>163481635
Thanks!

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I've got a nice little Unity horror story from today, and I really need to get this rant out of me.
I wanted to feed data into a terrain shader by writing a bunch of data into texture, seemed like a pretty reasonable thing to do, nothing too complex.

I managed to create the necessary textures at runtime, converted my data into bytes, fit them into a Color32 array and updated the texture pixels based on that array.
It worked...kind of. The results were kind of off, and I got all sorts of weird rendering artifacts.

I debugged the SHIT out of my shader math, byte conversion, UV mapping, rounding, off-by-one errors you fucking name it, it was all fine. Took fucking hours.
It was almost as if the texture had gotten corrupted somehow on the way to the GPU - pixels that should've been white, were nearly white, but not quite. And the pixel math didn't quite work out, it was a bit off.

At last, I took a closer look at the texture itself in the inspector. Turns out, the fucking shitcunt that Unity is, it applies a gamma curve to textures by default, even to the ones you create at runtime. So if you feed in a red color value of 255, you get 231 or something retarded in the shader, not the value you expect.
You can disable this default behaviour only during texture creation, by supplying an extra parameter to the constructor - provided you fucking know this shit exists in the first place!
God fucking damn it, I'm feeling like I've developed Stockholm Syndrome, I really want to like Unity, but this just isn't healthy.

>>163481834
Doesn't seem to do anything useful.
I really appreciate the help, though.

Any other suggestion?
I'm considering trying to extract the model and just pasting it in a new empty file to start all over again.

>>163481845
I'm not implying, I'm saying.
Sure, shape keys are powerful too, but blending different poses isn't always very useful.
Vertex animation gives 100% freedom.
You could make every vertex frame in shape keys, of course, but why?

>>163481673
Using Unity.

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>>163482434
>>163481834
>forgot pic again
Fuck me

>>163482612
>that palette
triggered

>>163482612
yeah but then edit the strip you nerd

select then press tab. check the other plane.001 temp strip too

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>>163482768
>press tab
>shit turns green and a new line show up
>click new line
>it's gone
>nothing happens when I click the arrows on the other strip(TurnTest1)
>still nothing in the Dope Sheet editor

r8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PkAoyWSY4EA

>>163483175
won't look / 10

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>>163483134
try the little ghost at the bottom of the dope sheet

if that doesn't work I'm out of ideas, must be something regarding your plugin and how it stores animation

>>163483175
>m.youtube
>m

>>163483320
Nothing happens.
Oh well, killing myself and starting the cycle a fresh.

Thanks for trying, though.

>>163483175
I'd cut the very last bit off desu

>>163481483
bump

>>163483175
assuming this is a trailer, the pacing is too slow. it's great pacing for something that the player is forced to watch, however.

title goes by too fast, try opening with the astronaut shot, with the text on screen, and fade the text out.
first astronaut (not you) takes too long to exit. what was that butt move?

the whole sequence from 0:07-:0:47 takes wayyyy to long. shorten this to 20 seconds.

you spend a lot of time looking at astronaut ass

>>163483432
before starting over try to vertex animate a simple cube, you don't want to do it all over just to lose it again

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>>163483432
>>163483320
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

>give up an load a new file
>paste gryphon object
>open Action Editor to see this

Just fuck my shit up, Blender

>>163483634
I have done tried before, so I know how it *should* work (the wings and balloon on the airship I made earlier)

>>163477765
Still looking forward to your game.

>>163483785
at least you didn't lose any work!

Dungeon break dev you in this thread?

>>163483953
Yeah, I'm happy as can be, despite the frustration!

Sorry for wasting everyone's time!

>>163484009
Obviously not, you shitter.

whats the best linux distro for game dev

>>163484112
Windows

>>163484112
What's a... "linux"...?

>>163484112
>distro
Is that one of those small-ish cafes?

>>163484482
The italian distro in my town serves up a mean spaghetti code.

>>163484067
can't blame me for trying

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Think it came out all right in the end

Ok, so I've been roped into making a game by a friend and I have literally zero applicable experience with coding, art, spritework, any of the backend shit that's actually important for making a game.
Thankfully, he's got us covered on the art end (close friends working with him) and the coding (he's not a CS guy, but he's damn close).
My job is level design, story, and outlining the game. Overall design, I guess.

Long story short, I need a way to chunk out portions of storyline, and then have branching paths from each of those for notes on that section. Think Overworld -> Region -> Level -> Screen, with the ability to have notes on each successive portion.

I feel kinda overwhelmed, but I love the game mechanics that we've outlined so far, and its the first chance I've had to really let loose and be creative in a long while.
What pitfalls do I need to watch out for when first getting started on this sort of project? You guys are the only ones I know who do this sort of thing on the regular.

>>163484947
Not to pull a Columbo on you but I think them rear hooves are a bit...clunky, for lack of a better word. They're quite large in proportion to the rest of the leg. I don't know about modeling, so forgive me if I misuse basic terms, but I think you might consider tapring down more to the two quads that form the front base of the hoof.

>>163485292
no he's half japanese and that's his slippers

>>163485014
If the project lasts longer than two months, it will probably go through until 1.0.0.
Most of these projects end within a week or two though, because people lose motivation and can't be bothered to keep going.

What exactly is it you need help for anyways? Can you be more specific?

>>163485014
Memes

>>163485014
People here are going to tell you to expect to fail because they themselves don't play well with others. They'll also tell you to be extremely mindful of not overextending the scope of your project. The latter is useful advice.

You can design forward from your story or backwards to it. Does your story include locations that would lend themselves well to interesting area dynamics? Apply the mechanics of the game to them in ways that exploit their features in an entertaining way. Are the locations of your world undefined at this point? Design interesting areas and then retrofit a setting and aesthetic that fits them.

>>163485292
>hooves
It's meant to be paws, Anon.
Gryphons are part lion, part eagle.

>I think you might consider tapring down more to the two quads that form the front base of the hoof.
Don't have poly-budget for that.
I could make the paws smaller, but I don't think I really want to.

Thanks for the feedback, though

>>163485810
Nobody cares about your artificial restrictions

>>163486090
I do :3

>>163485014
I once was project lead for a very similar school project, except I did art and was "CS guy" and had another helping me

The guy who did the design story w/e
that would be you
ended up doing jack shit in the end and pretty much gave up

The project went mostly fine even though we had to do your shit aswell
In the end however I got my grade lowered, because as project lead I was supposed to keep my minions in line

In short. Fuck you, work hard and dont give up.

all of your ideas are unoriginal

you're wasting your time and are a disappointment

this is really embarrassing.

>>163486253
imagine being the guy without ideas wasting his time shitposting on a message board

>>163486253
You are the disappointment, googs

>>163486253
>>163486365
your quarreling has awoken me
now where resides the games you have created?

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Been working on the bow stem, decided to try and re-purpose some model from the content examples into a placeholder figurehead.

It's an easily recognizable statue for UE devs, but damn I kinda want to work him up a bit more and make him mine anyway, because he looks badass.

>>163486253
Just fuck off and get a fucking life, Jesus.

All you've been doing for those past months, if not years if you're that guy, is shitposting in this thread.
You're literally spending your free time shitposting on this thread for whatever fucking reason your deranged mind came up with.

This post is probably going to be deleted as it is clearly off-topic but goddamn I had to say it.

Okay, I want to make a traditional RPG game. Turn-based, classes, monsters, a world map and all that stuff. Should I plan everything before start making the game or just start making it without a plan?

>>163486569
do both

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>>163486359
>>163486365
>>163486467
>>163486552

proving my point. how are you going to explain your wasted life to your mothers?

>>163486569
literally no one has ever finished an RPG. I'm sorry.

>>163486689
i won't she's fucking dead mang

collab

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>>163486253
>hiccup

>>163486812
I suppose you havent seen the RPG Maker invasion on steam, they dont have to be good RPGs with their own engines, they're still there senpai

>>163486816

God must be real then because he gave her mercy by not having her have to endure your autism.

How do you store your level/world data?

>>163486962
lul
>>163487062
set variables mang

>>163487193
I mean outside your game, like what file format.

>>163486569
>turn based
it aint 95 no more son, time to let it die

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>>163484947
>>163485292
Looks good! I agree with the paw bit. What you need are more defined lines on the toes.

>>163487212
you need to tell us what engine you use, you have different options depending on engine

>>163487487
Thanks!

I could probably try to improve the texture

>>163487519
I'm making my own engine. I'm thinking of using a text format like INI and writing something to convert it into a binary format that the game itself will read.

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need single word concept ideas for a game
something like Music or Snow
Throw them at me senpaitachi

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Another semi-lewd fan fic about Charlotte and vampire girl, now accompanied with Bunny girl.
http://pastebin.com/3Mwp4xpR

This is the first time Charlotte doesn't get assaulted in her sleep.

If you would like to read the previous two parts:
http://pastebin.com/DUi5x2QD
http://pastebin.com/EhEWSzjv

>>163487643
colors

>>163487643
dingus

>>163487643
disestablishmentarianism

>>163487643
meme

>>163487714
where's your game

>>163487724
>>163487821
these are great

>>163487963
you can't make them, i copyright them :^)

>>163487714
Enjoy your work, keep it up anon!

>>163487620
sounds good but use a different format like .savegame so people don't try to tamper with it

>>163488059
Doesn't really matter with single player games or coop even. I'd encourage it even.

>>163487620
Why are you making your own engine?

>>163472762
btw they run these sales all the time. You should never purchase Udemy courses at full price

>>163488059
>different format like .savegame
What's the .savegame format?

>>163488251
>Why are you making your own engine?
I want to get more experience using C.

>>163488375
>What's the .savegame format?
Renamed .txt
Could go with .nuclearlaunchcodes or anything else that isn't taken yet.

>>163488446
Oh, I see what you mean now. I don't mind if people tamper with the levels though, if they want to do that.

>>163487620
Dude just use json or xml and encrypt the string

>>163488549
Renaming a txt doesn't make it uneditable. Calling it .savegame or similar would actually make it clearer, and anyone trying to tamper with saves will try opening them in notepad first anyway.

>do something for my game that wasn't in the to-do list
>add the task and immediately move it to "Done"

nobody will ever find out

>>163487643
postmodernism

who wants to refactor my code, i'll put you into the credits

>>163486498
awesome dude.

I'm a UE dev... where is that asset?

So, does my game require like encrypted save files and anti hack stuff for it to be on steam?

>>163489365
Take a minute and think about all the stuff on Steam. The answer is obviously "no".

>>163489365
no friend, have you looked at the amateur garbage that's gotten on steam recently? a screenshot of shit meets the steam requirements.

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RPG Maker VX Ace is super cheap right now.
Even the non-steam version.

>>163482402
I was about to use a RenderTexture to do threat mapping for my AI, thanks for the heads up.

>>163489473
Wrong general though.

>>163486498
most of your players won't be ue4 devs or devs at all. this asset fits well so it isn't some drag and drop job

>>163489338
It's the statue in the Particle Effects example, it's sitting on a spiked throne thing holding a fiery orb. I've cut it up and modified it a bit.

>>163489467
"watch paint dry the game"

>>163486498
Fun fact. Vikings would remove the dragon from the bow of their ship when approaching homeland so as not to upset their native Vaettir spirits.

>>163489473
>rpgmaker price
I will never understand who the fuck they think they are.

Literally every engine out there offers a free or standard version, why do they think that theirs is so good that it requires such a price?

>>163489640
oh, i didn't realize there was an RPG maker general :(

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took too long, but i made a chest

sketchfab.com/models/76e18b13ebf64074bf7f5b1838bf3f4c

>>163489771
Supply and Demand, friendo. There are too many people that want to make something in exactly that style with that level of ease.

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Heaven...or hell?

Sorry for the slow replies, real life calls from beyond.

>>163485558
I'm looking for organizational software. Right now, everything is in hand-written notes, and I'd like a way to make it cross-referenced between items, chapters, locations, etc.

>>163485628
The project is based on a handful of key mechanics. We're definitely fitting a story to the gameplay. You control two characters simultaneously (think Mario Galaxy, I guess), with one being a traditional 2-d platformer character and the other being a "helper" with special abilities of its own. There are others (dashes, a blink), but they're less important than that core duality.

>>163486242
I'm sorry for your loss. I'd feel terrible if I left this friend out to dry, especially since he's doing a lot of the heavy lifting that I just don't know how to do.

>>163485601
I don't understand this, so here's a joke.
How many Freudian analysts does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to change the bulb, one to hold the penis—I mean ladder.

>>163490218
I'm 73% done with the Unreal one. It's a great tutorial but be prepared to push day after day after day. I recommend taking a lot of notes.

FYI FOR EVERYONE on here. Udemy courses are $15 right now. The normal cost of the Unreal Intro course is $198 or something. Awesome value.

>>163490448
I already know how to program, I'm really more looking for an introduction to a 3D engine along with best practices on how to use it.

>>163490218
I really want to try UE4 someday, but my computer specs just can't handle it. It already runs like shit with Unity.

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>>163490218

>>163490262
>I'm looking for organizational software.
General organisational: Trello
In respect to writing, Trelby for screenplay writing or Freemind for mind mapping.

>>163490218
What is this? edX? Coursera?

What are some good examples of successful skinner box singleplayer games?

>>163490762
Udemy
Having a sale, every course is $15. Those two are usually 200 each.

>>163489365
No. But if it's a multiplayer game it will be full of hackers if you don't do anything to stop it, and then no one will want to play your game.

I have no idea how to prevent hacks, which is why I'll never make a multiplayer game.

>>163474565
SO MUCH FUCKING CHARM
>>163476658
I like the 1st and 2nd.
I think if you just add whites around the 1st one's eyes, you got yourself something perfect.

>>163490781
Diablo 2.
Torchlight 1/2
Path of Exile
The Binding of Isaac

>>163490598
fucking camel scum

I have to redesign the UI for my text game
I don't know what to do
Anyone have reference pictures for this sort of thing? At least UI references in general?

>>163473037
>Mac only
good joke

>>163480792
Could we see her texture sheet?

>>163472969
depends, do they still have that stupid multiple-window setup?

>>163490635
Hey, this looks great! Thanks, man.

Should I post here once actual progress has been made gamewise? I'm afraid I'm a total newfag to /vg/, much less the dev thread. I dunno if you guys actually want to see how people have improved, or if this is just a panic/help thread.

>>163490947
>I have no idea how to prevent hacks, which is why I'll never make a multiplayer game.
Easy solution, run everything server-side, like in MOBAs and such.

Not applicable to those who lack large-scale corporate resources, of course, so just sell out to EA.

>>163491380
nobody can stop you from posting unfortunately
progress posts are fine, feedback posts are fine, ilu <3<3

>>163476658
the one on the right

>>163477391
longer legs
>>163477502
it'll come with practice
I'm a literal autist but trying to run a weekly game night for, oh, 230ish weeks, and writing an invitation post (sometimes two) every time, I got better at coming up with new and interesting things to say about the same old thing

Gamemaker refuses to tell me where my run window went.

>>163491380
Believe it or not, the first and foremost purpose of this thread is sharing progress. We got Recap Monday, which is a long term progress tracking effort. Some previous entries can be found here: http://homph.com/recap/
If you want people to dole out some honest feedback coupled with useless shitposting to your progress or design decisions, post it. Bear in mind that this is 4chan, so expect some "kill yourself" comments on stuff you are proud of. And even if you get no response at all, progress posting is appreciated. Bumping your progress is not frowned upon.

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>>163491806
Slap that bitch back into shape.

>>163491823
>>163491549
Sounds good! I'm not thin-skinned to the vitriol of anonymity, so blunt retorts to my work would be appreciated.
I can't wait to get started.

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>>163490951
thanks! the new grass texture and skybox are helping a lot

>>163491316
the blank space is for more expressions in the future

her arm tattoo reads agdg

>>163491853
>go to options
>choose start fullscreen
>the fullscreen window is blank white
>remove the while loop that I just added in my code
>the compile works again
not sure why it did that rather than give me a runtime error message, but whatever.

>>163490598
What is this?

>>163479537
CORGIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSS
IIIIIIIIIIIIINNNN
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
is that a "za warudo" attack?

>>163492134
Cool, cool.
What program did you use to make the texture?

>>163490497
well, you'll probably be able to progress a bit faster. The number one topic in that tutorial is C++ and the Unreal API, followed by how to handle architecture between BP and C++, followed by the editor itself. If you have experience w/ C++ you can skip section 2, the bullcow game.

If you're looking for more information about the engine itself, I'd head to the official Unreal tutorials. There's a pretty vast number so I'd suggest you be choosey with them.

The tutorial will still be very helpful since the API has a few quirks and can be... finnicky. It'll be fun, just keep pushing.

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>I make games for myself.

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>>163492259
that was my first texture on 3dcoat. it's buggy as shit, but still better than blender's texture paint. like, photoshop vs mspaint kind of difference

I used blender exclusively for the old shopkeeper game and I knew it wasn't going to hold up for more complicated models

>>163472620
bump

even refactor
odd play video games

>>163479537
>barking at hidden objects
best feature

Dungeon break dev are you in this thread yet?

>>163493116
Have fun with that.

>>163472407
>this thread
kek

>>163493398
the redC

>>163491218
Help me out lads, I know at least one of you is hiding something from me

>>163494038
>text game
Why is it diffcult for you to design UI for that? What UI do you even need?

>>163493398
>It's like watching a wild animal try to trick people.
kek

>>163494138
It's not a typical CLI text game, so I do need more snazzed out UI elements
Just window borders and good design layouts are all I'm stumped on really

>>163494581
>It's not a typical

That is what they all say, no offense intended.

>>163494038
some kind anon has been collecting a ton of stuff

https://mega.nz/#F!gIBniSSA!-R2D3mYW5u0N5-3FROZlEg!kcBXGCKY

czech it out maybe something there will help

>>163494581
>good design layouts
The more important something is, the bigger it should be or the more accessible it should be. Stuff located on the edges of the screen and especially in the corners is very accessible and should correspond to elements that need to be accessed often, like "Next Turn" or similar buttons.
I've seen a pretty good presentation on that some time ago, but I'm struggling to find it right now.

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Now taking advantage of the new targeting system and IFF, targets have their own automated targeting and fire control. This is specifically for stationary emplacements. If they were on a ship, presumably the ship would assign turrets their targets and stuff.

Turrets have their own fire rates for missiles because if you don't give them one then they'll fire off all their missiles at exactly the same time. It's also a good way to tweak difficulty of the turrets.

Additionally, they have their own maximum range for targeting, and their targeting update rates (how long it takes to find a new target), along with how long it takes them to lock on after targeting can all be tweaked for difficulty and just spread of targets in general.

>>163494880
>targets have their own automated targeting and fire control
Meant to say that Turrets have an optional automated targeting and fire control component. Gun turrets don't lead targets yet either, but you know, WIP.

>tfw finally worked out all my kinks on my base sprites and they're satisfactory enough to start drawing clothes for

OH BABY.

>>163494782
Hot damn, that's so many UIs. Thank you for this link.

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>>163492204
http://www.catshitone.jp/

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>>163494782
I want to suck that anon's dick for days, thanks so much

>>163494762
I meant typical in the sense that most text games are CLI
My game is literally like CoC in other regards, maybe with 70% more polish

>>163494880
What method are you using for missiles to intercept, again?

curious,what feature/bug are you correctly working on?

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>>163495001
Don't worry, I got you.

>>163495410
Thanks senpai, that's exactly how I feel.

If I posted em they'd probably not go over so well, but I tried my best. I'm a programmer after all.

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>>163495398
Writing
I wanna die

>>163495359
Not a particularly smart one. It just calculates a lead marker based on where the missile is, a calculate time to intercept, and velocity of the target. It's basically same code you would use to create a lead marker for a gun.

The missile knows more than it would in the real world, but I didn't want to write proportional navigation which is the more correct guidance.

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>>163494880
>>163494997

How do I become the next "le crazy bald idea guy"?

>>163495359
>>163495623
Here's the actual code if you're interested.
http://pastebin.com/yKwaAcEh

>>163495656
step one. be bald
step two. have ideas
step three. be consistently wrong

>>163495656
which one

>>163495870
I don't know his name. There's a picture of him with his hands open and raised in front of him.

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>>163495967
him?

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>>163495967

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>>163495967

>>163495967
I'm pretty sure you're talking about Molyneux.

>>163495656
>>163495967
molyneux's claim to fame is that he promises the world then doesnt deliver.
you dont want to be the next moly

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>>163495967
the 3d chessmaster?

>>163496037
Isn't that 'le bald fascist'?
>>163496125
I chuckled internally.