/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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>Enemies that exist off-screen can attack the player
>It feels cheap to die from a stray bullet from an enemy you didn't see

or

>Enemies can't shoot unless they've been seen by the player
>Player can cheese enemies by avoiding looking at as many as possible

?

Monogame

>>163844061
>Enemies can't shoot unless they've been seen by the player
>Player can cheese enemies by avoiding looking at as many as possible
but
>once activated enemies will activate all nearby enemies

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Hey, it is me again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046Peo76efA

Threadly reminder we offer soundtrack making services.

Since I was a agdg regular at one point as well, I know that you guys barely have any budgets, so I can give you a very good price for your requests.

We have a proper email set up now, [email protected]

Contact me there or here, I am here all day anyway.

> Stuck on problem literally for over 4 hours.
> Give up and take a two day break
> Come back and solve the problem in less than 20 minutes.

Why does this happen? Is it just a fresh perspective? Not being tired? I'm so fucking happy I fixed my problem but I feel kind of stupid that I couldn't fix it before.

>>163844061
Never have enemies that can shoot you off screen unless it is the player's job to keep track of the enemy and it has already been seen before (like Terraria's flying bosses. If you're getting hit from off screen it's because you let it get away from you)

>>163844061
2 for sure, you're framing it a bit odd but it's essentially that enemies you have aggro'd will shoot

>>163843981
unity actually has a built-in function to check if things are visible https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-isVisible.html

why is /3/ so shit?

>>163844061
you can limit player's bullets to the screen or not spawn the enemies until they are about to enter the screen or something
slow enemy bullets also help

>>163844148
>canus.wav

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>Fake negative reviewers getting blown out.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/343150
Where were you when TRUTH and JUSTICE prevailed? Christmas sale was the best thing to ever happen to me, now I'm getting ALL of the positive reviews with NONE of the dramatic troll bullshit!

>>163844201
I highly recommend avoiding that function for this purpose. It does not work the way you probably thing it does.

>>163844440
see you in a week for advertisement

since canus.mp3 is shilling I guess I will too.
I can set up multiplayer matchmaking and p2p for you gamemaker game. pricing depends on scope.

>>163844201
Would I have to use this function also to kinda disable the level until it reachs the camera?

I could imagine it'd be quite performance heavy having a whole level off-screen the whole time.

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>>163844440
>mfw I know an exploit that lets devs review their own games for free with an unverified account and will not be telling you

>>163844520
Not him but
>announcing reports
I'll see you in a week too.

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>>163844171
See pic. You are flanked by enemies. You can cheese the AI by essentially only ever looking at one flank.

The solution is to allow enemies that you haven't seen to attack you. The problem is that the player can now get cheesed by an enemy they didn't see.

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wobbly guided missiles (there's an almost invisible asteroid that they're trying to aim at)

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Soon™

>>163844597
see you in a week too, kiddo

>>163844665
See you in a week as well, friendo.

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she looks much better now
I'm hoping this is the last revision because I spent nearly a month reworking the face

>>163844520
>>163844597
>>163844665
>>163844696
autism

>>163844729
what anime/tutorial did you steal that face from?

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Yeah, yeah! Definitely getting the hang of this.

Fucking eulers and quaternions.

>>163844381
art is the expensive part of your game. people are giving you solutions and you are throwing a tantrum.
there is no way to get good art for free/cheap its just how it is.
it takes a while to make sprite sheets and UI and while i respect both programmers and sound guys the amount of work they have to put into their project is not compareable to what an artist does for a game. you can make music with ease nowdays without being a pro, same with programming.
art is long and hard repetition and mastery of concepts. you can't churn good art in weeks like you do with sound

>>163844614
Just accept that there's no perfect solution unless you decide to make a game that's entirely close quarters combat.

You can have groups of enemies chain pull, you can have subgroups within groups that chain pull, you can prevent enemies from being allowed to shoot the player if they aren't on screen, you can do all sorts of things.

Are you the milsim topdown shooter guy?

>>163844648
Without memeing you, that's a nice Crimsonland clone.

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It's been a while since I had so much fun deving something.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Space Carrier Ops
Dev: anon
Tools: Unity, 3DS Max, Photoshop
Web: N/A
Holidays: snowman
Progress:
+ Total rewrite of how targeting is handled
+ Targeting now expandable and can be used by any ship and extended with radar components
+ Wrote simple range based radar component for ships
+ Added turrets (missile and gun) and wrote simple automated targeting and firing AI for them
+ Dynamic ally indications on HUD using previously unused faction properties
+ Added pure pursuit option to missile guidance

>>163845138
fishing lvls?

>>163845138
>it's like undertale but even lazier

>>163844440
>50 cents
instant buy. looks good too. i remember u from earlier /agdg/ threads uve been a long time lurker havent u

>>163844979
Thanks! That is what I am trying to make.

I have a few things in my mind additions to what Crimsonland has. But the biggest diference is game will be an open source and free. Gameplay code is lua, so hopefully anyone will be able to mod it just using notepad (add new weapons, monsters, game mods etc).

I will also implement a way to download/share mods. Who knows, maybe it will be a thing.

>>163844829
it's textures and it's mostly blocky shaped (like the nose and mouth are both a single block pushed forward)

I don't know if there's a tutorial for making animu 3D but you can look at anime models and study from them.

Any recommended books for game development or programming?

>>163844879
>the amount of work they have to put into their project is not compareable to what an artist does for a game.
Bullshit.

>>163844879
You can make a game with just code, but you can't make a game with just art.

>>163844648
too slow, needs dynamic. I would made bullets faster, enemies die quicker.

>>163845427
Huh, interesting. What do you exactly store in Lua, and what job do you let the core system have?

I often find this way appealing, but I can not find the proper way to decide how to separate tasks between the two. Aside from that, I just simply find the syntax of putting and getting variables to the stack disgusting, which makes me question if I'm even using it right or not.

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>>163844618
I wish I could see what I was looking at, because I love things like this. I haven't seen this project before, what are you making?

In Unity, do enemies which are placed off-screen start their attack patterns only when being visible, by default?

I remember in GameMaker, they actually did this by default. Or do I have to do this with code in Unity?

>>163845612
yes you can.
you have logic bricks which is like snippets of codes attached together with only the comments visible.

you probably won't be able to make anything procedural or make your own systems but its good enough for hobbyists

>>163844158
Switching constantly between feeling like a genius and feeling like an idiot is a staple of programming.
You'll be surprised how quickly this transition can take.

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>>163843869
Started player movement and driving

Theyre both a horrible mess :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRiBwpTQBCE&feature=youtu.be

>>163845724
Itano Circus is the best thing ever.

If I am focused on learning C++ with an interest in eventually making games, which is best?

>Unreal
>C++ & (SFML/SDL)
>C++ first, games later

C/C++ is for the job I will be taking in a few months. I have a handle on the basics, really need to get better.

>>163845979
C++ first, games later.

I'd recommend actually studying games too.
Most people who can programm games, actually have no idea about games, since they never play them.

>>163845979
if you actually need to rely on it in your job, you will want to focus on it first instead of doing whatever the fuck

>>163845724
it's some sorta space flight sim.... i deliberately hid most of what i'm working on

>>163845979
It helped me to expand my C++ knowledge with SDL2 games, so if you have a basic idea of the syntax and the mindset, methodology, I would say give it a try.

>>163846198
>space flight sim
Well you've already got my attention with those missiles. I look forward to your progress anon.

>>163846046
>>163846176
Well, to be honest it's going to be a paid internship. Test engineer, so lot on the list. C/C++, electrical diagrams, writing testing instructions. Only one I'm not 100% comfortable with is C/C++.

If it's an internship, I should be learning, so I hope that my job won't depend on my knowledge walking in the door.

On the other hand, would be nice to end up with the job. Knowing would probably help.

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Can someone give me a quick rundown of haxe?
what is it how does it work
which languages do you need to work with it
is it mostly code orientented?

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>>163846340
>learned c++ by mself when i was in mid school
>do mostly java in college
>get internship at company
>its actually not an internship but a real job
>we expect you to write this program for us during your time here (in c++)
>program will later be used by company
Was nervous af when i started but it all worked out perfectly in the end.
>work for the same company again later
>they still use my program from before
feels good

>>163844440
>turnaround of the century
>3 positive reviews
>still mostly negative

>>163846637
it's a great feel to have a "legacy" like that

>>163846637
I seriously hope your definition of intership is not standing behind person and watching all day

How much longer do I have to put in a recap?

>>163847197
Don't most internships either do that or have you do some other menial work?
t. burger

>>163844440
How do you dare ripping graphics from other games? Enjoy getting sued by Nintendo and Adobe too since you probably used pirated Photshop

>>163847324
In America it usually means 'unpaid worker'.

>>163847428
Why would anyone work for free? Is that really a thing in amerca? You pay a shit ton for college and then you work for free

>>163845697
I try to keep core system as basic as possible. It does the heavy load and triggers necessary callback functions on lua side. C++ side has a Monster class but it is same class for all different types of monsters. How a monster acts and looks is decided by its script (and json data).

For example check those 3 guns. laser pistol, shot gun and rocket launcher

http://pastebin.com/LWkbwbms

Each gun has init and tick callbacks. Laser gun simply adds a bullet when the gun is trigerred and gun is ready. Shotgun adds 6 bullets unlike laser gun and adds a trail particle to it.

Rocket launcher is more complex then other two. It also has a onHit and onTick callback for its bullets. rocket launcher bullets changes their speed on its tick and creates an explosion on onHit.

>>163847324
Where I live an internship is just normal working basically. I was writing code on my first day.

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>>163847539
Yup. Because you don't have the 'necessary experience'. Welcome to Capitalism son!

>>163847306
5 hours.

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Alright, been doing Java and C++ for a couple of years and now im trying to learn the workflow of Unity and C#.


I have an object that you're supposed to be able to move one tile after clicking on the player and clicking on an adjacent tile but i can't get the second Raycast to work...

What the fuck am i doing wrong?


[code]
public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour {


void Update () {
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) {
Ray raySelected = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit hit;

if(Physics.Raycast(raySelected, out hit)){
if(hit.transform.GetComponent<PlayerCharacter>()){
Debug.Log ("pressed player");
move ();

}

}
}
}


void move(){


Ray rayAction = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit hitAction;

if (Physics.Raycast (rayAction, out hitAction)) {

if (hitAction.transform.GetComponent<Ground>()) {
Debug.Log ("ground");
Vector3 currentVector = transform.position;
Debug.Log (currentVector);

}
}

}

[/code]

The code never hits the Debug.Log("ground") part

>>163847539
Where I live it completely depends on the job itself. If you are an intern in the public administration (so teacher, librarian etc.) you get jack shit. Sometimes even small businesses will pay you nothing, like law offices (in even more disgusting cases it is them who make you pay so you can work for them, I'm not kidding). However big companies usually pay you for your work, but the payment varies between $1,5 and $3 per hour.

>>163847306
Usually the guy prompts us and tells us how long he'll be accepting entries (typically 36 hours from whenever he posts). I haven't seen him post at all since last Monday. But 6:00 PM 4chan time is a good bet for the earliest cutoff.

>>163847721
Taken even further, there's paying for internship. That actually exists.

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>>163847884

>>163845857
>which is like snippets of code
>AKA something other than art

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I know someone said it looks like a bug but the letters get placed randomly each time within the alignment.

>>163847539
Big companies are all about getting the most work out of the smallest investment. Of course they'd want people to work for free. Usually the law stops them from actually demanding it, but in the case of interns, there are fewer regulations and more of a power imbalance. People without industry experience have a very hard time getting hired at these companies, so they bite the bullet and take the deal to get some experience.

>>163847586
Thanks for the explanation! Will you share it on Github then?

>>163847884
Right now all of this is executed in the same frame... You should be able to figure out the rest

>>163848231
yeah, as soon as I release the first demo.

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>>163848035
put in a breakpoint inside the input check and then step through until something happens that you dont expect, such as the second raycast which is the exact same as the first also returning the same result which will be the player instead of the ground you had expected

>>163848161
>that twitching O
disgusting

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Throbot
Dev: scarfdev
Tools: gm:s
Web: http://scarfdev.tumblr.com/
Holidays: Santa Hat
Progress:
- i've been sick and it's shitty
+ working on tiles and enemies for forest level
+ actual gameplay/control stuff is practically done so everything i make from now on should be level specific stuff and eventually menu stuff
+ art is progress right?

>>163848280
yeah, i figured that out a minute after posting the code :/ fuck

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I heard a certain someone has died

>>163848161
if someone is telling you it looks like a bug that means it looks bad. Just because you intended it to do that doesn't stop it from looking jarring and unintended to the people seeing it.

The multi color letters slowly having a seizure on their way to the middle of the screen looks really bad, especial for some sort of fail state.

>>163848227
It's illegal as fuck in most of Europe, the US just isn't all that worried about it. Because fuck the younger workers.

If I have
>character stats
>character equipment
>character weapon
all in separate scripts, where should the Attack functions be, considering the attack values depend on the stats of character, equipment and weapon?

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New feature: getting treated at hospital won't just remove all injuries cards (which are permanent penalties that get worse with time, generally speaking) but instead get changed into TREATMENT cards, with random effects. WIP, gotta fix the wording on all cards.

>>163848556
I think the multi-coloring looks fine many nintendo games which is what hes going for have had gameover states like that.

>>163848624
Man your game is getting more complex by the day, I will never be able to play it. I already have no idea how it works.

>>163848679
the problem isn't the lettering, it's the fucking stuttering seizures those letters have

>>163848614
Interships are normal in every schoolform for a few weeks. University students have paid interships when they work for 6 months

>>163848679
Just because someone popular does something doesn't mean it's good.

>>163848161
Only the autistic fags in agdg will notice anything glitchy and deem it bad. Every normie or even regular gamer that plays your game won't.

>>163848161
How did you do the outline? I know the default Unity one sucks.

>>163848908
>normal people are incapable of identifying things violently shaking without context
>i, being an autistic fag in agdg, can assure you anyone unlike us will be incapable of seeing it

good logic there, self esteem-team

>>163848908
Only the autistic fags in agdg will notice mixels

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>>163848730
pre-alpha was a mess with no tutorial and confusing patchwork solutions, this version will be much easier to get into, even with additional mechanics

>>163844061

#2.

the drawbacks can easily be corrected by making them as fast or faster than the player and gradually slowing down when visible and a 5-10 second timer before they start firing

idea guy here

a game about being autistic. the gameplay is browsing 4chan looking for mixels and then complaining about mixels.

>tfw I found this autistic as fuck idea in my google drive
look at it, look at it and laugh
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O-6DeucwXcxwUZhv2-kmN6vpEDg3n6bUssujV-R-iGo/edit?usp=sharing
I'm a much better idea guy now

>>163848064
coding is abstract. you either make something work or you don't

Ideaguy here


The game is where Carrie Fisher fucking dies

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Helleton
Dev: MuscularHair
Tools: Game Maker: Studio
Web: http://muscularhair.tumblr.com/ https://muscularhair.itch.io/
Progress:
+ Pause screen
+ Reworked stairs system
+ Prepared for Demo Day 12 (I think)
- Dunno what to do other than wait in fear of breaking things last minute

>>163850034
oh
http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/

>>163849763
>game about creating the ultimate waifu
>you get points for how good the loli you made
>you get currency in form of piss bottles
>you can also play your waifu in a procedurally generated maze
>the whole game is written in pure C with uncommented code
>you finally wake up and kill yourself with your dad's shotgun

>>163850260
Japs made it, Idolmaster.

>spend an hour debugging your shitty code only to realize to mixed up x,y,z values

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>haven't worked on game in so long that i forgot why i wanted to make a game in the first place

>>163850964
The sweet poontang

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>>163851110
>ayy gurl i'm a game dev from 4chan how 'bout dem digits yo?

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Added the minor moves I've been putting off forever.

-Crouching Physical attack (As a result, sliding no longer restores MP)
-Crouching versions of the specials
-Wall attacks/specials for Fire/Lightning
-Reverse sliding I am still having a hard time imagining what it would look like
-Not a new move, but sliding and dropping an ice mine now places the mine slightly ahead/behind you, so it will immediately get pushed in the appropriate direction

Also, now when you dash and cancel it with an attack, you will only do a bit of a slide if you hold left/right, and you can slightly move forward while doing multi-staged attacks. Otherwise, you will slow down much quicker. The game now checks if you dashed from the air or the ground, so you will continue to move faster if you still have dashing active while in the air, compared to before where it would just keep the ground dash max speed instead of the air dash max speed.

And finally, you can now change directions with the fire down attacks, and the ground version can be extended like the air version. Up fire has also been given a bit more mobility, and the vertical gain is slightly higher than regular jumping.

>>163851468
How to do you do all your combat stuff? I want to achieve something similar as well.

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>>163843869
Hey, completely new and terrible artist here.
This is my very first attempt at a walk cycle. Please would like criticism.
I wanna make an H-game rpg, or do art for one at least. So thats the direction I am going.

>>163851468
engine, language, dicksize?

Another day another mini design document in another .notepad file.

You guys actually get anything done this morning instead of being a slow learning over ambitious beginner like me?

>>163852108
i downloaded a 6gb tutorial and im not reluctant to begin watching.

>>163851598
>A lot of states and planning out what moves should have priority over others
>Bumbling around like an idiot until I figure out how to do thing
>Refactoring a section like every month because I have a lot of old code that is just bad

>>163851765
Gamemaker Studio.

>>163844226
cause it's slow as fuck

>>163852108
I dropped the idea of my previous project, just when I would have the time to work on it non stop all day, if it feels you anything better.

>>163852108
I made believe I was by making a dev schedule for this week.

>tfw don't know if I want to jump in with using a game engine or be cool and use a framework and program everything myself

>>163852382
There's nothing cool about having no game

I've got a projectile following a trajectory or w/e in Unity and I'm trying to figure out how to get a line to draw along the path. Is this possible?

I believe it's just a Vector3.

In Unity, how can I spawn a background (quad mesh with a texture) at a set time?
So that I don't see this background when the game starts, but then after a certain amount of time, the background pops up in front of the camera?

>>163852152
hope its full of good stuff. What is it? Whered you find it?
>>163852362
>>163852237
I hope you find another good project to work on.

Whelp now im motivated to tackle a tutorial I was watching or start another project that may be easier (An fps).

>>163852546
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-LineRenderer.html

>>163852560
void SpawnBG(){
showBackground= true;
}

void Awake(){
Invoke("SpawnBG", someAmountOfTime);
}

>>163851692
Legs and arms don't seem to be moving properly

>>163852851
its a complete character creation course for blender. with rigs and blendshapes.

characters were never my area of expertise but i just need it to sharpen up

>>163852861
I get an error saying "The name showBackgound isn't there in the context".

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he's a smol guy
honestly, there's nothing else to do on break.

>>163853261
Link?

>>163853261
This is relevant to my interests. Link?

>>163853328
its pseudocode

showBackground would be the mesh renderer of your background or something, so you'd need to make it a public variable and set it in the inspector, or generate it in code

>>163853570
i got it from cgpeers. you need to register.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72S5-s5uwDc

>>163852861
Thank you! I knew about the LineRenderer component but wasn't aware that it was possible through scripting.

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What are your thoughts on this?
https://www.humblebundle.com/game-developer-software-bundle

>>163844531
Sounds like an optimization as soon you need the performance, otherwise dont because you would probably introduce new bugs

>>163853919
That's a whole lot of stuff I don't want

>>163853919
no substance suite

>>163848624
Make it so resting at home can give a minor version of this. I assume the comfort of being at home, even if it is only briefly, is at least mentally stabilizing (so maybe it is for mental debuffs vs physical ones at hospital?)

>>163853919
a bunch of literal meme crap

Is not commenting code a meme or something? Ive never done it.

>>163848623
please respong

>>163852546
Linerenderer, setPosition(0, origin); setPosition(1, target) ;

>>163848623
character controls, or character movement script probably

programmed this intro to a game because i was bored

http://a.pomf.cat/rafuin.webm

>>163853226
How so? I thought the arms and legs looked pretty solid.

>>163854787
cool but you're a thief

>regular machine gun type weapon
>slight 'auto-aim' to accomodate GM view jankiness, mostly unnoticeable unless you somehow move into an enemy and start firing in such a way that they dont hit him

>alternate machine gun type weapon
>full auto-aim, fires at nearest enemy from the player and will change direction if necessary to do so

how should I balance the two? Right now the regular one does 3x the damage of the auto aim and has faster bullet speed and fire rate. Does this sound good enough?

>>163853330
I'm not the dev, but I love you no homo.

>>163852851
>I hope you find another good project to work on.
Thanks, anon!

>>163855102
its ok

>>163854346
How large is your code base?
It's a common habit for people who are learning and just starting out.

But once you get into dozen source files and several thousand LOCS each, you're gonna wish you had everything commented.

>>163855113
"GM view jankiness"
Hrrm?

>>163854346
Who the fuck doesn't write comments?

>>163855318
My game isn't massive at the moment, but I've spent six months working at a company with 15 million lines of code and no comments.

>>163854217
right now, resting at home regenerates a bit of lost health/sanity

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Not a School Shooter
Dev: Anon
Tools: Unity/C#
Web: NA
Progress:
+ Melle
+ Slashing/Thrusting
+ Refactored Code so it works with all holdables easily
- Busy so not much progress
- Melee looks like shit, ui too
- Thinking about actually making school shooter
- Mainly posting because I don't want to lose my stream desu

>>163853919
Man they keep making """game dev""" focused bundles but they've all basically been shit except the UE4 one

They couldn't even get any of the good books in the book bundle either, just literal shovelware books.

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Holy mother of nests that's a big pyramid

>>163856162
>literally 4 nested loops

Don't ever talk to me or my CPU again.

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>>163855435
tl;dr
for whatever reason, my camera throws off aim with the mouse when xview/yview are increasing or decreasing (so whenever player object is moving)
pic related

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I made real matching and better spawning, I also learned about GUI and animations so I added some. But this is still prototype tier to explore ideas, and all the code needs to be cleaned up and reorganized

I still don't know what I should do with this. I thought maybe it can be a platformer where you control a guy in the blocks and you could use points to get weapons. There will be blocks that spawn enemies. There could also be classic puzzles with limited moves, or you invest points into a simultaneous game like in StarCraft 2 StarJeweled, where you spawn units.
I made another mode where blocks always fall down like in Tetris and there is no empty spaces but it seems worse? I just don't know

>>163856451
I can't idea guy you, but you have something beautiful there, anon, so keep it up!

>>163856162
this can't be the right way to do things.

>>163856451
Honestly you could just make a bejeweled style game with that mechanic instead and it would do decently.

>>163856374
Sounds less like GM view jankiness and more like improper use of step vs. end step to me. I was working on a top down shooter that used hitscan weaponry in GM (so I would've been able to tell instantaneously if a shot went off target) and I can't recall ever having the issue you're describing.

>>163857052
addendum, another likely culprit would be an issue with using an improper coordinate system (world vs. view), though it could be any number of other things.

The humble bundle is pretty good actually


i was looking at getting three of these at their full price

>>163857330
lol

which ones

>>163856162
somehow I feel this could be optimized in a lot of places

are you that one marching cubes dev?

>>163857526
yeah, I'm working on optimizing it now. Took a break and came back to this mess so it's time to fix it up

>>163857396
Sprite Illuminator, hexels, i lied about there being a 3rd

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>>163856162
>Dynamically checking for VR-ness
>raycasting
>Unity tags

>>163854729
Wouldn't this just draw a straight line from the object to the target as opposed to drawing a curved line along the trajectory path?

>>163857595
make sure to post if you find any really cool breakthrough optimizations

I'm betting there is some clever matrix stuff you can do to clean up the latter half of that chunk

>>163857686
the raycast + tag check will only be done once, and is probably <1% of the total loop performance

>>163857802
Ah. For trajectory you'll probably need to pick an acceptable number of points. I'm having that problem too.

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>>163856162

>>163856162
What's wrong with that code?

>>163858102
I really like this picture.

>>163856570
Thank you, very nice
>>163856891
So getting points for points' sake, clearing whole board etc?

>>163858197
well, it breaks the 3 levels of indentation rule by 8 levels
and two of those lines are doing too much and should be broken up, and also breaking the maximum line length rule

>took all time during 3days understanding and working on a smooth land generation
>got it right
>add in a totally random generation with blocks sometimes floating around for the kek at first
>mfw this area is more fun to explore and jump around
JUST

..maybe I'm just biased but I like it. I'm just going to throw a random seed with a bit of ground base and call move onto the next dev part.

>>163858413
But, to be honest, I had an idea for my puzzle game. It was this >>163836639, but I dropped it because of no art. But I think you can have any made up story, like in PuzzleQuest or something, where the fighting is replaced with puzzles like that.

>>163858232
Save it, it's all yours my friend

>>163853919
I'll take Spriter and PICO-8 for cheap. Can't complain. Been wanting Spriter for a while, but I was too cheap to go buy it.

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>>163856162
i also nested 4 loops in a half asses chess game i made recently

nothing wrong with it, people are just jealous

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>>163858524
yea but the cs degree meme is only funny when the actual code part can be obviously optimized.

if im working at 640x480 (GM:S) how well would it go over if I did the backgrounds at half that then stretched them x2 to get a nice semi-anti-alias look?

>>163859064
>else
>{
>break;
>}
you fucking

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>>163858102
Here's my code

>>163856451
what you've got here is a solid as fuck prototype
I would suggest fleshing it out and turning it into a puzzle game for mobile

it's clearly more complicated than the typical puzzle game, so turn that into a strength and market it as a "challenging mind boggler, way harder than candy crush! Makes you think!" and shit like that
throw in "Over 150 challenging levels!" and an "Endless arcade mode for high score with unlimited replayability!" and you're set

>>163859462
nice eye cancer color scheme

>>163859576
The only thing I don't like is the purplepink of the keywords, but I used up all other good colors.

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>>163858048
I found this on the Unity forums. (Credit to gfoot)
Maybe this would work? I can't personally test it yet because I'm at work unfortunately.

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Day 1 with Unity. How can i improve this mess?

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there wasn't enough squash & stretch going on, also added some vertex animated grass blades

>>163854346
Comments should only be used when you can't express something in the code itself.

What's the most common way to handle dialogue? Do you just put the entire script into a single file and pull from that, or do something more elegant.

>>163859847
Holy cow anon, looks juicy and charming as fuck.

>>163859847
This game looks real bangin.

>>163859847
so what's the gameplay?

>>163859910
It's certainly not common, but the best way I've found is to use coroutines/continuations. Whether that's done in your game code or whether it's in a script is irrelevant to the actual functionality.

>>163859910
I would try and make the code pull text from a file, yeah. It'll make it a lot easier in the long run.

All of the messages are consolidated into one file and it'll allow translating it easier (if you decided you wanted to go the extra mile and do that)

>>163859910
If you're using an engine you should look into how they recommend you do it to work with the localisation system.

>>163858413
Yeah. It's easy to forget that bejeweled games are retardedly popular.

>>163859910
>>163860045
That said, if you do it in a script it's easy localization as >>163860064 and >>163860069 point out.

>>163859956
as of the second draft you've got two meters, nutrition & flavor, and you have to balance them out while not overflowing the cauldron. I'm going to work on the ui now because dd12 is getting real close

>>163860175
Last PS: You can also have the dialogue structure (with the coroutines/continuations) in the regular game code and only pull the strings from some external source. It doesn't make much sense for different languages to have different dialogue structures; duplicating it for every language would be a maintenance nightmare.

How am I supposed to dev with this smoke in my eyes?

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Added landing gear for the spess ship. Cramming the struts and their supports into the tiny hull was not easy, but i did it and it's not sticking out anywhere when retracted, yay. And now the next thing on my infinite list of things to do.

>>163859753
Looks ok, but the velocity part is lost on me. It's not what I need, anyway.

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>>163843869
>yfw you took Monday off of work to relax and gamedev
>doing so voided your ability to collect Saturday and Sunday's holiday pay
>but you knew the boss was on vacation and you didn't tell anyone, you just no-call, no-showed
>go in Tuesday, claim there was a scheduling error and get Monday hours on payroll even though you fucking blew it off to gamedev
>yfw you use D E V I L I S H tactics to get paid and get to dev

>>163860590
Well if you worked Sat and Sun, you better get fucking payed, even if you need to be sly to get it.

I always see people have a structure like Player.OnDeath += someLocalFunction() can someone explain this to me?

What type of function/property does OnDeath have to be? Is there a way to save what functions are attached to it? Is it good for creating listeners for example Player.AcceptDamage += updateUIFill()?

>>163859806
Split inputs and outputs. Put the moving the character part in its own script.

>>163860590
>work 12 hours a day 4 days a week
>get home after work thinking of devving
>start playing something
>get done nothing
>go to sleep
>repeat until my days off
>dev for half a day and kys myself every time

>>163860572
I love seeing your progress on this. Interactive cockpits are the best. Makes me think I should start on some kind of cockpit already.

>>163860756
In that scenario, OnDeath has to be a variable of the class/script Player, with the same type that someLocalFunction() returns

>>163860856
>kill yourself myself

>>163860936
>thinking that wasn't intentional

>>163860756
That's C#'s built-in event system (Observer pattern).

>>163860994
>>163860931

Ah, so OnDeath isn't a function that can be called and automatically call all the += localFunctions()'s?

>>163860725
I didn't work those days, but they're paid as if I worked them because they're major holidays, so long as I work the day before and after. Normally missing either bookend day invalidates the holiday pay you'd get despite not working. LIE 1, GET 2 FREE BAY-BEEEEEE

>>163859504
Thanks for your ideas
Honestly so far I only made this for fun and for practice and have no intention of making money or targeting mobile. I feel that trying to make money on mobile is probably futile, but it could still be fun to publish a complete game
>>163858756
Yeah I thought of something like having RPG type battles where you get attacks by solving, different colors could have different effects etc. But I have no art either
>>163859847
Looks awesome, is this for crafting?

>>163860936
RIP in pieces my sides, reading that

>>163861224
I actually felt bad for you. Nevermind, you're just a lazy cunt.

>>163860898
It's a constant battle of decisions about which controls to include and which ones to skip. I want to have lots of comfy buttons and levers to press but I have to keep it in check, since there is no point in including buttons like "hydraulics pressure in the left rear left landing strut" which the player is never going to use anyway.

>>163861148
You can call it like a function. An event is basically just a collection of functions (delegates in C# parlance) that can be called all at once.

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>hey guys I'm looking for a talented programmer for a game idea
>the position will be paid through profit sharing

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>look through old projects
>find this

I've been using an ancient cracked version of Spriter for ages now. Just found out it's on humblebundle. SIGN ME THE FUCK UP, BOYS.

Here's Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Standard if anyone wants it, I don't need it. Happy holidays, this just made my day and upcoming year.
0TPPV-L9GWL-7C08B

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Any tips for palette shading, or making sprites with palette shading in mind. Also skin tones are hard.

>>163862067
I'm not redeeming that, but cheers.

>>163862091
I don't know a thing about spriting but this might help
http://www.kyrieru.com/p/this-first-part-will-cover-many-of.html?zx=af8882af0538b0a1

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Progress!
Almost done with my main mechanic.
So far both characters are unable to move when i change the ground, but i'm gonna do it so that one can move on one and other one can move on the other one.

POST PROGRESS
give me some yous pls :S

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>>163862091

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>tfw tonsil stones stuck in throat for past week
its like my body is actively trying to stop me

>>163863056
Will it work like thomas was alone?

>>163845170
Hey. Can you talk about how you got the AAA to properly calculate where the aircraft would be when targeting/firing?

>>163863343
then get a pinzette and pull them out and stop making excuses you pathetic shit

>>163863838
i cant fucking find it

its right behind my palate

>>163863740
Isn't that like fifth grade math?

>>163861349
Well I guess it comes down to do you want something more like DCS or something more like Ace Combat

Or something in between

>>163849909
Haha!
Not joking, I recently came up with an idea very similar to yours, I almost confused your doc for mine.

>>163864032
Is it? How would it be done?

I honestly don't know.

>>163863991
>>163863838
>>163863343
/adsg/ - amateur dental surgery general
JAWS edition

>>163844614
Put a delay on aggro for enemies so that they will not immediately aggro. If seen of course this doesn't apply. More of a half/half solution, depending on how its done you could minimize both frustration and cheesing.

>>163863620
i didn't watch much of the game but no, this won't be rectangles running around.
Although it will be a puzzle game
And of course, i can neither dev nor art so it's gonna be a long ride

>>163864032
Differential equations (really simple in this case, but still) are fifth grade math?

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>>163864303

here, have a look at my scrapped game then

>>163861331
you'll learn a lot publishing your first game
and it's a good idea for that first game to be a simple one anyway
it's worth it for the experience even if you don't care to make money from it

>>163864589
Sixth grade?

>>163864590
2 spoopy would not play

>>163864775
So how would it be done

>>163864850
Like I said, it's a differential equation. What you want to find is the point ahead of the target (really, the time taken to get there) such that if you fire at that point you will hit the target.

>>163864850
It's trivially easy to find answers to your question on the internet, you lazy fucking mook.

>>163864850
>>163865173
You could also cheat and make the bullets move faster so they hit the target at a constant time based on the immediate distance to the target.

>>163865363
No need to go there. I originally just asked this Space carrier ops dev how HE did it. But you had to insert your own opinion to feel superior.

>>163865550
I am superior because I look the answers to my stupid questions up rather than asking stupid questions on agdg.

>>163865754
You really showed me by shitposting about it

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Fuck parenting, this was way easier without parenting.
Not only do i not understand parenting cus this is my literally first time creating a game but also it sets every variable i set for my main char so it was a chore to swap them out.

>>163865840
Questions as stupid as yours are on par with shitposting, especially when you continue bitching after somebody informs you of how stupid your question is.

>>163866043
Looks more like a testing grouind than a game

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Cameras are funfuck no i hate cameras, especially when i know i'll have to make a decent one someday
>>163866245
Trying to create the mechanics, like i've said, this is my first time trying to create a game. i'm also autistic enough to experiment instead of watching tutorials.

>>163866245
No shit. He's testing his code.

>>163866510
Then why saying he makes a game if he is just testing code?
It's merely a testing ground since months already.

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>>163863740
At its most basic, the concept is is to calculate where the target will be when your bullet gets there. I get the distance from the gun barrel to the target, use that to calculate a travel time, project where the target will be in that many seconds using the velocity of the target, and then return that as the lead point (or aim point, whatever you want to call it) for the gun to aim.

This isn't perfectly accurate as it doesn't account for your own velocity (although that's easy enough to add in). It also doesn't predict a new distance in cases where the target's distance from the barrel will change in a significant way while the bullet is on its way. However, that's generally not a big enough error to matter as bullets are usually much faster than what they're shooting at, and instances where that's the case are typically when they are flying at your or away from you, and so the lead wouldn't be that different regardless.

Here's the exact code if you want to see the literal code.
http://pastebin.com/vaXXHkUa

>>163866947
oh you rememebered... i actually was too lazy to try so i bought overwatch and played that for a while.
>mfw someone said "give him 2 weeks and he will give up"

This came up in my related videos list. Maybe some interesting input for some of you or you can just talk shit about the guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmwbYl6f11c

I just want to look at code for finished games and learn from them, preferably from game maker games but anything else is fine too

where can I do this?

>>163864590
Neat

>>163867304
Github, I guess.

>>163867304
https://github.com/id-software

>haven't touched game in 3 days
Fug

>>163867304
I'd recommend not doing that, finished games tend to use very convoluted coding structures.
But if you want to look at code for finished games, just look for stuff that is either Javascript, or open source.
Javascript is readable as long as the programmer hasn't gone out of their way to obfuscate it (Only multiplayer game devs and major companies are likely to do this).

>>163867304
>game maker games
look up spelunky

>>163867693
>he didn't have a planned Christmas break
It's like you don't even take things seriously

My projection matrix and vertex shader in WebGL look fine, except that some things are totally broken.
It's full 3D, with perspective control, near-far cutoff, etc. but objects behave weirdly as they go offscreen which is no problem for small objects but it's a huge problem for large objects.

Are there any examples of good matrix-based 3D I can look at to see how it does things differently?
I've only been able to find bad examples, which are confusing because they have mathematical errors but still work fine.

>>163867968
How do they behave weirdly?

>>163867304
There was a humble bundle a while back where the nuclear throne sold the code for their prototype to nuclear throne (which is totally shameless but hey that's rami ismail for you) so the .gmk file for that is still floating around the net for download.

>>163868125
If a vertex is a few hundred pixels offscreen, it will jump to a wildly different place.
My matrix stuff is rather convoluted, which is why I want to copy from something else.
But I haven't been able to find anything that isn't even more convoluted.

>>163867968
How's WebGL compared to using the Canvas with plain JavaScript?

>>163866981
Thanks.

>>163866056
>Asking a dev about his game dev
>Equivalent to shitposting

okay

>>163868492
The big things are efficiency and a fragment shader.
It's way more efficient; thus is actually a reasonable option for 3D games; and fragment shaders can make something dull look amazing.

I've built a couple small prototype proof of concept type things (as a complete amateur) and want to buckle down and try to flesh out the content on one for a demo day thing. I'm wondering which sounds like a game you'd be willing to waste 10 to 30 minutes on. My three prototypes are:

1) Waifu sim game. Basically a dating simulator except you already start married/dating a girl and the whole game is trying not to lose her. All the systems are in place for the day to day menu stuff, all I'd need to do is write tons and tons of dialogue for events.

2) Eugenics simulator. A bunch of 'people' objects shuffle around and breed and what have you. Object of the game is to make a race of supermans or something, haven't actually figured it out yet. Mostly made it because I wanted to simulate breeding genetics. Has randomized avatars for each person based on their DNA!

3) Magical girl turn based RPG. Basically just a sailor moon ripoff JRPG thing. Made it just so I could try making a turn based game.

>>163869081
>>3) Magical girl turn based RPG. Basically just a sailor moon ripoff JRPG thing. Made it just so I could try making a turn based game.
THIS THIS THIS

>>163869081
>pick between 3 vague concepts with no description of gameplay

>>163869081
all of them
get to work kiddo

>>163844648
now I see that making fun of idea guys was a mistake

>>163869081
>Magical girl turn based RPG

Make it an RPG game survival game with Turn Based combat in the same vein as Mahou Shoujo Ikuseai Keikaku and I'll help you

>>163869081
i like no. 2

>want to make game
>but even more want to write plots for games
can't realise my games cus i dot no skills tho

New to these threads and game dev in general, what exactly are the types of projects anons share in these threads? Is the long-term goal to release for free and get your name out there, make some money, or just get something small done for each jam?

>>163870168
I'm sure there are lots of people like me who don't care about game stories and would love to have someone do all the writing work.

>>163870194
Welcome. Ignore the shitposts. You can share any progress, any stage, any type, free/commerciam/jam, progress is always top-tier posting.

>>163870168
I've been trying to come up with a plot for over a month now. It's really hard. I think I have managed to narrow down the possibilities a bit now, which is good.

>>163870194
A little bit of each. Some devs wanna make money, some are just hobbyists.

I'm working on an open source game myself because it's the kind of game that I want to play. Other people are trying to start a career and making polished, funded games.

>>163867304
I use to mess with this for fun. I hope all the comments from the original raven team are still in there.

https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK

>>163870194
All of those goals are welcome here.

Progress and learning = good
Shitpost = bad

>>163870168
Make a VN in Renpy using stolen art assets. It's basically writing a script with some weird conventions but it'll get your feet wet and maybe you can move on to something bigger later.

>>163867181
One of the realest talks I've ever heard on the subject, I think these days too many people think only of hit games and how to "force a hit"... when those are mostly outliers in the immense universe of game devs.

Thanks for sharing anon.

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i got the humble bundle for hexels and dont need spriter does anyone want it?

>>163854346
I think it completely depends on who you are expecting to read the code later
But then again, refactor first, comment later

>>163870731
I do

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>>163870836
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=SRM3SaTRaURbfmDd

>>163855113
literally no way to tell without trying it out
and do fix that bug first instead of making it a feature

>>163870916
thx famio

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>>163870916
That's Liru from the Renkin San-kyuu Magical? Pokaan series.

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>>163870438
Sure looks complex

>>163871121
games are complex

>>163870194
Most anons post their progress here, others just discuss things related to game development.
Sometimes we get really insteresting posts.

>>163870384
>>163870425
>>163870451
Thanks, I wasn't asking for myself because I'm far from being able to post updates, just curious about what exactly I've been looking at because some of it looks really amazing.

>>163871628
>another nodev in this general

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A friend just sent me his game and told me to test it and tell him what I think.

How do you tell your devfriend that their game plays like complete shit without hurting their feelings? There are far too many issues to pinpoint anything and just tell him "fix the jump physics", everything about it is a mess. It's the equivalent of someone sending you their Sonic OC with no regard for anatomy or construction, colored using fully saturated colors and shaded using the burn/dodge tool.

Should I just tell him "good progress" and let him live in ignorance?

OpenGL question...

Let's suppose I render 2 quads to the screen using 6 vertices. One edge of each quad is shared.

Now let's say I render each quad with a different texture. Not from an atlas.

Will there be any kind of noticeable seam between the two quads? Assuming here there is a pattern on the two textures that should connect seamlessly when rendered on the two quads.

>>163872019
let him some useful feedback that he can realistically improve the game with. If the game is very very shit, let him know some ideas of how to upgrade it to just "very shit".

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textured in zbrush. I am really enjoying my time with the program and if 2017 goes well I may propose but I don't want to rush things. for now I need to rig this guy. gonna go nuts and do full FK / IK rig

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retopo'd and working on texture, using substance remotely so lines are a little sloppy. haven't really textured humans too much, hows it look?

>>163872019
Tell him nothing.
If that is not possible, then tell him what you think he wants to hear. Preserve the harmony of your life, do not allow others to disturb it.

>>163872250
the green in the eyes is a bit too strong for me. Maybe go with something more neutral.

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How do you feel about people who reverse engineer games to write cheats?

>>163872019
That's entirely dependant on your relationship with your friend and their personality. If you feel you're not capable enough to make a decent choice using your social skills and what you know of your friend go the safest route and either say it's an OK game or avoid the matter whenever it's brought up.

>>163872241
This reminds me of the Neverhood/Skullmonkeys.

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>>163857853

Even with super fast deformation, going through many chunks very quickly, it's becoming very very well optimized. There are still some bugs that aren't shown here that are a pain, but it's looking good.

(Fast deformation is just for fps testing)

>>163872019
The truth can hurt, especially when you are at the beginning of the journey of your craftsmanship. Yet, when you look back, or let it sink in, you'll realize that every word in it was really helpful, and without them, you wouldn't be where you are today. Just tell him what's not working and show them good examples of the opposite.

>>163872019
he will probably burn out on the stuff before long anyway, no reason to crush his dreams

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>>163872389
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryMVK1PwuQ

>>163867181
Nice video, thanks

>>163872096
No, if they have the exact same position there will not be a seam. If you want to ensure this, you can use a single vertex buffer for both with the 6 points and then different index buffers for each.

Seams arise when you do transformations so that theoretically the positions are the same but they're not because of floating point BS.

>>163872903
Cool. I know seams aren't an issue when using a texture atlas which is what i normally use, but wasn't so sure about individual textures. That's pretty sweet.

>>163873069
Like, 3 will always be 3 but 1.5 + 1.5 with floats is not exactly 3.

>>163872545
Thing is, I don't think I can really relate to being that kind of clueless because I've always been extremely overanalytical in my work and have always had a general idea of what I wanted my creations to be or not be. I've had people suggest me that I went about things in the wrong way before and it has helped me grow, but I've never been truth bombed so hard my entire world shattered.

It's extremely difficult to list things that are wrong and suggest improvements in a way that doesn't read like "everything you just did was wrong", even though that's the truth. Wish there was a way I could let him figure out the blatant flaws himself without me actually telling him anything.

>>163873234
Yeh, i know. So long as the exact same transformation being done to the exact same vertices, the result should always be the same from what I gather.

>>163873289
Tell him some small things to improve. I'm not sure why this is so hard.

>>163873329
Yep, precisely.

>>163872250
>that nose

>>163873289
I've been in that position, and I'm very thankful ever since that someone took the effort and wrote a precise list about that "everything".

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>>163869081
Magical girl in an absolute despair setting.

The world is dead and dying by the time you get powers, all you can do is hold off total destruction while cities fall and people you know die each day.

Include bright and kawaii uguu clothing offset by a dark and depressing world.

Also kill off the first optimistic character the player meets, after the first day.