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someone post the butt

>>10878362

That's pretty damn awesome dude!

Not sure I get the Scanning Subject text tho. Is that so that the ship might attack enemies or am I just reading to much into it?

>>10878424

>shark shota

Excuse me?

>>10878362

>Deus Ex - Hong Kong

>O.M.F. 2097 menu music

Great taste

>>10878362

That tune's called the synapse you gay

This mod keeps looking better and better.

from last thread:

>>10877597

its not in the hand i use my mouse with

feeling better from when it started but my fingers on that hand are useless right now. its in a splint

>>10877884

haha, thanks

funny thing about it is that i had a weird dream that i fell out of bed on my hand, but that didnt happen.. it was still a dream come true because i couldnt use the hand when i woke up

>>10878490

>"I ain't sloppy, floppy."

Too bad I can't work on my game for another month.

>>10878280

that is a very good butt holy shit

>>10878490

>>10878683

If floppy disks are for coders, and laserdics are for artists, what's the antiquated storage medium for Idea guys?

>>10878729

They get nothing, to represent everything they will ever make.

>>10878729

a 1 gig thumb drive that contains all of their ideas

>>10878729

How about a sheet of paper? Plenty enough space to contain something like "Diablo but a first-person shooter with cel shading and memes!"

>>10878544

>add thickness to the armor

Using the solidify modifier yes? I'd hate to imagine someone manually thickening the armor by hand.

>>10878802

a to select all, alt+j to convert tris to quads. don't worry about non planar faces right now, it's a non issue in your current state.

a to select all, ctrl+n to recalculate normals outside

My recommendation is to look at other peoples work, to figure out edgeflow and topology, then kill yourself when you realize that that topology is largely subjective. Watch videos of people speed modelling, that will help with your technique a whole lot.

Another recommendation is to learn to sculpt and retopologize, I only mesh model when making low poly or making inorganic objects

>>10878434

It's pretty shoddily worded, but the idea is that the ship can look at people and allow/deny access based upon if the AI recognizes them.

Ultimately, though, I just wanted flavor text and wasn't sure what to put there.

>>10878424

I don't really tend to put lewd in my stuff, sorry. But I really have no objections to people writing or drawing lewdstuff.

>>10878524

>>10878541

Thanks. I've been having a lot of fun looking up tracker/module stuff, I'm always eagerly digging for more.

>>10879176

You can make a metric tonne of improvements to your model, are you trying specifically to recreate someone or are you just making a human? try looking at low poly characters that already exist, but stay away from no effort low poly

Use other peoples work as a reference and try and copy what they do, and always gravitate around your work, it's going to exist in 3d so you need to constantly look at it from many different angles.

Also try and watch and read as many general modelling tutorials as you can, it's important to understand the interface and and concepts of 3d modelling.

https://sketchfab.com/models/05ba49b324ae4b759a6b4b140a7be456

https://sketchfab.com/models/1acadc9a3d554a61b3e05a2d970ad296

https://sketchfab.com/models/bedf9616fb5a4dafa4126a529bf99076

Turn on wireframe to see their topology

>>10878490

>"I ain't sloppy, floppy."

In this thread

Assume you have these skills;

Blacksmithing > heavy armor, melee weapons, arrowheads..

Leatherworking > light fur/leather armor, boots, hats..

Tailoring > clothing, ropes, capes, general purpose cloth..

Wood carving > bows, staves, arrow shafts..

Stone crafting > statues, gem cutting, floors/walls..

What would you do with glass blowing, pottery (clay crafting), and painting? I'm not sure where they'd fit, and I can't think of a good new skill for them.

>>10879498

>clay crafting

Build primitive molotov cocktails.

>I'm not sure where they'd fit, and I can't think of a good new skill for them.

Then why have them?

>>10879551

>Then why have them?

Because I don't like the idea of some of the most crucial crafting components (e.g. vials) being inexplicably not craftable when everything else is.

>>10879498

Pottery > Pots for long term food storage, primate hut (along with sticks)

Glass > Jars for long term food storage, windows, lenses for glasses and telescopes, containers for reactive/hazards materials, luxury/decorative items such as jewelry or wine glasses

Painting > Paintings, makeup, visually recreating an important item/person to show to a hired thief or mercenary

That's all I got.

>>10879363

Funny you should link a TS character, as that's the sort of style I was trying to emulate with this go at it

>>10879805

Go dev and let them guide you on.

>>10878362

What's the song that starts at 0:59 ?

Also you should put vaporwave in the jukebox.

>>10881529

Bydd Cthulhu yn codi eto. Iechyd da, butt.

>>10878802

Keep at it bro. Are you doing tutorials?

This may sound counter intuitive but trying out things for yourself is fine but documentation within blender is pretty sparse and you're better off finding out how things go together correctly from tutorials rather than trying things at random and then ending up with tons of unfixable (due to lack of understanding) errors.

My recommendation is to save a .blend of every tutorial you do, save the renders (preferably to a remote site like dropbox or whatever) so that you can look back on your progress and be invigorated.

Also if you find you start with a cube and end up with an owl but don't understand how you got from step 1 to step 9001, don't worry about it, you learned more than you realize and if you revisit the tutorial in a week you'll be able to pick up stuff you missed the first time around.

>>10879176

>he intent is to keep things low-poly for now,

This is a fundamental noob mistake, thinking that low poly = low complexity (I made this mistake too starting out).

It's fine to box model, it's a useful skill and it's important when it comes to retopo but don't be afraid to try sculpting too (you're going to need to try everything no matter how daunting).

>>10881696

also node.Passable(this) means that it's checking if the node is unoccupied or if it's occupied by this unit

>>10882105

Keep the coords of the 'ground' below the character, and store the dY from that point as a separate variable. Jumping changes that dY value, and both the ground coords and dY for the jump are used to draw whatever sprite.

If you will have obstacles that can be jumped on/walked on, you will need to use the ground coord+dY to calculate collisions with the bottom of the character.

>>10882105

If its 2.5d like kirby 64, maintain each objects xyz position but have another variable n that denotes their position on the path - that way you can have levels that snake and curve but they still play completely libearly

>>10882105

>>10882220

I think he means 2.5D as in gameboy zelda games. Hence the "Y=Z" part of his post.

If that's the case, the solution is to not actually do Y=Z, but only calculate Y=Y+Z at the moment you draw a sprite. Might have to multiply Z with a number between 0 and 1 before adding it, depends on the viewing angle.

>>10882329

Those games didnt have height either. Stuff you could jump off of? Just set pieces that played that animation

>>10878362

That is so fucking cool,

>>10882398

I said like, not actually the way most of them handled it. Also reminder that the Oracle games had jumping mechanics in the form of Roc's Feather and that bear.

alright someone tell me how to make this not shit

protected List<NodeElement> searchedNodes = new List<NodeElement>();
    public NodeElement FindNearestReachable(NodeElement nod)
    {
        searchedNodes = new List<NodeElement>();
        return NearestReachable(nod);
    }
    public NodeElement NearestReachable(NodeElement nod)
    {
        if (nod.Passable(this))
        {
            return nod;
        }
        else
        {
            searchedNodes.Add(nod);
            NodeElement cur = nod;
            int i = 0;
            do
            {
                for (int q = 0; q < SquareGrid.DIRS.Length; q++)
                {
                    NodeElement node = PathfindingMap.VecToNode(cur.x + SquareGrid.DIRS[q].x, cur.y + SquareGrid.DIRS[q].y);
                    if (!searchedNodes.Contains(node))
                    {
                        i++;
                        searchedNodes.Add(node);
                        if (node.Passable(this))
                        {
                            return node;
                        }
                    }
                }
                cur = searchedNodes[i];
            }
            while (cur != null);
            return null;
}
}

and don't tell me to use the profiler, without it shit just slows down, if i turn the profiler on, when the slow down happens it entirely skips the frame and doesn't actually show me which part of things is taking up all the processing power

>>10882802

and the particular profiler issue only happens when i have most of my units selected (24)

if i just do it one by one it doesn't stand out and the profiler doesn't show anything out of the ordinary

>>10882914

Get the hell out of here denton.

>>10881337

Unreal Tournament, the song is Botpack #9. Vid related.

>>10882196

>>10882451

Thanks.

>>10880348

I dig it. Things look nice and clean, pretty clear where everything begins and ends.

>>10882934

That wasn't really the intention but I can see it.

>>10882950

You should be able to do everything fine in Blender. It might take some workarounds, though. Just don't expect to get your stuff officially accepted, from my experience it rarely works out.

You have good taste in waifus. Warframe is still a bad game.

>>10882914

HLM needs a good spiritual successor, keep it up.

>>10883125

Thanks, but at most I can do an art mockup and a story outline since I've never had success with coding. I'll try to keep going just for practice at least.

>>10880348

I was planning to do exactly that too; a halloween themed minimalist multiplayer game for /v/. But I realize there's no way I'll have the discipline to get it done in time.

>>10883254

just make some game with skellingtons

>>10882914

>>10882943

Thanks. I see JC in those sprites too.

>>10883254

I forced myself by buying a server and domain already to bully my subconscious into making me productive.

>>10883351

blend shapes

>>10883358

How hard would you say it is to understand how to make this work?

>>10883381

well i have no idea how it works

i just know it exists

>>10883418

that looks fairly easy if you already have the models

thanks anon

fresh idea here:

A Hotline Bloodbath Kavkaz remake that overhauls the technically gameplay of a third-world clone, allowing for easier slideshow of old memes and EDM licensed from basement producers on Soundcloud

>>10883463

Can't you just play Hotline Miami?

What's the point

>>10883480

>Whats the point

to remake a shit game and revitalize/strengthen the essential nutrients and ingredients of liver cancer

>>10883513

But it's a copy of another game

Just play that if you want a good version of a shit game

Has anyone been able to get Autocomplete with Unity using Atom?

is there any way i can get an A* path search to check if there's a reachable path to the target? like if the target is surrounded by a wall and there's no way to enter, the search will end up going through every possible node even though there's no available path, which is killing performance for me right now

>>10882802

What kind of datastructure is List? Is passable an O(1) operation? How expensive is Contains()? VecToNode()? Have you inserted some print calls to make sure that the function is interating the way you expect? Is the result correct? How often do you hit the null condition? How many iterations do you perform if you hit the null?

>>10884064

A* will try every possible way, since it's the only way for it to guarantee that some roundabout path won't lead to the destination.

If you want to quickly find out whether someone is reachable, you'll have to use another algorithm other than A* (or modify it for your specific use case).

>>10884064

Trying to find a path from the destination to the unit instead of the normal way around will resolve faster if the destination is in a small unreachable area, if you're looking for a quick fix that doesn't really solve the root issue.

>>10884064

You could try reversing the algorithm by running it from the goal.

If the area is smaller it will get stuck a lot sooner than if it has to traverse the entire accessible map

So it should be a pretty big time saver

>>10881626

Iv'e done a handful of tutorials, mostly to figure how different Blender was from the 3DSMax stuff I learned in highschool a few years back. Outside of that, Iv'e been just looking up how to do things as the issue or need arises.

>>10883876

If not for the large thighs, that model would look like something out of runescape.

Here's my daily "anyone want to team up and work on something" post.

>>10884318

Want to make a Darkest Dungeon 40k mod?

fuck you leatherman

>>10884330

Looking more for a full game development project. Sounds like a cool idea though, and I hope it turns out well.

>>10884369

Better version tbh

>>10884400

knew I should define it more. will fix

>>10884318

What sort of stuff do you do?

>>10884318

what can you offer to the project, an idea? you can code? draw/model?

>>10884441

I can texture and navigate most 3D modeling software (though I suck at modeling). I've worked as a writer (though not in games), and I've got experience with several musical instruments and FLStudio11.

As for ideas, I've got a few that could still use some fleshing out. I've done more work on some than others.

-A turn-based tactical RPG in a fantasy setting with a focus on an in-depth class tree and skill system.

-A Resident Evil-style survival horror game with a HEAVY throwback setting to 80's slasher VHS flicks.

-Some kind of co operative survival game. Not DayZ shit or H1Z1 shit or stuff like that. I'd like a more Space Station 13-inspired game about working together to survive. Maintaining a post-apocalyptic bunker? Maintaining a station or planetary base? Something focused.

I can't offer payment or anything, as I'm not expecting to make money off of it myself. I just want to get some other devs around /agdg/ who aren't SJW fucks that would be willing to work together on stuff to get some experience. I don't want to make people think I'm a project leader or anything like that. I just want to get people together.

>>10884506

How do i contact you?

>>10884516

If you're a cool dude, hit me up on Steam.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/JustCham/

>>10884506

Just wondering, What kind of music do you make?

I make like weird synthwave experimental music

https://my.mixtape.moe/kxygke.mp3

>>10884711

I like a lot of shit. I know that's really vague but there are very few genres that I don't at least sort of like. I mostly play ambient/drone/doom but I enjoy synthwave, classic rock, alternative, country, folk, psych, etc.

>>10884318

I would hit you up but I'm just an artfag.

If anyone wants pixelshit for their game, let me know.

>>10884711

>>10884765

And because I forgot to mention it, I like the track you linked. You'd be really helpful if we could find folks onboard with the 80's slasher flick game.

If you released a game made with a pirated copy of gamemaker, would anyone know and be able to sue you?

>>10884996

Sometimes I wonder if the only reason I'm fine with using Emacs is because of how long and spindly my fingers are.

>>10885031

does it work with booze?

>>10882950

I wish Roly didn't draw so much obesity, furshit and futa. I remember liking him back in the old days on halfchan.

>>10884808

Thanks, That would be pretty awesome to do also.

>>10885226

select everything and recalculate normals (N)

>>10885226

well the shoulder's normals are flipped

>>10885226

It is like it has been pulled up only by the torso. Like when you pull your neck in, that is where the offput is located.

>>10885251

>>10885226

Ctrl + N to be precise.

>>10885101

I've got stubby fingers to match my stubby manlet body. I had to bind the i3 modifier to alt because using the Win key would leave me in pain with everyday usage, especially if I'm using 4+ workspaces.

Okay, that's be my fault for being vague.

I meant the actual shape and proportion of the chest look off.

>>10885226

>>10885251

my bad >>10885267 is right

>>10885382

do you have one for women?

>>10878280

pretty solid butt model. impressive.

>>10884506

80s slasher films definitely need more love, but an RE-style gameplay seems to go somewhat against that, what with the guns and rocket launchers.

Though depending on whether you're emulating post-RE4 or pre-RE4 controls, it may be more feasible.

What'd you have in mind?

>>10885079

???

>>10884176

right there with you. sorry I'm not much help. are you using GLM for math or are you doing all of the skeletal animations on the GPU?

>>10883903

>Kohan

sheeeeit I thought I was the only one who played that. Nice anon.

>>10885481

I'm talking CLASSIC RE. Slow-paced, long buildups, jumbo atmosphere. Means of defense, let alone weapons or guns would be very few and far between, and the action would be fast, frantic, and not a constant barrage of shit. For a villain I'm thinking faceless maniac. Something like Jason or Leatherface. Solve puzzles, hide, and try to survive. Soundtrack of 80's-sounding synths and retrowave. Maybe even a toggleable VHS-noise filter over the game.

>>10877902

I remember you posting about this ages back.

I'd love to see it finished

>>10877902

>first webm

Not really dead, I actually finished but the games feel kinda empty and literally crashes in the long run, I even posted here on /v/ but nobody gave to shits, I really wanted to release on newgrounds but for some reason the html5 wasn't working correctly, so I fucking quit.

>second webm

Dead because I realized it's way more fun to focus on making games that I really want to make then testing random mechanics

>third webm

Not really dead, just on a really long hiatus, I'm considering remaking it on UE4, I just have to update my toaster

>>10887045

Maybe if you input a value 'n' in the instance find that is above the number of the instances in the room it'll seek an non-existent object then crash? Maybe the fruitCount is above the actual number of instances.

>>10887314

That third webm has some nice ambiance.

>>10887381

Yeah, it was supposed to be a survival horror.

>>10887609

>one man's vision

i'd be willing to bet money on my RADICAL hypothesis, that this has never happened.

>>10887609

I have, although none of them were well organized and usually I was the only person to get anything done before the team quickly fell apart.

>follow one man's vision

That's a shit way to do indie development unless you go solo.

>>10887619

>>10887649

Never really worked with a team before, but isn't that a bit counter-productive to not have a lead director or designer?

>>10887609

That's sort of what I'm (>>10884318) trying to do. I figure that unless you want to sit around in indie development all your life, you need to learn to work as a team and stay organized.

Not working on a game right now, just doing stuff for fun with C++/Dx11, like fractals, model viewer etc

>>10887691

Even as indie you need to have some discipline and organization.

It's pretty hard to get some reliable people together over internet and get them to work together and consistently.

Most of the time there will be communication issues or someone slacks off, hurting the morale of the other members etc

>>10887530

Delete and start over again, pay more attention to the reference I gave you, if you follow it's flow it practically assembles the model for you.

>>10887670

Yeah but the problem is being dedicated to one mans vision, how many of the games posted here would you be interested in working on?

>>10887840

If you could get past that maybe it could work but then you are back to my first problem of getting people to agree on what's to be made, then there's the obvious money issue, who gets how much money, and is the project even worth all the time and effort people are putting into it, the Indie market is currently crammed, I'm sure the market needs another platformer or walking simulator or story driven rpg, or puzzle game.

>>10887892

What exactly is wrong with it?

>>10887609

Well, I had a spritefag help me one time, we nearly finished a game, and I was doing all the programming and design while he made it beautiful. I don't know if this counts.

>>10888055

>>10888063

is the dick rigged

>>10888063

I was making a low poly basemesh for DF Unity because I wanted to replace the games shitty old pre rendered 2d sprites, and I had no intention on going back on the games original nudity

>>10888078

No, I never got that far with him.

>>10888080

Bad topology, see me after class by yourself.

>>10888109

Not my model

>>10888116

I know, it was a bad joke implying lust after seeing magnum dong.

>>10887855

Nice to see you making progress.

>>10885079

no

alright, yesterday i tried reversing the way my A* pathfinding works, so that it searches from the goal to the start in order to look through less nodes

but for whatever reason it also had a huge framerate drop at random moments that the profiler can't explain, so i went back to the regular algorithm

the only way to avoid the framerate drop right now is to limit how many nodes the pathfinding can look through

my other idea is to search from both nodes until their frontiers intersect. is that feasible?

>>10885079

gamemaker used to intentionally destroy your assets if you pirated it

steer clear of that cancer

>>10888055

I need that augmented well hung cyber dong jensen pic. You know the one.

>>10889179

>my other idea is to search from both nodes until their frontiers intersect. is that feasible?

Yeah, but you're not guaranteed to get the best possible path. That's usually not so bad though, especially if the target is moving anyway or the route can get interrupted etc.

>>10889179

The most likely reason would be that the unit itself is an unreachable location for some reason. Best possible path's not very important in RTS anyway as long as you get something that's close enough and it'll likely be unavoidable hell on your CPU, so at some point you'll have to experiment with some nonoptimal simplifications. Maybe look at how other devs solved it, I feel like I remember that AoE2 pathfinding is explained somewhere by the man that wrote it.

>>10889252

>>10889225

i think i've got an idea

i got the search to save the closest reachable node

so if the search fails to find a path to the goal, it will return the closest reachable node to the goal.

and i also limited the number of searchable nodes to 500

so there isn't a visible framerate drop when going to something unreachable, and it still has a path in the end

and now i'm gonna make it so that once it reaches it's target, if it knows it wasn't the initial one and it's still far enough away, it will try to find a path to it

so essentially i'm searching for the path in segments

>>10889555 (2/2)

No that won't work in general (you're close to the solution though). The thing with A* is that you absolutely need to let it finish. Before it finishes you don't know what the closest reachable node to the goal is. It is entirely possible that your destination is reachable, if you take an extremely long and roundabout route that A* only finds very late. You also cannot separate the path into segments without creating a whole lot of problems. Imagine the following situation:

Before the player lies a long corridor that takes you straight to the destination. Only problem is that at the end of it the door is closed so that it's actually just a dead-end that gets you very close to your destination. What happens, if that corridor is even a single node longer than your path segments can be? A* will send the player straight down the corridor, because it didn't get to reach the end and thus find out that it's a dead-end. If we assume that the corridor is a single node too long, the player will find out about the dead-end situation when he continues with the next segment. The only problem is that now A* won't have the time to get him back out of it anymore. In the end the player will be sent back and forth through a corridor he won't ever be able to leave.

The solution is to not separate the path into multiple parts, but A*. No one forces you to calculate the path during a single frame. So what you want to do is either multi-thread your game and have A* calculate the path in its own thread or (if whatever you're working with isn't thread-safe and making it would be too much work), use time-slicing. Put an upper limit to how much time your pathfinding is allowed to take per frame. You let it work for that amount of time and, if it doesn't finish, you leave all the data-structures intact (save whatever is on the stack, if you have to) and continue next frame.

How much time you give it, depends on how much performance you're willing to sacrifice at max. I'd use different budgets depending on the framerate the game runs at. Calculate some sane value (don't measure performance in fps, but do it like real developers and measure the frametime in ms). 30 fps (1000/30 fps) is ~33.33 ms. If you let your pathfinding add 2 ms, you get 1000/35.33 ms = 28 fps. At 60 fps your framerate would tank down from 60 to ~53 fps. At 120 fps your framerate would tank from 120 down to ~96 fps. 2 ms is perfectly reasonable for 30 fps gamers, rather bad for players who run the game at 60 and completely unacceptable for those who run at 120 fps.

Multi-threading would be the best solution tbh. Either way, this prevents the framerate from taking in case your pathfinding takes too long. Now it will create a delay where the player first needs a bit of thinking time before he actually starts moving.

>>10889734

so i just calculate part of the path in one frame, and the rest in the next frame?

how? IEnumerator?

>>10890069

I take it you're using Unity. If you don't mind feeding the GC, using a coroutine is fine. You want your code to be structured something like this.

// ...
while (!finished) {
    // Stuff
    if(Time.time - lastStartTime > pathfindingBudget)
    {
        // pathfindingBudget is the amount of time per frame you have
        // lastStartTime needs to be set to Time.time before this is called again or it will always skip
        yield return null;    // will skip and come back next frame
    }
    // Stuff
}
// ...

As you see, you basically have to break down your pathfinding into many small functions and add the above if statement. How exactly it fits into your code depends on its structure, so there is only so much I can help you from afar.

>>10890750

this is the actual A* script

http://pastebin.com/dwmXjxkx

when i need to find a path, i make a new AStarSearch object and call FindShortestPath from it. the actual cost distribution happens in the contructor

and aside from that, outside of the A* script i'm also doing some minor stuff like checking if we're already moving towards the same goal, or if the goal is occupied etc.

the only issue i'm gonna have now is that i'm gonna have to restructure the costs of the nodes, since i was directly putting the cost into each node rather than a new instance of the node per AStarSearch. if i do it like i did but with a coroutine, it's gonna mess shit up once i start doing multiple searches at the same time

i should be able to make it work though, if i'm doing it for more than a frame the added processing shouldn't be an issue

>>10890950

Anon would you mind uploading something that is ready to test? We're talking about quite a big refactoring here and I'd very much like to be able to run this script. You can rightclick and export the script as a package. Unity will allow you to select which of the other assets to export with it. Upload the result somewhere (please keep it minimal).

>>10891113

here's most of the project, minus a few models that aren't being used

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1laio2k4HufN0ZoTTh0Q3VsNk0

i think you just need to create a layer for the ground so that you have something to raycast when telling units to move somewhere

controls are the same as age of empires 2

>>10891183

>>10891113

oh you also might want to disable the red/blue units, the enemy retargetting is causing mild issues with the pathfinding atm

just disable their gameobjects, select the SelectionManager gameObject and click "Find troops in scene"

>>10878362

This looks rad as fuck

Can't wait to play it, man.

>>10878683

Gonna take the risk, laserdisk!

https://soundcloud.com/holofonoro/holofonoro-caverna-de-pincoyas

I'll get better, I promise

>>10879187

Are you using Deflemask?

>>10891183

Okay, this is going to take a while. I'm going to take some days and pretty much rewrite the entire part of the game. (Getting triggered really hard by those GC allocations.) You'll be able to get the code from here:

https://gitgud.io/TheSniperFan/astar-for-anon

Just check every now and then. I've got plenty of other things to do at the moment.

Thats it

Im fucking dropping everything

I will leave my job next year

I will give up this fucking master degree, i don't need this shit

I will make my fucking vidya

See you guys in 3 years

>>10891846

>Im fucking dropping everything

>I will leave my job next year

What happened?

>>10891846

Don't be a fucking dumbass

If you have the drive, do all of those things

>>10891905

I'm disgusted by how much I relate to this image

>>10891860

>>10891899

>>10891905

i cant take it anymore, i have enough saved to keep me up for three years

if i dont do this i will be a wage slave forever, my free time i all spent on vidya, not on deving because im always exausted

>>10891922 (noice)

I still think it's a dumb life choice, but if you go with it, better make a good game, faggot.

good luck

Im sure i can make a game way better than Stardew Valley in 3 years, the market is there, if the game flops and i sell 7000~10000 copies at the same price (15 bucks) i will still make twice i would make in my current job

I have the skills, i don't need to spend time learning, i just need motivation and time

>>10891922

If you do, don't be a pussy and just laze about while working on vidya one hour every day, go full autist and pour every waking moment you have.

Go big or fucking go home, faggot.

>>10891955 (niceu niceu)

THIS

>>10891955

I know bro

Now if i can get my brother to do the same i will be 100% sure we can do it

>>10891955

It's easy to say that you'll change your ways when X thing happens, but it's very, very unlikely that you'll actually do it and don't revert after a day or two.

A harvest moon style game, without combat or mechanics that water-down the most important part: farming and villager interaction

Unique and extremelly deep cooking system (its already half done, it was a previous project)

Several of the village character are already in my mind

Fishing BoF3 style

Made on unity 3D

There is no way it can fail

>>10892059

>Unity3D

>not using an open source 2D or 3D engine without all of Unity's overhead and bloat

>>10892059

So Stardew Valley?

>>10892102

its not a huge open world, quick action game

it will be fine as long as FPS stays at 60

>>10892232

Stardew valley has a meh combat that took a lot of time and effort without adding much (he had stuff like procedural dungeons and gave up) and a really really bad cooking system

I know i can do way better

>>10887855

I want to marry her.

>>10892235

>its not a huge open world, quick action game

>it will be fine as long as FPS stays at 60

I've seen developers make low-polygon walking simulators with flat shading that ran under 10FPS in Unity, don't use that as an excuse. Use an engine that's actually designed for your needs instead of Unity's terrible "one size fits all/jack of all trades, master of none" and you'll have a game that runs well on both low and high end hardware without having to deal with all of Unity's bullshit.

>>10891846

If you truly do know what makes for a good game and know how to discipline yourself it's doable. Sink or swim man, just keep that in mind.

>>10891949

Aim for a shorter dev time. LISA was made in 2 years I believe. And you might want to try making prototypes before you commit to something for 3 years that may end up not working.

>>10892456

im keeping each major system modular, specially cooking and fishing just in case

>>10891949

What kind of skills do you need? I can program C/C++ but do not know any graphics stacks. Is art the hardest part to learn?

People seemed to have the most interest in the 80's survival horror game, so I think that's what I'll spend some time fleshing out. If anyone's interested in being part of that, give me a shout.

Consider this my daily "Hey does anyone want to team up" post.

>>10892677

>that first gif

>>10892677

When did runescape get so lewd

>>10892714

Computer. Deadline is 31st. No real plan yet, but most likely won't keep the titty monster version in. Maybe at the ending. Protag would probably be a jumping spider.

>>10877902

pic related

>>10892813

No, because I haven't made the Unity project file yet.

Has anyone used irllicht? Is it any good? Assuming I'm fine with the programming part and don't like UE4 and Unity for various reasons.

Anybody have experience on Unity's WebGL-based games?

>>10892031

>it's very, very unlikely that you'll actually do it and don't revert after a day or two.

this. last month I did gamedev daily and only failed one day, most of the days I would do one thing or two just to put a checkmark in my day, this month I was going for 8 hours daily the first two day were great third was a total disaster (only four hours), fourth day I went back to full speed and now I'm sitting here five hours after wake up and only two hours of work.

for some context, I was a full time neet but i got a irl patreon and now I'm getting paid by the hour

>>10893717

Healthy lifestyles. Being tired all the time makes one useless. You really have to have a passion for what you are doing for it to be exceptional, and you can't have passion if you feel sick all the time.

Is cross-platform development with SFML a terrible idea? I know there are engines that export to all platforms automatically but could the same thing be accomplished with cmake?

>>10893740

The first thing to do is give up sugar entirely (except for fruit). It's hard but you'll have more energy after the first week pretty much guaranteed.

>>10893875

Masturbation is healthy though.

>>10894092

Have you tried not bothering with placebo since that only works when you're retarded?

>>10894092

>I have 24/7 chocolate

An IV drip?

Seriously, try it. For me it was coca-cola. Even though it's loaded with caffeine, you will have more energy without it. Sugar is basically alcohol that's metabolized in your liver instead of brain. It's poison.

>>10894125

Dude I'm ready to try fucking woodoo magic at this point.

I tried doing some simple running as exercise for some days, and I was pretty much bed bound during my free time those days because I was not able to stay awake anymore.

Whenever I try something new, for a little while nothing happens, and then I get a day or two when it gets a lot worse and I decide that the new thing isn't doing anything.

>>10894149

What is an IV drip?

I don't remember when I started eating chocolate, but for as long as I can remember I've had a chocolate bar on my desk. As soon as it runs low, I buy a new one. I never thought of it as harmful because I'm not overweight or necessarily unhealthy or anything, aside from never having any energy.

>>10894216

Jesus christ man. Cut out all processed foods from your diet and only eat normal healthy foods. Replace that chocolate with celery or a carrot or some fruit. I have enough energy to work two jobs and still get into dev work when I get the time. It's not easy but it's certainly worth it.

>>10893793

I barely eat any sugar. The only sugar i take in is through drinking slightly sugarized water so it has a taste. I still have zero motivation to do shit though. Might be related to >>10893875

but i cant see myself being able to quit jacking off for more than a week. I already tried and i just go crazy after a while.

For agdg, should I focus on learning blender or cinema 4d? Is cinema 4d used in games or mostly movies? I have both.

>>10894255

Get a gf, import one if you have to. Seriously.

>>10888877

>>10889180

Which one is it? Do they still do it?

>>10894268

You say that like its easy if you have any sort of standards. I dont want some whore that will leave me at the first chance she gets. Happened before and i just dont want to deal with that shit.

>>10894289

I know. Try importing a gf.

>>10894305

Im a poorfag though.

>>10894216

>What is an IV drip?

A bag of liquid chocolate injected directly into your bloodstream through a catheter. See >>10894248, diet plays a huge part. The only real solution to motivation problems though is to just push through whatever's giving you trouble.

>>10894305

import gf

>>10894311

Error: module named 'gf' not found

Today I spent 5 hours figuring out how to make things clickable.

Yay, progress.

kill me

>>10894262

Yeah, I guess, why are you subd modelling though? It's generally good form to use quads only when subd modelling, I recommend you aim for better topology and greater detail.

>>10894309

Man the fuck up and stop derailing this thread.

Borderlands 1 spiritual successor?

>>10894561

Look on the bright side anon: you'll never have to figure that one out again!

one down…

PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE:

Implement flappy bird in one line of code.

Anyone who solves this is hired :%)

>>10894268

It doesn't really matter which you use, you have to learn anyway.

If you aim to have a job as artist tho, i guess the the hierarchy would be

3ds Max > cinema4d > Blender

I put C4D over Blender because most studios use commercial software,

Beside that, every artist i know uses 3ds Max, Zbrush and Mudbox.

>>10895076

Here. Advice from two people who together have designed literally thousands of platforming levels.

>>10895076

>>10895168

>one line

How long can I make that line? :^)

>>10895524

Any length, as long as it's one statement (imports don't count)

>finally get collisions to work

>they only work when I hit things by running into them from underneath/with the upper part of the character

Why is this happening, its godot by the way

So yeah. Let's do this.

classic RE-style survival horror game with a theme heavily influenced by 80's slasher flicks like Friday The 13th or Texas Chainsaw Massacre etc.

Is anyone interested in helping out? I've gotten in touch with a couple but more would be great. Nothing I'd like more than working with a team from /agdg/.

>>10895712

Are you using godot's built in collision detection?

>>10895769

I'm detecting the collisions with is_colliding()

>>10895712

>>10895730

I don't know Godot, but does your character have a proper collision box or is it just checking the point the sprite is anchored to?

>>10895750

I don't trust myself to commit to a team but if you get to the point of needing it, I'd love to take a crack at making some horror vidya music. Maybe some general audio design if I can get the time.

I haven't worked on anything in like two years, but I'm stepping down to part-time at my job so I can pursue other interests.

>>10895824

>does your character have a proper collision box

I think so.

>the point the sprite is anchored to

What did you mean by this

>>10895839

>What did you mean by this

Even objects that take up space visually still have a location that is a single (x,y) or (x,y,z) point in space. A 2D sprite is usually drawn with that point as one corner. Your gif looks like what happens when collision is checked against a point instead of a bounding box.

>>10895201

I know, I mean that's what I aim for, I think that's also part of the reason why it's so hard for me

>>10895448

>>10895523

Thanks guys, I'm checking the videos right now

>>10895918

wat

>>10895918

I mean, I'm not sure that's the issue, but it's the first thing that comes to mind whenever collision isn't occurring across a whole sprite.

>>10887288

Thanks, but it turns out that my problems were caused by everything being deactivated. I thought reactivating the fruit objects alone just before saving would do it, but it wouldn't work- maybe I was just using instance_activate_object wrong. At any rate it saves now, just before everything deactivates on pause.

>>10895824

I'm sort of proficient already with FLStudio and I'm a lifelong musician, but in my book, it's the more the merrier. Do you have any other game dev skills, even stuff you're not really confident in?

>>10896089

Generally good with things related to game logic and systems - AI, basic physics, and the like. In terms of the logic and math that is, I don't really have much familiarity with specific libraries. All my experience has been in the C family of languages. It's been a couple years since I've used anything but C11, and I've never used that in a gamedev context.

Also, I'm a shitty creative writer, but a good editor.

As I mentioned though, I don't really want to commit to a team thing, because I'll probably be the guy that flakes, at least with how busy I am right now.

>>10896231

Well, my last job was as a writer and editor, so that's fine. I understand about not wanting to commit, but it's more of a hobby thing anyway. I'm definitely interested in your understanding of C, as it's getting harder and harder to find people willing to cooperate using anything other than Unity or Gamemaker.

>>10896325

What is this armor be for?

Is Godot worth using?

>>10896892

This armor be for a game.

Specifically the main protagonist. Anyone playing the game is going to see a lot of these gauntlets.

>>10897055

Well I mean yeah, it's for a game, like obvious fam, but what game be these mess of triangles for?

>>10896954

It's free. Download it, fuck around for a while, and figure it out yourself. Worst case, you burn a few hours and learn something.

>>10897170

I'm playing with it now

It's really simple to export to multiple platforms and seems to work well enough

I'm just wondering if anyone here has used it, is it reasomably performant with gdscript, and how easy is it to use C++ with it?

>>10897184

I write "TODO" in comments if there's a problem or something I still need to do, but don't want to do it right at that moment. Then I can just search for those.

>>10897055

It's going to be for a sci-fi FPS where you run around shooting robots while trying to reach the next level of a space station you are trapped on.

>>10897286

meant for >>10897132

>>10895168

import flappy

>>10895712

Are your collision boxes all the same size?

Any music guys here know of any free resources I could use to try making some music?

>>10896260

What is your opinion on Unity?

If you want to work on your game but have a hard time to get to it, try closing your browser window.

>This turns up in my radio playlist

>>10897286

>>10897329

don't lie to me.

>>10887855

is that La Cegua?

>>10899037

wew. I'd love to see more of >>10899053 that but I'm a pervert so ignore me.

>>10896260

To be fair, working in an engine is the best way to actually make a game. If you let the programmers make their own engine or they use something like SFML or even pygame, the rest of the team will have a hard time actually contributing to the project.

Especially if you want to work in an environment that is somewhat close to real game development.

It is also way quicker and easier and honestly, i don't understand the hate that unity gets a lot of times. The C# recompiling stuff from unity is amazing, especially if you worked with UE4, where little changes can result in 5 minutes + compile time.

I also find the user interface a bit more non-programmer friendly or at least the people i worked with so far had an easier time with unity.

Personally tho, i'm more interested in making an actual engine. (That's what i'm currently doing, albeit only 2D.)

But if you want to make a game and have people of varying skill levels working on it, i think unity is one of the best choices.

>>10899065

No, just a thing loosely based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_(folklore)

At first it was just a pun of "night mare" cause it's like a horse or something, but then I decided to actually put some thought into it.

>>10899119

You'll have to wait anon, I'm spending most of my artsy time on the model for now.

>>10899499

You know what to add, I mean. Fug.

>>10899037

>it's all about knowing how to optimize, my boy

It's much easier to do that when you have the engine's source code and don't have to deal with Unity's mountains of bullshit.

>>10899604

Hell yeah. And increased polycount and texture 'detail' in the important areas.

>>10899662

To be honest I'm aiming for a fairly low poly style, plus jiggle bones might be a bunch of hassle when I should be focusing on more important things right now.

I'll see what I can do after I'm done with the retopo, tho.

>>10899603

True, but it's also not some arcane magic, most devs just tend to only optimize so it more or less runs on their systems. I'm on 5 year old hardware and aiming for 90 fps minimum, hoping for 144+. It's mostly keeping the draw calls low and not triggering the garbage collection as far as I know.

You won't ever get the same amount of performance out of Unity as from a custom engine for that specific game, but you can get it to run alright if focus on it.

>>10899726

That's fine, don't take my suggestions too seriously.

>>10899726

>You won't ever get the same amount of performance out of Unity as from a custom engine for that specific game, but you can get it to run alright if focus on it.

That heavily depends on the person/s who make the engine. Firs, it needs a shit ton of time to make an engine. And i'm not talking about unity/ue4 style, with viewport, UI and drag&drop features etc, but just several modules who handle input, rendering, sound, loading/saving etc.

Second, you can fuck up way harder, like writing into memory out of your programs bounds, overheating your graphic card, memory leaks etc.

Third, just the amount of knowledge that you need to make an engine makes it unlikely that you find a single person, who has the necessary skills in all areas needed, to not fuck up. And if you find multiple people who are good enough to write a good engine, you will still have trouble getting them on the same page to actually work together.

Also, from my experience it's actually pretty hard to fuck up unity's performance even on older hardware. As long as you organize your code in a way that it doesn't do all of it stuff in update, set the right settings for static objects etc.

As long as you don't want to program an engine, but make a game, you should stay with a engine. If you, like me, like to program the underlying systems, than sure, go ahead and make a custom engine, just don't expect it to ever be better than unity, ue4 or cryengine. (Which is actually decent as i recently found out.)

>>10899859

Yeah, I suppose that's true, too. Either way, my point is that using Unity doesn't mean the game is gonna perform badly.

>>10899872

Oh, i guess i got the wrong impression, thought you wanted a custom engine because unity is to slow for you.

>>10900029

Nah, that was the other guy. I'm saying you won't get absolutely perfect perf from Unity, but it's not bad like people are making it out to be.

>>10900360

Make everything monochrome, tell sheeple it's supposed to be like dem Gameboys.

>>10900360

I think the top one looks good for how few shades you've got, bottom guy looks a bit of a cheeto. That left shoe looks a bit floppy too.

>>10900382

But that's boring.

>>10900720

I tried to make the lighting of the bottom one seem more dim, but I don't really know dick about light and color changes.

The left shoe bothers me too, I'll fix that.

>>10900360

I can't believe John Wick is fucking dead.

>>10901755

Any resemblance is totally accidental. :^)

>>10899164

I make a gamestate class and derive both the main game and a menu class from it, then derive specific menus from that. Then have an engine object that keeps track of the current state as a pointer and calls Display() on it every frame, feeds it input etc.

>>10899179

>simple if statement

> too inefficient

???

>>10902091

He's pajeetposting anon

>>10902244

Isn't it to well written for that

>>10902284

But I'm already making EYE 2.

>>10897531

>Are your collision boxes all the same size?

If you mean if the duck and the small little cube have the same collision box, no. They aren't the same size. The cube just has a square collision box and the duck has one formed around his body.

>>10902515

What happens when you make them both just a single square overlapping the entire sprites?

>>10902514

>Well, I'm not making something that could be considered a direct squeal to E.Y.E

neither am I

>>10902528

same issue

>>10902800

Better than directly squirting at E.Y.E.

>>10902922 (checked)

Definitely low polygon count and appropriate texture resolution. Hmm I don't have the hard numbers for that but I guess maybe below 2k triangles/1k polygon. Warzone 2100 polygon count was below 512 triangles.

No Anti-Aliasing, some texture filtering or even none and some mip mapping. About your sound question I do not know about it.

>>10885520

I'm using the built-in Assimp classes, but I'm migrating over to GLM, because I'm going to migrate off of the format I'm using (Collada) probably to a protobuf-based binary format.

>>10902922

You'd need a vertex shader and convert all vertex positions to something with smaller precision. I'm not 100% sure but I think the psx just used integers for graphics calculation.

For textures, just google a bunch of old games and try to figure out the right resolution for your game.

for sound, I have no idea, probably a low bitrate with shit compression

>>10902922

Low poly models, pixelated textures, no lighting (except simple shadows under objects), whacky UI graphics, and saturated colours. And what >>10902980 said.

>>10902980

>>10902991

>>10902993

Very interesting responses, many thanks

>>10903169

im not that good at blender myself but maybe bezier curves could help you.

>>10902284

It's believable but it's just really unorthodox, so it's easy to doubt you.

>>10903169

Looks fine as a base to sculpt from, just assemble it in pieces

Does anyone know of any good isometric art tutorials? I'm having trouble wrapping my head around what size & shape to use for tiles and the "proper" way to create an isometric tileset.

>>10904857

Not really sure if this'll help at all.

https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/creating-isometric-worlds-a-primer-for-game-developers--gamedev-6511

>>10904906

This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for right now. Thanks, bookmarked.

>>10905181

You should consider posting a screenshots of your sculpt to /3d/ while you are working on it if you want some feedback.'

You're using dynotopo right?

>>10905199

Yeah, and breaking the model down into parts.

I'll admit though, I don't post much outside of these threads, isn't /3d/ kind of dead?

>>10905256

Yeah it's dead because people don't post, but I check it every.

>>10905366

Nice I don't know what that is.