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Been doing some code. And unlike last time I have nice code with not yanderedev levels of ifs.
>camelCasingCode
Your program sucks. Get_Good_homosexual()
>Not knowing the difference between camelCase and PascalCase, and then tries to lecture others
Honestly, that's embarrassing.
Frick off with your inferior casing system. I don't even use camel case just whatever the frick I want.
You don't even know what camelcase is. Stupid fricking Black person moron shitstain.
You're a furtroony, your opinions are irrelevant.
>bypassed my filter
Thanks for the update. Now kys.
Better get used to it if you plan on being involved in the indie scene for much longer, because more and more western indie games are becoming all about fur homosexualry.
Why is this the case?
Because americans are bombarded with lgbt propaganda 24/7, so it warped their minds and turned them into gigantic homosexuals
They can't get work at big companies anymore due to being white males
Furgays and woketards are unironically the only artists willing to put work in art for indies. Normal artists are too fricking obnoxious and have a god complex since they know they're needed. Which is why AI should get better.
>Making a game with animal crossing style characters
>Suddenly don't wanna post
Why are you so obsessed with transsexuals?
Fricking moron.
PYC
(post your code)
Nice! is this going to be a colony management game?
neat menu, if you're really worried about a save system there isnt a ton wrong with just dumping current player values like health and inventory to some json file and read later when loading in
good workflow, this one looks cool and i agree you should keep it untextured
It's colonial management but also nomadic. sort of a mix of mount and blade and typical grand strategy
>spend a week away from coding in order to make new animations for an improved character rig
>forget everything, can barely even understand what this is
Why does this happen? Why doesn't it just stick with me?
70% there
I'm in the idea phase where I dream about the game and someone giving me a hundred million dollar budget
>wall of text
anon nobody wants to read all that shit except you
make your demos and builds user friendly or you're never getting any feedback
https://eyeballtank.itch.io/project-nortubel/devlog/545885/14jun2023
At least the swimming is less shit.
The font choice could be better. As it is now the tightly squeezed together letters combined with the thick border makes it hard to read. Also, nobody wants to read a wall of text the moment they click start. Shorten the core message to a more impactful disclaimer like pic related and then add something like "which is why several planned features are currently work in progress, you can access a more detailed list from the pause menu" or something along those lines. Give the player the choice to go through the full list in their own time, but don't overwhelm them with an infodump immediately.
I have about 50 models to make, some UI to redo. Hmm. Music to make or find. All the gameplay is done. At the current rate, 12 years from completion.
Ten years at least.
Crouch commands almost finished for the Ax
>Fault Line, crouch+forward+heavy, sends a fracture line along the ground that launches enemies touching the ground. Charging it sends it farther
>Rocket Vortex, crouch+heavy, a sustained attack that is free-to-miss from a combo perspective that will send enemies flying, but miss if they are already downed. Can be steered while attacking when upgraded
>Rundown, crouch+forward+light, a sort of aerial stinger based on DMC5's Redline but you can land in a proper motorcycle run that hits enemies
Only one left. Then I also need to decide how I want to implement the light charge attack's just release mechanic, it's meant to power up the next hit in a sort of ascending stack but that will require a hidden stock/gauge type mechanic I think. It will be an opportunity to add hitbox modifier logic though (which I needed to do eventually for a couple of other circumstances), and Axplosive will be done.
Physics of hit looking solid!
That wind up, crazy good
I've also been wanting to ask you, how do you do your rigging? Auto-Rig Pro? Or manually creating your rigs?
And what's your workflow in exporting from Blender and into UE? send2ue or Auto-Rig Pro export?
>how do you do your rigging?
I used the MakeHuman rig and just modified it. Since most of the components of the character are rigid armor pieces, it's trivial to weight them to single control bones. The actual "grey skin body" topology is just the free MakeHuman rig though.
>And what's your workflow in exporting from Blender and into UE?
File > export FBX? I don't use special tools of any kind.
whats so special about fbx
Epic use Maya internally (FBX is the Maya file format) so UE’s toos for handling fbx are the most robust and well documented because that’s how Epic is getting models and animations into/out of UE internally.
Really, that's it?
I'm surprised. I thought professional animators either manually rig themselves or use Auto-Rig Pro.
And doesn't the default export FBX also export a lot of extra stuff/junk in the skeleton? I know the ARP cleans it up so the skeleton in UE is clean.
>extra stuff/junk
do you mean cameras/lights? theres an option to leave them off
Like this.
With normal FBX or send2ue you get a bunch of extra bones in your skeleton, like IK and other things.
With FBX export using ARP, it cleans it up so your skeleton in UE is much cleaner.
Both work methods but one is cleaner.
You are not building your skeleton right if that happens, never used ARP and my skeletons always look like the right now.
Maybe you should how to rig properly before looking into fixes for problems that don't exist.
So you manually create your skeleton and manually rig your character meshs?
>not manually rigging for more control.
Lazy frick. Also if you are using an automated rigging plugin it's not parenting bones properly because it's a shit plugin, thats why your skeleton looks like that on the left.
You're bullshitting me.
Lots of people recommend using Auto-Rig Pro. Us hobby gamedevs don't have time to manually rig everything. ARP should be good enough to rig things.
while ARP has plenty of issues it's not the problem here, you're just a bit stupid
And why's that?
if I wanted to explain I would've done so in the first post, I'm just enjoying being rude
So ARP is fine to use?
If you plan on never improving sure.
anything is fine to use if it gets the job done
That's good to hear.
I'm just a hobby gamedev. I know programming (my real job), but I'm starting to learn Blender/animating now.
I just want to be able to create animations with as little pain as possible so I can go back to implementing other stuff.
There's a lot of things I don't understand about animating and a lot of people recommend ARP, so that's why I got it.
automatic programs are used a lot in even professional level games, go download a couple free models and you will start to notice UV's being packed in an almost nonsensical fashion with automatic tools, rigs looking extremely similar, etc.
This, you never actually learn how to Seam,unwrap,weight paint and rig properly if you never learn how to do it by hand.
I bet you steal mixamo animations too.
All you have to do in Blender is uncheck “add leaf bones”, Maya includes dummy bones at the end of chains. It doesn’t matter really to include them though, apart from visual clutter.
>I thought professional animators either manually rig themselves or use Auto-Rig Pro.
And maybe they do, I can’t speak for professional animators, I’m a jackass hobbyist with a copy of Blender and a copy of UE and some time to kill after work
Animating pr0n takes so loooong.
I don't know if I can finish this shit... And I don't think my b***hes are attractive enough. What a waste of time. Futa was a mistake too.
Tonight I give up, br0s. Sorry..
its easy, do rpgm porn so you only have 4 frames on repeat to deal with.
Unfortunately it's a 3D ego shooter..
send a pic of the naked girls atleast if youre gonna quit
>ego shooter
huh?
Not even.
Uh, I only have systems in place but no *functioning* enemies yet.
>finish boss
>figure out audio and add some
>finish fight scene setup
I can get there within 4-6 days if I work slowly, then I finally have the first 1-3 minutes of content in my game.
I plan to have a lot of humor in my game, stuff like swapped sfx or unpredictability like say monkey riding a rocket, playing some pranks on the player too.
stuff that goes beyond the normal extents of humor into experimental, perhaps off putting to some. suppose making the player think the game bugged out.
would this be better as a toggle or a different game mode, or shown to everyone?
(the reason I would limit this feature and the 'director's cut' is for financial success)
Are text adventures and visual novels a good "beginner" game to do for game devs?
Only starting. Trying to ponder what I could do instead of darkest dungeon combat that's more fun. Also whether I could do something more interesting than "head to center of lowest level of dungeon to find wish fulfilling mcguffin".
Perhaps something with corporate war, and your two MCs ending in an infamous 2 bad ending resolution where they both have good reasons to live, but by doing so the other has to die and there is just no way around it.
6ish months.
I could get it done way faster but rushing it will only frick me over in the long run. Plus I work full time at a big boy job.
Not quite sure, yet. Started a new project earlier today. It's going good so far.
>tinkering with idea for 4+ years now
>find out guy made two rpgs in rpgmaker in that time span that are both unique/different and are huge hits
>mfw
what guy
Miro Haverinen, made fear & hunger and termina.
>unique/different
>fear and hunger
bro, I've got terrible news for you if you earnestly think those are "unique" or "different"
ok now post your game
My game? Don't have one!
They are. There really isnt anything that plays like them, and doesn't use any kind of stat upgrades or leveling.
How does one look at code from games to learn? I want to make some star maps but got no clue how.
canceled
Why'd you cancel it? I thought you were doing really well?
She started taking estrogen and no longer needs this game as an escape
epic
Dev was a she?
keyword was
are you the codemonkey or the artiste
>How close are you to finishing your game, Ganker?
a few years... at least
currently working on implementing a heat bar of sorts for Paco's Quest
>what?
that blue bar on the bottom, right above the health bar.
It's separated in three segments, each segment representing an unit of "heat".
For example, some skills might require one segment, while others would require 2, 3 or none.
>why?
during DD, some players where able to easily cheese some enemies, specially 1v1 fights, by blocking attacks.
This made me think that some skills would need more than just AP to be used, in order to avoid abusing said skills.
>how?
I want the player to be engaging with the enemy, so the heat bar will increase each time the player lands a hit by using a normal attack on an enemy.
I guess it would also make sense to increase it when the hit is landed through a skill, but skills like dashing or shield blocking wont increase the hit.
Probably should increase whenever the player is hit.
>that's it
what do you think? I hope this helps with balancing the game out without making things too complicated.
btw, there's a demo if you wanna try the game.
>https://tintoconcasera.itch.io/pacos-quest-tbd
just make sure to read the how to play on the page because I'm a hack and haven't coded a playable tutorial yet
isn't that just mana?
I quit it, NEET life is GOAT so far. I hope I can stay productive and finish my game.
>isn't that just mana?
nope, mana wouldn't regen when you attack nor would be needed to perform a shield block, for example
>during DD, some players where able to easily cheese some enemies, specially 1v1 fights, by blocking attacks.
yeah, it was fun finding a sequence of actions that works indefinitely. not anymore I guess
No.
>keep making gameplay prototypes for game ideas I wanna work on
>can't decide on which one to focus on and finalize
Probably just gonna take the smallest scope idea and work on it now.
How do I find an anon that needs tunes but won't ghost me? =(
post tune
>post tune
https://on.soundcloud.com/6cWBk
https://on.soundcloud.com/dYt28
first one is nice until the strings at 2:20, no dynamics and stinky samples. I like the second one
Thanks for giving it a listen even if you didn't like the string library. Sometimes with kontakt libraries I feel like they don't have any presence unless the velocity is high, which is annoying.
can you do big scifi "orchestral" bigger than life tunes?
I don't know if that's especially my forte, I tend to write more intimately because with big bombastic libraries it's harder to make them sound realistic.
This is probably my best attempt at a sweeping orchestral track:
>https://ec2151.bandcamp.com/track/deadly-wave-yoshihara-fishing-fleet
Though I should probably accept that what I'm actually known for is chiptune, because that's the stuff that actually makes it to finished games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IDcREDLlR4
you did that? its great
Thanks, I'm glad it's finally coming together and releasing since the pandemic screwed up the development schedule quite a bit.
how much would you cost me
depends on how much music you need, i'm open for offers ;^*~~
depending on the game I either just charge a flat per-song price or a per-minute thing if it spirals into something huge. one game had a dev basically pay for a few tracks every couple months as he scraped some cash here and there. Another said "I need 8 tracks in 2 weeks, I'll pay X" (I'll never do this again).
I almost was writing for a roblox game before it all blew up into smoke, mirrors, and scams...
My friend said "that first one is honestly so fresh and crispy" and "it's weird but the weirder it got the more I liked it".
I can't pay you yet, but I could show you my project privately and see if you're into it. Leave a contact if you'd like.
you are pretty good bro
Converting from platformer to top down was surprisingly easy. Combat code even got to stay. Next to add rock crabs.
Roughly 70-80% depends on how much content i want to add but i cannot release it this year or i'll pay taxes
I was doing this tutorial for using godot today and there was this line of code that was giving me issues, I had to try it with different versions and finally found a comment on the youtube video saying how to make it work on the latest version. I think I lost 30 minutes doing that. I hope it gets easier once I know how to get started
it doesnt get any easier
the longer the tutorials are the more likely a mistake pops up in their video and they forget to edit it out
the worst ive had was spending on a week debugging a multipart tutorial i saw and it ended up that there was a not conditional that wasnt supposed to be there and yet the video had it on there
I have nearly started.
its coming along nicely, im hoping to have it live on steam by early to mid august so i can be part of the 2023 shoot 'em up festival.
Good luck anon.
Got anything to share?
I do love me a shmup. Brave enough to show a screenshot?
I will start tomorrow.
No art.
Pointless to make a game.
Stop asking.
>try to learn 3D to possibly work professionally
>there's like s bunch of different types of jobs in the pipeline and it seems like people usually only do one thing, maybe two
>modeler, texturer, rigger, animator, etc.
which one do I learn
No
ive cancelled my game so i could start my game
and if i dont finish this by october im cancelling it too
It would be good if you would finish some projects, it is good for learning.
ive finished my share of projects already, that last one was just too big, I spent 4 years on it and still had done only 1/5th of it, i wont be wasting more than 9 months on a game again
im still very unsure about how im gonna approach visuals in this, ivebeen thinking of just slapping color-crunched textures on these cubes
unless your only goal with gamedev is to make novel games that havent been done before id stop wasting time trying to be original, stealing is just the reality of every art form out there
>unless your only goal with gamedev is to make novel games that havent been done before id stop wasting time trying to be original, stealing is just the reality of every art form out there
By "plagiarize" I don't mean stolen ideas or gameplay mechanics I mean traced art and ripped 3d models with heavy modifications.
alot of games during the shovelware era of the 90s looked like this. i think it'd be cool if you kept everything untextured
Wait a sec. Were all nazis casting fireball when they were saluting?
>animator
>texturer
these are the big ones for triple A
>modeler
this is the big one for indie
>rigger
this is underappreciated in both, yet is very important. you should learn it either way but dont expect to be appreciated for it.
Launched my game last night, what do you think?
https://npckc.itch.io/one-night-hot-springs
The illustration is cute, but don't care about it due to the premise.
very cute
I've always wondered but why did you choose this troony game out of a thousand of troony games on itch.io?
You've been doing this for over a year now.
>this is the image that itch.io decides to convey for itself by putting these types of "games" on the front page
Why do you keep shilling this game? Does the creator give you a cut of any money he makes from your shilling?
Is it worth it to make a nonprofit fan game if the chances of a company taking it down are high?
Perhaps you can build some clout with it.
what company. they took mlp porn down a couple times in 2012-2015 but never again. so you might slide.
Like for example if I had an idea for a game using a nintendo IP
Because we know how anal they are about those
Probably not, unless you Shut the Frick Up about it. Even then, you're better off making a 'Spark the Electric Jester' than a Mario RPG fan-project #6000.
I think about doing that but I feel that a fan project would give me more practice and will get recognition faster as opposed to making a new IP that will take a long time for people to wanna be infested in
Especially in today's internet climate
Find your audience first, don't just start something without making sure someone will witness it, shouting at vaccum is not going to net you gains, you need to do some networking first.
Actually, as long as you connect with people and post your stuff, you'll gain traction whether it's a fan-game or not. The difference is one will let you cater to a specific kind of people looking into the gameplay and art-style, while the other wants to consume more of said type of fan-content
If you take a moment to look at Freedom Planet/Spark the Jester (Sonic in spirit), Pizza tower/Antonblast (Wario Land in spirit), Palword (Pokemons with gun), each of them takes inspiration/designs from said games and yet companies can't do anything about them because it's their own different designs, codes, ect. It's why they're successfully making money and racking up fans who wants to play more of said type of games
Here is my plan:
>Watch anime and play vidya
>Once I finish anime, I pick up Unity and start to learn it and C#
It's become pretty apparent that I have to use Unity for a certain idea. But it's risky due to what the idea is. I might make another test like game before then in an engine I already know how to use. But it would get me to do more with Multiplayer which would be good.
Small question, but how popular are city builders still? I think that would be something simple.
I cannot draw proportions and I'm trying to draw a roughly childlike figure
Ask a 9 year old to draw it.
what the frick is your problem???
A dumbass too stupid to code, propably someone who fantasizes about being an "idea guy" for a vidya company.
>he hasn't filtered the moron yet
Your fault. His posting style is really easy to filter.
Tomorrow I'll definitely start.
I hate Godot so much
what is the point of the nodes if making them communicate is impossible?
I'll just keep struggling with it.
Maybe once I start adding my actual game sprites I'll start feeling better.
>making them communicate is impossible
What problem are you having? I'll help you.
My 9 year old nephew keeps annoying me and using my PC and my brother refuses to communicate to him that he shouldn't do that.
Rape him (your brother)
I'm making an event state in my player and I will have event specific information based on what kind of event it come in contact with. I have a scene called trigger which I set the event enum in.
I use the player's collision shape to detect if it's collided with a trigger, the shape is masking on a special layer just for event objects. I get a reference to the trigger and I want to pull the event enum type from the trigger.
some of these will be holes, poison puddles, teleports, etc.
what are signals
in godot signals is how nodes talk to each other
I dunno, if I knew more about godot I wouldn't be seeking help would I?
Try to get a 9 year old interested in learning Godot. He'll know more than you in less than a week, so you can ask him.
I can't help you if you don't tell me specifically what you want to do.
The solution to that is ridiculously easy:
1. Delete Godot
2. Install Unity
What if you already convinced a 9 year old to learn Godot? Now you'll have to convince them to switch to Unity too!
learn what Signal does, I mean really learn what its doing and how you need to use it
it seems wrong at first, but not after you get an understanding of what it does
>decided to bite the bullet and try Unity
>online tutorials describe things in an overly complicated way and half their scripts don’t work
>ask ChatGPT to write the code for me instead
>it works exactly as intended
AI is a fricking godsend for ideas guys like me.
hey can someone post their concept art so I can make a 3d model of it
here you go bro
Here you go senpai
do one of this pregnant rat, but give her more nipples
I keep changing things and going back to the past
Ffffffire! Fire! Fire!
That robot design would be perfect for 9 year olds if it wasn't so retro.
Probably years if ever. I can't make time for it right now. But I still write down ideas for it in my spare time.
I'm canceling my game after working on it for 3.5ish years because the gameplay is just a worse version of other games, the story/characters are terrible, and all the assets either look like they were made by a toddler, or were literally just stolen with enough layers of obfuscation that nobody actually noticed.
I keep trying to spin up new projects but I can't get any off the ground because when I have to rely on my own skills without plagiarizing I can't actually get anything done.
post art
Random advice from an anon, but I think you should hastily finish it, turn it into a semi-shitpost of a game and just slather on the charm. Not every game needs to be extremely well-tailored. There's a reason Ganker is getting tired of cookie-cutter AAA slop. I'd rather play a rough game that doesn't take itself seriously than one that tries to and falls flat. Maybe all you need to do is tweak things in a slightly different direction and it will fall into place better. I've also heard that you should never do a big project for your first game/book/album/etc;. Get your feet wet with smaller, unimportant releases to see what works for you and what doesn't. Hell, maybe give yourself 6 months to crank out a totally unrelated project then return to your previous one with some lessons learned.
I have a demo (no I will not post it here) that is a vertical slice of the first 3 levels of the game and for now I'm content to leave that as its own little thing and move on. I'd rather that than shit out the game as a semi-shitpost.
moronic first timer here trying to find more information around engines.
Has anyone tried that one in early access, the Bakin RPG whatever? If so, is it good?
I want to make an RPG but I will admit that my skills aren't necessarily up to snuff, so I'm still learning shit.
looks decent. sort of like a 3d rpg maker.
yeah, it looked interesting because it reminded me of shit like Octopath Traveler, but since it was in Early Access and I didn't hear great things about the company itself, I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to try my hand this early with the engine.
Just got out of early access and the verdict is still "very positive". Feels good and borderline surreal since most of us are friends and acquitances from uni.
I haven't started yet
Maybe I'll be able to begin working towards achieving my dreams one of these decades
I’ve started taking Vyvanse on Monday and this already has been the most productive week in my entire life holy fricking shit. Is this how normal people feel all the time? I can actually see my game being finished
Make the most of it anon, many people wish they could experience that for even a fleeting moment
Thanks anon. I just keep kicking myself for not trying to find help earlier.
ADHD medicine
ADHD isn’t real homosexual
What’s that
How do you even get an ADHD diagnosis? How do you even describe your procrastinator self?
Go to a neurologist, they make you go through a bunch of tests and shit. Just say that you can’t focus on shit and so on
I think I need that, I literally can't focus on jack shit and the brain fog is massive
Try to find help seriously. I'm 30 years old and I lost so many jobs and shit because of my ADHD it's a wonder I haven't offed myself earlier
i'm close to being able to start working on my game
how the frick do I make vector math work
What kind of math
I have an object flying around the screen, I want to draw a line from that object that sits at arbitrary spots in the screen to the mouse whenever I click, but the stupid thing draws a line as if the object were placed in the 0,0 coordinate, if that makes sense
I don't know how to calculate the actual position of the mouse taking into consideration that the object is not placed in the 0,0 coordinate
nevermind, just had to do to_local(get_global_mouse_position()), fricking hate vector math
That's not even math
no, it's vector math
Using the wrong engine function isn't a reason to hate math, nor is it even the vectors fault.
it's neither the engine's nor the math's fault, it's me for being fricking moronic, how is that not obvious?
Stop blaming vector math
okay I'll blame you for my failures instead
probably the most surefire way is to just sit down with a notebook and do a whole course.
im coping
lookin good!
looks like aooni
Call it horror simulator and drown in money
Not close at all, hopefully today I'll finish the video commission, it's due to the 16 and I am very close to finishing it.
>try to think of new units and weapons for the "evil vampire scientists" faction in my online strategy game thing
>basically throwing shit at the wall based on what the faction should thematically have
>create unintended synergies and combos in the process
game design kino
>unintended synergies and combos
such as?
>faction can spawn a very durable but mindless monstrosity that homes in on enemies automatically, and also immobilizes foes it hits, and deals damage in an area whenever it is damaged
>add a sniper unit that inflicts a contagion that spreads back and forth as long as there are units nearby, which is very disruptive, but can be hard to land since the unit needs 1 turn to aim before taking a shot (meant for sieging)
>if your opponent is evading the sniper too much and not damaging your monstrosity, you can pre-aim and shoot at your own monstrosities to guarantee them spreading their rot and the sniper's contagion triggering
it doesn't seem like a must-do combo since you are still basically shooting at your own units, but it seems like something neat you could do in a pinch
Ideasman stage: a traditional roguelike but instead of getting to the bottom of a dungeon and back, you have to escape an island full of dinosaurs. The cause of the dinosaurs is generated with the island. Some of them include: classic cloned dinosaur park gone wrong; a lost world scenario; modern day site transported back in time; or even, get this, magic bullshit. You would made your character and select your profession depending on the scenario generated. For example: park repair tech; explorer; useless civilian; or, of course, apprentice wizard. You character would have a list of attributes and skills like any other traditional roguelike (including magic if you wanted to turn it on in non-magical scenarios for shits and giggles). One thing I would very much to implement would be semi-realistic animal behavior, injury, and death. I dislike that most time video games display animals are uncaring murderous robots or brain-dead docile robots. The dinosaurs would be given agency according, roughly, to their type of animal. That is to say predators try to sneak up on you rather than engage in a fair fight, and they only want to attack you because they think you're prey. If you make enough noise or injury them enough, they'll flee and leave you alone. Likewise herbivores will leave you alone unless provoked. And I would like to avoid having a boring HP system. I rather want to track injuries and bloodloss for how death works. This would be more dynamic than seeing a dinosaur's HP bar get chipped away. Creatures, you included, only die when the heart stops or brain functions cease. This can be from bleeding out and shock or from direct trauma like bullets or melee weapons.
what's your day job Ganker
System maintenance. LOT of free time to work on my game
wtf does this job even entail I see my friends basically playing games on discord during the workday and they make high 80k each
Only 80k? They must be newly graduated and working in a fly-over state.
We basically just get assigned tasks and we work on it. Look through code, make modifications, test that it works. If you finish early then you can goof off.
I hate smooth shading so much it's unreal.
Most IT jobs pay too much for nothing ngl. I'm just starring at numbers from time to time
What do you need and what do you need to know to get an IT job?
Most common way is college degree. But you can climb up small companies by proving you have the necessary skills. Like you get a handler job in a start-up and you mention your geeky hobbies around the IT team
So if I learn something like Python from YouTube videos I could get a job doing that?
I love smooth shading.
It so fricking shitty.
It reeks of Crash Bandicoot.
use creases
select an edge then ctrl+e i think. then "mark crease" or "marksharp" or something like that.
alternatively dont smooth the model and make it your art style.
I tried mark sharp but looks like it does nothing. I need to adjust normals manually it seems
TOPOLOGY DUDE
FRICK
BOOLEANS THIS
SCULPTING THAT
Literally every moron on the planet is going miles out of their way to not learn proper topology when it literally the single most important thing you can learn to make your models better.
Not a single motherfricker on planet earth has ever made a 3d model worth his shit without knowing good topology.
FRICKING LEARN IT.
>adjusting topology for shading
lol
You are the dumbest monkey Black person.
What the frick do you think a 3D model is? It's a mathematical shell that is defined by the STRUCTURE OF IT'S VERTICES.
THAT'S TOPOLOGY.
Topology IS shading you dumb shithead.
He could be making some expert level models just by following a couple simple hard surface rules.
if you're using blender, enable auto-smooth on the object under normals and set it to whatever angle produces the effect you want
all it does is let you use mark sharp to split up groups of smoothed faces, or alternatively use that auto-smooth angle to do the same thing automatically
i find it helps a lot when trying to make smoothed faces not look like shit
Is this you?
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Kino
I didn't make this mesh but it's a good example of what I want to explain to you.
#1
You're mesh isn't dense enough. Add more loops. Keep each individual quad as close to a square as possible since that helps with good density, and helps when you need to add and extrude shit. Having giant rectangular polys doesn't help you when you need to add shit.
#2
Work with loops. Loops are everywhere.
Loops around the eyes, the toes, even in weird spots like the back of the knee.
#3
Don't use subdiv when working it doesn't help.
The thing is I'm working with models with an average of 4000 tris. If I get roughly get the shape I wanted I prefer spending time optimizing normals direction than adding geometry
I know most of us are software dev. I'm WFH too though
We just do gamedev as a hobby
Being a NEET looking for a day job.
Unemployed, currently on my 4th attempt to get a job...
Tard wrangling Indians on the support lines for a company that went from 80% white employees to 60% indian over a year
i hear the helpline girls are always looking for men. any offers?
counseling psychologist, it's "WFH" meaning clients just drive to my house
Gamedev.
I work at a Canadian AAA company.
I used to work at Ubisoft but was fired because of my ADHD
ADHD, boy, sounds like a story.
I don't know about it firsthand, but I hear Ubisoft is a really nasty company to work at. Part of it has to do with those 'game design schools' they fund, that teach potential hires how to do things 'the Ubisoft way'. Engenders a churn and burn culture where they're eager to fire because they always have new hires ready to come aboard.
not too surprising how Ubisoft would do the twist and turn on every kids they get, low wage labor over quality
Eh to be honest they did give me a shitload of chances. Not many companies would try to keep someone after they didn't submit one line of code for 5 months. I was just way too burnt out that it was impossible to focus. Especially working from home, I'd log in remotely, lie on my bed and waste the entire day. I sincerely don't have anything against them, my coworkers were nice.
I was an international hire though, so it's possible they tried to keep me because of sunk cost or something.
Jesus. Put the effort in or you'll never make it otherwise.
That said, I do get it. Work from home can be kinda miserable. You can be perfectly productive if you're in the office, if you just aren't motivated for the project, it can be hard to stay on-task. I remember pulling some effectively 4 hour days on a project just because I knew the project was utterly doomed and I knew there wasn't a damn thing I could do to fix it.
I wish it was just the work. My life living in Canada was a hell of my own making. I didn't have the energy to do anything, my apartment was a disgusting mess, I'd spend most of on my money on uber eats because I didn't have the energy to cook and so on. I also had a bunch of family problems that I could do nothing about because of fricking COVID so that didn't help my brain. Things are going a little better now that I'm back home, hopefully I can still make it.
Best of luck, anon. There's a lot of HRhomosexualry about mental health these days, but it really is important to take care of yourself. Everything is harder if you're feeling sick and burned out. To say nothing about being productive at work / on your projects.
thanks anon. I've been basically a NEET since I came back home but I've started interviewing again last week and it's going kinda well. I just fumble a bit when they ask me what I've done since I left Ubisoft
I don't think there's a lot of shame if you give an answer along the lines of "I've been working on some indie game projects in the background and trying to refine my skills". Most people will see through it, but even if it's a half truth, you can give it a good spin and productive with it.
>game
Never mention games on a work related interview, you know how games are made, they don't, they will immediately think of you as some sort of childish individual. You could always say you spent the days learning programming and 3D topology.
only have to implement one more feature to finish a system prototype for one of my core gameplay drafts but ive been stuck on it for weeks
damn i wish i could just make game. me personally? i'd probably save the tower defense genre
I'll be real with you fellas.
It's probably never happening.
Watch people play games you've played before, especially those inspiring your project.
>but I don't wanna
You will thank me later, even if it's painful. It will give you ideas, set more realistic expectations for how players will play your game, and give you real time examples of player reactions to game design, good or bad.
tfw forgot to save after working for 3 hours
how do I make a game with this
Make a game where you control a giant, but you so huge you can only see his feet, and you go around crushing frog/smurf people and smearing their frog goo on the ground.
Like Pikmin but your little fellas get stomped on by big goblin foots. monty python'esq.
My combat plan is simple:
Undertale but replace all the stupid friendship actions with playing Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Oh so when you get into a battle you impress the monster so much with your Bongo skills they just let you frick them?
No I mean you slam into the buttons and beat the ever loving shit out of them
Why not just make bongo punch out then?
Because it's funny to have an RPGmaker horror game where the combat is incredibly visceral despite the fact you're controlling an ordinary 10 year old fighting nearly 7 foot tall crimes against nature.
Actually, the best way to describe it is that I'm making God Hand as an RPG.
I made it so that untranslated text could scramble itself. Gonna make it so that it can also be alien font instead tomorrow, once my headache dies down.
I'm currently designing maps, writing a shit ton, already drawn enemies and bosses. My moronic ass thought it was a good idea to take Goombario/Goombella's tattle on every fricking thing and I'm having a fun time
where do i start?
You write down the idea and everything you wanna put in it
download Unreal or Unity and make pong
then start tweaking it in ways that make it better
Pick an engine.
One that uses a coding language you are interested in learning.
Frick around until you get an idea of what you could make with it.
Then just keep trying different things to learn more.
That's how I learned C# and C++.
Do you have an idea of what you want to do?
>yes
Start by writing, drawing and putting together your ideas. You'll have a much better time when it will come to making your game
>no
Test different engines and see what works best for you
I make wegs. where tf is daz
????
Daz 3D?
That's not a game program.
That barely qualifies as a modeling program.
It's not a modeling program, it's a rendering program for making homestuck pregnancy porn
Oh, okay.
My mistake.
:^)
what even is the difference between RPG Maker MV and MZ?
I've been making and recycling animals for alien planets.
a shame you're doing that instead of actually learning to draw
ngl I'm a little bit jealous of people like you that are not only incompetent at everything attempt but feel self assured enough to share such terrible things
cool beans, do you want something from me?
you putting a warning on every post of yours
WARNING: EYE SEARING GARBAGE CONTENT ATTACHED
would be nice, thanks pal
keep posting more of your stuff just to spite this anon
hey if it keeps him from learning to draw I'm all for it
shit's hilariously bad
I mean, no, I won't do anything for you. But I wanted to make sure your were just who you are, and not communicating in earnest.
much like how you aren't posting progress in earnest
has to be a shitpost with graphics like that
has to be
you think that's bad? just wait until you see the code!
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well at least you're learning and keeping track of things to improve next time
right
Why is it in comic Sans?
I have nerve damage in my eyes, it's the easiest font for me to read.
Oh...Ok I'm sorry to hear that I hope you're ok.
it's fine, I'm used to it. It's from an accident when I was a kid. I made a font that helps differentiate similar characters.
rpg maker tier shit, wasn't here a general for this?
yeah, here is fine. good point.
i like people that got this determination, people here could use it more.
got linux version to compile
turns out on linux you can't do
std::vector<int> whatever(5);
int * p = &whatever[5];
even if you do nothing with p
so that took me all day to find.
Bizarre. What engine are you working with?
>&whatever[5]
I've never seen that before, what does this even mean?
That's C++, for you.
"int * p" is defining an int pointer.
Pointers store the internal memory address (location) of a variable.
The '&' sign in "&whatever[5]" means, point to the memory address of the sixth element of the array "whatever".
No shit, that’s an out of bounds access, and has nothing to do with the OS, it just so happens that one compiler was placing some other allocation behind the vector.
what if gaem but you make your own spells
Like research methods to make spells?
but 3d and like say you want to make a fire tornado spell you add element of fire to a spell and customize the animation so it's a tornado and you also customize casting animation and cost and shit
noita
I chose my hecking engine, the game's practically finished.
How good is Godot's documentation? Will this teach me everything I need to know to make a 2D game? I have no programming experience.
yes, making a 2d game is the least hassle possible on godot
just dont use godot for 3d
>Will this teach me everything I need to know to make a 2D game?
Yeah, Godot is a engine for 2D, especially because Unity uses 3D coordinates for sprites (because it's mainly a 3D engine), while Godot uses 2D coordinates.
>How good is Godot's documentation?
hahahahaha
trying to find a new artstyle/redesign the characters. what do you giys think of pic related?
I like him. He's got very broad, wide looking masculine shoulders. He looks like he can throw a nice punch.
what game
What would be the best way to go with unlocks? (In this case stuff like weapons and friendly NPCs)
>everything is loaded but is only active if their unlock boolean is true
>only load and activate what you have unlocked
I feel like the former would make the game smoother because things won't have to load, just be toggled on/off.
Do the former until you run into issues.
Fricking finally, the animation is done, I just need to populate it with sound effects and assets
should be done by the end of the year or Q1 2024, depending on how much time i devote to it
3 years
I need infos about how to make FPS melee feel not like complete shit (think King's Field and other Lunacid).
Mostly looking about non-obvious cheat-y tricks devs use for this. Like, jumps have tricks like coyote timer, input buffering and having gravity be asymetrical, bunch of shit that's completely nonsensical but does make the game feel a lot better to play. Is there any equivalent to know for melee in first person?
Tried to find article about that on the net but can't find anything technical.
Right now my only solution was to give the player a fricking 3 meter reach (roughly 40 burgers), but that can't possibly be the right approach.
Not very. I can't figure out how to export an animated fbx from Blender with a gun attached that moves with the character's armature properly. It just hovers in mid-air or gets locked to some other point in space.
Even though it's not supposed to happen if you rig properly another solution is to make a second identical gun directly in the character's hand and hide it's texture when the character is supposed to drop it
It's rigged 'properly' (I think) in Blender itself. Moves with the animations etc. Then I export it to an fbx, and I get this instead.
See, what I want to do is take a 3D animated model, load it into a program that turns 3D into stylised 2D (little bit like Dead Cells), then make sprite sheets from there. This is why the model's so low-poly and shit, you're only going to see it from 'above' for a sort-of Hotline Miami feel. So for that, I need it to have the gun actually attached to the thing.
Is it all a single object ? Is the gun bone part of your character squeleton ? And is his parent the hand bone or the root bone ?
I got my current job by showing screenshot of my game, and I was not working at fricking ubisoft before. I think you're confusing mindlessly playing games and deving them. The later is a proof that you're not wasting time while at home.
>Is it all a single object?
No. Frick. Should it be?
>Is the gun bone part of your character squeleton ?
Also no. Frick. Should it be?
>And is his parent the hand bone or the root bone ?
Parent is the hand bone.
>Should it be?
For UE yes. I don't know which engine you're using but in UE if you import a single fbx with multiple object they will appear separated in engine, and animations are played based on a single object
One thing I want to note that I just confirmed/tested it out: Auto-Rig Pro plugin allows for multiple objects in Blender and exported to UE it is one object.
1. Blender: Belts, Body, Face, Hair, Weapon, etc
2. Exported as FBX using ARP
3. Imported to UE: One mesh, one skeleton
In addition, the skeleton is clean similar to the screenshot on the right:
I never used ARP and never tried to keyframe a single animation with 2 different skeletons so I can't help you on that
>You
No, moron, others do, did you even read? And I seriously doubt that was the reason, but you got hired in despite of that. Like I continue being hired despite being a drug addict, my skills are worth more than my addiction.
If you are doing the rendering of these sprites offline, then do it in Blender rather than in Unreal (you can set an object to be parented to a bone of a skeleton in Blender). If these sprites are rendered as the game is running, then you should implement it the same way as if the 3D models themselves were to be shown.
You are supposed to handle attaching things to bones in engine.
I am already rendering the animation, had to remove soft body physics, now I just need music, it's for a non commercial use so I might just sample some songs.
What is the best Engine for a begginer with a warcraft 3 alike idea in mind?
>What is the best Engine for a begginer
Unity.
Simply because it has way more documentation, samples, tutorials and assets available.
>with a warcraft 3 alike idea in mind?
All 3 big engines (Unity/Unreal/Godot) can reasonably do any type of game nowadays.
If you go Unity for your RTS, do give a thought about learning Dots/Burst&Jobs.
It's particularly good for handling large amount of units, although for a WarIII game you probably won't *need* it - if you want to stretch it to Total War level of battle it will be invaluable however.
Don't bother with ECS tho, it's janky&heavy as frick to use and only add minor performances gain over code that's already running on Burst.
Dunno if Unreal and Godot have an equivalent, probably.
>Dunno if Unreal and Godot have an equivalent, probably.
Unreal and Godot expose more than C# to developers, so don't need those hacks.
>a warcraft 3 alike idea
super ambitious if solo
working on some enviro art in a corner of a level. little indoor vegetation station to soothe you amidst the bleakness of space.
really hope you can press F to sit on the bench on listen to the birds chirp
on the to-do list :0)