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I've spent the last week doing a bunch of stuff, but most notable is implementing 'Enter' and 'Leave' scripting events. Video time! Although you might want to check the blog first... and make sure annotations are on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z64eAKwO6ho Blog post here. And hey, I have some real art now, not just stuff ripped from Link to the Past. A replacement character is pending and should be ready sometime during next week. I'm excited to start a log on tigsource, I didn't really want to until I wasn't stealing art... 
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Just a crosspost from the Making Games Megathread with a little video I recorded showing the new blood particles I added in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x81yKAc3CP8 That robot has a lot of health.
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Jan 28, 2013 01:24
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Orzo posted:I've spent the last week doing a bunch of stuff, but most notable is implementing 'Enter' and 'Leave' scripting events. Video time! Although you might want to check the blog first... and make sure annotations are on! This is coming out really awesome. Glad you kept on working on this. I really like the room within the room feature. Now that you're have someone making the art, I really encourage you to see how much different you can make it look from Zelda without people immediately realizing you used the same design aspects. I've been doing something similar to you except with Super Metroid and reusing a lot of its tile graphics. Although it's a flying game and reminds me more of top-down Zelda except side scrolling!
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Jan 28, 2013 21:10
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Mug posted:Just a crosspost from the Making Games Megathread with a little video I recorded showing the new blood particles I added in.
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Jan 30, 2013 07:22
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Scaevolus posted:Neat! It looks like the particles come out in a straight line, maybe randomize the spread so they spray in a cone? Yeah they're using the 'Bullet casing' physics set at the moment, I need to just make a blood config where they'll spread on the floor.
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Jan 30, 2013 08:15
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I made a short video for my GTD style web app, Elephant. You can try the thing out at http://elephantneverforgets.com.au too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApNYF0QAXTg
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Jan 30, 2013 14:17
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Maluco Marinero posted:I made a short video for my GTD style web app, Elephant. You can try the thing out at http://elephantneverforgets.com.au too. This looks super useful! It would be nice if it could link to an external calendar for mobile access (IE: GMail or Exchange)
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Jan 31, 2013 20:58
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I found an interesting paper the other day: Path Space Regularization for Holistic and Robust Light Transport. It presents an interesting sort of inversion of Progressive Photon Mapping for caustic paths in path tracers. Instead of allowing specular paths to connect to the camera as in PPM, it allows direct connection between specular vertices and light sources as long as the angle between them is small. By progressively reducing allowable angle, the computed image will eventually converge to the correct result, making the estimator biased, but consistent. I decided to whip up a quick path tracer to test it out: Plain old path tracing with multiple importance sampling after 1 minute, about 120 samples per pixel:  Caustics can only be sampled by paths randomly hitting the light source. This looks awful, and will continue to look awful for many, many hours. Same computation time, but with direct connection.  All of those awful fireflies are gone, but at the cost of slightly blurry caustics. They'll get less blurry as you let it render though, so it's a fair trade-off in my opinion. The nice thing about the whole algorithm is how simple it is. It's implementation added all of six lines to my path tracer's code. It's also orthogonal to path space sampling optimizations like Metropolis Light Transport, so it should provide benefit even when you can sample caustics efficiently. Perhaps I'll throw together an MLT sampler and see how things work out. steckles fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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Jan 31, 2013 23:17
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Fruit Smoothies posted:This looks super useful! It would be nice if it could link to an external calendar for mobile access (IE: GMail or Exchange) Thanks! At the moment it is just a standalone offline prototype with no central server. I'm not really certain I could use Google Calendar's API whilst keeping it like that. My target product is a desktop web app like the one shown, a mobile focused web app, and a web server for backup and sync. Certainly look to hook into existing services for contacts, calendars, and so on where it's applicable.
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Feb 1, 2013 00:24
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Cross-post from the making games thread. Screenshot in youtube format, because I'm not cool enough to make animated gifs (yet). This is probably my favorite Jones On Fire bug of all time. The kitties are just SO. EXCITED. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pRYPg2TJO8
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Feb 2, 2013 00:38
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I gave a talk a couple of months back, at EMF camp. The recordings finally surfaced, so I put it online. http://programmingisterrible.com/post/41880113409/a-bad-programmer-talks-about-bad-programming
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Feb 3, 2013 15:38
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visualization of the mitochondrial DNA of yeast dna downloaded from http://ensembl.org made with Processing ( http://processing.org )
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Feb 3, 2013 16:56
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Dolex posted:visualization of the mitochondrial DNA of yeast Oh wow. Had you ever used processing before this? How would you describe the difficulty of getting "up and running" so to speak?
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Feb 3, 2013 17:55
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Tres Burritos posted:Oh wow. Had you ever used processing before this? How would you describe the difficulty of getting "up and running" so to speak? Processing is the best for learning to do this. There are step by step small example code pages right on their site, it even runs in browser. You can copy it into Processing and mess with it to learn. Do it. Go go go go go.
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Feb 3, 2013 18:50
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I have taught children with no prior programming experience how to make asteroids clones and zelda games in a week with Processing. It is very easy to get started, especially if you have used C, C++, Java or basically any other curly-bracket language before. Processing is literally Java run through a preprocessor that saves you some boilerplate and a convenient graphics API.
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Feb 3, 2013 19:00
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as a result of some drunken coding this weekend, i built this thing http://0x41.co/map (then click somewhere) it's cool if you are bored and like exploring, works best for non-US points, and still errors out occasionally for reasons i'm not sure of, but i'm still (sorta) working on it. (also google has a limit of api requests so i'm not sure when that will be hit)
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Feb 4, 2013 21:50
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Tres Burritos posted:Oh wow. Had you ever used processing before this? How would you describe the difficulty of getting "up and running" so to speak?
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Feb 4, 2013 21:55
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Pie Colony posted:as a result of some drunken coding this weekend, i built this thing I'm not sure what this is supposed to do. I clicked an Eastern European country and got sent to Wikipedia for New York city. Went back, did it again on France, got sent to the Wikipedia page for San Francisco. e: And zooming in, then clicking just makes the page refresh.
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Feb 4, 2013 22:00
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Red Mike posted:I'm not sure what this is supposed to do. I clicked an Eastern European country and got sent to Wikipedia for New York city. Went back, did it again on France, got sent to the Wikipedia page for San Francisco. it's definitely not super accurate right now since it relies on a heuristic for search, but i don't know, i'm getting accuracies of at least 75%. (it's supposed to take you to the wikipedia page for whatever place you click on) if it just refreshes, chances are it errored out during the reverse geocoding process... but i'm workin' on it.
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Feb 4, 2013 22:24
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tef posted:I gave a talk a couple of months back, at EMF camp. The recordings finally surfaced, so I put it online. I didn't watch but 5 minutes or so because I'm a busy important man, but I like what I saw so far. I spend most of my hobby time reading and talking about cognitive research, psychology, and the like, and what you're talking about is a specific example of a more general phenomena which pretty much describes humanity.
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Feb 4, 2013 23:00
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Pie Colony posted:it's definitely not super accurate right now since it relies on a heuristic for search, but i don't know, i'm getting accuracies of at least 75%. (it's supposed to take you to the wikipedia page for whatever place you click on) Clicking on the middle of Australia gave me Agent Orange. Is that trying to tell me something about Australia?
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Feb 5, 2013 00:57
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 It's an iphone (later android) app I'm working on with a cartoonist. 100% hand drawn animation. One week till submission. This is literally the first time the outside world has seen anything, because we are terrible with promotion.
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Feb 7, 2013 23:07
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 I feel kind of like I'm creating MongoDB in PHP... What I am creating is a simplified class for storing files, which will actually store the files in multiple redundant locations (such as folders on the local or network attached filesystem, Aws S3, rackspace cloudfiles, etc.) The idea is that it's used like this: php:<?
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echo $file->uuid(); // fba9ae30-5d19-4add-bdf8-da6972060356
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Feb 8, 2013 03:17
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Would something like http://tahoe-lafs.org/ work?
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Similar concept, but I'm doing this one in PHP. It's really just an abstraction layer over multiple file systems, but it adds a few other features such as: * Seamless file encryption/decryption * Ability to manually control "read", "write", and "delete" permissions (no modifying existing files, though) * Ability to use a "MetaAdaptor" to change the permissions of a store for a particular user/application (i.e. one application can write, but not read - say as an anonymous uploader, then another application can use a meta adaptor to access the store with different permissions) * Ability to fit in with a bunch of existing systems * Compliance with regulations around storing PHI/HIPPA material (medical records, Rx certificates, etc) * Easy migration of 10 years worth of existing data
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I finally just implemented Dijkstra's path-finding algorithm for the first time. And I did it in Unity/C#. Each of the examples I found usually used some methodology that I wasn't familiar with (like a Priority queue's decrease-key function) and so I had to realize that the differences I was seeing across examples were because of differences in implementation's of the algorithm. So I pieced together my own implementation from reading 3 or 4 resources to gain a competent understanding of the algorithm. I've had AI in 2D games before, and tried implementing Dijkstra's but for whatever reason would become inundated with confusion. So all my games had basic "where is target? Move linearly towards target" and run into walls and stuff. Now with this one implementation in unity, I can take my understanding and go back and apply it to those earlier projects. I can also start using this going forward with html canvas development. This node and path system is going to be the basis of my city builder game. I'm going to have each node offer something (like a job, food, entertainment, etc) and pathfinders that act like SimCity agents to fill their needs by going to the nodes. So that's what 3 days being sick at home off from work got me.  The blue nodes denote nodes that have been walked and their best path known. The brown shows node in the path from the source to the target. KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Feb 8, 2013 04:26
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I'm working on some city builder / economy thingy, using DirectX 10 under C++11 and a bit of VC's Concurrency runtime. Somehow coding became fun again with the new standard... Edit: sorry for the jpg artifacts, but imgur doesn't like huge .pngs.
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Wipfmetz posted:I'm working on some city builder / economy thingy, using DirectX 10 under C++11 and a bit of VC's Concurrency runtime. Somehow coding became fun again with the new standard...
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KoRMaK posted:Wow that looks really cool. Who does your assets? You? And are they tiles or rendered 3D mdoels? It's all modeled in Blender and rendered to 2D-Sprites. The project itself is a single-man-project, with the single man beeing me. Unfortunately, that means there's neither sound nor music nor pleasant english.
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 Whoo got my webcam to take a picture using all this poo poo. I have no idea why it's red, but I suspect the weird YUV 4:2:2 format being displayed as YUV may have something to do with it. Bonus points if you can name that O'Reilly book.
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 I've been following some of these tutorials on SDL and managed to whip up this thing as a test "game". I can move the little swordsman around on the hex grid and get him to turn to face in any of the 6 directions. He can't move off the grid and there isn't anything for him to interact with, but it works and it's nice for me. The code isn't well-thought-out though, it's a mess. This is just a proof of concept for me.
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Contains Acetone fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Feb 10, 2013 21:29
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Hammerite posted:
Hex DROD? Color me excited.
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iopred posted:Hex DROD? Color me excited. I might eventually have a go at something in that direction! But right now I'm just playing around and can't really devote much time to personal projects.
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My iOS app got a major UI overhaul. I've also been working on the last of the new features prior to what I'm calling my minimum viable product.
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Been playing around with generating SVGs programmatically. I made a 2012 election map by county, adjusting by population density. The template I stole from wikipedia, and the election results from the Small Custom App thread. Log plot, leaving off the 100 densest counties.  Cube root of adjustment, leaving off 100 the densest counties.  Square root of adjustment, leaving off 250 the densest counties.  Linear plot, leaving off nothing. Turns out some counties are really dense. 
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Feb 13, 2013 06:43
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This is one of the text-doctored screenshots that we'll use in the app store, for Jones On Fire ... it just got uploaded for review 
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Feb 13, 2013 08:45
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You have some pretty severe artifacting there, make sure you say high quality PNGs when you upload official screens
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a slime posted:You have some pretty severe artifacting there, make sure you say high quality PNGs when you upload official screens EDIT: oh, dammit. Checked the actual PNGs, that artifacting is in the screenshots themselves. Somehow, you were the only one to notice it. The settings defaulted wrong. Dammit. Let's see if I can update those before the app leaves "Waiting for review" state... Regardless, thanks for catching that. You're the only person that noticed. EDIT2: Hah! Got updated screenshots in place before the review window closed. Again, thank you so much. 
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Contains Acetone fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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