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Bushido · July 15, 2015, 02:25:47 PM

that's adorable, but what's happening with the gif artifacting or whatever

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Bosie1997 · July 15, 2015, 06:46:24 PM

Quote from: Bushido on July 15, 2015, 02:25:47 PM

that's adorable, but what's happening with the gif artifacting or whatever

thanks!

it looks pretty normal to me, except the red against the blue background looks a little weird. i'm not sure i see what you mean. I just recorded video with fraps then changed it to a gif in photoshop.

foulprairiedog · July 15, 2015, 06:56:25 PM

Quote from: Bosie1997 on July 15, 2015, 06:46:24 PM

I just recorded video with fraps then changed it to a gif in photoshop.

perhaps you could use LICEcap instead? it records directly to gif.

BluetoothBoy · July 15, 2015, 08:46:27 PM

Quote from: Bushido on July 15, 2015, 02:25:47 PM

that's adorable, but what's happening with the gif artifacting or whatever

Not seeing any myself; maybe it's on your end?

Bosie1997 · July 15, 2015, 09:08:01 PM

Quote from: foulprairiedog on July 15, 2015, 06:56:25 PM

perhaps you could use LICEcap instead? it records directly to gif.

nice, didn't know about this software. thanks for showing.

Alphadin · July 16, 2015, 05:15:22 PM

Quote from: foulprairiedog on July 15, 2015, 06:56:25 PM

perhaps you could use LICEcap instead? it records directly to gif.

LICEcap always records for me in a solid color any tips?

McJob · July 19, 2015, 10:31:25 PM

Alessa_Demo_CS10_RC1 is out now. Probably the second last build before the final. I'm going to feel great finishing this loving thing off so I can start work on my Major Project (hopefully an actual good game).

DOWNLOAD! DL Size = 600MBs, Uncompressed = 1.2GBs

Things to be fixed for final:
-Notification of new hint in pause menu doesn't work
-Audio is unbalanced and overall stuff
-Shooting through a wall will leave you unable to fire until you exit the wall space
-Possible to fire gooey during pause menu
-No prompt for using "Tab" to open the pause menu
-Pause menu needs to pause audio
-Main menu sucks (No fade in, button designs and button layouts, no button sounds etc)
-Lighting woes (Particle effects lighting the entire external map and leaking into other map chunks)
-Final room (Blue Electric forgeter) needs to be redesigned
-End Cutscene needs a bit of work
-Cheat can be activated, but currently does nothing (except prints a string)
-About 3GBs of unused/redundant content needs to be deleted
-Code Cleanup/Comments/Names
-Timer starts at the wrong place and ends at the wrong place
-The Map Tracker is completely broken
-Not all fonts are consistent with the main font yet
-Most lights do not disable their visibility before destruction
-Esc quit needs to be a hold; esc button press should just close pause menu
-No encryption on fast run save file
-No message regarding "Recommend if you want to grapple that you simply fire a gooey without charging"
-No message regarding "You can't grapple to a gooey that's stuck to something"
-HUD replaced by white bar on death; should be a full-screen death effect
-Checkpoint A/B/C (Respawn) is broken

Things already fixed for final (not in above version):
>Game Icons and other external stuff is not ready (Done!)
>Possible to complete the first Gooey Ball change by jumping over the wall instead of using the boxes (Done!)
>Current fastest run is set to 1:20 which is impossible in current build (Done!)

Note about fastest runs: If no save file is detected, no message will appear in the main menu. If a save file is detected, you will see the fastest run in the menu and during the game. Only your fastest run is recorded.

Foxscotch · July 19, 2015, 10:47:49 PM

Quote from: McJob on July 19, 2015, 10:31:25 PM

-No encryption on fast run save file

doesn't sound like a problem to me

McJob · July 20, 2015, 06:46:14 PM

I'm making Pong in Unity. I'm right now working on getting rotation angles when the object hits a paddle.

Unreal 4 Solution:
-Create an Event Hit node
-Drag off "Hit Location"
-Do a simple sum to find the rotation you want

Unity 5 Solution:
-Ignore the Collider and not have access to OnCollisionEnter() and contact.point because you dared to try and use Kinematic bodies
-Instead, convert your Colliders to triggers and then do a loving raycast (which are loving frustrating to set up) to find the contact point
-Do a series of sums in order to find the one value you want before you can do the sum to get the rotation

I can't loving fathom how people find Unity better than Unreal. Everything is 5 steps backwards.

Found a better (not good, but better) solution:

[9:53:52 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh:When the ball enters a specific line (point on the X axis), I'll get the X position of the paddle
[9:54:16 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: * Y position
[9:54:21 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: Since I know the bounds
[9:54:29 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: (+1.5 <-> -1.5)
[9:55:12 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: I can then figure out the approximate impact position using the Y position of the ball
[9:55:18 AM] Hugh Wotmeigh: And then apply rotation

Rainzx� · July 20, 2015, 10:52:46 PM

Quote from: McJob on July 20, 2015, 06:46:14 PM

Unity works just fine for me, I've never had to over complicated anything like that.
The other solution you posted looks like it might be faster than the way your doing it in unreal.

bithead9 · July 21, 2015, 03:08:12 PM

Quote from: McJob on July 20, 2015, 06:46:14 PM

-Instead, convert your Colliders to triggers and then do a loving raycast (which are loving frustrating to set up) to find the contact point

I don't understand how raycasts are frustrating to set up. What do you find difficult about it ?

Gravity Cat · July 21, 2015, 03:24:08 PM

Atmospheres! And nukes.

Everywhere.

Quote from: Rainzx� on July 20, 2015, 10:52:46 PM

Unity works just fine for me, I've never had to over complicated anything like that.

I have to agree with you there.

[Edit]
After some more refining it does start to look decent:

McJob · July 25, 2015, 04:55:55 PM

Messing around with shapes and lighting for my major project.

Waru · July 25, 2015, 05:14:57 PM

pls make something good

McJob · July 26, 2015, 05:08:31 AM

Quote from: Waru on July 25, 2015, 05:14:57 PM

pls make something good

Prototype playtests have come back green. The only potential problem is that I have been barred from using Unreal 4; I have to use Unity which I'm not confident with and lacks a lot of the cool features I wanted to make use of.

That said, I plan on doing everything I do in Unity this term in Unreal 4 as well so I can compare which is easier, which means I'll have a base for the public release version.