What I did today

[orange451]

@basil_

Where did that model come from? I want to use it to run some rendering tests

[theagentd]

i had a twist on PBR + rendering to cubemaps to keep the background in sync.

Is that image-based lighting or just plain cube map reflections? I'd love if you logged onto Skype some time too; got a few things to talk with you about. =P

[philfrei]

..whups..

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[basil_]

@orange : i think i found on archive3d.net.

@agent : skype right! just a tiny bit IBL, it is highly metallic so it doesn't show much.

[Coldstream24]

Nice cue, btw.

I don't follow haha, but it's probably my brain not working again.

[philfrei]

Nice cue, btw.

I don't follow haha, but it's probably my brain not working again.

Maybe I should have said "nice song" since that is what you called your new musical piece. I tend to think of songs as having singing. I just meant "by the way" for the btw.

[orange451]

Thanks basil

[SkyAphid]

This is what I've been up to. Getting the poses right is pretty difficult because the robot isn't entirely anatomically human. That said, it's super satisfying to animate what's intended to be a 300 foot tall, 1500 ton robot to perform boxing moves.

[Opiop]

I took a break from developing my game engine and I finished a song I've been working on for a while
https://soundcloud.com/coldstream24/dreams-of-empty-skies

Do any of you produce music?

Yes sir! I'm in a band (As Time Fades). I enjoyed your track by the way, this is the kind of music I love programming to at work. It's so dreamy/floaty. I like it!

[FabulousFellini]

I took a break from developing my game engine and I finished a song I've been working on for a while
https://soundcloud.com/coldstream24/dreams-of-empty-skies

Do any of you produce music?

I used to work in a studio full time as an engineer/producer.  And I've played in bands for 15 years and produced/engineered/mixed all our albums.  I'm the most happy with this album: https://play.spotify.com/album/0ygN01XurJXl5sxLEb7VAR

Edit:  I sing tracks 4 and 7.

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[FabulousFellini]

I started learning LibGDX.  Please bare with me while I ask dumb questions that are obvious to everyone here except me

[Archive]

Rendered this using circles at the vertices instead of filling the polygons. Has a cool aesthetic pleasure but is slower to render than just filling the polygons.

[philfrei]

Turned 60.

[matt_p]

@philfrei
Congratulations! Achievement unlocked!


@topic
Released new bugs - as always... If I deploy a new version of my project to my page, I find some serious bugs already on the next try and than I have to release an a-Version(or sometimes b and c :O ) - well, maybe I should do better tests...

[Aalhex]

@philfrei great work not dying so far!

[65K]

Turned 60.

Happy Birthday!
So I am not the oldest here.

[SHC]

Turned 60.

Wait, is that in decimal system or some other like hexadecimal?

1   2

60 (oct) == 48 (dec) 60 (hex) == 30 (dec)

Which one should we follow?

[Aalhex]

I was working on saving and loading for my game—it turns out I’m not capable of such a simple thing. Here is absolute proof that years of experience doesn’t help you in your dragon-slayer-kill-them-now-epic-stuff quest to ultimate game development mastery!

Rather than keeping up the struggle and fight, I decided to flee from the Java-crazy-dragon-code-monster for the evening. Instead, I’ll do some web design.

In all seriousness, though. Mailboxes get replaced by walls and doors get replaced by mailboxes.

@philfrei Actually—happy birthday!

[J0]

♫♪Haaaappyyyyyy biiiiirthdayyyyyy Philfreiiiiiii♪♫
_{I refuse to stop singing}

[philfrei]

Thanks everyone!      

@philfrei great work not dying so far!

Seriously. Knock on wood.

[philfrei]

I was working on saving and loading for my game—it turns out I’m not capable of such a simple thing. Here is absolute proof that years of experience doesn’t help you in your dragon-slayer-kill-them-now-epic-stuff quest to ultimate game development mastery!

I know what you mean. (I think.) It was a significant chore figuring out how save/load settings for the simple sound apps I've been working on. I'm happy to share what I figured out if you start a new thread on this question.

[J0]

One easy way is to just get all the relevant objects at save-time, and get them to tell you their relevant properties; then just write that into a file, precising at the start how many objects are to be loaded, and for each object what their type is / how many bytes are to be assigned to that object.
Now the easiest way to do this in Java is probably implementing the Serializable interface which I think basically lets you save an object using reflection (then load them) — although I've personally never used it.

[Aalhex]

@philfrei I’ll think of something along those lines! I bet it would be great fun for all of us to discuss various different saving—as well as loading—techniques for different types of projects.

@J0 Definitely—saving objects is a nice way to save things—but if your project contains vast arrays of crazy things, it might very well not be sufficient as for speed.

Unless one of you start a thread as such, I’ll make sure to do so first thing in the morning—my time!

[J0]

Yeah well I guess you have to carefully select what you need to save and what can be omitted... Looking forward to discuss that in your future thread :p

[SkyAphid]

He's learning Kung-Fu today. Yesterday it was Muay Thai.

[Aalhex]

Yeah well I guess you have to carefully select what you need to save and what can be omitted... Looking forward to discuss that in your future thread :p

Our future thread.

[Archive]

Started doing MS-DOS VGA programming through DOSBox and C using VGA mode 0x13! I'm very excited!

[orange451]

Got cubemaps working with the SSR today

[Coldstream24]

I'm finally polishing my engine's editing environment. My friend and I are ready to begin building a game with it now, we think.
Here's how it's looking so far

It sure is a great feeling to have put so much work in and to have it at a usable state, around two years since I started this engine project. It's been a fantastic learning experience.
Had a bit of fun with my window manager's buffers, too.

[Aalhex]

Today I went on a quest to annoy people in the forums as much as possible.

It’s the way I show people my love for them.