At 10/22/15 12:56 AM, Cordyceps wrote: Have you made progress on procedural generation yet?

I haven't really made much progress on it. I like your cave drawing idea. That might be a good way to generate some simple concave structures to explore. Right now my world building process is just.

1. Use perlin noise to generate some data
2. Place all the lakes using perlin data
3. Find random locations for towns and make sure they're some distance apart.
4. Draw roads between each town (A*)
5. Place trees in empty locations using the perlin data, some distance away from towns.

Pretty simple.

Hi everyone... I used to be a "reg" here many moons ago. I recognize some names in here still. Anyone care to give me a 30k foot view of what's happening around here lately?

At 10/31/15 08:05 PM, BoMToons wrote: Hi everyone... I used to be a "reg" here many moons ago. I recognize some names in here still. Anyone care to give me a 30k foot view of what's happening around here lately?

It takes 1-2 months to get to the next page of posts, then someone posts something that gets everyone excited for 2 pages before slowing down again.

At 10/31/15 08:05 PM, BoMToons wrote: Hi everyone... I used to be a "reg" here many moons ago. I recognize some names in here still. Anyone care to give me a 30k foot view of what's happening around here lately?

Still a bunch of random BS. Conversations, debates, information, news. Some good, some not-so-much.
Then every so often I interject with something completely off-topic and nobody cares :P

Pick a random page and read, see if it's interesting to you.

I need three SSDs in a RAID 5 array formatted with btrfs.
.. Or I guess with the next-gen filesystem loaded on it I could just use a RAID 0 and call it good.

Either way, I feel like this is something I need.

At 11/5/15 10:31 PM, egg82 wrote: I need three SSDs in a RAID 5 array formatted with btrfs.
.. Or I guess with the next-gen filesystem loaded on it I could just use a RAID 0 and call it good.

Either way, I feel like this is something I need.

I ordered a new laptop and the charge hasn't been applied to my bank yet, so I'm not sure if I'm ever getting it. It has 1 SSD, my first. It'll be a great day when it finally gets to me.

And then miserable when I have to reinstall these billions of bytes chilling on my HDD.

At 11/5/15 11:42 PM, MSGhero wrote: And then miserable when I have to reinstall these billions of bytes chilling on my HDD.

I just put an SSD in this craptop. Runs pretty damn well compared to the 5400 it had.
Also, a solution to your problem comes in two parts:

1: Thermaltake BlacX
2: (Assuming a few things)

At 11/5/15 11:42 PM, MSGhero wrote: And then miserable when I have to reinstall these billions of bytes chilling on my HDD.

Opportunity for a spring clean.

And not a single byte of extra space was taken.
Yeah, I could get used to btrfs.

Also, holy shit, Google is doing free VPS.
Get yours.

T-t-t-triple-post!

Why does nobody love me? :(

I wrote an article at 4 AM. What did YOU do this morning?

At 11/10/15 06:54 AM, egg82 wrote: T-t-t-triple-post!

Why does nobody love me? :(

I wrote an article at 4 AM. What did YOU do this morning?

I created the tower offense genre at 1am. I think. I had a few drinks, so I'm gonna go back over my notes and see if they even make sense now.

At 11/10/15 06:54 AM, egg82 wrote: T-t-t-triple-post!

Why does nobody love me? :(

I wrote an article at 4 AM. What did YOU do this morning?

Wasted time by playing Team Fortress 2 because why not. I'm beginning to fall into that trap now....just before semester exams...oh god why

At 11/10/15 06:54 AM, egg82 wrote: T-t-t-triple-post!

Why does nobody love me? :(

I wrote an article at 4 AM. What did YOU do this morning?

Played Fallout 4!

If anyone has a PC (sorry Mac users) and wouldn't mind playing the alpha/demo of a game I'm making, inbox me and I'll send you access details.
Alpha is open for a couple of weeks so no hurry.
Thanks!

Remember that time like 4 years ago when we were talking about collaborative diffusion? I think I'm finally gonna use that algo in this TD game for pixel day. I decided against tower offense as I don't want to be a feature creeper.

He said, adding collaborative diffusion to his game

At 11/20/15 01:18 AM, MSGhero wrote: I decided against tower offense as I don't want to be a feature creeper.

I add random shit to my games all the time. So far, no feature creep in this one. That much I owe to the fact that I'm using patterns and actually sticking with them instead of adding hacky code everywhere.

On an unrelated note, I ran Win 7's "disk cleanup" and freed - I kid ye not - 100GB of space on this poor little laptop's drive.
Soo, if you have Win 7/8 you may want to look into that. Not sure if 10 has the same problem.

New laptop with an SSD. Compile times are cut in half, plus I can run games in > shit quality, plus it doesn't freeze up when the graphics card switches.

At 11/22/15 12:56 AM, MSGhero wrote: New laptop with an SSD. Compile times are cut in half, plus I can run games in > shit quality, plus it doesn't freeze up when the graphics card switches.

Maaaaan, I need a new laptop :(

I was looking at ones that are $300 or less. I only really care about CPU and GPU since I plan on upgrading the RAM, battery, and drive later anyway. Any suggestions?

At 11/22/15 01:36 AM, egg82 wrote: Maaaaan, I need a new laptop :(

I was looking at ones that are $300 or less. I only really care about CPU and GPU since I plan on upgrading the RAM, battery, and drive later anyway. Any suggestions?

I feel like CPU alone gets you to 300 if you "care" about it ("care" meaning i7 quad core skylake). The biggest thing would be to see if you're even supposed to open the laptop to add things to it. You couldn't change the gpu in my last laptop other than replacing it since the space only fits that fan + card. But then I'm not sure if customizable laptops cost $300 base.

At 11/22/15 01:57 AM, MSGhero wrote: I feel like CPU alone gets you to 300 if you "care" about it ("care" meaning i7 quad core skylake).

Maybe an i5 dual-core? I don't plan on gaming on it, I have an overpowered desktop for that. This is more of a "portable Flash game making machine"

The biggest thing would be to see if you're even supposed to open the laptop to add things to it. You couldn't change the gpu in my last laptop other than replacing it since the space only fits that fan + card. But then I'm not sure if customizable laptops cost $300 base.

All laptops support changing RAM and HDD and most have different batteries available. I don't expect to be able to change anything else, hence getting one with decent onboard stuffs.

Maybe a notebook/netbook would be cheaper? I'm honestly not sure. I'm new to the whole "portable PC" thing.

At 11/22/15 03:14 PM, egg82 wrote: Maybe an i5 dual-core?

More like i3 version "don't tell me how bad it is." You can upgrade the internals of most laptops, but some are designed to be a pain in the ass deterrent just to open it up. See: my old laptop, Macbooks.

At 11/22/15 03:14 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 11/22/15 01:57 AM, MSGhero wrote: I feel like CPU alone gets you to 300 if you "care" about it ("care" meaning i7 quad core skylake).

Maybe an i5 dual-core? I don't plan on gaming on it, I have an overpowered desktop for that. This is more of a "portable Flash game making machine"

Maybe a notebook/netbook would be cheaper? I'm honestly not sure. I'm new to the whole "portable PC" thing.

Well what about AMD? Sure they're not as good as intel CPUs, but for non-gaming machines IMO anything above a Core 2 Duo or an i3 is overkill; an equivalent AMD CPU would be cheaper than that.

...Maybe I just have different standards, idk. An i3 seems ridiculously OP for "flash making machine", leave alone an i5.

Of course, if the mobo doesn't support it then i guess there's no point in getting one.

At 11/23/15 01:05 AM, Gimmick wrote: ...Maybe I just have different standards, idk. An i3 seems ridiculously OP for "flash making machine", leave alone an i5.

I used to make Flash games on a pentium 3 700MHz CPU

At 11/24/15 05:28 AM, Rustygames wrote:

At 11/23/15 01:05 AM, Gimmick wrote: ...Maybe I just have different standards, idk. An i3 seems ridiculously OP for "flash making machine", leave alone an i5.

I used to make Flash games on a pentium 3 700MHz CPU

I used to do it on a Pentium 4 1GHz. But it had a virus so it was more like 10MHz* :P

...I still can't believe that I didn't link "half an hour loading flash 8 when it would previously take 2 minutes" to "virus". Ah, when I was 9... :P

*Assuming CPU was always at 99% due to the virus and only 1% left for other applications

At 11/24/15 08:11 AM, Gimmick wrote: I used to do it on a Pentium 4 1GHz. But it had a virus so it was more like 10MHz* :P

Flash MX crashed so often for me that I hit Ctrl + S every few seconds. This is a habit I have in any editor to this very day

At 11/24/15 10:26 AM, Rustygames wrote:

At 11/24/15 08:11 AM, Gimmick wrote: I used to do it on a Pentium 4 1GHz. But it had a virus so it was more like 10MHz* :P

Flash MX crashed so often for me that I hit Ctrl + S every few seconds. This is a habit I have in any editor to this very day

Maybe it was on purpose, to teach people to use save every so often :P

At 11/24/15 10:26 AM, Rustygames wrote: Flash MX crashed so often for me that I hit Ctrl + S every few seconds. This is a habit I have in any editor to this very day

Exactly this. MX is where I learned to save every minute or so as well.

Flash Pro => Animate.

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html?scid=social_20151201_55826586&adbid=671559505906282496&adbpl=tw&adbpr=63786611

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashpro/welcome-adobe-animate-cc-a-new-era-for-flash-professional/

http://www.twitch.tv/adobe

FlashDevelop => AnimateDevelop?

At 12/1/15 12:50 AM, MSGhero wrote: Flash Pro => Animate.

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html?scid=social_20151201_55826586&adbid=671559505906282496&adbpl=tw&adbpr=63786611

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashpro/welcome-adobe-animate-cc-a-new-era-for-flash-professional/

http://www.twitch.tv/adobe

FlashDevelop => AnimateDevelop?

Jazza will be having a stream at the adobe studios to try it out later today, im curious what his impressions are. I wasn't that impressed with the promo video, it seems more for the amateur than the hardened animator.

Adobe Edge was / is shit so I'm curious where this new version of Flash will fall into. Some news is better than no news i figure.