What are you working on? November 2015 - Developers

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GJcqCHN.png[/IMG] I know this thread is technically late.. But I created this new thread because the one that was put up is terrible, and had no effort put into it. Taking the monthly highlights out of WAYWO, is killing some of the fun of it. I'll leave it up to the community on which one to use. 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Highlights, not too many, quality thread. I approve 9/10

Haven't done as many personal projects as id like to be doing because of school

[QUOTE=cody8295;49030272]Haven't done as many personal projects as id like to be doing because of school[/QUOTE] It kinda sucks when that happens. I haven't worked on anything for me in weeks... only assignments :( Doing so work for marks rather than for fun, definitely not so enjoyable.

I think I'm going to try my hand at text rendering soon, does anyone know any good resources as for which approach I should use? I know that I can either render quads with textures or try to create the shapes for each font, but I don't know which is the most optimal technique when high frame rate is a must

[QUOTE=Karmah;49030644]I think I'm going to try my hand at text rendering soon, does anyone know any good resources as for which approach I should use? I know that I can either render quads with textures or try to create the shapes for each font, but I don't know which is the most optimal technique when high frame rate is a must[/QUOTE] quads with texture, optionally caching the string for string constants -- i'd like to nominate all of my posts for highlights

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[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;49030797]lmao, this isn't gmod[/QUOTE] Do people still play Gmod

[QUOTE=Map in a box;49030748]quads with texture, optionally caching the string for string constants [/QUOTE] So essentially all I need is to VAO a quad for each unique character shape (assuming that I even need more than one), a unique texture per character supported, and develop my own system for kerning? If so then this shouldn't be so bad. I foresee the most difficult part being the planning, or rather how to set up a really simple system for rendering it that would work to fit a variety of future needs. Ill start off with a simple on-screen print out of FPS, and then I want to move on to a basic engine console.

[QUOTE=Karmah;49031076]So essentially all I need is to VAO a quad for each unique character shape (assuming that I even need more than one), a unique texture per character supported, and develop my own system for kerning? If so then this shouldn't be so bad. I foresee the most difficult part being the planning, or rather how to set up a really simple system for rendering it that would work to fit a variety of future needs. Ill start off with a simple on-screen print out of FPS, and then I want to move on to a basic engine console.[/QUOTE] freetype gives you kerning info and whatnot you can also use stb truetype I personally just build a spritesheet with rendered glyphs, and cache the UVs for them on that sheet, although this isn't always the most desired option.

[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;49031030][URL="https://steamdb.info/graph/"]it's consistently one of the most played games on Steam still, it's more popular then ever[/URL] - idk if that was meant to be a snarky comment or a genuine question sorry.[/QUOTE] I wonder what the demographic is. Nobody I know my age plays Gmod, but we used to play it a shit ton. I had several hundred hours logged on it, but haven't played in years. I guess younger kids play it still? I really am disconnected from everyone still in highschool. My GF's little sister watch Twitch but I've never seen any of the games he plays.

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49031156]I wonder what the demographic is. Nobody I know my age plays Gmod, but we used to play it a shit ton. I had several hundred hours logged on it, but haven't played in years. I guess younger kids play it still? I really am disconnected from everyone still in highschool. My GF's little sister watch Twitch but I've never seen any of the games he plays.[/QUOTE] I used to play GMod 9 and 10 so much. The community content was so much fun back in the day. Although a lot of elaborate stuff can still get done, not a lot of it interests me much anymore, and hasn't for quite some time now.

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49031156]I wonder what the demographic is. Nobody I know my age plays Gmod, but we used to play it a shit ton. I had several hundred hours logged on it, but haven't played in years. I guess younger kids play it still? I really am disconnected from everyone still in highschool. My GF's little sister watch Twitch but I've never seen any of the games he plays.[/QUOTE] same story here, it's mostly been "oh hey that game we used to play a lot" from what i've seen, a lot of the new players came from streamers so they tend to be quite young

I have 2^7 hours in Garrys Mod from back when steam didn't track last time played (toybox was in first or second interation I can't remember). On topic: Group project for university is over, thank god. Although I learnt more from it than any other singular class most of the work was done by only two of us. One of the other people didn't finish their part, and the other person finished a horrible buggy version that relied on the other part that wasn't done. End result was me doing 80% of the code in the presentation video and the modeller doing the other 20%. I don't want to know how bad it would have gone if we weren't using Unity. Only really looked presentable because I rigged up my 3 year old terrain generator to spit out the heightmaps the way Unity wants in a day for manual editing.

Anyone have experience with working professionally with game development? I want to work as a game programmer for a big game company like IO Interactive or even Bethesda GS. I've been told that I should specialize in something, i.e. get a lot of shader experience. Do you have any recommendations? I'm one year away from graduating as a bachelor of IT engineering.

Specialising is a good idea. Do you have anything specific you like working on?

[QUOTE=war_man333;49032082]Anyone have experience with working professionally with game development? I want to work as a game programmer for a big game company like IO Interactive or even Bethesda GS. I've been told that I should specialize in something, i.e. get a lot of shader experience. Do you have any recommendations? I'm one year away from graduating as a bachelor of IT engineering.[/QUOTE] How much experience do you have outside of school? It all comes down to if you are good at programming or not, communication after that, then the ability to work with others. "Unity editor tools/design tools/pipeline tools" is a really useful skill that Krillbite is looking for in a programmer right now. So that's one example of something you can specialize in. Learn Unity really well and every aspect of it if you want to work with Unity. There is no ultimate solution. Just become a good programmer and enjoy it. Everything else comes after that.

[QUOTE=war_man333;49032082]Anyone have experience with working professionally with game development? I want to work as a game programmer for a big game company like IO Interactive or even Bethesda GS. I've been told that I should specialize in something, i.e. get a lot of shader experience. Do you have any recommendations? I'm one year away from graduating as a bachelor of IT engineering.[/QUOTE] I'm currently doing an education for the AAA game industry, and there's a lot of specialization choice. Answer NovembrDobby's question first.

First time I made it into the highlights! Yay! Got more content coming up real soon, too!

OS question: I have windows 10, thinking about swapping it with windows 8 (which is free through school) and dual booting OpenSuse. Any opinions/suggestions? (Doing graphics programming, want that to be clean and easy)

[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;49034489]OS question: I have windows 10, thinking about swapping it with windows 8 (which is free through school) and dual booting OpenSuse. Any opinions/suggestions? (Doing graphics programming, want that to be clean and easy)[/QUOTE] Why would you swap it with Windows 8? You can dual boot windows 10 with anything just fine.

[QUOTE=cartman300;49034616]Why would you swap it with Windows 8? You can dual boot windows 10 with anything just fine.[/QUOTE] Partially because aspects of it irritate me, and other miscellaneous issues I've had (like Oculus not supporting it until just recently, random windows games not working etc). Not sure if this is me being impulsive/superstitious or practical. For instance, whenever I press windows key and type something like "videos" is defaults to MS's shitty apps that I can't get rid of, and it's harder to move windows around using alt+arrow keys.

[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;49034648]Partially because aspects of it irritate me, and other miscellaneous issues I've had (like Oculus not supporting it until just recently, random windows games not working etc). Not sure if this is me being impulsive/superstitious or practical. For instance, whenever I press windows key and type something like "videos" is defaults to MS's shitty apps that I can't get rid of, and it's harder to move windows around using alt+arrow keys.[/QUOTE] Why OpenSuse?

I did some research on good distros for my use and ended up picking that (also thinking Ubuntu, Arch, debian). Tbh I realized my choice didn't matter that much and I just wanted to get to work asap before I endlessly thought about it.

[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;49035000]I did some research on good distros for my use and ended up picking that (also thinking Ubuntu, Arch, debian). Tbh I realized my choice didn't matter that much and I just wanted to get to work asap before I endlessly thought about it.[/QUOTE] I'm not partial or anything, I was just wondering what your selection criteria were. I picked Ubuntu because of apt (same reason as google), and because it's super easy to install.

[QUOTE=DoctorSalt;49035000]I did some research on good distros for my use and ended up picking that (also thinking Ubuntu, Arch, debian). Tbh I realized my choice didn't matter that much and I just wanted to get to work asap before I endlessly thought about it.[/QUOTE] Arch or Debian variants (ubuntu, mint, etc) are better choices [B]imho[/B].

[QUOTE=JohnnyOnFlame;49035125]Arch or Debian variants (ubuntu, mint, etc) are better choices [B]imho[/B].[/QUOTE] ubuntu isn't a debian variant its a debian depressant

[QUOTE=JohnnyOnFlame;49035125]Arch or Debian variants (ubuntu, mint, etc) are better choices [B]imho[/B].[/QUOTE] Arch isn't a great choice if you just want to get work done without worrying about fuckall. It can be though, but that requires you knowing Arch already. [editline]2nd November 2015[/editline] Oh, today I also just finished rewriting a bunch of version detection systems to Perl. Perl is an absolutely lovely thing. I wish more performant languages had that kind of integrated regex matching, because it absolutely owns so many things out there, and makes parsing logs for information, files for data, and lots of things, a billion times easier.

[QUOTE=Map in a box;49035480]ubuntu isn't a debian variant its a debian depressant[/QUOTE] Canonical is the only problem in Ubuntu. (if you're not using Unity-based releases, fuck Unity)

[QUOTE=mastersrp;49035536]Arch isn't a great choice if you just want to get work done without worrying about fuckall. It can be though, but that requires you knowing Arch already. [/QUOTE] It's really not that hard, you just follow the commands from the installation guide exactly, and then subsequently read the wiki articles on the things you want to install. The arch wiki is really excellent and complete, and makes it one of the easiest distros to use. The only trap for young players is the bleeding edge package model. It occasionally breaks things, especially when packages use a new configuration format (which is stupid and really the package's fault). If you really are afraid of this, or don't want to suffer the extra work, install manjaro. It's basically arch except not quite as bleeding edge, the packages get tested before they are pushed out. Another obvious choice would be to just install a debian-based distro and never worry about shit breaking unless you upgrade to a new distro version (at which point everything will break at once, pretty much guaranteed). The big downside of this is that you get old packages, they're on average 1-2 years old. You will run into bugs with software because the patches and updates just didn't make it to you yet. You can manually install software from the unstable sources, but that still usually isn't the very newest version you can get. or just use osx because 'it just woooorrkkkks'