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Pyrian on 29/7/2017 at 21:01

Thanks, 'Koob. Needed an encouraging word. :)

Yakoob on 31/7/2017 at 01:04

So I'm brainstorming some new project ideas and right now trying to think of a good spoof of the typical hacking minigames we see in immersive sims. I looked up the tropes page and most boil down to some variant of:
* Pipe dream (BS)
* Connect dots/circuits to create connection from start to end (SS)
* Scan garbled code for words/numbers (Fallout 3D)
* Discern a set of values, figure out the pattern, fill in the remainder

I feel like doing just another clever minigame would be less of a spoof than just a minigame proper, so trying to think outside of the box. One idea is the very concept of gamifying hacking, so I could take it to extreme. Doing a full blown roguelike RPG thingy would be neat but way too much work / time spent just to hack something. I was thinking maybe a simple Final Fantasy style battle where enemies represent hacky things ("Poorly Optimized Database", "Login Screen") which you can attack with various skills ("Brute Force", "MySQL Injection", "Buffer Overrun") and different enemies have different weaknesses.

But I'm trying to think of something simpler, and more spoofy of the whole concept of hacking minigames.

Pyrian on 31/7/2017 at 04:01

SS2's hacking minigame is like a retrospective spoof of the genre.

WingedKagouti on 1/8/2017 at 11:52

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zombe on 1/8/2017 at 23:48

So, apparently Vulkan is a thing now ... looks interesting. Too interesting for my tinkering hands to ignore. After reading tutorials / spec managed to make my own Hello Triangle ( (https://vulkan-tutorial.com/images/triangle.png) ) - ie. validation layer finally shuts up and the darn triangle shows up.

So far the wrapper-lib i am making (Vulkan is a GIGANTIC [!] unreadable / unmanageable mess without one) looks promising. Has quite a few things the tutorials do not touch or implement in a non-scaleable/extendable way. Still much to do: most importantly - memory management which is very tricky, but i think i figured out a way to do it.

Can not think of any sane reason (besides curiosity) why anyone would write Vulkan code - but it does not hurt to ask. Anyone else trying out Vulkan?

Non-wrapper-lib source code for a Hello Triangle looks like this now:

Code:

GlwPipeline g_pipe;
GlwRenderPass g_pass;
GlwShaderModule g_fragment, g_vertex;
GlwLayout g_layout;
GlwSemaphore g_imageavailable, g_renderfinished;

void vk_init() {
win.init();
//GlwCore::reqFeatures.geometryShader = true;
win.resize();
// shaders
g_fragment.init(R"BLOCK(
#version 450
#pragma shader_stage(fragment)
#extension GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects : enable

layout(location = 0) in vec3 fragColor;
layout(location = 0) out vec4 outColor;

void main() {
outColor = vec4(fragColor, 1.0);
}
)BLOCK");
g_vertex.init(R"BLOCK(
#version 450
#pragma shader_stage(vertex)
#extension GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects : enable

out gl_PerVertex { vec4 gl_Position; };
layout(location = 0) out vec3 fragColor;

vec2 positions[3] = vec2[]( vec2(0.0, -0.5), vec2(0.5, 0.5), vec2(-0.5, 0.5) );
vec3 colors[3] = vec3[]( vec3(1.0, 0.0, 0.0), vec3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0), vec3(0.0, 0.0, 1.0) );

void main() {
gl_Position = vec4(positions[gl_VertexIndex], 0.0, 1.0);
fragColor = colors[gl_VertexIndex];
}
)BLOCK");
// create renderpass
GlwRenderPass::Desc i_pass;
i_pass.attach(GlwContext::swapchainFormat).color(VK_ATTACHMENT_LOAD_OP_CLEAR, VK_ATTACHMENT_STORE_OP_STORE).layout(VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_UNDEFINED, VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR);
i_pass.subpass().bindColor(0);
i_pass.dependency(VK_SUBPASS_EXTERNAL, VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_OUTPUT_BIT, 0
,0 , VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_OUTPUT_BIT, VK_ACCESS_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_READ_BIT | VK_ACCESS_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_WRITE_BIT);
g_pass.init(i_pass);
// create pipeline layout
GlwLayout::Desc i_layout;
g_layout.init(i_layout);
// create pipeline
GlwPipeline::Desc i_pipe;
i_pipe.bind(&g_fragment).bind(&g_vertex).bind(&g_layout, &g_pass, 0);
i_pipe.viewport(GlwContext::scrWidth, GlwContext::scrHeight); //.dynamic(VK_DYNAMIC_STATE_VIEWPORT);
i_pipe.disableBlend(0);
g_pipe.init(i_pipe);
// create framebuffers
GlwFramebuffer::Desc i_fbuf;
i_fbuf.bind(&g_pass, GlwContext::scrWidth, GlwContext::scrHeight).bindSwapchain();
GlwFramebuffer::initSwapchain(i_fbuf);
// create semaphores
g_imageavailable.init();
g_renderfinished.init();
}

void vk_loop() {
// start a new frame
auto frame = GlwContext::getNextFrame(g_imageavailable);
// new command buffer (always rerecording just to test buffer cache and reclamation code)
GlwCommandBuffer *cmd = GlwCommandPool::getBuffer(); // default params: buffer is for graphics queue, resettable and transient
GlwCommandBuffer::Clear clear; clear.setColor(0, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
cmd->begin().beginPass(false, &g_pass, frame.frame, GlwRect(), &clear);
cmd->bind(&g_pipe).draw(0, 3);
cmd->endPass().end();
// populate queue
GlwQueue::Work work;
work.patch().wait(&g_imageavailable, VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_OUTPUT_BIT).commands(cmd).signal(&g_renderfinished); // default param: 'cmd' will be automatically reclaimed when done using it
// render
GlwQueue::submitPrimary(work);
// present
frame.present(g_renderfinished); // currently does vkQueueWaitIdle also ... probably should get rid of it or something :/
// check for callbacks
GlwFence::checkAll();
}

Pyrian on 5/8/2017 at 23:24

Adding terrain types, one by one. It's slow going between the painting, the scanning and processing (and then the re-painting and re-scanning and...). Here we've got water, mud, deep mud, and low brush. (The water is animated, though I plan on doing more with the animation.)

(http://imgur.com/umZNlQm)

Inline Image:

http://i.imgur.com/umZNlQm.png

Yakoob on 6/8/2017 at 20:56

I saw on FB and was meaning to comment - you should add a shoreline or something to blend the water a bit better.

Pyrian on 6/8/2017 at 23:07

Yeah, it would definitely help. I haven't worked out a good way to actually do it, though. Transitions are hard because they're fundamentally exponential; there's thousands of them in Glade Raid without even counting the three-way corners. So far I'm relying on the "fish scale" arrangement and a small number of sorting layers to work it out without having dedicated transition sprites at all.

Renzatic on 7/8/2017 at 01:02

So I had this idea for an adventure game. graphically, it'd be somewhat in the style of a Night in the Woods, though the tale would be considerably less deep and poignant. The whole thing would be a weird night out on the town for a bunch of kids sneaking out of the house to roam around.

But I had this idea for another group of characters that'd you'd run into on occasion. They'd be referred to as The Weird Kids, and they're having their own weird night, one that's actually more interesting than yours. You'll occasionally see explosions off in the distance, hear sirens going off, helicopters coming in for rescue operations, and The Weird Kids would always be involved somehow. You'd run into them during random points in the game to see them talking about their latest adventures.

Their ringleader would be the weirdest kid of all. He'd never say a word when you interacted with him. All he'd do is stare at you with these blank, moony eyes, and breathe heavily at you. The only movement you'd ever see from him is him tracking you with his eyes, while he EEEHHH HEEE EEEHHH HEEE. Yet despite this, his friends talk about him like he's the funniest, bravest guy around, possessing this razor sharp wit, and bravery that knows no bounds. Random people would treat him like a hero.

...and so, loving the idea, and figuring I needed some practice in making characters, I decided to design him first.

I call him Finster.

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Renzatic on 7/8/2017 at 08:02

This is fun.

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