According to Wikipedia, "Alpha" is the ATIS standard variant. ATIS seems to be a standards organization.
Likewise, "Juliett" looks a little weird, but the ATIS variant is the more normal-looking "Juliet".
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Likewise, "Juliett" looks a little weird, but the ATIS variant is the more normal-looking "Juliet".
Michael Armbrust
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I'd say just jump in and ask stuff. Bound to be a few people floating around that might be able to help you out or just talk about what you think in general.
Well one thing I'm needing to do is generate an audio file from a function. I have the function built in C#, and right now it's working perfectly to create all of the amplitudes I need(the signal data, or samples I guess?). I then just need a way to convert that array/matrix in to actual audio. Doing it in real time would be nice, but really at this stage just being able to generate and save the resulting Wav/audio file would be awesome.
If you have any tips on what I should be googling, that'd be great. Or just any help at all would be great too.
Technically correct, but boy does it look stupid on a node. = P
Added auto-lockon for beam weapons. And ability to randomize non-locked on for things like lightning.
We come in peace. Priority override. New behavior dictated: Must break target into component materials.
It looks great!
SeanNoonan
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Working on a free update for Jack B. Nimble on iOS...
Hopefully I can finish it off and still get the version submitted in time.
Hopefully I can finish it off and still get the version submitted in time.
How much effort is it to make it a setting? I think the old version is a lot better but I could understand why someone would also like the new version.
Also with a slight glow like the new version the old version would be pretty easy to read as well.
I like the new version because I too would have horrible difficulty remembering the NATO alphabet, unless the game is designed largely to be a teaching tool.
I am presumably not the target audience of the game since I would just want to use a mouse or keyboard to control rather than talking at all, though.
I don't use Sonar, but that sounds like a pretty weird one :s. Can't see it being an issue with the sends (if you had to set the master track up yourself) or global automation as you ended up getting it working through those.
I know in Ableton that redoing automation while the track's playing can disable it for that track, so may have been something similar?
If you're using Unity then this might be helpful: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/writing-audiolistener-getoutputdata-to-wav-problem.119295/
.Though it's a bit more involved it be worth looking into PureData or Supercollider for that sort of stuff too. They're audio programming languages, PD's more visual based while Supercollider is straight coding, but both are pretty powerful. I think Supercollider has some licensing issues when it comes to commercial projects though, so you may want to double check that. But both have pretty extensive libraries and learning materials!
I know Fract used PureData for its audio system in Unity, and it has it's sequencer/studio too, so might be worth asking those guys. They wrote a blog on setting it up here: http://fractgame.com/news/126-fract-audio-tech-getting-started.
hotnheavyload
Banned
If you're using Unity then this might be helpful: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/writing-audiolistener-getoutputdata-to-wav-problem.119295/
With Unity you can just put all of the samples directly into an audioclip.
First create an audioclip with AudioClip.Create with all the properties you need, and then give it the samples with AudioClip.SetData. After that it's trivial to play it.
Ah, didn't know you could export audio files from Unity using that. I bow to people who actually know how to code ha ha.
HellBlazer
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How so...?
I am making with NGUI an Interface which is controlled only by Buttons and no Mouse/Touch Input at all. For this I attach NGUI's provided KeyNavigation Script to my Buttons which usually works super great. Now I encountered the problem, that if I Attach to one of my Buttons the PlayTween Script to Active another Panel, the (by me) specified Button of said new activated Panel won't be "focused" and the Player needs to Press the Enter/Confirm Button a second time to refocus.
Well kinda difficult to explain but you can try it yourself by importing the NGUI Package, open the sample "Controller Input" Scene, locate in the Hierarchy the "Options" Button and move KeyNavigation Script one or several times Up in the Components order. Now Play, navigate to Options and press Return, you will notice that the Buttons of the Options Window wont be "focused".
tl;dr
I found out that on GameObjects there is also a Script Execution Order applied!
Michael Armbrust
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Wow thanks!
I was able to get it up and running within just a few minutes.
You can't easily, but I found a lovely script that seems to be doing the trick: https://gist.github.com/darktable/2317063
Now that I have audio exporting working, my function sounds horrible!!! Well that's an exaggeration, but back to the drawing board.
While there's Unity audio talk going on, how do you guys organize your audio in Unity? AudioSource/Clip references everywhere and play them directly? Or some sort of centralized system triggered by events? An asset from the store? Rolled your own solution?
I took a peek at FMod, but I don't have Unity Pro at the moment so I can't make proper builds with it.
I took a peek at FMod, but I don't have Unity Pro at the moment so I can't make proper builds with it.
Teknopathetic
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Think that's my fire done. At least for the time being. It still needs sound, and I could probably do more with the visuals of it, but it seems to work pretty OK in multiplayer. The fire spread is almost entirely deterministic, so that means there's less for the server to do when pushing out RPC calls to everything. I might push the update out to my site and see what the real users find, since there's always bugs I can't predict that crop up once an update's live.
But, I'm pleased with its progress and hopefully I can apply fire in interesting ways to other systems in the game later on.
Thanks. I'll check that out again. Last time I gave Fabric a look, it was pretty intimidating. =)
Teknopathetic
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"Thanks. I'll check that out again. Last time I gave Fabric a look, it was pretty intimidating. =)"
It'll give you more flexibility and power with less effort than trying to code up an audio system on your own. Just dig into it for a few days.
It'll give you more flexibility and power with less effort than trying to code up an audio system on your own. Just dig into it for a few days.
Here are a few lessons I learned from Ludum Dare 31:
With HTML and swfobject.js, there seems to be no way to get initial mouse and keyboard focus without using wmode = "opaque" or possibly "window", both of which apparently have performance problems. If you use wmode = "direct" for embedding Flash, people will have to click the flash video first for Flixel, and that click will apparently get ignored. Modifying Flixel might be one way to fix it. I just worked around it by making the game initially pause so there is a big arrow that makes it sort of obvious people need to click.
Sometimes FlashDevelop seems to stop detecting compile errors, but when you run the standalone Flash player, it will freeze without doing anything. In this situation, if you close the Flash player and restart FlashDevelop, the next time you compile the error(s) should be properly detected.
The standalone Flash player seems to have a bit of lag playing sound effects. However, playing the game in FireFox seems to make it better, so don't panic! The "0.2" master volume in BFXR seems to work with 22 volume on my computer. However, BFXR annoyingly seems to reset the master volume with each new sound, so be very careful if you are wearing headphones.
If I do something silly with a title/menu page like making it a minigame, some people may like it, but other people may be annoyed by it. My conclusion is that I should include a skip button or keypress in that case so the people who get annoyed can jump straight to gameplay.
*edit* I do apologize for the confusion about the Sonar X3 bus output volume automation. I tried it in a test song today and it worked. I then went back to what I think was the ORIGINAL song where I left the input gain automated instead, and changed it back to bus output volume. That also still works perfectly, whether I set the automation line up myself or drag the slider to control it. So I have no idea what I was missing, other than something naturally going wrong on a short-deadline project.
With HTML and swfobject.js, there seems to be no way to get initial mouse and keyboard focus without using wmode = "opaque" or possibly "window", both of which apparently have performance problems. If you use wmode = "direct" for embedding Flash, people will have to click the flash video first for Flixel, and that click will apparently get ignored. Modifying Flixel might be one way to fix it. I just worked around it by making the game initially pause so there is a big arrow that makes it sort of obvious people need to click.
Sometimes FlashDevelop seems to stop detecting compile errors, but when you run the standalone Flash player, it will freeze without doing anything. In this situation, if you close the Flash player and restart FlashDevelop, the next time you compile the error(s) should be properly detected.
The standalone Flash player seems to have a bit of lag playing sound effects. However, playing the game in FireFox seems to make it better, so don't panic! The "0.2" master volume in BFXR seems to work with 22 volume on my computer. However, BFXR annoyingly seems to reset the master volume with each new sound, so be very careful if you are wearing headphones.
If I do something silly with a title/menu page like making it a minigame, some people may like it, but other people may be annoyed by it. My conclusion is that I should include a skip button or keypress in that case so the people who get annoyed can jump straight to gameplay.
*edit* I do apologize for the confusion about the Sonar X3 bus output volume automation. I tried it in a test song today and it worked. I then went back to what I think was the ORIGINAL song where I left the input gain automated instead, and changed it back to bus output volume. That also still works perfectly, whether I set the automation line up myself or drag the slider to control it. So I have no idea what I was missing, other than something naturally going wrong on a short-deadline project.
I've solved the majority of some of previous issues with Unity's async loading, but I've ran into a new problem.
The situation is as follows: I load a Scene A, which then starts to load a Scene B with LoadLevelAdditiveAsync, in a coroutine. Works perfectly, the game doesn't freeze while I load most of the assets nicely into the level. There's only a tiny fraction of a second stutter when the loading is done. No problem there.
However, when I pause (by setting Timescale to zero) or quit the application, it freezes until the loading process is done. Is there any way to interrupt or outright cancel this AsyncOperation? I can't really tell players to not use the Pause menu for the first 20 seconds of the game.
The situation is as follows: I load a Scene A, which then starts to load a Scene B with LoadLevelAdditiveAsync, in a coroutine. Works perfectly, the game doesn't freeze while I load most of the assets nicely into the level. There's only a tiny fraction of a second stutter when the loading is done. No problem there.
However, when I pause (by setting Timescale to zero) or quit the application, it freezes until the loading process is done. Is there any way to interrupt or outright cancel this AsyncOperation? I can't really tell players to not use the Pause menu for the first 20 seconds of the game.
Neat. That's what happens when I try to cook.
I like how casual the camera goes in. "Oh look, fire..."
Jacksinthe
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Having you tried stopping the coroutine?
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StopCoroutine.html
It took a while but they're in!
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Many, many thanks to all of you! The audience certainly got quite a punch with all that added presence.
I'm going back to scripting stuff now, but if there's room for more people in another audience (or elsewhere?), I'll ask again here :-D
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Many, many thanks to all of you! The audience certainly got quite a punch with all that added presence.
I'm going back to scripting stuff now, but if there's room for more people in another audience (or elsewhere?), I'll ask again here :-D
Wyndstryker
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Stopped working on my game for awhile. When I get back I realized a whole bunch of things were sloppy. Now I have to fix a bunch of things which I thought was good lol.
This is a bad thing about (theoretically) improving as a programmer. You can come back to an engine and go "psh, now I believe in this NEW design philosophy, and I should rewrite everything".
The trick is to balance it out. Sometimes it may not be the most perfect and ideal design, but if it's robust enough and won't cause enormous problems down the road, maybe it's OK. In other situations, maybe it's easy to anticipate how unmaintainable a system will become, so it's worth the hit to rework it.
One of the things I like most about this is how the person in the audience 3 from the right, on the front row, has their hand on the railing. Since I think you posted an earlier shot of them in a different pose, I'm assuming it's dynamic, and that's a realy neat touch of interaction with 2D art in a pseudo-3D space.It took a while but they're in!
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Many, many thanks to all of you! The audience certainly got quite a punch with all that added presence.
I'm going back to scripting stuff now, but if there's room for more people in another audience (or elsewhere?), I'll ask again here :-D
Everything looks fantastic, Pehesse!It took a while but they're in!
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Many, many thanks to all of you! The audience certainly got quite a punch with all that added presence.
I'm going back to scripting stuff now, but if there's room for more people in another audience (or elsewhere?), I'll ask again here :-D
bumpkin
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Aw man, i wanna be in the audience! Are you drawing GAF'ers or are those all based off known video game characters from other IPs (I noticed Dudebro)?It took a while but they're in!
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Many, many thanks to all of you! The audience certainly got quite a punch with all that added presence.
I'm going back to scripting stuff now, but if there's room for more people in another audience (or elsewhere?), I'll ask again here :-D
Michael Armbrust
Member
Glad to here you got the other things sorted out. What was the solution?
With pausing, you could set the AsyncOperation variable to null. I'm not using coroutines but at least in VizionEck that seems to work.
electroflame
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There are some things you can alter in the AsyncOperation class. You might be able to set the priority of the operation to something low enough that it won't freeze (although, it looks like priority is simply for organizing the queue of other async operations, so it probably won't help here). You can also check if the operation is done, which may be of use.
I'm not sure if that would work, but it's worth a shot. If it does work it would probably be better to have some logic in there to skip the async loading part of the Coroutine while paused (rather than stopping the coroutine completely), but still retain the current progress so you don't start over every time the game is paused.
Jacksinthe
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I'd be down, Pehesse. Although there's not much of me to go on
On a aide note, business class internet for a static IP is a ripoff. Thanks, Comcast! Might as well put it to more use than a simple whitelist, SMH.
On a aide note, business class internet for a static IP is a ripoff. Thanks, Comcast! Might as well put it to more use than a simple whitelist, SMH.
Buffered parallax scrolling code DONE!
(HTML5, compatible with infinite* amount of layers and buffer length)
We have a part where the hero moves from one enemy to another, and there is a 4-layered parallax scrolling which COULD potentially slow down on smaller phones.
Now, what I do is that I buffer the parallax scrolling scene into an animation, laid out on a buffered image (quite big size, since I pre-bake every frame into a large enough hidden canvas), then once it is done (this can happen mid-game, mid-fight too), and the enemy dies, the animations plays out, and the code starts buffering the next segment immediately.
The buffering time is n*m frames, where n is the number of layers, m is the number of frames I need to move. Currently, 60 frame, 4 layers is 240 (hidden) render calls, which results in 60 pre-baked picture, ready to be played out sequentially.
So fun. Previously, when parallax played out, I had to get all layers drawn individually, which means 4 times (or n times) the size of processor/gpu load during the transition.
*not really
(HTML5, compatible with infinite* amount of layers and buffer length
)We have a part where the hero moves from one enemy to another, and there is a 4-layered parallax scrolling which COULD potentially slow down on smaller phones.
Now, what I do is that I buffer the parallax scrolling scene into an animation, laid out on a buffered image (quite big size, since I pre-bake every frame into a large enough hidden canvas), then once it is done (this can happen mid-game, mid-fight too), and the enemy dies, the animations plays out, and the code starts buffering the next segment immediately.
The buffering time is n*m frames, where n is the number of layers, m is the number of frames I need to move. Currently, 60 frame, 4 layers is 240 (hidden) render calls, which results in 60 pre-baked picture, ready to be played out sequentially.
So fun. Previously, when parallax played out, I had to get all layers drawn individually, which means 4 times (or n times) the size of processor/gpu load during the transition.
*not really
Wyndstryker
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I agree, the problem here isn't that it's not just sloppy code wise, it's sloppy execution wise and leaves a lot of weird things going on that I didn't notice before.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Ever look at your code and wonder... Who wrote this? Then realize it was you? That's some next level shit right there.
MUST. GO. DEEPER.
If it makes you feel better, artists do the same thing. Wow! What was I thinking drawing that? I have to go back and redraw it to match the rest of the game's art!
bumpkin
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Sent you a PM.
Sent you a PM.
That's Pehesse's game. Sorry for the confusion.
Our new Hollow Knight trailer has gone live! Please check it out. It's got a giant snail (along with many other surprises)!
Hollow Knight: Weird and Wonderful World Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-v4NMQkBg
Hollow Knight: Weird and Wonderful World Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-v4NMQkBg
Hype! It's... beautiful....Our new Hollow Knight trailer has gone live! Please check it out. It's got a giant snail (along with many other surprises)!
Hollow Knight: Weird and Wonderful World Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-v4NMQkBg
What engine/tools do you guys use? And how long has it been in development?
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