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Player: Can you make it so that a 3 inch drop won't kill me?
DayZ Standalone dev: .........
Oof, this reminds me of a personal experience.
Me: Oh this grapple system is easy, we'll just push the player's vector towards the destination vector.
Game: Oh but there's a small object in the way that cannot be moved. This will make an immense amount of collision data per tick.
Me: Can't we just ignore-
Game:
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Well yeah, we have a character model for the giant demon and the giant demon has a huge use case.
A scarf? That's a model extension. Either you're asking me to create a whole new character with a scarf baked into the mesh that will deform weirdly as the character moves, or you're asking me to implement an accessory-anchor system all for the sake of a scarf (albeit other accessories might use this new framework) which will then need a physics/cloth sim to even look half good.
You could import fabric physics and just have it lie there, but that's going to be a bigger hit on performance than you possibly can imagine and it will move weirdly (in large part becomes we're not modeling wind, just fabric in a vacuum) and the model features it will lie on top of won't deform accurately from the simulated weight, etc...
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You could import fabric physics and just have it lie there, but that's going to be a bigger hit on performance than you possibly can imagine and it will move weirdly (in large part becomes we're not modeling wind, just fabric in a vacuum) and the model features it will lie on top of won't deform accurately from the simulated weight, etc...
Feature requests never account for the performance hit.
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Always have to remind myself of this when managers ask me if something could be done. If it's easy, I naturally get a little annoyed that they're even asking. But knowing that is my job, not theirs, and it's good that they ask. There's lots of places where they assume and things go badly.
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I just want a game that lets my avatar be left handed.
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I just want a game that lets my avatar be left handed.
minecraft allows left-handedness ever since they added the off-hand mechanic
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The scarf in Shinobi was such a revelation when it came out
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I worked at a company that made IoT stuff (which is an increasingly archaic term). The web team was pitching using a third party tool called ThingSpace to view and manage the things. The web dev said ThingSpace could do all these amazing things automatically. The manager said “can we change the color of the background?” The web dev said “…. no.”
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what if you wanted a scarf, but god said
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Game director : we’re gonna add interact-able doors with proper door opening animations for the characters
The game designers:
The programmers and artists:
The producers:
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body { background-color: pink!important; }I didn’t say they were very good web devs.
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Oof, this reminds me of a personal experience.
Me: Oh this grapple system is easy, we'll just push the player's vector towards the destination vector.
Game: Oh but there's a small object in the way that cannot be moved. This will make an immense amount of collision data per tick.
Me: Can't we just ignore-
Game:
As another mod maker/game tinkerer...
Genuinely, how did you fix this?
If I understand this right, the problem would be... ignoring certain collision meshes/hulls while in grapple movement mode... but then if you stop your grapple while basically inside or intersecting with those meshes/hulls, now insane nonsense happens, right?
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Assuming this is an OoT hookshot style, just throw the player directly at the grapple end point thing, and not a more complex and realistic 'throwing and climbing a rope like a mountain climber' style grapple... the way I would try to address this would be:
Give the grapple movement mode some kind of shut down mechanism/recovery.
Like... oh the player is still trying to grapple toward point A... but they aren't moving at anywhere near the speed they would be if they were unobstructed, cancel the grapple mechanic.
Or: oh, the player is in grapple movement mode, but they collided with something, and they're nowhere near the grapple end point, stop the grapple mechanic and stop moving them.
For either (or both) of these, at the end now transition the player into some kind of specifically designed 'grapple mode has failed due to an obstruction' state, where the player now gets some amount of damage, a 'collided into object' animation, during which the player gets repositioned into a 'collison safe/no collision violation' nearest position, like a 'get unstuck' check in an mmo or something.
Or another way would be: before the player actually begins being moved by the grapple... do the vector trace from the player, to the end point, and around that vector, quickly draw a large box, rectangular cuboid, perhaps with endcaps of some kind... that just projects what the straight line movement of the player's collision hull would be... maybe make it a bit bigger than the player's collision hull just to be safe...
...just 'draw' that real quick, if it intersects with anything, no can do chief, grapple attempt fails, doesn't engage.
That would at least work for static world objects that don't move, you'd still also need one or both of the above methods to handle colliding with things that can move, npcs, other dynamic objects.
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And don't even get them started on doors.
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I just want a game that lets my avatar be left handed.
As a gameplay programmer, I got anxiety from reading this (and I think the animators are already in a fetal position on the floor)
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Game director : we’re gonna add interact-able doors with proper door opening animations for the characters
The game designers:
The programmers and artists:
The producers:
Okay, okay. No doors but stairs instead
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Well yeah, we have a character model for the giant demon and the giant demon has a huge use case.
A scarf? That's a model extension. Either you're asking me to create a whole new character with a scarf baked into the mesh that will deform weirdly as the character moves, or you're asking me to implement an accessory-anchor system all for the sake of a scarf (albeit other accessories might use this new framework) which will then need a physics/cloth sim to even look half good.
my thoughts. system has to be made for costuming from the get go and you bring in a wierd new character race and everything breaks for them.
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As a gameplay programmer, I got anxiety from reading this (and I think the animators are already in a fetal position on the floor)
Can't you just swap x for -x. Run some unit tests just in case. We'll push to prod next Wednesday. Sound good? Got to dash, strategy meeting started 5 minutes ago. Seeyoubye.
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Can't wait for the Disney live action movie remake of XKDC comics!
Plot twist: it will be written and created by AI:-(.
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Can't you just swap x for -x. Run some unit tests just in case. We'll push to prod next Wednesday. Sound good? Got to dash, strategy meeting started 5 minutes ago. Seeyoubye.
The location that the player is visually interacting with would be different, but the world wouldn't know that. Eg. in a cutscene, the player reaches out and touches a button on a control panel. If the player's X is flipped, their left hand will be further left than their right hand, and will miss the button visually as they go to press it. Asymmetrical animations might also be fucked, ie. sidestep/jump right normally extends the left leg for leverage, but now their right leg would push off visually and they would still move right.
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She did get her research team after all
Now try to identify if it's a fish
