crittecol

joined 1 year ago
[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The cradle series written by Will Wight, narrated by Travis Baldree. Eastern inspired progression fantasy with fantastic characters and world

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm learning c++ via exercism because I'd like to use it for game development and other high performance use cases, and because it's a good pip for the resume.

In fact, I mostly did this because so many job listings mention it, haven't even come up with a high-scale game dev problem to solve.

I'll probably continue because I find it interesting and no amount of practice is bad, but my question is how is everyone letting this affect their outlook on c++ in their career vs side projects, etc. Really, I'm having a hard time imagining why it was important for this to be said in this way instead of just changing internal policies and job listings.

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

So that architecture wouldn't hold the same technical responsibility and it would take less effort to make it look nice!

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I mean you're definitely right in that the answer in one form another is money, but lame

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Why did we stop making stuff sick like this?

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It's nuts how a difference of hundreds of millions of people doesn't actually feel like a ton more people or provide any better quality except in some niche spots

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Dragon Warrior Monsters 1 was my first game, 1 and 2 are both classics and this looks fucking sick

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Blender for the texture painting

Material Maker for turning those textures into game engine ready materials. It's also capable generating textures using noise and other patterns. Examples

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mentioned above but Godot has a low processor mode that gives you some control over the refresh cycle when nothing is happening. I doubt this completely alleviates the problem but I think it's worth profiling it for individual use cases.

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

For sure! However Godot has low processor mode that lets you control the frequency of the update when no changes are being made. That update time can even be changed from code so you can adjust it situationally.

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Does this mean you're against using Godot for apps?

Personally, I feel like the extra load to reduce latency is worth it, but I honestly don't know how different the load is or how much it could be optimized. But really snappy reactive software, even when long-running processes are going, feel much better to use. I'm getting tired of using web apps for everything.

As far as what does the GPU do, right now if we're talking like b2b stuff you could do a lot more local number crunching or do really rich graphs with compute shaders etc. In the future, maybe the CPU handles most of the app and the GPU handles an AI workload in the background?

[–] crittecol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Super cool! Might be nice to have a helper node you could add to scenes that just lets you trigger orchestrations from pure signals or more easily from animation players, so you could stay out of the script editor completely for the really simple stuff.

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