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Pyrian on 30/4/2015 at 21:26

Looks good. :D What are your current thoughts on the character models?

Yakoob on 1/5/2015 at 23:58

THey're getting redone, on schedule two weeks from now. Also, my writer has been hired by a bigger studio and will no longer be able to do the re-writes in the timeframe I need them, which means I need to find a new writer again, ugh >< But congrats to him, at least I got a lot of good feedback from him so far.

Oh and finally got a chance to start replacing the assets ingame:

Inline Image:

http://karaski.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/karaski110-indie-game-new-graphics-gameroom-1024x576.jpg

Inline Image:

http://karaski.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/karaski111-indie-game-new-graphics-bedroom-1024x576.jpg

henke on 2/5/2015 at 12:09

Those screenies look amazing. Did you end up moving over to Unity 5, or are you still in 4?

icemann on 4/5/2015 at 05:36

From what I've seen of 5 (from the Unity 5 videos Underworld Ascendent has been releasing every week or so), it looks like some impressive stuff has been added.

Using only real lights (as in physical objects that emit light) to light a level, Physically Based Rendering Textures that brings things to life etc. Really impressive.

Video from Sunday if your curious: (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othersidegames/underworld-ascendant/posts/1217866?ref=backer_project_update) Here.

Yakoob on 5/5/2015 at 18:37

Still Unity 4, leveraging all the baked lightmaps with AO. I upgraded to 5 at one point, which was going great (http://karaski.com/devblog/devblog-15-artstyle-shaders-unity-5-woes-and-reviewing-job-applications/) until I tried re-baking maps and started getting ambiguous errors galore :/

I might give it another go later down the line, but for now, dont wanna mess my project file long term if Unity doesn't fix the issues by my release time. As much as I like the realtime lighting, I don't want to give up baked+AO for it.

(Oh and the new material system is nice and makes things easier but it's really geared towards pseudo-realistic graphics, so doesn't help much with my cartoony style. Plus I'm using some custom written shaders in places)

Fafhrd on 6/5/2015 at 02:59

Finally got all the walk angle sprites for the second playable character in Thing 2 rendered out, so I'm actually going to be able to go back to doing real work on that again:

Inline Image:

https://33.media.tumblr.com/ba32edeb00a02eb5adcc6a2d548dd6b7/tumblr_nnwqtx5nWO1u9hbkuo1_250.gif

He's probably going to look a little weird next to the first player character, but it's maybe a little bit appropriate, considering.

henke on 6/5/2015 at 11:36

Damn, that's a nice walk animation, Faf! :D

Zerker on 6/5/2015 at 20:50

Oh, hey! I have something I can post here!

I made a joystick :)

(https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/114287335677693389173/albums/6136902247702077873)

Inline Image:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-rqj4cdXHuwo/VS7tdhlzSuI/AAAAAAAADa8/RhYPKFqZeXQ/w667-h500-no/P1080994.JPG
(click image for full gallery including WIP shots and the insides).

Joystick is a bunch if Seimitsu parts in a (http://www.hammondmfg.com/dwg5sp.htm) Hammond Instrument Enclosure powered by an Arduino Due. Currently works as a USB HID, but I plan to support Genesis and SNES next. I'm using an DA15 connector for the pins for each of those systems (with custom cables for each), but I still need to pick up the device-side connector.

And I need to paint it. Here's something I mocked up in GIMP. Any suggestions appreciated. I'm not very artistic, but I can do straight lines :)
(http://zerker.ca/misc/joystick.jpg)

Incidentally, the extra hole on the front was where the USB port would have gone had the bottom of the box been reversible. Alas, it was not, so I had to drill another hole in the ACTUAL back. I've got a properly-sized cork to plug in the hole now, I just need to trim it so it doesn't stick out, and paint it the same colour as joystick ends up.

Renzatic on 11/5/2015 at 06:03

That arcade stick is more than a little interesting to me, considering I had plans to build a Raspberry Pi based mini arcade cabinet at one point. Building the joystick and hooking it up to the Pi was the one thing I was most concerned about doing.

As for me, and what I've been making, I've been playing with the Substance suite. They all plug into just about every 3D editor or game engine under the sun, and they're really, really damn powerful once you get used to them.

...and, of course, getting used to them is the hardest part. Node based editing is hard to wrap your head around at first, but when I started seeing it as what I'd do in Photoshop, laid out step by step, it kinda got a little easier.

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3018396/TileSubstance.jpg) Here's what I've did after following along to a tutorial. And (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3018396/TileSubstanceNodes.jpg) here are it's nodes. IT'S PEE BEE ARR TEXTURES, FOLKS!

Zerker on 11/5/2015 at 20:56

Well, the actual wiring couldn't be simpler. Just configure the GPIO pins as input with pullup, hook up to the joystick signal wire or either connector on the button. Wire the other side of the button (or the joystick ground wire) to... ground. Then you just read the input; if you read HIGH, it's not pressed; if you read LOW it is. Theoretically you should debounce it, but I haven't found any problems without at the sampling rates that most games use. I may do some testing later.

In my case, since I'm using an Arduino, I just pack the button configuration into a USB descriptor and fire that off to the PC. If you're using the Raspberry PI, I'm not sure the best way to interface that with the rest of the OS. Maybe you can package it into a driver that shows up as a joystick? I'm unfortunately no help with that.

EDIT: Actually, that's not ENTIRELY true; I do have SOME advice. I would suggest downloading the source code for (http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/wiki/wminput) cwiid/wminput and see how it handles the virtual device when adapting a wiimote/classic controller/whatever as a gamepad.