Devember Time!

[FaunCB]

I refuse.

[Dynamic_Gravity]

That’s pretty neat, thanks for sharing.

[Dynamic_Gravity]

Well its 2:24 AM local time here, time to get crackin’ for the Day 2 challenge.

[SgtAwesomesauce]

What’s wrong with C?

Too mainstream?

[FaunCB]

If I do an assembly built specifically for the processor I want to work with anyways I get the advantage of that processor and the stupid amound of speed from assembly itself.

[kreestuh]

Devember Challenge: Webcomic Blog

Overview Recently in a patreon podcast, Wendell asked us what we would do if we had all the time and money in the world. My first thoughts were for the trail; I love to hike and backpacking is something that’s high on my priority list to get into for the coming year. But the more I considered the question after the podcast ended, the more I realized I haven’t been working on any real long-term illustration projects, specifically webcomics. I used to be very dedicated to writing and illustrating comics for the web; but it’s been hard to find the time the last few years. I saw the prompt for “Devember” and decided to try my hand at getting some work done (while also hopefully encouraging members of the community at the same time). While my project won’t be primarily dev related (there’s a lot of drawing that will have to be done too), there’s enough here to keep me busy I’m sure. Background The story I’m choosing to work on is the same story I actually worked on for my senior thesis in college. I chose it for a few reasons. I never quite finished it, for starters, but looking back on it now, I don’t think I was using the medium (web) to it’s highest potential either. I’ve learned a lot working as professional designer/developer, and I’d like to try and work in some of the principles I’ve learned since then. I also think there have been some interesting developments in digital story-telling, and I want to add my own stamp on that where I can. Exemplars I have a number of professional exemplars I admire and would like to emulate: 1. Hero - Hwei Lim I’m amazed the javascript still works on this site. I remember reading this in high school. 2. The Boat - Nam Le One of the best interactive comic experiences I’ve ever had. A little overbearing on the sound but otherwise really cool use of animations. 3. Masquerade - Overwatch Team The overwatch team makes quite a few comics for the lore in-game, however this was one I really enjoyed the formatting for. It strikes a …

Bah, I’ll do it too! Though mine is maybe less technical and more “just try to get stuff done”.

[Dynamic_Gravity]

Todays post is up

Devember Blog Day 2

Alright Day 2! [Peek 2017-12-02 22-13] A very successful day. I spent a couple hours today removing the original boilerplate leftover from the kickstart process and set up a very basic API with CRUD operations. Then I tested the responses and worked on integrating them my mongo database. Here’s an example of how my Create process works. router.post('/p', function(req, res, next){ Post.create(req.body).then(function(post){ res.send(post); }).catch(next); }); So I am defining a route at my /api path to listen for POST requests, if a request is sent then it passes that request body (JSON) and returns a promise with fires a callback to return a response of the original data on success, and if for some reason the actions fails it is caught and passes the error object to the next piece of middle-ware. The rest of the file is bellow if you want to look at it. Entire file const express = require('express'); const router = express.Router(); const Post = require('../models/post'); // CRUD for posts // Create router.post('/p', function(req, res, next){ Post.create(req.body).then(function(post){ res.send(post); }).catch(next); }); // Retrieve router.get('/p', function(req, res, next){ Post.find({}).then(function(posts){ res.send(posts); }); }); // Update router.put('/p/:id', function(req, res, next){ Post.findByIdAndUpdate({_id: req.params.id}, req.body).then(function(post){ Post.findOne({_id: req.params.id}).then(function(post){ res.send(post); }); }); }); // Delete router.delete('/p/:id', function(req, res, next){ Post.findByIdAndRemove({_id: req.params.id}).then(function(post){ res.send(post); }); }); module.exports = router; Here is what testing my api looks like with postman. [Screenshot from 2017-12-02 22-23-23] As you can see, when going to api/p all the current documents (right now) in the post collection are returned as raw json. Lets compare that to …

[Dje4321]

should probably makes a blog updates in the comment to avoid 30 new blog posts per person

[Dynamic_Gravity]

Ahh gotcha. I’ll do that for day 3 and onward.

[Shecks]

Hi,

I’ve been a bit of a lurker here but I think I might give this a go.

I took a course in Python a few years back but haven’t really had the opportunity to use the language very much since so I’ve forgotten quite a bit of it.

The final project for the course was a space shooter game (an Asteroids type game) that was developed using an online Pyhton development tool called CodeSkulptor which is pretty nice for prototyping ideas but I’ve been playing with the idea of porting or re-writing the game as a stand-alone application using the PyGame library.

So, if it’s within the rules to base your Devember project on something already designed (It’ll most likely end up a complete re-write anyway) I might give that a go.

My original attempt can be seen here

Cheers,

Shecks

[Dynamic_Gravity]

Sure, seems find to me. Give it a go!

You’re a bit behind though, so there’s 3 days worth plus today’s. Get crackin’

[Shecks]

Ok, I’ve made a bit of a start. I created a blog thread here, I hope it’s in the correct place.

[nesetalis]

Day 3 done, working on day 4 now…
I got pissed off at unreal engine 4; its C++ libraries are a mess with piss poor documentation. Didn’t feel like bashing my head against it, so for day 3 I went and worked on another aspect of my project with no unreal dependencies.

So today I’m working on setting up a git repo, and going to go back to figuring out wtf unreal is trying to do.

If anyone has ever used it, in C++… Why the fuck are there five different functions to do the same thing, and none of them work as represented? ARGH
Imma just write my own png loader and store the resulting data in a sqlite database, fuck unreal’s image library with a rake. I just want direct access to the pixel array, is that so hard? ;.;

[Sensai]

I play with unreal edit 4 a bit. what version are you at ? I think the latest is 4.17. It is a real shame cause you are right there is little to no real support for linux in ue4. I have discovered a few things along the way. mostly the library and purchased products. The only way I found to get the libraries for such products, is copy pasted from my win10 drive. I havent built a c++ project with unreal yet, since I am a slow coder at best LOL. I have however played with blueprints and it seems to be rather similar to iOS and the blueprint style it uses.

Imma just write my own png loader and store the resulting data in a sqlite database, fuck unreal’s image library with a rake.

ROFLMAO

[Sensai]

There is this though. https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Linux_Known_Issues

[SudoSaibot]

I despise forums these days.

But Y?

[nesetalis]

blueprints and C++ unreal are very very different beasts… they can meet in the middle on occasion, but…
I’m running 4.17, and using it on windows. Linux i’ll eventually use as well to make sure the game works alright there (once it is actually a game!)
The problem is Unreal’s image loader.
For landscapes, there is a specific class ILandscapeHeightmapFileFormat, built into the editor to handle 16bit png grayscale. It works well. Sadly unreal doesn’t let you ship any editor code with your project, so this class is not available at runtime. The alternate png loaders only support 8bit pngs it seems, with many different compressions… but all of them 8bit per color channel.

This means I’m going to have to use libpng as a third party library >.<

[nesetalis]

Spent way too much of my life on them, wasting my time. Also ran a few that never went anywhere. I much prefer wiki, email, and source repos, and instant communication.

[DevesC]

Can I count it if I only put 30 hours in in the last week? Finals are upon us college folks

[DeltaTech]

Might add my summer project. Don’t know if I want to open source it. Still very early days. But it has something to do with home/business automation.