https://steamcommunity.com/app/2158670/discussions/0/3834297685604496639/
It might be worth playing with but TBH I've done this sort of thing a lot and if there isn't a sample project or some project that proves its possible, I wouldn't waste my time. Of course, someone always has to be the first to do it.
Good question. No idea.
The only real challenge with isometric is figuring out A* on a voxel grid, which isn't too bad. It's dead easy if you don't have a z-axis to speak of, or you're simply using a heightmap instead of true voxels.
For context, I work from home doing Support / IT stuff on a computer 90 degrees to my right. I'll easily spend 14+ hours a day in this office of mine, and I'm actually making remarkable progress on a game I intend to release on Steam.Haven't had time to work on my game for a few weeks, came back to it today, and man, all I can say is, I've hit that point where I'm really starting to regret working on a project of this scope (for my relative abilities) only in the evenings, after work, kids, etc.
It's starting to congeal into a spaghetti nightmare of half-baked brain-fried decisions made when I'm too tired to even watch TV, much less try to design something that's clean and easy to continue adding features onto
Thinking maybe it's time to take a page out of the advice I've seen on here before and start waking up an hour or two before work to work on this when I'm wide awake instead of leaving it for the hour or two before I go to bed.
Does anyone else have any advice for other good passion project working practices for people who have jobs in a similar domain and find themselves feeling burnt out juggling the two at the same time?
I dont follow. Why would A star be any different on a voxel grid (whatever that is)? The search just works off distance so it doesnt matter if its 2D, 3D or 10D.
I've been trying to do something similar on workdays to what you mentioned. Mulling over something during the day that I can add or refine in an hour or so in the evening, the problem usually is, when I get home from work, it's really not until 10 pm that I can actually sit down at a computer with free time where I can consistently focus without getting interrupted. By the point I'm just fried and more likely than not whatever I implement will end up taking longer to make clean and pretty down the line.For context, I work from home doing Support / IT stuff on a computer 90 degrees to my right. I'll easily spend 14+ hours a day in this office of mine, and I'm actually making remarkable progress on a game I intend to release on Steam.Haven't had time to work on my game for a few weeks, came back to it today, and man, all I can say is, I've hit that point where I'm really starting to regret working on a project of this scope (for my relative abilities) only in the evenings, after work, kids, etc.
It's starting to congeal into a spaghetti nightmare of half-baked brain-fried decisions made when I'm too tired to even watch TV, much less try to design something that's clean and easy to continue adding features onto
Thinking maybe it's time to take a page out of the advice I've seen on here before and start waking up an hour or two before work to work on this when I'm wide awake instead of leaving it for the hour or two before I go to bed.
Does anyone else have any advice for other good passion project working practices for people who have jobs in a similar domain and find themselves feeling burnt out juggling the two at the same time?
You can wake up early to use your best hours on dev, but don't do this more than once or twice a week unless your normal sleep schedule allows. This will make the evening hours even less productive if you're not careful, which you should commit to your family.
The best thing you can do is do a sort-of "slow hype" throughout the work day where you think about the one or two smaller things you can knock out in an hour or so and make them seem achievable. Then, when you have a moment after work, knock 'em out and pat yourself on the back. This is good, consistent motivation with some bonus progress on the side.
Similarly, throughout the work week, you can also plan and hype up something more substantial for the weekend. Then, wake up early on the weekends when everybody else sleeps in and get a good four hours of uninterrupted dev done. That's 8 hours a weekend of pure progress if you go in with a goal. That's about 400 efficient hours a year on a project, which is plenty if you scope appropriately.
tl;dr daydream up a plan, then stick to it, then make sure to pat yourself on the back for good time management to stay motivated.
Why dont you make the upper body proportional?Good news, I was able to link up with the artist who made the character model I like so much, and he made a few custom edits for me. Here's what it looks like with textures and paired with the helmet asset I bought.
This is still WIP and needs more work but it's definitely on the right track.
Why dont you make the upper body proportional?Good news, I was able to link up with the artist who made the character model I like so much, and he made a few custom edits for me. Here's what it looks like with textures and paired with the helmet asset I bought.
This is still WIP and needs more work but it's definitely on the right track.
I agree, there's a lot of merit to this line of thinking if you look at real world examples. Looking at 28mm tabletop games or wargaming, it used to fairly common for miniatures to be sculpted with dramatically bigger proportionally to the rest of the body hands, arms, heads/faces, and sometimes upper torso. The idea being that while it might look goofy if you pick up the mini and put it right next to your face, when you're actually playing with them at arms length or further on a big table those important details/features pop out instead of blending in with the rest of the sculpt. And it worked great, it was far easier to pick out hand/face details in a game at a glance on minis proportioned like that vs ones that tried to go for an anatomically correct realistic sculpt of the human body.Why dont you make the upper body proportional?Good news, I was able to link up with the artist who made the character model I like so much, and he made a few custom edits for me. Here's what it looks like with textures and paired with the helmet asset I bought.
This is still WIP and needs more work but it's definitely on the right track.
The game will have a 2D top-down camera, so the characters will be somewhat small on screen. I think the emphasis on the head / upper body / arms makes the characters and their attacks more readable from that perspective.
I also think placing more emphasis on the character faces (which aren't done yet) makes it easier to identify and connect with them.
its a relatively new board on 4chan (and by new i mean its almost 4 years old)
After some thought, I've decided to take your advice on this and start fiddling around with Unity and learning C#. Thanks. I would have just used RPG Maker but I can't let go of on-map battles with movement. On that note, if anyone's interested, I did find a written (yes!) tutorial on learning C# for Unity and developing a 3D tactical battle system. I'm hoping applying the same principles to 2D won't be too difficult.
I had to work on a project with a rather strict deadline alongside a day job with even worse deadlines.
If you want to learn C# (programming) best way is to keep it simple and generic to start. You’ll really struggle learning in or alongside Unity as you’ll be learning Unity primarily and probably try to implement things that you don’t have the skill and experience to do. Look for a structured online course, doesn’t even have to be C#. Programming principles are mostly the same, it’s just changing syntax and slight differences with different languages. Once you actually understand programming you can switch pretty easily between the main languages.
Thanks, man. I did quite a bit of JS many, many years ago and was hoping that would be enough of a foundation to serve as a starting point, but.... you're probably right. Anyway, taking the time now is 100% preferable to tying myself in knots somewhere down the line. Thanks again.
Hey, Misunderstoodman looks great! That naive aesthetic can be really hard to get right. Well done. Though, I must say, since I've been playing Twin Cobra and Truxton recently, how ******* tiny are modern day hit boxes?
