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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:32:20 JST Alex Gleason

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   Game devs need to learn the obvious lessons of Free Software, but they still won't. Unity was always bad. Use Godot.
   
   RT: https://die-partei.social/users/hackernews/statuses/111061146206028381
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:33:02 JST Alex Gleason

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     @hackernews You can't help people who don't want to be helped.
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     Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:05:20 JST Shadowman311

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     Or Unreal, or really anything else, they should have jumped ship once Unity bought that Malware company.
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     Tadano (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:07:59 JST Tadano

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     @Shadowman311 @hackernews @alex
     No proprietary software :gnujihad:
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:00:02 JST Alex Gleason

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     @Klink @hackernews I haven't gone too deep, but that doesn't surprise me. It's still the thing I'd reach for. I also love Solarus. Love2D is cute but useless.
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     Klink :antiverified: (klink@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:00:03 JST Klink :antiverified:

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     @alex @hackernews have you seen godots codebase? It’s painful to extend it. Easier to write your own engine. And their HAL layer is atrocious with hundred of unimplemented stubs
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     Living Space Studios :verified: (livingspacestudios@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:03:00 JST Living Space Studios :verified:

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     • Klink :antiverified:
     Godot has some good ideas but it's brought down with about as many bad ideas.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:06:04 JST Alex Gleason

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     @LivingSpaceStudios @Klink @hackernews Solarus is the one I know best: maps and entities. I pictured that 3D engines would be essentially the same just with a z-axis. 🤔 I don't know the different designs of 3D game engines.
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     Living Space Studios :verified: (livingspacestudios@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:17:08 JST Living Space Studios :verified:

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     The thing people don't know about 3D physics (and the games that rely on them) is that there aren't 3 axes. There are six. The X, Y, Z stuff is just linear positioning. You still have to account for angular positioning with Yaw, Pitch and Roll and learn how convert between them cleanly without a variety of mathematical and systems errors that are often hard to perceive, hard to fix and hard to plan for.
     
     You need to understand geometric calculus just to implement basic 3D logic. When you have to worry about pathfinding and AI, that multiplies issues and when you add in multiplayer and all of quasi-temporal maths and logic problems that causes, the move to 3D is exponentially more complex than 2D.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:23:31 JST Alex Gleason

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     @LivingSpaceStudios @hackernews @Klink Yaw, Pitch, and Roll. I feel like I should have learned this at 6 and am fascinated by it.
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     Marakus (marakus@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:29:00 JST Marakus

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     Dont look into it, there are a lot of papers written on a hundred and one way to rotate something, its insanity inducing.
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     Will2Power (will2power@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:52 JST Will2Power

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     Get rotated idiot!
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     Marakus (marakus@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:53 JST Marakus

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     I needed a simple script to rotate something, and i had to convert coordinate systems, and degrees because default function "rotate(x)" took only one argument and it was euler rotation (or something like that), to avoid gimbal axis lock. And I just needed to turn around an object, but I have to read all about that bullshit.
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     Living Space Studios :verified: (livingspacestudios@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:54 JST Living Space Studios :verified:

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     Don't I know it.