PandorasFox

# godot compressed file unpacker/repacker
# i think this should Just Work(tm) for deflate and gzip assets
# sucks for anyone who needs to mess with fastLZ/zstd assets (hopefully not me later)
# works with like, python3.2 standard library (or thereabouts, i'm using 3.10)

import math
import os
import struct
import sys
import zlib

giuliano-macedo

// you need this in your cargo.toml
// reqwest = { version = "0.11.3", features = ["stream"] }
// futures-util = "0.3.14"
// indicatif = "0.15.0"
use std::cmp::min;
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::Write;

use reqwest::Client;
use indicatif::{ProgressBar, ProgressStyle};

Kestrer

How to Write Hygienic Rust Macros

Macro hygiene is the concept of macros that work in all contexts; they don't affect and aren't affected by anything around them. Ideally all macros would be fully hygienic, but there are lots of pitfalls and traps that make it all too easy to accidentally write unhygienic macros. This guide attempts to provide a comprehensive resource for writing the most hygienic macros.

Understanding the Module System

First, a little aside on the details of Rust's module system, and specifically paths; it is

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

antonkudin

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class logoAssembler : MonoBehaviour {
	
	[SerializeField] bool debugMe;
	[SerializeField] bool remakePixels;
	[SerializeField] bool autoPlay;
	[SerializeField][Range(0,10)] float autoDur = 10;

selfsame

Generating Procedural Game Worlds with Wave Function Collapse

Wave Function Collapse (WFC) by @exutumno is a new algorithm that can generate procedural patterns from a sample image. It's especially exciting for game designers, letting us draw our ideas instead of hand coding them. We'll take a look at the kinds of output WFC can produce and the meaning of the algorithm's parameters. Then we'll walk through setting up WFC in javascript and the Unity game engine.

The traditional approach to this sort of output is to hand code algorithms that generate features, and combine them to alter your game map. For example you could sprinkle some trees at random coordinates, draw roads with a brownian motion, and add rooms with a Binary Space Partition. This is powerful but time consuming, and your original vision can someti

Pathoschild

Here are the mods I recommend. These are all compatible with the latest versions of SMAPI and Stardew Valley on Linux/macOS/Windows. See the player's guide to using mods if you're interested.

Quality of life

I think the best mods are those which improve the game while maintaining its balance, lore, and style.

• AutoGate
  Gates open automatically when you approach and close behind you.

• Better Sprinklers Plus
  Customise the sprinkler radius, with a proportional change to their cost. If you're willing to mine all the ores you'll need, that makes the basic sprinklers useful early in the game and lets you do more than just watering crops every day.

noopkat

⚠️ this is now stupidly out of date

Computers

• 13" Macbook Pro 3.3 GHz i7 (late 2016)
• Microsoft Surface Book (2016)

Peripherals

• Dell up3216q 32" monitor

hillin

FASTBuild is an open-source distributed build system, which could be a free alternative to Incredibuild. Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) does not support FASTBuild natively, however it's not hard to integrate it manually.

Integrate FASTBuild with UE4

Install FASTBuild

We assume you already have the full UE4 source code. First you'll need to grab the latest FASTBuild tools from here. We use v0.93 Windows x64 version in this tutorial. Download it and extract all the files. Here you have several choices:

• Place the files under any folder which could be found with your system's PATH environment variable. To see where these folders are, run the PATH command in a command prompt window;
• Place the files under the Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\FASTBuild folder of your engine. This is the recommended place;
• Place the files anywhere you like. This is not recommended because you'll have to hard-code the path later.

jFransham

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Contents:

• Number one optimization tip: don't
• Never optimize blindly
• Don't bother optimizing one-time costs
• Improve your algorithms
• CPU architecture primer
• Keep as much as possible in cache
• Keep as much as possible in registers