[My lifts are 'sticky'!]

Just tried it myself, I can't tell any differences...

[A Demon's Game]

When the Linux build of the Game Launcher is available, I recommend only having your game on there. This way, it will easier to manage updates.

 

I'm gonna be honest and say I'm not your target audience so I feel like I can't really give you valid input. But I still wish you the best of luck!

 

I was thinking about that as well, but we still don't know when that will be released.

Thanks for being honest about not liking the type of game it is though! (I'm guessing you got spooked? XD)

[A Demon's Game]

A new demo has now been released to the game player and indieDB. I would appreciate some feedback on it!

 

Links:

Game player: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=506360528

IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/a-demons-game/downloads/a-demons-game-alpha-21

[Game Launcher improvements]

More demons huh?

I should start working on that.

[I need opinions on this.]

So, I was making my sewers level today and I came across a hard decision, so I would like your opinion on it, I also made a poll so I can look at it later

So here's the thing, I need to know which is creepier, the sewers with the fog effect, or without.

 

Here's the sewer with fog.

 

And here it is without fog.

[Best way to make a pause screen mid game?]

Hi,

 

you have to handle sounds(noise.lua) by yourself - souds Play and Play and Play...

 

cu

Volker

 

Yea, I was expecting that to happen. It's more complicated than I thought it would be

[Best way to make a pause screen mid game?]

Alright, thank you for your answers, I'll look into it.

[Best way to make a pause screen mid game?]

I was wondering how would you guys go about making a pause screen while you play the game, aka, the player presses ESC and a menu shows up, completely stoping everything in the world, then I guess 2 buttons would pop up, "continue" and "exit". Each of them doing exactly what they say, obviously.

 

[Basic sneaking tutorial]

I found out what was wrong, the monster can see the player through models, but not CSG brushes.

[Basic sneaking tutorial]

Now the game starts, but when I crouch the same error pops up >_<

I'll put my code here, in case you find something that's wrong.

 

if entity.script.health>0 then
local d = self.entity:GetDistance(entity)
local pickinfo=PickInfo()
--LOS BEGIN
local entity_pos
if entity.script.camera ~= nil then--if there is a camera object
			 entity_pos = entity.script.camera:GetPosition(true)--use the camera position
else
			 entity_pos = entity:GetPosition(true)--otherwise, use the entity's position
end
--cast a ray from the monster's eye to the target position
local pick_height=player.script.eyeheight
if player.script.crouched then pick_height=player.script.crouchedheight end
if self.entity.world:Pick(self.entity:GetPosition()+Vec3(0,pick_height,0),entity_pos,pickinfo,0,true,Collision.LineOfSight)==false then
			 --when we reach here, the target is in line of sight
			 --now we need to check if the target is in the monster's field of view.
			 --we are going to measure the angle from the direction the monster is looking
			 --to the target.
			 local dir_facing = Transform:Normal(0,0,1,self.entity,nil):Normalize()
			 local dir_to_target = (entity:GetPosition() - self.entity:GetPosition()):Normalize()
			 local angle = math.acos(dir_facing:Dot(dir_to_target))

			 --compare the resulting angle in radians, this determines the monster's field of view
local window=Window:GetCurrent()
			 if angle > 2.0943951 then --~120 degees
			 return entity.script
		 end
		 end
--LOS END
	 end
 end
end
end

[Basic sneaking tutorial]

This is giving me an error whenever I start playing

Lua Error: error in function 'new'.|argument #2 is 'number'; '[no object]' expected.

[Monster AI does the alert noise too many times.]

Where the code for the noise is

 

if self.alertnoise == false then

playsound code etc

self.alertnoise = true

end

 

Problem is, I don't know where exactly to put this code, I think it's here or around here. I'm not sure though...

if self.entity:Follow(self.target.entity,self.speed,self.maxaccel) then
   if prevmode~="chase" then
 if self.sound.alert then self.entity:EmitSound(self.sound.alert) end
   end

[Basic sneaking tutorial]

The closest flag should be true because otherwise the raycast could pick anything on that ray instead of just the closest. Also, the height isn't changing, so you need to account for that.

 

local pick_height=self.eyeheight
if self.crouched then pick_height=self.crouchheight end

if self.entity.world:Pick(self.entity:GetPosition()+Vec3(0,pick_height,0),entity_pos,pickinfo,0,true,Collision.LineOfSight)==false then

 

This will change the height at which the pick will end.

 

I don't get where to put this

 

Here is a shadow/light detector for sneaking (cpp is needed to build your own exe to expose a function to lua)

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/11991-csg-shape-to-mimic-light/#entry87032

I'll take a look at it, thank you.

[Basic sneaking tutorial]

I found tiny problem, the monster can still see me when I'm crouched behind a big wall...

[Monster AI does the alert noise too many times.]

Exactly as it says on the tin, I've been getting the AI ready for my game when this started happening, basically when the monster atackes you, he does the alert noise again when you run away from him, doesn't matter if it hits you or not, he keeps spamming the alert noise over and over again, is there any way to make it so that it only does the alert noise once?

[Workshop publish file]

Allright! Thanks josh for the help.

[Workshop publish file]

Today I was trying to publish an item in the workshop when this error poped up.

I'm trying to upload models to the workshop for people to use...

[Basic sneaking tutorial]

Thank you very much, this works amazingly well

[Basic sneaking tutorial]

This is really cool, however, would it be possible to make it so that the monster hears you if you run?

Just a little more realism woulnd't hurt would it?

[Good software for Texturing characters?]

In terms of texturing, I like 3D-Coat and Substance Designer best, they're kind of expensive, but they offer you unlimited amounts of possibilities in texturing.

If you're looking for free software, sculptris is a very good starting point, and from there you could move on to either Zbrush or 3D-Coat.

[Helping with game mechanics. For those who suck at programming.]

Today I fiddled around with the sneaking aspect and I got a crouching thing going on, since you know sneaking involves crouching and stuff.

 

I made 2 new variables

Script.crouchHeight = 0.6   --float "Crouch Height"
Script.crouched = false --crouched

 

Starting at line 629 of the FPSPlayer script this is what I got.

  -- Check for crouching
		    if App.window:KeyHit(Key.C) then
				    crouched = not crouched
		    end

    --With smoothing
    --Position camera at correct height and playerPosition
    self.entity:SetInput(self.camRotation.y, playerMovement.z, playerMovement.x, jump , crouched, 1.0, 0.5, true)
	 local playerPos = self.entity:GetPosition()
 local newCameraPos = self.camera:GetPosition()
 local playerTempHeight = 0
 if (self:IsCrouched()) then playerTempHeight = self.crouchHeight + playerPos.y
 else playerTempHeight = self.playerHeight + playerPos.y
 end
 --playerTempHeight = ((self:IsCrouched() == true) and crouchHeight or playerHeight)
 newCameraPos = Vec3(playerPos.x, newCameraPos.y ,playerPos.z)  --if newCameraPos.y<playerPos.y + self.eyeheight then
 newCameraPos.y = Math:Curve(playerTempHeight, newCameraPos.y, 8)
 --else
 --newCameraPos.y = playerPos.y + self.eyeheight
 --end
 self.camera:SetPosition(newCameraPos)

 

Any thoughts if I should change something? This is just the crouching part of the sneaking, nothing else.

[Flashlight battery tutorial]

That works for this pickup but I would refrain from making that sort of change to the FPSPlayer script. It could break some other item's Use function because they would be expecting the script object rather than an entity object. I would change FPSPlayer script back to

if usableentity~=nil then

 --Use the object, whatever it may be
 usableentity.script:Use(self)

 

Then change the pickup script to

Script.battery_power = 50 --int "Battery power"

function Script:Use(person)
if person.battery_level ~= nil and person.battery_max_level ~=nil then
if person.battery_level < person.battery_max_level then
person.battery_level = person.battery_level + self.battery_power
if person.battery_level > person.battery_max_level then
person.battery_level = person.battery_max_level
end
self.entity:Release()
end
end
end

 

Allright that works as well, thanks hankinator!

 

 

 

I think some of these features would be best to be broken out into their own classes. Flashlight seems like a prime candidate for this. The FPS player script is already a big mess. Plus integration/distribution/understanding/modification will be much easier.

 

I think a great deal of things in the FPS player script could benefit from this and be much easier to manage and read.

 

I completely agree with you here, it's such a pain to change code in the FPSPlayer script sometimes, maybe it's time for an FPSPlayer script overhaul.

[Flashlight battery tutorial]

 

What part of it is throwing you off?

 

I went ahead and changed the battery pickup script to this:

 

Script.battery_power = 50 --int "Battery power"
function Script:Use(person)
if  person.script.battery_level ~= nil and person.script.battery_max_level ~=nil then
if  person.script.battery_level < person.script.battery_max_level then
person.script.battery_level = person.script.battery_level + self.battery_power
if person.script.battery_level > person.script.battery_max_level then
person.script.battery_level = person.script.battery_max_level
end
self.entity:Release()
end
end
end

 

And I also changed something in my FPSPlayer script this is around line 445

if usableentity~=nil then

 --Use the object, whatever it may be
 usableentity.script:Use(self.entity)

 

I changed the "Use(self)" to "Use(self.entity)" and this makes it so that the flashlight pickup has to be actually picked up, aka, pressing E on it.

[Flashlight battery tutorial]

Awesome tutorial, got everything working but the Battery Pickup script, I don't get how it works

[Helping with game mechanics. For those who suck at programming.]

Alright, I'll work on a tutorial for item #1 first then go from there. I don't have excessive amounts of time to invest on this so it may take a few days.

Do take your time, I appreciate the help