@erin_catto I just put 3.0 in my crappy unscientific physics test (drop 5000 circles inside of a box).
It's massively faster than the previous Box2D and is trading blows with PhysX5 TGS solver locked to 2d (tiny bit slower as the 5000 touch, tiny bit faster as they settle). I'm not even using any of the scheduler or stuff, just a quick hack to get it running.
Extremely nice!
(For example, 100 frames in when everything is touching, old Box2D takes 1.69s per step, new Box2D 3.0 is 0.01s)
idly pondering how hard it would be to convert kitsune tails to an existing 16-bit console despite it being written in C# and using 64-bit float literally everywhere 🤔
@eniko GBA can be very fun to develop for (as a challenge), but 64 bit floats aren't going to make it happy. Not only does it have no hardware floats (just slow software floats) but it doesn't even have a hardware integer divide.
I still managed to write a rope simulation physics system on one. Lots of fixed point maths. :)
I'm just not vibing with Darksiders 3 at the moment. I like the characters, the story, the graphics, but not the combat.
So I installed Darksiders Genesis.
DS1 is a metroidvania thing. Collect special items that unlock the ability to explore previous areas.
DS2 has a Diablo loot mechanic, you collect tons of random stat weapons and keep the ones you like.
DS3 goes the souls-like route, gather souls, use them to level up or buy stuff, enemies respawn, etc.
DSG is an overhead dual stick shooter.
I've finished DS1 and 2 many times. Love them.
I've finished DS3 once.
I got 2 hours into Darksiders Genesis and stopped.
Now I'm back, 1 hour in and enjoying it.
DSG is designed for two player coop (local or network). But it has single player too, where you can toggle between two characters with different abilities: War (sword, close combat) and Strife (guns).
One issue with DSG: I'm about 53min in. I've collected a heap of souls (over 4600) and boatman coins. But so far they serve no purpose.
I know they are used as currency with Vulgrim (like all the DS games). But going an hour collecting stuff without being shown its purpose seems like a game design flaw. Players might not care about collecting everything possible if they don't see a use, maybe think its just a score.
Similarly, I had to google for what the little purple boxes are that I've collected tons of.
They have no visible effect on any of the hud or stat screen. There's no message or anything.
Turns out they are ammo for Strife.
If you have War active, they do nothing.
But if you are Strife, they are ammo for your secondary guns. For the first half an hour you only have an infinite ammo gun (well, pair of guns), so all the ammo pickups do nothing.
ok so it only took me two months of having a new laptop to realize this but I just realized tonight that I finally have a decent portable to use with the realsense camera I got like three years ago and then stuffed into a drawer. Which is to say, that I remembered that I have a 3D camera, and yes
I need to get my mind off the bad. Anything good going on tonight for anyone? Feel free to share things your excited about or happy about or just cool stuff you've come across recently
I finally got my mining setup to work in Elite Dangerous (by buying a better refinery with more bins, and learning not to direct collector drones but just let them get on with it) and immediately made about 1.6 million credits in 2 runs, which compared to the 30k or so I was making at a time before via trading was very exciting.
@sinbad Rule one: Never log out of the game while in an asteroid field if you have cargo.
It's pretty much 100% chance when you log in that if you are in an asteroid field a pirate ship will spawn near you and scan your cargo.
I've logged in, found my control mappings messed up and almost lost my Anaconda to a pirate before I rebound enough to either fight back or run away.
@sinbad I'd sometimes get lazy when my inventory was half full but I was tired of mining, so just log out in the field. Pirates within seconds every time I come back, even if I'm not near a hotspot or resource zone. If my controls aren't messed up (damn you ED) my first instinct when logging in is deploy hardpoints and watch the scanner. :)
@demofox Have it in the car and make it print 3d maps of where you are using GPS and OpenStreetMap data.
Maybe a bit inconvenient for real time navigation. :)