Alex Darby

Web Developer, Modder, wannabe Gamedev. JS, C#, .NET, Azure, MaxScript, HLSL, Godot. Devilbox on the hairyelephant gamedev place

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

So it turns out the the dragons are split between Field (Dragon#.mcb), Camp (DragonC#.mcb) and Morph (DragonM#.mcb). The field versions have animation sets; the camp versions don't and only account for forms 0 through 4; the morph has the stat variants of 1 through 5 and 7 as so:

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

@Snapdragon_UK @torharrington Will it? Oppo's official accounts are literally telling people to buy a Reno instead because they won't be launching the N5 in the UK 🤨

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

@br26 I remember watching PPVs on a 17" CRT monitor in a small window of an MSN webcam from someone pointing it at their TV because there was no way of watching it over. They really don't know how good it is these days.

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

Why is no one mentioning the fact "Reparent To New Node" in #godotengine 4.4 now maintains the position of the node you're reparenting?! This is a killer QoL feature! It's going to save so much time time not having to move nodes back into the correct order! #gamedev #indiedev

[Dethrace Labs @dethrace_labs]

Posted by user “xin” earlier today in the dethrace discord 🙌 #gamedev #reverseengineering

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

In years gone by I found so many communities, resources & blogs online, obscure & off the beaten path to fit their own niche & thrived with enthusiasts for the subject. Now if it's not on reddit or discord, you're not going to find it as search engines are littered with garbage.

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

finally got around to watching @FreyaHolmer 's video on generative AI. Excellent dive into why "AI" is a disaster for the internet. Her thoughts on growing up on the internet, enjoying finding new things to learn, now being unable to sift through the noise is exactly how I feel.

[Vinícius Medeiros @VinciusMedeiro6]

Playable beta builds of Halo 1 just dropped today, from before the game became an FPS

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

@SebAaltonen Certain gamers: "I always turn off motion blur in all games, even if it means manually disabling it in the config files or using actual mods!"
Those same gamers: "urgh this racing game has no sense of speed! Totally unrealistic! The wheels don't even look like they're moving!"

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

@TylerGlaiel The really stupid thing about all these AI grifters entirely misrepresenting their products is what they ACTUALLY do is often fairly impressive in itself, but that doesn't fly with investors so they make ridiculous claims which break down at the slightest bit of scrutiny.

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

@br26 Him: "verified premium accounts (not bots)"
Me seeing ridiculous amounts of bots marked as "verified premium accounts":

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

It's sad to see so many articles show up in feeds with awful GenAI images. First impression shows they don't care enough to source a proper banner, so what's stopping them just using an LLM to generate the article too? It destroys all trust it's not going to be meaningless slop.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

#dreamcast #SDL2 got it to boot into the race, by hacking out part of the renderer :) Still have to emulate 32mb of ram, so will need to address :)

/*
* Invoke the current set of renderer functions on the group
*/
#ifndef __DREAMCAST__
if(on_screen) {
for(i=0; i < renderer->state.cache.ngeometry_fns_onscreen; i++)
renderer->state.cache.geometry_fns_onscreen[i](self,renderer);
} else {
for(i=0; i < renderer->state.cache.ngeometry_fns; i++)
renderer->state.cache.geometry_fns[i](self,renderer);
}
#endif

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

You know shit is really hitting the fan with this platform being viable to advertisers when between every three tweets is a "hot single girls in your area!" advert, showing up far more than even temu.

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

Testing out the new toy I got for my birthday. Obviously I had to try out the GOAT of RPGs #PanzerDragoonSaga on the #SteamDeck Legitimately the best way to play the game outside of running the original discs on original hardware on a CRT.

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

What a lovely birthday treat, Godot 4.4 Dev 6 has been released and it had my PR in it 😄 #gamedev

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

The debug hud is split into 4 sections, allowing different data to be shown in the four corners. Values can be watched either through code or at runtime through the console.

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

While working on the hud of my #PanzerDragoonSaga inspired prototype, I ended up knocking together a configurable debug hud so I could watch values at runtime and see what they're doing #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev https://t.co/z07srpoLn1

[Joseph Shea @Slique]

Garry's Mod changed my life and I'm not being hyperbolic in the least when I say that

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

Android news sites right now:
Article 1: Oppo &amp; 1+ are leaving the foldable market!
Article 2: the 1+ Open 2 will have these specs!
Article 3: Chinese OEM is definitely leaving the foldable market and it's Oppo!
Article 4: Find N5 &amp; Open 2 are on schedule and set to be awesome!

[Alex Darby @TrentTech]

There's a new fork of #Godot, which is the same as normal Godot but it's Wednesday my dudes.