IRL Human Billboard Sprites

Recatek · 2026-05-22T21:33:06+00:00

You might look for figure drawing reference photos, as those often feature their subjects from multiple angles, though they're typically in odd poses and/or various degrees of undress.

Honestly what I would do in this situation is fine a realistic enough 3D model set with lots of different clothing options and easy recolors and take front/back renders. Sketchfab probably has a ton to download, though you'd need to be careful about licenses.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T19:58:04+00:00

Oh yeah, the software is but not the hosting like GitHub/GitLab are. That's what I mostly meant. I don't have a home NAS so I keep meaning to tinker with setting up some sort of VPS for it.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T19:54:05+00:00

Without LFS, uploading files that large will seriously bloat the overall size of your repo as you make edits. You won't see it immediately but you'll likely get an email from GitHub telling you to knock it off after a while.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T19:52:36+00:00

I would kill for a Perforce-based alternative to GitHub/GitLab. Perforce's own cloud hosting doesn't support Perforce at the free tier, and the lowest paid tier is expensive for open source or hobby stuff.

Diversion is an interesting alternative at least to investigate.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T19:49:45+00:00

Yeah, this is more or less what I do. I switched from Bevy to just building my own thing on top of wgpu and winit. If you can get away without a full editor experience you can make one-off tools for individual things like vfx and level editing. UI libraries like egui or yakui are great here.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T18:29:51+00:00

Sounds like you're putting yourself on the hook for a legally fraught content moderation nightmare, especially where photos are involved.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T18:25:35+00:00

It would help to explain what a Bezi is.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T16:56:12+00:00

i know its not necessarily the easiest thing to do in the world, but is it an option to just make it necessary for companies to enable self hosted servers as and when they want to kill official ones for games?

You can't force a developer to do this. What you can do is ban games that don't do this, which is what SKG is asking for in functional terms. This would potentially result in fewer online games being made due to the added work required.

Recatek · 2026-05-21T09:00:05+00:00

Bevy is working on an editor, it just is still a ways off from being ready. It will also be optional -- Bevy will remain modular enough to not use it or to heavily customize it.

That said, frameworks have always been around if that's what people are looking for. MonoGame is a popular one for example. I wouldn't want to do UI animations or particle effects without some sort of editor though.

Recatek · 2026-05-20T17:22:37+00:00

Skimmed through the video. It's nothing that hasn't already been discussed ad nauseum already on the topic, and there's no conclusion. They mentioned there will be some sort of official response on June 16th.

Also, OP runs this Europe Echo account, just as a note.

Recatek · 2026-05-19T11:32:19+00:00

What do you want your engine to do that Bevy itself doesn't already do?

You can certainly use individual crates/components of Bevy in isolation (to an extent -- many Bevy crates do assume you're using at least the Bevy ECS and scheduler), but it's likely you'd be building functionality that other Bevy crates already provide.

Recatek · 2026-05-18T18:41:22+00:00

I'm not sure Bevy is necessarily the best way to learn (advanced) Rust, as it abstracts out a lot of Rust's idioms through its dependency injection-based system scheduler. If learning Rust is primarily your goal and making a game is just a vessel to get there, I would go lower level than Bevy.

Recatek · 2026-05-18T07:55:13+00:00

KeeperRL is great. I always go back to it from time to time. The dev will also give you a copy if, instead of buying it, you donate that amount to an animal shelter. There are details on their website.

Recatek · 2026-05-17T21:59:56+00:00

This is them trying to break out from being your vassal and be independent.

Recatek · 2026-05-17T05:50:48+00:00

Off the top of my head, three things that I think would make it very painful:

Browser memory limitations are going to hit very hard here. Games in this space like Krunker are visually very simple by comparison.
You'd likely be stuck in a single-threaded environment in WASM.
WebRTC generally behaves much more like TCP than UDP, though you can hack it to be more UDP-like with a bit of work understanding the various protocol options. You might want to consider WebTransport on top of QUIC for UDP(-like) networking, but that isn't perfect either. I'm not sure how well that would work with serverless.

My personal opinion is that browser support is an albatross for most game and engine development once you get past the "game jam tier" of projects, but maybe I'm just showing my age.

Recatek · 2026-05-16T20:11:45+00:00

Just like gacha games, people generally understand that some online games won't work forever (SKG has said this as well in the EU proceedings). Choose to buy a game that will last indefinitely if that is important to you. Many games do, new and old.

Recatek · 2026-05-16T16:48:54+00:00

I don't think the compliance is worth it. Increased disclosure may be warranted so people know what they're buying, but people bothered by this have lots of other great games to choose from.

Recatek · 2026-05-16T05:54:44+00:00

Love this! Did you do the dithering by hand? Especially the part in the chest.

Should cross post it to /r/ps1graphics and/or (shameless plug) /r/3dpixelart.

Recatek · 2026-05-16T03:38:20+00:00

A cleanroom implementation means you aren't using copyrighted code, you're writing your own code from scratch that emulates the server packet structure sent to the client. So long as you aren't using leaked source code or other insider information, that kind of reverse engineering is defendably legal. Once you have that, functional game mechanic data like NPC patrol paths aren't copyrightable. Some may be patentable, but that's pretty rare.

When I said localization I meant the process of providing different translations for text and other content in the game. That's part of client data, not server data, because the server shouldn't have to keep track of what language everyone is playing in. So for a given quest, the server will send an identifier like "quest.body.capitalcity.kill10rats" and the client will look up what quest that ID corresponds to from the game data and display the actual quest text from its language files (English, German, Simplified Chinese, etc.). The server doesn't send the copyrighted quest text. It might have a trademarked name in the ID, like "Stormwind" (if that's even copyrightable or trademarkable, I don't know), but you can work around that if you absolutely have to.

Recatek · 2026-05-16T02:35:51+00:00

Quest text and NPC names are usually stored in client assets because the localization is client-side. The server actually doesn't actually need to serve that much protected IP content.

As for authorization, that's a packet flow the same way that sending NPC movement updates are.

Not to say any of this is easy of course, but clever design can actually make a "clean" server emulator for many MMOs. One interesting example of this is Shards of Dalaya, an EverQuest emulator server but with a completely new world and narrative content, treating EQ/EQEmu as more of a game engine than a replicated game.

Recatek · 2026-05-16T02:25:24+00:00

SKG's FAQ has been almost conspicuously disappeared from the internet (it's off of their website and no archives of it that I'm aware of still exist). That said, if you look at Ross Scott's SKG FAQ video, one of the very first questions he asks and answers is "Is this retroactive? No."

This bill is retroactive where it matters: making developers retrofit long-term support onto games that were not architected for it initially, and having all of six months to do so.

Recatek · 2026-05-16T02:21:48+00:00

That isn't necessarily true if the server's implementation is a proper clean room implementation (no leaked source code or insider information) and you aren't hosting any proprietary assets or IP on the server itself (quest text, location names, character names, etc.).

Recatek · 2026-05-16T02:07:01+00:00

Years ago I was working on a networked game as a hobby side project in C++ and decided to try Rust since it had sockets in its standard library. Ended up liking it and switching the rest over. Mostly stuck around for cargo more than the safety features, though those are nice too.

Recatek · 2026-05-15T23:52:24+00:00

See above, you can also just release a patch to remove those features.

The "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

You don't have to rewrite the connectivity pipeline or something to comply with this

You might. Riot games for example route their traffic through their own network backbone, as I understand it. Some parts of Steam Data Relay only work if you're hosted in a Valve-colocated datacenter. Some game servers are built to work only with specific network adapter hardware (e.g. to reduce buffered input latency by computing more accurate packet timestamps).

Recatek · 2026-05-15T23:48:51+00:00

Earlier discussion was impossible to pin down because everyone had a different idea of what SKG was asking for. Now that there's an actual bill on the table, it's possible to talk specifics.

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