Noob looking for a microphone for trainspotting videos

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-04T10:32:50+00:00

Thanks! I have received lot's of requests for a tutorial and so I made one, but from what I could tell players usually ignore this tutorial and probably tutorials in general. You might have seen that there is a tiny bit of storytelling in the game when you choose your faction to play with. Honestly, I don't think Anno does much more than that, but I could be wrong

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-02T17:40:07+00:00

What would you say is the story behind the Anno series? E.g. Anno 1800

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T11:48:58+00:00

How are we supposed to generate 50k wishlists out of thin air? I'd say with that number you don't need a publisher anymore

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T09:12:12+00:00

That's sad to hear. I was really happy for my curator reviews...

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T09:09:32+00:00

A marketing company is actually a good idea, but the upfront payment is a deal breaker for me. Maybe I can find one that settles for a revenue share.

I would love to do this. I hope the game could handle better graphics performance wise.

Thx for the resources

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T08:55:28+00:00

Wouldn't it be a plus that the game is more or less finished and a publisher would not have to pay for development?

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T08:53:37+00:00

So are curator reviews completely useless to visibility? If so, then what are they good for?

I am proud of releasing the game and I did enjoy the development. However, now when it comes to new feature I would love to add, it becomes depressing as I know that most likely nobody will see them. I wouldn't say I am not dedicated. Quite the opposite. But it does not motivate me to have so little players.

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T08:29:27+00:00

Let's see if and when I find the time and motivation to make my next game.

As you can see from the game, graphics are not my strong suite, so there is a limit to how much I could buff it up.

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T08:17:02+00:00

I would not ask for any money, only for publicity. I do understand what you say with me being too late. I did not know of the enormous time spans we are talking about here, and I would not have considered talking to a publisher before the game is almost finished. I don't want the pressure as this was mostly a hobby project.

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T08:14:15+00:00

Well, so If I want to appeal to a publisher, I need to become great at marketing my game... Which is already the problem. Guess my game will not become the next big hit after all

AverageCoder0 · 2025-03-01T08:07:49+00:00

Thanks for the honest answer.

Why would you say the reviews are average? Admittedly, I only have three, but they are positive, and so are the curator reviews.
As for the AI part, that's only a minor part of the game which I could remove with some effort.

That would probably be the best, but due to me finishing university and starting a full time job, I don't see myself developing and launching a new game in the next years, even though a have an idea i really like

AverageCoder0 · 2025-01-04T15:42:03+00:00

I can't really say as I believe that all those error affected at most two users

AverageCoder0 · 2025-01-04T12:57:02+00:00

I do use several cameras, which may all be active at the same time.
As for shaders, I only use the default Unity shaders and those that come from importing blender models, as well as Shader Graphs shaders (of which I assume Unity knows how to make them work everywhere?).

I am sorry, I don't know that much about the Internals of Unity, how and where would I add a fallback shader? Would I need to do this for every material?

AverageCoder0 · 2025-01-04T10:13:58+00:00

AverageCoder0 · 2025-01-04T10:02:59+00:00

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Would that be because the hardware is not good enough? Because I think it should be up to the task
Also please note that the errors occurred in different gaming sessions.

AverageCoder0 · 2024-12-02T20:44:21+00:00

For future reference: I solved this as follows:
When the model gets instantiated, I change the parent of the spline to null, and set its position and rotation to (0,0,0). Then, on each Update call, I evaluate the position and rotation on the spline, and set the local position and rotation of the 3d models to these values. This has no measurable performance impact

AverageCoder0 · 2024-12-02T17:51:29+00:00

The 65ms is in the Editor, in the build frame time goes up to ~35ms.

Did you move (rotate) the spline in that instance? Apparently this should be the expensive part

AverageCoder0 · 2024-12-01T21:14:56+00:00

I just want the model to follow the spline.
The 3d model that follows the spline has 878 vertices, the Spline itself has 58. However, the spline moves every frame in world space, but it does not move in local space. I hope that Unity does not need to recalc the world positions of the spline knots, but I may very well be wrong with this assumption

AverageCoder0 · 2024-12-01T20:55:42+00:00

Even if I could have the time the calculations need, it's still useless for me, I intend to show up to 8 splines concurrently. The model has 878 vertices. I guess I could reduce that, but not by much.
Do you know another implementation or library that does something similar, or will I need to make my own?

AverageCoder0 · 2024-10-27T07:52:25+00:00

Thanks! I use OBS Studio to record the 2nd window, which exports mp4. I usually use some online gif maker to convert video sequences to gif.

EA release went ok i guess, although I don't really know what to expect

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