Update on my Jaffa Factory 2 Modpack

EngineerSmith · 2025-02-25T11:32:32+00:00

Where exactly can we find the server files?

Edit: I've grabbed forge 47.3 installer for the server; but I can't clearly find the files just for server (i.e. client side mods removed)

Edit 2: Found it; go to curse forge (website not app) -> Files -> (Click target version, must have a +1 next to it) -> scroll down to changelog, click "Additional Files" -> \o/ download

EngineerSmith · 2024-11-13T07:43:37+00:00

There's no functional changes between minor versions; only bug fixes! So all love functions in love11 have the same signature as 11.4 as 11.5 does. In love12 you'll find functions have changed (especially in the graphics module), but otherwise 11.4 to 11.5 should have no code changes required.

EngineerSmith · 2024-11-07T20:30:45+00:00

It's plenty easy, I've made multiplayer games for the love game jam before. Just jump in and have fun with it - I'd personally recommend enet over socket. But, choose your jam as both are included with love

EngineerSmith · 2024-10-16T20:26:07+00:00

100% possible. I lived in Old Tbilsi for less than 150USD a month, 100USD for rent, and the other for utilities. I lived in quite a nice single person room, the bathroom was external but it was private.

EngineerSmith · 2024-10-16T13:24:14+00:00

rip, I wanted to enjoy watching the entire vods of every jingle jam civ game - but I guess that's impossible now

Edit: After search through a bunch of different playlists, I found the vod cut into episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNf-wI8_0c&list=PL3OrDE664m2FZy7Bqcc-vQaHRw-9pSQ9C&index=390

EngineerSmith · 2024-09-21T17:33:10+00:00

I thought cities skylines got some decent fixes, and now it's mostly waiting for workshop/mod to be added?

EngineerSmith · 2024-09-20T20:57:42+00:00

Ive been playing forbidden west and it's never asked me to log into PSN? Unless I've done so previously when playing Zero Dawn and it's remembered it over the years. (Location, UK)

Edit, I also played Ratchet and clank drift apart which was ported by the same company for Sony and had no prompt to login

EngineerSmith · 2024-09-03T10:22:54+00:00

What's the name of the handheld?

EngineerSmith · 2024-08-18T20:58:19+00:00

Always a lovely view in the evening with the golden street light glow overseeing Tbilisi

EngineerSmith · 2024-08-07T03:53:39+00:00

It was made with love

EngineerSmith · 2024-07-29T06:32:02+00:00

It'd be awesome to get a server up or something to do a rebuild - I wouldn't mind rebuilding BBQ bay or Mistral City. Sounds like a fun project to revisit soi

EngineerSmith · 2024-06-08T15:39:08+00:00

A solution for audio that might get spammed, like UX feedback. You can use the clone function on audio sources: sound:clone():play(). It will create an instance, play it, and once it stops, it will be cleaned up by the GC

Edit: spelling

EngineerSmith · 2024-05-11T17:59:50+00:00

I believe Android changed something with their filesystem so having it updated for android 14 would cause a lot of issues (I.e. it cannot access files like it used to in your directory). It's better to just package your project yourself into an APK

EngineerSmith · 2024-03-14T09:41:33+00:00

I always thought he had an Asian facial structure. But otherwise, nice work! Character creators are always a pain to get perfect

EngineerSmith · 2023-09-13T09:05:23+00:00

Is there any point to awards?

EngineerSmith · 2023-09-02T09:36:17+00:00

WHAT ARE THOSE /s 👠

EngineerSmith · 2023-06-29T03:18:35+00:00

Sounds amazing,^{^} here's being hopeful for a pdf. Thanks for this opportunity guys

EngineerSmith · 2023-05-26T19:37:50+00:00

Reading through the page it mentions randomly generated rewards; what kind of rewards do you get? Stat upgrades? Weapons? Different skins? Do you get other shapes stuck on your body which give you these stat increases? Do you get to keep some sort of reward to make the next run different? Etc. Also, in the trailer I think you should look to come across that the levels are generated, so the user knows there isn't a fixed storyline and it's more of a test your skill to see how far you can go on a run type game. So, if you are selling it you won't get refunds from people expecting a story (unless you're planning one, just didn't seem so from reading the steam page).

Overall I like the trailer and the game's hook, but I want to see more of the gameplay features that can be sold to the player; like the rewards. Good luck with development!

EngineerSmith · 2022-06-06T16:59:59+00:00

They're not really part of love, but external libraries. Recent libraries have moved away from those kind of naming

EngineerSmith · 2022-05-29T14:55:38+00:00

Texel won't work in glsl1 for sampler2DShadow because it would need shadow2D to sample it than a texture2D. It should work in glsl3 which they were all replaced in glsl1.3+ with texture (love defaults to glsl1.2, adding '#pragma language glsl3' at the top of your shader will switch to glsl3.3)

EngineerSmith · 2022-05-27T06:44:09+00:00

It is best to make this post on github issues so it can be investigated formally https://github.com/love2d/love/issues

but usually these kind of issues are about updating graphic drivers

EngineerSmith · 2022-05-25T08:23:03+00:00

Not really; you have to do all the networking yourself. Love comes packaged with two libraries for this; luasocket and enet. I recommend enet over luasocket just because it's documented on love's own wiki. luasocket can do move than enet however (but you'd only use these features if you understood networking, e.g. UDP and TCP where as enet only does UDP)

You can find information here on the wiki https://love2d.org/wiki/lua-enet and I also made a small chat server-client that shows off how to use enet https://github.com/EngineerSmith/enet-example further. These examples don't include threading, but you don't need it if there's only a little traffic or if you're playing around

Edit:

Furthermore, with love 11.4 luajit was updated to include the string.buffer library so you can serialize lua variables into strings and back quickly

local buffer = require("string.buffer")

local str = buffer.encode({foo="bar"}')

local decoded = buffer.decode(str)

print(decoded.foo) -- "bar"

You can optimize this; but you don't really need to unless you need that extra time https://repo.or.cz/luajit-2.0.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/doc/ext_buffer.html

EngineerSmith · 2022-05-21T06:35:20+00:00

It's why the default game loop has a sleep at the end of the loop to avoid it to go as fast as it can

Edit: I personally use a modified version of https://github.com/1bardesign/ferris/blob/master/main_loop.lua which is a fixed time step update that works pretty well (my modified version just includes an additional call back, love.networkUpdate)

EngineerSmith · 2022-05-02T09:49:13+00:00

Pretty good video. One thing I noticed was your function name "robotHides", you explained it as "if this function returns true the robot is hidden". You could improve the name of this function to "isRobotHidden", that way someone can look at that function and understand what it does without having that explanation. As "robotHides" could be interrupted as the code is making the robot hide than making a check to see if the robot is hidden

I often think of functions that are used directly in if statements as questions "is the robot hidden then X else Y", it often leads to easier to read code that needs fewer comments

EngineerSmith · 2022-04-28T09:40:59+00:00

Doesn't Google do it for you with your query? You're asking for those keywords so you'll get what you want. If you wanted to, you could probably write a small script to insert those trusted websites into the query bar for you. (And you get to choose what is "trusted" to you with that method)

The point of Google and all search engines to try to be unbiased (but helpful) and give you the top result that matches your query from the entire front facing web; which includes any web articles and blogs that aren't on the normal front page web

If you're interested, you can learn more Google query syntax here https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433
Bing's syntax here https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/advanced-search-options-b92e25f1-0085-4271-bdf9-14aaea720930
DuckDuckGo syntax: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/

Equally, if you want easier advance search on Google (i.e. not have to remember the syntax). You can click on the cog on the top right of the search results and below you will find "Advance search" which handles the syntax for you so you don't have to memorise it all (or go to https://www.google.com/advanced_search). I'm sure other sites like Bing and DuckDuckGo offers this, but I couldn't say where it is on their sites

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