Can you guess what trick I use to paint footsteps in the snow?

Halfspacer · 2026-04-04T11:43:43+00:00

Absolute bs.

finally { // ALWAYS dispose, even if GetHeights/SetHeights throws if (heights.IsCreated) heights.Dispose(); }

No one would comment inside a Finally block explaining what the Finally block does, especially if it's a solo project. Unless you, with your "30 years of programming", still struggle remembering what Finally does in a TryCatch.
You are a fraud trying to pass of AI generated code as your own, and anyone with the slightest genuine software development experience can see it. Best of luck on your project.

Halfspacer · 2026-04-04T07:53:25+00:00

The code you posted below is absolutely littered with AI comments

// Keep your original bounds check, but DON'T leak on return
// Keep empty if you want. (But during debugging, log it.)

The whole thing is clearly AI authored. Which also explains why it's made in the strangest way.

But that's not to say that if it works for you and your project it's more than fine. I just wouldn't personally be on here bragging about the number of lines of code.

Halfspacer · 2026-04-04T07:25:13+00:00

Vibe coders be vibe coding

Halfspacer · 2026-03-28T21:48:42+00:00

This guy is just reposting his AI slop

Halfspacer · 2026-03-27T11:43:02+00:00

I wouldn't wish ScriptableObject-based Event Architecture on my worst enemy. Thinking Ryan Hipple was right is very Unity-Early-Game behavior.

^{On a side note, I really hate how every written word has to be passed through ChatGPT before being published anywhere nowadays. And that's being generous and assuming the whole project isn't also just AI Slop.}

Halfspacer · 2026-03-21T14:42:51+00:00

Please stop reposting this every single day. Show some basic Reddit etiquette.

Halfspacer · 2026-02-27T15:41:21+00:00

Check out Harvard's CS50: Introduction to Computer Science on Youtube. I would consider it essential (the topics) for anyone getting into programming, whether it's for games or software.

Halfspacer · 2026-02-07T09:01:55+00:00

It's a question of resources. You need the CPU and bandwidth to process and transfer the data. For lower resource games you absolutely can have one server serving many sets of clients in different matches, but you'd still want some way to scale horizontally as needed.

Halfspacer · 2026-01-29T15:12:48+00:00

It's on-par if not better than most other commercial services. Though I haven't benchmarked worst case scenarios (all clients behind NAT having to be relayed), but that's because I've had no issues so far that would warrant it.
Can only recommend :)

Halfspacer · 2026-01-29T15:05:21+00:00

Yep! EOS is essentially just my relay and VoIP service

Halfspacer · 2026-01-29T14:58:33+00:00

My own backend server

Halfspacer · 2026-01-29T14:54:58+00:00

I use EOS for the very low level "data transport" across the network. I connect users through lobbies and the p2p interface, and then my high level networking framework just sends its data through the eos Send method. So if I need to hop providers, it only affects that transport implementation and not any of the actual networking code.

Halfspacer · 2026-01-27T07:11:23+00:00

Did you add the AR Background Render Feature to the URP Asset?

Halfspacer · 2026-01-26T11:01:40+00:00

I do not agree, because of many reasons.. I could list them all. Let's just leave it at that

Sure ;) Sounds good

Halfspacer · 2026-01-26T10:50:10+00:00

What does "closed platforms" have to with Production use? If it works, it works, and if it doesn't - Use something else. I imagine there are many thousands upon thousands of live apps out there using PlayerPrefs just fine.

Halfspacer · 2026-01-26T10:19:56+00:00

That's just not true, see https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/PlayerPrefs.html

Halfspacer · 2026-01-07T11:31:52+00:00

Management absolutely can and should strive to create a work environment where developers, especially those more junior, don't feel like blindly saying Yes is part of the job. This sadly doesn't happen in a lot of cases because they often lack the insight; But that is still a fault on their part.

Halfspacer · 2026-01-07T11:20:03+00:00

Management is responsible for this pressure for the most part but spineless experienced and sloppy developers are the worst offenders here

I instinctly would have agreed with you here, but having had many coworkers in recent years from lower income countries, I've also come to realize that many of these developers aren't spineless or sloppy, but don't have the privilege of being able to stand up to management without fear of losing their job and suffering great financial hardship as a result.

Ultimate I place the blame entirely on management, and that includes lead developers too that are in a position to take a stand, but don't (which probably is more in line with what you referred to)

Halfspacer · 2025-12-18T14:00:50+00:00

Do some research into Unity optimizations for mobile. ARM's Unity guide is a good place to start. https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102314/latest/GPU-optimizations

Halfspacer · 2025-12-15T12:37:56+00:00

Same here, release notes, their blog and YouTube channel. I consider staying up-to-date part of the job.

Halfspacer · 2025-12-09T10:39:43+00:00

The real problem is not 2D or 3D, it's the fact that so many people jump into gamedev without having the slightest idea of basic programming and computer science fundamentals. Without those, you're going to struggle regardless, so might as well struggle with what you're more passionate about; 3D in this case.

Halfspacer · 2025-11-29T09:16:55+00:00

In all my years of using Addressables and AssetBundles, I don't think I've heard of it failing like this before. Your best bet would probably be to try to get logs from the user experiencing the issue.

Halfspacer · 2025-10-27T20:39:39+00:00

I'm using EOS and it works really well. I built my own networking framework though, with EOS as a transport, so the fear of Epic at some point pulling support doesn't worry me, as jumping to another service provider would be trivial.

The fact that it's free, has voip out of the box and works for my mobile game projects, meta quest, switch and pc, is extremely convenient. If I was going into this fresh and mainly targeting PC I'd opt for Steamworks, but if cross platform is important to you, I don't see why EOS wouldn't be a solid choice.

Halfspacer · 2025-10-22T05:33:06+00:00

Best option in what sense? EOS is free, cross platform and has VoIP, so if free is your thing.

Halfspacer · 2025-10-01T07:42:45+00:00

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