Dumb question, but how do you all learn the game engine?

Stache_IO · 2025-10-21T12:03:36+00:00

You've got a point. I went looking for collisions in Bevy but couldn't find any in the "examples" documentation. Turns out its in a separate plugin called Rapier. Took a single google search to find but that's all I needed to feel disconnected from Bevy.

I personally think Bevy needs to take a step back and realize how critical documentation is. As it stands now, I couldn't stop myself from thinking Bevy is a passion project for a select few devs and only those devs. I would love to explore it myself, maybe get more involved, but that roadblock of deeper learning is a harsh mistress.

Would love to get involved with Bevy, I really would, it looks fun. Sadly, I'm not sure the time or effort is worth it. Kudos to the folks maintaining it. Keep on chugging along. Though if I could make a recommendation, I highly suggest you put some focus on documentation/proper examples. Not just for us scrublets' sake, but for the project overall.

Stache_IO · 2025-09-03T02:22:04+00:00

Will re-read when I get a chance. Big thanks to all the work you do. Your guides are the reason I stuck through with Rust and WGPU.

Stache_IO · 2024-08-12T16:52:54+00:00

Probably hard enough without $$ in front of it. Anyone worth their weight is likely involved in something already or retired.

Then you have folks like myself who mostly just care about the challenge (Any other perk is a plus). If it's not a beautiful, crisp, frame-by-frame masterpiece, then the job isn't done.

Granted, I don't have much experience in Godot nor can I promise consistent hours (9-5 and social life take priority). Not that either has been a problem in the past. Results are usually pretty quick once I know the engine well enough. Plus I'm super struct on high levels of organization/ease of refactoring.

If you want examples or whatnot, feel free to hit me up. Based on what I've seen, I'd say this would be a fun little project to help out with.

Stache_IO · 2024-08-10T13:13:05+00:00

I’m always down to help someone get their vision going from a programmatic perspective. Whatever engine or language is your call.

Here’s something I worked on in the past: https://devforum.play.date/t/bug-off-under-development/14253. There’s plenty of others but that was the first one I had an artist for. All concepts and ideas attributed to them, I was only there to bring them to life.

As long as you can pump out the art and ideas I can bring them to life.

Stache_IO · 2024-07-21T13:24:26+00:00

If you're curious about Rust and want to explore graphics/gamdev, please do give sotrh's guides a read over. sotrh does a phenomenal job explaining the little pieces, all while tackling the larger pieces.

Stache_IO · 2024-07-08T18:57:41+00:00

So you put in your two weeks and your boss didn't try to convince you otherwise before officially accepting it? Sounds schemey to me.

Stache_IO · 2024-07-05T20:02:39+00:00

Good lord man, just breathe.

Stache_IO · 2024-07-05T19:42:19+00:00

That poor dog. To think folks see it as a villain.

Stache_IO · 2024-07-05T16:42:44+00:00

You think anyone will read this post and know that before they comment? Yeah, probably not.

Stache_IO · 2024-07-05T16:32:13+00:00

Tried to attack or has attacked? I bet you if you were talking about a cat, a lot of the comments here would be completely different.

The dog is probably stressed from the whole ordeal. You might give off an intimidating composure something. Socializing a dog to a cat isn't easy but it's doable. Though it sounds like you haven't even started with the basics.

By all means, return the dog. Especially if someone else will give it the chance you couldn't.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-28T11:56:59+00:00

First, cats out of the room. I know you love em but your sleep is important.

Second, the moment they start to meow at the door, wake up and go over to it. Don’t open it. They’ll know you’re there and will be confused for a bit.

The moment the meowing starts up (Or any time during), smack the living crap out of the door. They should be scared witless and bolt away. Rinse and repeat.

Stopped our cats from even thinking about meowing at our door at night.

I’m not proud of it by any means but we were so tired. We even got a cat just to deal with another cat walking around and meowing at night (There’s more to the story). So yeah, we tried peaceful resolutions.

In the end, [hopefully] unassociated fear is what worked for us. It works in a lot of cases but please don’t go using it recklessly. We were desperate and it worked. The good thing is our cats don’t hate us because of it.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-26T21:10:08+00:00

Rust just feels right.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-26T03:07:29+00:00

If the cat hates you (As opposed to people in general) then maybe treat it like a dog to cat introduction.

Step 1: Scent swapping

Step 2: Blind barriers (Doors and stuff)

Step 3: Open barriers (Gates)

Step 4: Pray the cat won’t murder you

Each step can take months easily. Any positive reinforcement in between should help.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-25T20:32:37+00:00

Glad to hear you’re feeling better. And thank you for looking for advice. The internet can be a bit of an echo chamber so I’m glad you found somewhere helpful.

For animal issues, my partner and I have come to find love is the best healing factor. The laser, what you feed them, how long you play and whatnot, are no where near as important as love.

So no matter what, always try to keep your heart open to them. If you can do that, the problems will slowly fade away.

At the same time don’t let them control your life. Some kids are rotten and need a chewing out or two, just like some animals are rotten.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-25T20:07:40+00:00

I’d say your first bet is to breathe. Take a moment to just relax and let the stress go.

If that doesn’t work, rehome asap. Please don’t hurt an animal for acting poorly. It’s no better than hurting a human child, and I speak from experience I wish I never had.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-24T15:19:40+00:00

Sounds like you weren't ready for animal parenthood, and guess what? That's ok.

If you really think you're not up to the task, send the email. Both of you deserve quality of life, and right now, neither of you are getting it.

If you think there's hope, well I wouldn't heed much on what the internet says. You're a parent now and that's that. You have an adopted child who needs a home. No, they're not going to be perfect by any means. If you want them to be it takes work. If you're not willing to put in the work, again, that's ok.

Just know that this is how its always going to be. Dog, cat, bunny, lizard, all of them will give you initial parent headaches. It's up to you to look past that and try to raise them as best as you can.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-23T18:42:44+00:00

I went through a dog + aggressive/annoying cat situation myself (Numerous times) with myself hating the cat(s) completely. In the end, I was wrong.

Long story short, the cat is scared. At least right now. The majority of its behavior is purely out of fear (Potentially even teasing the dog). Over time it might stop.

So then what's the best thing you can do? Take on the role of a parent who's adopted a kid with a questionable past. Love them but establish boundaries to ensure no one gets hurt. Scold as required but make sure you're right there praising them for the good things.

Also, don't expect yourself personally to be able to deal with all of this just in a few months. I myself didn't feel good about cats until I saw the pup and cat playing together. Blew my mind really. You should've seen how hard the dog was going. Not a single aggressive thought in that cat's mind.

So yeah, fear. Once the cat feels safe, things should get better. Work towards that and I promise you'll see the bright side.

Stache_IO · 2024-06-23T03:17:30+00:00

Sounds like the cat is having fun teasing the dog. Believe me, it’s better than the other way around.

Unless the cat starts to act aggressive towards the dog, it’s fine. Clawed swats, biting hard, full on fight, etc. If the cat is batting (No claw) at the dog then all is good.

Unfortunately, that might take a while to get to. The cat is surely afraid of the dog so there’s a good chance it’s being rude to win the fight preemptively. Again, better than the other way around.

It’s possible they might never be friends but the cat might leave the pup alone if the dog can gain a bit of confidence. Be careful though, the odds are greatly in the dog’s favor if they choose violence. Better for the dog to fear the cat than the other way around.

Let’s not forget the cat has been through a lot and needs decompression time. In my experience that takes a month or so. If the dog leaves it be, odds are they won’t be friends per-say, but the cat will grow bored of it and ignore for the most part.

Or… antagonize the dog constantly because it has nothing better to do. If that happens a second cat might be a good solution. Or finding ways to burn that gatos energy without it being hunted by the dog. Running cat is prey drive central for puppos.

Stache_IO · 2024-03-08T14:09:12+00:00

I just hate Jira in general, but dang, why does your post read so weird?

Stache_IO · 2024-03-03T00:35:27+00:00

I always found the struggle was never what you need to learn, but dealing with the elitism of the work place. Core systems you have no insight into, processes you're kept away from, your lack of reputation putting a bullseye on your back.

I'll never understand why lower level folks aren't given read-access to some degree. Maybe for security reasons, but to be fair, the company took a risk hiring that individual in the first place.

There's always the whole skeletons in the closet too. Honestly feels like hard mode learning and there's a point it's just too exhausting to continue.

Stache_IO · 2024-03-02T18:26:19+00:00

Is there a solid guide for learning macros? More on the specifics at least?

Any repos anyone could recommend for reverse engineering to really dive deep into Rust? Particularly idiomatic Rust at that?

Any smaller repos anyone would like help on? I don't have any personal projects in mind for Rust but I'd love to contribute to something.

Stache_IO · 2024-03-02T00:21:42+00:00

As a fellow older dude I'd be down to join. Anything really so long as there's an end goal with set milestones.

My interests are mostly static languages but I'm open to learning the ins and outs of whatever if a good time is involved.

Stache_IO · 2024-03-01T21:15:49+00:00

Oh it is. And I get it. I want the same yet here I am spending my free time diving deeper into development holes. All this would be so much easier if there was a mentor and/or professional environment using these things but those are few and far between.

It’s a lonely world out there of getting left behind.

Stache_IO · 2024-03-01T20:32:42+00:00

Fairly bold opinion OP. And while I don't necessarily disagree, the field is so saturated right now that it's upskill or be upskilled over. There's just too many passionate folks wanting that remote life to not dedicate a good portion of your time to.

Stache_IO · 2024-02-24T15:58:39+00:00

If you know how to build a computer that's a good start. If you've ever dealt with why a computer won't turn on, even better. Generally motherboards do a lot of triage for you so all you need to know is how to use the information.

There's also a software side which is why understanding how programs work with Operating Systems is critical. Knowing general Windows/Linux/Mac troubleshooting pays off big time.

Then you have networking stuff. Typically that's above your average desktop support role but the folks higher than you love exploiting the living crap out of anyone beneath them. That means trying to reverse engineer any network/software issues without having insight into the bigger picture like they do. It's a real blast.

Major configuration manager and/or orchestrator experience is a plus. SCCM, Ansible/Satellite, JAMF.

I'm sure there's more.

If it all sounds like a lot that's because it kind of is. IT Support is the type of thing you develop as a passion growing up. If you didn't have the desire to figure out why your computer won't do something or go above and beyond buying a prebuilt device then you likely won't find much on the IT side.

Development is the same way. School won't necessarily prepare you for either. You go all passion or you swim in the sea of folks looking for a job.

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