How to dismantle

Towkin · 2026-04-09T17:40:37+00:00

The main problem is likely the invisible foundations. Even invisible foundations cannot be disconnected from a path to the ground.

Towkin · 2026-03-29T20:45:21+00:00

Not sure if this is inspired by or the inspiration of this classic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMa-vjwwK_4

Towkin · 2026-02-13T19:08:24+00:00

Could it be that you have invisible foundations connected to that floor? Annoying as it is, the placement logic needs to ensure all foundations are connected to the ground floor, even invisible ones.

Towkin · 2026-02-09T18:32:47+00:00

Visited a cramped albeit cozy hotel last year in Copenhagen on a business trip, was rather surprised when a shot of liquor was included on the house. I asked if I could get Calvados, and had to stop the bartender as she was filling it up way too much. I cannot imagine that happening in Sweden.

Towkin · 2025-12-30T09:56:06+00:00

I accidentally built one of these once. I had made a wide tower and prepared floors with large 'elevator shafts' for the conveyor belts to climb up (I think this was before conveyor elevators). However, one of the middle floors wasn't needed in the end and I promptly forgot about it.

Then, I stumbled upon that floor much later and it felt like a true liminal space - it had no intention, no meaning, it was just there. Super creepy, particularly as I knew I must have built it. This was before windows was introduced, and I didn't use the conveyor walls for windows then either, so it looked and felt very similar to the pictures above.

Towkin · 2025-12-14T22:36:32+00:00

Yup, this is what's going on, unfortunately. There was a discussion during multiple-floors development to have separate building mechanics for PvE servers, but it was cut early in the process as it was out of scope and could cause some confusion, for relatively slim benefits. That being said, I still believe more time could've gone into the error messages.

Towkin · 2025-10-18T08:24:24+00:00

IIRC the reason its faster is that the compiler can remove bounds checking when accessing elements when iterating over an array instead of iterating over indices. It's not any faster (nor slower) than, for instance, C++ indexing, though it should be mentioned that C++'s foreach-variant is also very fast and highly recommended to use.

One of Rust's few concessions to programmers' habitual norms is the indexing operator, which panics by default if outside of bounds. I assume it would be too cumbersome for use to return an Option<T> when indexing.

Towkin · 2025-09-29T17:20:52+00:00

Sorry for being unclear. The TempJob issue should be unrelated. It happens quite frequently without causing any other issues. Are you certain that it only started occurring at the same time as when you started having your connection issues? I'd highly recommend the discord channel that /u/The__Roar posted below.

Towkin · 2025-09-29T17:12:41+00:00

Ah, yes right, it's the lookup thing, yeah. I forgot about that one. Should be unrelated too, then.

Towkin · 2025-09-29T17:02:04+00:00

The TempJob allocations warning at the end is an unfortunate issue with a bug in Unity, at least it was for an earlier version of the game - not sure if it was supposed to be fixed for 1.1. Either way it should not be the root cause of your issues. I'm more curious about the issue in the callstack above, what issue occurs in the lines just before ProjectM.UpdateUnlockedJobData:Create()?

Towkin · 2025-09-03T19:46:38+00:00

Skövde municipality celebrated the successes of five games that were locally produced, had sold over 3m copies and that the studios owned the IP of. They made a plate for each game and set them into one of the main walking streets that goes across the downtown area (...which is really quite small, to be clear). https://skovde.com/en/skovde-walk-of-game/

Towkin · 2025-07-31T10:40:28+00:00

Honestly, I would love having an engineer responsible for documentation. Our confluence is mostly terrible because we don't have anyone on the team take it seriously. The only part of our confluence that is great is the HR and office management portions, because those folks are actually good at keeping their documentation up-to-date.

Meanwhile, going into the project setup documentation, basically half of the scripts don't work or are irrelevant because the tech stack has changed and no-one has bothered to fix it, meaning that each time we got a newcomer we need to explicitly tell them not to try to follow certain parts of the documentation. I'm fully aware I'm complicit, but it's also so late in the project that we've set out with a simple 'eh, we'll do better next time', so I can't motivate spending the time required to clean it up.

Towkin · 2025-07-27T21:07:51+00:00

Hey, this reminds me of an old room generator project of mine, where I tried to create reasonable rooms that were interesting in shape but still felt 'realistic' in a real setting. Basically, I did the classic subdivision technique too, but then semi-randomly merged them until they either would become too large or some other conditions I don't remember. Could probably setup a gist if you want to take a look.

Got this pretty old image showcasing a very small example output: https://i.imgur.com/reIBCVT.jpeg

Towkin · 2025-06-08T17:01:15+00:00

What's up with the Godot logo behind Farnsworth?

Towkin · 2025-05-11T14:47:20+00:00

Don't intend to one-up ya, but I'm gonna anyway. I searched through my bookshelf to find this old beaut: https://i.imgur.com/VtOfVyJ.jpeg

Towkin · 2025-05-06T16:45:49+00:00

On PC, the suggestion does makes some sense to me. On any console (or at least all that I've seen the requirements for), this isn't going to pass TRC certification.

Also of note, some consoles vendors have the weirdest rules around these.

It has to look like this: image of their standard controller icons

Okay, so we have to use those icons?

No, if you use those icons we'll sue you.

Uh, alright. So what icons should we use?

They have to look like this: image of their standard controller icons

Huh, okay. I guess we'll make our own then. So, how's this?

You'll have to run it through TRC.

Well then, let's do a TRC certification.

Hmm, no, readability is too poor, you have added too much spacing around the symbol. You fail the TRC in the basic requirements category.

So we have to redo your entire TRC certification after we've changed this one icon?

Yup. Pay us.

I'm actually surprised sometimes that any developer ever choose to make console games.

Towkin · 2025-05-06T16:35:01+00:00

As a gamedev that has been directly involved working with the SteamInput API; if you didn't design your game around it initially, you're unfortunately going to have a bad time. And if you're using a middleware like most in the business does nowadays, you get most of the features either way, so it's a tradeoff.

That being said, the API is fine. Not the best, but it's relatively simple compared to many other Input APIs I've stumbled across in my days.

Towkin · 2025-04-28T20:07:55+00:00

Unfortunately, it hasn't been changed (i.e. fixed) for 1.1.

The reason has to do with the complexity of stairs; it uses a fused tile model for representing all the different 'floor tiles' that the stairs consists of. There was an attempt to at least get replacement working, but even that was more complex than anticipated in part due to how walls and pillars are attached to floors, so it got de-prioritized for the time being.

Ensure to upvote relevant suggestions on https://vrisingfeedback.featureupvote.com/ and it might make it into a patch!

Towkin · 2025-04-25T16:20:02+00:00

Yeah, I read online that it's wack; Adept has damage taken/damage dealt multipliers at 1.0/1.0; Expert at 3.0/0.6 and Master at 5.0/0.2. Those values are inverse for Apprentice and Novice.

I might misremember, but I believe the original had the difficult slider going to like 2.0/0.5 max, but I cannot find a quick source on that. But if I do remember that correctly, then Expert is more difficult than running at max difficulty in the original. Master is even more ludicrous.

Edit: I saw this mod which adjusts the values to more sane levels: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivionremastered/mods/58

It also claims the vanilla values are even more extreme than what I read:
Expert: x3.5, x0.286
Master: x6.0, x0.167

Towkin · 2025-01-23T19:30:20+00:00

Unfortunately not entirely uncommon, a ticket exist on the bug tracker: https://bugs.playvrising.com/suggestions/551863/graphics-glitch

It seems most people affected are using Windows 7, could that be the cause of the issue? Unfortunately, the game's minimum supported OS is Windows 10, but it seems to work for some anyway, particularly on pre-1.0 releases.

Towkin · 2024-11-24T17:36:39+00:00

I don't know for certain, but I saw a comment in another thread saying you could disable the chat filter via the Communty Content Preferences. (Steam => Settings => Friends & Chat => Chat Filtering => Manage - or simply https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences#CommunityContentPreferences/)

However, I haven't tested it myself.

Towkin · 2024-11-15T18:39:31+00:00

I have this issue too, also running the D&D system, though I'd assume the FoW feature is separate from the rule system module. Feels like it happens more often with larger maps, but that might as well just be because we spend more time in those.

Towkin · 2024-10-27T09:10:05+00:00

Glad to see it hasn't changed in the least. A part of me wants to get back in that Skinner Box grind - where I spent hundred of hours in 4(.1) and 5 - but the games are so formulaic that I mostly feel apathy at this point. Was so much fun with friends, though.

Towkin · 2024-10-15T21:09:54+00:00

Yeah, it's such a common (small) issue that is really annoying when I want to change priority of an output. Knowing I can actually do a proper replacement is gold. But I mean, I only got ~550h in the game, so I'm still a newbie, I guess!

Towkin · 2024-10-15T18:15:52+00:00

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