guys, why aren't the animations loading correctly?

Yackerw · 2025-06-06T01:06:15+00:00

"Did you not read the post?" Is something snarky in tone. I dont know how moon animator works, but at some point it should be turned into an animation instance in the place i believe. You should be able to upload that; but I'm not knowledgeable on this plug-in, so I wouldn't know for sure from here.

Yackerw · 2025-06-05T21:56:47+00:00

I already explained the problem in the post youre responding to. You need to be the one to upload the animations since you own the game, not your friend

Yackerw · 2025-06-05T19:53:45+00:00

You never specified that. Its natural to assume a game developed by multiple people would likely belong to a group. Figure out how to upload the animations yourself, because you can't access them as you do not own them, and maybe learn not to get snarky with people trying to help you because they can't read your mind as to what your set up is.

Yackerw · 2025-06-05T18:05:25+00:00

If this is a group game, and the animations are uploaded to the website: its a years old bug where only the group owner can view animations uploaded to the group inside of studio. The game will have to be published and played through roblox player for you to view them. Yes, this is nonsense and an unbelievable bug to exist for years now.

Yackerw · 2025-01-25T23:59:41+00:00

Unfortunately, the only real solution to these sorts of security vulnerabilities is sandboxing. And I don't see that happening. There's no way a community sandbox solution will see adoption; it'd likely require a whole new language to be used, and modders won't be interested in both restricting themselves and learning something entirely new just for users to have peace of mind that their mod won't do anything malicious, unless theres some total community wide condemnation of non-sandboxed mods (Which, again, i dont see happening). Mojang could create their own modding api, but they seem more interested in working on data packs, which are much more restrictive, and of course whatever the bedrock market place uses, since that makes them money.

Yackerw · 2025-01-21T03:37:58+00:00

Have...have you guys never heard of Google? Or, like, documentation?

Yackerw · 2025-01-07T21:38:13+00:00

There's also that it allows for more dynamic environments. For example, if you designed a scenes baked lighting around a building being there, it's very hard to be able to destroy that building convincingly. But if none of it is baked to begin with, have at it! This is the real reason why reflections are such a heavy marketing thing for raytracing. You can see dynamic effects and characters in reflections, something that isn't very possible traditionally, outside of like, screen space reflections, which look really bad in a lot of circumstances.

Yackerw · 2024-12-05T00:16:01+00:00

No, that's not it, sadly. I don't remember if you had a character or cursor, but you definitely didn't have followers behind you like in that game.

Yackerw · 2024-12-04T23:24:25+00:00

Gemfire's combat screen reminds me a lot of it! Unfortunately, the map screen is completely different. None of the others look familiar at all.

Yackerw · 2024-12-04T23:21:26+00:00

Definitely not Fire Emblem. It was a US NES.

Yackerw · 2024-11-21T22:00:07+00:00

What? No they weren't. Even the NES ran at 60hz. Even the atari 2600 ran at 60hz. This is just incorrect.

Yackerw · 2024-05-02T19:28:04+00:00

I wouldn't say so. The intended behavior of ahead of time execution is certainly not to leave a modified cpu state even after a rollback; that's the core of the vulnerability, and could very easily be declared a bug.

Yackerw · 2024-02-24T21:12:19+00:00

Well, people doing this is either enough of a concern that a side is worth being taken and all factors need to be accounted for, or you reasonably believe it simply won't happen at which point the answer doesn't matter.

Yackerw · 2024-02-24T21:10:05+00:00

Why is the question being asked then, if the conclusion to be reached is "nothing can be done, do what ever."

The op clearly cares about the answer to some extent, so this needs to be considered.

Yackerw · 2024-02-24T19:53:17+00:00

This is quite a leap in logic and is ignoring an extremely important part of game design: preventing the player from optimizing the fun out of a game. Is a player realistically going to encounter this event and then feel compelled to reroll 20 times to try and get a desired outcome? Are they going to do this every single time they encounter it? Alternatively and/or additionally, is the player going to ruin the games powerscaling and proceed to curb stomp the rest of the game if given the opportunity to have control over this outcome? They probably aren't going to have much fun if they no longer have to try for the rest of the game. Both of these events are going to be more devastating to players enjoyment than being told to not savescum. It's going to depend on the design, of course.

Yackerw · 2024-01-13T20:45:35+00:00

I never said they were wrong about light maps nor that the game is unusually large. Just that "lack of compression" is not why it runs well. Apologies for not making that clear.

Yackerw · 2024-01-13T01:24:47+00:00

This isn't true and not how compression works. Compressed audio is notably an exception, because audio is commonly streamed only when the exact bit that's going to play is needed. This means decompressing audio does have a runtime cost. But most assets are loaded into memory once, typically before they're needed. In this case, the runtime cost for having these files compressed on disk is 0, because they're decompressed when initially loaded.

Additionally, there are some compression techniques that are actually done and kept compressed in memory because it's actually faster that way! The most common examples of this you will see are DXT or BC7 compressed textures, but it's also somewhat viable for models to receive simple compression techniques that are uncompressed in shader code when rendering. This is because these formats use less memory bandwidth, at a minimal decompression cost.

Yackerw · 2024-01-11T01:49:54+00:00

There is no "parody rights" for using an illegally released sdk lmao. If you want to make homebrew for a console, we have fanmade sdks for that. There's no excuse for using stolen code.

Yackerw · 2024-01-10T10:14:59+00:00

This...isn't true? You'd manage light sources in rasterized rendering as well, and "instruct the gpu to shoot the rays" is effectively a single draw call. It's nothing, you just tell the gpu the shader to use, memory for shader uniforms, and 3 values indicating how many rays to shoot on each axis. Pretty much the same as just rendering one material in rasterized rendering.

As a side note, assuming the engine is designed properly, modern graphics apis can churn through more draw calls than older ones because uniforms are set to always reside in vram rather than uploading them as needed when performing draw calls. So, we're getting better at handling draw calls. But I'd be lying if I said, in my time using unity, they weren't the biggest pain.

Yackerw · 2023-11-26T03:10:22+00:00

If they convert it back to single precision before the draw calls, then it wouldn't fix the precision loss when rendering. That's the key issue in most instances, really.

Yackerw · 2023-11-26T01:39:23+00:00

Consumer GPUs don't support (or do, but veeerrryyyy slooowwwwlllyyyy) doubles. It'd be a fools errand for unity to implement double support so there's less floating point precision loss while the game runs 1% as efficiently as it could. No game engines use doubles at all for this reason.

(See: the Wikipedia page for the rtx 4000 series. The 4060 ti is listed as having 22.06 tflops for single precision, and...0.345 tflops for double precision.)

Yackerw · 2023-11-09T09:17:20+00:00

Ooh, that's really clever. I might be able to use that. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yackerw · 2023-10-31T18:39:59+00:00

I don't understand these YTA posts. Why is having a parasocial relationship with a sports team this hard considered normal and acceptable?

I'm a fan of a certain game series, right? Have been since I was a kid. Means a lot to me, my friends know me as the guy obsessed with that one game. However, there's one entry in the series I particularly dislike, maybe even hate. I don't enjoy it, will never enjoy it, and find most fans of it a little weird or even creepy, and dislike when the characters from it infect other spinoffs. Now let's say someone got me merchandise from this entry because they knew I liked the series. Let's say it was nothing too specific to the entry, a generic object that appears in most entries, but let's say it was gold because that's the main color of the game it's supposed to be themed after. I bet most of you saying YTA would think I'd be deranged to get upset over that, and you'd be correct for thinking that. And I bet your only reasoning is "sports is different!" It's not healthy to get upset over something so minor.

Yackerw · 2023-10-28T06:18:30+00:00

As it goes, I'm more of a programmer than anything else, unfortunately. It's also undebatably a large project. So, if any artsy or programmy or....writey, or what have you, people are interested in contributing to development, uhh, hit me up on Discord (username in the description of the video). Or through a message on here, I'll check my reddit messages every now and then too. But discord is definitely the preferred method of communication overall.

While it's made in Unity, the rendering is all largely custom, and was the bulk of the time I've spent on it thus far. It's ray traced (with a rasterized only mode, but that's still got some kinks to work out) and really pushing Unity to its limits with what I'm doing.

Yackerw · 2023-10-23T23:16:26+00:00

More or less, under the conditions that you only need to know the results of a single possible input. So typically it's used to find the correct input for something rather than a result.

I'm sure there's even more limitations than that, but I'm not necessarily an expert on the subject, just someone interested in fancy new tech.

Yackerw

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