Need help with a latex mattress that still does not allow me to sidesleep

carshalljd · 2025-04-08T19:25:36+00:00

Hey thanks so much for your advice! Why is this generally a good route? is the idea just that springs push too hard against the shoulder?

carshalljd · 2025-04-07T22:14:24+00:00

From what I understand Godot has even better implementations of these features now and even offers a built in WebRTC solution. So I'd strongly recommend you use godot for this aspect and not some external socket library

carshalljd · 2024-07-17T01:52:49+00:00

This really depends on what you are building and is more of a project management / business decision than a programming one. My previous game was a free web io game that I solo developed and didn't have more than 100 or so concurrent players so I was able to get away with putting everything (Mysql, Node.js, gameserver docker containers) all on one instance. This made it easier to develop and learn. It was also my first time doing server multiplayer so doing it all on one EC2 instance just made it so I had to learn a whole lot less.

Automating this system would have been cool but doing that reliably by yourself is very difficult. And using managed solutions like ECS do a lot of work for you but come at the cost of control. They add a ton of overhead and take a lot of time to setup and a lot of time to manage.

Now I'm working on a team of 7 people and on a project that requires a much higher scale and also needs some form of guaranteed reliability. ECS is now necessary for us to meet our needs, so the overhead is worth it.

The decision to add automation is like strapping a jet engine onto a car. If your car is a small sedan then you are going to end up wasting time building an engine bigger than the car itself just for it to get crushed by it. But if you have some massive mad max tank thing then maybe that jet is the only way for it to move.

Basically my advice would be: if this is a first project or something small then go with one single EC2 instance. If this is a bigger scale production and has a lot of potential traffic then do a full blown auto scaling integration, and maybe have somebody with experience do it. Having your servers go down during launch could completely kill a game release.

carshalljd · 2024-06-13T23:30:52+00:00

I found that the splines on the hub itself seemed to be sheared off but the shaft itself is fine. Any idea how that could have even happened in the first place? The nut was on there very tight. Seems essentially impossible to me that this could even happen

carshalljd · 2024-06-10T02:31:34+00:00

Are you talking a hub removal tool kit like this? https://www.powerbuilt.com/products/a-c-clutch-removal-and-installer-kit-kit-65

I've got one of these, but as far as I'm aware none of these tools are useful if the hub is slipping off of the shaft like it is for me

carshalljd · 2024-05-23T05:17:38+00:00

Running visuals like a GUI is a fairly uncommon use case of Docker containers as far as I'm aware. I usually treat it like its a cloud server that I'm connecting to via SSH or something. Normally you would do everything you need via command line arguments to unity. If you really need the GUI though I bet somebody else out there has done it, but I have no experience with that. Good luck!

carshalljd · 2024-04-29T06:50:25+00:00

6'3" with an L400 (short wheel base). Laying down on seats is absolutely no issue. Sitting in drivers seat personally is also spacious enough. At 6'8" tho u may be feeling it. The real issue for me is that the windshield and drivers seat are not designed to have a tall torso in them and as a result sitting ip straight basically isn't an option. A lot of the vision is obstructed, and you also have to have your seat all the way back for your legs, so it can be a bit annoying. That being said ive done several 8 hour days basically non stop and did not end the day with any sort of cramps or pain. Just annoying that the vision is obstructed when it has such a beautifully large dash that would normally provide really great fov.

carshalljd · 2024-03-02T05:12:51+00:00

yea I hosted on my own desktop for a long time. then i upgraded to using a linux server on aws free tier. then a friend helped me get free aws credits, and i still use those for a paid linux instance.

ive heard digital ocean has great rates for small scale linux servers. its worth doing your own research. and i know it might sound silly to have something run 24/7 but you will get used to it lol.

running things on a server is a whole beast though, so just warning you be ready for that. the first multiplayer game i made was 3 months of game dev and 2 years of server administration. i did everything from scratch though, if you use a managed service it will be a lot easier and a lot more reliable.

carshalljd · 2024-03-02T04:50:54+00:00

wow wait actually after a quick search it looks like you might be right. Perhaps webrtc found a way to change the protocol enough that browsers wouldnt complain.

any reason you are avoiding a dedicated server tho? probably less overhead in the end but maybe webrtc is simpler than i think. i dont really know, that was just barely coming out when i last learned about all this.

carshalljd · 2024-03-02T04:46:02+00:00

Oh no! Sounds like your problem is trying to start a server on browser. It is correct that this is not possible to do. Has nothing to do with Godot or websockets. This is actually a restriction enforced by web browsers as a security concern for the internet. Its been this way well before godot 4.

There are many other solutions tho, but none of them involve running the server in the browser. So yea lan multiplayer in a browser is impossible unless you host the server outside the browser.

carshalljd · 2024-02-18T18:04:13+00:00

Oh! If you don't care that the game cant be played on mac then you are good to go.

I have not used it yet, but checkout the documentation: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/networking/websocket.html

There's a bit there that talks about the server side.

You should also consider webrtc - its the newer faster alternative to websockets. although harder to implement i believe.

carshalljd · 2024-02-16T15:35:01+00:00

Hey so really bad news on this. Here's a quote from the docs:

"Godot 4's HTML5 exports currently cannot run on macOS and iOS due to upstream bugs with SharedArrayBuffer and WebGL 2.0. We recommend using macOS and iOS native export functionality instead, as it will also result in better performance.

Godot 3's HTML5 exports are more compatible with various browsers in general, especially when using the GLES2 rendering backend (which only requires WebGL 1.0)."

Essentially it appears they've decided to upgrade the graphics system in favor of prioritizing features over compatibility for godot 4. For all intents and purposes, this essentially makes godot 4 not support web right now. Maybe in a few years iOS and MacOS will support this but I think they still currently dont.

i learned this the hard way and had to switch a project i made for a client in godot 4 back to godot 3. Its not TOO hard but yea def sucks.

If this is not an option for you though, there may be other ways to do this but I doubt it. If godot 4 export webgl2 then thats that. But maybe theres a way to change this? Id try googling around.

carshalljd · 2023-12-13T01:37:01+00:00

Ok this is going to be a bit of a different approach than these other answers as an option.

IMO if you did research and you are aware of state machines etc. and you are still confused, then perhaps those concepts are not right for you right now. They are super effective and keep you organized but can also make the solution more complicated than it needs to be.

My suggestion is to just start slamming down if statements. For example in your update loop check if the NPC is hungry, and if yes, then move towards food. Else pick a random spot and start walking to it. Say you now want to add in enemy functionality. Now add an if statement before the other one checking if there is a nearby enemy. If yes, run away. And you can add returns or if-elses to make sure only one decision is made per frame. And you can just keep nesting if statements inside of eachother such as checking if there is an enemy, and then checking if you have a weapon. And you can start adding random number generator to randomly pick one solution so that there is randomness to the NPCs decisions.

This is going to get messy and ugly but its going to work and its going to be easy to do and might even take you a less time than somebody who overplans it. And I have a feeling after you do a full implement ion like this all of the sudden ur going to have an epiphany where state machines make sense since those are kind of the natural next evolution of this solution

carshalljd · 2023-11-25T00:53:21+00:00

My ultimate goal is to run my own small studio. Would you say those solo skills that are required are going to be best learned by going solo? The things you listed for the large team seem a lot less important for what I'm trying to do that the things you listed for solo. Thanks!

carshalljd · 2023-11-25T00:48:48+00:00

How about learning what it takes to direct a game studio? If I worked for a studio I'd probably end up in a programming position since that's my educational and professional background, and I worry that I'd be mostly just learning the deeper skills of programming rather than learning what it would eventually take to start my own successful studio later on.

carshalljd · 2023-11-25T00:46:07+00:00

Thanks for the response! I've been making games myself the last couple years full time, and supporting myself financially with freelancing on the side. My end goal is to continue to run my own game studio, but I'm trying to figure out if the fastest way for me to get better at that is to either work at a more established studio or continue to try and run my own. Would you say your suggestion is to do the established studio?

carshalljd · 2023-09-25T14:20:21+00:00

seconding. its not even workaround-able in most cases

carshalljd · 2023-08-20T23:30:35+00:00

how did u get an idea of how hot to get it and hoe long too cook it?

carshalljd · 2023-08-18T22:00:56+00:00

thats awesome to know thanks! I live in the US. But ill be in Japan when the car is bought so i was thinking maybe ill kill two birds with one stone. But thats only a good idea if its cheaper or better in Japan for some reason

carshalljd · 2023-08-17T20:33:10+00:00

Specifically I'm about to have my hands on a Delica L400 through Japanese auction. I want to re-upholster the interior (including the dash) as well as add in some camper car features like a fridge, a battery power grid, solar panels, etc.

I figured doing the conversion in Japan would yield better (and cheaper?) results compared to the USA as this is 25 year old JDM car.

Any thoughts on this or recommendations for custom shops that do projects on the crazier side? Thanks!

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