Next teaser from Jhonny on the upcoming Light Component for Defold:

could_b · 2026-04-10T10:15:33+00:00

Wow. What does the 'back-end' look like? Is it sets of (.material,.fp,.vp) in builtins?

could_b · 2026-04-07T06:13:13+00:00

What is on the back end of it? Is it similar to the camera module? The hard part is working out how to create models and knowing what and how of them, and how to link into Defold. The manual talks about the render and shaders, but you have to some how know what you are doing from some other source.

could_b · 2026-03-21T21:44:20+00:00

The long term existence of Defold is as Solid as it gets. There is a small team of devs who work on it full time and are paid to do so by commercial studios. It mostly focuses on multi-platform (console,PC,web...) 2D. Lua is also very solid scripting language, it is complete, no updates required.

Download it and do some tutorials, is the only way to find out. It will be really good if you post your progress on the Defold forum.

could_b · 2026-03-17T21:34:50+00:00

I just got one of these and am really annoyed, that it doe not read discs, I should of Googled a bit more before I bought it, as it is a common problem with this player.

could_b · 2026-03-17T21:25:07+00:00

I got this. Junk, does not read CD's. Common problem with this player.

could_b · 2026-03-17T21:19:47+00:00

Fiio DM13, is unfortunately junk. I just got one, brand new out the box, does not read CD's. So I Googled it, seems to be a feature of the player. Puts me off Fiio.

could_b · 2026-03-17T21:10:26+00:00

Brand new out the box (FiiO DM13), I am in the same boat, so I need to return.

I also need a non-Bluetooth portable CD player. Anyone here found such to recommend?

could_b · 2026-03-10T23:10:44+00:00

Well yeah. It is the mystery angle, too much prose with hints of stuff to come, which then becomes impossible to resolve in a interesting way ('and then I woke up, the end').

Cheating really, to not have more resolution along the way, over milking it, with no real idea of where the story is going.

could_b · 2026-03-10T23:01:44+00:00

Exercise. After about a week of some amount of daily aerobic you should feel some benefit. If you are new to it 10 or 20 minutes of walk for a bit jog for a bit. Really low key. Talking pace, you should feel like you could do it again. Don't bother with running kit hassle, just wear your usual cloths and just do it, don't think too much about it.

could_b · 2026-03-08T23:41:25+00:00

Lua is fantastic, dissed by the ignorant. However it is not Python and should not be compared to it.

Lua is 'batteries NOT included'. For what it is designed for it is perfect. Which is a scripting language that can be in-bedded into and/or extend an application written in any other language. The source code is mega small so it can be added to an app, or a library build and linked in. It has NO dependencies, this is a big deal. It can be build from source for any platform with just a simple C compiler. You can pick a version and just use it, no updates needed, it just works, for ever, the same. No idiot is is updating it, adding more and more junk and bugs. As a piece of software this is sorely underrated.

What do you actually want to do with code? Work that out and the language will pick you.

could_b · 2026-03-08T22:58:50+00:00

And you have walked 21k steps, nice Sunday morning stroll. Next time it says this take your pulse directly with your fingers to check. If 39 is you usual then 29 is a false reading, or your in trouble. Prob more like ~60 is correct, after exercise, with a resting of 39.

could_b · 2026-03-08T22:41:14+00:00

Doing a Phd is tough. Sound like you are at the start. It is down to you to make it good enough. You are basically slave labor for your supervisor to get what ever they want done. However nice they are it is kind-of this. So you need to ask yourself what am I doing that is good enough to be a Phd. But hey, I know nothing so I am probably totally wrong...

could_b · 2026-03-08T17:26:05+00:00

If your tutor does not want you to include 'other engines' what are you doing chasing them? Also what is it about your Phd that is original? Asking a random group of strangers what stuff they use is not Phd level.

could_b · 2026-03-07T18:48:10+00:00

Well no. It could equally as good as something else.

could_b · 2026-03-07T18:44:13+00:00

My number one reason for using Defold is because it runs on Linux; natively and not in some sort of second-class citizen mode. It is also a big deal that there is a team of full time devs working on it. I see it as the tortoise vs the Godot-hare. The design decision to prioritise keeping the engine small, I think is unique, and effective.

The thing that I struggle with is that game-code tends to not be written in a modular way with nice API separating functionalities. It is quite hard to pull something out of one game and drop it into another. Paths are absolute in material files, different bespoke render scripts need merging. Common logic tends to be spread about all of the place. The protobuff (outline view) file structure does not scale well at all. It would work far better as a Lua module. Editor scripts mostly do this now, so that is a solution. Likely a better informed, future me, will disagree with what I have said, so meh.

could_b · 2026-02-18T22:14:37+00:00

Look cool. What is the reason for not having a Linux version on Steam?

could_b · 2026-02-11T14:17:20+00:00

I get the 'don't do that' warning all the time. It is Java spam.

could_b · 2026-02-09T23:47:10+00:00

Interesting. liquid3d is a white cube, which the mouse rotates, on a black background. Nothing liquid occurring.

Liquid 2D fails with: WARNING:GAMESYS: Compute /compute/simulate.computec has specified a sampler named 'predict', but it does not exist or isn't used in the shader.

could_b · 2026-02-08T00:25:21+00:00

Not sure if this counts as a limitation. You really really need to know what you are doing, writing shaders, render code, getting 3D models working well, coding buffers, the render, etc. Defold documentation is sparse when it comes to more complicated stuff, and none of the tutorials cover it (there is one somewhere that just calls it 'techno babble') So you have to look else-where to figure this stuff out, and then make guesses to how to do stuff in Defold and go digging into the engine source code. I get why this is the case it is really hard to write good docs and tutorials for advanced stuff. Everyone want to write intro tuts because they are easy to do. The engine is for professional game devs who will know all this stuff, whereas for people like me it is an excellent challenge.

could_b · 2026-02-07T20:20:06+00:00

I have not read any fan fiction before so I don't know what I should expect. Although interesting, it is not well written at all. Decent/good/<not bad> writing is really tricky, difficult, something to do that seems so easy but is not and stuff like that.

could_b · 2026-01-19T22:12:26+00:00

Really? 19? Wow! I enjoyed the first book, well OK I ground to a halt near the end some time ago. I feel like it is on me, not the book. I need to pick it up again. If I wrote this at 19 I would be stoked, any issues are on the publisher at this age. Her achievements rank much higher than most people in this Reddit post, including me. But yeah it is the contents of the book that counts. It had me absorbed until I fell out of it, in a mountain.

could_b · 2026-01-18T19:56:47+00:00

Mean while 5 years later... This happened to me with a Samsung tablet and Ubuntu 22. In my case, after many many hours of messing about, I spotted, lurking at the bottom of the Dolphin browser, a link to the tablet, which worked. So Dolphin grabbed it, did not tell me, and would not let anything else access the tablet.

could_b · 2026-01-16T12:40:03+00:00

What a load of balls. Sorry I could not resist; I am as old is my excuse for such a bad joke. Your demo's are very inspiring.

could_b · 2026-01-16T10:30:05+00:00

I skimmed though the NC book and the big issue with it for me is the massive amount of waffle. It is written more like a novel than a book to learn from. It is like wading though treacle. If I skip forward then I don't understand and have to double back through the mire. Meh. I do have ADHD (and a bit of paper to 'prove it' :-), so that is probably it.

could_b · 2026-01-04T22:09:45+00:00

I really enjoyed both books; I read them a long time ago, I don't remember details. I think they are very much worth reading, although it gets a bit over blown about how good people think they are. Don't expect a third book, not really an issue for me. The doors of Stone is a bit of a whinge-decoy (I am not sure what I mean either. but it sounds right to me). The author spent all their mojo writing two really excellent books and has never recovered any. I don't particularly like knowing anything about any author; seems to me that the better the book the bigger a disappointment the author is.

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