duane Oh, I don't know about that. I've been told that posting your backups on pirate venues, labeled as popular movies, is the best type of backup around. They'll instantly be shared on thousands of computers. 🤪

You are, to put it mildly, misled:

  1. On normal, reputation-conscious sites, content is checked. And if it does not correspond to the declared subject matter is removed or blocked. Yes, pirates have their own rules, and they are often quite strict. If the site is questionable, then its reliability is also questionable — it can fall off at any moment.
  2. A pirate resource can be blocked at the state level and it becomes physically inaccessible. Or seize the servers.

It's just that I'm going to distribute my games from such a site and wondered about the situation. To distribute my creations (games and music) from a pirate site — not my idea. It's practiced there and there's even an appropriate section.

    I think now is a good time to tell the story on how I lost 1 years worth of work on a DirectX11 game engine. I started this hobby engine back in 2013 and worked on it on nights and weekends. I was using Subversion at the time for source control and as my only backup. The service I used was called Code Spaces, and was a smaller company, but still popular. In any case, around a year later the servers were hacked. The hackers demanded some large ransom, in Bitcoin, and threatened the owners not to try to regain control. Of course, they didn't pay and tried to get back into their servers. So the hackers followed through and deleted all the servers (which I guess were cluster of VPS systems). However, the server had a backup on AWS. But the owners were dumb and had it linked to the same credentials. So the hackers logged into AWS and deleted all the backups as well. Literally everything was gone. When the owners discovered what had happened, the next day they just made a blog post and said they were closing up shop because it was too bad of a mistake and no one would ever trust them again. I lost 1 years worth of commits. Granted, I still had the current code locally, but I lost all the history if I ever wanted to go back. Since then I have been crazy about backups and using Git. Don't wait for this to happen to you.

    I prefer USBs, IMO. They don't cost much, and they're more secure than they'd be online.

    Yeah, I've seen those fake apps on the store. Kind of a jerk move to do that.

    Godot tutorials ?

    One up-to-date with the 4.0 gdscript changes would be cool for a newcomer, I think. The examples in the latest branch of the docu are partly out of sync.

    But I wanted to rant:
    Vulkan is a mess 😖

    Nerdzmasterz Is 4.0 free of bugs yet? I would avoid it until it is.

    No, it's still alpha software but it works okay.

      Nerdzmasterz Is 4.0 free of bugs yet?

      Well, if you don't consider it a mistake

      Tomcat Tried to experiment. Importing into Godot 3.4.4 and 4.0 the same Blender file with animation:

      But it's very sad because in 4 the animation editor is improved.

      I would avoid it until it is.

      Very reasonable in my opinion.

          I can't really test 4.x until they fix this issue. I have a small screen and old eyes, so I've probably got the largest font settings of anyone using godot. However, since we won't get web support immediately, I'm not motivated to use 4.0 anyway. 🙂

            4.0 does look great, it just needs some more TLC. It will get there. 🙂

            packrat Is it normal that I get logged out after roughly a hour since the website went back up?

            No. I only ever logged in once, when we first switched over. Do you have plugins that erase your cookies or something? You might have to whitelist the domain.

              duane I can't really test 4.x until they fix this issue.

              To be honest, "1920x1080 screen" is extremely small. Today's serious programs have a lot of options that just won't fit on a small screen even if you try to categorize them. We get too many categories. IMHO

              packrat Is it normal that I get logged out after roughly a hour since the website went back up?

              I logged in once a few days ago and have not yet logged out… Maybe some settings in your browser?

                    Seems like a critical bug to be open so long, and still not fixed on 4.0, but at least they are working on it.

                    Bimbam o.O
                    Last time I checked, the overwhelming majority of devices are still 1080 or less, even gamers:

                    I am of the opinion that there is a difference in requirements between users/players and developers/creators. For example, it is recommended to develop the game on a computer level higher than the recommended for maximum quality of this game. Well, that's how I was taught…

                    Just open the list of video cards there and try to find the Quadro... Are they being played on? But who's going to argue that Quadro is better for c 3D work?

                        I was never taught, but as we're talking about a desktop apps UI rather than the game itself, I defer to this as what I would consider a good practice:

                        https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/layout/screen-sizes-and-breakpoints-for-responsive-design

                        While I would certainly recommend any developer (or anyone really) upgrade to 4k, the practical reality is most devices aren't, and you want your app to be accessible to the biggest market.

                        ;tldr the app should cater to its users, the user shouldn't have to cater to the app (unless explicitly required)

                        Anyway Duane's bug looks like it may be resolution agnostic as the interface is extending beyond its visible window (which is bad lol)

                          1080p is still very popular, even new higher end laptops often come at 1080p resolution. And cheaper laptops can sometimes be lower than 1080p. It is common that developers own larger screens, or multiple screens, but this is not a guarantee, particularly with a free engine like Godot that is going to attract people on low spec devices. So I am unsure how this bug could go on for so long, though I admit I have used Godot on my 1080p laptop and I didn't notice any problems, so maybe it is an odd edge case.