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cybereality

TwistedTwigleg Good catch! It should be fixed now.

Works now, thanks.

Audiobellum

Bimbam I've tried printing it and all I got back was the number 0; I don't know what it means.

DaveTheCoder

Audiobellum
0 means OK (no error).
The error codes are listed here:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_%40globalscope.html#enumerations
Scroll down to enum Error.

Audiobellum

Does anyone know any alternative ways of reloading a scene?

cybereality

It might be due to Autoloads. Those are always present and outside the normal tree.

Audiobellum

cybereality Yeah, autoload was a part of the problem. I also discovered that using export var for the array of weapon numbers I had was a bad idea. Thanks for the help.

fire7side

One more iteration of my low poly character. I've been watching Sherlock Holmes cartoons and that's about the level of detail I want in my characters. Still low poly. I can get a lot of variety by morphing a base mesh and changing clothes, colors, etc.

packrat

fire7side Nice, I've been up to something very similar though with a lot more shader code and watercolor paints than polygons. It's a shame I'm away from home for a week. A week with no photo scanner or sketching backlight. In theory based off the pages of incomprehensible handwriting and scribbling in the one sketchbook i have, it should work fine once I have the backlight making sure i'm drawing the same lines 50x over for the photo scanner.

fire7side

packrat One of these days I'm going to get around to looking at shaders. I have to get the basics down first.

cybereality

I just made an app in Godot that generates lottery numbers. Current jackpot is $1 billion dollars. You gotta be in it to win it!!!

DaveTheCoder

cybereality
Are you going to market the app? What's sad is that there would be people who would buy it.

packrat

fire7side Take a week and study this. The longer you struggle, the longer you wind up remembering what you learned.
The hardest part is translating the 4 words gdshader and glsl disagree on, such as COLOR is actually gl_FragColor in glsl. I won't say how long that took me to figure out as a wee 21 year old, otherwise I will be embarrassed, and maybe even shed a tear.

cybereality

DaveTheCoder Are you going to market the app? What's sad is that there would be people who would buy it.

I'm going to try to win first. Then I'll sell it for like $99 and say it has some secret algorithm. Step 3. profit.

packrat

Check out this robo I found at OSU while staying with a friend in town.

Photo's not mine, my camera's too old and this laptop's SD card slot too small.

Edit for background info, the college of engineering in my state is really cool. Campus owns a fleet of these little guys for delivering campus food to students. I tried it once, their voice isn't as cute as they look and the cookie was too sweet.
I wasn't there for the photo I just showed, I got mine just today when i went to the ATM on campus and found one who got confused by 30 students and jammed another 2 robos at a sidewalk intersection. They figured it out surprisingly fast, less than a minute was enough for all 3 to reorient and get unstuck. It might have been less than 10 seconds if I didn't try to take a photo of the pumpkin one while it was stuck just in time for them to decide to move and kick me in the shin.
I got the photo later while it was waiting in line to cross the road.

Kojack

Going back 4 months to when we talked about JPEG XL...

cybereality Support is still not ready (as I said, it's barely final) but there is a GIMP plugin and Chrome just added support

and Chrome has already deprecated JPEG XL and will remove its code. 🙁
Their reasons:

Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely
There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL
The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default
By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Dropping-JPEG-XL-Reasons

cybereality

Obvious corporate Mafia Tactics, since Google has a competing format (that is not as good).

They can't compete fairly, so they use Mafia Tactics. Same as Apple really (with OpenGL and Vulkan).

Kojack

cybereality
Yeah, kind of makes me want to use it more. 🙂

Back in 2000 a company I worked at was bought out by Unisys.
Unisys was the company that had acquired the patents on the compression algorithm in the GIF file format. When they realised what they owned (they got it as part of another company buyout), they were the ones who started charging something like $3000 for a license to put GIFs on a web page, and some fee to add GIF load/save to software. They are the reason a lot of software back then dropped GIF support (or had it as a plugin instead of integrated) and why the PNG format was invented as a competitor.

I resigned. I was rather angry about the GIF thing at the time. Plus the managers were assholes (the director blamed me for changes made in the software 6 months before I joined the company. Idiot). Oh, and burn out from bad project management. But definitely the GIF thing was an influence. 🙂

cybereality

Like when Google purposely delivered 360P resolution video on YouTube to Firefox users for 2 weeks, when there was no technical reason (faking the user agent fixed it).

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233970#c25

Or in 2020 when YouTube forced VP9 support for higher than 1080P video, even though H264 works fine, effectively making everything except Chrome choppy on YouTube.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-4k-ultra-high-definition-youtube-videos

Megalomaniak

cybereality Or in 2020 when YouTube forced VP9 support for higher than 1080P video

To be fair to VP9(not google) it was a decent format and google did opensource it when they acquired it. Making it more open than Hxxx codecs. Ironically IIRC it was firefox that initially supported VP9/WebP while chrome didn't which effectively killed it's adoption/momentum.

edit: I'm thinking of VP8 not 9, man it's been long.

Pixophir

I rarely use google at all, be it search engine, browser, OS or whatever. It simply has no benefit and I don't have to grow any gray hair. Actually, I have also stopped growing hair :-)

Shave-and-a-hair cut ...

Pixophir

Firefox neither supports JPEG XL.

And there is this:
https://jpegxl.io/articles/rans/
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/13/microsoft_ans_patent/

Already 1.5 years old. What became of it ?

I stay with png for now.

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