Mab - Working on ETOS

I finally got a #Steam page up! ETOS is an immersive sim focused on exploration, world and system interaction, and making pacifist gameplay fun for the average person If any of that sounds interesting to you, consider wishlisting! #gamedev #indiegame #immersivesim

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@_M00NWATCH_ Thank you mate! I wish they did too so I wouldn’t have to do this myself 😅

@Mab_Devv I see. That is very interesting. I always want to let you know this is genuinely one of the best level editors I have seen and I would kill for something like this to be in Unity by default or as a package. Keep up the good work man.

Tagging materials with what theyre supposed to be made of is now a thing In unity, a material only has data about how it looks, not what its made of My materials do, and is automatically tagging the objects that use it, so the game knows "this is wood, play wood foot sounds"

@TUKYOWAVE Oh true! raycast returns collider, not GameObject, so no need to getcomponent Still means that how it looks is divorced from what it’s made of, but I can make it so that applying a material to an object applies the correct physics material automatically too I’ll get on that, TY!

@Mab_Devv You can do this in unity with the collider on the mesh. There is a slot for a PhysicsMaterial on it. This can be used as a dictionary to determine the material on the mesh, and you can associate sounds. On col or ray etc, you get the collider and the PhysicsMat. No need for tags.

@DaveOshry but i thought indienesia is where all the indie games came from

Goddam Indonesia HATES Godot Engine

@_M00NWATCH_ I’m not reading triangles, it’s just that because my code is actually generating all the game objects at runtime (I’m not doing any modelling here, i add a “room”,the code generates the objects) so it’s also able to change the objects tag based on material applied

@Mab_Devv I am curious, how exactly would this material tagging system work? I have a system that sort of works but a big limitation is that it cannot read the triangles of a static mesh. Do you have that same limitation or did you make a workaround?

@mr9697403917753 I hope you’re charging him rent

@Mab_Devv this is location from my dream (inside the house), and there was pennywise💀

@EpicMcDude @VoicelessName yeah not sure how I’d tackle that efficiently (since sound is processed on the cpu I don’t know if a gpu solution would be viable) I could generate a seperate collider only GameObject to raycast to for each section (I already do in the editor)but prolly not great on performance

@Mab_Devv @VoicelessName Wish there was a better option, maybe through the GPU with the material or texture ID something. if you do a texture atlas and UV a room with 1 texture that has wood and plaster for ex. the mesh collider will only have 1 physics material so wood could affect plaster

@VoicelessName oh cool, unity has physics materials too but theyre a bit barebones in comparison and even if they werent it would still require you to use getcomponent which is way more expensive than just checking the tag, unsure how expensive it is to do it in unreal

@Mab_Devv Unreal Engine does tag materials with a "physics material" and let you query that. You still have to tag every object-specific material though.

@hobbenhood thanks for prompting me to do that lol, after the moving shapes function i needed an easy win

@Mab_Devv Yeeesssss

@Sinnoware Happy birthday Sinno! The best way to learn about game development is to work on a game :)

It’s my birthday. Please give me any advice or teach me something to help me improve. 🙇‍♂️

@hobbenhood Haven’t done yet but yea tagging different materials with what they’re supposed to be made of (wood, metal, concrete, etc) will be a thing That way I can do accurate footstep sounds among other things (wooden props will be destructible, metallic objects are grappling points etc)

@Mab_Devv As always, wonderful work. I’ve been wondering - what is the current capacity/modularity for systemic materials? So baking, say, a burning mechanic into wood or a ricochet into metal. Can that be added in so that all you do is tag a door or wall and it brings it in?

Added a "move shape" function to my games level editor Lets you move the floor shapes from one room to another, allowing you to quickly and easily remodel the layout of a level And gave me an excuse to make a big funny arrow

@EternalShrek Will 1000% be campaign focused, with the level editor added on as a bonus And then the level editor will be ported to ever game I make after, which should make them way faster to come out

@Mab_Devv Looks like it’s coming along great dude. Although I’ve recently been wondering, will ETOS be more focused on the level editor on on a campaign of its own? I think an imsim level editor will open up the door to so many people to make amazing things but I love a central campaign

So much of my time on this level editor is now just hooking up my code to the buttons and textboxes that past me gleefully threw around this ui Anyway, the material editor panel is now fully working

@TafferKing451 Finally, the long moss arrow

Today on "stupid Gloomwood ideas that didn't make the cut": the carpet roller. (Sketched probably in 2020?)

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