OttoHatt

@haizoopRBLX small lines per *feature* is good :). programmers can overabstract, your solution is probably simpler. that said, don't watch the line count; write code as you need it, and factor into reusable functions if you repeat yourself. Readability should take care of itself

Curious question for programmers on Roblox...👀 So I'm really new to scripting and so far the script's I have created don't really have that many lines. I've seen things before where people post about their scripts that have been over 1,000 lines long 🫣 What causes some codes to have so many lines? Is it normal to have small lines of code?

backend is Axum+Tokio, SQLite with custom pooling logic for WAL. Runs on a €24 Hetzner dedicated server with plenty of CPU to spare. these figures shocked me! - but it's nothing on Roblox itself. It's a reminder of how well they handle these services for you.

built a Rust service to match and search trades across servers, in real-time! #RobloxDev results filter "online" users. put together in a couple weeks to counter the new chat restrictions. it's stayed responsive at peaks of ~25k players! no downtime. proud of this :)

@DecimalCubed the whole of wikipedia?? i promise you it's not going anywhere

holy shadowplay bro

@Fezezen i was prototyping an Alien Swarm-like game, which requires pinpoint accuracy onto the mouse. Doing this in third person was so horrible!!

@CheekyVisuals everyone I know has an Audio Technica. The cheapest is fine. Higher-end models have a speed slider, you can make your own slowed-lofi-beats-to-study-to :P

any vinyl fans who can point me in the direction of a great record player? thank u

Wrote an open-source RNG game to demonstrate using Nevermore. I think it's a very powerful tool, I hope my example project encourages you to try it out! github.com/OttoHatt/color… #RobloxDev

thanks to @ecurtiss_ for help with the maths! this community is great discord.gg/mtWXepvp

stay strapped

@Fezezen I generated points a bit coarsely upfront for the geometry, then applied smoothing for the camera. But iirc, the algorithm only wants points i & i+1, so you can make it into an iterator

@Fezezen not merged, but a starting point perhaps? github.com/ecurtiss/CatRo…. Sounds like a similar problem statement as implementing this... x.com/otto_hatt/stat…

What would be the best way to have a point move along a curved path in roblox at a desired speed without making 5 billion points along the path to get the rotation to look normal?

@ComfyDayGames Yep, ImageLabels with UIGradients. Their Y positions increased by dt, modulo’d by tile height each frame. It’s not that accurate…! I’ll replace this when ViewportFrames get better rendering capabilities

@otto_hatt It looks great! How are you displaying the trails in action? Is it a set of pictures swapping over and over?

Been making a lot of UI lately! Trying to nail a fun, yet neutral style that can be re-used across games. #RobloxDev

I put patterns on the interactable elements. Twitter video does not like it!

@CrossStarCross @beeni_online ‼️ abscond.store/products/absco…

@beeni_online where is tht from wdf

The 400 boids in this video take ~8ms/frame (6ms of which is BulkMoveTo). Perf slows a bit over time; they tend to clump together, so the spatial hash grid becomes a less effective optimization. Possible big benefits from frustum culling (but then you'd have to disable shadows!)

Swimming with the fishes.. #RobloxDev

@inceptiontime the metaverse is a series of tubes

Laundry Simulator 2, coming soon