Ship
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Ship
Pending review
Ok so wind was broken so I moved it to it’s own class, then player positions were broken so I had to fix that, but it’s now ready for a v0.2.0 release :)
THEY WORK 
So it only took like 3 weeks for 2 people to sign up, BUT it works!! (I just kept pushing it back every week lmao)
Things I learned:
- the whole tournament system worked first try, I will NEVER BE TOUCHING IT AGAIN
- Timezones are hard (It took me 50 mins to code a system where the tournament time would be correct on every client when I entered the time on my side)
NOW I KNOW THIS LOOKS BAD, BUT IT’S NOT MY FAULT (mostly)
Ok, so my last devlog was 3 months ago, and not devloging was like 60% not my fault. Basically, I was making a lot of official bug reports for the game, do to, ya know, making a multiplayer mod.
So after I posted that last devlog (like 2 weeks lol) luke asked me if I wanted to be a beta tester, and obv I said yes, part of that was that I couldn’t share anything about what will be in the game, which also means pictures, or any code for my mod (bc that might leak smt related to the game).
So I just didn’t devlog, then forgot about stardance :(
BUT I have a lot of cool things to show off:
I spent a lot of time working on the character models, I wanted something that would fit the vibe, and after a little bit of work (and a few models) I pulled one of the videos of Luke from the files and made that the character model. I think it fits the vibe and is pretty cool.
I also got the map to sync up so that if the host changes the map (like opens a gate) it also opens on the client side. That took awhile to get right and is kinda unoptimized, but it works 
I also added AUIDO!!! This took waayyyyy to long and it kinda jank, BUT it works, ball sounds come from that players ball, and global sounds are, well… global.
Next up scoring and better other players ball trails:
I added 2 scoring modes, one from Nintendo switch sports golf, and the other is just normal golf. Along with the scoreboard I also made it so that each player would have there own ball color.
Oh also I did some bug fixes lol, hard to test a multiplayer mod with 1 client lmao (I have some testers now tho)
also added steam overlay support so you can join them from steam overlay
PICS/DEMOS
Check out this crazy shot done using my multiplayer mod :)
- Player model
- A bunch of score card stuff
- Ball trails with player color (example)
Got tournaments fully working!!! I think?
Playing with 2 players I can go from start to finish and the scores actually save now, I set up a tournament on the public servers for Sunday, so that’s going to be the real test (if anyone signs up lol).
pics:
- A fully finished tournament with 2 players (not much of a tournament lol)
- The layout for that tournament
- The Tournament on the live servers
So it’s been about a month…
I added some more stuff to make the leaderboard shift on prod easier, it’s just a very small script, but it removes the pain of the whole thing so I can just run it and be done
I changed some of the scoring system for the final heat, I learned that during the golden_heat there is 7 heats, and to qualify you need to get second 2 times or first once. This took a while sadly, but I’m much closer to getting this on prod, just need to finish up the progression system and I can get some real live testers.
I also will be getting a real press racer4, wont fly out of the box, but getting it to fly will be easy.
(again not much to show bc of it all being backend work 
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I’ve been working a lot on getting the scoring, replays , and leaderboards right.
During this 9 hours, I spent most of it breaking a system that already worked!!!!!!!!! The leaderboards!
I had to add like 3 new columns (into the primary key 💀) and rework my leaderboard code to work right. It only took 5 hours
Oh and it’s going to be a pain to get that on prod. yay :(
Right next to that I had to implement a brand new scoring system for the tournaments (which is mostly done besides saving). I’m using a map of maps to map each match to tournament. That should keep lookup times to O(1) and worst case O(N) which should be fine.
Good news tho, I’m might be able to get my hands on a real life DRL Racer 4!!!!! If I do, you can bet I will be reverse engineering that so hard.
pics in order
- Tournament scoring thingy?
- Image from the replay system (replays now work on tournaments)
Sorry that I dont have more to show, it’s all backend work :(
I kinda ran into a roadblock today, not really a roadblock just a lack of planning lol.
When i started to try and automate the rounds a matches I realized I had no clue what I was doing. I just starting throwing things out there and hoping it worked.
It felt like a lot of guess and check, but I did get somewhere:
I got rounds to mark as active, complete, and set start and end times dynamically, and matches are marked complete at their end dates.
I also fixed one of the endpoints (/tournaments/:guid/matches/:mid). It wanted the data I was giving it in an array even though it only wanted 1 match 
. Fixing this made the round end timer work right 
(It auto ends the quals if you are racing)
Results didn’t get any updates today sadly BUT I did some work on player displays and how matches are marked.
I was mad that I didn’t know what to do, so I watched some old livestreams of tournaments and found out that empty matches didn’t say waiting, they said inactive, so I changed the default match state to idle and fixed that
I also worked on getting player icons to display, but they are greyed out so I need to fix that later.
I got the full tournament generation working!
I got rounds to save and also matches are created and saved. The whole tournament generation is now (mostly) done.
I’ve been putting off building this system for like 3 months, but it’s lowkey kinda easy except when you mistype a SQL statement and but fix for 30 mins without looking at the SQL 
Although currently there is no player logic, so no players a entered into matches or anything like that so I need to work on that, then the results system ect ect.
(Last img is pulled from a very old livestream when the servers were still working)
Welp it happened again, Signed up for a hack club event then forgot about it till I was already past 10 hours on multiple projects
Anyways, This is a game engine made for a FPV drone sim and that will work on windows and linux, It’s the first thing of the sort I’ve done, I don’t really have a plan I’m just making it up as I go.
I started out with creating a system that would make a window with glfw and then would run some loops to process logic (Update OnStart OnRender and such)
I then added a input system, audio, some logging, IMGUI. Then a camera and moved my (most) of my libs to git submodule(s)
Then I moved window logic to it’s own class, added some input keycode stuff.
This was intended to be a game engine for a nuclear reactor sim, but I wanted to code a small physics engine too, so it’s for a drone sim now 
I really only have a square to show for all of this work tho as I need to work on the render lmao
I’m getting back to work on tournaments (from my 3 break of working on this project)
I talked to some of the old DRL devs/the Community, and even got this video of one of the DRL Community tournaments. This allowed me to make a plan:
48 people can register and that will be cut down into either 24, 12, or 6 depending on how many people there are.
if under 6 people have registered, it just does the finals basically and they all have a face off.
if there is only 1 person registered, the whole thing gets marked as failed and that tournament gets called off.
As it is right now I have a bit of an auto system in place
if tournament.register_end >= now the tournament status auto goes to idle, and if the tournament isn’t full it opens up to registration.
if the tournament is marked as idle and tournament.register_end <= now registration is auto closed and the status is moved to active.
if the tournament is marked as active but has less than 2 players it’s marked as failed.
I also created function createTournamentRounds which takes in the tournament data, player Count, and the tournament Type. It’s only set up for tournamentType === "DRL" at the moment tho.
It creates all the rounds (3 if 12 person tournament, 4 if 24 person) and sets QUALIFIERS to active.
It still needs to create matches and save the rounds tho
ALSO LOOK AT THOSE STATS!!!!!! (last 2 imgs)
Welp it happened again, Signed up for a hack club event then forgot about it till I was already past 10 hours on multiple projects
Anyways, this is a mod for a unity game called Normal Golf Game by Luke Muscat (The guy that made Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride). It adds multiplayer.
Currently it supports 2 different frameworks (Photon Fusion and Steamworks). This is because I’m lazy i set up the whole thing to work with fusion first instead of just learning steamworks.
Fusion has a free version that works with unity, but it has a 20 player limit. Steamworks is free and has no player limit, which is why it’s better. BUT normally photon fusion is easier to set up with unity, and I already know it so thats why I started with it.
I learned at about the 6 hour mark that photon fusion is only easy for unity… when you are not modding.
I also made the mistake of not setting up git at the start so when I swapped over to Steamworks I would have to start a git repo or just delete all of my code.
So I did neither and added a Steamworks build option and a Fusion option so that I could build for both of them.
(I set up a git repo at after a little while tho)
Oh btw the game isn’t even out yet, I made all of this for the demo.
Learning Steamworks was really easy but hindsight is 20/20 or smt ig.
I even filmed a trickshot with it
Pics in order
- Pic of Room host/Join menu
- pic of the shot perceptive of that trickshot i hit (Other player is visible as a cylinder)
I wish I had more to show, but this is it for now
If anyone has any ideas on what the player model should be I am very open to suggestions.
