Michael @drjeats@octodon.social

It's official: we removed all the .ma and .mb files from the project. Thanks to somebody from the unitydevs slack who provided some baseline MEL code for me to work with.

Now you don't need to install a rando version of Maya to run our game in editor. This is a massive relief.

Also I'm sorry for all the times I bagged on Perl, MEL is so much worse.

#gamedev #unity3d

check above ^

(Is it kosher to anchor some toots to some hashtags after the fact?)

#ux #design

The startup I interned at had a UX designer, but they seemed like product manager/designer meets graphic designer whereas my friend wants to do work that involves honest-to-goodness studies and research since they're an academic at heart. What do you do education-wise to pursue that?

GA & related things always seemed really shady to me, so im very not really able to give my friend good advice. Anybody here in the fediverse know a path to a career in this field?

My friend was a psych major in college, did lots of UX and othe psych-related research projects with profs. Their first couple of jobs out of school were not UX, but now they want to do UX.

They found these General Assembly courses which their current employer is willing to foot the bill for. Now my friend is asking me for which courses are good since I'm _kind of_ connected to startup-land. Problem is I have no idea what a UX designer is/does in most companies

My only beef is a technical one: some of the links take forever to load (opening the Menu is painful). What are twine mobile builds doing that cause this?

I randomly saw a twine game @ PAX East called "Open Sorcery". Only got a vague overview from the person at the booth before I had to run back to our booth, so I just bought it then & there bc puns.

Last night I decided to start playing it, & it's pretty good. Would recommend if you like a solid CYO adventure game with riddles and imaginitive writing.

It's more grounded than, e.g. Ultra Business Tycoon 3 (which is also very good), and feels really fleshed out so far.

I found a spot in some very old but very important powerup movement the code that depends on 1/0 being 'Infinity' and it's very upsetting

You can kind of infer how #unity3d's frame debugger works if you hit situations like this, I'm guessing it saves render textures for each render group?

https://gfycat.com/DeficientPettyAntelopegroundsquirrel

#gamedev

when one of your mutuals on the birdsite tweets something with the word "birdsite" in it but you cant find their mastodon handle

hey #gamedev tooters who use Unity, I'm pretty sure these docs are wrong:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UI.HorizontalOrVerticalLayoutGroup-childControlHeight.html

The inspector is also labeled "Control Child Size" while the property's named "childControlHeight/Width".

what do you think? have you played with these new properties yet? (I think they were added in 5.5)

but now this is fixed, and the new stuff I'm adding seems to be working :rainbow:

printf debugging when you're having a hard time

turns out the transform containing all the UI canvases had its Y set to 286.3 which makes layout groups and scrollers spew NaNs :weary:

https://octodon.social/media/SlzEEsFnXOvTxjdYWkw

hello, here is some good content https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/memory-bandwidth/

I considered adding "CW: ui programming" to that one :upside_down:

Somehow the scroller handle in our leaderboard UI got some of its rectTransform properties set to NaN, which makes it eat all the pointer raycasts which should go to other buttons. Add it to the checklist for debugging unresponsive buttons!

#gamedev (unity)

(note: this is not actual data don't freak out)

Does JSON.parse in the browser max out around 500-deep nested arrays? https://pastebin.com/nMiv867M