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Halo Reach: flying around in space
I am, apparently, a little way through the game, and I restarted halfway through chapter 3.  The difference in gameplay from the first Halo is marked, with increased reliance on team members and communication, and a move to large scale set pieces rather than small-scale battles in corridors from one waypoint to the next.  The world feels a lot more empty and open, and you have a sense of partaking in a massive war rather than an…

A great deal of useful material is not presented well. Try to learn no matter how well material is presented.
"You can blame whoever was communicating the ideas to you for failing to present it as well as they should but that won’t help you learn more."
"You can train yourself to learn more than most people when the material is presented in a less than perfect manner by learning how we commonly fail to learn and making efforts to do better yourself."

#footpathFriday
#RockyMountainNationalPark
Along Cub Lake Trail. October 2015

So how's that tunnel-shooter game coming along then Pre?
I have successfully made it run as a standalone Frame VR game.
Completely failed when trying to do so by compiling it for windows/proton. I suspect because of some of the ImGUI stuff failing.
And failed for different reasons when trying to build it for ARM/linux native on the thing. But that time definitely because of the ImGUI stuff I'd lazily included because interface options menu programming is tedious.
So instead I did the tedious thing for a week to build the godot-native UI, rip out the ImGUI stuff, and build enough settings menus to reduce graphics and physics settings.
There's a steam app Steam Devkit Client or some such name. You use that to upload the project-directory over to the Steam Frame as a Steam App.
And it works!
Feels pretty nice already really, but really quite frame-droppy at the most hectic times.
I think this is mostly the Godot physics system which is nice to use but apparently quite CPU costly compared to what I need really.
I just got the two collision cases really: Proximity, and tunnel-wall.
Godot's physics can build a platformer game in 3d and model the roughness of the friction in a bouncing ball.
But it's not particularly good for a tunnel in space where almost none of that matters and only our special-case of bouncing from the tunnel-wall needs to be done, and we can take advantage of the tunnel-segmentation to reduce physics combination explosions.
So the next thing to rip out and replace already is the everything that uses Godot's physics engine and replace it with simpler faster bouncier tunnel-physics.
#godot #gamedev #vr

Coming up to my 4 year anniversary on Mastodon (28 Oct 2022). Sitting & feeling that I've never been comfy here. I don't hold any anti-Fedi views, I don't prefer corporate social media, but this still isn't *home*.
I know I'm quieter than advisable on social media. Should I push myself to be more outgoing?
I sometimes look at other servers (instances) that seem more mutually supportive ... beige.party & corteximplant.com, maybe also wandering.shop come to mind.
Would I be happier elsewhere?
Or do I just know some of the more prominent members, so the support I see is just popularity?
Or should I move to where my interests lie, a gamedev-focused server?
I'm still sad mastodon.lol closed ...

These are the real issues with pregnancy that the cis men in leadership of the #LDS church don't need or care to know.
They haven't been faced with the reality women, girls, anyone with a working uterus has to face. No one has ever even considered coming between them and their doctor before they can get treatment.
No one has ever educated them about how common miscarriage (spontaneous anortion) actually is. They have never had to consider their personal health when it comes to sex, reproduction, or just living with a uterus and ovaries that can cause health problems.
They don't understand or need to personally consider the real repercussions of Idaho’s laws. That so many Ob/Gyns have left the state, getting regular checkups and cancer screenings are no longer regular. That getting pregnant may end with you on a helicopter fleeing the state for emergency treatment.
These woman are sharing the reality of what their lives have become after the passage of the strict laws in Idaho and the need to change the law, for any who care to know.
#Mormon #ExMo #Abortion #Idaho #utpol
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/18/idaho-abortion-law-moms-are-taking/