What part of game making do you tend to crash and burn on?: Page 2

What part of game making do you tend to crash and burn on?

PhantomFox128

Programming, hands-down. It took me long time to really understand the basics and even then, there's still a few things I struggle with. There's so many times where I would type something out and think something along the lines of, "If this happens, then this should happen," and of course it doesn't work. More often than not, it turns out a viable solution is something I never would have thought to use or, more often, didn't even know existed.

For what I like though, it's definitely the art and animation. In fact, if it wasn't for gamedev, I probably wouldn't have discovered just how much I actually enjoy it, at least not until much later.

I just really like drawing!

Megalomaniak

@jbskaggs said:

Blender is one hell of a tool, what I have seen done with it is amazing. But for me I just want a super simple system. It is just too much for me, Im more of place blocks more than a actual modeler.

Have you ever checked out Wings3D? It's a fairly small and simple subdivision surface modeler, might compliment sketchup very well. It can do basic poly modeling, SDS and UV work.

fire7side

I usually start tripping over my own code at some point. Luckily, GDScript went to a class system which helps me a lot.
Also, I lose patience and want to try something else. If I'm working in 2d, I suddenly want to do something in 3d or vice versa. It's really hard to decide what I want to do. I think I'm more or less there now. 1st person 3d, but not a shooter. More of an adventure. That's for a main project. I also do very small tutorials or little projects to break it up a little and try not to pressure myself because it takes the fun out of it. Another thing I do wrong is try to do everything myself rather than finding free resources, plugins, etc. For some, that might be all right, but I don't have the patience to do it all myself. The thing I've found about that, if it's a plugin, make sure there is adequate documentation and the author is still working on it, and there is some place you can ask questions. Otherwise, that gets to be a bigger dead end.

DaveTheCoder

I would recommend Udemy if you want to learn Blender or really anything you want.

A problem with Udemy is that the quality varies widely. I did a Unity course that was on sale. The Blender part of the course was terrible. The instructor who did that part was the worst instructor I've seen.

cybereality

Yeah, well like anything else you have to vet them and read the reviews or watch previews.

jbskaggs

@Megalomaniak said:

@jbskaggs said:

Blender is one hell of a tool, what I have seen done with it is amazing. But for me I just want a super simple system. It is just too much for me, Im more of place blocks more than a actual modeler.

Have you ever checked out Wings3D? It's a fairly small and simple subdivision surface modeler, might compliment sketchup very well. It can do basic poly modeling, SDS and UV work.

Yes I have used wings3d a little :)

jbskaggs

@fire7side said: I usually start tripping over my own code at some point. Luckily, GDScript went to a class system which helps me a lot.
Also, I lose patience and want to try something else. If I'm working in 2d, I suddenly want to do something in 3d or vice versa. It's really hard to decide what I want to do. I think I'm more or less there now. 1st person 3d, but not a shooter. More of an adventure. That's for a main project. I also do very small tutorials or little projects to break it up a little and try not to pressure myself because it takes the fun out of it. Another thing I do wrong is try to do everything myself rather than finding free resources, plugins, etc. For some, that might be all right, but I don't have the patience to do it all myself. The thing I've found about that, if it's a plugin, make sure there is adequate documentation and the author is still working on it, and there is some place you can ask questions. Otherwise, that gets to be a bigger dead end.

We all go thru that I think. I also find when I am looking at available assets it changes my desires what I want to do.

DeanOrTori

oh this is a good question.

for some reason, at the moment, i'm crashing and burning on something I probably know how to fix (like literally. I know waht function to call and where to do it, I just haven't gotten the motive up to open that part of the code)

but when I don't know what to do and have to think it out a while, it almost feels easier, at least motive wise? maybe cuz that's waht I'm used to.

I also have been struggling a bit with art... I chose for godot to make a pixel art 8 directional game... why oh why XD i'm so tired of animating everything in all 8 directions.

the reason I chose of course is that I think it looks a lot better to have all 8 than just to have 4.

but still. a bit of burn out. luckily my first game I'm starting very small. so i don't think i'll burn out completely before finishing

DeanOrTori

@fire7side said: Also, I lose patience and want to try something else. If I'm working in 2d, I suddenly want to do something in 3d or vice versa.

oooh.. .i feel this. I had anohter game idea while working on my current game, it took all my self control not to jump on it immediately. (its a bit of a different art style than my current one as well)

cybereality

You can animate 2D in Blender with bones. You'll still need to draw the base pose by hand, but you can use bones to do the animation (which will be smoother) and also more easily allow for different angles. You can then export a sprite sheet from Blender, or even just a 3D model and use that in Godot.

DJM

as an artist i hate UV mapping, but its a necessary evil

OpinionatedGamer

@DJM said: as an artist i hate UV mapping, but its a necessary evil

Ugh, it's so boring.

some_lame_kid

I don't know. I drew a basic test environment in blender and using it to develop player physics. That's all I've done since picking up Godot. It's been 3 months and there's still no animation, no sounds, nothing at all besides some basic texturing, the test environment and the player which is just a sprite3D, a collision box, a few area detections for environment interaction, and several hundred drafts of a player script. Everytime I figure something new out, it gets rewritten to practice optimizing for speed and readability . I can't say I'm making a "game", but just a platforming prototype and nothing's really been a block for me. I say that because if anything has been a block so far, the whole thing's been a block. Fortunately, I'm a good climber if that's the case. I've stopped playing games and going outside since I started and my life became dedicated to this. And yet, if you ask me what is vector math? I'd say "I don't have a clue, it's numbers that move, I guess?". Thanks mr. godot, making it possible for brainlets like myself to make something cool

jbskaggs

Nothing wrong with that. Its like using a game engine to write a business app- doesnt make sense but I did it cuz I wanted to. :)

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