IndigoGollum

I'm working on a two player 3D game that involves both player character models facing toward one another most of the time.

I worked out that i can use translate_object_local(Vector3.MODEL_<side>) for movement around a point that a model faces toward (there's probably a better way to do that, but that's not what i'm focused on for now), but i'm struggling to make that focus point an object instead of just coordinates.

I've tried a few things inside func _physics_process(delta): look_at($Beacon.position.x, Vector3.UP, $Beacon.position.z) to rotate around the Y axis and face the object Beacon (CharacterBody3D placeholder for player 2) crashes with the error "Invalid access to property or key 'position' on a base object of type 'null instance'."

Putting var look_here = position in the script for the beacon and then look_at($"../Beacon".look_here) in TestChar (test character) makes the character rotate around the world origin.

Adding a Vector3 variable look_here_P1 to Beacon's script and then adding or subtracting to its X and Y positions with beacon's movement keys should make TestChar face a point that's in the same place as Beacon, but i don't know how to either make TestChar use that that variable from Beacon's script, or move the variable to TestChar and make Beacon update it now that it's in another script.

Making Beacon emit a signal every time it moves in a particular direction and then using those signals to update a Vector3 variable in TestChar's script doesn't seem to work, i think either it doesn't update the variable's position or look_at() in _physics_process doesn't check for a new target to look at.

Is there a simple way to make an object always look at another object? I'm sure there must be but i can't seem to figure it out. Thanks in advance.

One page on my website consists of a single large image (with absolute position and fixed width) and an imagemap. I just realized that if i shrink my browser window or try to view the page on any screen that's not the same size as mine, the image and map become desynchronized.

I don't think this would be a problem if i could make the imagemap use percentage or vw/vh units instead of pixels, but it doesn't seem to work that way. It will accept percentages or vw/vh for one of a rectangular hotspot's coordinates, even mixed, but apparently one coordinate has to be in pixels.

Does anyone know a way around this besides letting the image be bigger than the window it's in and making users with smaller screens scroll horizontally?

I'm mostly concerned with compatibility with Firefox v138, but more generally compatible solutions are better.

If it helps, the relevant code for the image is:

style="position:absolute; top:0vh; left:0vw; width:100%"

and the map is:

<map name="map"> <area shape="rect" coords="89,522,173,634" title="font compryption" href="inventions/compryption.htm"> </map> A normal imagemap, as far as i can tell.

A scene i'm trying to make includes a hole in the sky that i'd like to have disintegrating edges, as shown here. I should only need one angle on this scene so i don't need something that's pretty from every angle.

Here's what the scene looks like currently, with a filled black circle for the hole.

And here's roughly what it should look like.

I used GIMP's pick and blur filters to do this, but i'm curious to know if there's a good way to get this same effect straight from Blender. What are my options here besides editing the picture every time i update the scene?

Thanks in advance.

What are some interesting ailments you've invented? Probably with spoilers for the grosser details.

I have a couple. The first is my take on vampires.

Then there's one about eyes.

My website's home page is meant to look like a star system, with a sun in the middle and planets (links to parts of the site) orbiting around it. That's how it is currently (here, scroll down and right a little).

What i'm struggling with now is making moons that can orbit planets orbiting the sun. I've tried moving a planet's inline CSS into a element around that planet's link and picture, and then adding another planet to that , but i can't figure out how to make it orbit around the parent planet instead of around the sun.

I did see this Codepen example, but it works differently from how the rest of my orbits are set up. It seems to rotate planets from an offset center, rather than moving them on a circular path without rotating them. And i couldn't figure out how to adapt its moon movement to my page.

Is there a good way to do what i'm trying to do, besides rewriting my page to work like the Codepen one? Thanks in advance.

I don't expect it to be possible, but it could be interesting to have different imagemaps for different frames of a gif or other animated image. For example, a large slowly spinning globe, that lets you click continents to go to more information about them. Is there a way to do this?

My site is currently pretty simple, but it still uses enough CSS that some parts of it look really bad in a browser like Links2 that doesn't support CSS. Most of what i'm doing with CSS can be done with plain HTML, it just doesn't look as good.

Is there a way to make a page try to load normally with CSS and whatnot, and then only load a simpler version with everything done in tables if the normal version can't load? Is my best option here to make normal and simple versions of every page?

Is there any way to move an object directly toward or away from the camera while scaling it to preserve its apparent size, so it doesn't look like it's moving or scaling? I don't think this is very useful, but it could be good for condensing a distant landscape to be visible with realistic looking scales while not requiring a huge rendering distance.

I'd like to be able to use vector rather than raster textures, mostly because raster images take up a lot of space. I'm pretty sure Blender doesn't support this natively, and the only extension i can find for it is Vectex, which hasn't been updated since 2012.

Does anything for newer versions exist, even just for use within Blender? Is there a better way to have detailed textures without huge texture files?

Thanks in advance.

I'm having some trouble getting my first party Wiimote Plus to connect to my Linux Mint laptop via bluetooth. I can get Blueman to say it's connected, but the sync button keeps flashing on the remote until i disconnect it, and it's not recognized by AntiMicroX, jstest-gtk, Retroarch, Cemu, or Super Smash Flash 2.

I've looked at WiiCan, wiimote-pad, and MoltenGamePad, and i can't figure any of those out. I installed xwiimote and xf86-input-xwiimote but they didn't seem to change anything.

Does anyone know what i'm doing wrong here or have experience getting a Wii remote to connect to Linux (ideally with a working nunchuk)?

That was pretty easy, actually. I added the line "ClassicBondedOnly=false" to /etc/bluetooth/input.conf, then connected the Wiimote as a normal Bluetooth device. The nunchuk doesn't work, but i think i can connect a second Wiiimote and use that in my off hand. This setup also allows me to connect a Wii U Pro Controller, and it works well enough.

I'm sure a Dolphinbar is also a good option, and i'll probably get one if i ever need a sensor bar for my computer.

One big advantage of phonemic scripts (alphabet, abjad, syllabary, abugida) over semantic ones (logography, idiography) is that they're simpler, smaller, and easier to learn. Languages have fewer sounds than concepts they can express with those sounds. But at what point would a language have so many different sounds that having a semantic script would be simpler than a phonemic one? Is this at all realistic?

This is more hypothetical than a lot of stuff to do with conlangs. It seems to me that this would only be the case in a language with thousands of distinct phonemes. Wikipedia's list of languages by number of phonemes doesn't mention anything close to 200. Even with lots of digraphs any phonemic system for a remotely naturalistic language should be simpler than a logography.

First, i know this place is mostly for video game design. But i don't see many other places for game design beyond video games, and i have no idea where else to go for guidance with designing a sport.

I had an idea today for a new variety of bowling that i think would be best played with duckpin balls and pins. Problem is, those are apparently really expensive. A quick look online has a single ball going for $60-$80 US, and candlepin balls aren't better.

Less recently i wrote rules for another sport that would require mostly original equipment, and i don't even know where to start with getting totally custom equipment made. I guess talk to a smith or welder?

If anyone here has experience with this sort of thing, how do you get equipment for experimental games/sports without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on it? Is this why apparently nobody makes new sports?