Mini update

[gilesgoat]

Yeah, but when can you talk about that which you cannot talk about?

Or is this an elaborate marketing campaign where you're teasing the arrival of teasers?

I am working on TWO things SIMULTANEOUSLY and they are both going good.

One of them will be probably "of a bit more interest than the other" for some people at least ...

Then there's a THIRD in the work "that may be or may be different" depending on "if they are going to like it as that or if they want something else instead" ( at the present more likely the first option) and I can only tell that "is something you NEVER seen BEFORE ANYWHERE" and we are not sure yet "where is going to be" but "probably in 2 places as well" ( if not more ).

I am not sure if there will be any teasers at all OR if one day you are going to see "... and here now there is ready to buy ... " .. that does not depend on us

All I can say is so far "the results are pretty good" and .. "they are going to be even better because .. " .. eh can't say but there's "a valid physical reason for"

[Jamesac]

"valid physical reason" = "crowbar to the head from the legal department", I'm thinking.

Looking forward to finding out when it's find-out-able. I'll just pretend to be waiting patiently in the meantime.

[Whiteball]

...I am working on TWO things SIMULTANEOUSLY and they are both going good.

Well that's nice to hear at least.
Not only that there is more than one thing, but you aren't having too many problems and things are working ok.

Good stuff.

[Frogacuda]

I'm just gonna say it. Unity lives. Prove me wrong.

[gilesgoat]

"Reasons why coders contemplate suicide and/or mass homicide 'of unknown persons' ( because it's not known who's responsible ) " ..#

"Code that is working since Polybius Steam version up to now" .. almost "never touched since" doesn't do anything special .. detects the controller(s), sets a "current" one, reads its status, has a callback function that says when it's connected/disconnected ..

ALWAYS BEEN WORKING since at least 3 years ...

So it's been working UNTIL YESTARDAY EVENING on Yak's *NEW* PC ..

Then this morning I heard "too much shouting" from Yak's room, I go to check "the controller is not working" .. he modified some stuff, cleaning up some code .. "no worries, let me have a look, maybe you just forgot some line of code" ..

Check this .. check that .. hum .. seems ok ..

Ok let's connect this controller let me see what happens ..

.. code does a loop through all possible stuff .. "NO CONTROLLER FOUND!" .. erm .. WHAT ?

Try disconnect .. try reconnect .. "NO CONTROLLER FOUND" ...

???

Change USB port .. .. "CONTROLLER FOUND!" .. (*)

OH ?

Run the program ..

NOTHING WORKS ..

"Impossbile" ..

Check this check that .. controller found .. controller ID ok .. num of axis/buttons/hats/etc. OK ..

glfwGetGamepadState(joysticks[current_gamepad].jid, &current_pad_state)

returns always true .. so OK .. print states .. "all shit bogus" .. axis all stuck to a nonsense value/etc.

And it's like "there's NOTHING ELSE called but THAT function that should return the gamepad values" ...

Check this check that .. "nothing" ..

OK .. GIVE ME ALL THE CODE .. copied EVERYTHING in my machine, spent 15 mins to have all re-compiling ..

RUN ..

WORKS NO PROBLEM ..

Try the other "modified" code .. WORKS NO PROBLEM ..

Try this , try that, disconnect pad during game, connect it back, etc. ...

WORKS NO PROBLEM ...

But UNTIL YESTERDAY was working NO PROBLEM ON YAK'S NEW PC TOO !!! UNTIL YESTERDAY !!!

Yak's SWEARS "he changed nothing" on the PC .. I think ok maye HE DID NOT *BUT* "something changed by its own" ...

Now I am getting *MAD* trying to figure out WHAT THE FUCK !!!

You see why many times I consider throwing myself out of a window ...

(*) must be said Yak has "FUCKLOAD OF SHIT" and 3 USB hubs I think ( or 2 ? ) connected to that PC .. dunno if "that could be a problem" ..

As a matter of fact - long story made short this summer playing out in the garden /etc. - a 3 Metre "USB extension cable" attached to a PS4 gamepad *DOES NOT WORK* or "kinda makes the gamepad work in a really weird way" but it's fundamentally unuseable it gets all EXTREMELY glitchy !

[edit] - UPDATE

.. Yak removed "all some unncessary shit" removing one USB hub and re-started the PC ..

Now .. EVERYTHING WORKS AGAIN ...

WHAT .. IN .. THE .. FUCK !!! ...

[edit2] - note is a couple also of days that Yak is "experimenting/testing various things" to try to reduce/understand "why the Oculus Quest was having strange glitches" ..

Connecting/disconnecting/etc. many things ... but that's another story ...

[Jamesac]

My first instinct on that is power supply issues to the USB ports. You can get all kinds of weirdness from that.

[gilesgoat]

Ok the situation is again "stretching a bit in time" but not cause of me .. I mean I am "quite close" to finish all the job .. and I haven't heard some words yet from "the powers" ..

At this point I re-started also working on some other things ...

Don't know seems to be times where "every now and then people seems to vanish into nowhere to be heard/seen" then re-appear "much later" ..

So yeah "it's all still going pretty well" .. let's say it's going with "its own pace" .. it's all going and I am still not allowed to talk anything about.

[mb3018]

I'm looking forward to whatever you guys are working on. I played Moose Life on free ride on my niece's PSVR, and about 40 levels of Grid Runner. So I still need to play those for real some time.

[Markie]

I'm very much looking forward to whatever comes!

[Markie]

One question, could this be a good time to buy a Occy2? If so, are there different versions? Any help would be great :-)

[gilesgoat]

One question, could this be a good time to buy a Occy2? If so, are there different versions? Any help would be great :-)

I'll pass the question to Jeff .. I really don't know the situation at the moment.

[gilesgoat]

Wandering through the halls of a weird dungeon ...

.. looking for documents and pieces of information there and there ...

"What do I need to do this ?" .. "What do I need to do that ?" .. "How do I know if I've done things right or not" ?

Someone .. LOVES to do things like "There's a new portal for that" ... I am wondering if all that is "unavoidable in really big organizations" or what ...

It's like if to cook spaghetti you need a pot, water, fire, salt, spaghetti and "there's the pots portal", "the water portal" "the fire portal" "the salt portal" "the spaghetti portal" "the final assembly portal" "the approval portal" "the verification portal" .. and yet I can't find "where are the documents explaining how you want your pasta and if I can use that type of spaghetti or the other or if I must use only one specific type .." ..

"Fragmentation" is the word that comes into mind ...

"Goes without saying" each one of these "portals" has its own "procedures" and such all different ( and with some obscure parts ) from each other ...

*SIGH* .. it's *ALWAYS* like that ...

Forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms ,
forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , forms , etc.

[gilesgoat]

"Check this thing and let me know what you think .. " ..




"Make the black button white, tint the white button black then put a grey strike in the middle so it'll all look natural"

( follow a list of various things around those lines )



Unfortunately I cannot find an image for the famous "Give those nymphs some hooters"

.. you got the idea where I am ...

[Jamesac]

Can't go without that strip-

[gilesgoat]

Can't go without that strip-

For some reason that image does NOT display here unless I open the link directly ...