Dhruv Patel @Jr_IndieDev

Indie Game Developer. That's it! Gujarat,India Joined January 2024

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Kommander Karl @kommanderkarl

3 years ago

Seeing my videos still making rounds warms my heart

sasha @lobotosasha

3 years ago

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There was no way we could fit the whole map of gta3 in PS2 memory. Streaming involves loading models from the DVD as the player moves around. This was the hardest technical challenge during the development of gta3 and was coded by Adam Fowler. The closer models physically are on the DVD, the faster they are loaded. This is because the DVD needs to accelerate/decelerate as the head moves to a different track. Adam tried to place models that were close together in the city also close together on the DVD. He also experimented with repeating commonly used files. Even after placing models on the DVD efficiently, it was still not fast enough. Players would see the low detailed version of buildings and sometimes the road was missing. At some point we couldn't speed the streaming up any further. We had no option but to slow the player down. Portland initially had a big drag running all along the island. This was a worst case scenario. The player could go fast and there were loads of buildings to load. The artists changed the road layout to slow the player down. In other problem areas, we increased the drag (air resistance) on the vehicles 5% or so. Hardly noticeable but it helped. The streaming issues were the main reason we couldn’t let the player fly in gta3 (other than with the dodo) Streaming was also used for vehicle models, npc models and music but the map posed the greatest difficulty because of the amount of data. As models got loaded into memory and then removed, the memory would fragment into smaller and smaller blocks. Adam’s code constantly moved models around to fix this. This was tricky as models sometimes had to be moved while they could be rendered. For Vice City, various code improvements were made. Better compression of models and textures. Smarter code that would load the detailed versions of buildings only if the player was not flying. Streaming issues tends to get worse with older DVDs and older PS2s. (screenshot by @TheSphereHunter)

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Canvas of Kings | Might of Merchants @MightofMe

3 years ago

I found a very old drawing in my sketchbook. Social media didn't exist for me back then. Simple times.

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aleha_84 @84Aleha

3 years ago

Under the bridge 2 #pixelart

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Dhruv Patel @Jr_IndieDev

3 years ago

@PalworldUpdates @19damien39 That's why I don't have any empty chest.

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Dhruv Patel @Jr_IndieDev

3 years ago

Individual scenes

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Dhruv Patel @Jr_IndieDev

3 years ago

I have created an Android 3D puzzle game with different day cycles - Early morning, Morning, Evening and Night. Can you provide feedback on it?. #gamedevelopment #indiedev #unity3d

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Dhruv Patel @Jr_IndieDev

3 years ago

@PalworldUpdates @19damien39 Same goes for us when we spotted Mammorest near our base.

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Dhruv Patel @Jr_IndieDev

3 years ago

@19damien39 @Stormzeru @teamspeak @KingDragox99 @Harshit67420777 I will always prefer Teamspeak 3 instead of Discord because old is always gold. Gamers prefer communicating exclusively with each other during gameplay, and TeamSpeak 3 prioritizes this with its straightforward UI design.