Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Fifth day of my first #projects log.

Today's goal is to make a multi-agent networked player control in #unity3d.

Sometimes projects we make teach us fundamental things, and sometimes they teach us some gotchas. A gotcha I learned today is that in #unity, you can have a TextMeshPro which is a UI component and one that is a 3D component. There is no way to distinguish between those after you add them to a scene. So you'd better remember or label which one's which.

Some more highlights from today's evening!

Now that there are so many people here, and everyone seem to be reading everyone they follow...

...perhaps now is the time when I'll find more friends to play #MagicTheGathering on #MTGO?..

We're not playing normal cubes, we're playing a cube I made called "Into the Story". Here's the list: https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/633f463453859b175ba27b36?view=table&scale=medium

Proof: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=WgYFXCUEL4Y

How it started: sieze the means of production;
How it's going: seize the means of oppression.

Stop using bankrupt mottos and come up with your own.

#SimonAndGarfunkel are amazing. Been so long since I've listened to them.

On reselience and fragility.

I've been pondering about the optimised systems (in business, in mechanics, in general, from system theoretic standpoint).

Optimisations require increasing *reliability*, but as you optimise, you -- by definition -- reduce the error margins. The less margins you have the less reselience -- by definition -- you can have.

It may sound obvious, but it has interesting implications.

For example, the system of business (such as a racing league like #WRC or #F1) where businesses compete in optimisations, will transitively be fragile!

For instance, business that runs away with a particularly successful optimisation will then destroy the system together with the competition (like #Toyota did in mdoern rally). A manual intervention will be required.

Not sure if it makes sense to people who aren't into rally, but I think that the three concepts: optimisation, reselience and reliability are very interesting to consider.

If you, like me, want to support the military effort of Ukrainians (because Western decision-makers are slow to produce proper support which can speed up russian capitulation), you have a great chance to do so!

To protect #GrainExport and ensure deoccupation of the Black Sea, #Ukraine is building a fleet of #NavalDrones, under the supervision from the administration of President #Zelenskyy.

Donate here: https://u24.gov.ua/navaldrones

Day four of my first #projects log.

I learned about #unity #netcode, the cubes synchronise their positions over the wire.

Found an amazing starter kit made by an ex-Microsoft MVP person.

https://github.com/dilmerv/UnityMultiplayerPlayground

It helped a lot to understand #ServerRPC.

Now my teammate will put all our knowledge to a practical test and build a ServerPlayer entity which shall translate the inputs from the clients to the server in order to update the state of the physics simulation and the game.

#trojangoose vs #frogsters

@groovestomp (I'm free this evening).

@groovestomp look, #mastodon exploded!

Do you want to do some #simracing some time soon? 🙇