As far as I know ray casts are unnecessarily expensive in that use case, that’s probably one of the main reasons that “snap point system” exists in the first place.
Also using unity instead of Godot: 
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Yeah, I heard most methods of raycasting is intensive as well, but I wanted to make sure. Perhaps even a simple distance tracker will do but only if these things are simple shapes. I think snapping points are a better option. Also, Never! I’m probably going to make this a stress test for somethings I heard were intensive since this is merely a prototype. I also came upon a paper of adaptive fluid particle simulation that is really good for real time fluids, maybe even faster if that data is sent to a GPU. Might do something with that with the little bit of programming knowledge I have.
Just noticed it’s already December, and I had forgotten to turn on the Christmas hats on the forums, but fear not they are on now. Also you might notice that the first post in a topic doesn’t get a hat, just because that interfered with the topic editing control buttons, so unfortunately no hats for OPs.
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Wondering if it plays the height offset.
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EDIT: Nope, it doesn’t affect the offset.
Hey, hey guys, I found out something very interesting! XCOM…
Oh no, blackjack, just get over it already!
Omicron, Phoenix Point just got out on Steam! You can finally get a Steam version and play it until late-game without finishing it!
Sorry hhyyrylainen, but they still don’t have Linux support.
EDIT: In the end, I don’t think I’ll play the game.
If you’re curious…
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0h61r/dont_agree_to_the_new_terms/
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The eventual destruction of Earth is fascinating once you get over the hopelessness caused by it.
Or maybe it WON’T get destroyed. History can sometimes be an infamous trickster that is trying to worry people for nothing and then turn the tables around.
Here we are in December and it has Christmas Hats!
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Does the Christmas hat bug still exist?
I dont think it’s a bug. Odd though.
No not the Christmas hat but the bug where if you made a long post the hat floats
Test Thingy
According to all known laws
of aviation,
there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway
because bees don’t care
what humans think is impossible.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Ooh, black and yellow!
Let’s shake it up a little.
Barry! Breakfast is ready!
Ooming!
Hang on a second.
Hello?
- Barry?
- Adam?
- Oan you believe this is happening?
- I can’t. I’ll pick you up.
Looking sharp.
Use the stairs. Your father
paid good money for those.
Sorry. I’m excited.
Here’s the graduate.
We’re very proud of you, son.
A perfect report card, all B’s.
Very proud.
Ma! I got a thing going here. - You got lint on your fuzz.
- Ow! That’s me!
- Wave to us! We’ll be in row 118,000.
- Bye!
Barry, I told you,
stop flying in the house! - Hey, Adam.
- Hey, Barry.
- Is that fuzz gel?
- A little. Special day, graduation.
Never thought I’d make it.
Three days grade school,
three days high school.
Those were awkward.
Three days college. I’m glad I took
a day and hitchhiked around the hive.
You did come back different. - Hi, Barry.
- Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
- Hear about Frankie?
- Yeah.
- You going to the funeral?
- No, I’m not going.
Everybody knows,
sting someone, you die.
Don’t waste it on a squirrel.
Such a hothead.
I guess he could have
just gotten out of the way.
I love this incorporating
an amusement park into our day.
That’s why we don’t need vacations.
Boy, quite a bit of pomp…
under the circumstances. - Well, Adam, today we are men.
- We are!
- Bee-men.
- Amen!
Hallelujah!
Students, faculty, distinguished bees,
please welcome Dean Buzzwell.
Welcome, New Hive Oity
graduating class of…
…9:15.
That concludes our ceremonies.
And begins your career
at Honex Industries!
Will we pick ourjob today?
I heard it’s just orientation.
Heads up! Here we go.
Keep your hands and antennas
inside the tram at all times.
- Wonder what it’ll be like?
- A little scary.
Welcome to Honex,
a division of Honesco
and a part of the Hexagon Group.
This is it!
Wow.
Wow.
We know that you, as a bee,
have worked your whole life
to get to the point where you
can work for your whole life.
Honey begins when our valiant Pollen
Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.
Our top-secret formula
is automatically color-corrected,
scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured
into this soothing sweet syrup
with its distinctive
golden glow you know as…
Honey! - That girl was hot.
- She’s my cousin!
- She is?
- Yes, we’re all cousins.
- Right. You’re right.
- At Honex, we constantly strive
to improve every aspect
of bee existence.
These bees are stress-testing
a new helmet technology. - What do you think he makes?
- Not enough.
Here we have our latest advancement,
the Krelman. - What does that do?
- Oatches that little strand of honey
that hangs after you pour it.
Saves us millions.
Oan anyone work on the Krelman?
Of course. Most bee jobs are
small ones. But bees know
that every small job,
if it’s done well, means a lot.
But choose carefully
because you’ll stay in the job
you pick for the rest of your life.
The same job the rest of your life?
I didn’t know that.
What’s the difference?
You’ll be happy to know that bees,
as a species, haven’t had one day off
in 27 million years.
So you’ll just work us to death?
We’ll sure try.
Wow! That blew my mind!
“What’s the difference?”
How can you say that?
One job forever?
That’s an insane choice to have to make.
I’m relieved. Now we only have
to make one decision in life.
But, Adam, how could they
never have told us that?
Why would you question anything?
We’re bees.
We’re the most perfectly
functioning society on Earth.
You ever think maybe things
work a little too well here?
Like what? Give me one example.
Edit: I guess not, unless i messed up
That was already fixed last year. I seem to be fixing one issue with the Christmas hats per year.
The equivalent for Halloween would be a pumpkin mask going downwards since it’s heavier.
But what if it was a spooky haunted pumpkin mask? Then it could reliably float upwards as well due to their spectral spirit powers, regardless of the mask’s weight.
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Maybe a pumpkin mask stabbed by a knife with blood.
I meant literally a Halloween pumpkin, but that you can wear as a helmet. I just didn’t know how to call it. I knew someone who wore that on Halloween and he reported that it was quite heavy.
early happy jesus prayer day
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Reviving the thread again.
It can’t be stopped… But The Formicarium Project must go on…
Note to self: Do not list out every state/country in every continent, just use ONE diamond…
What is this? WHat is it representing? I must know.
I’m planning to write some Python for, basically, an offline Ant Information Database. Think AntWeb but offline and with other sources of information.
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