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[Sik]

You somehow pulled off by accident what most programmers have trouble doing on purpose.

[oyog]

Added SMAA to my game.
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That Doom map looks too complicated for me.

[Codestar]

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

I ended up fixing that bug, then I came across this bug when playing around with alpha stuff for making a darkness mask for the room.



Ghost stage!

[owendeery]

Working on some fog volume stuff.

[kirennian]

Greetings!

What a brilliant thread.  I'm soon to start my own proper engine of sorts... after a 9 month development at Uni, I've since been doing minor experiments whilst working in the corporate world for the last 30 months to save up and complete a project idea which I've been building up in the last 8 years.  It's threads and forums like these that stop the thoughts of impending doom; I'm overly grateful that they exist.

So here's one I came across during my MRes development.  I was showing my solar system engine project to a non-coder friend of mine when we got onto the topic of programming.  I said just one single line of code can change something dramatically, he asked me to show him so I went to the default which has spawned so many awesome fails/wins... not refreshing the backbuffer!  :D

Slowly zooming out from a green planet with a thin atmosphere and asteroid belt:


Planets slowly moving whilst I'm scaling them down to a point:


Same again but the planets are moving a bit faster:


Planetary movement can be awesome...:


Aaaand accidentally attaching the planets to a Buddha mesh instead of generating a sphere:


This accident ended up being extremely useful for showing Galileo’s reduction of the Ptolemaic Model.  It was of course, released as a feature.  Free to download at www.tssengine.com although it's no longer supported.  I got it to that stage and having noticed how much better I could make it, I immediately started thinking about how to self fund... well that's where the next two years are going to take me anyways. :D

[GalaethGames]

A common one this one is chaps, Forgetting to put a reload timer in the game to stop a million missiles being released at once!  Also, I forgot to finish of the code for their start position, hence they come out from the camera

[Sixmorphugus]

My friend tried some RCE on a really old game engine:


Didn't turn out too well.

(NOTE: moved across from "the grumpy old programmer room" thread because I was told it fits better here)

[CatStack]

I'm not sure if this is a fail or if it worked better than it was supposed to. I tried to write an image processing filter that would make it look like how a cat would see the image, and all it's done has highlighted the eyes, throat and crotch of this horse.

[BomberTREE]

Haha his crotch is blood red.. Cat's are vicious.

@Codestar that looks like a feature to me.
@Kirennian those are some wild visuals! Super cool

[kazak]

spritesheets...

[shellbot]

I should probably disable physics on bullet shells.

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I 100% prefer that latter. It looks way less cluttered.

[Azure Lazuline]

Spawning 1 enemy per frame in the exact same location.

<Kalir> ultimate solitaire victory attack

[gimymblert]

@azure
Looks like a feature to me 

[Mytino]

I uploaded a video of what I consider one of the strangest and most interesting bugs I've ever encountered.
It's a result of trying to program a fluid dynamics simulation in GLSL ES with a single draw pass.

[rosholger]

running up slope launches you up in the sky... 

[ProgramGamer]

running up slope launches you up in the sky... 

I remember having a similar bug in an old game of mine. Good times!

[Sik]

Figure out what causes the bug, then make a game where the gimmick is being launched into the sky.

[GalaethGames]

 think something's gone wrong with my screenshot code in Godot

[Sik]

Clear command missing for comment.

[GalaethGames]

I wish it was that simple