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[–] teft@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is that Dogmeat or the Thing?

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Project Thingmeat, maybe?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] teft@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Same images:

[–] 2fm@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

Project Zomboid!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Why would dog extend human?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm, 4 limbs, 2 eyes, 2 ears, mammal...
Close enough???

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago

See you just said mammal. Why not have them both extend from that? Then they define a property or a method which modifies how they jump over a fence.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They probably thought that all their NPCs would be human when they started the game, so they named their NPC class Human. Then they decided to add dogs, but needed them to do a lot of the same things the human NPCs did, so they made the Dog class a subclass of Human.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

it's probably so much worse

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

What is refactoring?

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Object oriented programming was a mistake

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

ND answer is because the dev made the Human class before abstracting everything into the Entity class, dog should extend a game entity and not inherit the human animation behavior.

[–] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In modern games, I think it's fairly common to have a common 3d skeletons share names. So you can make animations like the one above apply to any character even if they have differences. It doesn't mean that dog extends human, but it may mean that a dog model shares a lot of common "bones", that are used for movement, with a human model.

So when a human animation is applied to the dog, you can see it warp to start position of the animation, move, and then then stop at the end position as a standing human, before warping back to idle animation (when it turns back into the dog shape)

Related, weapons in Destiny also share the same components across weapon types, and bugs have caused one weapon type to be used for another weapon, making funny things happen. Like how a hand canon (pistol) stretches like a bow because it's model got used in place of the bow model at the start of this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZa9vv5U0M

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

IIRC, the screen recording is from a mod of a game. The original game didn't have dogs, just humans, and the modder decided to make the dog NPC from a human NPC and forgot to override that one animation.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, seems weird.
Normally one would use multiple horses and some ropes for that. No idea how you would manage that with a single dog

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That looks crazy like Project Zomboid

Ahh it must be a mod

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Rather Lovecraftian, that.

[–] Zorro@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why not let the dog walk under the barrier 🤔.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Special animation just for dog?

silent hill 2 dog ending

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

What if the dog walks through a wall because of that? Thats a risk that cannot be taken

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] rollerbang@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

So does the human.