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No love lost: AppLovin helpfully releases tool to switch from Unity to Godot or Unreal (www.pocketgamer.biz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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AppLovin’s attempts to acquire Unity last year turned sour when Unity opted for a merger with rivals ironSource instead . Now, in the ongoing shockwave of Unity's unpopular introductio...

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Wow well I guess I'll eat crow. I never thought that was possible to automate but given the use of LLMs I guess it is... Excited to see how it turns out

[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 year ago (9 children)

From their GitHub, they use this prompt to ChatGPT:

You are professional Unity engineer who is migrating a large project from Unity platform to Godot 4.1. Migrate code to GDScript, which you are an expert in. Follow the following rules: 1. Output code only, put explanations as comments. 2. Do not skip any logic. 3. Preserve all comments without changing. 4. If migration is impossible leave "TODO [Migrate]" comment. 5. Use GDScript best practices. 6. Convert camelCase variable names and method names to snake_case. 7. Unity namespaces should migrate into 'class_name' directive. 8. Unity class should migrate into 'class_name' directive.

Personally I find this kind of thing adorable and I hope it works out for them

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does ChatGPT's code get better if you include "You're an expert in that language" in the prompt?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It does occasionally because it filters out sources which doesn't fit that pattern, but it doesn't guarantee anything (for a variety of reasons, like inevitable statistical cross contamination in the model, bad samples like overconfident answers, smaller number of samples to learn from, etc).

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