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[mcc]

And holy crud the version with mipmaps looks TERRIBLE! Everything is super blurry, the no-mipmaps version is maybe a little unpleasantly sharp but you can at least look at it. Probably I should be building my own mipmap level images with some kind of clever algorithm or external art program instead of using gluBuild2DMipmaps (if I should be attempting this at all)?

Typically when resizing an image you need to add a bit of sharpening to prevent it from becoming blurry. What do you use for image editing?  If you're using Photoshop you can just create your mipmaps using photoshop's resize and get decent results. Bicubic sharper is a good default setting to use.

Actually, I am not creating mipmaps myself. I am using gluBuild2DMipmaps, which is part of the OpenGL "glu" library, to generate the mipmap images at runtime. Checking google, apparently gluBuild2DMipmaps has a very stupid resizing algorithm. So I think I need to be generating the images offline somehow instead of expecting this random library function to look right on complex line art.

I miss photoshop

[_Tommo_]

Ogg Vorbis decided to be crap on Windows.

ov_open_callbacks always returns -132 if I use my callbacks (which, by the way, work fine on IOS and OSX).
If I wrap fread/ftell etc in my callbacks, it loads BUT corrupts the heap and the program crashes in the nearest subsequent free().

I will now hope that's something's up with the SVN version, maybe the stable will work.

EDIT: Actually, I was loading the whole buffer without specifiying ios_base::binary 
Now everything works... but loading 15 mb worth of PNGs and sounds takes 1 minute. That is NOT ok.

[mcc]

Ogg Vorbis decided to be crap on Windows.

ov_open_callbacks always returns -132 if I use my callbacks (which, by the way, work fine on IOS and OSX).
If I wrap fread/ftell etc in my callbacks, it loads BUT corrupts the heap and the program crashes in the nearest subsequent free().

I will now hope that's something's up with the SVN version, maybe the stable will work.

EDIT: Actually, I was loading the whole buffer without specifiying ios_base::binary 
Now everything works... but loading 15 mb worth of PNGs and sounds takes 1 minute. That is NOT ok.

I like loading resources in a separate thread while the user is stuck at stuff like the menu screen.

But 1 minute sounds excessive under any circumstances, hm.

[_Tommo_]

I like loading resources in a separate thread while the user is stuck at stuff like the menu screen.

But 1 minute sounds excessive under any circumstances, hm.

They load in under 3 s on an iPhone 3GS, so 1 minute is a bit much on a Core 2 
Anyway I found out why it happened: loading itself was really fast, but I enabled memory leak detection and heap corruption... so it takes a LOT of time in Debug to check the correctness of any UTF-16 string is created!
Removing that made it fast as expected. But yeah, I'm a bit worried that my Strings can be so slow, even in debug 

[teomat]

I said that I'd shut up about my box2d port till it's done, but every time I posted in here I was able to solve my current problem within a few minutes.

So I was able to solve the last bug which caused some collisions simply not to happen.
And only seconds after I'm done with that I run into a new one in which I run into an inifinite loop.
I only know that it happens somewhere while solving the current contacts. Great...

Ugghhh, all I want is to get this working for once so I can finally show other people!  

Edit: Well, that was quick: the contact list in a body is looping and it hangs. Now I need to find what causes this.  I knew raging in here would help :D

[Pishtaco]

Gah, I was thinking I would start working with D again, six months and one new computer since I last used it. But it looks like it won't work with 64 bit windows. 

[Ashking]

I should really stop trying to port code I barely understand.

[mcc]

Code:

string file = scrub(fragmentToString(fragments[dayName[levelForSpace(gs)]]));

I am not proud to be the person who wrote this line.

[st33d]

Add complicated new feature based on previous code.

Discover all the optimisation in previous code is completely fucking broken and does nothing but eat cpu.

/facepalm
/facedesk
/facedesk
/facedesk

[_Tommo_]

GameCenter on iOS returns crap values for leaderboards, ranging from 0 to any int... sometimes it stabilizes and always returns the OLD values for the player. It never returns the correct value.

 

[teomat]

Alright, poly collisions should be working.
Let's see what happens.



Alright, at least it doesn't crash right away.



Yes! It works!



Wait, what's it doing?
I can see the Contact Normals being drawn, why does it not collide??



What's happening?!?



ಠ_ಠ

Damnit.

[mcc]

I have a bunch of projects developed over a long period of time, all based on a vaguely similar "engine". I have a separate, "the engine" project that I maintain that contains just sort of a sample project containing all my engine code but the game logic stripped out. When I start a new project, I copy either the sample project or one of my existing projects; I then copy and paste features I've implemented in the past into the new project as needed. If there's some feature I know I'll need in all projects, I backport it into the "engine" project.


This is not working. I just today lost most of a day because project B, which I duped from project A about 2 weeks ago, needed shader postprocessing, but project A never needed that feature; so I copied the OpenGL interfacing code out of project C, which did have the feature, into project B. Immediately things broke and all text I drew was being drawn at 700x size. I spent hours trying to work out why that was happening before I realized that when I copied my opengl code I should have changed a single line in an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT file from

States(immediateTexture,true);
to
States(immediateTexture,true,true);

But I didn't remember I needed to do this weird 1-line fix, because it was months since I implemented the postprocessing feature.

Because I'm developing the engine at the same time I'm using it, when I improve one part of it it effects only the project I made the improvement in (and sometimes, the root project, but usually only with a delay for me to be sure I like it enough to keep it). And I can't just copy and paste stuff from one project to another because they're all using half-finished versions of the engine with different sets of improvements, so they're all not quite compatible with each other.

[mirosurabu]

I'm getting headaches with AS3's matrix transformations.

What I'm trying to do is to make camera work without resorting to containers. I wrote the basic code as I understood it and it worked perfectly up until I tested changing "rotation" which made sprites shrink with every change. I suppose the setter is doing some voodoo I'm not aware of?

By the way, what I did is save the original matrix object at the end of the update loop (just before render functions are called), then add necessary translation to make camera work and then restore that matrix object at the start of the next update loop.

[Glaiel-Gamer]

I'm getting headaches with AS3's matrix transformations.

scale it up by 20 each time, let me know if that works.


I've never encountered this bug but i've heard about it, flash (in certain circumstances?) does a pixel-to-twip conversion on its matrices automatically (a twip is 1/20 a pixel)

[_Tommo_]

Just been rejected from AppStore because of a crash bug on Apple's part 
None of my projects work when opened manually when using iOS5 because of this.

2 days A.S.J. and counting.