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[Schrompf]

Spent three long days syncing localisation files. First came user translations, meanwhile came bugfixes and text corrections, then came additional features that needed new lines of text, then came more user translations, then came whole story campaign redesign with new lines, changed lines, shortened lines... and now I needed to sync all these for 6 languages, mark the changed lines for retranslation and brush everything up for voice recording.

[Code_Assassin]

Everytime I extend the cmd's capablities I seem to have to redo functionality that .NET offers me. It's a never ending cycle.

[Geti]

Everytime I extend the cmd's capablities I seem to have to redo functionality that .NET offers me. It's a never ending cycle.

Just fyi cmd + .net is basically powershell and you might want to look into that.

[Endurion]

Seconded. Powershell adds cmd, bash and the .NET framework together.

[Geti]

I dunno if I'd say it adds bash due to the implicit .net-yness of everything (rather than file streams), though I guess you've got the completion and logical operator side of things...

Grumpy cause I'm really behind on writing heaps of words about parallel computer architectures.

[Graham-]

minimize duplication.

[tjcbs]

For the 10 billionth time I used min when I should have used max, and vice-versa. There's some kind of mental block going on, I just can't get it right.

[jgrams]

Just spent 45 minutes tracking down a bug...that turned out to be me forgetting that

Code:

float a = 2/3;

gives you zero in GLSL, C, and C++.

Every time I forget to add a decimal point, I swear it will be the last time I make that stupid mistake...but then a year or two later I do it again...

[Squidly]

Fighting Box2D and AS3 at the same time all the while trying to make a complicated platformer engine is a torture no programmer should ever have to endure.

[Geti]

Spoilers don't use box2d for a platformer we did and it was the worst change we ever introduced, bar none.

GLSL

Really??? I thought it was float central there.

[jgrams]

Spoilers don't use box2d for a platformer we did and it was the worst change we ever introduced, bar none.

Heh. Yeah, "real" physics is generally not what you want for a platformer.

GLSL

Really??? I thought it was float central there.

You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? But no, it does integers as well, and uses C-like promotion rules. So if you divide two things that parse as integers, the fractional part is truncated, even if you're then assigning it to a float variable.

Having messed around a bit with writing compilers, I can understand why they did it that way; it does simplify things. But man, does it make for some annoying bugs when you forget about it.

[Squidly]

Spoilers don't use box2d for a platformer we did and it was the worst change we ever introduced, bar none.

You can force it to play by your rules, for example, in order to allow sliding up a block when jumping (normally you slow down if pushing against something) you simple create a low friction block exactly one pixel wider on both ends then the regular friction block. This lets you be able to slide against the side but not the top.

Creativity blooms in despair ._.

[Geti]

We just turned off almost everything except penetration resolution for stuff that wasn't meant to be "physical" and handled friction etc etc etc in the game code, but that's an interesting solution.

@jgrams I wasn't disagreeing, just surprised. Gotta watch out for it everywhere I guess.

[gimymblert]

Like I have mention before, we need less physics engine and more collision engine, the physics a nuisance when making gameplay. Too many engine have the two conflate with each other and it ruin programming the game.

[Geti]

Yeah I hate the tight coupling a lot in unity. I've been tempted to release in-house 2d SAT approaches at various points (Java and C++) but I can never be bothered with support/maintenance for that kind of thing, and it's more satisfying to release games anyway

[MorleyDev]

Writing integration tests around 3rd party API access to prove my facades are behaving as expected, whilst on 2 hours sleep and in-between trying to make CMake sit down shut up and do what it's been told and link the damn library.

Now I do love me some good testing, I'm all for the TDDs and the Test-First, but on 2 hours sleep every assertion and mock blurs together into this big red "not working, hahaha".

On the bright side, I have become a being of pure coffee.

[Kurt]

14 hours. It took me 14 hours to realize that I had to remove nodes to make my A* work and stop having AI shit its pants. Holy shit. My poor day. 

[vinheim3]

Everything was going swell with my sfml project, getting used to pointers and stuff to access textures that normally disappear out of scope if you don't reference it, but the moment I use new with this, something weird in the code happens that somehow deletes the loaded texture? giving me some error involving accessing data at 0xffff...

I should probably read documentation or some shit, god programming is hard

[0x0961h]

OpenGL Blending Modes (more like bleeding modes) is argh.

[Geti]

CMake

I'm assuming you're using CMake cause you have to not cause you want to, but if it's somehow the latter one consider swapping over to premake for simpler configuration file format and "no bullshit" solution/makefile generation. It's my general go-to where I need to swap between OSes and don't want to keen 3+ separate projects up to date.