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[rosholger]

Implemented a sound mixer and a custom audio format. Took me just under a day from knowing nothing about mixing to having a finished mixer!

[darkhog]

Finished saving/loading routines for Computer Virus Simulator's level editor. Didn't test it too much yet, but it seems like they're almost 100% working so far (only minor hiccups like failing to set proper color on loading and accidental save to the wrong path).

//edit: Any idea why it's not pinned? It totally should be!

[bornander]

Started working on the prototype for my next game. Since I just started on this I am faced only with interesting problems and no tedious tasks like main-menu transitions.

[kirennian]

Starting my new development in a fortnights time, 4 days a week for the next 2+ years.  Very excited after researching it for the last year and having built a prototype a few years back in 9 months.  At the moment, I couldn't be happier with the possibilities the next couple of years have for me! :D

[Halogen]

I'm gonna flash my noobs at you all for a minute, but I just coded two functional python programs without references. (i did look at some code snippets from other small programs, but I was so pleased with my progress thus far. These weren't anything major, (right around 20-100 lines) but I just felt like sharing my inordinate level of glee with you all.

[ProgramGamer]

I'm gonna flash my noobs at you all for a minute, but I just coded two functional python programs without references. (i did look at some code snippets from other small programs, but I was so pleased with my progress thus far. These weren't anything major, (right around 20-100 lines) but I just felt like sharing my inordinate level of glee with you all.

As someone learning python right now, I approve!

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Been able to work in C++ 11 due to me starting a new home project. It really is nice to return a large data structure as a return value rather than an out parameter even if the difference really is only syntactic. It's starting to feel like I'm working in c# sometimes.

Of course I have to very consciously remember to change back to my safe-across-n-compilers-c++ brain context when going back to other projects.

[pelle]

Been able to work in C++ 11 due to me starting a new home project. It really is nice to return a large data structure as a return value rather than an out parameter even if the difference really is only syntactic. It's starting to feel like I'm working in c# sometimes.

Of course I have to very consciously remember to change back to my safe-across-n-compilers-c++ brain context when going back to other projects.

I also started working in C++11 recently, but at work (not games) and slowly getting used to the smart pointers and clever other stuff they have now. Indeed it feels much more high-level than it is, but at the same time there are a lot of things to learn (and unlearn) to make use of it properly. Have to start some new hobby game project soon so I can try to make a game in C++ again for the first time in ages.

[shellbot]

Started a revival of one of my old projects... Nothing shows you how much progress you have made like looking back at some of your old code 

I guess the first half of 2015 wasn't a complete waste 

[shellbot]

Just fixed a very difficult programming problem on a complete fluke.

I set the value of a test to 6... The answer to the entire problem was setting that variable to 6...

[oahda]

YESSSSS

AngelScript finally has lambdas! Since August 30th, apparently. I just happened to find them in the manual right now. I've been needing them the last few days ever since I redid my script setup a bit.

They don't work as closures yet, so I have to pass some user data, but still SOOOO much better than having to declare a global function and pass it! <3

[ProgramGamer]

What's a lambda?..

[gimymblert]

you mean lambada?

[ProgramGamer]

Well played.

[oahda]

Dat accordion.

A lambda is an anonymous function, PG. I have a method in my cutscene sequencer called callback which as you can see now takes a (lambda/anonymous) function as its argument in order to execute its code at the specified time in the sequence. Previously I had to define a global function for that and then pass it on, even tho I really don't need the function outside the sequencer thingy. It was clunky. It's much more slick and dynamic now that I can write the code where it is actually relevant. And if Andreas gets around to implementing closures (which would allow the lambda to access variables local to the scope in which it was declared), it would be even nicer.

I'm grumpy again tho! AS still doesn't support templated functions. I can't directly copy my neat interfaces from the C++ side of the engine (which is why I currently have to write ugly things like cast<Collider @>(t.get(type("Collider"))) as seen above instead of just t.get<Collider>() like in the C++ interface). Blergh.

[ProgramGamer]

Darn, lambdas sound super useful. Shame they're not fully functional yet.

[oahda]

Yeah, they didn't exist in C++ until a few years ago either, so it was kind of the same situation but then you could at least hide the regular functions away a bit better as static class methods to have them in the right place (if the callback is added in a class member method) — but AS doesn't support static class methods.

So I was super happy when C++ finally got them too, and made neat interfaces with it, and it's nice that they can be mapped well to AS now too!

[oahda]

Redid the way my engine works with scripts a bit. It has, well, become a whole lot more like Unity yet again in that all scripts now demand a class derived from a special base class be defined in the script file, and an object will be instantiated from that class. The reason for this is of course so that scripts can access each other's data which didn't really work out when everything was just global and each script ran in its own module so that the globalness could work without clashes.

I've now also created a corresponding C++ interface so that C++ code can speak to script objects easily. It's pretty neat. Templates FTW.

There are only two functions in the interface:

• T var<T>(name)
• ReturnType call<ReturnType, ArgumentTypes...>(name, arguments...)

This way I can easily access member variables and run methods of these objects created from these classes.

 

And on the AS side of course I don't have to do anything besides registering a function allowing scripts to access other scripts from other (or the same) components and then all the members and methods are AS code accessed regularly.

So in C++ I might do this:

Code:

if (someComponent.script("ClassName").var<bool>("someState")) ...

And in AS this ish:

Code:

if (someComponent.script("ClassName").someState) ...

But as AS currently doesn't support templates I'm going to have to cast it:

Code:

if (cast<ClassName @>(someComponent.script("ClassName")).someState) ...

BUT! I did discuss templates with the author just the other day and now he's finally put it on the todo list, so hopefully in the future I will be able to do:

Code:

if (someComponent.script<ClassName>().someState) ...

 

[Cheezmeister]

Darn, lambdas sound super useful. Shame they're not fully functional yet.

fully functional

Well played.

[oahda]

lolol ^

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Watched this Computerphile video and learned how easy it is to implement a blur filter (I thought it was a lot more complicated):





But it was easy, and thanks to the video, it didn't take long to fix!




EDIT:
More complex fun arising from messing around with this...