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[Ordnas]

Are you drawing back to front? I remember a while back i hit a nasty perf bug on PowerVR because I used the depth buffer with discard and that apparently disables a tone of hardware optimizations.

Probably not a big deal but I thought I'd mention it. I shouldn't have been using the depth buffer for a 2d game anyways.

Depth buffer could be useful even in a 2d game, for example in lighting (determining the correct position of the sprite) and also for rendering the shadow geometry with depth testing, to properly layer the shadow between other objects.

[ferreiradaselva]

Made a A*

[Garthy]

This is my new favourite animation of the day week. It's mesmerising.

[ferreiradaselva]

This is my new favourite animation of the day week. It's mesmerising.

Glad you liked it ^^

I added the a* source code on github: https://github.com/ferreiradaselva/uastar

[Garthy]

This is my new favourite animation of the day week. It's mesmerising.

Glad you liked it ^^

I added the a* source code on github: https://github.com/ferreiradaselva/uastar

Neat. Thankyou for sharing it.

[ferreiradaselva]

dash and jump implemented B)

Next is probably grabbing items. I have other stuff implemented, but I don't want to give away the kind of game it is at the moment. 

[Zireael]

Neat jump animation <3

[Ordnas]

dash and jump implemented B)

Next is probably grabbing items. I have other stuff implemented, but I don't want to give away the kind of game it is at the moment. 

Very nice! 

It reminds me a dance floor, you could add some disco ball, and you have the game of Saturday Night Fever! 

[ferreiradaselva]

Very nice! 

It reminds me a dance floor, you could add some disco ball, and you have the game of Saturday Night Fever! 

My god, that's a cool idea! I'm going to make different battle arenas. I currently have 15 in my design document. I think a "disco" arena would look really cool.

[JWki]

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Built a cvar system and a console to go with it over the past like two or three days. I had built the cvar thing before so that was straightforward, but pretty pleased with how quickly I got the console up and running.
The video shows autocomplete and a somewhat broken history working (need to have a separate buffer for user inputs so it doesn't treat console output as part of the history).
I need to refactor the crap out of this because rn the code is somewhat messy but still pretty happy with how it turned out.

[ferreiradaselva]

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Built a cvar system and a console to go with it over the past like two or three days. I had built the cvar thing before so that was straightforward, but pretty pleased with how quickly I got the console up and running.
The video shows autocomplete and a somewhat broken history working (need to have a separate buffer for user inputs so it doesn't treat console output as part of the history).
I need to refactor the crap out of this because rn the code is somewhat messy but still pretty happy with how it turned out.

Nice! How does cvar works exactly? You have to make your own parser for the console, or is there already a library for that?

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Well, I didn't implement items. I wanted to have some cool look for my map, so I started implementing the function to render the tiles:

[JWki]

CVars are basically tiny wrappers around some primitive types (float, bool, int).
They're declared like this:

Code:

static fnd::CVarBool enableViz = fnd::CVarBool("cl_enableAudioViz", "If set to true, audio output is visualized.", true);

That can be a static, a global, a member, anything really. They automatically register in a linked list when they are created so you can query for them by name, or iterate all of them. They cast back and forth between their corresponding types so basically you can just use them like you would use a normal variable.
WRT the console parser, yeah I write that myself. It's not very complex really.

[Crimsontide]

2>c:\programming\winlib\FileIterators.h(47): warning C4996: 'std::iterator<std::random_access_iterator_tag,uint8_t,int64_t,_Ty *,_Ty &>::pointer': warning STL4015: The std::iterator class template (used as a base class to provide typedefs) is deprecated in C++17. (The <iterator> header is NOT deprecated.) The C++ Standard has never required user-defined iterators to derive from std::iterator. To fix this warning, stop deriving from std::iterator and start providing publicly accessible typedefs named iterator_category, value_type, difference_type, pointer, and reference. Note that value_type is required to be non-const, even for constant iterators. You can define _SILENCE_CXX17_ITERATOR_BASE_CLASS_DEPRECATION_WARNING or _SILENCE_ALL_CXX17_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS to acknowledge that you have received this warning.

I got that today (after updating MSVC), and its nice, for once, to see a good, readable, clear, and concise error message.  Well warning message, but you get the idea...  Well done MS

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Readable error messages? Holy crap!

[JWki]

https://puu.sh/yT1Md/2470fc6713.gif

I think someone in here mentioned they want to work on fluid sim some time, this is where I'm currently at with a sph based implementation.

[LittleTwig]

You guys make it really difficult for me to focus on my project.
I get kinda itchy and wanna work on low level stuff again.  

 
I'm happy because I managed to break the repetition in my tilemap without barely any effort, just by slicing the texture in 4 parts while building the game and automatically assigning the matching part by the tileIndex.
The repetition barely visible, probably some kind of illusion with the grid.

[Ordnas]

But if you slice the texture in 4 parts, in case of a brick texture, is there a visual incongruent? I think it works for textures like rocks, grass etc.

[ThemsAllTook]

After a months-long process, I finally have a working end-to-end system where I can model stuff in Blender, export it, load it, and render it in-game, with a texture and normal map. It's crazy how many steps were involved in the process of building all of that from the ground up. Fruits of my labor:



Next up is animation. Bringing this to life and having complete control over it is pretty exciting.

[oahda]

<3 !!

[ferreiradaselva]

daaaaaaaamn very cool!