Game Development

A good instruction re-scheduler would be able to take most loop[nez] instructions, and just start pumping the code into the VLIW FPUs until it hits the lower label.

Effectively... automatically paralleling tight loops into the on-board GPU... it's a wonderful vision anyways

but I guess FPU-per-core is kinda cool too

Almo

3:33 AM

@Pip it's not that simple.

I don't "have" a copy of OSX. It just comes with the computer

I've heard of people installing it on PCs, but that might have been when you could still get a CD of the OS

I'm not sure you can anymore.

My computer doesn't even have a CD/DVD drive.

iMacs still have CD drives though so maybe

user4704

You can make a bootable USB stick from an installer downloaded from the app store.

user4704

I do it for clean installs.

Aidan Mueller

5:27 AM

Just did a 29.42 second solve. That's pretty good.

Woot.

For great justice.

@Almo My solution: Readed. It looks dumb right now, but I think all past tenses should be the same as the word with a suffix at the end.

But maybe it should be spelled ryd and not read. Every letter should make one sound and one sound only.

Which is why X, C, and Q are stupid.

And why "is" should either be pronounced the way it's spelled, or be spelled "iz".

How much sense does it make for the sounds T and H to somehow make a þ sound when put together as "th"?

user92578

5:51 AM

Morning

MickLH

Good morning dude guy

user92578

:)

user92578

Could you say that

user92578

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Q: Platformer Tile Map Collision Help

I've been working on a small platformer as a simple project but, I'm having troubles with my collision detection. What I want is that as the player falls due to gravity, it will stop when it touches the ground it'll stop the y from updating, but not the x from updating. I'm having troubles with t...

user92578

is answered here?

user92578

5:59 AM

1

Q: Entity to tile collision detection (C++, SDL)

I'm currently trying to handle collisions between entities and a tilemap, but I've hit a problem. My tiles are stored simply as integer tile IDs in a multidimensional array, and I wanted to perform a quick collision check by working out which tile the player is on (or will be on if the new positi...

collision-detection sdl

MickLH

6:15 AM

sorry bro too many Fs required to deal with all that code everywhere

user92578

6:47 AM

thanks

MickLH

you're welcome, I otherwise would have marked it as a "debug my code" :P

user92578

the first one totally is one

user92578

7:05 AM

user92578

Some small progress

user92578

MickLH

7:48 AM

@Tyyppi_77 made me think of i.ytimg.com/vi/AqturoCh5lM/hqdefault.jpg

user92578

Nice! That's what I'm kinda going for

user92578

10:43 AM

Stupid question, but how do I initialize const TString g_LevelEntityTypeNames[(int)ELevelEntityType::NUM_LEVELENTITYTYPE];?

user92578

That's just declared at the end of a header file

user92578

And I can't seem to be able to do this:

user92578

const TString g_LevelEntityTypeNames[] = {
	"Entity",
	"Entity Blade",

user92578

It complains about redefinition

user92578

ah, extern

Lasse

11:15 AM

> Oh, and bring your sense of humor. Just in case.

that's dangerous if someone has very dark sense of humor

tereško

I have this sad feeling that the author is trying to be serious:

Almo

11:57 AM

@AidanMueller Readed would be good enough for me

@tereško what a fucking idiot

it's easy to see the difference between 60 and 30

I'm willing to bet I could tell thedifference between 60 and 120 as well

Lasse

maybe his eyes are just bad and he thinks it's the same for everyone else

Almo

could be

or he's never done an A/B comparison

PS1 Gran Turismo had "GT HiFi" mode which stripped the game down so it could run at 60 FPS. Was sooooo different.

then you get people saying NTSC is 60 fields per second, 30 FPS, so you guys are stupid

But the game engines ran 60 fps, and did not wait for two fields to render a full frame

so they're the stupid ones

user92578

You guys probably have peer-review rights or something?

user92578

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Q: SDL -- What am I doing wrong with SDL_LockTexture()?

I'm trying to use SDL_LockTexture and SDL_UnlockTexture for direct access to pixels in SDL 2.0. When I try to set pixels, I never see anything happen. Here's my code: void *pixels; int pitch; SDL_LockTexture(mytexture, NULL, &pixels, &pitch); // Set pixel 100,100 to blue ((uint32_t *)pixels)[1...

sdl sdl2

Almo

I don't

user92578

12:05 PM

oh

user92578

okay then

user92578

how many approves does an edit need?

Almo

no idea

user92578

> You need at least 2k reputation to review suggested edits.

Almo

oh

I do have that

user92578

12:08 PM

sorry i don't want to seem like i'm trying to force you to approve

Almo

ok i approved

hahah no problem :)

user92578

I'm just finally starting to learn to use the actual site

user92578

aight thanks

user92578

2 more internet points!

user92578

Who would favorite that question tough?

Lasse

12:10 PM

I got only 1200 fake internet points :(

user92578

that's a lot

user92578

i have 188 as you can see

Lasse

I see 186

user92578

oh right

user92578

i always get confused with se / site rep

Kevin van der Velden

12:15 PM

Network rep takes a bit to propogate to chat probably

user92578

12:57 PM

@MickLH I thought I'd just ping you with this gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/98641/…

Ali.S

1:15 PM

is this sentence grammatically wrong? "this is a test and it seems I can not translate well."

I mean google translate says it is... but it doesn't seem to be wrong...

user92578

looks right to me

user92578

Is it considered bad to answer old questions that are really "debugging code"-heavy?

user92578

actually nvm

Ali.S

@MickLH @Tyyppi_77 if I may have a word about that question, MickLH has a point. Textures and Surfaces are separated for a reason. But (and it's a big but) it really depends on your use. if it's a texture that you might change every 10 seconds, keeping a copy of it cpu side all the time might not be the best practice.

otherwise as MickLH suggested you should use surfaces...

but then again... as MickLH suggested working with texture data might be harder than working with surfaces.

for example, if you are working with a surface, you can explicitly choose the pixel format the surface is working with. But according to GL specifications, driver is allowed to choose a pixel format as it feels, and your request is merely a hint (which might be completely ignored)

all these matters should be considered when writing a code.

user92578

1:38 PM

all very valid points

user92578

However if I were to add let's say custom shirt colours to my players, I would probably just modify the texture data directly

Jon

store.steampowered.com/app/376870

you guys see t his?

user92578

yeah?

user92578

I added a buttload of entities to the editor

Jon

1:57 PM

Minecraft Story Mode Twitchcon Stage Demo

►

my son is gonna shit his pants

Pip

2:07 PM

lol

@Tyyppi_77 lookin' nice

user92578

thanks!

user92578

oh man im so close to 200 rep

user92578

soon the ads will be gone

user92578

OH WAIT

user92578

everyone has adblock these days

user92578

2:09 PM

:)

Pip

@Almo Yes it is, pretty much. Reference chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/24484202#24484202

@Tyyppi_77 I passed it a while ago. I left ads on for SE before I hit 200 rep because ad revenue is good and I like this site... but now I'm at 1.2k rep :P

Lokkij

DET has some amazing Deus Ex: Human Revolution screenshots.

The environments in that game looks great.

user92578

Man HIMYM was an awesome show

Pip

2:27 PM

Anyone here watch the WAN Show?

user92578

Not me

user92578

I'm trying to look for a series to fill the hole I've got now

user92578

The Finnish Netflix just doesn't have that many good comedy series

Pip

Silicon Valley?

Halt and Catch Fire?

The IT Crowd?

user92578

I would totally be interested in Silicon Valley and the IT Crowd

user92578

2:33 PM

Neither seem to be in Netflix

Pip

Aww that sucks

user92578

2:50 PM

yeah

user92578

man it's going to be hard to find a show that's atleast almost as awesome as himym

Asaltaviejas

3:31 PM

Hi.

user92578

hey

Almo

3:49 PM

FUCK how hard can it be to edit "About Me" on blogger. >:(

still can't find it

even searching google for how to do it turns up unanswererd questions I upvoted years ago.

Pip

lol

user92578

lol that's awesome

Almo

what stack excahgne site would I ask about blogger on?

superuser says "not for websites"

still can't find it

user92578

that would have been my guess

Almo

fucking stupid site design piece of shit

user92578

4:00 PM

user92578

You mean that "about me"?

Almo

4:23 PM

that one

almos-lol-blog.blogspot.ca

I wonder if I edited the HTML directly on the widget

ok yeah I just edited the HTML directly

Pip

4:48 PM

nice :P

Jon

6:12 PM

what is up

Lasse

roof

Jon

i can jump higher than a house

Lasse

me too

Pip

6:32 PM

Eyo

Jon

7:29 PM

pe pe le pew

Pip

8:35 PM

So

@Jon any ideas for a roughly 50-60 dollar christmas gift for me? My extended family will be in town for thanksgiving and we're having "Christmas" then. My grandparents last year got me a refurbished monitor (~55 bucks) so I'm looking for something else around that price range for this year

(CC @Almo @Tyyppi_77 @TheMuffinCoder)

Almo

you like good mice?

or good headphones?

Pip

I have a decent mouse and a headset that works for me (actually, now to think of it my headset was like $60 :P)

Almo

I mean headphoens for good music not headset for computer shit with talking to other people

Pip

It's decent for music as well, meh

Any other ideas?

Almo

Sounds like you're not really into music :)

you like boardgames at all?

I can recommend some good ones

Lasse

8:40 PM

I'd vote for board games

Pip

go ahead!

Lasse

Carcassonne or Settlers of Catan

Almo

boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/almo2001

Pip

Settlers of Catan is a great game

Almo

sort that by my rating

Jon

8:41 PM

hummmmm

fallout 4 :D

Almo

Catan is not a great game. it has a shitty randomizer that leaves you out of the game if it fucks up

Jon

@Almo you are in montreal?

Almo

Particular ones not to miss: Power Grid, Cosmic Encounter, Puerto Rico, Agricola

yes Jon

Carcassonne is quite light, but fun if you don't mind a really large random element. It doesn't leave you out of the game like Catan does. It may cause you to lose, but you still get to play.

Lasse

how about card games? Munchkin, Cards against humanity, Android netrunner

Almo

Tichu

CAH is Apples to Apples with anal beads.

if that's your thing, then you'll like it.

Pip

8:44 PM

@Lasse I have those first two

What's Android Netrunner?

Although I'm missing some expansions for them

Lasse

android netrunner is one of the top rated living card games

one player plays a corporation that tries to cash in agendas, and other player plays a hacker that tries to steal the agendas

Pip

Huh cool

Lokkij

Android Netrunner is like Magic the Gathering but asymmetric (aww yeah) and you don't have to buy randomized packs, you can just buy the expansions all at once.

Almo

I have a full set of the original netrunnger

if the new one is anything like the old one, it's really good

Lokkij

And if you're looking for boardgame reviews, Shut Up & Sit Down is the place to go.

Pip

8:47 PM

On a totally unrelated note: ooh maybe I could ask for a part for my hackintosh if the PC I'm getting next week isn't completely compatible

Almo

Not one person ever found agenda in my archives

Pip

Know of any cheap but decent graphics card?

Almo

not that there were never agendas there...

but they were never there at the moment a runner looked :)

Lokkij

Ooh ooh Spyfall is a great game by the way. Excellent at parties or.. anywhere, really.

Jon

fucken rockit league

whos in

shut up

Almo

8:57 PM

hahah

Jon

9:27 PM

i wrote a book on how to gracefully get your dick out at parties

need a good TV show recommendation

i think i might rewatch workaholics

Lasse

what's the book called? I got a collection but none of them says anything about doing it gracefully

Jon

it is here

amazon.com/Anybody-Cool-Awesome-Practice-Devotionals/dp/…

Lasse

thanks

Jon

9:42 PM

I hope you enjoy

Lasse

it seems solid, it tells you what god thinks

Jon

nothing else matters

MickLH

@Tyyppi_77 I don't even have the energy to sigh. I literally just closed the window the first time around and had to come back later ready to chat.

Jon

fuck the truth

accept the word of god, as written by man

Smith said he found the plates on September 22, 1823, at a hill near his home in Manchester, New York, after the angel Moroni directed him to a buried stone box. Smith said the angel at first prevented him from taking the plates, but instructed him to return to the same location in a year.

In September 1827, on his fourth annual attempt to retrieve the plates, Smith returned home with a heavy object wrapped in a frock, which he then put in a box. Though he allowed others to heft the box, he said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language. Smith dictated the text of the Book of Mormon over the next several years, claiming that it was a translation of the plates.

He did this by using a seer stone, which he placed in the bottom of a hat and then placed the hat over his face to view the words written within the stone.[3] Smith published the translation in 1830 as the Book of Mormon.

aka... Mormons are fucken crazy

Pip

mhm

MickLH

9:51 PM

Please, @Jon, I'm struggling with my sanity already, please don't remind me that these people literally, actually exist.

Lasse

if you think about the babylonian flood thing, that one guy got warned by the gods through a talking wall

aliens

Gilgamesh flood myth

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who utilized the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis. A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their inspiration and subject matter. == HistoryEdit == Gilgamesh’s supposed historical reign is believed to have been approximately 2700 BCE, shortly before the earliest known written stories. T...

MickLH

Why do we even record subjective history crap?

Why don't we just have an objective record of what methods work best for what purposes, given which materials?

Lasse

because philosophy

MickLH

Why do we even record subjective philosophy crap? I'm joking I know why.

But I genuinely think that people who can't come up with a philosophy should just have their crisis and if it ends bad, well some lives end bad.

Lasse

philosophy and bureaucratism has a lot in common, you need more bureaucratism to support bureaucratism

MickLH

10:02 PM