Game Development

1:06 AM

teaching programming is overrated

it kinda killed my expectations for uni when I got to go as a child and the professor soon had me helping other people, but then many of the other people had persistent stupid questions and it was sortof uncomfortable being so much younger than everyone and having to constantly correct them

@Bálint lol I had the same thing happen except I had to deny it right away :P

Stephane Hockenhull

University is grossly overrated.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@StephaneHockenhull but can a game developer give a better answer about a game launcher than a normal developer?

Stephane Hockenhull

No.

MickLH

I think a normal desktop developer actually can give a better answer, since they were also interested in a GUI

and just because launching an exe is pretty much something you almost never need to do as a game developer

Stephane Hockenhull

Unless you're an old DOS-era dev that made a setup.exe that also launches the game ...

Or had to write your own protected mode dos extender...

skills that have been unnecessary for the last 17 years or so :P

Alexandre Vaillancourt

1:21 AM

I guess the question is not complete enough; the issues is not clear....

MickLH

@StephaneHockenhull Even still, those were normal DOS desktop coding skills

Stephane Hockenhull

Like I said, it's going to degenerate into hand-holding the guy through writing the whole thing if it doesn't get closed, just watch...

MickLH

and I bet the desktop dev of the day probably knew more of the subtleties of switching to protected mode especially compatibility stuff

while the game developer of the day was probably better suited for a question about rasterization or the like

Stephane Hockenhull

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Q: Execute external program in java

I tried to make an application that calls an external program that I have to pass two parameters. It doesn't give any errors.The program.exe,written in c++, takes a picture and modifies the content of txt file. The java program runs but it does nothing Here is my sample code String[] param...

MickLH

Oh yeah that brings us to the main point: The question is ~~obviously~~ provably already answered on SO

Stephane Hockenhull

1:24 AM

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Q: Java Programming: call an exe from Java and passing parameters

I'm figuring out a mechanism to call an exe from Java and passing in specific parameters. How can I do? Process process = new ProcessBuilder("C:\\PathToExe\\MyExe.exe").start(); InputStream is = process.getInputStream(); InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is); BufferedReader br = new ...

java exe processbuilder

LMGTFY: "java launch program"

There's only so few things that you just can't google and get the proper results.

Most of these I found have to do with web toolkits with absolutely stupid generic names.

It's like the Ruby/Python/PHP/etc devs writing toolkit/libraries get up in the morning and ask themselves "How can I name it as search-engine unfriendly as possible?"

MickLH

If you did SEO for work then you'd probably want to revolt against it too

Stephane Hockenhull

I know! I'm gonna call my calendar widget "blue baffle".

(do not google that, for the love of everything)

MickLH

well since you said so...

Stephane Hockenhull

edited :P

And now people are gonna find things with accidental typos

MickLH

change it to "flue baffle" so it's a thing

Stephane Hockenhull

1:36 AM

I'm sure a blue baffle is a thing.

MickLH

blue baffle is like baby's first conjunction of english words

Stephane Hockenhull

Actually found one and it's blue!

MickLH

so I guess it's a thing

Stephane Hockenhull

Baffles are something to slow down the flow of fluids and prevent waves

MickLH

obviously, but "blue baffle" is an ill defined thing

while "flue baffle" is a well defined thing

Stephane Hockenhull

1:38 AM

They put those in fuel tanks to prevent the liquid from sloshing around

MickLH

sorry, I just like to win at life, I can't help but be super legit all the time

Stephane Hockenhull

:D

And it's a baffle to slow and cool down ejection gases...
I'd add a whistle...

MickLH

(I actually originally felt like directly saying "change it" was too strong of language for what I actually meant to bring up, so I had to make up for it, just so you know my sentiment for sure)

@jgallant where are you? the world needs you right now

@StephaneHockenhull < fart joke >

Stephane Hockenhull

OMG get your mind out of the gutter! That was totally NOT a fart joke. I am outraged that you would suggest such a thing.

I'd never!

MickLH

(censored)

Stephane Hockenhull

2:00 AM

allright, that was enough game deving for today. I got some shrines and Koroks to find.

MickLH

2:45 AM

well... I've gotta update the map file format again and that's all there is to it.

Building the BVH tree for all the static object physics is not very fast when the map is complex...

I threw a large map geometry at it, and it dominated the load time trying to generate it at load

MickLH

3:07 AM

nevermind, I can just generate it smarter from the octree instead of generating the tree triangle by triangle

Stephane Hockenhull

3:22 AM

"Anyways, yesterday I stumbled upon an app developed by the amazing Start VR. download from here"

Definitely spam

Bálint

6:54 AM

@StephaneHockenhull Depends on where you live. Here the wage limits are much lower then in the US, so you can't do shit without a degree.

Chris McFarland

@StephaneHockenhull "yeh ha ha! you found me! clinkle"

Chris McFarland

7:27 AM

I had a JavaScript professor once
he wrote his own IDE that we used

but his IDE had a long-standing bug where if you pressed Ctrl+Z sometimes, it would delete the line you were working on without any way to undo
we'd always hassle him for it

and his pre-test question sheet was always exactly the same as the actual test