Game Development

Hehe, yeah, I think CompositionTarget.Rendering triggers on change like that as well. Was just a cheap way to auto-update. I'll add in a proper game loop instead.

@Chris Hah

Chris

60fps, or ~120 when moving the sliders

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

12:30 AM

Neato

This should do fine for now then. Works fine on Windows and I can always get Coherent/Awesomium if I actually need crossplatform. As long as I try and keep things decoupled it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

hasherr

12:55 AM

@SpartanDonut Man, Joe is still dead...

SpartanDonut

D:

AttackingHobo

1:21 AM

sup @hasherr

John McDonald

bleh, after all of that, it sucks:

(it appears for each and every first skip, then disappears)

AttackingHobo

@JohnMcDonald too many pixels. get some shitty pixel art and you can be a be top hit.

What appears for the skip?

John McDonald

The tutorial in the top left

You probably haven't been exposed to Skippy Fish: skippyfish.jcpmcdonald.com

That version doesn't work in Safari I've been told, and it has 3 stats (skips, distance, and height) which have all gone the way of the dodo and been replaced by Time

And there have been some very slight gameplay tweaks

AttackingHobo

:/ im not a fan of the mechanics, don't really even know where the perfect spot is

John McDonald

Nor do I man, but I will say that the web version's "hot spot" is deeper than you'd think. That's been adjusted

AttackingHobo

1:29 AM

im tempted to learn how to write some AI for it

John McDonald

heh

AttackingHobo

seems like I could just read the color of a single pixel on my screen, and when it turns to the water's color, click

John McDonald

Probably

AttackingHobo

well its a html5 game so I could probably make something in js and just read the variables that are in the game

John McDonald

It would likely be very easy. Something like a settimout that checks a variable and hits the click() event

AttackingHobo

1:33 AM

ok im out of here for ~2 hours

John McDonald

alright

so yeah, I'm porting Skippy Fish to mobile devices and am trying to add a tutorial of sorts. I showed the mobile dev version to someone new and they wanted to swipe around and stuff, so I just want to communicate the mechanic clearly

AttackingHobo

@JohnMcDonald hmmmmmm

You could do it a few ways

Do a little mock up gameplay thing with animated finger taps

or

Pause the game when the player enters the sweet spot on the first two jumps

and tell them to tap

IDK it has to be tested, cause people are idiots

John McDonald

My new thought is to show the path ahead of the fish, and at the bottom show a "* tap *", and have a line going up from there

AttackingHobo

or have the tittle screen a recording of gameplay

John McDonald

hmm

AttackingHobo

1:38 AM

ok gone for real, ping me if you want to leave a message and Ill read it later

hasherr

2:01 AM

@AttackingHobo Heeey, long time no see friend! How's it going?

ClassicThunder

Afraid he just left.

hasherr

lol dammit

Lasse

3:37 AM

ocremix.org/album/32/super-dodge-ball-around-the-world

AttackingHobo

@hasherr back

hasherr

4:04 AM

What's up friend :)

AttackingHobo

4:22 AM

not too much, been learning some more blender 3d

@hasherr what you been up to?

hasherr

Not much, haven't actually been doing a lot of programming.

Where you been man?

AttackingHobo

4:46 AM

Here and there, just haven't had a lot of time for spending time in chats

@hasherr webmup.com/Z4Xqx/vid.webm

Aidan Mueller

6:39 AM

I think that there may be something wrong with my burner. I'll have to try writing this disk on another computer.

But I md5sum-ed it, and it was valid.

Blue

8:22 AM

tips hat good morning chat.

Kevin van der Velden

Morning hat

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

9:24 AM

Mornin'

Blue

12:05 PM

Time for linked list switch puzzles!

0

A: Check which object was activated first

To add a puzzle like quality to this you need to generate some sort of dependency on the switch values (the door shouldn't really know about this, the switches should notify the door it can open.) I would use a parent object much like indeed005 is suggesting but with some important changes: //C#...

Blue

12:37 PM

0

A: Check which object was activated first

To add a puzzle like quality to this you need to generate some sort of dependency on the switch values (the door shouldn't really know about this, the switches should notify the door it can open.) I would use a parent object much like indeed005 is suggesting but with some important changes: //Li...

Update of win

Almo

2:03 PM

"When tries to that the first i relayed throughs the coding drawings context run php line multiplier var props delayed unit on my test filed maybe there for the class, get following error:"

Almo

2:18 PM

0

Q: error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ppltasks.h': No such file or directory

When I am Trying to compile my project, it gives the error: error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ppltasks.h': No such file or directory

heh

Jon

2:29 PM

who the heck is General Failure?

Blue

What you mean @Jon - context would help...

Jon

Blue

Ah that old joke.

Almo

2:54 PM

esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck_constants

brainfuck constants

SpartanDonut

3:14 PM

@Blue obviously the solution is Dictionary<LinkedList,Door>

You generate a linked list as you flip switches. Check the linked list against the dictionary to determine what the resulting door / door behavior is

user4704

@Almo O_O

Almo

:D

Esolang people are some certain kind of different

user4704

10161 emails to process this morning.

Almo

:o

SpartanDonut

Good god

Almo

3:27 PM

7

Q: Sharp pods under airliner wings

What are the pods with the sharp trailing edges underneath the wings of large airliners, as shown in the image below? My best guess would be fuel tanks

airliner

always wondered this. very interesting

user4704

1293 unanswered questions too. You guys have been slacking in my absence :P

Almo

:D

Blue

@JoshPetrie been trying!

Plus, 10,161 emails?? Work related?

user4704

@Blue Yes.

user4704

First day back after a week off.

Noctrine

3:38 PM

Holy.

What percentage of those emails aren't things like, build notifications and the like?

Blue

Well welcome back man.

SpartanDonut

is 120hz/240hz tv a waste of time?

60hz are so cheap in comparison

Blue

Depends if you're a pigeon or not.

Almo

120 hz is noticable on stuff like Hoky

you can see the puck much more easily at the high frame rate

if you let it interpolate for movies, they will look like cheap video.

Blue

The "blur" effect on HD TV's... shudder

Almo

3:49 PM

the kids today may be free of that, but to us older folks used to 24 fps film with motion blur, smooth framerate on video looks cheap.

If you're hyper sensitive like me, you may notice when the frame interpolator gets too much data and drops frames

120 Hz with 0.25 sec of 24 Hz mixed in looks fucking horrible to me.

SpartanDonut

hmm

Almo

this is more likely to happen on scene changes where the whole image changes color at once.

usually you can turn these features off

so you might have it off for HDMI 1 where your movies come from, but on for TV.

user4704

@Noctrine 100%

SpartanDonut

I pretty much just watch streaming services using the Xbox

Occasional DVDs

user4704

@Noctrine Build notifications and all other automatic emails are filtered (there are over half a million of those that are new).

Almo

3:52 PM

personally, I'd stay with 60Hz then

SpartanDonut

Using the Xbox again...

Almo

should be good for several years

How do you manage 10k emails, Josh? That just seems ridiculous.

ctrl-a del

:)

Blue

My favourite Hello World example:

Shakespeare (programming language)

The Shakespeare Programming Language (SPL) is an esoteric programming language designed by Jon Åslund and Karl Hasselström. Like the Chef programming language, it is designed to make programs appear to be something other than programs; in this case, Shakespearean plays. A character list in the beginning of the program declares a number of stacks, naturally with names like "Romeo" and "Juliet". These characters enter into dialogue with each other in which they manipulate each other's topmost values, push and pop each other, and do I/O. The characters can also ask each other questions which behave...

SpartanDonut

The question is how many of the emails were directed towards him and how many were CC as an FYI

user4704

@Almo group by conversation, skim the first one, flag if irrelevant.

Almo

3:54 PM

makes sense

user4704

Then delete all conversations with any flagged messages.

user4704

Anything left I read through and act on.

Blue

I feel like that delete process must be satisfying.

user4704

Most of it is junk.

Almo

I'll keep that in mind for if that ever happens to me

user4704

3:55 PM

And a huge portion of it would have been relevant, but is now outdated.

Almo

heh

user4704

4:12 PM

Culled 10k.

user4704

Down to the last 1200 or so relevant threads.

Jon

4:26 PM

blood particle test, eheh

Blue

Is... Is that a child?

Jon

lol yeah for now

the idea is to not lose your limbs

so you don't like it ? :(

I actually have a problem..

I have a group rotation matrix, for all the body parts... then each part has its own seperate rotation

So, when both rotations are taking place, I cannot figure out how to calculate the position to initialize the blood particle

Almo

4:54 PM

@Blue hahah that is really funny

DNA: The molecule that discovered itself.

Aidan Mueller

5:49 PM

Why do I feel like I am winning this game a little too easily. Perhaps I am being ambushed.

joapet99

6:03 PM

Finally home again. Finally I have my desktop by my side again

Almo

home again, home again. Jiggedy-jig. Goooood evening JF!

Aidan Mueller

6:42 PM

Binary lambda calculus

Binary lambda calculus (BLC) is a technique for using the lambda calculus to study Kolmogorov complexity, by working with a standard binary encoding of lambda terms, and a designated universal machine. Binary lambda calculus is a new idea introduced by John Tromp in 2004. == Background == BLC is designed to provide a very simple and elegant concrete definition of descriptional complexity (Kolmogorov complexity). Roughly speaking, the complexity of an object is the length of its shortest description. To make this precise, we take descriptions to be bitstrings, and identify a description method with...

Click ^

Seriously short code.

Icy Defiance

I hate seeing links that I don't know enough about to understand, especially when I can't research it for a couple more hours :(

Almo

:D

Icy Defiance

and then I might just play LoL instead because I've become addicted again

Almo

ehhehe

I hope to play a game with you again

but i get home around 10 or 10:30 this week

Icy Defiance

dang that's late. so that overtime wasn't just one day?

Almo

6:55 PM

no it's this whole week

Icy Defiance

ouch

Almo

but we get it back as vacation

so it's not as upsetting as it might be

Icy Defiance

lol my boss did something like that a couple weeks ago. worked like 16 hours a day for 5 days. and then...the client was like "oh shit we explained it wrong. we want something completely different."

Almo

:(

Noctrine

Man, I wish I could get overtime :(

Icy Defiance

6:57 PM

even if you get paid for the wasted work, just the fact that it's wasted is enough to piss anyone off.

Almo

:D

androidmaster

7:14 PM

hey guys

Almo

syug yeh

androidmaster

does anyone know a javascript IDE that can give u method names and stuff of your own objects? You know like in eclipse, it knows all the variables names, their methods, and then it can get everything from classes and auto fill it when u type only one letter?

Almo

Eclipse?

androidmaster

Right now am using Eclipse Luna for PHP and it has JavaScript support but cant get the methods from objects :(

Almo

not trying to be funny

androidmaster

7:16 PM

?

Almo

Sorry I thought Eclipse would do that.

Webstorm will probably do it, but that's not free

androidmaster

Me too but it cant for javascript only Java

Almo

webstorm is awesome, BTW

androidmaster

Maybe I need a plugin

Almo

ok sorry man

androidmaster

7:16 PM

BUT webstorm isnt free

Almo

could be

I said it wasn't :)

androidmaster

I wish i could have webstorm

Oh i did not see that post

Almo

:)

androidmaster

Oh well I guess i'll just scroll a lot to get the methods name

Well it seems it works when the variables are all in Global scope

but everything is local :(

Almo

27

Q: Eclipse JavaScript Editor: content assist for js files, autocompletion

I'm trying Eclipse (with JavaEE and Web Development plugins) as a JavaEE/GoogleAppEngine IDE. In HTML editor if I put a <script ... src="..." /> in <head> I automatically get content assist for JavaScript in the referenced file. I was wondering if it was possible to obtain content assist for othe...

javascript eclipse autocomplete eclipse-plugin content-assist

doesn't this address you concern?

androidmaster

7:19 PM

shock u my good sir have magical powers

Almo

if so, remember to use google. It came up top hit on a search for "eclipse javascript autocomplete"

androidmaster

:/ i didnt search for eclipse, i searched for completely different IDEs...

Aptana? I already have that

Almo

you assumed too quickly you needed a new ide

first step is to look for options or plugins you don't know about

if you DO need a new IDE, it's likely searches for your existing one will turn up people looking for the options in the current one, and being told to get the other one

Icy Defiance

7:35 PM

I wonder if visual studio would be good to use for webdev even when not using asp...

there's an extension for php that looks pretty awesome: visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/…

Almo

with proper configuration/plugins, I would expect so.

@androidmaster you should upvote that if it helped

Icy Defiance

I started making a website with asp a couple days ago, and one thing has stood out to me way more than anything else. It recognizes class names from your css and offers autocomplete for them when you type "class=" in the html stuff

I was mildly ecstatic, even if that is an oxymoron

SpartanDonut

:D

Gotta be careful though. Much like VB vs VB.NET people will get you on ASP vs ASP.NET

Icy Defiance

lol fair enough. I thought there was only ASP.NET...

I knew there was VB without .NET, but I've never even heard of it being used

Jon

VB was the shit

Almo

7:42 PM

I liked VB

exit "$EXITCODE"

SEX-IT-CODE

hidden messages!!!

Jon

wow.

simply facinating

Icy Defiance

by the way... it's convention in C# to always begin every single class name with a capital letter, right? so why do form names always begin with the lowercase "frm"?! outside of Unity's libraries it's the only time I've seen a class name beginning with a lowercase letter and it's been driving me insane the entire day!

I want to rename all 10 forms in the project I'm working on now

user4704

@IcyDefiance Where are you seeing "frm?"

user4704

VS doesn't generate form class names like that (it generates them based on what you name the .cs file initially).

user4704

I haven't seen anything do that but old VB code (for variable names) and Borland Builder stuff.

Icy Defiance

7:53 PM

actually it doesn't do either. VS calls it Form1 in a new project.

which makes a lot more sense

user4704

In a brand new project VS just copies the template files in the VS install directory.

user4704

(which are called Form1.cs unless you change them)

Icy Defiance

right

I'm more talking about common practice, at least in most of the code I've seen so far at uni, on the internet, and at work

it's not Microsoft's fault

user4704

Oh. Well that code is just bad / wrong.

Almo

:D

SpartanDonut

7:55 PM

Yeah that's just people being silly

user4704

Many professors and academics tend to be behind the times in terms of good software engineering practices; they still seem to prefer Hungarian notation all over, for example, in my experience.

SpartanDonut

I'm guessing it comes from the practice of instances of UI classes being prefixed like btnSubmit

But why they extended that to the class name... who knows

Probably because a form is a pretty specific piece of UI

Icy Defiance

lol hungarian notation. until maybe 5 years ago, every tutorial and book I read on programming all recommended that.

Jon

heck, at my work one louder guy ended up getting the entire team to have to end their variable names with its defined type

string nameString

Almo

oh no

Jon

7:57 PM

ugh.

Almo

I'll do
UILabel PlayernameLabel
in Unity code, but it seems way overkill for most other types.

user4704

The only time I am okay with that sort of thing is when you have two representation of a thing in the same scope, but different type.

Almo

^

user4704

(So for example when converting a string version of a name to the numerical one.)

Almo

yeah in my case we end up with Playername which is a string, and PlayernameLabel is the UI element.

Icy Defiance

7:59 PM

see, when there are loud idiots like that, I just google the issue followed by "is bad" or "is stupid"

first result for "hungarian notation is stupid" is this: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/102689/…

there's no arguing against those answers

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