Game Development

@visDEVion I'm kind of with @William'MindWorX'Mariager there. If you know your route isn't the best and you know of better solutions, try them. Don't spend too much time worrying about the BEST solution. It's a waste of time.

visDEVion

@ToddersLegrande thanks

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

A picture of thousands of dongs.

@Blue

ToddersLegrande

10:52 AM

@visDEVion no problem. Just my two cents anyway. If I actually had an answer I'd give you that too but I've never worked with 3D so I'm afraid you are on your own there.

Blue

11:35 AM

My recommendation, Stress test it in intervals.

@visDEVion If you add 1 of the asset, then 10, then 100, 1000,10000 Find where it bottlenecks.

Then after you have a rough idea of the figures involved you can then have a safe benchmark to work from

Lets say the most it can hold on 60 fps is 3000 of your asset.

Then you can see if your changes make this figure go higher, lower, different FPS, etc.

Almo

12:10 PM

what Blue said.

ToddersLegrande

what Almo said.

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

what ToddersLegrande said.

Blue

:D

Almo

12:33 PM

aw blue! you were supposed to say "what William said"

William 'MindWorX' Mariager

:(

Blue broke it all.

ToddersLegrande

Damnit @Blue!

Who invited this guy?

Blue

1:16 PM

I did! Byteches!

ToddersLegrande

xD

Kikaimaru

1:33 PM

Does anyone know about something easy that could parse something like "Dexterity + (Strength * 0.1)" into AST (in javascript)

AST = ?

Abstract syntax tree

ah. ok. :)

i need it so that i can define formula for dependent attributes like Damage = that formula above, and when someone changes Dexterity, it will change Damage too (then it will notify client with both changes)

so i could either write formula, and then duplicate dependent properties in another variable

or find some primitive javascript (or whatever) parser in javascript

http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/index.html
this seems nice

Shotgun Ninja

2:28 PM

hey folks

@Kikaimaru github.com/jterrace/js.js

It's a port of the SpiderMonkey JS engine, compiled into LLVM and then cross-compiled into JS using Emscripten.

visDEVion

are here any java programers, that can tell me how to get the size of a float buffer?

Shotgun Ninja

uhhhh, what kind of buffer?

If it's just an array, use array.length.

visDEVion

2:44 PM

docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/nio/FloatBuffer.html

Shotgun Ninja

Yeah. FloatBuffer#array() will give you a float[], then you just use the .length property.

docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/nio/…

Or if you want the amount left in the buffer, use this: docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/nio/…

that literally took 3-4 seconds to punch into Google.

Actually, you gave me the link to the page, I just had to find the right method for you.

Remember that FloatBuffer extends Buffer, so you can use capacity(), remaining(), and position() from that.

What's the application of this? Are you doing raw audio samples?

visDEVion

@ShotgunNinja tried it, and i got an error

i'm using it for opengl rendering

Shotgun Ninja

what have you tried?

Oh. Right. .array() only works if it was constructed by passing in a float[].

That's why there's a hasArray() method.

The buffer doesn't have to have a backing array.

docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/nio/…

I would switch to using remaining() or capacity(), depending on what you want to do with the buffer.

visDEVion

2:59 PM

but what does capacity actualy return?

Shotgun Ninja

It returns the amount of ____s in the buffer.

visDEVion

i dont think so

ToddersLegrande

docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/nio/Buffer.html - "A buffer's capacity is the number of elements it contains. The capacity of a buffer is never negative and never changes."

Shotgun Ninja

Well, read this yourself then: docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/nio/Buffer.html

> A buffer's capacity is the number of elements it contains. The capacity of a buffer is never negative and never changes.

Code Assassin

@Gajoo LOL

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