Game Development

With mutex & semaphor, it's pretty simple: When processes compete for resources, lock around any transitions from one valid state to another valid state.

Otherwise, when processes are waiting to be asynchronously triggered, block on a semaphor so the thread sleeps until it's ready

Hjorthenify

1:37 AM

lock()

semaphor?

semi whore?

MickLH

C# has a semaphor, I don't know the semantics of it

But you can use it like an asynchronous message, some threads wait for it, some threads trigger it.

Hjorthenify

Ahhhh

That was mentioned

Pulse is the word I think

MickLH

I think you'll be safe as long as you strictly never unlock until the object state is valid.

Also, assume that Monitor.Exit() or the end of a `lock() {}` block, is actually gonna pass the CPU directly to the next thread, so even a instant unlock-relock will result in all your data changing... but only when you don't want that to happen ;)

Blender Warrior

3:22 AM

Hi folks

Kevin van der Velden

6:51 AM

o/

Chris

7:18 AM

hi

user92578

8:47 AM

Morning!

Chris

9:11 AM

howzit

I think I can finally work on some art again. past 48 hours, real life's gotten in the way lol

Kevin van der Velden

Real life is the worst

Chris

yep.

might play a bit more Catacomb Kids for final inspiration first

user92578

i slept like 6 hours last night

user92578

programmed to 3, then rolled around in bed to almost six

user92578

woke up at 12

Jon

9:49 AM

sounds like a pretty awesome day

user92578

lol way too little sleep for a teenager :D

Jon

lol i was joking

user92578

oh

user92578

im too tired to get them :D

user92578

uuuugh ive been trying to tweak a sine wave velocity for like 20 minutes now

user92578

9:59 AM

it's just two floats

Blue Bug

6 hours is more than enough sleep for a teenager! I used to sleep about that much when I was a teen.

user92578

lol I need atleast 9 hours

Blue Bug

omg, do you not have mountains of homework and study centers you need to go? R you not Asian or something?

user92578

okay, parachutes now apply a small "wind" wave to the characters

user92578

lol

Blue Bug

10:04 AM

more time you spend studying, better life in the future. Just study no life, man. flips burger , lets out deep sigh

that's what all the adults used to say. fck that. Go outside have some fun, life is not all about study :)

user92578

oh i spend a lot of time studying during the year, and i've gotten really great results

Blue Bug

gud gud!

Anna Naklab feat. Alle Farben & YOUNOTUS - Supergirl (Official Video)

►

Hjorthenify

10:42 AM

I haven't had a reason to go outside the past week because of grey and boring weather, but what happens the day I actually have to get out? We get thunderstorms with a mixture of heavy rain and hail combined with strong winds that makes sure you aren't going anywhere on bike.. -.-

user92578

lol

user92578

true nerds dont get out even if there's sunshine

user92578

Okay now I think I want to add a new type of hazard to the game

user92578

Actually, I might rework the blood particles first

Chris

s-sunlight? what's that

user92578

10:46 AM

^

Jon

heh

Martin Sojka

@BlueBug Another of those "Why the fuck did they have to change the lyrics just to add some generic, boring synth-beats instead?" remakes. See also: "Behind Blue Eyes".

Hjorthenify

I live in Denmark.. I wouldn't know. Always covered behind the clouds.

ujwal dhakal

@MartinSojka

is there any fast emulator?

Jon

In canada, we get sun eh?

Martin Sojka

10:47 AM

No.

Chris

@Hjorthenify I like ambient sunlight, with a roof over my head and zero glare

Martin Sojka

@ujwaldhakal No. Emulators are, by definition, slow.

ujwal dhakal

i am using android studio really sucks

Hjorthenify

:P

Jon

emulators are not only slow

but also not accurate

Blue Bug

10:49 AM

@MartinSojka Wait you don't like the lyrics? (It doesn't make any sense, but I like it)

Martin Sojka

@BlueBug I don't like that they changed them - and replaced them with just some generic beats.

Jon

Martin hates change

Blue Bug

haha

Hjorthenify

2 days ago, by Tyyppi_77

AAAARGH I DONT LIKE CHANGE

user92578

^

user92578

10:51 AM

Sooo, cool hazard ideas that aren't too much work to implement?

user92578

I was thinking about mines

user92578

But they aren't that good when the environment isn't destructible

Martin Sojka

Johnny Cash replacing " I wear this crown of shit" with " I wear this crown of thorns" in his re-make of NIN's "Hurt" works and adds some awesome Jesus allegory to the whole thing.

Hjorthenify

@Tyyppi_77 blowdart thingies

Martin Sojka

Replacing a whole part of the song with senseless beats is just stupid.

Hjorthenify

10:52 AM

or snakes

Chris

@Tyyppi_77 flaming barrels

Hjorthenify

exploding towers

user92578

thats on the list

Hjorthenify

:D

user92578

at the bottom of it, but on the list :)

Kevin van der Velden

10:53 AM

@Tyyppi_77 frag mines, they have less terrain damage and more fragments (particles!) flying around

Hjorthenify

Just reminding you...

user92578

frag mines could be cool

Blue Bug

user92578

flames could be awesome too

user92578

NO

Kevin van der Velden

10:54 AM

@BlueBug THAT'S WHAT I SAID

user92578

THATS ONE OF THE CHANGES I DONT LIKE

Blue Bug

I was staring at it. Thought I was going mad.

Jon

Yeah, the new color is really dumb

Look at the logo on the bottom right

dat contrast

user92578

Like WTF was wrong at the cool hexagon thing?

Chris

it sucks

Ali.S

10:56 AM

I liked dark hexagon better too

Blue Bug

Is there a place where I can appeal my complain?

Hjorthenify

user92578

Meta I guess

user92578

@Hjorthenify Your own style? I like it

Ali.S

@Tyyppi_77 wait... you really liked my crappy code?

Hjorthenify

10:58 AM

I cant do bright background for text on my screen..

user92578

I think that for most parts it was easy to follow the logic and see what's going on, at least on a general level

Hjorthenify

Got custom styles for here, wikipedia, stackoverflow and msdn

user92578

But I only did some quick skimming

user92578

Could you give me the style???

user92578

I only have a style that hides the feed box

user92578

10:59 AM

I think I want a hazard that has something to do with the player stepping on something

Chris

#input-area {
    background: #333333;
}

kind of helps

Jon

greasemonkey

Chris

Stylish

Jon

on it

user92578

But it still, a plain color doesn't beat hexagons

Jon

11:01 AM

#input-area {
background: hexagons;
}

user92578

What would be a good "OH NO I STEPPED ON IT, NOW I ONLY HAVE A SECOND TO REACT BEFORE <what> HAPPENS!" thing?

Blue Bug

0

Q: Can we have old color theme for the chat room?

The current version is way too bright. It would be superb if we had color theme we can customize for the chat room. If such feature is too much to ask, I at least desire to tone down the color a bit.

2

Chris

makeAesthetic();

user92578

I wonder if that's a thing for our meta, or is the style the same for all chats?

Lokkij

@Tyyppi_77 Lava! Airstrike! Zombies!

Chris

11:02 AM

as long as it looks better, I'm all for whatever

user92578

I can't upvote it :(

user92578

too little rep

Chris

@BlueBug you might need to specify which chatroom it's for, I dunno, or is it applied to all rooms?

Lokkij

We also still need the improved link colors

user92578

And should we just ask for the old style back?

Jon

11:03 AM

ok

user92578

Instead of just modifying the color

Jon

so the background image was deleted by mistake I think

if you look at the CSS

for input-area

user92578

Yeah I found that too

Chris

what was it called?

Jon

background: #000 url("//cdn.sstatic.net/gamedev/img/bg-notify.png") repeat scroll 0% 0%;

user92578

11:04 AM

an odd name tough

user92578

so I wonder if it's related

Jon

add

background: url("https://i.imgur.com/iENg3.jpg");

looks decent, heh

Chris

is better, aye

Jon

well, could be better, i just googled hexagon black

took something on page 2

leeching off his bandwidth

oh its imgur.. cool

Blue Bug

0

Q: Chat room color theme is too bright.

The current version is way too bright. It would be superb if we had color theme we can customize for the chat room. If such feature is too much to ask, I at least desire to tone down the color a bit.

feature-request chat

3

moved the meta to game-dev-meta. Now at the correct meta website.

Chris

11:08 AM

sweet

user92578

again, I think you should mention the lack of the image

Martin Sojka

@Jon Nice one, but I'd add background-size: 30% auto;.

Jon

yeah agreed :)

Lokkij

dinahmoelabs.com/plink

Jon

much better

Chris

11:10 AM

@Lokkij very cool

Lokkij

:D

Jon

doesn't connect for me...

oh, flash

doesn't work

Blue Bug

dang how do I add "background: url("https://i.imgur.com/iENg3.jpg);" I am totally noob with web browser.

Chris

I use Stylish

Jon

a plugin basically yeah. I just did it right in firebug

user92578

11:15 AM

Me too

Jon

if you refresh the page, you have to re-add it everytime this way though

user92578

True

Stack Exchange

3

Q: Chat room color theme is too bright

The current version is way too bright. It would be superb if we had color theme we can customize for the chat room. If such feature is too much to ask, I at least desire to tone down the color a bit.

feature-request chat

Hjorthenify

Lol

user92578

OH WHAT THERES A META POST ABOUT THE THEME?

Blue Bug

11:16 AM

u r too late @Bot!

user92578

Maybe I'll try to make a spike pop out from the ground

Jon

make his legs fly off

just do it

thank me later

Chris

I've got

div.message a {
  text-decoration:underline;
}

#input-area {
    background: #333333;
    background-image:url(i.imgur.com/iENg3.jpg);
    background-size: 60% auto;
    box-shadow: inset 0 5px 20px rgba(0,0,0,1);
}

#input {
    box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.666);
    padding: 5px;
}

button.button {
    box-shadow: 0 2px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.666);
}

at the moment

Jon

i'll try it

also found this

oh n/m that one is good

user92578

Oh man that is really good

Blue Bug

11:19 AM

oh yeah I did it

Chrome lets you simply edit it on your browser if you hit f12

Chris

yeah

Martin Sojka

@BlueBug So does Firefox. The question is if it survives restarting the browser.

Blue Bug

refreshes the browser .... :* (

Kevin van der Velden

Just use stylish, works fine

Blue Bug

Tried to use the stylish... I got this result.

I want something like this... i.imgur.com/Ol1yTQU.png

Hjorthenify

11:29 AM

@-moz-document regexp("https?://chat\\.stackexchange\\.com/rooms/\\d+/.*"), regexp("https?://chat\\.meta\\.stackexchange\\.com/rooms/\\d+/.*"), regexp("https?://chat\\.stackoverflow\\.com/rooms/\\d+/.*") {
body .messages,
body .message .meta {
    background-color: #1E1E1E !important;
    color: #AAAAAA !important;
}
body .messages {
    border: 1px solid #666666 !important;
    border-radius: 6px !important;
}
body .messages .content {
    text-transform: none !important;
}
body .messages .content code {

Blue Bug

@Hjorthenify Hey man. Save me from this shiny new theme. My eyes are burning. How did you manage to do that?!

Jon

github.com/oliversalzburg/se-chat-dark-theme

Hjorthenify

Found most of the code somewhere and tweaked it to my likings

user92578

Oh that's cool @Jon

Hjorthenify

#room-tags {
    visibility: : hidden;
}
#roomdesc {
    visibility: : hidden;
}

Why doesn't this work?

Martin Sojka

11:38 AM

Try with fewer colons, maybe?

Kevin van der Velden

Yes, one colon, not 2

Blue Bug

Hjorthenify

Wow im blind..

user92578

lol

Martin Sojka

CSS is annoyingly fickle.

Blue Bug

11:39 AM

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! TY PEOPLE!!!

user92578

Wow the style from the github link has all sorts of cool stuff

Hjorthenify

Such as?

user92578

It zooms on images when you hover on them

user92578

which to be honest is kinda annoying :D

Blue Bug

wow

@Tyyppi_77 I just noticed that as well. I think that's cool

user92578

11:45 AM

Yeah

user92578

It's just the scrolling that's annoying

Ali.S

9gag.com/tv/p/a9p83a/do-you-like-the-kkk?ref=tcr

Blue Bug

I do have that problem as well. It's got that funky up/down when zomming in/out. I guess its because my monitor is too small

Hjorthenify

I'm trying to remove the room description and tags..

Doesn't go too well. What am I doing wrong?

#room-tags {
    visibility: hidden;
    height: 0f;
}
#roomdesc {
    visibility: hidden;
    height: 0f;

never really done any CSS btw

Kevin van der Velden

Use display: none; instead of visibility: hidden;

The latter only makes it not visible but it will still take up space

Hjorthenify

11:48 AM

That's why I tried to change the height :P

Awesome! Thanks :)

Kevin van der Velden

Well don't do that in this case =p

Also the reason it doesn't work is because "f" isn't a unit

Hjorthenify

Ahh

So it fails silently?

Kevin van der Velden

Use Npx, N% or 0 (where N is the value)

@Hjorthenify yeah, css doesn't do any error reporting really, there's tools for it but not browsers

Same with HTML. It's pretty much why we're in the browser hell we have right now

Hjorthenify

Good god I'll never make a website..

user92578

@Ali.S lol

Kevin van der Velden

11:50 AM

@Hjorthenify that's not bad advise =p

Hjorthenify

2 days till its announced if I am accepted into college :D

user92578

nervous?

Hjorthenify

Nah

user92578

Hmm I starting to get scared if I'll run out of entity type flag space

Hjorthenify

Was more than qualified for it

Chris

11:58 AM

"you're too smart, we don't want you"

Hjorthenify

How many entities do you have? O_o

user92578

not that many

user92578

how many flags can I fit into a long?

Hjorthenify

64?

I think

user92578

Okay

user92578

11:59 AM

Ah then I'll be good for a long while, thanks :)

Hjorthenify

Depends how long the long is

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