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PearsonArtPhoto

12:30 AM

Anyone doing Ludum Dare?

Jimmy

I might try to whip something simple up in a few hours

don't have the weekend open, unfortunately

PearsonArtPhoto

I think I'm going to give it at least a medium go.

My weekend is increasingly less open, but...

Jimmy

yeah, I figure if I keep saying "I'll do the next one since I have no time this time" I'll never do it

oh... that starts in 27 minutes. I should eat dinner.

PearsonArtPhoto

Good call.

PearsonArtPhoto

1:03 AM

The Theme for Ludum Dare 41 is: Combine 2 Incompatible Genres https://ldjam.com #LDJAM

Tweeted by ludumdare on April 21, 2018 at 12:59 AM

Sie

@PearsonArtPhoto Can I nominate Paladins?

PearsonArtPhoto

Has to be made in the next 48-72 hours.

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@PearsonArtPhoto Looks like nutella and pickles... "incompatible" is for some people who never frequented a pregnant woman....

Sie

I know. I was making a dank may may as the kids call it.

PearsonArtPhoto

LOL

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Almo

3:45 AM

@StephaneHockenhull :D

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Chris McFarland

5:08 AM

Networked key-tossing

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Uri Popov

7:35 AM

when u fix a bug and dont know how exactly u fixed it

Chris McFarland

7:47 AM

you pat yourself on the back for a job well done

Uri Popov

It was a really wierd issue with PlayOneShot()

I'm using it for playing step sounds and as it happens my water steps had about 9s of silence after the step sound

so after a while of stepping in water either the water steps would cut out or some other random audio sources would cut out

based on the priority of the audio source. I was under the impression that PlayOneShot destroys the previous clip playing if you cann it again. Apparently it stacks all the sounds and only destroys them after they have finished.

All theese years working with Unity and only just found this out.

Chris McFarland

8:10 AM

ahhh heh

I had an issue with the Wii U where PlayOneShot would not play sound on the main GamePad, ended up refactoring not using PlayOneShot at all cuz of that

user92578

8:47 AM

I started digging through SDL's DirectX renderer and I think I've figured out the cause bug

user92578

Now I'm debating if it's worthwhile for me to try to patch this (no DirectX experience) and rebuild SDL myself

user92578

I also kinda started wondering if this could be intended behaviour since SDL sends out SDL_RENDER_TARGETS_RESET and SDL_RENDER_DEVICE_RESET events, with comments like "the render targets have been reset and their contents need to be updated"

Chris McFarland

sounds scary

user92578

For some reason DirectX basically invalidates everything on focus lost

user92578

That requires textures to be recreated, and when doing that, SDL looks up the interpolation mode from the global hint that is used to set it, but instead (at least IMO) it should use the existing assigned mode

user92578

9:03 AM

This is not an issue with OpenGL because OpenGL is smart and doesn't burn the house down when the window is minimized

Chris McFarland

ah real, is that why fullscreen DirectX takes forever when alt-tabbing?

user92578

Yup.

Chris McFarland

(compared to borderless windowed mode)
lol shame

thanks microsoft

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user92578

10:42 AM

trying to get SDL to link properly now

Chris McFarland

😬

user92578

I've never done stuff like this before where I build a library that I use from the same solution as the game

Alexandre Vaillancourt

@Tyyppi_77 Trying that for fun or you have modified SDL code to fix or adjust something?

user92578

@AlexandreVaillancourt I want to try to fix the bug I found myself

user92578

not really breaking stuff for fun, all though I've occasionally thought that it might be a good idea do this so that I can freely modify the source if I need to

user92578

10:55 AM

Do you guys know about this stuff? I now build the SDL DLL, PDB and LIB files to the Debug/ folder of my project

user92578

I added Debug/ to Additional Library Directories and Additional Dependencies has SDL2.lib in it

user92578

What am I missing?

nwp

What makes you think you are missing something? Does it not link?

user92578

> 1>Game.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDL_CustomStuff_REAL referenced in function "public: __thiscall CGame::CGame(void)" (??0CGame@@QAE@XZ)
1>E:\Devel\Workspace\Visual\C++\GunHeroRemake\GunHeroRemake\Debug\GunHero.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

user92578

That's just the new thing I added though... so I guess it's linking all the other stuff okay

nwp

10:59 AM

Well, time to research where _SDL_CustomStuff_REAL is supposed to be defined and why the linker doesn't find it.

user92578

It's there with all the other stuff with the same function signature

user92578

okay works fine if I call the function inside the SDL code, so I assume it's something to do with exporting the function to the DLL

user92578

ah SDL does some export magic

user92578

well I don't need to add public API stuff anyways

Alexandre Vaillancourt

11:29 AM

@Tyyppi_77 Yeah, it sucks when you need to get to that point :/

user92578

this is actually a much trickier fix than I assumed, I'm not really used to working with C and I kinda want to write a clean fix that could submit myself

user92578

11:54 AM

all right I think I fixed it, not a very clean fix though as I had to add an additional void pointer to the texture struct