I've written my own audio mixer. For Linux/Windows, my game uses SDL. On a small handful of Linux machines (including my laptop), SDL has a bug where it allocates a ridiculously large (about 120 milliseconds) audio buffer. While I'm not to the point that I care so much about affected machines, it...
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I keep running in to. The only solutions I've thought of would be pose performance issues
The way I see it, I can think of things as either samples or time. The two are interchangeable, but when things like pause occur, the natural unit of measure is time.
If the AudioManager basically kept a log of any event that affects the timeliness of audio (pause, increase / decrease playback speed) then i could replay through it whenever i needed to figure out exactly where a track should be
and maybe that's the best i'll do... not exactly simple, but probably cheap enough to not be a performance issue
i can tell even with a smaller buffer... in particular, if two of the same sound are fired at nearly the same time (two of the same gun being fired, for example), they can both end up playing at the next buffer-fill, which effectively doubles the sound of that one clip
that problem could be solved in a very different way, though
also, if i were to have a buffer underrun, this problem would really amplify the result
Not one that would support all of my target platforms. Also, my system seems quite capable other than this issue. Fixing the issue is likely a lot less work.
So, I've looked over all the questions here about level editors, and most are for tile based games, I found this one: gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/8600/… for non-tile basted games, but the only editor linked has not seen an update in over 2 years. Has anyone else got any tips? Or is this the type of tool I would be best suited for building myself, and making it build the exact levels I need for my game?
I should point out that I am looking for a non-tile based editor :)
there's a few games that have non-tiled editors in them, but there's not really any general case editor. you probably would be better off making a custom one for yourself, or at least expanding on an existing editor that's out there and is open source
During your development process, when is the recommended phase to decide what platform to aim for, and what language to use?
I figured that it would be better to choose at the beginning what would be your target platform, as it would affect your design decisions, and limit the language you are s...
I'm trying to get the Hedgewars source code. When I went to the downloads tab, it doesn't specify which is the actual game. I tried downloading it using the SVN Checkout on Tortoise, but it seems like it doesn't work on the browse section of Source.
(Hg>project_files>Android_build>SDL-android-...
that too. i am a rebel, against the tyranny of boost
shrugs there's really not much I need boost for. smart pointers might be useful, and the multiplatform file system thingy seems useful, too, but beyond that, SFML provides most of the same library bits, and everything else, i can pretty much work with
and the only thing i really feel is missing (super easy, javascript/python string manipulation) doesn't exist in boost anyway
and by "missing" i mostly just mean "it would be really nice to be able to write Console.log(new std::string("this " + 45)); and have that magically work
@Damir Not really, I really meant (for better or worse) what you've got doesn't look bad to my eyes, but as I'm really not an expert, that may or may not be a valuable bit of information.
@Damir I've done some work with XNA, which is somewhat component based... that's about the extent of my experience with it.
@Damir No problem. Good luck. My philosophy is that if what you have is working, run with it, because you'll get somewhere. Don't worry about building a perfect system.
I'm trying to get the Hedgewars source code. When I went to the downloads tab, it doesn't specify which is the actual game. I tried downloading it using the SVN Checkout on Tortoise, but it seems like it doesn't work on the browse section of Source.
(Hg>project_files>Android_build>SDL-android-...
