Floats are beeing used for representation and analysis of geometrical data although they really are in no way suited for that job, because people are too lazy and stupid to always implement the right datatype for the job. And because lots of people agreed on their laziness and stupidity they deci...
I can imagine the hate we'd see if the default turned out to be fixed-point decimals
can you imagine calculating an equation a*(c/d*b) and getting stupid rounding errors just because c/d was 0.0001 and your fixed point system only had 3 digits of precision?
@JohnMcDonald That's me. I usually avoid F2P games, unless their F2P model feels right to me. For MMOs, I really prefer subscription so I never feel "Damn, I could do that if I paid more."
F2P is also ok with me if it's playbalanced, and you're not paying to win. DotA 2 and League of Legends fall into this category.
depends. does your average include people who have never programmed, or people who have already learned 20 languages, people who only know LISP and other such languages?
For a traditional C programmer, I'd say, "not very long". PHP is quite simple.
@ShotgunNinja the problem with that is that the inputs would be names, with spaces included possibly, if I had the cin >> t, the program would be something like this:
Input choice 1: Mount and Blade Input choice 2: Input choice 3:
cin >> number
only grabs the numbers from the buffer, it leaves the "enter" in the buffer, which is then immediately grabbed up by the getline and interpreted as an empty string (or string with just the new line, i forget).
The getline(cin, str); reads the newline that comes after the number read previously, and immediately returns with this "line". To avoid this you can skip whitespace with std::ws before reading the name:
cout << "Enter number:";
cin >> number;
cout << "Enter name:";
ws(cin);
ge...
It looks like you want line based reading. For this you probably want to use getline consistently and then parse each line if you need to parse a number from then read line. It makes the input reading more consistent.
This way you don't have to manually scan for the end of each line to guarantee...
But only just; in this fashion, you only "sip lines off the file", as one of my professors so eloquently described it, instead of "shotgunning all N gigabytes into memory".
Protip: Avoid reading in entire files when you don't know how large they may become.
I am about to complete my first ever game. I have used Qt for windowing and OpenGL for actual game logic. I am confused about .. things which are related to design so according to FAQ, these kinda questions are valid. So from the past experience, people who are more interested in deciding what ot...
read all the little bits around the page. it's all funny
I also find it funny how specific that humor is. You must be familiar with StackOverflow, the flood of JS questions, and how often jQuery gets mentioned in solutions.
I'm trying to create a game with newtonian physics.
Before you read the rest of this, this is my main question I'm trying to find an answer to:
I keep getting an error that pops up in a window after I try and run my code. What library or dll am I missing?
I've got an apple, an orange, and a ...
Hey there is anyone on that could give me a suggestion for any really good sdk's for implementing head to head for a Windows Phone 7.1/8 game?
I am using XNA/C# right now but will likely start compiling the Windows 8 version with my MonoGame code after the next release so I would prefer something that wont have to change due to that
Still trying to decide if I should use UDP or TCP for sending data. This article I am reading is leaning heavily towards UDP with extra control added for reliability but it is talking about sending info 10-30 times per second which is overkill for my implementation. Plus there is the added possible problem of connecting through firewalls and such.
TCP apparently obscures the reliability... and according to this article you can essentially write the component that makes it seem more reliable on top of UDP.
True, I personally dont care so much about ordering as I am really just updating an opponents current score and that score cant go down so I already know which packets to discard
@RobCurr, regarding the protocol to use - I'd suggest you to take a look at Photon for Unity3D documentation. Do not use it, just read about how they've implemented the network protocols into their engine. They use all of them, TCP, UDP and even RUDP (a custom made one), nicely separating the traffic into channels by data importance and whether it requires to be 100% received or not.
and for RUDP I think they use some open source library :0
The complaints he has are common: TCP won't deliver out of order packets to the client. If packet 3 is lost, and packets 4->10 have been received, TCP will hold on to 4->10 until packet 3 has been re-sent
Depends on the type of game, but in my game, I'd rather not worry about it
cin >> number
only grabs the numbers from the buffer, it leaves the "enter" in the buffer, which is then immediately grabbed up by the getline and interpreted as an empty string (or string with just the new line, i forget).
The getline(cin, str); reads the newline that comes after the number read previously, and immediately returns with this "line". To avoid this you can skip whitespace with std::ws before reading the name:
cout << "Enter number:";
cin >> number;
cout << "Enter name:";
ws(cin);
ge...
I'm trying to create a game with newtonian physics.
Before you read the rest of this, this is my main question I'm trying to find an answer to:
I keep getting an error that pops up in a window after I try and run my code. What library or dll am I missing?
I've got an apple, an orange, and a ...
