What are you working on? v19

[mlbfan560]

My tile placement logic finally works.

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/working1.PNG[/IMG]

It takes an array of booleans and arranges tile objects onto a grid, proportional to the number of booleans.

[bobthe2lol]

[QUOTE=mlbfan560;31500785]My tile placement logic finally works.

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/working1.PNG[/IMG]

It takes an array of booleans and arranges tile objects onto a grid, proportional to the number of booleans.[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't an array of ints be a better idea? That way you can have more than two tile types.

[DrLuke]

[QUOTE=bobthe2lol;31501323]Wouldn't an array of ints be a better idea? That way you can have more than two tile types.[/QUOTE]

My thought exactly.

[mlbfan560]

[QUOTE=bobthe2lol;31501323]Wouldn't an array of ints be a better idea? That way you can have more than two tile types.[/QUOTE]

That's what I was thinking as well, it was just my train of thought at the time when I was coding it.
At least it's easy to change now.

[esalaka]

[img]http://gyazo.com/f92bc7b4e3565cbcf8fd5f2a4b4916a9.png[/img]

I feel like making a Pong clone now

[Cyril]

Here is a video showing the layer system I was talking about some days ago.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1cork4h6H0[/media]

[Wyzard]

[QUOTE=Chandler;31499584]I'm not using submit, I'm using map.[/QUOTE]
This works too:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.2

import concurrent.futures
import time

class Foo:
  def __init__(self, salutation):
    self.salutation = salutation

  def __call__(self, subject):
    return "%s, %s!" % (self.salutation, subject)

with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
  for message in executor.map(Foo("Hello"), ["world", "universe"]):
    print(message)

So does this:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.2

import concurrent.futures
import time

class Foo:
  def __init__(self, salutation):
    self.salutation = salutation

  def __call__(self, subject):
    return "%s, %s!" % (self.salutation, subject)

with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
  places = ["world", "solar system", "galaxy", "universe", "multiverse"]
  foo = Foo("Hello")
  def submitter(subject):
    return executor.submit(foo, subject)
  futures = [future for future in map(submitter, places)]
  for future in concurrent.futures.as_completed(futures):
    print(future.result())

with the quirk that concurrent.futures.as_completed() doesn't seem to like the iterable returned by map(), so I had to use a list comprehension to iterate it ahead of time and put the results into a real list.

[QUOTE=Chandler;31499584]I've chosen and am sticking with .NET now.[/QUOTE]
I think you may be jumping ship too early; passing an object with a __call__() to a ProcessPoolExecutor seems to work fine.

[backwardspy]

[QUOTE=Cyril;31503936]Here is a video showing the layer system I was talking about some days ago.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1cork4h6H0[/media][/QUOTE]
Not bad, although it looks a little confusing to use... I wish I could think of something that you could add to make it a bit more intuitive

[King Penisless]

[QUOTE=Chris220;31503956]Not bad, although it looks a little confusing to use... I wish I could think of something that you could add to make it a bit more intuitive[/QUOTE]

It should have a list of changeable textures on the right and you should change between layers with up and down arrow keys that's the best way I can think of

[20k]

I need ideas for what to add to the planetary generation, what needs improving and what needs adding?

[Chandler]

[QUOTE=Wyzard;31503939]This works too:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.2

import concurrent.futures
import time

class Foo:
  def __init__(self, salutation):
    self.salutation = salutation

  def __call__(self, subject):
    return "%s, %s!" % (self.salutation, subject)

with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
  for message in executor.map(Foo("Hello"), ["world", "universe"]):
    print(message)

So does this:

#!/usr/bin/env python3.2

import concurrent.futures
import time

class Foo:
  def __init__(self, salutation):
    self.salutation = salutation

  def __call__(self, subject):
    return "%s, %s!" % (self.salutation, subject)

with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:
  places = ["world", "solar system", "galaxy", "universe", "multiverse"]
  foo = Foo("Hello")
  def submitter(subject):
    return executor.submit(foo, subject)
  futures = [future for future in map(submitter, places)]
  for future in concurrent.futures.as_completed(futures):
    print(future.result())

with the quirk that concurrent.futures.as_completed() doesn't seem to like the iterable returned by map(), so I had to use a list comprehension to iterate it ahead of time and put the results into a real list.

I think you may be jumping ship too early; passing an object with a __call__() to a ProcessPoolExecutor seems to work fine.[/QUOTE]

Now I don't even know what the hell. :/

edit:

OK. I just tried this within the area that I was having the issue, and it worked. Somehow. Thanks! :)

[bobthe2lol]

[QUOTE=Icedshot;31505503]I need ideas for what to add to the planetary generation, what needs improving and what needs adding?[/QUOTE]

Make the land masses look more... land mass-ey

[editline]3rd August 2011[/editline]

By the way, does someone know how I can insert a value into a list in C# without already having something there? It seems that the array the list is based on has the right length, but the list itself has a _size property set to 0.

[Cyril]

[QUOTE=Chris220;31503956]Not bad, although it looks a little confusing to use... I wish I could think of something that you could add to make it a bit more intuitive[/QUOTE]

Maybe displaying something like this would help ?

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14515180/layer2.png[/img]

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=Chandler;31505544]Now I don't even know what the hell. :/

edit:

OK. I just tried this within the area that I was having the issue, and it worked. Somehow. Thanks! :)[/QUOTE]

The best way to solve problems is to go around them with hacks :v:

[Robber]

I'm working as an intern at a local software consulting company. It's so awesome seeing a huge gigantic project with professional build servers and bug trackers and developers and everything. Compared to the tiny projects I've been doing myself or with a few classmates seem so insignificant compared to that.

Even though their developers are pretty awesome and the overall code quality is great, I found my first [url=thedailywtf.com]WTF[/url] today (after 3 days of working there).
[cpp]@Test
public void testSomething(){ //it obviously had a real name, I can't remember it anymore
//....
try {
someObject.equals(null);
} catch (RuntimeException ex) {
Assert.assertTrue(true);
}
//.....
}[/cpp]
When I saw it I was very confused by this obscure test case. It was already marked as a major warning by the build server because of the equals(null), but in context it made even less sense. When I looked at the equals method it made even less sense:
[cpp]public void equals(Object obj){
throw new RuntimeException("Some error message"); //I can't remember the error message either
}[/cpp]

But the story doesn't end here. Since I found the code so amusing I told a college about it and he comes over to my PC and looks at the code for about 30 seconds and says "You know, I think I wrote that".

[Skipcast]

Did you ask him why?

[Robber]

[QUOTE=Dj-J3;31507972]Did you ask him why?[/QUOTE]
Of course, but his explanation wasn't very clear. From what I understood he wanted the assertion to fail if equals(null) didn't throw a RuntimeException, but not only is that not the desired behavior, his code never fails at all.

Usually he isn't a bad developer though and I have no idea how old that code is. He was probably shocked and surprised and wasn't sure what he thought when he wrote that either.

[awfa3]

[QUOTE=Cyril;31503936]Here is a video showing the layer system I was talking about some days ago.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1cork4h6H0[/media][/QUOTE]

You should do what LittleBigPlanet 2 did

[Gook Nukem]

[QUOTE=Robber;31507843]I'm working as an intern at a local software consulting company. It's so awesome seeing a huge gigantic project with professional build servers and bug trackers and developers and everything. Compared to the tiny projects I've been doing myself or with a few classmates seem so insignificant compared to that.

Even though their developers are pretty awesome and the overall code quality is great, I found my first [url=thedailywtf.com]WTF[/url] today (after 3 days of working there).
[cpp]@Test
public void testSomething(){ //it obviously had a real name, I can't remember it anymore
//....
try {
someObject.equals(null);
} catch (RuntimeException ex) {
Assert.assertTrue(true);
}
//.....
}[/cpp]
When I saw it I was very confused by this obscure test case. It was already marked as a major warning by the build server because of the equals(null), but in context it made even less sense. When I looked at the equals method it made even less sense:
[cpp]public void equals(Object obj){
throw new RuntimeException("Some error message"); //I can't remember the error message either
}[/cpp]

But the story doesn't end here. Since I found the code so amusing I told a college about it and he comes over to my PC and looks at the code for about 30 seconds and says "You know, I think I wrote that".[/QUOTE]

I was programming with a friend at his house once over the weekend when the internet was down in 2007 I think. We had a ton of comments saying dumb stuff like "// This person died from an STD" when variables were set to 0 and "// This message box comes up because you were a pansy and caused an error. Don't do that!"

We looked at it a couple months ago since it was on a CD marked "Weekend of Weirdness" and neither of us remembered it, and we almost died laughing :v:

[Shellman Deluxe]

Right now i am working on a simple "Keychanger" program in C++
i will come with updates anytime soon

[i300]

[QUOTE=mlbfan560;31500785]My tile placement logic finally works.

[IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/working1.PNG[/IMG]

It takes an array of booleans and arranges tile objects onto a grid, proportional to the number of booleans.[/QUOTE]

Nice! A good start.
My game uses a world that is 7900x1200. In pixels, the world is 79000 x 12000.
[img]http://i3software.org/s/SS-2011-08-03_12.20.08.png[/img]

I don't want to loop through an array THAT huge, so I loop only through the visible area (plus a bit of padding).

        public void Render(SpriteBatch batch)
        {
            SpriteManager manager = EngineConstants.Shared().spriteMananger; // This is the class I use for my sprite managment.
            for (int x = 0; x < 81; x++) // Visible X area (mine is 79 blocks). I add two just to make sure you dont see any of the background color while moving.
            {
                for (int y = 0; y < 62; y++)  // Visible X area (mine is 60 blocks). I add two just to make sure you dont see any of the background color while moving.
                {
                    int renderX = x + (xOffset / 10); // xOffset is the PIXELS moved to the right. Divide it by the size of your blocks
                    int renderY = y + (yOffset / 10);  // xOffset is the PIXELS moved to the right. Divide it by the size of your blocks

                    if ((renderX >= 0 && renderX <= wWidth - 1) && (renderY >= 0 && renderY <= wHeight - 1)) // Make sure you're rendering within the map, as to not have an "out of bounds" exception called.
                    {
                        Texture2D cTexture = null;
                        switch (World[renderX][renderY])
                        {
                            case BlockType.Blank:
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Grass:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Grass", true); // This method finds a sprite in a list of already loaded sprites. If it isn't yet loaded, load it, add it to the list and then return it,
                                break;

                            case BlockType.DarkGrass:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("DarkGrass", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Dirt:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Dirt", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.DarkDirt:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("DarkDirt", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Coal:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Coal", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Iron:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Iron", true);
                                break;

                            default:
                                break;
                        }

                        if (cTexture != null) batch.Draw(cTexture, new Rectangle(renderX * 10 - xOffset, renderY * 10 - yOffset, 10, 10), Color.White);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

[Skipcast]

[QUOTE=i300;31509826]snip[/QUOTE]

Why don't you assign them the answer instead of multiplying two values?

[Dr Magnusson]

[QUOTE=Dj-J3;31510179]Why don't you assign them the answer instead of multiplying two values?[/QUOTE]
I imagine this makes more sense to him. It's most likely optimized away anyway.

[NovembrDobby]

[QUOTE=i300;31509826]

Texture2D cTexture = null;
switch (World[renderX][renderY])
{
    case BlockType.Blank:
        break;

    case BlockType.Grass:
        cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Grass", true); //blah
        break;

    case BlockType.DarkGrass:
        cTexture = manager.TextureForName("DarkGrass", true);
        break;

    case BlockType.Dirt:
        cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Dirt", true);
        break;

    case BlockType.DarkDirt:
        cTexture = manager.TextureForName("DarkDirt", true);
        break;

    case BlockType.Coal:
        cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Coal", true);
        break;

    case BlockType.Iron:
        cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Iron", true);
        break;

    default:
        break;
 }

[/QUOTE]

this could become:

Texture2D cTexture = null;
BlockType bt = World[renderX][renderY];
if(bt != BlockType.Blank)
	cTexture = manager.TextureForName(bt.ToString(), true);

[bobthe2lol]

[QUOTE=i300;31509826]Nice! A good start.
My game uses a world that is 7900x1200. In pixels, the world is 79000 x 12000.
[img]http://i3software.org/s/SS-2011-08-03_12.20.08.png[/img]

I don't want to loop through an array THAT huge, so I loop only through the visible area (plus a bit of padding).

        public void Render(SpriteBatch batch)
        {
            SpriteManager manager = EngineConstants.Shared().spriteMananger; // This is the class I use for my sprite managment.
            for (int x = 0; x < 81; x++) // Visible X area (mine is 79 blocks). I add two just to make sure you dont see any of the background color while moving.
            {
                for (int y = 0; y < 62; y++)  // Visible X area (mine is 60 blocks). I add two just to make sure you dont see any of the background color while moving.
                {
                    int renderX = x + (xOffset / 10); // xOffset is the PIXELS moved to the right. Divide it by the size of your blocks
                    int renderY = y + (yOffset / 10);  // xOffset is the PIXELS moved to the right. Divide it by the size of your blocks

                    if ((renderX >= 0 && renderX <= wWidth - 1) && (renderY >= 0 && renderY <= wHeight - 1)) // Make sure you're rendering within the map, as to not have an "out of bounds" exception called.
                    {
                        Texture2D cTexture = null;
                        switch (World[renderX][renderY])
                        {
                            case BlockType.Blank:
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Grass:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Grass", true); // This method finds a sprite in a list of already loaded sprites. If it isn't yet loaded, load it, add it to the list and then return it,
                                break;

                            case BlockType.DarkGrass:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("DarkGrass", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Dirt:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Dirt", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.DarkDirt:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("DarkDirt", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Coal:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Coal", true);
                                break;

                            case BlockType.Iron:
                                cTexture = manager.TextureForName("Iron", true);
                                break;

                            default:
                                break;
                        }

                        if (cTexture != null) batch.Draw(cTexture, new Rectangle(renderX * 10 - xOffset, renderY * 10 - yOffset, 10, 10), Color.White);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

[/QUOTE]

And also, you don't need to do your own texture caching. Xna's content pipeline does that for you. If you want to load a texture, it checks if it has it cached, and if not loads it, caches it, and gives it to you. Otherwise it just gives you the cached one.

[Map in a box]

[QUOTE=NovembrDobby;31510547]this could become:

Texture2D cTexture = null;
BlockType bt = World[renderX][renderY];
if(bt != BlockType.Blank)
	cTexture = manager.TextureForName(bt.ToString(), true);

[/QUOTE]
This could become

World[renderX][renderY].draw();

[danharibo]

[thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5619257/opc/fnng2.png[/thumb]
So many weird bugs, at least it looks nicer where it works.

[i300]

[QUOTE=NovembrDobby;31510547]this could become:

Texture2D cTexture = null;
BlockType bt = World[renderX][renderY];
if(bt != BlockType.Blank)
	cTexture = manager.TextureForName(bt.ToString(), true);

[/QUOTE]

Oh wow. Thanks! That's really awesome.

[QUOTE=Map in a box;31510840]This could become

World[renderX][renderY].draw();

[/QUOTE]

No. I don't use a class for a tile. Tiles are just an enum, if you looked at the screenshot I posted.

[QUOTE=bobthe2lol;31510792]And also, you don't need to do your own texture caching. Xna's content pipeline does that for you. If you want to load a texture, it checks if it has it cached, and if not loads it, caches it, and gives it to you. Otherwise it just gives you the cached one.[/QUOTE]

Oh cool. It is still helpful to have a list of the loaded textures for myself, incase I want to know which ones are loaded, and which aren't.

[QUOTE=Dj-J3;31510179]Why don't you assign them the answer instead of multiplying two values?[/QUOTE]

It makes it so I don't accidentally type a number that isn't divisible by 10. Does it really matter anyways?

[Map in a box]

[QUOTE=danharibo;31510946][thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5619257/opc/fnng2.png[/thumb]
So many weird bugs, at least it looks nicer where it works.[/QUOTE]
Are you planning to implement minecrafts bad networking protcol to connect n stuff?

[Cyril]

I updated my game with the layer display system described above.
It's way less confusing, see by yourself:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szktNTKxh0I[/media]