What I did today

SHC · September 17, 2014, 12:48pm

Having some progress with my beginner targeted C++ IDE:

P.S: Anyone to help me test this? PM me if you are interested.

Riven · September 17, 2014, 12:50pm

Brought back JGO, among other things…

ra4king · September 17, 2014, 4:29pm

What happened to JGO?

Hamenopi · September 17, 2014, 5:46pm

Huzzah for JGO Resurrection!

I did some spriting and animation today

kpars · September 17, 2014, 5:55pm

I (hackishly) changed the basic setup of Core’s in Mercury (JGO Post Here).
Pretty good stuff.

Old boilerplate code would normally look like this:


public class MyClass extends Core {
    Runner runner = Runner.getInstance();

    public MyClass() {
        super("Example");

        runner.init(this, 800, 600, false);
        runner.run();
    }

    public void init()              {}
    public void update(float delta) {}
    public void render(Graphics g)  {}
    public void cleanup()           {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new MyClass();
    }
}

Now it looks like this:


public class MyClass extends Core {
    public MyClass() {
        super("Example", 800, 600, false);
    }

    public void init()              {}
    public void update(float delta) {}
    public void render(Graphics g)  {}
    public void cleanup()           {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new MyClass().run();
    }
}

You can read more about this here. Not the biggest change in the world, but still neat IMO.

I actually did this two days ago, but I figured I might as well post about it.

Jev

lcass · September 17, 2014, 7:33pm

kpars:

I (hackishly) changed the basic setup of Core’s in Mercury (JGO Post Here).
Pretty good stuff.

Old boilerplate code would normally look like this:


public class MyClass extends Core {
    Runner runner = Runner.getInstance();

    public MyClass() {
        super("Example");

        runner.init(this, 800, 600, false);
        runner.run();
    }

    public void init()              {}
    public void update(float delta) {}
    public void render(Graphics g)  {}
    public void cleanup()           {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new MyClass();
    }
}

Now it looks like this:


public class MyClass extends Core {
    public MyClass() {
        super("Example", 800, 600, false);
    }

    public void init()              {}
    public void update(float delta) {}
    public void render(Graphics g)  {}
    public void cleanup()           {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new MyClass().run();
    }
}

You can read more about this here. Not the biggest change in the world, but still neat IMO.

I actually did this two days ago, but I figured I might as well post about it.

Jev

With java about to implement lambda you could utilize this to make your widgets and function calling classes much cleaner (more of an internal upgrade , isntead of nested ifs),such as buttons or clickables , maybe even certain interactions from objects.

BurntPizza · September 19, 2014, 3:14am

After all the pathfinding questions going around recently I implemented A* myself:
(hadn’t actually ever done that :persecutioncomplex:)

Red areas are high cost, redder being higher and grey areas are infinite cost, they don’t even show up to the algorithm.

Some of it seems a bit wonky, for instance the initial BFS always went crazy, something to do with queue vs. stack floodfill impl.

Paging Riven: [IMG width=…] doesn’t seem to work on gifs now with the blocker… not super important but it might be any easy fix.

Here’s the code, essentially a 1-to-1 translation of this: http://pastebin.java-gaming.org/30d824f780e1f

tinfoilboy · September 19, 2014, 3:23am

I added rebindable keys to my game, as well as increased performance significantly.

Ecumene · September 19, 2014, 3:26am

Also, for some reason Markus’ profile is pretty messed up too… http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3168

ra4king · September 19, 2014, 4:09am

I finally finished applying to a million internships for Microsoft, Google, Ebay, IBM, etc…

Longarmx · September 19, 2014, 4:21am

I played around with FBOs, trying to figure out how to use them.

I also added textures and obj loading to my game engine. Now I’m trying to get shadow mapping to work :point:

LiquidNitrogen · September 19, 2014, 8:23am

Crossed out my entire TODO list

Roquen · September 19, 2014, 8:58am

Cubeworld kids: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/4

Roquen · September 19, 2014, 9:42am

Oh and example already of some of this stuff: http://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/index.html#gameworkslibrary/graphicssamples/opengl_samples/conservativerasterizationsample.htm

actual · September 19, 2014, 2:43pm

I am home sick but have managed to largely complete my Action system. All of my game entity behavior are wrapped up as Actions which run every update step. So I have a RailGun game entity that has LoadProjectile, ActivateRailGun, DeactivateRailGun, and FireProjectile actions. These actions all inherit from a base Action class and there are method hooks for concrete Actions to override ( onInitialize(), onUpdate, onComplete(), and onFail()). Actions can also have child actions.

I am really liking this approach as it provides a nice, simple way to write and coordinate behaviors amongst multiple game entities.

Hamenopi · September 19, 2014, 3:11pm

I made my first channel trailer for my YouTube Channel.

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Also have been doing a bit of pixel art and animation for my EduRpg.

death_angel · September 19, 2014, 7:12pm

Learn some OS programming

http://s17.postimg.org/mlm8184zj/0_0_0.png

ags1 · September 19, 2014, 7:16pm

Junked my android xml layout clone army.

Started building a new xml layout clone army.

Maybe programatic generation of layouts wasn’t such a bad idea?

Damocles · September 19, 2014, 7:46pm

made some vectorized images of people for an upcoming game

Slyth2727 · September 19, 2014, 9:12pm

Nice, how far are you into it?