Elysian Shadows

Okay, thanks

Can you read in a word from a file with Fstream, but instead of it being read as a string, it's read as the number of an enumeration(if that made any sense). //somewhere in main.cpp enum Colors { red, blue, green }; Colors myColor; char[20] skip; void read_file() { myFile << skip; myFile << myColor;...

I just starting shifting from Allegro to SDL, and I know you can use the SDL_ttf lib to print true type fonts to the screen, but does SDL have any functions to render text natively, I mean without the extra libs?

Ah, I've seen the tag type structure used in the Source engine, all the tags were inside of scripts, and I kind of understand the code, but I'm not very familiar with the eof function(it looks very useful though). I guess I'll have to look more into fstream or some scripting language and look back a...

Can you use fstream to read values into a 2D array? I have one tile array and one object array, and want to have my map values saved in text(or binary) files external to the application, then read them into the tile and object array when you reach a point on the current map. :| On a different train ...

Ah, that make perfect sense, using namespace std exactly as if you were using it for iostream. Thanks, the files are loading now.

alright, here's a snippet of some of my old code: #include <allegro.h> #include <fstream> BITMAP *buffer; BITMAP *bax; BITMAP *tile; BITMAP *start; BITMAP *character; ofstream data;//ofstream doesn't work int mode(0); int tilesize = 30; int y = 14 *tilesize; int x = 1 * tilesize; int xtile, ytile, x...

yeah, that's the strange thing, when I don't include my graphics lib, Fstream includes fine

Hey, I've been using a graphics API called Allegro(which I'm sure we've all heard of). I hear it's pretty old, but now I want to use some file i/o(for map loading, save files, etc) and I'm not sure if I can run some useful libraries like Fstream alongside Allegro(I'll try to include fstream, but it ...

ah, copying a previous array, great idea, thanks, I'll look into this memset function

A pretty basic question, I know: when I declare a 2D array... int map[5][5] = { {0,0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0,0}, {0,0,0,0,0} } the code is fine, when I assign part of an array... map[3][2] = 1; but I want to know if there is a way I can assign all of an arrays values at once much ...

Fair enough, fair enough, what you say is true.

okay, I get the picture, maybe I'm thinking of something else, but...

wearymemory wrote:I'm not going to use your engine if you don't make it versatile. Gosh.

...and you expect to use my engine...honestly?

Which do you prefer:
overview, side-scrolling, tactics/SRPG(grid-based), scrolling overview, first person?

I'm making an engine for overview style of gameplay and not sure if I want to implement scrolling, so I want to hear your opinions

ah, I got how you did it, thanks =]