Elysian Shadows

I discussed a pretty useful alternative to the Singleton design pattern that we use here: http://elysianshadows.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=7817&p=82674&hilit=singleton#p82674 Shit dude I just went back and read this thread one more time and I just got your point. That's pretty slic...

Thanks for the replies guys. That blog post with the engine code is really interesting. Looks like I've got a lot of studying up to do on design patterns. Sometimes I've wondered if I should just go about my business coding like a dumbass if for no other reason than to fall flat on my face and under...

The order in which global objects (such as an instance static) are initialized is not guaranteed. You may have a singleton that depends on another singleton, but the dependent singleton is initialized first. By using lazy evaluated singletons, you ensure that singletons are initialized in the prope...

If you're going to implement the Singleton Pattern at least do it correctly. Or even better, don't do it at all [see: http://forums.elysianshadows.com/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=singleton for reasons] Yeah, I've heard that it isn't a good idea. I know nothing about ...

Hmmmm... it looks like you're right. It is getting called, it just seems to take quite a while sometimes for it to finish. That's the reason I thought it wasn't getting called. Sometimes it just finishes really quickly and sometimes it takes like 30 - 40 seconds. Here is the code: SoundManager::~Sou...

I was writing a music/sound manager class the other day and it has a destructor that first stops all music or sounds that are currently playing and deletes the objects that are stored in a std::map. Sometimes with my manager classes I like to do something like this: class Manager { public: static Ma...

lalacomun wrote:Well i get to the conclusion That Dev-C++ SUCKS!

I think that's the general consensus among most people on this forum.

Nice progress man! I've been procrastinating on making a level editor for a while now for my platformer. I know it will make the whole process a lot easier but I just really don't want to do it lol. I'm looking forward to seeing where you take the project.

It's a tricky one huh! If I had to have different bounding and pivot for each sprite, then I'd store it as a variable, maybe an animation struct with the collision and pivot data, plus animation speed, transition modes, and whatever else the engine demands. This makes sense. As it stands my animati...

So up until this point I've mostly been using a box as a placeholder for the platformer I've been casually working on. I finally decided to add some animations just to keep my motivation up. I had no problem implementing some basic animations but another problem has popped up along the way. As I cyc...

Ok So I figured out what I was doing wrong here. I wasn't comparing the ABSOLUTE VALUE of the overlaps or setting the minimum distance to the half widths and half heights of the rects

Find the coordinates of the corners of your bounding rect (this will work even if you decide to use rotations later, just the math for finding the corner will be more involved). Check which corners intersect. Depending upon if you want a physical pushback or to just land squarely on the tile, you c...

I'm not sure what type of high school you went to, but in mine, we had to give the books back at the end of the semester ;) . I have tried to do exactly that and it has failed. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. Can you possibly point me in a direction other than: 1.) Find a book you had to r...

So I'm going to go ahead and ask a question that many have asked before, not because I haven't read the relevant posts, but because I can't seem to square away an implementation that works for me. I'm going to assume this is a lack of experience and knowledge on my part, however, maybe some of you c...

Guess that depends on when you were born...