Elysian Shadows

It'll ebb and flow like anything else, sometimes you're high sometimes you're low. There is not too much that will motivate members who are unmotivated. Two of the chief forces behind inspiration are just having it to begin with or the evidence of progress. This is what I've found anyways. I think t...

You got it ;] x and y are both bound by that equation. So if for example you wanted to spawn 25 enemies along said path. The time interval is 1/25, if you want 30 enemies then the time interval is 1/30. Enemy 0 starts at P0. Enemy 1 follows at time = 1/25. Enemy 2 follows at time = 2/25, Enemy 3 fol...

What you could do for the placement is form a line against which the units will be placed. Break it up into perhaps 5 control points along the line. Displace the control points in some direction in some random length away from the line. The control points could also be hard coded into some static ar...

Writing code that does as it is intended to do does not preclude code that presents itself in such a manner as you have described. Many times the code will undergo multiple metamorphoses before presenting itself as an extensible and elegant API. Each time this process presents new problems, but each...

I wouldn't say that "just works" is a bad thing. I'm the biggest fan of "just works". The #1 thing that you should do as a programmer is make it "just work". That is job numero uno, always. Debugging, refining, and profiling all come subsequently. It's difficult to atte...

I can only think of one acceptable usage for a singleton and that is a logger of some sort. The problem with them is that on the surface they seem very benign. I can't help but note the amount of times you've said "seems to work fine" in your post there. On cursory glance, this may be true...

If indeed your handle is zero, then you have not generated a texture handle or the img load (glTexImagexxxx) was passed an invalid parameter. This will result in a failure to apply the texture. It's also possible that your blend mode does not agree with your pixel format. You need to have a valid fo...

This method's a little more difficult. EXPORT #ifdef EXPORT #define EXPORTSHIT __declspec(dllexport) // Define EXPORT in your symbols only when actually exporting #else #pragma comment(lib, "libname.lib") #define EXPORTSHIT __declspec(dllimport) #endif class shit { public: shit(); ~shit();...

You should contact me on that. I posted a solution for ya. OpenGL will facilitate for you all of the information you need to retrieve the texture, load it into an SDL_Surface or what have you.
It would be difficult to say why the load fails without code, there's a couple reasons it would.

In transitioning from WVDDM (Vista) to WDDM (Win7) the driver model was revamped quite a bit. WVDDM did change the driver model up a bit, but it didn't really come to fruition until WDDM and especially WDDM 1.1 (Introduced w/ Win7). You dont have to justify your response, Falco. Nobody's saying anyt...

There are a multitude of differences actually, and this is incurred by the WDDM. There were a lot of changes there primarily in the video memory model, the video scheduler, and the way that the buffers are shared across resources that primarily have performance implications. There is also a VSync im...

Well the reason your color gradient is not working is because iteration / max_iteration is an unsigned integer division which will ALWAYS result in 0 since iteration is ALWAYS less than max_iteration. Cast either one of those values to float and you should see the greyscale gradient. The code appear...

It does not appear that your code is wrong. However, your color logic appears to be flawed. You should pass black (255, 255, 255) if it's reached a max iteration. The colors are usually done from a LUT. So before you start the calculation you can either read in a real pretty color gamut texture, or ...

To the OP: What you're looking for here is an OpenGL extension called "WGL_ARB_pbuffer" (for windows) or "GLX_SGIX_pbuffer" (for X11). What this does is allows you to do asynchronous DMA of the front buffer to client memory. Asynchronous means that it will happen without hogging ...

I'd definitely test it on a couple systems if you can. The last time I monkeyed with the Intel GPU driver I was unable to retrieve a working implementation of the swap interval routine, so give it a whirl and see what happens.