Elysian Shadows

This isn't actually an OpenGL problem in itself. Your GL driver automatically backs up all resources and assets in what DX would call "managed" memory, which is normally mapped directly to system memory. So when resize events happen, the device is able to restore the assets and you don't h...

Absolutely yes! You can write whatever it is that you need to write in Java. I try to tell people that language is second to concepts. To that extent, there has not been a single thing that I have not been able to write in Java that I've written in C, C++, or whatever language. What will happen thou...

That's called downcasting. Going the other way is upcasting.

You don't HAVE to use dynamic_cast. You can use a regular typecast, however the dynamic_cast checks type at runtime and incurs some overhead and will throw a null reference or runtime exception if the types are incompatible.

Excellent. Another Dallas-ite :] Good work.

It could be a 24-bit integer converter - sometimes this is used when specifying image colours, RGBA. That could take the 4 byte size components of colour... red, green, blue, and alpha - then store them in a double word integer. yeah... but it's not exactly the best idea... it should be shifts and ...

You've completely misconstrued my post. This isn't a "Code of conduct" for professional demeanor. It means to say that the harsh reality is that in terms of independent game development (which is itself a pretty small group), you've been cornering yourselves into an EXTREMELY small niche g...

You know, I have to say this. Hopefully you'll take it not as a jab, but as some constructive criticism. If THIS kind of thread is all it takes to irritate you, then I can absolutely guaran-frickin-tee you that you are NOT ready to go into the foray of trying to go to some of the higher traffic game...

Yes, well what's happening is this. If you export the symbols in a DLL project (as opposed to a statically linked DLL, which requires a LIB...you can still generate a lib from a DLL project as well), it requires some extra steps to load the function symbols into the invoker's memory. (The executable...

Yes, it most certainly DOES matter that you're trying to export to a DLL. That changes some things. The first thing I'm noticing is that it's not evident that you're actually exporting or importing the namespace functions. Namespace components are visible, functions must be exported when building a ...

Because you have a 45msec sleep time in there. This is a tremendous amount of time. Assuming the granularity of the timer is decent (which SDL's is NOT), you'd get somewhere around 22fps. Maybe more, maybe less. My suggestion would be to ditch that and write your own timer to get the app to run at s...

You can not instantiate a pure virtual class object. This is called an abstract class or "interface".

They can not be instantiated.

Under the presumption that the world doesn't change, then the absolute fastest course of action would be a hardware buffered resource. In a tiled world, the index buffer is ultra-predictable and can be procedurally generated. The vertex buffer can be uploaded at one time and you only really need one...

A 0c5 error indicates that you're trying to access memory that does not exist (was never allocated, or was already freed) whether it be attempting to delete memory that does not exist, trying to de-reference, call functions from...etc etc. "...reading location 0x00000000" indicates that th...

You need to make a habit of checking the GL error string occasionally or after functions that are most likely to cause problems....especially when loading assets, like textures. In this case, the 3rd parameter to glTexImage2D is invalid. It won't fail, but if you were to query the error string, you'...

I'm very sorry. That should read "pixmapSize"