Elysian Shadows

post -pedantic

bbguimaraes wrote:post -pedantic

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This two snippets don't do the same thing:

if(dataCollection.IsEmpty()) {
  empty = true;
}

empty = dataCollection.IsEmpty();

This two snippets do the same thing if you consider the declaration of empty

bool empty = false;

wtetzner wrote:// Cache empty state, because IsEmpty is expensive to call.

That is much too verbose and explicit for my liking.. but to each his own. I probably wouldn't even comment the particular snippet I posted. You guys are WAY over-analyzing the intentions of my post. Wouldn't expect any less from fellow programmers.

Yeah if you come back in a couple years you'll generally go "why did i do it that way that was stupid" but maybe it's less stupid than you thought ;)

MarauderIIC wrote:Yeah if you come back in a couple years you'll generally go "why did i do it that way that was stupid" but maybe it's less stupid than you thought

In my experience, even coming back on Monday and taking a look at Friday's code is enough. Real story:

• I look at the code and think "why the hell did I do it this way?"
• I loose half an hour changing it
• I realize I had already spent half an hour doing the same thing at some point in time and discovering it had to be done that way because of something else
• I really wish there was a comment there to remind me

Wonderful news! As of late I have been feeling considerably better and thus this good feeling has brought about progress! Got a Main Menu up and operational and a Battle Ground screen in the works for the battle system, unlike my old engine's framework the new one allows for changing of the game state/logic, so in the main loop there are 3 if's checking for particular states and if the state is say set to 2 it shifts the logic to the battle system's logic, same goes for the main menu and over world, this allows for the game to run at a higher FPS compared to my old engine because it's not all contained in one loop. Nonetheless, hopefully I'll continue to make more progress until then I leave you with this screen shot:

I'll just leave this here

Light-Dark wrote:I'll just leave this here

Looking really good!

dandymcgee wrote:

Light-Dark wrote:I'll just leave this here

Looking really good!

Thank you! I'm so glad I went through with this rewrite, best decision I've ever made! Things are coming along quite nicely now.

Merry Christmas everyone. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2n6ba10mn9dd1df/ynosw50s-C

I'm taking another break for a long long time. Today things went for the worst, I practically let myself dig my own grave, now I have to climb out of it.

Light-Dark wrote:I'm taking another break for a long long time. Today things went for the worst, I practically let myself dig my own grave, now I have to climb out of it.

It's a slump, you'll get over it soon enough. Breaks are always healthy anyways.

It looks good! I hope you're back and kicking soon. Stalking the thread isn't quite as fun when you're feeling down

Merry Christmas to everyone following this, and thank you guys for your continued support means quite a bit to me!

Looks great, always coming back to see progress but never posting. Probably because your animated gif puts me into a trance. Merry Christmas too.

EdBoon wrote:your animated gif puts me into a trance

QFT :)

MarauderIIC wrote:QFT

Had to gts.