Calling all wikicompleters. We have finally made a win32 build and u9 and spacechase0 would very much appreciate it if you guys could try out the game and provide us with some feedback. You will soon realize it is not finished… not even close. But any thoughts, ideas, etc. you can come up with for the gameplay will be a great help.

There is a level editor included, so please make some levels if you can. After saving your level, you can go to the levels folder and rename it to test level.lvl to see it in your game. There are a few parameters in the level where you can adjust the difficulty. These are not available in the editor, so you need to use wordpad or similar to edit these values.

Here is the download:

• http://code.google.com/p/warehousepanic/downloads/list

Choose the latest.

Please note the level editor crashes when you quit. But it still saves the level first if you so choose.

 class Alarm { //Private members private: float time; bool activated; float value; //Public methods public: explicit Alarm(float t) { time = t; activated = false; value = 0; } void Activate() { value = time; activated = true; } bool Update(float dt) { if (value >= 0 && activated) { Decrease(dt); return true; } else { return false; } } void Reset() { value = time; activated = false; } bool isActivated() { return activated; } //Private methods private: void Decrease(float v) { value -= v; } }; 

This is how to use it:

 //Declares an object of Alarm with the name alarm1 set to 60. Alarm alarm1(60); //This will activate the alarm alarm1.Activate(); //The gameloop while (isRunning) { /*Update(1) will decrease the alarm with 1 each cycle. You can also use some delta time to prevent differences between fast and slow computers. The if statement checks if the Update() function returns false which means the alarm is finished.*/ if (!alarm1.Update(1)) { //Resets the alarm so it can be reused. alarm1.Reset(); } } 

 int random(int from, int to) { static bool seed = true; if (seed) { srand(time(NULL)); seed = false; } return from+((double)rand()/((double)RAND_MAX+1))*(to-from+1); } 

This will return a random number between and including to and from.

random(2,5) returns 2,3,4 or 5.

My only problem is I don't really know that much about creating static libraries in C++, at least as far as creating something that meets all the typical standards of a library goes. Not that I want to really release this is as something to be used for other people, since it's mainly just for my benefit, but at the same time if anyone else wanted to use it or anything I figure I may as well have it all correctly formatted/set up and all.

Everything works fine so far for me, but Visual C++ has some ways of using your own libraries as opposed to using them like any other library. DiZ (the library) seems to work fine both using Visual C++'s internal methods and also the "normal" way of sticking the required headers and libraries into the include/library folders.
However, I also tried out a test on the school computers using the only C++ compiler I could manage to install without admin privileges, which was Open Watcom C++ (or some name like that), and I wasn't quite able to get it working for some reason. The problem was along the lines that even though I was linking to my library, it was still considering the symbols declared there-in as undefined and therefore refusing to completely compile.

So considering I don't know if the problem might be with the compiler or with the way I've designed the library itself, I was wondering if anyone else might wanna try out using the library with their compiler. Here's semi-looking at u9, who I assume to perhaps be the most knowledgeable about something like this. :P But I could whip up a zip of the library + headers + some source code examples to see if people can get everything working.

The unfortunate requirement as always for my projects is Windows, given the library uses all the OpenGL/Windows functions so it's not portable. I know it's not a great habit of mine to be so Windows-exclusive but that's just how things turn out so far. :P

When an enemy has no room to move on, it's collision will still be triggered. This is a bad problem, because as you see on the picture, a lot of particles are created and the sound effect is repeated as well. So I need some help on how I can prevent this.

This is how the enemy moves:

 for (int i=0;i<(int)obj_rightleft.size();++i) { obj_rightleft[i].x += obj_rightleft[i].hSpeed * dt; } 

And this is the collision checking:

 for (int i=0; i<(int)obj_rightleft.size(); ++i) { GameObject& b = obj_rightleft[i]; for (int i=0; i<(int)obj_walls.size(); ++i) { GameObject& c = obj_walls[i]; if (collision(b,c)) { if(Mix_PlayChannel(-1, snd_collision, 0) == -1) { //return 34; } if (b.hSpeed > 0) { b.hSpeed = -speed; b.x = c.x - 32; } else { b.hSpeed = speed; b.x = c.x + 32; } } } } 

This is the collision function which was used in the code above:

 bool collision(GameObject obj1, GameObject obj2) { //check collision on left side of obj2 return (obj1.x + obj1.width > obj2.x && //check collision on north side of obj2 obj1.y + obj1.height > obj2.y && //check collision on right side of obj2 obj1.x < obj2.x + obj2.width && //check collision on south side of obj2 obj1.y < obj2.y + obj2.height); } 

http://webpoint-servers.com/pacc/

Any challenge ideas?

A Game Maker surface is essentially an image buffer. (however it is only stored in video memory. I might have an option for both, though video memory is far faster) You can draw pixels/primatives/sprites on it, apply various effects, and then you can draw all of it, or parts of it, onto the game image. (A.K.A. draw it onto the "master" image buffer that the game refreshes/displays at the end of every game cycle)

I know SFML already supports image buffers, (or something similar) but I wanted to make a little bit higher leve/simplified version that will allow me to effectively use "surfaces" with only a handfull of easy-to-use custum functions. In addition I need to figure out HOW to use image buffers and how to apply effects to them.
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In addition, I need to figure out how to change the blend mode in SFML. I know it is possible. I've seen people do it, but I don't know how. In particular, I need to use additive and subtractive blending. I'll continue to search around on the SFML website/forums but it would be nice to get some feedback on this also. [bribe] Uni, if I figure out how to do this, I'll start doing lots of effects testing for Space Bomber[/bribe]

P.S.: I was having trouble with the SDL tutorial on displaying text because I get the error: apply_surface was not declared in this scope, am I missing something?
P.P.S.: I also sometimes get errors which have under "line" a number greater than the number of lines of code I have written, any ideas?

Basically what this does is it takes an array and turns it into a string. Then it just turns it back into an array and prints it.

Ignore the 'blah's, I usually use stuff like that when I can't think of a variable name.

It think it works a little like the serialization in PHP, but I couldn't find it's source so I made my own. Should be useful for writing to files (at least, for custom stage files).

 #include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <string> using namespace std; string find_replace(string find, string replace, string target) { bool dolook = true; size_t flength = find.length(); size_t pstart = 0; while (dolook == true) { size_t blah = target.find(find,pstart); if (blah != string::npos) { target.replace(blah,flength,replace); pstart = blah + 1; } else { dolook = false; } } return target; } string serialize(string toencode[], unsigned int size) { string encoded, encoding; for (unsigned int i = 0; i < size; i++) { encoding = find_replace("[","[NSHFT;",toencode[i]); encoding = find_replace("}","[MSHFT;",encoding); encoding = find_replace("{","[YSHFT;",encoding); encoding.insert(0,"{"); encoding += "}"; encoded += encoding; } return encoded; } vector<string> unserialize(string todecode) { string decoding; unsigned int amnt_decode = 0; bool check = true; size_t start = 0; while (check == true) { size_t blah = todecode.find("{",start); if (blah != string::npos) { amnt_decode++; start = blah + 1; } else { check = false; } } if (amnt_decode < 1) { vector<string> error; error.push_back("ERROR: Nothing to decode."); return error; } start = 0; vector<string> decoded; for (unsigned int i = 0; i < amnt_decode;i++) { size_t bleh = todecode.find("{",start); size_t blah = todecode.find("}",start); decoding = todecode.substr(bleh+1,(blah-bleh)-1); decoding = find_replace("[YSHFT;","{",decoding); decoding = find_replace("[MSHFT;","}",decoding); decoding = find_replace("[NSHFT;","[",decoding); decoded.push_back(decoding); start = blah+1; } return decoded; } int main() { string blah[3]; blah[0] = "{{1}}"; blah[1] = "[[2]]"; blah[2] = "{[3]}"; cout << "Current Elements: " << blah[0] << endl << blah[1] << endl << blah[2] << endl << endl; string new_blah = serialize(blah,3); cout << "Current Encoded: " << new_blah << endl << endl; vector<string> old_blah = unserialize(new_blah); cout << "The New Elements: "; for (vector<string>::iterator it = old_blah.begin(); it < old_blah.end(); it++) { cout << (*it) << endl; } } 

Output (I had an alteration write to a file):

Current Elements: {{1}}
[[2]]
{[3]}

Current Encoded: {[YSHFT;[YSHFT;1[MSHFT;[MSHFT;}{[NSHFT;[NSHFT;2]]}{[YSHFT;[NSHFT;3][MSHFT;}

The New Elements: {{1}}
[[2]]
{[3]}

This will be more useful if you made something in your classes that could turn itself into a string to load at another time.

 int number = 10000; int digits = 0; if (number > 0) { digits = log10(number) + 1; } if (number < 0) { digits = log10(-number) + 1; } cout << "There are " << digits << " digit(s) in the number." << endl; 

Remember to #include <math.h>.

#1: I have two vectors, one for answers and one for words. I want to keep the same answers in the same position in the vector as the corrosponding word….so when I shuffle one, how can I replicated that EXACT same shuffle in the other? Or is there a better way to link the two values? (like having a 2 dimensional vector)

#2: I want to be able to load vocabulary from a file. I think I'll use a .ini file to do this…any help?

source code:

 #include <iostream> #include <cmath> #include <string> #include <vector> using namespace std; int main() { bool run = true; int next_action=0; string command; vector <string> vocab; vector <string> answer; cout << "Welcome to my Latin Vocab aid. Type a command to get started!" << endl << "(type \"/help\" if you don't know what to do.)" << endl; while(run==true) { while(next_action==0) { cin >> command; if(command=="/review"){next_action=1;}else if(command=="/help"){cout << endl << "Type \"/review\" to cycle through all words." << endl << "Type \"/exit\" to quit." << endl;} if(command=="/exit"){cout << "exiting..." << endl;next_action=2; } } switch(next_action) { case 1: //load vocabulary vocab.push_back( "puer, i" );answer.push_back( "Boy" ); vocab.push_back( "puella, ae" );answer.push_back( "Girl" ); vocab.push_back( "Bellum, i" );answer.push_back( "War" ); vocab.push_back( "do, dare, dedi, datus" );answer.push_back( "Give" ); for(int i=0; i < vocab.size() ;i++) { cout << vocab[i]<<" means: "; cin >> command; cout << "The correct answer is: " << answer[i] << ". You answered: " << command << endl <<"---" << endl << endl; } break; case 2:run=false;break; } command = ""; next_action=0;//resets command and next_action } return 0; } 

I tried "libsfml-system.so.1.5" and "sfml-system" but nothing worked :/

Thank you for your help!

What I want to do with it is make 2d game from a 3rd person perspective view. If any of
you have seen Titan Quest that is how I would like to make my game. Look some youtube video's out
if you want so you can get what im looking to make.

The thing is I could use any programming language to make that but I want the programming lanugage to be
fast and efficient. I would also like it to be playable online so the programming language needs to work well
with that.

The languages I know are Java, C, C++ and GM . I also know a little bit of other languages.

Can any of you guys help me find a Programming language that I can use?

 if (Event.Type == sf::Event::KeyPressed) { if (Event.Key.Code == sf::Key::Back and user_input.length() > 0) { user_input.erase(user_input.length() - 1,user_input.length()); user_string.SetText(user_input); } } 

I've tried to look in the debugger to see if the variable does change, just not update the sf::string, but whenever I try to watch it, it doesn't show up in the watches panel, and neither does other variables. Although strangely enough, it shows up the next time I run the debugger, but not under local variables. It is under the top level, and only says 'No symbol "user_input" in current context.' The same thing happens when I try to watch other variables, too.

Current I just have this simple little application that does practically nothing.

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