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[Alaris]

I've imported a lot of old code. I have the weapons working, although no collision detection yet. I have movement, but no interaction with walls (i.e. you float through them). I have particles added for stuff like weather effect. I have characters added with all the races, mostly stick figures. And I have a basic clunky interface.

And I haven't spent much time yet...

I think my next big project is to unstickify the characters, to clean up some of the code, and then to add all types of collision detection.

[shawn]

Oh, there are weapons!

When do we get a profession reveal? :D

[Alaris]

There are definitely weapons, and there will be non-weapon skills too.

There may or may not be mesmers in the game.

[Alaris]

Dumb time function is dumb. For some reason, timeGetTime () seems to give me really small values when a lot of stuff is happening. And not gradually either... it goes up slowly, then suddenly drops 10x for no reason.

Probably something I mess up, of course, but not sure what.

[Raye]

Google and stackoverflow are your friends =)

Probably gaming.stackexchange.com will be too...

Maybe I can try to help if you show me some code? Tho, I've never done game dev, so I might be useless to you. Still,doesn't hurt to try.

Sent from my G2. lulz what typos?

[Alaris]

Nah, I capped at 100 shots onscreen atm, so I doubt that's the problem. I'm recycling code from a much older computer, so my main problem now is usually that the game tries to run at too fast a refresh rate for its own good.

Also, I sort of found the error, or at least, I found out what variable is messed up. Hint, it's not timeGetTime ().

As for showing code, there's too much of it to know what to post. I might ask for help for smaller code problems though thanks.

[Raye]

That's what I meant, small snippets of problem code. Sometimes you only need an extra pair of eyes to find the issue.

Sent from my G2. lulz what typos?

[Alaris]

I wasted 4 hours because instead of writing m[i].length(), I wrote m->length().

[Raye]

Haha I've done similar stuff more times than I can count. And it is the kind of thing that doesn't jump at you when you're frantically looking for the problem.

Sent from my G2. lulz what typos?

[Alaris]

I really should replace that array with a linked list. It's on my todo list anyway, the difference is that I could have done that instead of fixing the problem, and I would have at the same time fixed the problem.