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Thanks for your answer, luckily I have the code, so when you showed the audio stuff I can run from…
If code verbosity is what you are worried about, pull the switch statement out into its own functi…
Well, it's just 1 line of code regardless of how many possible scenes you have. A switch statement…
Because there is so much to cover making a whole game from scratch, I had to keep the scope reason…
OK, so next obligatory question: what makes it "simpler" to use function pointers instead of using…
Hi Casey, They're different "update and render" functions for the different "scenes" in the game. …
So, mandatory first question here: what do you mean by "fixing function pointers after a DLL reloa…
Unfortunately v2/v3/v4 are actually not as optimize-able on SSE as one might want, because SSE is …
Mostly what I'd say about this is that I'm the wrong one to ask :( I don't really know very much …
If operations you are performing on vX are done in a loop, then yes it makes sense to optimize wit…
jeringa —
Would it pay to optimise the v2, v3 & v4 etc math to run with SSE? Also there are several places w…
Den V —
Thank you for your answers. I will check those links out.
Mox —
Yeah, I know, throwing cycles away isn't my hobby either. But I was merely thinking theoretically.…
I think you may be right, but don't know, for sure. Anyways, I found the material in this link pre…
Mox —
Hi, I was wondering how premultiplied alpha and gamma work together. Particularly if the alpha mig…
The former, like Casey did with the ground chunks. He used precreated images, so for the backgroun…
Are you talking about procedurally/randomly mixing complete sounds to create music, or completely …
I don't know how it chooses that, but you can always see what other threads are doing by double cl…
I was thinking to make handmade hero completely procedurally generated the music should also be ge…
Ah, that makes sense. By the way, does anyone here know how VS selects the current thread when pau…
Hi everyone! When Casey did the dll autoreload system, he said it could be extended to handle thin…
Matthew —
Thankyou so much! That thread thing in Visual Studio is a lifesaver. So, what was happening was ac…
The dsound.dll in the callstack leads me to believe this is an issue with DirectSound. I'm quite a…
Matthew —
Nothing that seems helpful to me, but perhaps you can make more sense of it: Also, downloading th…
Does your callstack window show anything besides the call into ntdll?
Matthew —
Clicking the pause button results in VS opening a "No Symbols Loaded" tab calling out "ntdll.pdb".…
Have you tried pausing the program in the debugger during the freeze (the pause button in the tool…
Matthew —
Hello, My build of Handmade Hero has a strange problem where, after running for some (relatively s…
There are a lot of choices. I like using OGMO () and TileED (. If you're not using an integrated e…
Yes, typically you create level editor. It can be any language and any framework - it really depen…