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Fred —
But let's say you do
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SphereAsSquare.svg
Consider the area tha…
The point here isn't to [visually] map a rectangle onto a sphere in the geometrical sense, but me…
Fred —
There's really no way to tile a sphere with rectangles without introducing annoying distortions a…
I've done a quick batch file to download 1080p youtube videos from windows command line. It is ba…
Understood.
It makes sense, I guess, since you might want to init only particular values, and d…
vbo @Flyingsand, so I've just tried a CPU-melting way for the first time for some reason =) And I…
Casey fixes this in a later episode. The latest code uses handmade_%random%.pdb
vbo Flyingsand, thanks a lot. Could you please elaborate about using OSAtomic and when I need to …
I´m up to day 23 and everything was working fine for the looping, reloading and playing the users…
Although the footnotes are interesting, may I be so blunt as to remind us all that what is being …
Yes, I believe that Windows has never supported big-endian CPUs, but I could be wrong about that.…
It's the last one - Windows probably doesn't support big endian CPU anymore (because it doesn't n…
On modern Windows you don't need to worry about endianess at all. It is always little endian
I th…
mmozeiko, I think it's not the case. I am only drawing WeirdGradient right now. It's instantaneou…
On modern Windows you don't need to worry about endianess at all. It is always little endian :)
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Hey guys!
Somewhere around Day 25 of HMH Casey was using win32-defined union called LARGE_INTEGE…
It could be that you simply can not get 16.6 msec with current bitmap drawing code - it is terrib…
Flyingsand, thanks a lot. Could you please elaborate about using OSAtomic and when I need to use …
@Flyingsand, so I've just tried a CPU-melting way for the first time for some reason =) And I am …
So I've actually implemented both of the methods you mention for getting the sound from the game …
Fred —
Simulating rigid body physics on a spherical world accurately is very tricky, unless your objects…
Yeah, this is C++11 thing. If you use member initialiation like this, then C++ compiler generates…
Hey guys!
I am trying to implement sound output using OS X CoreAudio APIs. The problem is that C…
Most likely this is due to http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initialization
Oops, I actually was setting a value for facingDirection inside the struct declaration itself.
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Do you happen to have nested structures inside your Entity? If yes, those will not get nulled rec…
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Yes, I know about these two options but I do not prefer them. It's very simple to just insert co…
Here's one more trick I often use when debugging with Visual Studio.
If you missed execution of …
Dale Kim —
In my own experience, preallocation often bought substantial and measurable speed improvements. …