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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. …
Hello Casey, just watched the 50th episode and saw you debugging a loop and wanted to point out t…
Roger that - we'll try to take care of this on Monday's stream. Somebody remind me in the Q&…
The way I see it, you both suggest a combination of the two strategies. As you both see their lim…
I would love to second this. I just threw the latest code in and my code errors here as well. I c…
Fred —
I'm torn...
Another possibility is that instead of storing world coordinates as int+float, we can…
We already implemented that - that is what the looped live code editing does.
- Casey
The reason is because I am not a game designer, so I don't want to bring game design into the pro…
I'm pretty sure any hardware from at least last 10 years will allow to set vsync.
As for waiting…
Here's my take:
It's simply not feasible to have a discussion with hundreds of people, especiall…
mallardz —
mallardz
Doesn't this ignore the time taken to process Win32DisplayBufferInWindow? (currently ju…
mallardz —
Towards the end of our loop:
we test the time taken since LastCounter
sleep the remaining ti…
ZenSoturi I almost decided not to respond because I smelled stench of internet arguments.
Apolog…
sol_hsa One thing I'd like to point out about all these calculations..
You're assuming audio pla…
One thing I'd like to point out about all these calculations..
You're assuming audio plays at ex…
I actually think that audio hardware doesn't play any role on this latency issue (on Windows OS).…
Lenny —
Would it be helpful to record keyboard input to a file so that we can replay it later to reproduc…
Flyingsand, thanks for mach_wait_until(), I missed it for some reason. I am using plain usleep ri…
So I'm watching the YouTube archive to catch up, just got past Ep18 and have come across the same…
Rising priority will help only if our application is missing target frame time because of other a…