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[Siquo]

Also going to "steal" Outcasts Oranges'/Toady Ones design, having an uberworld that is generated first, from which smaller world-parts are generated. It's easier to do large terrain-features such as mountains, lakes and rivers with an uebermap.

[Outcast Orange]

Not stealing.
Most complex world games start like that.

I'm also assuming you're using a tile-based system? O.o

It would be cool to have a project going,
 which was similar to mine, but not.

It might be beneficial for me to observe the methods of another.

[Siquo]

Tile-based as in Cube-based. Tile-based is 2D, such as Wurm, where complex terrainstructures and modifications are not possible.

[Siquo]

On the down side, it's not progressing much. On the upside, I now know a lot about mortgages that I never wanted to know in the first place, and that I don't make enough money to buy my house.

[Siquo]

Ohh-kaayyy. When I include SDL.h, I get a segfault at runtime. When I don't, I don't.

But I really want SDL!

Okay... Compiling my own binaries now from SDL source, and try again...

WHY DOESN'T ANYTHING JUST *#&$^^% WORK?!?!? This is not programming, this is 99% just debugging sh*t.

[Outcast Orange]

Sounds like programming to me. : \

[timmeh]

I know I spend the majority of the time debugging any more too... I may have to look into changing this.

[Siquo]

Well if it was debugging my own sh*t it would stink less.

[timmeh]

A fair point.  Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with SDL, so I can't help much, sorry...

[eerr]

Two debugs:

A:Try turning off compiler optimization.(is a registry collision possible?)
B: Try a second Main that just loads the SDL to see what happens.

I mean seriously, theres only so many ways loading another library WITHOUT using it could cause a segfault. I think.

[Siquo]

Yeah, I could try that...

I recompiled SDL myself, to no avail. Perhaps try another version next.


This project was started because I had brain capacity to spare, since my projects at work were not so demanding. Since then I've been given more interesting projects, and have less brain to spare for this, so I haven't worked a lot on this project. I do have a new major structure in my head that should work, although simulating plate tectonics with morphing voxel structures is still hard.

[Siquo]

Finally got the basis working again:

Compiled latest SDL 1.3 beta version
Latest GLEW stable version, statically linked

And I get up to GL Version 2.2 now, which is more than enough for now.

So yeah, I've got a black window opening without crashing, and I'm cheering.