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[qwertyuiopas]

I think he means using SDL's own image commands is too slow.

Using openGL through SDL should be fine though.

[Darkone]

I was talking about the actual image blitting functions of SDL, that people use in games/pygame uses for its sprites. If you've ever played any pure pygame games with any type of heavy rotation or scaling, you'll know what I mean

[qwertyuiopas]

Better solution: OpenGL can render to a texture, and rotations are almost instantaneous.
It won't always be pixel PERFECT, but it will come VERY close, and be VERY fast.

[Ampersand]

Yeah, I did a bit of Googling and found what I think you're talking about, and added it to the Ruby section. I haven't downloaded the source yet, so I'll do that later on and see if there's anything there worth using.

Yeah. Apparently the source code is only available via Subversion. However, if you do manage to get it, I would thank you very much if you could pass it along to me, as I find using subversion a bit difficult.

I'm currently learning myself some Ruby. I like it much, but until I get linux running on this box again, I don't think I'll be making a roguelike anytime soon.

[Darkone]

Better solution: OpenGL can render to a texture, and rotations are almost instantaneous.
It won't always be pixel PERFECT, but it will come VERY close, and be VERY fast.

Yep, as well as the fact that OGL has subpixel movement, which can be useful in some cases.

[Fenrir]

To avoid global variables, I have a Game class. In this class I need a map of tiles, which have their own class. Which container should I use for this?

EDIT: Nevermind. A vector should serve well enough.

[Vaiolis]

Hey, I was hoping to make my own lil' roguelike, but there's just one problem. Anyone know how to color text in C++? Or, more specifically, what would I need to add in to the console.cpp in the first post's C++ tutorial to make it so the drawing commands there could ask for RGB as parameters, and punch out colored characters using it? As I've never used drawing commands in C++ before I've no idea if coloring text is simple or complicated, but I can't imagine it being too hard to add it in to the pre-existing functions.

[Ampersand]

If you check the ncurses documentation, everything you need is probably there. If you're not using ncurses, I'm not sure how you would do it.

[Mephisto]

If you don't care about being cross-platform (it uses conio), this or this may be for you if you're running a Microsoft product.

[Vaiolis]

Yeah, I'm not using ncurses, just using whatever that tutorial came with. Tried implementing it, but it's a bit confusing. The conio looks a bit easier to understand and implement, and I don't care too much for going to anything aside from microsoft, so I'll try out that next. Thanks!

EDIT: hrm, a few errors. Simply putting in the textcolor function from this has it declare that it doesn't exist. The other page states that you put in...

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HANDLE hconsole = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

and then to change the color, you put in...

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SetConsoleTextAttribute(hconsole, FgColor | BgColor << 4);

however the SetConsoleTextAttribute, if outside main (or any other class for that matter), expects other identifiers, and when inside main (or any other class), states FgColor and BgColor were not declared. Any clue what to change to fix this?

[Mephisto]

Maybe a dabbling coder such as myself should refrain from Googling solutions that may or may not work. 

[Vaiolis]

Well, it did help, I just have to find one more solution and it will work out, presumably. I'll get to searching, and hope for the best

As an edit, it seems that conio is not only specific to certain computers, but also certain compilers. So, apparently if I took all my current code and put it into a compiler that has "Borland" or something would make it work.

[Soulwynd]

I've been seriously considering building a 3d ascii engine for a project of mine.

I just don't know what to use yet. Either C++ + SDL or pygame. Pygame is a lot easier to get up and running, but C++ would probably be faster. My actual main problem is that I don't want to waste time creating a fully layered curses screen. So I'm pretty much stuck at starting it because I don't want to do what is needed to give it a kick.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I gave that tutorial for the "C++ for coding dummies"

I got stuck trying to get my ASCman trying to move around. Oh well I'll try again later when the tutorial is finished.

[Sowelu]

I gave that tutorial for the "C++ for coding dummies"

I got stuck trying to get my ASCman trying to move around. Oh well I'll try again later when the tutorial is finished.

I noticed the ASCII Dungeon one was unfinished right after praising it :/ And it was last updated in '07 so don't hold your breath.

I found a good SDL TTF thingy that gets around one of SDL in C++'s biggest flaws, the fact that it doesn't have any text renderer.  There's a lot of font options out there on the sdl homepage, some of them use PNG fonts, this one just uses normal TTF ones.  I found it surprisingly easy to get some basic text printing online with it.  I'll have to link once I get home from work.