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[Dutchling]

Allow for only one button press per frame/turn/cycle/whatever?

[GreatJustice]

Well, the real problem isn't that players mash the buttons, its that the "simple" music trigger can't work. For example, I say "if x is pushed, stop songs abc, play song d", it crashes because a, b and c weren't playing in the first place. The only solution I've found is to make booleans that check every possibility ("If a is playing and player hits x, stop a and play x" etc), but I'd vastly prefer something shorter.

[Putnam]

Have a boolean that switches to true when music is on and switches to 0 when it's off and only have it stop the other if they pass a boolean check that checks if that particular one is on?

[GreatJustice]

Yeah, that's the present setup. However, it takes ~16 blocks of code to just set up the switch, never mind changing the victory conditions (since I need to stop each song separately).

[Nadaka]

Yeah, that's the present setup. However, it takes ~16 blocks of code to just set up the switch, never mind changing the victory conditions (since I need to stop each song separately).

or instead of a giant set of blocks you could have a list of music and loop through it to turn them off.

[alway]

Yeah, when you find yourself in a situation in which you are writing tons of code to do something conceptually very simple, there is one question you need to ask yourself: "Can I do this a better way?" Spoiler alert: the answer is pretty much always "Yes."

In cases like this one, arrays and for loops are your friends. Essentially, if you think about the problem as if you were working with 10 million cases instead of 10, you will probably realize better ways of doing it.

Code: [Select]

bool active[NUMSONGS];
Song songs[NUMSONGS];

void Input(int button)
{
    StopAll();
    PlaySong(button);
}

void StopAll()
{
   for(int i=0; i<NUMSONGS; i++)
   {
       if(active[i])
       {
           songs[i].Stop();
           active[i] = false;
       }
   }
}

void PlaySong(int button)
{
     if(button > -1 && button < NUMSONGS)
     {
         songs[button].Play();
         active[button] = true;
     }
}


[Twiggie]

isnt it better practice to just have one array of an object that wraps a boolean and a song?

[alway]

Yeah, that too.

[Twiggie]

Actually thinking about that helped me out in my current project. Basically I have a whole bunch of methods that have the same signature (excepting names), which i needed to loop through, but I'm working in java so I can't use function pointers. Anyway this led me to this post, which let me cut down a lot of lines in a couple of commonly-used methods. Apparently this is the command design pattern.

[Mego]

but I'm working in java so I can't use function pointers.

Well... That isn't entirely true. There's two ways you can emulate the functionality of function pointers in Java. The first is using interfaces. The second is using the Method class. Both are painful.

[Twiggie]

yeah thats what i meant, im using an interface now.

[Max White]

Progress has been great on something I started today. I just feel the need to share.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Screen is resizable, camera follows your player around, not multiplayer yet but ready for that to be set up, overworld ready to change based on events. All in pretty much no time at all. Oh, and the guy walks properly.

[GalenEvil]

Made a prototype chat client to go with my first paid gig as a professional programmer ^_^ It is pretty low functionality currently but you can create new chat-tabs and destroy all of them except for the "Main" tab which is persistent.
Click here to chat!...With yourself!

Also did some more fun stuff with 3D Simplex Noise very interesting actually. Will not post picture unless asked though, since it's like 1.25MB and already posted it into the "Random Things you made" thread

Will post my attempt at voxelized lighting though!

Still needs some work but it's getting there!

[MagmaMcFry]

Will post my attempt at voxelized lighting though!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Still needs some work but it's getting there!

Looks like you made the solid blocks have light levels (instead of the air blocks). May I ask why?

[GalenEvil]

No, the air blocks contain the light levels. They just aren't passing the lighting information in a good way onto the surrounding surfaces. Right now it is just face lighting instead of vertex lighting so it isn't very smooth. Also, the air blocks get lighting if they are even marginally passed through by my voxel-ray-things so it's not very good quality either.