[Choosing display device and pixel coordinates]

FindWindow is used like:

HWND WINAPI FindWindow(
 __in_opt  LPCTSTR lpClassName,
 __in_opt  LPCTSTR lpWindowName
);

so it should be

 HWND hWnd = FindWindow(0, title.c_str());

in the example you linked to.

[New Technology? Unlimited Detail.]

And it's still being worked on:

 

[Unlimited Detail]

1 year later: This time they have some better (mostly scanned) artwork

 

 

It's just amazing IMO.

[Fortran 2008]

One single reason why Fortran is faster than C/C++ is that the Fortran compiler will load the values once and store them in registers.

It can do so because in Fortran pointers/arrays cannot overlap in memory, not even in multi-threading, while in C/C++ the compiler doesn't know if they do, and it takes a seperate copy into memory of all pointer values which might overlap.

 

How can it be so sure that they won't overlap? Does it do runtime checking (which would be pretty slow...)?

 

You can promise the C/C++ compiler that two pointers won't overlap using __restrict:

 

int fast(int * __restrict A, int * __restrict B)
{
   *A = 5;
   *B = 7; // RESTRICT promises that A != B
   return *A + *B; // no stall; the compiler hangs onto
   // 5 and 7 in the registers.
}

int slow(int *A, int *B)
{
   *A = 5;
   *B = 7;
   return *A + *B; // LHS stall: the compiler doesn't
   // know whether A == B, so it has to
   //  reload both before the add
} 

[multiple monitor editing/rendering in LE3]

Well in the original post you're asking about a cross platform live sync&display type of functionality like CE 3, but what has this got to do with having multiple monitors?

i think we should have it as an extra tool for the editor, if people have more than one monitor.

[multiple monitor editing/rendering in LE3]

i think we should have it as an extra tool for the editor, if people have more than one monitor.

 

For this you could just stretch the editor window over all you screens. Or the new editor could allow to define more views that have separate camera positions and appear in their own windows.

[Leadwerks tutorial - Font studio]

You don't have to create a new font if you just want to use another color. You should always leave the color to white.

[What happened to the wiki?]

I think the wiki should be replaced by something using this website design and template (like the tutorials section).

This would unify things.

 

Btw. what happened to the planned "official" documentation which was supposed to become a replacement of the wiki?

[Syncing files across multiple computers]

Dropbox ftw!

It can also restore older versions of files, is very easy to use and takes advantage of LAN sync if possible, which gives same performance as shared folder for download, and saving files is even faster because you save them locally directly and they are uploaded later, independently of saving.

[VS 2010]

I can use every library just fine. Even a glut32.lib compiled in 2001 so I don't think these need to be recompiled.

[Light Calc]

The lighting just lights what was rendered onto the buffer on

SetBuffer(buffer); RenderWorld();

, it doesn't take any changes you make to the world after rendering it into account.

 

You can easily make an object invisible yet still cast a shadow (meaning what is below won't be affted by the light making it cast a shadow), I think Josh already showed how to in your other thread.

 

The idea is to use a material that doesn't render anything with it's normal "shader", yet has a "shadowshader" that renders the object solid.

[[Q] About Set/GetEntityUserData]

There's a function to copy all the keys over to some other entity, but the physics and position attributes you have to copy yourself.

[Best Practices]

or part1:SetMatrix(mainmodel) in the UpdateMatrix() method if it can't be parented (for example transparent objects).

 

You can parent objects that are not in the same world to each other.

 

I don't agree on the gravity center entity, this sounds like a very hack way to do things. What if your objects are below y = -50000?

 

The rest of it really lists good means to achieve things in my eyes.

[Yet another flaw]

You'd have to create a different version of the font image for every resolution.

[LeadWerks and Code Blocks]

Well you should be able to configure code blocks to use the visual studio compiler, so yes.

People might have done this already, google for it. But why not use visual studio directly?

[My NV8800 is death :(]

Got a 260 in replacement for my 8800 (mine didn't make it as long as yours it seems). But I'd go for one of the newest cards.

[DDS and 3DS :)]

It doesn't work for me either. I have to resave them in photoshop. But when I render to texture, I use lossless formats with pretty high resolution only anyways.

 

You'll be glad you did this later, believe me.

[How to prevent FPS weapon from going into obstacles]

Set the weapon's material to be always drawn on top of all.

Or put it in another world and clear the depth buffer before rendering.

Lot's of ways to achieve this.

[Most important developer pages]

http://www.gamedev.net/

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/

TGC Store

[Problem calling loadscene when using DarkNet]

How do you know? Maybe LoadScene accesses and changes some wrong memory offset but no one noticed so far?

[UU3D, is it really required?]

I never found myself to need it with 3ds max.

[opengl not working... help please]

What doesn't work? Does it not show up at all? Try using another cull mode...

[How to compile a pure C++ program for Android]

@ wh1sp3r: Windows Phone 7 at least won't support native c++ code anymore at all...

[Networking]

Probably a stupid question, I'm a bit of a newb(post 3 hurray!)

 

How well does the leadwerks networking module work? Would you say well enough for an rts with hundreds of units(and no client side predicting)

 

thx

 

Hi, funnyben.

I don't think you'd even need/want to use any client side prediction with an rts.

 

Wouldn't you want to use the reliable TCP protocol and only transmit the user interactions (button clicks)?

Syncing all the unit positions is way too inefficient and inaccurate...

[How to compile a pure C++ program for Android]

"Install Java JDK"

is this also part of the steps required for compiling a C++ app?