Forum: Game Development  3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 3 Views: 235 Re: windows graphics... history?
OpenGL no more 'wraps WinAPI functions' than any other program or library that happens to run on Windows. OpenGL is platform agnostic, the need for Windows API with OpenGL apps is to get access to... |
| Forum: Game Development 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 2 Views: 163 Re: anyone got a bot maker for games?
Psh.. it's not so serious.. a bot isn't necessarily bad. IMNSHO, there's no such thing as 'cheating' in a computer game.. It's like 'cheating' in reading a book by looking at the last page first. It... |
| Forum: Game Development 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 450 Re: Breakout Ball bouncing physics
Based on a quick test in something I've got running ATM, that last bit of code I posted:
velocity2 = ( 2 * surface_normal * surface_normal.dot( velocity1 ) ) - velocity1;
Should probably... |
| Forum: Game Development 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 450 Re: Breakout Ball bouncing physics
Hi, sorry I didn't reply sooner, been abit busy.
With movement and collision, you have a couple of pitfalls. One is that the speed/velocity of a moving object can exceed the width of objects being... |
| Forum: Game Development 8 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 450 Re: Breakout Ball bouncing physics
Where and what are the issues? Do they occur at the 'corners and sides' of the paddle, or at the flat, upwards pointing, part? What exactly doesn't seem right when you test? |
| Forum: Game Development 13 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 450 Re: Breakout Ball bouncing physics
Yes, the second interpretation is correct.
> Velocity is change in position w/ respect to time ( a vector )
> Acceleration is change in velocity w/ respect to time ( a vector )
> Speed is distance... |
| Forum: Game Development 13 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 450 Re: Breakout Ball bouncing physics
The magnitude/speed of a velocity is just the length of the vector; in components:
speed = sqrt( ( velocity[x] * velocity[x] ) + ( velocity[y] * velocity[y] ) );
( good ol' pythagorus... |
| Forum: Game Development 14 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 450 Re: Breakout Ball bouncing physics
The position of the paddle when the ball hits it is wholely irrelevant - the paddle is the same all over, flat, and moves in a constrained direction ( in its own plane ), so any moving point on the... |
| Forum: Game Development 21 Days Ago |
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| Forum: Game Development 22 Days Ago |
| Replies: 2 Views: 216 Re: Using DirectSound w/o DXUT.h
Probably not what you want to hear, but the multiplatform SDL library ( simple directmedia layer ) has routines for loading in Wav files. I'm not sure how it holds the data internally, since SDL has... |
| Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX 23 Days Ago |
| Replies: 24 Views: 1,802 Re: Firefox Compatibility help with script
Well.. alot of the questions you've asked in this thread have quite complex answers, but those answers are very easy to find/work out yourself.
Can you serve two pages to two different browsers?... |
| Forum: Game Development 24 Days Ago |
| Replies: 34 Views: 1,524 Re: I am wanting to be a gamecoder any Advice.
Looking at myself, a person who 'enjoys game programming'; I don't have an issue with 20+ hour days, intensive work, stress and/or overwork. I enjoy being constantly occupied with something, and am... |
| Forum: Game Development 25 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 584 Re: Maya 4 Download?
You can also transfer the licence with some software ( even Windows XP, provided you transfer the entire package that Windows was purchased with; cd, keys, packaging, manuals, the PC itself if it's... |
| Forum: Game Development 26 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 584 Re: Maya 4 Download?
I'm not suprised that you're finding it hard to get hold of Maya 4.0, it's pretty ancient. What kind of plugin is the one you need? Is it one of those Maya pseudo-dlls or a MEL script? If it's a MEL... |
| Forum: Game Development 26 Days Ago |
| Replies: 2 Views: 284 Re: Moving a counter with a playing board
That's a horrible way to influence the page dynamically. Don't 'print' HTML into an already-opened page in that way, i.e. never use document.write( ) unless its only to influence the first page... |
| Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX 34 Days Ago |
| Replies: 10 Views: 1,047 Re: How to apply No right click script inhere...?
You can't stop the right click action in a plain XML file. On some browsers, you can prevent the right click action in an HTML file, because an HTML file is allowed to run javascript, which is... |
| Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Apr 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 24 Views: 1,802 Re: Firefox Compatibility help with script
The first meta tag in that page is in the wrong place... move it to be inside the head section. Try validating the code aswel, correct any errors and see if it still has a problem. |
| Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Apr 14th, 2008 |
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| Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 410 Re: Diagonal rules in CSS?
Designers need to know that the stuff they throw at the programmers is feasible. That means they need to be able to make more than just pretty head-in-the-sky designs, but workable designs. It's the... |
| Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 274 Re: struggling with css
Have you tried setting height:100% to the body and html element? CSS:
html,body{
height:100%;
}
This should allow you to make content stretch when it's "too short" to fill the page ( anything... |
| Forum: HTML and CSS Apr 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 435 Re: Style for just numbers in ol lists
It's not a kludge to have an outer style affect the list ( including the bullets/numbers ) and have an inner style affect the content of items themselves. Use 'relative' styles if possible , e.g use... |
| Forum: Web Developers' Lounge Apr 10th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 312 Re: PNG breaking my balls
That image is an 8-bit per pixel PNG, and 8bpp PNGs can only contain 1 bit transparency ( a pixel is either fully opaque, or fully transparent ). With higher bpp PNGs, you're allowed to use alpha... |
| Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Apr 10th, 2008 |
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| Forum: Java Apr 9th, 2008 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 466 Re: Anyone can help me solve tis problem??
This is Java code not Javascript code; the languages are entirely different.
The thread has been moved to the Java forum.
On another note, you're more likely to get help with the problem if you... |
| Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Apr 9th, 2008 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 666 Re: script/function to lock a mouse and keyboard.
No. No sane browser / OS setup will let a webpage 'lock the keyboard or mouse'. Think for 30 seconds why this is the case.
If you want to disable all interaction with your site when the user clicks... |
| Forum: XML, XSLT and XPATH Apr 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 608 Re: XSLT to copy a specific number of nodes
It sounds like the `students' template isn't being matched atall ( that would cause the output to end up only as text nodes ). Silly question - did you change the capitalization of the... |
| Forum: XML, XSLT and XPATH Apr 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 608 Re: XSLT to copy a specific number of nodes
Which processor are you using? If your processor doesn't support position( ).. that's strange; because it's been around a long time. Anyway, try this replacement for the 2nd template:
... |
| Forum: XML, XSLT and XPATH Apr 2nd, 2008 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 608 Re: XSLT to copy a specific number of nodes
There's a couple of ways to do this; probably the most imperative is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template... |
| Forum: Web Developers' Lounge Mar 25th, 2008 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 610 Re: Which web browsers should you support?
Your present user figures speak for themselves. You certainly need to keep supporting IE6 until it's in negligable use.
The best way to solve the problem is to---from the beginning---only use... |
| Forum: Software Developers' Lounge Mar 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 510 Re: Controlling software piracy?
Thread moved to Software Developers Lounge, since this question was multiply-posted and thus probably doesn't relate specifically to Web Development. |
| Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 669 Re: General rules when working with divs and css.
>> I don't think it's any harder to create a fluid CSS design than a tabular CSS design.
It's hard, but not impossible, to create a tabular design without tables, and it's hard, but not impossible,... |
| Forum: Software Developers' Lounge Mar 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 510 Re: Controlling software piracy?
The only way to stop "piracy" is to release truly open, public domain, software; nobody can pirate something that's already theirs!
I guess that's not what you want to do, though. As Auzzie said,... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 542 Re: glutMouseFunc and Segmentation Faults
Cool; good to know it's working :)
Disregard my last post; although, the -g3 flag is quite useful to remember ( with full debug info you can see all the values passed into methods aswell as the... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 542 Re: glutMouseFunc and Segmentation Faults
Ok, the method NodeGL:plot is very small, the only thing that could be wrong in that method itself is the array not being instantiated ( or being too short ), however, there could be something wrong... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 542 |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 542 Re: glutMouseFunc and Segmentation Faults
There is probably something wrong in your not-shown classes ColorGL &| BezierGL, since the code runs fine with all reference to those classes commented.
Have you got a debugger? I'm guessing if your... |
| Forum: HTML and CSS Mar 13th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 520 Re: Trying to run a C++ program through a web link
I'm not sure what configuration tricks you'll need to perform to get this to work on Windows + XAMPP, but, the following looks 'wrong':
- your href in the HTML goes to a local file, this certainly... |
| Forum: Websites for Sale Mar 7th, 2008 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 369 Re: Sell my website ?
Adult links have been removed from this thread in compliance with Daniweb Rules (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/faq.php?faq=daniweb_policies).
If you are interested in the site, please send a private... |
| Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Mar 1st, 2008 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 885 Re: onclick toggle
Initially, the click handlers for all objects are assigned to the size change function. When you click an object for the first time, the size is changed, and the click handler for that object is... |
| Forum: Game Development Mar 1st, 2008 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 2,819 Re: Web-based RPG game advice needed
Just about any language can be used, although some languages are more/less suitable for various reasons. C++ can be used for web applications quite comfortably, when coupled with a database and... |
