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1	Game Development / Game Play & Game Design / Re: Question about Multi-Threading and Working Together	on: 2012-03-31 07:15:48
Hey guys thanks for the responses! Yeah the Thread.yield() was just thrown in becasue I thought it would pause the thread and lower CPU usage but it sounds like that wouldn't be a good idea Currently looking at concurrent threads. I'll update this and post back on how I restructure things.

Game Development / Game Play & Game Design / Question about Multi-Threading and Working Together

on: 2012-03-28 00:59:03

Hey guys, I'm pretty far into making a networked top-down shooter but I feel that my code has begun to suffer from crude code done by myself to keep the code working together on different threads. In simple terms, here's the main concern: I have a thread (clientListener) that receives messages from the server and that will thus have to interpret those messages. I have a main class called Main (clever eh?) that contains the main game loop and the menu system for connecting to the desired server. My problem is that I need to find out on the main thread if the client was accepted by the server which would be on the main thread to figure if it should then prepare the screen for running the game. What is a good way to do so?

Here's the current code running on the main thread

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clientListener.setupForWait(); // Resets the waitingForResponse, acceptedByServer, etc...
statusLabel.setText("Contacting server....");
               
while(clientListener.waitingForResponse) { Thread.yield(); }
               
if(clientListener.acceptedByServer) {
   // Removes all of the connect components
   // Will load map instructed to by server and display that
   this.removeAll();
} else {
    statusLabel.setText("Rejected from Server: "+clientListener.reason);
}

It works, but it seems ugly. Any suggestions?

3	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2012 / Re: Bounce 2 the End	on: 2012-02-10 00:12:15
Thanks! Glad to see it's turning out well. I think that I will change the enter and r keys to mouse buttons instead. It would be nice not to have to use the keyboard. All that's left now is to finish making the levels I guess and fixing any more bugs I find.

4	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2012 / Re: Bounce 2 the End	on: 2012-02-09 01:26:50
Quote from: Waterwolf on 2012-02-08 08:09:07 Runs too fast to really see what's going. You should probably limit updates per second Also my balls(squares?) sometime flew outside the window and I couldn't finish the level. Otherwise promising looking game Really? It does have a frame limiter, not sure why it's doing that to you. Oh and I probably should have included that R resets the level. I slowed it down a bit more and added in a result screen (I think that's what you mean by too fast). I also tested it on a different computer and it ran fine. Might have been a bug in my frame limiter first time around

5	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2012 / Re: 4Kanvas - Online Voxelediting	on: 2012-02-08 06:28:04
Nice! Always wanted to do this kind of graphic perspective but never got the time to sit down and learn about it. Solid job so far, online editing would be really fun like minecraft

6	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2012 / Re: WIP 4k Wargame	on: 2012-02-08 06:26:25
I played a little war game before similar to what this one looks like and it was quite fun. Keep it up!

7	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2012 / Re: Bounce 2 the End	on: 2012-02-08 06:24:24
Alright, after coding into the night (and having school tomorrow ) I was finally able to put together a working demo of the game in its current state with 6 levels to play with that sample most of the concepts. http://drsnipe.byethost10.com/Bounce2TheEnd.html Enjoy, and let me know of any bugs or suggestions you may have

8	Games Center / 4K Game Competition - 2012 / Bounce 2 the End	on: 2012-02-07 01:45:14
Alright, so I haven't been too active around here but I have been working on a submission to Javak4k. I originally found this forum and competition last year but I was too late to join so here I am this year. This whole game is basically using physics to get your box to bounce the orange box into the circular goal. You must do this while staying under or at a certain par. Completed: - Rendering - Level Loading - Collision (I believe) To Do: - Fix physics - Add in an easter egg - Finish making levels http://drsnipe.byethost10.com/Bounce2TheEnd.html Any comments or questions are welcome

Java Game APIs & Engines / JOGL Development / Holes in Textures

on: 2011-11-07 16:22:21

Alright, so in my engine there is a texture 512x512 that is being used on a map of points 512x512. The problem lies when the heights of the points are changed, the texture seems to not stetch to fit the change in height. The texture then appears see through and you can see the rest of the map. Is there a specific property I need to set for the texture?

The rendering code:

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gl.glNewList(listNumber, GL.GL_COMPILE);

   texture.enable();
   texture.bind();
   
   gl.glBegin(GL.GL_TRIANGLES);
   for(int z = 0; z < 512; z++)
   {
      for(int x = 0; x < 512; x++)
      {
         gl.glTexCoord2f((float)x/texture.getWidth(), (float)z/texture.getHeight());
         gl.glVertex3f(x, (int)points[x][z], z);
         
         gl.glTexCoord2f((float)(x+1)/texture.getWidth(), (float)z/texture.getHeight());
         gl.glVertex3f(x+1, (int)points[x+1][z], z);
         
         gl.glTexCoord2f((float)x/texture.getWidth(), (float)(z+1)/texture.getHeight());
         gl.glVertex3f(x, (int)points[x][z+1], z+1);
         
         // ---------------------------------
         
         gl.glTexCoord2f((float)x/texture.getWidth(), (float)(z+1)/texture.getHeight());
         gl.glVertex3f(x, (int)points[x][z+1], z+1);
         
         gl.glTexCoord2f((float)(x+1)/texture.getWidth(), (float)z/texture.getHeight());
         gl.glVertex3f(x+1, (int)points[x+1][z], z);
         
         gl.glTexCoord2f((float)(x+1)/texture.getWidth(), (float)(z+1)/texture.getHeight());
         gl.glVertex3f(x+1, (int)points[x+1][z+1], z+1);
         
      }
   }
   
   gl.glEnd();
   
   texture.disable();
gl.glEndList();

Previews of the problem:

You can see what it should look like in the wireframe:

And what it looks like with the texture. You can see the rest of the map because the texture is not stretching (or whatever the problem is)

Thanks in advance

10	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Applet in a JFrame?	on: 2011-10-16 05:13:34
Thank you both for your replies, greatly appreciated

11	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Applet in a JFrame?	on: 2011-10-10 02:44:02
Hey all, this is my first real posting so I hope that this is in the right section (typical newbie remark). So I've been thinking about how to do this and could not really figure out how. What I want to do is allow people to have the option of playing an applet game on their desktop and not just online. Is this possible? If so, what kind of class would I need to create to properly launch it?

12	Discussions / Business and Project Discussions / Re: Mythology Unbound, new game in development	on: 2011-09-16 04:44:47
This sounds pretty interesting. I'm interested to see how it turns out

13	Games Center / WIP games, tools & toy projects / Re: Flesh Snatcher	on: 2011-09-09 04:55:06
Very nice gameplay. The effects and graphics were well done. Overall good job so far

14	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Art of Video Games meets Minecraft	on: 2011-09-09 02:41:19
That was pretty cool. Especially like the foward/reverse of the explosion

15	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Brainstorming the future	on: 2011-09-07 03:15:00
Im sorry but why I am being referred to so much? Did I do something wrong? I've been visiting these forums for a few months now just because I think they're interesting and have been trying to get into Java game development. I'm not sure if I came off wrong by the 2 posts I've made but they were simply just to give a little feedback on other people's games. I don't believe they were negative or insulting and I'm sorry if they came off that why because I did not mean it that way. [size=12pt]EDIT:[/size] After doing some more reading in this thread, found out it was a placeholder tag. For a minute there, I thought everyone hated me for some reason An admin can delete this if they want.

16	Games Center / Showcase / Re: Fuzzy - a Java Platformer	on: 2011-09-07 03:03:00
Nice little game. The graphics were great and gameplay was quite solid.

17	Games Center / Showcase / Re: Gemserk - Super Flying Thing With No Name – New game prototype	on: 2011-07-12 22:37:42
Nice, played quite well Not sure if you know but in practice mode once you reach the other planet it doesn't do anything except keep spinning you around it. Just thought it was supposed to reset itself or send you to a new level.

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