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1	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-29 08:46:56
Thanks for the help, everyone! I managed to find the problem. I needed to use createCompatibleImage() to convert my images to the required format. Here is my new Texture class: http://pastebin.com/9S8QMXby

2	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-28 20:48:11
When turning off the drawing of the level, it significantly improves the FPS, and the listener responds quickly. Here is the Level class and its draw function. http://pastebin.com/TmuFW3te

3	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-28 20:41:10
The FPS is capped at 8. If I set it to update slower, it will. But higher than 8 will just result in 8.

4	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-28 17:23:10
I tried what you said, but nothing changed. http://pastebin.com/33reqdRy

5	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-28 14:24:57
Okay, so to test the FPS of my game, I loaded Fraps up to see the counter. The game counts up from 0 to eight frames per second, then stops there. I have no idea why.

6	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-28 14:19:32
http://pastebin.com/mdEDW6Tx Here's what fills my ArrayList http://pastebin.com/AZLKQV63

7	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-28 04:29:00
I tried having the key listeners set flags, but it still delays. I had my listeners do println()'s, and the message doesn't delay, but the movement does.

8	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-28 01:56:39
Didn't help at all It worked perfectly in my games made in Slick. Maybe something is wrong with my game loop? What is the purpose of SwingUtilities.invokeLater()?

9	Game Development / Game Mechanics / [SOLVED]Keyboard Input Lag	on: 2012-01-27 18:43:08
I'm trying to make a game in Java. I decided to be stubborn, and not use LWJGL or Slick. Everything went fine until input. The keyboard arrow presses are delayed, and I don't know what is causing it. http://pastebin.com/0LTdKr21 EDIT: Solved. Needed to convert my images during initialization. http://pastebin.com/9S8QMXby

10	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Re: [SOLVED] "Fog of War"	on: 2011-12-24 14:35:49
Thanks a lot. All of these answers are great.

11	Game Development / Game Mechanics / [SOLVED] "Fog of War"	on: 2011-12-24 03:10:44
Is there any way I can have it so I can't see units a certain distance away? I thought of drawing only units that intersect with an oval around my player, but it would look weird when they came into view, as they would just pop up. I also thought of a vignette image I could lay over the canvas, but not sure if that would work.

12	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: Slick Applet	on: 2011-12-20 04:16:36
It works fine when I run it as an application, and I'm pretty sure it said to leave it as an AppGameContainer as Slick will make it an AppletGameContainer.

Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: Slick Applet

on: 2011-12-20 01:25:53

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Mon Dec 19 19:25:29 EST 2011 INFO:Slick Build #274
Mon Dec 19 19:25:29 EST 2011 INFO:Starting display 1024x768
Mon Dec 19 19:25:29 EST 2011 INFO:Controllers not available
Test 1
Mon Dec 19 19:25:29 EST 2011 INFO:Initialising sounds..
Mon Dec 19 19:25:29 EST 2011 INFO:- Sound works
Mon Dec 19 19:25:29 EST 2011 INFO:- 64 OpenAL source available
Mon Dec 19 19:25:29 EST 2011 INFO:- Sounds source generated
Test 2
Mon Dec 19 19:25:30 EST 2011 ERROR:null
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at com.theducecat.pong.Pong.update(Pong.java:96)
   at org.newdawn.slick.GameContainer.updateAndRender(GameContainer.java:657)
   at org.newdawn.slick.AppletGameContainer$Container.runloop(AppletGameContainer.java:514)
   at org.newdawn.slick.AppletGameContainer$ContainerPanel.start(AppletGameContainer.java:218)
   at org.newdawn.slick.AppletGameContainer$1.run(AppletGameContainer.java:92)
org.newdawn.slick.SlickException: Game.update() failure - check the game code.
   at org.newdawn.slick.GameContainer.updateAndRender(GameContainer.java:663)
   at org.newdawn.slick.AppletGameContainer$Container.runloop(AppletGameContainer.java:514)
   at org.newdawn.slick.AppletGameContainer$ContainerPanel.start(AppletGameContainer.java:218)
   at org.newdawn.slick.AppletGameContainer$1.run(AppletGameContainer.java:92)

Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Slick Applet

on: 2011-12-19 23:01:33

I'm trying to make my Slick game an applet, but it keeps giving me an error whenever I have a line like this:

1	if (app.getInput().isKeyDown(Input.KEY_W)) {

15	Game Development / Game Mechanics / Better Pong Physics	on: 2011-12-18 20:59:07
Hey, I just made a quick Pong clone. I want to know how to get better physics from it, since right now, it just reverses the velocities on collision. Here is the download: http://www.mediafire.com/?ete2r0xnw4ed2sc

Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / List to ArrayList?

on: 2011-12-17 17:42:30

What is the point in having something like this:

1	List<String> listName = new ArrayList<String>();

I believe this is polymorphism, but what advantage does that give you?

17	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Collision Question	on: 2011-12-07 03:48:32
I have a player sprite that must collide with blocks in the world. However, I don't want to use a for loop to check every single block in the world every tick, so what can I do? My idea was to get the player's current position, and only check blocks around the player. Is this a good idea?

18	Discussions / Miscellaneous Topics / Re: JavaScript is a scam	on: 2011-12-07 03:44:40
I'm going to be honest, I don't like JavaScript, it isn't my type of language, but I'm forced to use it. I love how easy it is to set up a small script of 10-20 lines of code, but I really hate writing big applications with it. I really hope Google's Dart(http://dartr.com/) takes off. They made some very valid points in their explanation for creating the language. I got a chance to play around with it, and I much prefer the syntax. Right now, it compiles right into JS, but Google wants to strive for this language on browsers, as well as the server.

19	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Re: 2D Block Problems	on: 2011-12-04 20:13:41
Thanks so much! This works perfectly! For some reason I have to add +1 on to the end of the y, but it still works!

20	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Re: 2D Block Problems	on: 2011-12-04 12:24:44
I think using Math.floor helped, but it still has the problem. Here is my entire code. x and y are the mouse co-ordinates. camera.getLocation() returns a 2D vector with the x and y offset of the camera (distance from 0, 0). blockX and blockY are which block is to be deleted. http://pastebin.com/TRaUXDbg

21	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Re: 2D Block Problems	on: 2011-12-04 07:48:45
I can not figure out this problem. I've hit a wall, I don't know what to do.

22	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Re: 2D Block Problems	on: 2011-12-03 07:03:11
I can't figure anything out from this data.

23	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Re: 2D Block Problems	on: 2011-12-03 06:14:50
gameScale is the scale of everything. It works the same with it on or off.

24	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Re: 2D Block Problems	on: 2011-12-03 05:44:20
Nope. Doesn't work, still.

25	Discussions / General Discussions / Re: Username change?	on: 2011-12-03 03:24:52
Well, there is no real reason. I just prefer another one better. If it requires a good reason, I don't have one.

Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / Re: 2D Block Problems

on: 2011-12-03 03:23:29

1 2	int blockX = x / (int) gameScale / 16 + (int) (camera.getLocation().x / 16f); int blockY = y / (int) gameScale / 16 + 1 + (int) (camera.getLocation().y / 16f);

I tried rounding the camera / 16 values, but it doesn't help much.

27	Java Game APIs & Engines / Java 2D / [SOLVED] 2D Block Problems	on: 2011-12-03 03:14:02
I have two problems with the game I'm making. I have a 2D block sandbox game, like Terraria. When I move the camera around, I can still click the blocks to break them, but the blocks are sometimes off when I click. For example, when clicking on one block, it will destroy the one next to it. I believe this had to do with the camera's position being a float, and the positioning being thrown off by this. How can I fix it?

28	Discussions / General Discussions / Username change?	on: 2011-11-29 04:43:47
Can an admin change my username/display name?

29	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Re: Getting Clicked Block	on: 2011-11-29 04:38:21
Wow, so simple, but great! Thanks so much!

30	Game Development / Newbie & Debugging Questions / Getting Clicked Block	on: 2011-11-29 04:22:52
I'm making a game like Terraria, 2D sandbox. I'm stuck, I can't figure out how to find out what block a user hit. I have the mouse x and y, but the only way I can think of is to have a Rectangle for each block, then use a for loop to cycle through every block to see which rec contains the co-ordinates, but it seems so inefficient.

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