Well, I’m 17 now. Those years just keep coming. If I have any brilliant insights about age, I’ll let you know.
Now, on to the interesting stuff. I now have a saving function that saves the position of the win area as well as information about the player. With help from my instructor, my collision detection only checks for collision with crates that are relatively close to it. I had the idea when I noticed that when I triggered noclip, my framerate got much better, and as expected this feature improves framerate greatly. With the improved saving I can now do level editing entirely within the game. I just need to feed it a base file full of crates with a location for the win area, a starting position and direction, and gravity and jump velocity settings. Given that crouching and jumping work great now, I hope to finish with sound. When I only had one crate, I could create a sound instance specifically for that crate. Now that I have more like 300 to 350, I can no longer do that. I’ll make a global sound-maker that is passed the location where it needs to make a sound, with a capacity for around four simultaneous sounds. This finite number (as far as I know, it’s not four specifically) of possible concurrent sound sources (mixing would help, I’d think) can be noticeable in some games where there’s loads going on – some sounds do not play. Well, back to coding to the beat of Basshunter!
HEH…
Hey steve, there’s some weird problem with this computer, i think its some stupid virus or something, but i cant get to facebook, use google search, get to yahoo, and…yah but first things first…HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 😛 what do u want for ur birthday? post it on my wall, i might be able to go to my other granny’s house and use that internet. lol i havnt talked to u in such a long time sup? how’d the party go? man…u shouldve waited for me hahaha
You’re older than me, congrats!
Thanks. I think I’ve always been older than you, though. :p
I haven’t had a party yet. I’m thinking if the August LAN works out it may also be a birthday party. There’s not much that happened recently that I didn’t also post here, but I can tell you I’m getting good at rushing with both Terran and Zerg on non-fastest maps. 🙂
Happy birthday man! now you can buy m games without ur mom. Get resident evil 4 just for fun k? lol
You should have a lan on august 8/9 and tell brad about it *wink*.
I’m currently looking at Fridays… The 8th could be a proposed date. I should probably tell this to the attendees instead of the Intertubes at large, though. It might be more useful.
The point of telling brad would be to give him the chance to convince his mom to let him do it. Because if he can’t do it, I can’t do it.
Turns out the 8th won’t work, and neither will the 15th. I’m running out of days…