[color=#ff8c00]Another way to fix your timestep:[/color]

the famous article "fix your timestep":

http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/

attempts to address the problem of your simulation not running at the same speed on all PC's:

1. first, variable timestep is used to get the same spe…

more raypicks! raycast line of sight test

I just posted some code to my Caveman journal that includes some raycast code for line of sight checks:


https://www.gamedev.net/blog/1730/entry-2260249-new-avian-ai-done-yet-more-raycaster-raypickcode/

More raypick code!

I just posted some code in my Caveman journal that includes another example of raypick code:

https://www.gamedev.net/blog/1730/entry-2260114-new-orders-menu-code/

This is actual real world code used in the game.

Someone asked to see my raypick test code.

Here it is:



D3DXVECTOR3 intersect_point; void calc_intersection(int x,int y){char s[100];D3DXVECTOR3 v,dir,origin, p1,p2, // line p3,p4,p5; // planeD3DXMATRIX m;D3DXPLANE p; v.x = ( ( ( 2.0f * x ) / screen_width ) - 1 ) / …

instruction cache info

some links to info about the instruction cache....



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality_of_reference

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa10/cse240a/pdf/08/CSE240A-MBT-L15-Cache.ppt.pdf

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1275470

http://ww…

Game Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Game Software

Patterns. Seems to be all you hear these days, right? What is this pattern? Should i use it? Is this code an example of pattern A or pattern B?

It appears that "Patterns" came about due to the discovery of recurring themes in the organization o…

A checklist for adding a new variable to a program

We're programmer's. We code. We spend our time implementing stuff - making it do this, or making it do that.

Well, one of the first things we need when beginning the implementation of a new feature is variables.

So we spend a lot of time declaring and…

[font=arial][color=rgb(40,40,40)][background=rgb(250,251,252)]The following article on code refactoring: [/background][/color]

[color=rgb(40,40,40)][background=rgb(250,251,252)]https://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/evolve-your-hierarchy-refactoring-game-entities-with-co…

[color=rgb(40,40,40)][font=arial][font=helvetica][background=rgb(250,251,252)]DX9 Lost Device Example[/background][/font][/font][/color]

[color=rgb(40,40,40)][font=arial][font=helvetica] [background=rgb(250,251,252)]I decided to implement Alt-tab in my project, and went looking for info on handling[…

[color=rgb(40,40,40)][font=arial]Some info on SPUs:[/font][/color]

[color=rgb(40,40,40)][font=arial]SPU Architecture description (includes bus fetch speeds!).[/font][/color]
[color=rgb(40,40,40)][font=arial]Nice. Anyone who took computer architecture will probably find it interesting, it's one bad as…