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SFML projects / Re: Circle Patterns

« on: August 25, 2014, 11:30:51 am »

@Geheim Sure, I've got so many different ideas that I already drew in a sketchbook. I feel a little bad for advertising this much, but check out Drawing With Code #3, there you got a different processing.

@G. You're right. Sometimes I got the impression eyes are looking at me. 

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SFML projects / Re: Circle Patterns

« on: August 25, 2014, 02:20:34 am »

[Update]
Finally I want to thank G. for his suggestion. It just looks awesome with some color.

The new result can be seen here:


I have to admit that I fell in love with generative arts so I started a series on Youtube "Drawing With Code" - If you like what you see, leave a sub for more. I'm going to upload future projects there, too.

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SFML projects / Re: Circle Patterns

« on: August 22, 2014, 12:19:12 pm »

@Gobbles Yes I found this same issue. But it just looks disgusting if I reset this whole thing after 8th oder 9th circle-spawn. I need to get something like a freeze-function - don't know yet.

@achpile Thanks, glad you like it. =)

@G. Oh dear, finally I know how to call these things. Generative art - thanks. 
Of course I already played around with color, but I feel like black&white is better than dark&light blue.

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SFML projects / Circle Patterns

« on: August 22, 2014, 03:32:20 am »

Hi guys.

I just finished to upload a video about my latest project - Circle Patterns.
Some time ago I already presented you my Spirograph and I think the circle patterns now look even better.

Take a look at the project:

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General / Re: My timestep code isn't working, completely baffled

« on: April 15, 2014, 07:46:44 pm »

For crying out loud, can you not search? Because those ifs have absolutely nothing to do with the event loop. 

Not true at all..... please learn about something before talking like you know it. 

You guys are toxic as hell.

I told him how to improve his style/code. There's a reason why i splitted it from the other points, because the three others are definitly bad style. It's looking way better if keys&events are seperated from other calculations(my opinion). You can't and shouldn't flame me for what I prefer. If you don't like it, you can give your opinion and stay calm.

PLEASE read my signature.

@Insentience I'm relaxing, but you've got some serious problems and I just wanted to help.

@moderator sorry for off-topic, but his behaviour is bad.

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General / Re: My timestep code isn't working, completely baffled

« on: April 15, 2014, 07:28:44 pm »

If it's running on a lower fps than 60 you've done something wrong in resource-handling.

Anyway.. You can still make your life easier. Just store a clock.restart() to passedTime each frame and multiply your 1.0f * passedTime .
If I still didn't unterstood what you want to know, I'm done.

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General / Re: My timestep code isn't working, completely baffled

« on: April 15, 2014, 07:14:39 pm »

Absolutely not...

Tell me why.

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General / Re: My timestep code isn't working, completely baffled

« on: April 15, 2014, 07:04:05 pm »

Can someone or you explain, why you need this?
With a fps-limit of 60 it's moving smoothly, too.

And you should put the if-statements for the keys into the window.pollEvent()-loop.

Style:
Why you need to define the variables global?
Why you got a capital letter for rectangle?
Why you dont set the framerate limit directly after the initialization of your window?

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SFML projects / Re: Spirograph

« on: April 15, 2014, 04:02:10 pm »

I'm glad you like it.

@Nexus Almost. A random-number-generator defines of how many "sticks"(havn't got a better word, too) the whole arm consists. Then the program defines a specific length and anglePerSec for every stick with a random-generator, too. So the sticks don't depend on each other. The calculations are a bit harder. For every stick you need to calculate the rotation. The next arm will be connected to the first and also rotates with the specific anglePerSec-speed.

Every frame I'm drawing a line between the previous tip of the arm and the current tip of the arm. Then the program draws the line to a RenderTexture which gets displayed.


@Geheim I'm going to add a UI and I'm planning to implement screenshots so the program can fill a gallery with the screens automatically.

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SFML projects / Spirograph

« on: April 14, 2014, 09:47:57 pm »

In the last two days I programmed a little spirograph made in C++, SFML.

For now I can't show you my code, because it's looking awful, but I made a little video of the spirograph in action. Please forgive me for the bad quality, it's my very first video and I just made it in 5 minutes.




If somebody wants to see the code just tell me and I'll put it on github after refactoring.

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Graphics / Re: Drawing all vertices of a line to a sprite

« on: April 14, 2014, 08:09:01 pm »

Of course it won't drop exactly after 2000lines on your computer, but you wanted to know if I'm sure it leads to performance issues.

Anyway - I got it, thanks.

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Graphics / Re: Drawing all vertices of a line to a sprite

« on: April 14, 2014, 07:41:43 pm »

We're talking about 5000+ lines(I'm programming a spirograph). I already tested it with a lines-vector and the fps went down after 2000.

I'm going to try the RenderTexture thing and tell you if I got problems.

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Graphics / Drawing all vertices of a line to a sprite

« on: April 14, 2014, 07:09:36 pm »

The subject should already tell you what I want to know.

For reasons of performance, the lines can't be stored on vectors to draw them later, so I need to draw all points of a line to a sprite.
How am I supposed to do that?

Thanks.

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General / Re: Game Speed Consistency

« on: April 14, 2014, 03:08:29 pm »

You can store

clock.restart().asSeconds();

to a float and pass this to your bullet timer.
multiply your speed(per seconds) * the float(e.g. 0,04). So you can be sure that you move exactly speed/second.

Something else.. You don't need the end_game variable at all and you should make you window-close if-statement smaller.
you can write instead:

//1. There's no need of keyReleased
if(event.type == sf::Event::Closed || sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Escape)
 window.close();
//2. The less variables you have to initialize above the while, the better people can read your code
if(bullet_collision(...))
 break;
 

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SFML projects / Re: My little collection to short SFML Code

« on: April 11, 2014, 08:16:57 pm »

Is the license included the right way?

https://github.com/4B/FuncCollection/blob/master/SFMLib.hpp

-Added license
-Added buttons(still need to work on this)
-Added rectangle-point-collision
-Reworked descriptions

Well, I'm going to add GUI-stuff.
But if you have additional ideas, please tell me.