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General / Zooming quality - especially primtives

« on: June 26, 2013, 01:25:21 am »

I've noticed that with SFML there seems to be a clear degradation of the quality of the image when zooming out, is there a way to circumvent this?

Will I need to look into actually rendering the 2D view in real 3D?

I'm in the process of making a 2D RTS which will use the zooming in and out feature of supreme commander.

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General / Trying to make separate timer and rendering loops

« on: March 08, 2012, 07:25:17 pm »

I want to have a system where there are two separate loops, of which can be set to any number. I want logic to be priorotized and frames to be skipped if logic takes a long time.

I managed this in my Allegro engine, but I have no idea what I'm doing in SFML.

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General / Trying to make separate timer and rendering loops

« on: March 08, 2012, 02:32:45 am »

Well, as explained in the title I'm trying to do this abiding by the rules of the clock and sf::sleep, atm I have the following code.

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/*
 * main.cpp
 *
 *  Created on: 5 Mar 2012
 *      Author: Lee
 */

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
#include <SFML/Window.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include "InGameHandle/inGame.hpp"
#include "InGameHandle/gameStateBase.hpp"


class EngineMain{
private:
  sf::VideoMode myVideoMode;
  sf::RenderWindow myWindow;
  sf::Clock gameClock;

  sf::Clock fpsClock;
  sf::Clock lpsClock;

  GameStateBase* applicationIsInPointer;


  float constantFPS;
  float constantLPS;

  float lastTime;

  bool draw;
public:

void init(float _fps, float _lps)
{
  constantFPS = _fps;
  constantLPS = _lps;

  draw = false;

  myVideoMode.Width = 1024;
  myVideoMode.Height = 768;
  myVideoMode.BitsPerPixel = 16;
  myWindow.Create(myVideoMode, "hello");
  applicationIsInPointer = new InGameHandler;

  appRunning();
}

void appRunning()
{
  //Game init
  applicationIsInPointer->init();

  while (myWindow.IsOpen())
    {
      sf::Event event;
        while(myWindow.PollEvent(event))
          {
            switch(event.Type)
            {
            case sf::Event::Closed:
              myWindow.Close();
              break;
            default:
              break;
            }
          }

        if(lpsClock.GetElapsedTime().AsMilliseconds() > constantLPS)
          {
            applicationIsInPointer->logic();
            //Update the logic of the game
            lastTime = lpsClock.GetElapsedTime().AsMilliseconds();
            lpsClock.Restart();
          }

        if(fpsClock.GetElapsedTime().AsMilliseconds() > constantFPS)
          {
            myWindow.Clear();
           //Return EVERYTHING that needs to be drawn from the game here
            applicationIsInPointer->draw();
            //Then for loop through it and draw it
            myWindow.Display();
            fpsClock.Restart();
          }
        sf::Sleep(sf::Milliseconds(lastTime));

    }

}


};

int main()
{
  EngineMain engine;
  engine.init(60,60);
}






I know I'm doing a lot wrong here, but can someone help me out with this and explain the logical steps so I can learn?

You may be wondering why I'm not using "Set frame limit", this is because it doesn't appear to set the frame limit correctly or reliably on my PC.

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SFML projects / ParabolaEngine - 2D Game Framework

« on: October 18, 2011, 12:02:15 pm »

Can I ask, how did you handle your series of objects within the engine. Such as derived types?

I assume you used a pointer array (which is how I did it in my engine), to a pre-created list of objects, which get put into an "activeArray" pointer array, rather than using new or delete.