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Graphics / Re: Delete sprite from vector

« on: September 14, 2018, 02:09:24 am »

eXpl0it3r told you what you're doing wrong:

If you erase an element from a vector you're iterating over, you need to account for that.

Perhaps:

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i = pociski.erase(i);


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Network / Re: How do I upgrade a game from LAN to across the internet?

« on: June 08, 2018, 01:58:18 am »

It is quite an advanced topic. Unfortunately, TCP hole-punching is by far the most complicated. TCP hole-punch generally involves both parties to perform a series of connection attempts that have the intent to fail but result in leaving the desired ports open.

Generally a third server is involved to help co-ordinate these connections.

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Network / Re: How do I upgrade a game from LAN to across the internet?

« on: June 05, 2018, 04:38:13 am »

Are you using UDP or TCP for networking?

Ports are required to be open to connect from one PC to another outside of the network; however, you can get around the manual process of opening these ports (port forwarding) by performing a hole-punch which will temporarily open the ports desired.

TCP hole-punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_hole_punching
UDP hole-punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching

Most games do not require you to port forward by using a central server (that already has its ports open) to either:

• Inform the game host of an in-coming connection from the IP address: xxx and port: yyy. Both the server and client begin conveying messages to one another to temporarily open their ports (see hole-punching links above).
• Use the central server to sync game data.

As for your last question regarding changes to your actual code; you may possibly run into latency issues depending on how you've implemented syncing data, as a LAN connection has little to no latency in comparison to a connection outside of the network.

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Network / Re: Online games using UDP and making clients port forward

« on: June 05, 2018, 04:21:16 am »

Check out UDP hole-punching.

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Network / Re: Port-Forwarding with LAN

« on: May 10, 2018, 12:40:19 am »

You don't need to port-forward for a LAN connection. You may choose which ever non-reserved port you like.
List of reserved ports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers

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Network / Re: UDP packets queuing instead of skipping

« on: May 07, 2018, 05:09:25 am »

Check the timestamp of each packet in the queue & only process the most recent one perhaps?

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Network / Re: UDP packets queuing instead of skipping

« on: May 05, 2018, 03:20:15 am »

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think you are after time stamping your packets & disregarding the older packets that are queued?

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Graphics / Re: bug whith Text class

« on: April 10, 2018, 08:52:22 am »

In your first example, text is in the same scope as the font, both being re-created on every draw call. In your second example, text is now a class member; therefore, it's on a different scope level compared to the font.

I'm thinking that this must be the problem. As the font goes out of scope (therefore destroyed), the text would still have a reference to it. I believe the general rule is, to keep an object alive for as long as it is being referenced / pointed to. So in your case, you would want to make font a class member also - I'd also recommend loading the font before you render it (you're currently loading the font every draw call).

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General / Re: Visual Studio ignores ELSE IF

« on: January 07, 2018, 11:54:24 pm »

Code works as expected on my end. What do you want the code to do?

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Network / Re: Receiving data

« on: December 21, 2017, 11:44:50 pm »

I think I understand what you're saying now.

The connection between the client and server works. The issue is:
The client cannot send data to the server without the server first sending data?

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Network / Re: Receiving data

« on: December 20, 2017, 11:55:53 pm »

What do you mean by it "won't work" unless you send data? You can't send data over TCP without a connection, so that must be working fine for you.

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DotNet / Re: SFML.NET 2.4 Update

« on: December 20, 2017, 11:52:33 pm »

Go to the SFML bindings page and download the C binaries and then put them in the location of your .NET DLLs.

Or, a much similar solution is to just use nuget and add SFML.NET 2.4 to your project, it comes with the CSFML binaries - so it should work off the bat with no extra steps.

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DotNet / Re: SFML.NET 2.4 Update

« on: December 04, 2017, 11:34:44 pm »

You should have 2 sets of DLL's in the same directory; the .NET DLL's and the CSFML DLL's.

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Java / Re: JSFML on Linux (Fedora) UnsatisfiedLinkError libjsfml-XXX.so.1 not found

« on: November 30, 2017, 11:39:45 pm »

While admittedly; I have only used JSFML on windows, I believe there is a package which only includes the windows libraries and then there is a version that includes the libraries for all 3 platforms (windows, mac & linux). Open the .jar file as an archive to check if your SFML.jar is missing the linux libraries; if so, go download the package which includes them all.

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General / Re: Now to the ram "issues"

« on: October 27, 2017, 12:56:51 am »

Just because you're attempting to re-make a game in C++/SFML from a game engine doesn't guarentee improved performance. A lot of these popular engines have invested a lot of resources (time, money etc..) into development and I'd imagine in a lot of cases out perform a lot of home-brew engines.

Anther thing to note, Game Maker does convert the "textures" into texture pages which can reduce the impact the texture sizes loaded in memory.

Probably my fault, i assumed true the "game maker has bad performance" statement you can see everywhere around, maybe it's just not that true after all.
Isn't a texture page just a bigger texture with more textures in it opposed to having multiple smaller textures?

I think you should really look further into why Game Maker has "bad performance" and where. I'm not saying it isn't true; but my point being, a company who has a huge amount of resources going into this engine versus a hobby programmer new to C++. Not to say it's impossible, but you should really get a better understanding of:

• Where GM lacks performance and why.
• What you actually want to achieve.
• C++ and SFML (if this is the right library for your task).
• Profiling.

Also, regarding the texture pages; they remove a lot of "empty space" and compact the textures, pretty much a texture atlas. The point of the texture page is indeed to have 1 texture instead of many - for sprite batching.