Psilobe

Interesting. At first I thought using csg for this would be a good idea but as it would seem that implementing csg from scratch would be out of the question because it would probably take too much time. But experimenting with this using a ready made library might be a fun thing to do if I have the time sometime.

 

That last article was really interesting and took up several interesting topics, thanks!

Learning a language is important but what is even more so is that you understand different programming principles. Functions, variables, comparisons, operators, containers, loops etc.

I suggest starting with writing small programs that do different things, not just games. Find different ways to manipulate data. Find and solve your own small problems. Try to implement a basic sorting algorithm, that sort of stuff.

When it comes to simple games that doesn't require anything fancy I generally divide the code in to three parts. Input, read user input and handle it accordingly. Update, update the game state accordingly to the game rules. Drawing, draw everything to the screen.

If I want to put together a simple game I just need to figure out how to represent the game state and then fill in these three functions.

nox_pp I've also found that site when searching for info. Anyway thanks, got it to work after switching place with luaL_dofile() and init() and changed the number of arguments.

I thought there were three arguments since the c++ function I want to call from lua takes three arguments bat the call was for the lua function which only took one. And I needed the lua function to deliver a class pointer as argument when calling my spawn function from lua.

So a big thanks to you!

I'm learning how to use lua together with c++ but I've run in to some problems where I got an access violation which I cant sort out and after searching and reading I must finally ask for help.

At the bottom at the lua_call I get the access violation and I'm using lua 5.2



[source lang="cpp"]static void spTr(cMap *m,int x, int y){ m->spawnTree(x,y);}static int spTrWra(lua_State *L){ int n = lua_gettop(L); if(n!=3) { lua_pushstring(L, "Wrong number of arguments"); lua_error(L); } if(!lua_islightuserdata(L,1)) { lua_pushstring(L, "wrong data type"); lua_error(L); } cMap* M = (cMap*)lua_touserdata(L,1); int x = lua_tointeger(L,2); int y = lua_tointeger(L,3); spTr(M,x,y); return 0;}[/source]