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Greetings all, i was hoping on some opinions/advice on my current plans

 

right now i'm going to start studying at uni, so next year i can start a higher level course at university

 

my plans were to, this year do two subjects of my choice in order to improve my UAC/ATAR (not sure if that's just an aus thing) and chosing subjects maths and physics

 

Next year, with my course finished, i will hope to start a bachelors or something, i was thinking a bachelor in software engineering

 

after i get my bachelors, i will look for whatever work i can get (game, or software work) using my degree, as i've heard there's a demand for qualified software engineers

 

in my free time i'd like to work on small game projects of my own throughout the whole thing, then perhaps one day become self sufficient, or use work history/qualifications/personal projects to break into the games industry 

 

my main interest would be small/unique games i could sell by myself to supplement my income, or replace it

 

anyways, any opinions/advice?

Greetings, i'm working on a small project, and i want to be able to create a heightmap with cliff faces

 

rather than trying to explain it, i've made a diagram

 

 

so basically, edges of the heightmap could de-sow from each other and go up into a cliff, or down into a canyon, maintaining a hard edge

 

diagonal edges are not important

 

 

i had some ideas of my own suck as

 

each tile contains 4 points of data, rather than one per grid point, this method isn't ideal as it would be difficult to tell what is sewn to what, and be able to edit map/create movement on the map effectively, aswell as using 4 times the memory

each grid point would instead contain say 3 or 4 possible heights, i could de-anchor the terrain from one point, and anchor it to a new point which i could move up or down to edit (or have a dynamic amount of heights stored in each point, changing for the situation)

 

 

anyway, i was wondering if anyone had any better ideas for my problem?

 

the project will be a stratergy game, buildings, units etc, so collision mesh type things aren't realistic

Greetings, so i'm trying to use vertex buffer objects, however, glGenBuffers is throwing me an access violation

 

Checklist time:

i have glew installed.

i have freeglut installed

included in this order

 

Hi, so i'm wanting to work on a small personal project, involving me building my own simplish engine, and everything related, and at the moment, i'm creating entity types similar to this (this is the header file, not cpp)

 

class e_ship : public g_entity
{
public:
	float x;
	float y;
	float xseepd;
	float yseepd;
	float dir;
	float dirspeed;
	g_texture spr;
public:

	void midstep();
	void draw();
	void init();

};

 

and entities are spawned something like this

 

i would also like to do similar things with my resources, materials etc, so links to articles about resource loading/management would be helpful also 

 

thanks

greetings, i've written a flowchart on a uh, i guess "network model" that i have come up with and want to hear some feedback/get some answers on some things





OK, now, first things first, i believe this model would be better suited to an RTS game than what i have it planned for , which is a platformer-type game and that is why i'm posting it here
a few questions i have are:
*how can i transform this model to better suit a game over UDP that requires decent response times
*how can i account for packet loss?
best ways i can think of would be

find the next known good packet after the lost one, then loop through the actions up to the current time
which it has its pros/cons such as beign able to deal with complex actions, such as throwing a rock, you could bind the rock to a packet, and if the packet is known to be bad, then it disappears
and on the other end, it would cause the game to be more jittery

or sending the players position with each packet, and interpolating the current position to the new one if it's off


anyway, i'd be glad to hear other peoples thoughts on this