tashaklikedi

Hello everyone, I have a strange issue ( noob programmer here )

Some of my game's collisions do not work when I click on the exe that is located in the "release" folder from windows explorer, but they work when I do "build and compile" from visual c++. I made sure I compiled in release mode, and the data folder is copy paste in both folders. 

I really don't understand. 

Hi everyone, as a newbie programmer, I am trying to develop a 2D side scrolling Streets of Rage like fighting game with a lot of characters, moves, and animations. I started to learn programming 1 year ago, and I managed to have a game where I have two player controllable characters hit each other, jump to higher elevations in a streets of rage style map, etc...

 

However, since I am new to programming, and rushed enthusiastically into programming the game without any plan, my code got really messy. 

My problem is how to handle character states ( or moves ) , and their animation...

 

How I proceeded is: I have a huge switch function with states, another one with animations, another one with hitboxes for example:

 

//this is the base punch for the ninja character.
// this is the state switch function
case NINJA_BASEPUNCH:
		falsify(); // set everything to false (i.e. he cant jump while punch animation is on)
		bCanBasePunch = true; 
		enumAnimState = NINJA_AS_BASEPUNCH; //animation is set to base punch animation
		enumHitMessage = HIT_LIGHT_HI; //this will tell the enemy entity the damage type ( light ) and its position ( high )
		basePunch(); //punch function 
		break;

//once this is executed, the program will set the animation settings
//this is from animation switch function

case NINJA_AS_BASEPUNCH:
		sprite.w = 36;
		sprite.h = 36;
		iCurrentFrameCol = (bFaceRight ? 13:14);
		iCurrentFrameRow = 0;
		animation.maxFrames = 2;
		animation.setFrameRate(animation.getCurrentFrame() > 0 ? 100:60);
		break;
		}
//this is from the hitbox update function. 
case NINJA_AS_PUNCH:
		hitbox.w = groundPos.w;
		hitbox.h = 35;

 

All this is only for a simple basic punch. Now imagine how would it be if there was a big move list, big combos, stunts, etc... I need to get a better system for it, anyone who can think of a better implementation system?

 

Hi everyone, In the game I'm developping I'm trying to use nsf (nintendo sound format) files as music and waves as sound effects. The nsf library uses SDL_Sound. the problem is that I can never load two files simultaneously. The NSF library is not able to load two sounds at once, and when I try to load my wav files with SDL_Mixer, I can't play the NSF file.

I was wondering if multi threading would solve this...

Hi again, I ran into another problem with the joystick in SDL:

in libsdl.org, it says that the joystick has 8 directions with the hat: up, down, left, right, upleft, upright, downleft, downright. But when I press the up button, it reads at the same time up, upleft, up right. This is the same for each direction (for example, if I press left, it will read left, upleft, downleft. I wonder if this is normal, if there is a problem with my joystick, or if the problem is in my code (which is a uber simplistic program to see if I get my joystick to work).

Did anybody ran into this kind of problems? (please dont send me the LazyFoo links, because there is nothing about hats there ^^)

Hi, I'm trying to create a double dragon - like game, and I'm trying to implement a joystick.

The problem is that until now I programmed relative to the SDL 's keyboard event handling system, which involves the key states "keydown" when a key is pressed, and "keyup" when a key is released. But I can't find a way to do the keyup part with the SDL joystick functions.

The reason I want to use this is that when you double tap a horizontal direction key, the character runs. For that I developed a counter system, in which when I release the direction key, there is a counter that is incremented and that says that I pressed forward once.

now I will paste the code here.

this is the key release function for the left key:
[source lang="cpp"] case SDLK_LEFT: { moveLeft = false; runCounterLeft++; runCounterRight = 0; } break;[/source]

and this is the function that activates the run function:

[source lang="cpp"]void CNinja::runToggle(){ if(runToggleSwitch) // the counter is at most at 1 { if(runCounterRight == 1) { { runStart = SDL_GetTicks(); //time offset for the last released direction key runToggleSwitch = false; } } if(runCounterLeft == 1) { { runStart = SDL_GetTicks(); runToggleSwitch = false; } } } if(runStart + 200 < SDL_GetTicks()) // resetting the counter states if two taps are delayed too much { runToggleSwitch = true; runCounterLeft = 0; runCounterRight = 0; } if((runCounterRight > 1||runCounterLeft > 1)&&runToggleSwitch == false) // if the counter is not reset and if it reached 2, we initiate the run function (which will be triggered by the bool running = true) { if(SDL_GetTicks() - runStart > 500) //i'm not sure anymore but now that I see it it looks like the same as above :/ not sure if this block is necessary { running = false; runToggleSwitch = true; } else running = true; runToggleSwitch = true; runCounterRight = 0; runCounterLeft = 0; }}[/source]

first and simpler : do anyone have a more versatile alternative for this to my system?

second: how can I adapt this to the SDL joystick?