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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #30 on: June 14, 2010, 04:14:56 pm »
8 partition collision detection is now complete, I think.

Here is the new one with partitioning. For those who think they are awesome at the game, you can play the second one which starts out at 500 difficulty. (4000 enemies killed). Good luck getting weapon 2 though.
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #31 on: June 14, 2010, 06:00:09 pm »
I like it with the partitioning.  Excellent job! ;D
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #32 on: June 14, 2010, 11:40:25 pm »
What is the partition thing?
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #33 on: June 14, 2010, 11:43:26 pm »
I would guess that he separated the screen into several partitions, and only checks collisions between objects in the same partition.
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #34 on: June 14, 2010, 11:45:19 pm »
Oh ok. What would it do? Just speeding things up?
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #35 on: June 14, 2010, 11:45:54 pm »
It would speed things up considerably.  Many games use this in the professional/console game world.
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #36 on: June 14, 2010, 11:48:05 pm »
Aaah ok. In SMB enemies even resetted their position if they went out of the screen and you went too far, at a place far from their initial position. This is what I thought about doing if I ever do an action game with enemies.
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #37 on: June 15, 2010, 10:33:09 am »
This actually didn't really make the impact I wanted. The problem is that during my collision code, which is about ~150 t-states, adding in the partition check takes 34 t-states. So ya, it skips some, but it also adds to others. I might have to do some serious data switching in my enemy array. Actually, I will have to do some serious data switching.

Also, 16 partitions?

Edit:
    I swapped all of the enemies types (byte 0) with their partitions (byte 1). Every frame, all partitions get initially set to 0. Which means that null enemies get skipped faster. It also cut down my extra code to 30 from 38.

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     Talk about a lucky shot, I'm going to have to eventually make the game harder and do 24 bit scores as this is the second time this game I looped it.
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #38 on: June 15, 2010, 11:14:17 am »
Sorry to hear :(

Glad you found some ways to make it run faster in another way, though. Awesome game.

Btw I made a video of it, as I planned to do for a while. The actual screenshot was made before your last version was released, but it should still show how the game looks like in general ^^



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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #39 on: June 15, 2010, 11:43:08 am »
Nice video. Sometime I will have to try to figure out how to connect my calc to the computer and make an epic screen shot. I don't know how I would do it, but I'm sure it's possible. Maybe if I trick the computer into thinking my calculator is a keyboard like brandonW did.
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #40 on: June 15, 2010, 11:55:16 am »
It would be cool if you could do that. In the past some people asked for a tool to make screenshots directly from the calc, but were told it was impossible or would slow things down. Seeing what you and BrandonW did I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually possible, though.

Btw this was played at like 5% speed then screenshoted back at 100%. At 100% speed gameplay, it's almost impossible to control both the ship and shooting at once (since you need to use the mouse for shooting, the numpad not working in WabbitEmu (have to use the number keys right below the F1-F12 keys, which is rather hectic) so I needed slower speed :P
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #41 on: June 15, 2010, 12:15:17 pm »
The number pad works for me at least.

What I want to do is still have the game played in wabbitemu, just use my calculator as a controller. Taking screenshots of the calculator would take way too long as you said. I just want to have the calculator setup to play with.

The two options I see are use the calculator as a keyboard, but windows might complain about so many buttons being pressed.

The other option is to learn visual basic and write a program that receives the keys pressed from the calc and translates them into computer key presses.

Edit: Nvm, I can do it in C++. Although I don't know how though.
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #42 on: June 15, 2010, 12:18:55 pm »
Really? Weird...

IN most cases I thought it worked for me, but when I tried it with your game, it actually was other buttons, such as STAT and XTON. I guess maybe it's a glitch in Wabbitemu, a setting we can change that I accidentally changed by pressing a keyboard shortcut or something

One other thing that could have been done is use some joystick to keyboard software that maps keyboard keys to a joystick/gamepad, but the problem is that you can't assign keys to individual joystick/d-pad directions :/
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #43 on: June 15, 2010, 12:23:59 pm »
Quote from: thepenguin77 on June 15, 2010, 12:15:17 pm
What I want to do is still have the game played in wabbitemu, just use my calculator as a controller. Taking screenshots of the calculator would take way too long as you said. I just want to have the calculator setup to play with.
I've dreamed of this also, but I've never thought of a way to do it.  If you get this to work, be sure to tell us. :D
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Re: Geometry Wars Update
« Reply #44 on: June 15, 2010, 12:30:06 pm »
BrandonW has already done it.  Its called Periph8x or something.
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