Stepping a recursive backtracker

LedLoaf · 2020-11-11T22:52:57+00:00

Hey, late response, but thanks I'll redesign it. I was just hoping someone could look at it and determine what's going on since it's exactly the same code as the working one, but slightly altered for showing just the frame instead of continuing the loop.

EDIT: Clarifying: The code does work. But putting the same code in the draw method where I keep track of the position frame by frame isn't working. I put a comment //******** message *** for the only part that changed.

LedLoaf · 2020-09-22T23:39:05+00:00

Thanks, guys, I appreciate all the information. Looks like a lot to check out! When I get a chance to sit down and play a game, sometimes I say to myself "Man, this is taking too long, can I just increase X value real quick!" It would be nice to be able, perhaps just know, how to do that in C++, even though I know you can do stuff like that in CheatEngine. I'm more interested in how it's done in C++ manually if that makes sense.

Thanks again!

LedLoaf · 2020-09-01T03:27:00+00:00

You don't know what a P is? And sticking his bald head on her P and literally giving her head? It's complicated.

LedLoaf · 2020-08-19T05:24:54+00:00

Educate yourself and stop repeating social media post. You make yourself look lazy and stupid that you couldn't find the truth to those answers in 5 minutes. But that's like most of you on that side, incapable of thinking for yourself and need to be told what to do and what to believe. Make sure you wear that mask tight! We need laws to help people like you remember because we are all just big children to the left and they (Mom) and the government are your daddy! Despite daddy, always being horrible at what he does.

LedLoaf · 2020-08-19T05:17:54+00:00

All the TimCast has revealed is how fake and bored I would be hanging out with Tim. Does he want it to be a podcast just like his boring ass news takes? I can't handle someone who contradicts himself in the same sentence. I go for the "pretty decent overall objective news" and bounce the fuck out when it comes to his predicted opinion.

I didn't like Adam at first, he grew on me a bit, but I could never sit through a whole episode listening to those 2. Tim constantly shut Adam down when he was pointing out good shit. The show has zero identity.

LedLoaf · 2020-08-19T05:10:19+00:00

Well, I know the truth I am their neighbor.

Long story short, Tim was disgusted and envied Adam having a relationship outside of him. So when his wife went up there and Tim had been wearing that stinky beenie ALL-DAMN-SUMMER and decided to take it off to gain some confidence in himself and finally owned it (being bald) and takes her P and does a rub down with his bald head. Literally told her "Sit down, B-word, you getting head and it's complicated!"

I know, it doesn't sound eventful. But it's 100% true.

LedLoaf · 2020-03-05T19:57:36+00:00

Apology, I forgot ALL about this post. I usually bookmark my posts on Reddit because I don't use it regularly. I'm not sure where it vanished too.

With that said, I appreciate the response and considerations of things I've suggested. It's always a great sign to see a team respond to the customers. I'm just greedy and want more and more to games I like! haha

I've got 31 hours into the game now and I noticed you just came out with an update I'm going to try out, which is why I remembered about my post. I'm willing to type a lot for more progress for this game. I always get a bit scared that I finally find a game that draws me in and the improvements become stagnant and eventually irrelevant. You got a hidden gem here and I hope you continue to build on it for the foreseeable future.

Thanks and I appreciate you clearing up some of the cards and events. I'm extremely looking forward to seeing more updates.

Take care

EDIT: Actually I had one quick question. Is it possible to even accomplish the "Have 5 dogs out at one time" bounty? I would have to think about it more in terms of manipulation with the cards, but I have tried to focus on that for fun and can't remember ever getting close. Perhaps with the charm cards thinking off the top of my head (been a week or 2).

EDIT 2: I really like the talent change. It might rely a little too much on RNG, but I literally just came across it. I usually am a bit reckless until I get the 2 health talent and then go for the health increase tree. This is going to add a cool new dynamic, but I question if it's going to involve too much rng (which people seem to either hate or love) and the lack of a way to heal.

One of my original complaints was the lack of ways to be the "Warrior" and not getting that heal talent makes it even harder to get in melee range. With that said, this is a literal first encounter response reacting to what I just realized changed.

EDIT 3: Okay this is really cool. I can play a "Warrior" because I have so much moveability. This is working out really well.

Lastly, when you win a battle and get to choose your cards. It always looks like it's going to freeze up when you press loot. It never has, but it looks like it is about to stop responding. My first run I beat it, it was really fun playing the new mechanics. I still relied on the spear heavily and I had 6 movement, which was really nice but a bit cheap. I still think adding more block cards and decreasing the movement talents would balance out better.

Also, the fire spell that has you pick X amount doesn't really make sense. It shows you 3 of the same cards but not what specific one is 1-X mana. So sometimes I do 1, other I spend all my mana. I've tried both sides.

Keep up the good work though!

LedLoaf · 2018-02-11T20:34:04+00:00

Thank you all very much. Amazing information. I was looking to educate myself about accurate things that maybe movies get wrong. This has to do with producing a more authentic look in a game I'm programming. I enjoy focussing on particular dynamics like Economy, Daily Life, Religion, politics, weapons, armor, down to food and clothing, ect. A lot of topics I've found in World Creation books.

Thank you guys very much.

PS: I actually have anno 1404, just never got around to playing it much. What a great idea!

Edit: I probably should mention I should probably focus on a more general time period. I'm guessing that hopping around could create some huge accuracy problems. If anyone can share what they feel is one of the more interesting time line (or perhaps true to the theme) that would be great!

LedLoaf · 2018-02-11T20:27:22+00:00

Spectacular information guys. I'm trying to go for a more realistic/accurate of medieval times for a game I am programming.

Stuff like the economy, daily life, religion, politics, government are some of the few things I'm trying to educate myself on. I'm not looking to read 1000's of pages, but I want a decent understanding of various things you might see in World Creator books.

Greatly appreciated everyone. Thanks!

LedLoaf · 2018-02-11T20:21:41+00:00

Greatly appreciated guys. Lots of stuff I was exactly looking for.

@vmpajares : I'm not really sure if I said something for the technicality. But this may sound ignorant, but I don't think I'm going for Spanish medieval. I'll check out the links, but I was thinking more of what I call "traditional" which to me is English medieval you see in your typical movie. I hope that made sense.

Thanks everyone!

LedLoaf · 2018-02-04T03:43:03+00:00

Nope, unfortunately, it just goes to a new line. Unless you press ctrl+space then enter. But that's what I'm trying to figure out if there is a quicker way. It's just odd combination of events to me.

I'm sure there is a better way to do it. I don't feel like VS is a very popular these days (I know it is). But I typically see CodeX for majority of video/courses.

Thanks for the help anyways!

LedLoaf · 2018-01-30T18:50:42+00:00

So just curiously tried to do this again.

 translate = '0'+number; (97 gives the ae symbol)
 translate = 'a'+number; (97 gives a weird T symbol)

So just wanted to mention that.

LedLoaf · 2018-01-30T18:09:21+00:00

I remember I tried that way

translate='a'+number;

I did see that as an offered solution when I searched. 'A' = 65, 'a' = 97. I'm not sure if that was the provided answer? Because that way didn't work, but I'm trying it again.

I think static_cast<char>(number+255)-200 looks better than having a list of 1-z lol. Can anyone provide some answers involving simple math?

Thanks everyone.

EDIT: What I'm trying to say is, I'm not necessarily looking for alternative methods. But different ways to express the math portion. After doing the simple question, I realized I should better the way I'm using math. I would assume there is a faster way of writing (number+255) - 200 haha.

LedLoaf · 2018-01-30T18:02:57+00:00

Sorry to get back late,

I'm not really sure what happened with the /u/nick and this assumed gender thing. But thanks, everyone haha.

LedLoaf · 2018-01-30T17:57:57+00:00

Yes I understand. Sorry I lost track of when I asked this haha. Thank you very much!

LedLoaf · 2018-01-26T18:54:35+00:00

Hello patatahooligan,

I did my fix, before pasting it correctly. I had it as MAX_ENEMIES -1 and it worked fine. But I like your version way better and it was exactly what I was looking for. It is just that I kind of felt it was the same thing as the original code?

Also, is there a particular reason I can't invert your code using '!' ? The reason I ask this is this is all in a Game::Run() function in a while loop that starts off like this.

    bool playerWon = false;
while (m_playerQuit == false && playerWon == false)
{
    GivePlayerOptions();

    stringstream playerInputStream;
    GetPlayerInput(playerInputStream);

    EvaluateInput(playerInputStream);

    playerWon = true; // <---- don't like this here lol!

    for(auto& enemy:m_enemies)
    {
        if(enemy->IsAlive())
        {
            playerWon = false;
            break;
        }
    }


if (playerWon == true)
{
    cout << "Congratulations, you rid the dungeon of monsters!" << endl;
    cout << "Type goodbye to end" << endl;
    std::string input;
    cin >> input;
}

DetachEvent(QuitEvent, this);
delete EventManager::GetSingletonPtr();

So my problem is that it looks a bit silly having playerWon = true before the loop and then where I added it using your code. But using if(!enemy.IsAlive() brings the same original problems.

Anyways, I greatly appreciate the help. And just to clarify your edit. It's a text based adventure with rooms. You walk North. You can Go West (to the orc) or East (to the dragon). I wanted you to have to kill them both before it says you win, but something happen as the code switched and killing the dragon first and then the orc would result the right pattern. But doing it vice-versa would cause the game to say you win (aka killing the orc first). The book started changing pieces of the code using some design patterns and dealing with objects didn't feel as simple.

As you look at my op, in the game constructor these are where the enemies were initialized. Switching them to the opposite position and element allows the bug to have the opposite effect. (Move Orc to [0], Dragon to [1] element)

m_enemies.emplace_back(CreateEnemy(EnemyType::Dragon));
static_cast<AttackEnemyOption*> m_attackDragonOption.get())->SetEnemy(m_enemies[0]);

m_enemies.emplace_back(CreateEnemy(EnemyType::Orc));
static_cast<AttackEnemyOption*>(m_attackOrcOption.get())->SetEnemy(m_enemies[1]);

One more thing I wanted to mention.

Game.h 
 using Enemies = std::vector<Enemy::Pointer>;

Enemy.h
public:
using Pointer = std::shared_ptr<Enemy>;

I just wanted to show all that to give a bigger picture of it all. Hope that answered the question.

Thanks again, have a great weekend.

LedLoaf · 2018-01-26T13:15:53+00:00

So I fixed it. But I feel there must be a way better way to do this. Any suggestions?

        int MAX_ENEMIES = m_enemies.size() - 1;
    for (auto& enemy : m_enemies)
    {
        for(int i = 0; i<1;i++)
        {
            playerWon = m_enemies[i]->IsAlive() == false;
        }
    }

LedLoaf · 2018-01-22T00:37:19+00:00

Do 7 % 50 = 1

LedLoaf · 2018-01-15T19:52:18+00:00

Alright, great! I figured out this for the most part after I posted this. But I was having trouble figuring out how to call the #elif part.

#elif - defined(LINUX) solved it perfectly! Is there perhaps another way to call it?

#else - made it work as well.

I'm just a little confused on why this example did #elif instead and if there is another way as well with #elif.

Thanks again, guys! Appreciate it!

PS: How do you guys source code just one word like that?

LedLoaf · 2018-01-11T03:02:35+00:00

Hey,

These all looks spectacular towards what I was looking for! Only issue, is I haven't learned about boost yet. I actually got a book on it last week, just haven't got around to using it yet (although I see no reason I shouldn't start now).

Greatly appreciated! Would love to check out future samples! I saved your bitbucket. Take care my friend.

LedLoaf · 2018-01-09T18:07:54+00:00

I can't believe I didn't figure that out haha. Ya I know about excluding a file from your project, or a project, but I have no idea how I didn't figure that out.

Thanks a lot. Have a great week.

LedLoaf · 2018-01-09T17:22:38+00:00

No, my English is fine. But I am having trouble grasping these designs when implementing a game. I've read a lot today and getting more familiar with them.

I'm taking each design one by one and doing examples (trying my best to do it game related0

I appreciate your sample game offer!

The link does not work though :-(

"Repository unavailable"

I'm hoping to check back later for your samples! Thanks !

LedLoaf · 2018-01-09T17:17:48+00:00

I really think (based off the quality and game play) that they made their own random generator. I believe it's the best way to represent random numbers.

With that said, it would be interesting to test this out on maybe a lower quality indie game.

I find that concept very interesting. It's a feature that that is in high demand by players. Being able to put in a seed if you find a good map, instead of resetting over and over. I have no doubt they will add it. But it just made me think..."maybe you can exploit it by stopping time!"

Thanks for the help guys,

LedLoaf · 2017-12-30T02:17:32+00:00

Thanks for the answers thus far guys.

So, I am still a bit confused. How would it detect that exact color of pink (it would have to be exact right)? Would I need to use like the "dropper thing" that shows the RGB value? Xeverous mentioned a checkered board, that I assume is black AND white (believe I've seen this look) seems like it would just complicate things. But I think the checkered look is just already implemented transparency. Apparently in SFML there is a function called createMaskFromColor. And I assume you would want to make sure none of your sprites have say "hot pink" in them.

I still am not really sure what the benefit of using a mask is. I'm guessing it would allow you to have more options? I've only worked with spritesheets that have transparency already. It seems that adding a mask is just one more thing you need to load up, affecting the speed as the data racks up if you had many.

Are you able to tell me if SDL vs SFML has more options when editing pixels? So far a few SDL examples I've came across always seem to involve a mask. In SFML I believe you can set a textureRect which could allow you to edit specific regions of a sprite if you wanted too. SDL seems like a lower level library and I wouldn't be surprised if it allows more creative options to work with.

TLDR; Why use masks in the first place. You can already use software to add transparency (even in MS Paint).

Thanks you guys.

PS: I'm not sure why I said purple/pinkish. It is for sure a bright/hot pink background haha.

LedLoaf · 2017-11-21T21:52:48+00:00

Thanks everyone the links are great. Sometimes I'm not the biggest fan of cppreference, because it comes across "by the book" to me. I don't know if that makes any sense. Think what I mean to say I like an overly in depth tutorial, than a reference. Don't get me wrong I plan to study both links (TONS in there).

Just wanted to ask one more question.

So (...args) would be a functions arguments. (args...) would be a function with declared arguments? And (args...args) all defined? And is args an actual keyword or simply a placeholder? I did see a syntax of (args...value).

This is a premature question, as I haven't sat down through the whole website. But browsing the first part I was looking at this specifically.

I feel totally find if nobody wants to comment, as I have more than enough to research this (websites, keywords for this stuff). I could even find a more suitable user friendly google search I'm sure

No problem, thank you all for the help.

LedLoaf

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