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Dark GDK / 3D Starfield, need evaluations... :)

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enderleit
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 01:39 Edited at: 14th Feb 2011 02:37
I made this program as an excercise as I'm a bit rusty at C++, and I'm not sure if my implementation is "good"...

Basically I'm not sure if I need to delete anything in a Destructor, as I believe VECTOR handles this automatically and I'm not using any dynamic memory...

stars.h


stars.cpp


Am I doing anything wrong here? Are there any bad coding practices here? Any optimizations? Other suggestions?

I have also attached the full project to this message incase you wanna have a closer look...

EDIT: Btw... Is there any "lang=dbp" type tags i can add to the codeblock to highlight C++ code and/or DarkGDK code?

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WLGfx
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 03:05
I downloaded the code to check it out but it won't compile for me. I'm still on vc++ 2008 express.

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enderleit
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 03:33
Hmm... So am I...

What kind of error messages do you get?

WLGfx
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 03:57
These... Tried changing the debug libraries... Must be the time of night...



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enderleit
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 05:11
Did you ignore the libs: atls and msvcrt?

enderleit
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 05:17
Hmm... I can't get it working if running debug mode... try setting it to Release... That works for me...

dark coder
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 06:04
Quote: "Basically I'm not sure if I need to delete anything in a Destructor, as I believe VECTOR handles this automatically and I'm not using any dynamic memory..."


Yeah that's fine, you only need to manually 'delete' stuff when you use 'new'.


Quote: "Am I doing anything wrong here? Are there any bad coding practices here? Any optimizations? Other suggestions?"


Instead of prefixing all your classes with 'DEMO_' you should just use a namespace called DEMO or something.

Your header guard name doesn't match the header name, you have stars and STAR, so you should really change the guard to STARS, or just use '#pragma once' so you don't have to name them.

You should avoid doing things like 'int hsw = sw >> 1;' it's far clearer to just write '/ 2', and in the case of unsigned types, the compiler may just do this optimization anyway.

Also, your local variable names are pretty poor, it seems almost every one is an initialism, in fact, at a quick glance I'm not even sure what your draw() method's for loop is doing without running it.

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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 09:06 Edited at: 14th Feb 2011 09:08

you will call draw() in a loop, and in each draw, you will loop through starts and change the ink for each, don't do that! your game will be slow as hell, either find a way to avoid using dbInk in loops, or use an alternative (cloggy's DLL maybe)

enderleit
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Posted: 14th Feb 2011 14:17
Quote: "you will call draw() in a loop, and in each draw, you will loop through starts and change the ink for each, don't do that! your game will be slow as hell, either find a way to avoid using dbInk in loops, or use an alternative"

Actually knew this...
Just haven't gotten to fix it yet. Was thinking of getting a pointer to the pixels and just do it manually.

Thanks for the tips everyone though... Not as bad as I thought... BTW the code is a bit messy as I was mostly experimenting and changing things around all the time... But still, good suggestions.

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