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by dreadkillz
Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:41 pm
Forum: Libraries and Tools
Topic: Re: Tile collision example
Replies: 8
Views: 10005

Tile collision example

Just working on tile collision and thought I'd share my method for people curious on how to do tile physics. There is a map class that takes care of the collision. The heart of it is the customizable callbacks called the preSolve and postSolve. With the callbacks, you can do neat things like one way...
by dreadkillz
Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:50 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Launch problems
Replies: 1
Views: 2084

Re: Launch problems

rar format is not supported. Use zip.
by dreadkillz
Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Interesting article about gravity in games
Replies: 24
Views: 14298

Re: Interesting article about gravity in games

Ah classical mechanics! Just a warning to readers, this method only works if the acceleration is constant. If your acceleration is a function of position or velocity, then you will need an approximate method or solve for the differential equation in another way.
by dreadkillz
Fri Dec 14, 2012 2:18 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Help with colored lighting and blendmode
Replies: 4
Views: 4326

Re: Help with colored lighting and blendmode

I was curious about the blend modes too. Here's the link on how they work: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10268&p=62175&hilit=+blend#p62171
by dreadkillz
Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:14 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Turn based game?
Replies: 3
Views: 2720

Re: Turn based game?

You can set up a toggle variable which you can change with a key press or mouse press.

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function love.update(dt)
 if doUpdate then
 ...
 end
end

function love.keypressed(k)
 if k == ' ' then doUpdate = not doUpdate end
end
by dreadkillz
Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Ludum Dare 25 joinings
Replies: 34
Views: 14386

Re: Ludum Dare 25 joinings

I wish college wasn't taking so much of my time. :death:
by dreadkillz
Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:40 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Lua Performance Tips
Replies: 7
Views: 4381

Re: Lua Performance Tips

I discovered that closures are cheap if the underlying operations per closure creation are more expensive than the creation of the closure. I have made this same update in my sweep and prune for raycasting. Before that, I used a table to store my state for the raycast iterator. Now I just create a c...
by dreadkillz
Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:21 pm
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Moving Bounding Boxes colliding
Replies: 3
Views: 4142

Re: Moving Bounding Boxes colliding

Yes I understand. I only posted the paper because I have done some research on this before and recognized your findings. Plus math is a bit easier for me to understand than programming (this is something I just do for fun).
by dreadkillz
Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:33 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Moving Bounding Boxes colliding
Replies: 3
Views: 4142

Re: Moving Bounding Boxes colliding

Continuous collision detection is a very interesting subject. If you're really into that, you could also visit the bullet or box2d forum and talk to the authors about some techniques. This is pretty cool though combining your previous post for line intersecting test with the Minkowski Sum. For the c...
by dreadkillz
Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:21 am
Forum: Support and Development
Topic: Optimizing updates and rendering for thousands of tables
Replies: 2
Views: 3200

Re: Optimizing updates and rendering for thousands of tables

It's unlikely that you'll get good performance for a sand game without using shaders. Love can't handle that many particles (90000!?) See: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3733&p=37873&hilit=sand#p37873 I take it back. Someone apparently made a nice demo (I even commented!)...