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Terraria – Why I like it

By On March 9, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Terraria is a 2D indie platform game where you can do about anything you’d like. You can fight monsters, build buildings, explore the terrain, gather resources and craft items and equipment.

At first glanze, Terraria might look just like another Minecraft clone. It’s not. Certainly not. But if you like Minecraft, you’ll like Terraria.

But [...]

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Top lies people constantly tell

By On March 6, 2014 · Leave a Comment

There are some pretty interesting discussions on reddit.com sometimes. This time nearly 10 thousand people voted some constant lies they they tell to others. Here is a short list:

1. I don’t need to write that down, I will remember that.

2. “I’ve been really busy.”

The greatest catch all in history. Works [...]

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New article about boost::signals

By On February 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I just published a new article about boost::signals.

It is mostly code, but it is nicely indexed with a table of contents for the impatient.

It features signals with lambdas, classes and templates. Check it out!

Related posts:

An introduction to [...]

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Error: anachronistic old-style base class initializer

By On February 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I got this error when trying to build our game Burnt Islands for Linux. It was bepuzzling. There was nothing wrong with the syntax, it compiled under Windows with no problems. I know G++ have its quirks, however, this was strange.

This was the original code it didn’t like.

The error [...]

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Hangover with unsigned int in C++

By On February 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

We are making a game and my task was to make sure that a player has resources left after it destroys some items, for example, a wooden house. It takes 4 “wooden items” to make a wooden house and I wanted it to be 3 wooden items left after it is destroyed. So [...]

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Bullet Physics: How to change body mass

By On January 28, 2014 · Leave a Comment

We’ve run into a problem with updates of a mass of the body in our game Burnt Islands. We had some flying robots on the platforms of their factory. These robots were static objects in the beginning with no mass (mass = 0).

After the factory was [...]

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Blaze Advisor: No matching JVM was found

By On January 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Installing Blaze Advisor is not always easy. The problem often is that Blaze Advisor installation can’t find java on your pc. Here is how I do it:
1. Download the newest installer package.
2. Extract the archive / installer into a folder.
3. [...]

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Auto detecting SATA – IDE hard disk drive

By On January 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment

The other day, I had a system drive failure with one of my servers. It was a software mirrored RAID setup (RAID1), where one of those disks have been acting funky for the last months with occasional clicks of death.

During the New Years vacation, it started to really misbehave, causing a complete system lockup. [...]

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Show compile/build time in visual studio 2013

By On January 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Project Settings

Change Build Timing to Yes.

For more output information: Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run

Set “MSBuild project build output verbosity” and “MSBuild project build log file verbosity” to [...]

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Picasa caution

By On December 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Picasa is a free digital photography program. It is good, but you need to know how to use it.

One of the greatest dangers of Picasa is that it does not copy your images into it’s folders. Instead, it shows them like a usual “explorer”. All the images you see are still located on your [...]

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