Echoes of the Imperium (4X Strategy Game)

[Lap]

Ah the woes of multiplatform development. I have absolutely no way of replicating such crashes at the moment. Same crash as in your last post or something different?

[Robin]

Same crash as in your last post or something different?

Same I think.

[Lap]

I don't think that line exists on the SVN anymore. Has to be something new (unless you didn't update after you reported it).

[Robin]

Oh great. It doesn't error anymore.

[Lap]

The next great technical hurdle I have to surpass is how to best implement threading.

I've been searching for ways to make use of threads to reduce the loading times and of course threads come to mind. However, the major problem here is that almost all the resource loading is in images, which apparently has problems. I've tried out stuff like:

http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php? ... ead#p18443

but nothing seems to function well when trying to thread load multiple images.

[appleide]

NOoooooooo.

[Lap]

It was a tough decision on whether or not to use framebuffers at first. I don't want to exclude all the older laptops that should by all means be able to play a 2D turn based game. After I saw the FPS boost I got there was no turning back. 40 FPS -> 250+ FPS. Now I have framebuffers all over the place and they are just way too handy not to have.

If anyone is still interested in helping out with code or drawing sprites/icons let me know. It's coming along nicely, but there is still plenty to do.

[BlackBulletIV]

You're using Po2 compatible framebuffers right? If so, what size? If not, then you'll definitely want to, even if the rest of the pixels aren't used.

[Lap]

It's actually not possible to have a framebuffer that isn't po2 compatible. Love requires it.

Even if I only need say 500 pixel width I just do

nearestPowerofTwo(500)

function nearestPowerofTwo(num)
return 2^(math.ceil(math.log(num)/math.log(2)))
end

and I'll get 512. Not all the images I use are PO2, but most are.

[slime]

It's actually not possible to have a framebuffer that isn't po2 compatible. Love requires it.

Huh? No it doesn't. I use screen-sized (non-PO2) framebuffers in my personal code all the time. All this power-of-two and framebuffer shenanigans really depends on your video card and video drivers.