"Questions that don't deserve their own thread" thread

[lumlune]

Only love.thread is loaded in a thread, and to require files normally, you also need to load love.filesystem, so start off with

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require "love.filesystem"

and it should work from then on.

This did it, thank you.

[mickeyjm]

I've been learning how to use opengl recently and I noticed that opengl rotates in degrees while love uses radians. Is there a reason that this is the case? Because if anything I would expect the hardware accelerated functions (i.e. opengl) to use radians, as they are more useful in mathematics, while the (for lack of a better word) "simpler" functions (i.e. love) to use degrees as they are what is taught first at school.

[Whatthefuck]

How would I go about serialising C data? I am currently using the FFI library to create a structure that I store lots of data in, and being able to save it is crucial.

[Ranguna259]

How can I find the angle of AOB, O being the vertex ?
I searched and found this:

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math.cosh(dot(toVect(O,B),toVect(O,A))

and

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math.cosh((dist(O.x,O.y,A.x,A.y)^2 + dist(O.x,O.y,B.x,B.y)^2 - dist(A.x,A.y,B.x,B.y)^2)/(2*dist(O.x,O.y,A.x,A.y)*dist(O.x,O.y,B.x,B.y)))

But when I test either of these functions with three point which the angle should be 90 ({0,0},{1,0},{0,1}), I get 1.
So I added *90 to the end of both calculations but when I tested for a 45º angle ({0,0},{1,1},{1,0}) I got 138.877...

So I'm wondering if anyone here knows of a way to do this.

[davisdude]

As in A and B being the points, and O being the connecting point?

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function GetAngle( Ax, Ay, Ox, Oy, Bx, By )
    -- Using law of Cosines: C ^ 2 = A ^ 2 + B ^ 2 - 2 * A * B * Cos( C )
    -- C ^ 2 - A ^ 2 - B ^ 2 = -2 * A * B * Cos( C )
    -- ( C ^ 2 - A ^ 2 - B ^ 2 ) / ( -2 * A * B ) = Cos( C )
    -- Cos -1( C ) [a.k.a. math.acos in Lua] = ( C ^ 2 - A ^ 2 - B ^ 2 ) / ( -2 * A * B ) 
    -- C = math.acos( ( A ^ 2 + B ^ 2 - C ^ 2 ) / ( 2 * A * B ) )
    local function Distance( x1, y1, x2, y2 ) return math.sqrt( ( ( x2 - x1 ) ^ 2 + ( y2 - y1 ) ^ 2 ) ) end
    local A = Distance( Bx, By, Ox, Oy )
    local B = Distance( Ax, Ay, Ox, Oy )
    local C = Distance( Ax, Ay, Bx, By )

	return math.acos( ( A ^ 2 + B ^ 2 - C ^ 2 ) / ( 2 * A * B ) )
end

Edit: This will return the radians, not degrees.

[slime]

I've been learning how to use opengl recently and I noticed that opengl rotates in degrees while love uses radians. Is there a reason that this is the case? Because if anything I would expect the hardware accelerated functions (i.e. opengl) to use radians, as they are more useful in mathematics, while the (for lack of a better word) "simpler" functions (i.e. love) to use degrees as they are what is taught first at school.

All the OpenGL functions which used degrees have been deprecated and removed over the years. The few non-deprecated functions which take angles use radians (e.g. sin/cos/etc. in GLSL.)

Functions in computers (including Lua's math library: math.sin, math.cos, math.atan2, etc.) almost always deal in radians. Lua also includes the math.rad and math.deg functions for quick conversions.
Since functions in Lua's standard library deal in radians, it makes even more sense for LÖVE's functions to do the same.

[Ranguna259]

As in A and B being the points, and O being the connecting point?

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function GetAngle( Ax, Ay, Ox, Oy, Bx, By )
    -- Using law of Cosines: C ^ 2 = A ^ 2 + B ^ 2 - 2 * A * B * Cos( C )
    -- C ^ 2 - A ^ 2 - B ^ 2 = -2 * A * B * Cos( C )
    -- ( C ^ 2 - A ^ 2 - B ^ 2 ) / ( -2 * A * B ) = Cos( C )
    -- Cos -1( C ) [a.k.a. math.acos in Lua] = ( C ^ 2 - A ^ 2 - B ^ 2 ) / ( -2 * A * B ) 
    -- C = math.acos( ( A ^ 2 + B ^ 2 - C ^ 2 ) / ( 2 * A * B ) )
    local function Distance( x1, y1, x2, y2 ) return math.sqrt( ( ( x2 - x1 ) ^ 2 + ( y2 - y1 ) ^ 2 ) ) end
    local A = Distance( Bx, By, Ox, Oy )
    local B = Distance( Ax, Ay, Ox, Oy )
    local C = Distance( Ax, Ay, Bx, By )

	return math.acos( ( A ^ 2 + B ^ 2 - C ^ 2 ) / ( 2 * A * B ) )
end

Edit: This will return the radians, not degrees.

Thank you so much, by looking at your code I found out that I was using the wrong cos function, I wrote cosh instead of acos.
Thanks again

[davisdude]

No problem.

[Whatthefuck]

How would I go about making a directory in 'Documents' ? I'm on Windows, of course.

[undef]

How would I go about making a directory in 'Documents' ? I'm on Windows, of course.

The only place where you are allowed to write is %appdata%/yourgame.