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Erf · Novice Joined: Aug 09 2003 Posts: 49 Offline

what is it?

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:16 pm Post subject:

is there? even so, either the program - subgame/continuum will put a cap on it.
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Erf · Novice Joined: Aug 09 2003 Posts: 49 Offline

I figure someone has figured it out at one time or another

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

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unsigned short bullet_speed;

Maximum physical value is 65535, which translates to 6553 pixels per second, or 65 pixels per game tick (10ms). This is ludicrous speed (see Spaceballs). You would probably not be able to see them.
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Erf · Novice Joined: Aug 09 2003 Posts: 49 Offline

well, one of my ships is set at 40000,50000, and 60000.... the bullets actually go backwards

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject:

Its a signed value.

Erf · Novice Joined: Aug 09 2003 Posts: 49 Offline

translated into non-programming language means?

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject:

I spent a good 5 minutes on MSDN trying to find their listing of type sizes and their min/max values, but fuck that shit, that thing is just pure bloat. Then I remembered Google is the best way to find anything.

Bullet speed is a signed short, thus it has a range of -32768 to 32767.

CypherJF · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:00 am Post subject:

MSDN is good but often times can't locate the material you need, so yeah just Google :-p .. i feel da pain!

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Dr Brain · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:47 am Post subject:

Yah, its -2^15 to 2^15-1

30 seconds tops, none of that 5 mins junk

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CypherJF · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:22 am Post subject:

I know I wouldn't as I have 2^15-1 million other things to memorize :/ LOL perhaps one day

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject:

Well you have to remember that a short is 16 bits, and the top bit is for the sign. Easy calculation.
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Cyan~Fire · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

Or they just don't know much yet?

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject:

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

signed:

char sxxxxxxx (min -128, max 127)
short sxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx (min -32768, max 32767)
int/long sxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx (min -2147483648, max 2147483647)

unsigned:

char xxxxxxxx (min 0, max 255)
short xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx (min 0, max 65535)
int/long xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx (min 0, max 4294967295)

Note: On Intel, bytes are stored in reverse order in memory.