Noob learns to code in 3 months

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 22nd, 2017, 10:42 am

chili wrote:Haha, well I'm going to be putting out a video fairly soon that goes over an easy / powerful installation workflow for VS2017.
awesome :)

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by albinopapa » March 24th, 2017, 3:20 am

I've finally delved into SFML and WOW! is it easy to use. Plus the documentation is pretty easy to read and understand.
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by chili » March 25th, 2017, 3:26 am

Yeh, huge wins on simplicity and documentation. Look up sfgui as well, great project it seems.

Sfml could be a good gateway drug into learning glsl and some of the basics of opengl rendering as well. The network module also looks good; I'm thinking of using it if/when I do something on netcode.
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by albinopapa » March 25th, 2017, 8:43 am

Yeah, I'm currently working with someone on a MUD client/server and I decided to use SFML. I'm liking the experience.
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 27th, 2017, 9:42 pm

albinopapa wrote:I've finally delved into SFML and WOW! is it easy to use. Plus the documentation is pretty easy to read and understand.
Do you have vs2017? If so how did you set it up?

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Battlefrog » March 27th, 2017, 10:04 pm

Do you have vs2017? If so how did you set it up?
Not him, but most likely linking #includes and library files.

And by the way, if you have time can you tell me how you implimented your background music playing without blocking out every single other sounds? That's where I'm at :lol:
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 27th, 2017, 10:13 pm

idk what you mean I just use the play function and it never blocked out any other sounds :P just make sure the play function just gets called once else it's a bad time

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by albinopapa » March 28th, 2017, 12:27 am

I am not using VS2017 with SFML, I just did what chili showed in his SFML video in VS2015. He plans on doing a SFML for VS2017 video, but I don't know when it will be out.
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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by Yumtard » March 28th, 2017, 10:59 am

Alright! I'm gonna install vs2015 and set it up with sfml today so I can learn in there for now

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Re: Noob learns to code in 3 months

Post by chili » March 28th, 2017, 12:08 pm

You could always just like, install the platform tools for v140 alongside v141. That should let you do that and it'll be only like, a couple of gigs max right.
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