Noob learns to code in 3 months

[Yumtard]

Going through a bunch of code adding dt to stuff I noticed something that could be part of the issue. I was calling checkCollision() for boss state in the draw function instead of the update function

Edit yep this was obv it

[Yumtard]

Boss is giving me a headache obv pretty challenging to make movement pattern for a boss with my very limited programming experience. Basically just making up logic as I go.
Using millions of bools and timers to get it done.

Feel like the game slightly lags sometimes, not sure if i'm just paranoid though.

Anyways, added another special attack and have rng to choose between the 2.

Here's the code for the attack

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void Boss::BulletSpread(float dt, float playerPos)
{
	Vec2 canonPos = pos + centerCanon;

	if ((lightBallTimer += dt) >= fireLightball)
	{
		if (!hasPlayerPos)
		{
			if (playerPos <= GetCollisionRect().GetCenterX())
			{
				lightBallDir = -400.0f;
				lightBallIncrement = 126.0f;
			}
			else
			{
				lightBallDir = 400.0f;
				lightBallIncrement = -126.0f;
			}
			hasPlayerPos = true;
		}

		Vec2 dest = Vec2(lightBallDir, 600.0f);
		Vec2 diff = centerCanon - dest;
		diff *= 1.3f;

		centerBulletM.FireBullet(canonPos, diff, bulletHalfWidth, bulletHalfHeight, bulletRectSize, bulletDmg, bulletPitch);
		centerBulletM.ResetShotsFired();
		lightBallTimer = 0.0f;
		++lightBallCounter;
		lightBallDir += lightBallIncrement;
	}

	if (lightBallCounter == 8)
	{
		lightBallCounter = 0;
		lightBallTimer = 0.0f;
		isAttacking = false;
		lightBallDir = -400.0f;
		specialAttackTimer = 0.0f;
		choiceWasMade = false;
		hasPlayerPos = false;
	}
}

It gets called from Attack() which looks like this

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void Boss::Attack(float dt, float playerPos, short choice)
{
	switch (choice)
	{
	case 1:
		Thrust(dt, playerPos);
		break;
	case 2:
		BulletSpread(dt, playerPos);
		break;
	}
}

Attack gets called from Move() here

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if ((specialAttackTimer += dt) > specialAttack)
		{
			if (!choiceWasMade)
			{
				std::random_device rd;
				std::mt19937 rng(rd());
				std::uniform_int_distribution<short> Choice(1, 2);
				AttackChoice = Choice(rng);
				choiceWasMade = true;
			}
			isAttacking = true;
			Attack(dt, playerPos, AttackChoice);
			attackTimer = 0.0f;
		}

[Yumtard]

Not creative enough to start working on another special attack. So will play around in ae and try to make a dope explosion for the end boss instead.

few ideas for special attacks though.
Homing missile
shoot black holes
....... dunno
think I want at least 3-4 special attacks

suggestions are welcome

[Yumtard]

Dunzo with boss explosion. That's all I'm gonna have time for today. Might have gone a bit overboard with it lol, but think it'll look alrightish when I learn alpha blending

edit increase speed and thrust speed and decrease time betwen special attack as boss gets low on health.

[Yumtard]

W

[Yumtard]

stepped away from the boss to take a look at the level. Now all of a sudden the game crashes when exiting black holes. No idea why

edit. wow I actually found the issue debugging. And it seems like it might have solved my issue from earlier with the game crashing in x86 release too!!!!
debugger said something like vector out of range, and since the crash happens when when calling my reverse function in animation I decided to take a look at it

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if (!isReversed)
	{
		curFrame = frames.GetFrameCount();
		isReversed = true;
	}

well since the computer starts counting from 0 this wont work
12 frames = 0-11 and curframe would get set to 12.
Feels good finding the issue

[chili]

Haha, congrats man. That feeling of finally figuring out the elusive bug... it's a high like no other

[Yumtard]

Felt it started getting confusing in the boss class with a bunch of different timers. So made a small class for timers.

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#pragma once

class Timer
{
public:
	Timer(float time);
	bool Pause(float dt);
	void Reset();
	void SetWaitTime(float newTime);

private:
	float timer = 0.0f;
	float waitTime;
};

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#include "Timer.h"

Timer::Timer(float time)
	:
	waitTime(time)
{}

bool Timer::Pause(float dt)
{
	return (timer += dt) >= waitTime;
}

void Timer::Reset()
{
	timer = 0.0f;
}

void Timer::SetWaitTime(float newTime)
{
	waitTime = newTime;
}

And got to replace 10 variables with 5 timer objects.
Think it made the code a bit cleaner. Thought on this?

not sure I like the name "pause" though. Looks a bit weird as a bool

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	if (coolDownTimer.Pause(dt))
			{
				coolDown = false;
				coolDownTimer.Reset();
			}

I suck at naming stuff

Haha, congrats man. That feeling of finally figuring out the elusive bug... it's a high like no other

For sure! This was literally me when I figured this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MykoU2Uot9A

[chili]

And got to replace 10 variables with 5 timer objects.
Think it made the code a bit cleaner. Thought on this?

sounds good man. A big part of refactoring your code is seeing places where you're repeating the same shit and making classes. I often start by adding functionality to an existing class, and then promoting that functionality to its own class when it grows beyond a certain point, or when I see that i am needing to replicated it.

[Battlefrog]

W

Great fourm post.



Joking aside, your progress is great. Cannot wait until a finished version is out