[Blitzerland]

Believe it or not, I know some C++. I'll put an example program together.

[Flipside]

I certainly know that if I were to learn C++ it would primarily be to fulfill the dream of what Kazan is working on now, a game designed to my own specifications that works in a manner I would choose.

[Taristin]

If I knew C++, I'd be trying my hand at the overexposure effect. Because that looked the coolest to me.

Unfortunately, I don't know C++, and I don't know anyone who can teach me, or of any place to practice on my own.

What would one need to learn to code? A compiler?

[Blitzerland]

A compiler takes C++ code that is already written and makes it into a program.

You usually can't learn anything from a compiler.

I learned C++ from some my programming class, and then I went on to experiment. Getting very talented with it


If you want to learn to program, get something like Visual Studio.net and read some tutorials. Be advised, VS.net is expensive.

[Taristin]

Expensive... Yes. That's a major concern to me...

[Blitzerland]

I got it next to free from my C++ class in middle school

Oh yeah, there are a lot of freeware C++ programs out there, contrary to popular belief. Go check google, Raa.

[Inquisitor]

Or see the sticky thread by WM at the top of this forum for a free MS product and how to make it work with the SCP.

The next ferrium comment gets the thread split and locked

[StratComm]

You can get the MS compiler for free (just not the dev environment; there are other alternatives in that area), and the other standard compiler is GNU g++.  GNU needs to be run through something like cygwin to produce a windows executable though, and then it may do odd things with modules such as DirectX (haven't tested it)

[Blitzerland]

Originally posted by StratComm
You can get the MS compiler for free (just not the dev environment; there are other alternatives in that area), and the other standard compiler is GNU g++.  GNU needs to be run through something like cygwin to produce a windows executable though, and then it may do odd things with modules such as DirectX (haven't tested it)

Given the alternative, go for the MS compiler. Sounds better.

[Thunderbird]

I've got everything I need (except WinCVS, I did the checkout with a command-line client), and got it to build, except I had to acquire the DX9 SDK (couldn't find the one for 8).

[redmenace]

umm Thunder get the speech SDK also.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/speechSDK/SDK/5.1/WXP/EN-US/SpeechSDK51.exe

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Blitzerland


Given the alternative, go for the MS compiler. Sounds better.

Actually it's not as "standards" compliant or something.  But it does have better optimization than G++, and is the primary compiling environment that the code was written for.  I'd also assume the makefile is designed for that compiler.

[Darkhill]

I wouldn't mind trying a hand at this.  If you want a sample of code download any of the Imperial Alliance betas.

[Bobboau]

I endorse ^this fela ^

[Darkhill]

Whatever happened to this?  I've changed the jump out code on our project to be SWish, which I would be willing to add into this project for the SW people (if they wanted it).

[redmenace]

darkchrono, how is implemented?
Is this species dependant? Or is it set in some sort of other table file. In other words can this effect exist and still have the original jump effects as default?

[Darkhill]

I would imagine for the SCP I could do it as a command line flag.  Basically what it comes down to is removing the original jump fireball and doing a quick accleration before the warp time timestamp expires.

[redmenace]

well, it is best to have it defined as a table flag for obvious reasons. We have to many command line args as it is.
But I am not the expert nor am I in charge so....you need to talk to inquisitor. His aim SN is ETGardner.

[Darkhill]

The thing about a table is I'm changing the A.I. code to give the proper effect.

[redmenace]

well talk to inquisitor.
While you fiddling with the ai could you make a gunboat ai?