Elysian Shadows

You will have to type free() a lot - everytime you use your function. It would be a nightmare to have to change all those free()s if you changed your malloc implementation! /* ================ AllocBspFace ================ */ bspface_t *AllocBspFace( void ) { bspface_t *f; f = malloc(sizeof(*f)); me...

If hobby programmers followed that list, then everyone would be using linux and free software.

You guys use photoshop and gimp? What is wrong with just paint?

stdup is not ISO C and I don't agree with it. All of string.h's functions are designed where they pass a destination pointer. They also require your destination is large enough to store the result. If you want to do what you're doing, it would make more sense to create a new type (FILENAME) as typed...

Puberty isn't an accomplishment, and neither is smoking pot and copulating with whores.

char *stripExt(char* destination, const char *file) { int len = strchr(file,'.') - file; strncpy(destination, file, len); return destination; } (might have errors - didn't test) This is much better way. This function will work with any type of allocated memory, and is much less likely to have memor...

Don't put calloc in functions like that.
Have it pass a pointer and store the created string into it.


Also, the fastest method would be to just return the length of filename without extension, and then use that instead of returning a new string. You could replace it with null char if you want to.

Load the image with same code as you do for power of 2 textures.
The only thing that will be different is your OpenGL code.

I don't exactly get what you're trying to do.

If you want to use non power of 2 textures, just gen texture that is next largest power of 2, then upload it with glTexSubImage2D.

Cool video, Carmack is one of my favorite programmers.

BTW
Texture mapping was around much longer, however it was new for real-time video games at time.

And Wolfenstein was first 3d FPS game, not first 3d game.

Remember that one movie where the zebra won the big horse race?

That's how the future is going to play out.

+1 to christo

yes, except that a software-based VM by definition is incapable of running faster than actual statically compiled code.

In theory, yes.
In practice, no.

GyroVorbis, I think you are missing the point. Yes, JIT requires static compilation, but this does not mean that it will run slower than static code. And as a side note, most machine code is JIT bytecode, as many x86 processors change it to some internal risc instructions, then move it all around be...

Christo is the oracle of Oracle. Very good points! I don't agree with Java using garbage collection for everything - it is inefficient more often than not. Garbage collection should be something that is optional, as many times it is much better to do without. Calling malloc() and free() isn't especi...

I can understand using SDL for the things you mentioned, it just seems silly to me to use surfaces with OpenGL.

Why do you need to create different images? You could just set your texture coordinates to be 1 tile.