Elysian Shadows

His Java game development is just a ripoff from a book, so I'm guessing the rest is based on the same principle, "read out loud what's in the book". Easy ad-cash I suppose.

I guess looking at the disassembly would show what's going on in both cases. Althoug I guess the compiler will be able to optimize the case you describe, without basing it on any facts what-so-ever

GyroVorbis wrote:I have to admit that I've never played this for more than a few hours... The time has come to actually beat it.

This game is like the holy grail of win!

Since you're just passing a pointer to the string, only the pointer gets removed when the function ends.

It hides the x,y in the parent class, so you'd have to use the scope resolution operator to access them. vector2f::x and vector2f::y.

You're missing the second half of the first instruction

My C++ is getting a bit rusty, but I think it's because you're storing <Mesh>'es. Then it has to run the copy constructor to store it in the vector, but if you used <Mesh*>, it won't instantiate it through the copy constructor. Kinda like you can't declare an array of SomeObject someObjectArray[n]; ...

Include the header file in FBModel.cpp and use "class FBEngine;" in FBModel.h instead of including it. This is good enough as long as you're using pointers since the interpreter doesn't need to know anything about the class at that point other than that it's pointing to a class.

I coded tetris in C++Builder in december 2004. Didn't have any tutorials or anything, just poked around until I found what I needed; lots of digging in help files. The game worked without any problems too. Didn't have any menu though, so it was straight into game mode ...

The angle will not always be 90 degrees at the player to make use of pythagoras ...

As EdBoon said, Dune II. I remember seeing it the first time; the graphics just blew my mind. Liked the resource collecting part. Even made it through with all three houses. Then I got Warcraft I later which had the same principles basically. I'd use to leave the enemy's farm so I could harvest ever...

"Where do you want to go today?" on his father's tombstone

Like map?

Just seed it once, ie. in main before anything else is initialized. Don't put it in a constructor that's called more than once like your player-class, as I understand.

I think putting DRM on it will cost you unnecessary and scare away otherwise potential users, so you'll lose money either way.
Look at it this way: those who pay would do so if you had DRM or not, and those who pirate will do so if you have DRM or not.