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  1. S

    Hi everyone, my name is Sono!

    Heyo! Just wanted to post an intro and say hey to everyone out there. I haven't coded myself in years as I have gotten into a management position in a different field and took a step back for a long while, but have a pretty good understanding of Java and some basic knowledge in 3 or 4 more...
  2. M

    Hello from Croatia

    Hello I am mrki from Croatia. Currently I am working as teacher but in free time I like coding. My favorite languages are PHP and MySQL. Currently I am working on sportbook project and later I have idea making lottery system. I like sport (Real Madrid and Dinamo Zagreb fan), play tennis and...
  3. noiseBase

    mornin

    hi! I'm in high school and going down daily ADHD hyper fixations with learning how to do insanely specific things coding-wise. Stack overflow was scary so I'm here instead. I started with HTML/JavaScript, and moved on to Python after attempting to learn java but the syntax was too miserable...
  4. Malcolm

    A brief simple introduction to API's

    API Introduction Hello coders! I wanted to share a brief introduction to API(s)! I recently helped with a thread that was asking a bit about API(s). Funny enough I heard about API(s) before but never actually knew what it meant. That is until now. So what’s an API? An API is an abbreviation...
  5. M

    Introduction - Offer of help to the community

    Hi guys, Lovely to be part of this community. I'm not from a development background so please go easy on me if my requests and questions come across as very basic! I was a UX/UI designer by trade, and happy to help with provisional UI mockups, etc. where needed on request, or to collaborate...
  6. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 15. Conclusion

    Conclusion Improving the game There is a great amount of improvements that we could make to the game. It can however get complex pretty fast, so it is important to be comfortable with the basics of the programming language used before really getting into big projects. Learning to code in C++...
  7. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 14. Adding shadows

    Adding shadows Lighting and shadows Simulating lighting and shadows can greatly improve the visuals of a video game. It may however get very complex. For the sake of simplicity, here, we will only handle the display of shadows (And in a simple way). Representation of colors Colors are often...
  8. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 13. Buying and using potions

    Buying and using potions Obtaining gold Until now, there was no mean for the player to obtain gold. We will give the character a gold coin for each monster slayed. In the section of code executed when the player kills a monster, we will add the following code: // Increases the amount of gold by...
  9. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 12. Adding a merchant and building

    Adding a merchant and building Adding the castle We will add a small castle at the bottom left of the window. We load its texture and create its sprite: sf::Texture castleTex; castleTex.loadFromFile("resources/castle.png"); sf::Sprite castle; castle.setTexture(castleTex); castle.setScale(4, 4)...
  10. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 11. Making the monsters attack

    Making the monsters attack Storing information about the player To keep track of the health and the amount of gold and potions the player has, we define 3 variables: int playerGoldAmount = 0, playerPotionAmount = 0, playerHealthAmount = 3; How the monsters attack The monsters attack by casting...
  11. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 10. Displaying information

    Displaying information Displaying text The class used to display text is sf::Text. sf::Text text; Similarly to how an object of type sf::Sprite needs a texture, an object of type sf::Text requires a font. A font specifies the shape of the characters (And other information) and an object of type...
  12. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 9. Making the character attack

    Making the character attack Keeping track of whether a monster is alive or not A variable of type 'bool' can either equal 'true' or 'false'. Here, we define an array of 'bool' values indicating if a monster is dead or not: bool monstersDead[4]; In the loop where we assign the texture to the...
  13. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 8. Adding monsters

    Adding monsters Displaying the monsters There are 3 textures for the monsters. To simulate an animation, we will alternate between them every 0.333 seconds. The textures: sf::Texture monsterTexs[3]; monsterTexs[0].loadFromFile("resources/monster1.png")...
  14. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 7. Handling the collisions

    Handling the collisions Currently, collisions are not tested. The player can walk over the trees and stones. Let us resolve that. Testing the collision between two sprites The class sf::FloatRect is almost the same as sf::IntRect. The only difference is that its members (Representing its...
  15. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 6. Adding the character

    Adding the character The sprite and texture The texture: sf::Texture playerTex; playerTex.loadFromFile("resources/player.png"); The sprite: sf::Sprite player; player.setTexture(playerTex); player.setPosition(400, 300); player.setScale(3, 3); Testing if a key is pressed The function...
  16. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 5. Adding trees and stones

    Adding trees and stones Adding the trees The texture: sf::Texture treeTex; treeTex.loadFromFile("resources/tree.png"); The sprites: sf::Sprite trees[8]; trees[0].setPosition(50, 60); trees[1].setPosition(600, 150); trees[2].setPosition(630, 456); trees[3].setPosition(300, 600)...
  17. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 4. Adding dirt

    Adding dirt Arrays When we have to create many variables of the same type, defining them individually may be inconvenient. In that case, it is better to create an array. An array is simply a group of variables which are individually accessed by their index within the array, rather than by...
  18. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 3. Drawing into the window

    Drawing into the window Textures The class sf::Texture is used to store pictures in the memory of the graphic card, ready to be drawn. Its method loadFromFile loads the picture from the file located at the path received in argument. Note that, in C++, text is surrounded by quotes. // Defines...
  19. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 2. Opening the window

    Opening the window The object sf::RenderWindow The following line of code defines an object of type sf::RenderWindow, which opens a window at its creation. sf::RenderWindow win(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "Introduction to coding", sf::Style::Close); Above, we also provide arguments to the...
  20. LTomy

    Introduction to coding - 1. Introduction

    Introduction to coding About this tutorial The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce how coding works, with the C++ language here, by creating and explaining, step by step, the code of a small 2D game. In other words, the goal is to provide an overview of programming with the C++...
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