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For those asking themselves where the GDDR3 went, take a look under the RSX heatspreader:

That would be the worst-case scenario. It actually would make the E17 choice more reasonable, but I really don't see it happening. Total lack of a 3D DRI interface wouldn't help them portray PS3 in a positive light. At all.

Note that they stealth-edited the press release - it's now GCC4!

I wondered why they'd go with 3 - with 4 there's a chance that they won't have to do a major GCC version switch during most of the PS3's lifetime.

Whoa never expected to get quoted here (I'm PeterT@Beyond3D, and I'm registered here for PSP stuff). I just visited for the first time in a while to see wether people here were as excited as I am because of the recent YDL announcements. Anyway, my only remaining doubt is whether we'll get a good Ope...

However, the class you wrote uses a screen.setTint() method that (according to your comments in another thread) do not exist in this version of Luaplayer. Ah yes, I overlooked that. Sorry. I commented out the two lines containing setTint() in your fonts.lua file and all works well. Looking forward ...

I do use two different fonts (you can easily use n different ones, at least as long as psp memory permits ;)) with a slightly updated version of this code in Crystalise , so you can just look there. The characters are split on 3 lines to make bigger fonts possible inside the 512 pixel width limit. v...

Your code sucks. (sorry, I'm intoxicated.)

Anyway, frame based is better IMHO on a fixed hardware target like psp.

That's another question entirely. My version of Luaplayer (used in Crystalise) does this by providing a screen.setTint(color) method. In normal luaplayer this is not currently possible, except if you use the 3D API.

RE finding the normal of a vector in 2D:
That's actually very simple, given v = (a, b) the normal vectors are (-b, a) and (b, -a).

For 3D look here

if you only have horizontal and vertical walls do it like KawaGeo suggested, or, alternatively, if you want to use polar coordinates for the ball direction use my method from Crystalise (hor == horizontal wall, use 180 instead of math.pi if you use degrees): if hor then self.dir[1] =...

Sure! I can imagine nothing greater than joining a "team" that manages to use capitalization in such a unique and artistic way! But, I fear my skillz are not l33t enough...

</sarcasm>

No need to apologize if you did try to find the answer yourself, sorry if I was a bit brusque. It's just that I pointed to the book about one gazillion times on this forum already, in answer to all sorts of Lua related questions ;)

Sure, use screen.blitScaled() in my version :P

But seriously, there's no scaling in standard LuaPlayer as of now that I know of. It would also be really slow if you do it in software.

There is a function in the crystalise library that serializes an arbitrary table without circular references to a stream, which makes saving of tabular data completely trivial. (loading is already trivial, as you can just dofile() the save) The function name is serialize and it's near the bottom of ...

loadstring

Unsurprisingly, it's in the book.

if you want to store a table the best way is to just make a file bla.txt (or .data or anything)

mytable = { 2, 5, 9, "bla" }

and load with

dofile("bla.txt")


Look at the highscore saving / loading in Crystalise for an example.

Not very clean or efficient, but short: function System.numFiles&#40;dir&#41; -- - 2 to not count . and .. &#40;remove if you want to count them&#41; return table.getn&#40;System.listDirectory&#40;dir&#41;&#41; - 2 end If you don't want to count subfolders as files yo...

Nice. What changes did you have to make to the Luaplayer build process to make the 2.0 standalone?

The fun thing is that I hear many people talk about "Qix" but I never played that game or even heard of it. The original plan was inspired by a the idea of a combination of some mechanics of a Deus Ex(?) minigame and a more frantic version of jezzball. It then changed a lot after I was fir...

Easy, by default find does pattern matching, so . matches any character.
Read more: http://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html

(I don't know how many threads I have answered with links to PIL already... just read it! - I didn't know Lua 3 weeks ago either ;))

Btw, what you want is "%."

That's what I feared after seeing my beta testers play without prior instruction or watching me before...
It's also why I wrote the lengthy help file, which, at closer inspection, doesn't seem to be very helpful at all ;)

And thanks for your comments Oobles, they mean a lot to me coming from you.

Phew. It's done.

http://psp.metaclassofnil.com/crystalise/

Have fun. Though I guess many of you may find parts of the code more interesting than the game ;)

As I said, it will be used in my game. I wanted to release that today, but now my friends drag me off to play billiard or somesuch strange RL activity, so it may not work out.

Anyway, real soon now, without any sarcasm ;)

Zenurb wrote:You could probably patent that style of text input

o_O;

See, that idea would never even occur to me. I guess that's why I'm poor and will probably stay poor ;)

Great! I'm very familiar (more so than is healthy, probably) with both pBuffers and the FBO extension (and its 30 author-monster-specification ;)) as I used them in implementing my bachelor's thesis project (GPGPU related). However, I haven't heard of the OES extension as I never did embedded dev be...

Hey jsgf, any idea when/if/how you'll add render to texture? It's the one thing I need to make my pspGL-based LuaPlayer clearly superior in all ways to the default ;) I hope you aren't thinking about implementing pBuffers to enable RTT, as I believe that they're far too complex for something that sh...

Here's a screenshot of the final(?) version:

No, and I don't plan to, I only made this so that people can enter their names for the high-score list in my game ;)

Btw, I now have full caret functionality. The source will be released with my game.

That's not really surprising, as the clear method in svn doesn't even use the color ;) void clearScreen&#40;Color color&#41; &#123; if &#40;!initialized&#41; return; guStart&#40;&#41;; sceGuClearDepth&#40;0&#41;; sceGuClear&#40;GU_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|GU_DEPTH_BUF...