cinera_handmade.network/cmuratori/hero/code/code313.hmml

[video output=day313 member=cmuratori stream_platform=twitch stream_username=handmade_hero project=code title="Returning to Work on Z Layers" vod_platform=youtube id=PYdOZ_r9RLw annotator=Miblo]
[0:11][Recap and set the stage for the day]
[2:08][handmade_world_mode.cpp: Make AddStandardRoom() generate multiple layers, run the game and see how wrong the sorting is]
[3:24][A few words of encouragement on exploratory programming and embracing the forward flow of the architecture]
[5:36][handmade_entity.cpp: Make UpdateAndRenderEntities() work as it did before the work on the sorting, run the game and see how it looks]
[8:37][Blackboard: Z Slices and Two Separate Conceptualisations of What it Means to be Up]
[11:29][Blackboard: Layered Alpha Blending]
[17:57][Blackboard: Solving this Problem]
[19:34][Blackboard: Render Buffers]
[21:32][Blackboard: Back of the envelope calculation on the potential Graphics Memory available to us]
[24:13][Blackboard: Back of the envelope calculation on the potential Memory Bandwidth available to us]
[29:21][Consider how to proceed]
[30:18][handmade_entity.cpp: Introduce a TestAlpha in UpdateAndRenderEntities()]
[34:01][Run the game and see what happens]
[34:46][Debugger: Break into UpdateAndRenderEntities() and inspect the fade values]
[40:05][handmade_entity.cpp: Tweak the FadeTopEndZ and FadeTopStartZ values in UpdateAndRenderEntities(), and again break into it]
[42:27][handmade_opengl.cpp: Pass Entry->PremulColor.a to the rectangle drawing glColor4f() call in OpenGLRenderCommands()]
[43:49]["So I'm going to go work this out on the blackboard and figure out if I'm just... uh... on crack"][quote 523]
[45:14][handmade_entity.cpp: Subtract WorldMode->CameraOffset.z from the CameraRelativeGroundZ computation in UpdateAndRenderEntities()]
[45:42][Run the game and see that we're fine again]
[47:00][Blackboard: What RecanonicalizeCoord is doing]
[49:31][Blackboard: Offsetting Z]
[51:01][handmade_world_mode.cpp: Make ChunkPositionFromTilePosition() Offset the entities' Z downwards]
[53:12][handmade_world_mode.cpp: Make ChunkPositionFromTilePosition() compute TileDepthInMeters differently]
[54:20][Debugger: Break into ChunkPositionFromTilePosition() and inspect the offset values]
[57:38][Debugger: Break into ConvertToLayerRelative() and inspect the Z values]
[59:50][handmade_entity.cpp: Provisionally compute the relative layer we want for the entities]
[1:02:06][Q&A][:speech]
[1:03:47][@insobot][Um. Because undefined behavior?]
[1:04:30][@telepathyy][What keyboard do you have?]
[1:05:40]["Like putting your finger in a cloud"][quote 506]
[1:06:00][@bestofluck][Do you expect that the final game will contain enough sprites to warrant using a texture atlas to reduce the number of texture binds per frame?]
[1:08:33][@khorm][I don't understand why the "base" Z value of each floor would be negative, it seems really contrived. It seems very logical to me to have 0 as as the "bottom". Maybe it has to do with rendering? I have not followed the latest shows]
[1:09:50][Blackboard: Canonical Point for a Chunk]
[1:13:22][Wrap it up][:speech]
[/video]
Cinera 0.7.0 Update Add output parameter to all of hero/code, hero/intro-to-c and hero/misc, preserving the current URLs while allowing different .hmml filenames, notably for hero/misc which now gets sorted chronologically. Update the cinera__*.css files 2020-05-09 20:59:36 +00:00			`[video output=day313 member=cmuratori stream_platform=twitch stream_username=handmade_hero project=code title="Returning to Work on Z Layers" vod_platform=youtube id=PYdOZ_r9RLw annotator=Miblo]`
Relocate riscy and add newly converted hero The idea here is to reduce the amount of superfluous stuff downloaded to each server running cinera 2017-12-06 22:26:13 +00:00			`[0:11][Recap and set the stage for the day]`
			`[2:08][handmade_world_mode.cpp: Make AddStandardRoom() generate multiple layers, run the game and see how wrong the sorting is]`
			`[3:24][A few words of encouragement on exploratory programming and embracing the forward flow of the architecture]`
			`[5:36][handmade_entity.cpp: Make UpdateAndRenderEntities() work as it did before the work on the sorting, run the game and see how it looks]`
			`[8:37][Blackboard: Z Slices and Two Separate Conceptualisations of What it Means to be Up]`
			`[11:29][Blackboard: Layered Alpha Blending]`
			`[17:57][Blackboard: Solving this Problem]`
			`[19:34][Blackboard: Render Buffers]`
			`[21:32][Blackboard: Back of the envelope calculation on the potential Graphics Memory available to us]`
			`[24:13][Blackboard: Back of the envelope calculation on the potential Memory Bandwidth available to us]`
			`[29:21][Consider how to proceed]`
			`[30:18][handmade_entity.cpp: Introduce a TestAlpha in UpdateAndRenderEntities()]`
			`[34:01][Run the game and see what happens]`
			`[34:46][Debugger: Break into UpdateAndRenderEntities() and inspect the fade values]`
			`[40:05][handmade_entity.cpp: Tweak the FadeTopEndZ and FadeTopStartZ values in UpdateAndRenderEntities(), and again break into it]`
			`[42:27][handmade_opengl.cpp: Pass Entry->PremulColor.a to the rectangle drawing glColor4f() call in OpenGLRenderCommands()]`
			`[43:49]["So I'm going to go work this out on the blackboard and figure out if I'm just... uh... on crack"][quote 523]`
			`[45:14][handmade_entity.cpp: Subtract WorldMode->CameraOffset.z from the CameraRelativeGroundZ computation in UpdateAndRenderEntities()]`
			`[45:42][Run the game and see that we're fine again]`
			`[47:00][Blackboard: What RecanonicalizeCoord is doing]`
			`[49:31][Blackboard: Offsetting Z]`
			`[51:01][handmade_world_mode.cpp: Make ChunkPositionFromTilePosition() Offset the entities' Z downwards]`
			`[53:12][handmade_world_mode.cpp: Make ChunkPositionFromTilePosition() compute TileDepthInMeters differently]`
			`[54:20][Debugger: Break into ChunkPositionFromTilePosition() and inspect the offset values]`
			`[57:38][Debugger: Break into ConvertToLayerRelative() and inspect the Z values]`
			`[59:50][handmade_entity.cpp: Provisionally compute the relative layer we want for the entities]`
Fix some incorrectly converted annotations Also apply some :speech categorisation 2018-03-07 21:48:09 +00:00			`[1:02:06][Q&A][:speech]`
Relocate riscy and add newly converted hero The idea here is to reduce the amount of superfluous stuff downloaded to each server running cinera 2017-12-06 22:26:13 +00:00			`[1:03:47][@insobot][Um. Because undefined behavior?]`
			`[1:04:30][@telepathyy][What keyboard do you have?]`
			`[1:05:40]["Like putting your finger in a cloud"][quote 506]`
			`[1:06:00][@bestofluck][Do you expect that the final game will contain enough sprites to warrant using a texture atlas to reduce the number of texture binds per frame?]`
			`[1:08:33][@khorm][I don't understand why the "base" Z value of each floor would be negative, it seems really contrived. It seems very logical to me to have 0 as as the "bottom". Maybe it has to do with rendering? I have not followed the latest shows]`
			`[1:09:50][Blackboard: Canonical Point for a Chunk]`
Fix some incorrectly converted annotations Also apply some :speech categorisation 2018-03-07 21:48:09 +00:00			`[1:13:22][Wrap it up][:speech]`
Relocate riscy and add newly converted hero The idea here is to reduce the amount of superfluous stuff downloaded to each server running cinera 2017-12-06 22:26:13 +00:00			`[/video]`