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Started by Peart Apr 21, 2003 at 5:31 PM 1 replies 300+ views

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Apr 21, 2003 at 5:31 PM

I haven''t seen much discussion of it in regards to tile games. But are there advantages? It seems to me that in regards to monster/player movements, screen/score/menu updates, that it''s a lot of variables to keep track of and kept constantly cycling. Is there an easier more efficiant way to do this, or am I completely confused and misguided on threading? "I can''''t pretend a stranger is a long awaited friend"--Neil Peart

tellman

Apr 21, 2003 at 5:49 PM

Hey, man

Multithreading can help you a lot - pathfinding can be sped up a lot as well as other global number-crunchers in you game. But you have to take care of many things - cause with great power comes great ... memory managment problem

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There are couple of articles on this in Iso department in Article section..

Good luck

... no magic ... just coding

Peart

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Peart

Apr 21, 2003 at 5:52 PM

Here is a screen shot of what I got so far. This is in the same vain as a solstice type game.

http://www.geocities.com/lifesonalex/snapshot2.png

[edited by - peart on April 21, 2003 6:53:20 PM]

[edited by - peart on April 21, 2003 6:54:46 PM]

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