I Get Your Fail

Perfectly skinned vertex normals

2013-05-27T00:12:00.002+02:00

(Thanks to Rick Appleton for the submission)

Fast resource loading

2013-05-22T17:56:00.000+02:00

bool Manager::loadResources()
{
    if (m_resourcesLoaded)
        return true;

    m_resourcesLoaded = true;

    return true;
}

(Thanks for the submission Graham)

Everyone should have a critical section!

2013-05-04T14:57:00.001+02:00

CriticalSection static Foo::getCriticalSection() { return c_csec; }

(Thanks for the submission Boberg)

Perforce changelist templates are very easy to use!

2013-05-04T14:53:00.000+02:00

Change 1242010 on 2013/05/03 20:14:01 by xxx

    DESCRIPTION
 
    Tested on level LEVEL by NAME
    Tested on platform PLATFORM by NAME
    Reviewed by NAME

Highly optimized and accurate vector subscript operator

2013-04-30T23:07:00.002+02:00

class BWAVector3
{
private:
                float x;
                float y;
                float z;
public:
...
 
                float& operator[] (const int index);
};
float& BWAVector3::operator[] (const int index)
{
                if (index == 0)
                {
                                return x;
                }
                else if (index == 1)
                {
                                return y;
                }
                else
                {
                                return z;
                }
}

(Thanks for the submission Graham Wihlidal)

Epic alignment fail...

2013-04-30T23:06:00.000+02:00

extern "C" void* __wrap_memalign(size_t Alignment, size_t Size)
{
                extern void* __real_memalign(size_t,size_t);
                return __real_memalign(Size, Alignment);
}

(Thanks Graham Wihlidal)

Fancy tiled fourier opacity shadowmapping

2013-04-28T17:32:00.000+02:00

(Thanks Sebastien)

Strings - a fundamental component of floating point math

2013-01-27T13:04:00.000+01:00

namespace uiVehicleComp

{

//Convert double, float to a string with given number of decimals.

template T>

eastl::string toStrDec(T const& val, const int decimals)

{

MallocScope ms;

std::ostringstream ostr;

ostr << std::fixed << std::setprecision(decimals) << val;

return ostr.str().c_str();

}

void UIVehicleComp::updateVehicleYawRotations(const GameInfo& gameInfo)

{

using namespace uiVehicleComp;

if (gameInfo.vehicle && gameInfo.hudData && gameInfo.hudData->getUseWeaponOrientations())

{

eastl::string currentYaw = toStrDec(gameInfo.vehicleYawAngle, 1);

if(0 != currentYaw.compare(m_yawAngle))

{

IUISystem::getInstance()->setData(UI_UIVEHICLECOMP_YAWANGLE, (double)atof(currentYaw.c_str()));

m_yawAngle = currentYaw;

}

Tiling pattern with questionable political ideology

2013-01-24T02:09:00.001+01:00

(Thanks Daniel)

Suppress the suppressed warning?

2013-01-24T00:29:00.000+01:00

7>Code\External\Scaleform\Src\GFxPlayer\GFxFontResource.cpp(515,17): warning : explicitly assigning a variable of type 'UByte' (aka 'unsigned char') to itself [-Wself-assign]

7> langCode = langCode; // suppress warning

7> ~~~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~

(Thanks Graham Wihlidal)

Modern Gamedev Bingo

2011-01-31T21:39:00.001+01:00

(Thanks Christina)

Deferred Incorrectness

2010-05-12T23:07:00.001+02:00

(Thanks Christina)

The Acid Powerup

2010-04-19T08:44:00.000+02:00

(Thanks Pat)

Pink Shadow Acne

2010-04-16T16:02:00.002+02:00

Compressed Human Animation Fail

2010-04-14T09:32:00.000+02:00

(Thanks Jonas)

Award-nominated File Naming

2010-02-12T01:40:00.003+01:00

(Thanks Anonymous)

Divide by Zero Shadow Mapping

2010-01-29T20:46:00.000+01:00

(Thanks Aras)

TheLongestAndMostDescriptiveFunctionNameEver?

2010-01-25T23:40:00.001+01:00


Vec2 GetDesiredPositionOfLastStringSegmentForCarryingObject(Object * pObj)
{
       ...
}

(Thanks m3xican)

The power of comments

2010-01-25T23:38:00.001+01:00


// As long as all calls to this class are made from the same thread this
class is thread safe.

(Thanks Anonymous)

FFD lattices in prime condition

2010-01-25T23:36:00.001+01:00

(Thanks Tadej)

Polygon Acne - It's a serious disease

2010-01-08T15:37:00.002+01:00

(Thanks Tony Albrecht)

Advanced furry bear shell rendering

2010-01-06T10:56:00.002+01:00

(Thanks Dmitry)

Efficient spawn table creation using STL

2010-01-05T17:04:00.002+01:00


std::vector<vector3> spawn_table;

for( int i=0; i<level.getSpawnCount(); ++i )
{
    spawn_table.push_back( *( new vector3() ) );

    spawn_table.back() = level.getSpawn( i );
}

(Thanks Julien)

Angles greater than 114.59 degrees can't possibly be of any practical use

2010-01-04T21:05:00.000+01:00


__forceinline float tan(float a) 
{ 
 return ::tanf(clamp(a, (-1.0f + FUZZY_EPSILON), (1.0f - FUZZY_EPSILON))); 
}

__forceinline double tan(double a) 
{ 
 return ::tan(clamp(a, (-1.0 + FUZZY_EPSILON), (1.0 - FUZZY_EPSILON))); 
}

We've had this in our code base since 2005 and have shipped 3 games on it, solid!

HLSL optimizer is beyond earthly logic

2009-12-18T22:31:00.003+01:00


    if b2

      if b1

        mul r0.xy, r0, c0.x

        texld r4, r0, s6

        if !b2

          mad r0.xyw, r4.xyzz, c121.x, c121.y

          mad r4.xyz, r3, r3.w, r0.xyww

        endif

      endif

    else

      // ...

    endif

(Thanks Benoit)