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Re: Don't Let the Stars Fade Away Thu, 03 July 2008 07:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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ken-reed wrote on Thu, 03 July 2008 08:10

Nova is a 32-bit application and doesn't bother with all the packing and using BYTES or shorts.

Bytes, shorts, and the like aren't critical for this math, as long as you remember to round up (or down) in the necessary places to keep results consistent with the original. Whip


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neither your implementation nor the one in FreeStars take into account the fact that gravity is actualy a log function (unlike temperature and radiation which are linear).

That log function is only to show "gravity-like" figures. Twisted Evil The real math is done with the "clicks", which go from 0 to 100 like Temp and Rad. Sherlock


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Also, the code (forgive me for being critical) is hard to follow. I could just blindly translate it to C# but I really do like to understand what the code is really up to (especially as Nova doesn't bother with all that fixed-point integer scaling. It just uses doubles.

So, just for now, I'm going to leave things as they are but have a little side-project to get to grips with your code and, once I fully understand it (variables such as "Excentr" have me a bit baffled at the moment) plug it in.

You should have seen the original (disassembler-derived) tangle. Teleport

I cleaned it up a bit, and rewrote several parts which could be done in a somewhat simpler way. I didn't touch other places where I wasn't too sure what was going on or how to improve them. Deal

Many of the variable names you see are little more than hints about what they *might* really mean. "Excentricity" would be related to how far a hab value is from the center of the range. 2 Guns

Hey, if it was simple, the Jeffs would have never bothered to code it in the 1st place. Razz



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