fireside, on 11 October 2012 - 09:40 PM, said:

I was totally going to recommend measuring what your power consumption like that, I've done so in a Science class at a vocational school I used to attend. I'd recommend not worrying about what people think about solar powering your house and do it, also look into the haswell cpu next year if your interested in lowering your electric bill, just upgrade your cpu / mobo/ ram, and use the igp. You would be set and it would eat next to nothing. Upgrading from 939 to 1155 cost me $130 but I have 8gb of ddr3 and that was included in the price, your chipset dosen't matter buy a really cheap one, and same with a budget cpu, my Celeron only eats 15 watts when I try to max it out. Also 32 nm is incredible even in a celeron I love knowing it costs next to nothing to have my computer on all the time.

Thanks to your wonderful Idea of looking on Google I found a library of collision detection functions.

http://www.sfml-dev....ision_detection

I think now I can move on to doing what your saying, but I want to organize those conditions better and fully take advantage of OOP and all of the benefits, realizing how powerful a simple line of code is and how powerful it can be to keep syntax very clean I think I should add a ObjectManager to the game. I want to make my objects right the first time and I might write out tests and organize my code on a design document. I am not sure though I did notice there are multiple methods and it can look really messy in places like an event handler, can I make a event handler in a class file and then use it to contain conditions and then call the library in my main program? Is that over complicating things, I really am learning a lot at once and the only reason I think I get bogged down is because I want to organize my code and keep making it evolve slowly.

Stainless, on 16 October 2012 - 02:27 PM, said:

I read this http://www.redmondpi...phics-and-more/ and was pretty happy because I lean on that side for buying hardware.

Oh I see

#include <SFML/Audio.hpp>
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
const int SCREEN_HEIGHT = 600;
const int SCREEN_WIDTH = 480;
const int SCREEN_BPP = 32;
    int main()
    {
    sf::RenderWindow App(sf::VideoMode(SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_BPP), "Engine");
    sf::Image BackgroundImage;
    if (!BackgroundImage.LoadFromFile("background.jpg"))
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
    sf::Sprite Background(BackgroundImage);
    sf::Image Image;
    if (!Image.LoadFromFile("Player.png"))
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
    sf::Sprite Sprite(Image);
    sf::Vector2f StartPos(100, 200);
    sf::Vector2f Center(1000, 1000);
    sf::Vector2f HalfSize(400, 300);
    sf::View View(Center, HalfSize);
    Sprite.SetCenter(32, 32);
    Sprite.SetPosition(StartPos);
    while (App.IsOpened())
    {
    sf::Event Event;
    while (App.GetEvent(Event))
    {
    if (Event.Type == sf::Event::Closed)
    App.Close();
    if ((Event.Type == sf::Event::KeyPressed) && (Event.Key.Code == sf::Key::Escape))
    App.Close();
    if ((Event.Type == sf::Event::KeyPressed) && (Event.Key.Code == sf::Key::F11))
    App.Create(sf::VideoMode(800, 600, 32), "SFML Window", sf::Style::Fullscreen);
    if ((Event.Type == sf::Event::KeyPressed) && (Event.Key.Code == sf::Key::F12))
    App.Create(sf::VideoMode(SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_BPP), "SFML Window");
    }
    float ElapsedTime = App.GetFrameTime();
    float Offset = 200.f * App.GetFrameTime();
    if (App.GetInput().IsKeyDown(sf::Key::Left)) Sprite.Move(-100 * ElapsedTime, 0);
    if (App.GetInput().IsKeyDown(sf::Key::Right)) Sprite.Move( 100 * ElapsedTime, 0);
    if (App.GetInput().IsKeyDown(sf::Key::Up))    Sprite.Move(0, -100 * ElapsedTime);
    if (App.GetInput().IsKeyDown(sf::Key::Down))  Sprite.Move(0,  100 * ElapsedTime);
    App.Clear(sf::Color(207, 194, 149));
    App.Draw(Background);
    App.Draw(Sprite);
    App.SetView(App.GetDefaultView());
    App.Display();
    }
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }

here is the code its a good thing to note I am a beginner some research I've done and your reply has lead me to believe that I should really concentrate on some more OOP concepts and that I can't spend all day researching. I really thought I would be done after almost a year and a half of studying C++ but I guess it's a language that will be good to know for the future.