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Dark GDK / Vectors - Multiple Kinds. Share Same "ID" Pool or Not? Any idea?

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jason p sage
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Posted: 17th Sep 2007 05:15
Hello, thanx for popping in. I have this question:

First there are commands such as:

dbMakeVector2(id);
dbMakeVector3(id);

and

dbDeleteVector2(id);
dbDeleteVector3(id);

Question is what the topic subject reads.

Do these different KINDS of vectors use different ID pools?

For instance - will these COEXIST or Will the dbMakeVector3(1) seem to overwrite dbMakeVector2(1)?:

dbMakeVector2(1);
dbMakeVector3(1);


(If you know great - tests I've so far - don't crash. I even tried deleting the same vector 2 times. I haven't tried storing and retrieving values because this wouldn't necessarily be definitive)

Thanx in advance.

kBessa
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Posted: 17th Sep 2007 06:50
Jason,

From the tests I've done, yes, they share the same id: Vector2, Vector3, Vector4 and Matrix4. I've even released a new version of LightEngine just to make a correction to the classes.

I think I understand why this occurs, they are probably inherited from a same base class (I mean, internally on DGDK).

Is just like MakeBox and MakeSphere, they are sharing IDs because they are equally 3D objects, and maybe Vector2 and Vector3 also share because they are equally math objects.

That's just my thoughts, but I may be wrong.

Best regards,
Thiago
jason p sage
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Posted: 17th Sep 2007 13:46
Thanx - and I found out from IanM that there is a 3dmath (vector) exists function also (In C++ you had to add the declation manually but it runs)

Thanx for your help kBessa/Thiago!


unitech
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Posted: 17th Sep 2007 14:33
Hey jason just to add here, below your post you will see the same topic.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=114159&b=22
jason p sage
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Posted: 17th Sep 2007 15:55
I wonder why I didn't see that Thank You. We are evidently both crawling through the same stuff in the API Sorry for the double post.

unitech
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Posted: 17th Sep 2007 18:28
Ya seems we are think along the same lines a lot.

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