Thread: Sound and arrow key problem.

I want to make a text like game template but i don't know how to use sound in CPP
Is it playsound c://mydocu~1//beep.wav//
Do i need to include any special file?

And how do i make it do something if the Up arrow, left arrow etc is pressed? I don't want to make the player have to hit enter all the time.

oh yeah, how do i make maps?

how do i make maps?

Lol, well you would first have to code the engine to read the maps, and set your own format for storing map data, and then create a map editor (to make life easy).

Actual implementation of that depends on your OS, which API you are going to use (unless its text based), what your game is about, what it involves, the depth of the levels you wish to create, and how they should look. There's plenty more, but thats a start. There is no real answer to that without more information about your game

A map maker? Something with GR-GR-GRAPHICS????
Ima going to needa little helpa with thata

or you could just use a 3d program to make models and use them as maps or make a converter

Uh.... i'd rather team up with some one instead of writing a converter (i suck at programming really big things).
I can write databases, using Binary data storage, but i have no idea what a converter would look like.

well i suppose that is all a level editor is - a converter that converts the stuff you do on screen into a language that the game can understand

yeah thats a much better explanation

Can I use a text editor to make something like

00000000000000000000000000000000000000
011x11xxxx11111111111x11111111111111110
014xxxxxxxxxx111111111111311111111111110
02111111111111141111111112111111111110
00000000000000000000000000000000000000

And have code like this?

Code:

{
if(space == 1)
You are standing in a clear room.

else if(space == x)
That is a wall!
move -- 1
}

That would work I guess For a game I made, it's sort of like you can be standing in any spot, and for each spot on the map (i.e. in the text editor), I put a different number made up of 1, 2, 4, or 8 added together to tell what directions you could go from there (i.e. 1 = up 2 = down 4 = left 8 = right, 1 + 2 = up or down).

P.S. that's not how the file looked in reality, I entered the values in this format (these values are random right now):

6 6 (grid size)
0 2 (exit location)
4 4 (player start)
5 5 (monster start)
1 (from 0,0 where can you go)
2 (from 1,0 where you can go)
4
8
3
2
3 (from 0,1 where can you go)

etc.

Hey Hunter2! That space shooters.. something else! Did you happen to use a map editor for that using something you created? I know it's not really a map... but the stars passing by seems to be in a pattern so i was just asking.
But how about the button pushing without hitting enter????
should i use cin.get()? that never worked for me that way.

Actually, the stars are randomly generated (i.e. the positions and intensity) and just appear back at the top when they hit the bottom. But the button-pushing, my code involves Windows API, so you probably won't want to get into that yet, since it involves graphics

But you can look into kbhit() or _kbhit() or something like that, it just checks if the user has pressed a key, and if so, returns true. Then if it returns true, you call getch() and it will retrieve the character that was pressed. Very useful if after you prompt the user for input, you don't want the program to stop and wait for the user to type their input and hit enter.

P.S. kbhit() might be nonstandard, I'm not sure... gotta check up on it one of these days

Should use code such as:

Code:

kbhit(a)
{
cout << "you venture east";
}
kbhit(s)
{
cout << "you venture south";
}

No no, this is what you do (from my version of MSDN):

Code:

while(gameIsRunning)
{
    if(_kbhit())
    {
        char c = getch();
        if(c == 'e')
            cout << "you venture east";
        else if(c == 'w')
            cout << "you venture west";
    }

    //whatever else the game does while the user doesn't hit a key
}