why you should never port other people's games

Exhibit 1:

if (!ShouldTaunt())
{
 LarryMonster(Pawn).PlayTaunt();
}

Exhibit 2:

RandSoundNum=Rand(HurtNoise.Length);

PlaySound(HurtNoise[HurtNoise.length]);

Exhibit 3:
(I can not even begin to guess wtf our draw scale is going to be set to)

SetDrawScale(scaleStart-(scaleStart-scaleStart/1.2)*TimeSince(interpStart)/0.2);

Exhibit 4:
(for this code the comment says it all)

// hack of the month : set bCheckSoundOcclusion if I am a guest,
// which will remove the controller from the list in the end in native code:
//       (the reason, by the way, is that I do not want to have to
//       rebuild EngineClasses.h, and the SeamlessTravel is hacked up
//       anyways :-P )

Exhibit 5:

EngineSound.PitchMultiplier = FClamp(((VSize(Velocity) - 150)/600) + 0.9, 0.9, 1.4);
EngineSound.PitchMultiplier = Lerp(1.4, 0.9, FClamp(((VSize(Velocity)- 150)/600)/0.5 , 0, 1));

(Thanks to Anon)

Sore wood collector

From D&D Online during development.
Mr Soarwood collector was supposed to be holding a guitar.



(Thanks to Anon)

The Long Neck Syndrome - Part 1

In-development skinning/animation mismatch bug

Redneck In Bloom

Spooky Debris - It's Alive!

Outlook: Bleak

++ftw++

eastl::map<eastl::string, PipelineMeshSubsetPtrVector >::iterator mapMeshIt;

for (mapMeshIt = meshMap.begin(); mapMeshIt != meshMap.end(); ++mapMeshIt++)
{
    ...
}

Code actually works though :) Only incremented once per iteration.

(Thanks to Robert)

Oops, shipped a stack memory overwrite we did

 Vec unpackedTransform[4];

#if defined(SPU)
    vecLoadHalf8(unpackedTransform[0], unpackedTransform[1], &sourceTransform->data[0]);
    unpackedTransform[2] = vecLoadHalf4(&sourceTransform->data[8]);
#else    
    // get alignment errors with both vecLoadHalf8 and convertHalfToFloat array, so use naive but working method instead
//  convertHalfToFloat(reinterpret_cast<float*>(unpackedTransform), &sourceTransform->data[0], 12);
    for (uint i=0; i<24; i++)
        reinterpret_cast<float*>(unpackedTransform)[i] = convertHalfToFloat(sourceTransform->data[i]);
#endif

Sometimes more comments are good

/// @warning Be careful! This tool is useful for debug but it can also 
class DebugDrawer

(Thanks to Alex)

Thanks for writing comments

// if dl==-1, nothing to do
if ( dl == -1 )
  return;

(Thanks to Tom)

Link time

*** [Engine.Game_Xxx_Release.elf] Error 1

Error 2 from Engine.Game - build stopping

Engine.Game - 23294 error(s), 0 warning(s)


========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
Total Build Time 0:12

Welcome to Neon company

StringUtil.h

// Some shims

__forceinline bool isEmpty(const char* str) { return *str == 0; }
__forceinline bool isEmpty(const eastl::string& str) { return !str.empty(); }

__forceinline bool is_empty(const eastl::string& str) { return str.empty(); }

omg! we b0rked teh cloud lut

Busy Network

The All-Seeing Eye

My gun shoots 7.62mm cat ridges...

(Thanks to Scav)

Incremental Fail

Here an example how to create realtimeshadows

Customer:
For the next release you could add a realtime shadow by simple adding a lightsource.
If you want to know how to do this please call me.
Tel.: XXXXXXXXXXXX

Bye XXXXXXX


Reply:
Hi XXXXXXX,

It's a bit more complicated than that. We want to do it for 2.0 release, but that's not 100% certain. Currently you can do shadows using a blob-shadow, or bake your shadows into a texture...

Thanks for the offer of assistance in any case.


Customer again:
Here an example how to create realtimeshadows:

rayhitssurfce()
{
if (ray.isfirsttime)
lightensurface();
else
darkensurface();
}

I hope somebody in your team knows what I mean with this. If not then you can contact me at the telephone number below.

I hope this will help you to create realtimeshadows. (I would like to use them)

Bye XXXXXXX

(Thanks to Aras)

Helpfail.. not!

gfail

z-buffering is overrated

Fail

Not game development related, but sure in the right spirit for the blog!

Never underestimate the brutal honesty of gamers

From the Paradise City forums:

This game sucks, then it crashes.

For any one who is considering getting this game..

Dont..

(Thanks to Mikkel)

Debug rendering for the win

Cel proceling

"Battle field is awesom and lok as if real life movie

it have mountans woods and house

cel proceling"

From GameTrailers comment thread

A data the miss match

"Usually happens when there is a data the miss match"

Med boxes - glitching and bouncing

Battlefield: Bad Company Beta - Bouncing Meds Glitch

I Get Your Version

// Now OF COURSE starting with catalyst 5.13 or so they decreased the number
// in GL version by 3000 or so. So GL version of Catalyst 6.11 is 2.0.1072
// (whereas Catalyst 5.3 is 2.0.4955).
//
// So we also detect the driver DLL version (5.3 is ati2dvag, 6.14.10.6517).
//
// Wonderful!
if( version <= 20 && buildVersion <= 4955 && driverNameString ==
"ati2dvag" && (driverVersion <=
windriverutils::VersionInfo(6,14,10,6517)) )
{
   hasVertexProgram = false;
   printf_console( "GL: disabling vertex programs due to Radeon
driver bugs\n" );
}

(Submitted by Aras)

Error codes, a way of life

(Submitted by ReJ)

can has paddid bufr pls?

*****************************************************************************
RWAudioCore Library assertion failed:
  Info  : rw::audio::core::System::GetCommandSlot() - Ran out of command buffer space. 
    Please increase the size of the command buffer specified to rw::audio::core::System::CreateInstance().
  Assert: mCommandIndex <= mCommandBufferSize
  File  : C:/packages/rwaudiocore/3.06.01/include/rw/audio/core/system.h
  Line  : 2684
*****************************************************************************

(Submitted by Scav)

Windmill spectators

WTFs/minute

Bug: FIX THE STUPID ERROR

Steps to reproduce
1:You suck anus hole. 2:every 20 seconds the game restarts internet
explorer. 3:you suck. 4:FIX THE STUPID ERROR! and 5: YOU SUCK!

(Submitted by Aras)

Possible cause that you should make sure

graphics error 262 : 00000000 00000000
Invalid graphics command data
Basic: 00000000 Extended: 00000000
Possible cause that you should make sure...

The Anatomy of a Rally spectator

I get your GPU ray source

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: I get your GPU ray source..
From: ¼Ò¾Æ¶÷ [censored]
Date: Sat, January 26, 2008 10:48
To: [censored]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

to [censored]

hello I'm Korean Graduate student.


last time I'm get your source code.


I want arange GPU RAY source code.

Addition KD-Tree, and one pass Rendering.


what do you thninking about?

that is possibile?

that is efficient method?


waiting for your reply.

thank you.


From. Korean [censored]

Whooping and yanking

Hang After Passing An Assert When Yanking The Network Cable As The Last Gold Crate Explodes

The title does not seem to be asserting any longer, but it is still hanging after following the original steps (it is extremely timing specific, you must remove the network cable on the 35th 'whoop' of the alarm when the last crate is armed.)

We are obviously unable to provide you with a crash dump as reproducing this bug involves removing the network cable.

The lack of operation completion

It's all full of lights

Patient monkey

Anyone missing a HTAB?

10 points to the Hyundai

Cows have a place in motorsports too

Monte Carlo Massacre

Orange is beautiful

Hungry bug, unhappy PS3

In search of tangent space basis

Error building vertex shader "ShaderCache/SrpXenon/VertexShaders/1104/6D497FE9-57EB-3786-AF3A-9A22702B96EA" using surface shader "Objects/Undergrowth/Shaders/MP_Harbor_Destruction" because of: Couldn't find vertex element "tangent" (available: pos, normal, texCoord0, index, worldTrans1, worldTrans2, worldTrans3) when building for surface shader "Objects/Undergrowth/Shaders/MP_Harbor_Destruction", vertex shader fragment "Systems/Undergrowth/Wind" and geometry declaration "Objects/Undergrowth/MudClump_01_Mesh_lod0/Stones_small_01:polySurface15_DUP_Stones_small_01:TnTShader1/StreamInstancingHalf". Caused by a mismatch of vertex elements between the state and the surface shader or vertex shader fragment (names are case sensitive).