Perfectly skinned vertex normals

(Thanks to Rick Appleton for the submission)

Fast resource loading

bool Manager::loadResources()
{
    if (m_resourcesLoaded)
        return true;

    m_resourcesLoaded = true;

    return true;
}

(Thanks for the submission Graham)

Everyone should have a critical section!

CriticalSection static Foo::getCriticalSection() { return c_csec; }

(Thanks for the submission Boberg)

Perforce changelist templates are very easy to use!

Change 1242010 on 2013/05/03 20:14:01 by xxx

    DESCRIPTION
 
    Tested on level LEVEL by NAME
    Tested on platform PLATFORM by NAME
    Reviewed by NAME

Highly optimized and accurate vector subscript operator

class BWAVector3
{
private:
                float x;
                float y;
                float z;
public:
...
 
                float& operator[] (const int index);
};
float& BWAVector3::operator[] (const int index)
{
                if (index == 0)
                {
                                return x;
                }
                else if (index == 1)
                {
                                return y;
                }
                else
                {
                                return z;
                }
}

(Thanks for the submission Graham Wihlidal)

Epic alignment fail...

extern "C" void* __wrap_memalign(size_t Alignment, size_t Size)
{
                extern void* __real_memalign(size_t,size_t);
                return __real_memalign(Size, Alignment);
}

(Thanks Graham Wihlidal)

Fancy tiled fourier opacity shadowmapping

(Thanks Sebastien)

Strings - a fundamental component of floating point math

namespace uiVehicleComp

{

      //Convert double, float to a string with given number of decimals.

      template  T>

      eastl::string toStrDec(T const& val, const int decimals)

      {

            MallocScope ms;

            std::ostringstream ostr;

            ostr << std::fixed << std::setprecision(decimals) << val;

            return ostr.str().c_str();

      }

}

void UIVehicleComp::updateVehicleYawRotations(const GameInfo& gameInfo)

{

      using namespace uiVehicleComp;

      if (gameInfo.vehicle && gameInfo.hudData && gameInfo.hudData->getUseWeaponOrientations())

      {

            eastl::string currentYaw = toStrDec(gameInfo.vehicleYawAngle, 1);

            if(0 != currentYaw.compare(m_yawAngle))

            {

                  IUISystem::getInstance()->setData(UI_UIVEHICLECOMP_YAWANGLE, (double)atof(currentYaw.c_str()));

                  m_yawAngle = currentYaw;

            }

      }

}

Tiling pattern with questionable political ideology

(Thanks Daniel)

Suppress the suppressed warning?

7>Code\External\Scaleform\Src\GFxPlayer\GFxFontResource.cpp(515,17): warning : explicitly assigning a variable of type 'UByte' (aka 'unsigned char') to itself [-Wself-assign]

7>          langCode = langCode; // suppress warning

7>          ~~~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~

(Thanks Graham Wihlidal)