https://mm.soldat.pl/coding-awesomness/packing-floats Michał Marcinkowski's: Gamedev Log & Articles Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 https://mm.soldat.pl/coding-awesomness/packing-floats/comment-page-1#comment-202177 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:57:16 +0000 http://mm.soldat.pl/?p=1570#comment-202177 Rivon: Link-Dead would work with fixed precision integers instead of floats. The reason I’m not doing that is I would have to recode a large portion of code. I can’t invest time in that right now.

]]> https://mm.soldat.pl/coding-awesomness/packing-floats/comment-page-1#comment-202063 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:11:55 +0000 http://mm.soldat.pl/?p=1570#comment-202063 If it really uses so much memory, than you should probably rethink the architecture of the engine and rewrite the code. Not use hackery of this type.

]]> https://mm.soldat.pl/coding-awesomness/packing-floats/comment-page-1#comment-202049 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:27:09 +0000 http://mm.soldat.pl/?p=1570#comment-202049 If you never need the precision of a float isn’t it smarter to use shorts in the first place? I also agree with Rivon. Now you need to do additional multiplications and divisions each frame. I think using them straight away is faster? What’s the main reason for this, using less memory, performance?

]]> https://mm.soldat.pl/coding-awesomness/packing-floats/comment-page-1#comment-202045 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:54:31 +0000 http://mm.soldat.pl/?p=1570#comment-202045 So you pack and unpack floats every frame? Isn’t it faster to just use them normally? I seriously doubt that there’s any real advantage to this.

]]> https://mm.soldat.pl/coding-awesomness/packing-floats/comment-page-1#comment-201781 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:37:22 +0000 http://mm.soldat.pl/?p=1570#comment-201781 Nice stuff.
I would love to see how you handle animations.

]]> https://mm.soldat.pl/coding-awesomness/packing-floats/comment-page-1#comment-201730 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:06:39 +0000 http://mm.soldat.pl/?p=1570#comment-201730 Simple but effective.

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