IRC logs for #openttd on OFTC at 2016-10-21
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07:30:32 <Knogle> Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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12:47:01 <Wolf01> Do somebody knows how I could see what the garbage collector is doing in VS? I would like to get rid of some useless instances which are released after some times, but I don't know what they are, as the GC only shows an indicator in the graph
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13:00:46 <Eddi|zuHause> if you're ever trying to influence what the GC is doing, you're probably not using GC right...
13:00:56 <Ethereal_Whisper> I'm trying to learn how to deal with quad track
13:01:18 <Ethereal_Whisper> Seems double track gets too saturated and jams if I go with a map bigger than 256x256
13:01:27 <Eddi|zuHause> so, either you shouldn't worry about what GC is doing, or you shouldn't be using GC at all
13:02:17 <Eddi|zuHause> Ethereal_Whisper: first rule of quad track: do not have X crossings between tracks of the same direction
13:02:28 <Ethereal_Whisper> Of course :)
13:02:34 <Ethereal_Whisper> Right now I'm trying to build my first SLH
13:03:13 <Eddi|zuHause> second rule: have priority signals in a way that once a train is on the main line, it never needs to stop
13:03:33 <Wolf01> Eddi, I should be using a "using()" construct somewhere, but I missed it
13:03:51 <Ethereal_Whisper> Merger built with basic priority signaling so far
13:04:04 <peter1138> Your code analyzer should tell you about a missing using()
13:04:17 <Ethereal_Whisper> Now I just have to figure out the split
13:04:23 <Wolf01> Ethereal_Whisper, you know double bridges like that are almost useless?
13:05:03 <Alberth> it preserves block length
13:05:12 <Ethereal_Whisper> Really? I've always built with the philosophy of always doubling bridges/tunnels (unless it's right before a pickup station such as a primary that produces 2 kinds of cargo, then it doesn't matter)
13:05:30 <Wolf01> Alberth, only if trains slow down
13:05:58 * peter1138 grumbles about signals being too close
13:06:01 <Eddi|zuHause> i'm not really a fan of 2-tile signals
13:06:13 <Alberth> also if they are close after each other
13:06:40 <Alberth> but a bridge should be long enough to contain an entire train then
13:06:46 <Wolf01> Eddi|zuHause, I think that the GC is disposing all those vectors I create to calculate things
13:07:31 <Eddi|zuHause> Wolf01: i don't think your problem is with the GC
13:07:34 <Wolf01> It only tells me about "small object heap allocation"
13:07:59 <Alberth> Ethereal_Whisper: Priority length seems a bit short
13:08:00 <Wolf01> My problem is with memory, because I still keep instances which could be destroyed asoon after use
13:08:43 <Ethereal_Whisper> Alberth, it's 1950; I'm using the NUTS train set and use the "Strong" class for cargo. The basic priority seems to do okay since the strong class has very high acceleration
13:09:15 <Eddi|zuHause> Ethereal_Whisper: i'd maybe consider having the bridge on the side line instead of the main line, but other than that, what exactly is your problem here?
13:09:15 <Alberth> well, it depends on how much freight it carries :p
13:09:35 <Ethereal_Whisper> Eddi|zuHause, none really, just kind of thinking out loud in the channel
13:10:13 <peter1138> Wolf01, which code analyzer do you use?
13:11:48 <Ethereal_Whisper> (I'll extend the merger onto the southern track, I just realized it's shorter than TL
13:12:17 <Alberth> not sure that merger would work
13:12:29 <Alberth> at least for balancing between the lines
13:12:36 <Ethereal_Whisper> Yeah, it's not balanced
13:13:16 <peter1138> That's not code analysis
13:13:53 <Alberth> but not sure how to do this stuff, I typically just add a junction directly at the main line
13:14:01 <peter1138> It's all on the Analyze menu.
13:14:07 <Eddi|zuHause> Wolf01: a profiler is dynamic, meaning it watches the code as it runs. a code analysis is static, meaning it looks at the code without running it
13:14:07 <peter1138> Alt-F11 by default apparently.
13:14:11 <Alberth> but given that I use breakdowns, it doesn't matter much
13:15:56 <Wolf01> I use the code analisys sometimes, but usually it tells me only if I implement an interface twice or if I hide a base class method
13:22:09 <Wolf01> Now it just tells me to make the Dispose() methods sealed and to call it with true or false to dispose managed resources
13:22:53 <Alberth> Don't you connect in both directions, ie outgoing from the sideline both to NE and SW ?
13:23:45 <peter1138> "Warning: EnsureLocalDisposalRule: This disposable local is not guaranteed to be disposed of before the method returns. The solution: Use a 'using' statement or surround the local's usage with a try/finally block."
13:24:11 <Ethereal_Whisper> Alberth, that particular side line is only a 2-way since it's the first hub of the game. North turns right to go east to the drop station, west turns left to go south back to the pickup station
13:24:11 <peter1138> (That's with gendarme within monodevelop, though)
13:24:52 <Wolf01> Warning: Modify 'GameObject.Dispose()' so that it calls Dispose(true), then calls GC.SuppressFinalize on the current object instance ('this' or 'Me' in Visual Basic), and then returns.
13:25:44 <Wolf01> And I forgot to dispose 2 timers... but the object with the timers is not disposed while playing, so it wasn't that
13:27:18 <Wolf01> Also this Warning: Remove IDisposable from the list of interfaces implemented by 'Tank' and override the base class Dispose implementation instead.
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14:36:27 <Wolf01> Ok, seem that now the GC uses are really reduced, time to move on another thing
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15:19:15 <Ethereal_Whisper> 131 trains by 1959
15:19:18 <Ethereal_Whisper> I'm slacking
15:36:08 <Alberth> many of my games never get that far :)
15:39:43 <Ethereal_Whisper> My quad track main line is working extremely well :)
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16:21:03 <Wolf01> What. Is. The. Point. Of. Writing. Generic. Functions. If. "T". Is. Not. Accepted. As. Cast. ..
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18:05:25 <Wolf01> A question pops out... how do you use the decorator pattern in c#? I can't even make an example to work
18:15:53 <Wolf01> Do you need to decorate a base class on-the-fly? Because if you even try to pass it to another function you lose the decorated methods (you should pass with the base class interface as type because decorators could be used in any order and you don't know which is the last one)
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18:35:48 <supermop_> do frogs say quak in german?
18:35:58 <Wolf01> Bah, all I understood about the decorator design pattern is that it acts like the logistics part of a factory, you don't use the logistics part, and you just trash the box after it arrived to your home, you just need the content
18:38:44 <frosch123> supermop_: yes, ducks and frogs are the same here
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18:55:42 <Wolf01> Tank has priority, I need to put that in CV
18:56:10 <Wolf01> (55 hours of work this week)
18:56:21 <andythenorth> that’s like a job
18:56:25 <andythenorth> is it done yet? o_O
18:57:21 <andythenorth> I have 3.5 trams left to draw
18:57:23 <Wolf01> There are tiles, tanks, tanks can move and shot, projectiles can break tiles and kill enemy tanks
18:57:58 <Wolf01> Everything done by hand.
18:58:49 <Wolf01> Framework just puts in the table the math and drawing functions and input handling
18:59:40 <Wolf01> I need to declare tile types as flags
19:00:43 <Wolf01> Nope... still don't know if concrete or bricks wall
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19:03:07 <Wolf01> Tile knows the projectiles which can damage it...
19:03:58 <Wolf01> But I would like to store it in projectile, but there's no distinction between tiles, it could even be wood
19:04:53 <Wolf01> Eh... tile types are strings, weird old code
19:07:48 <andythenorth> could do with more TL;DR
19:08:11 <andythenorth> “Write blog posts that are easy to delete” :D
19:12:36 <Wolf01> Types are basically 4... TileVariations?
19:13:11 <Wolf01> And what if I want to extend it with modding?
19:17:30 <andythenorth> what do the tiles ‘do'
19:18:00 <Wolf01> Just obstacles and buffs
19:18:26 <Wolf01> A road tile makes you go faster, a bush tile can hide an enemy tank
19:18:33 <andythenorth> do they have different behaviours?
19:18:51 <Wolf01> Wall tiles can be destroyed if you have the right projectile
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19:19:27 <andythenorth> are the behaviours determined by the tile, or by the other objects (tank, projectile, enemy tank)
19:19:29 <Wolf01> And water tiles can't be passed by tanks but you can shot over them
19:19:59 <andythenorth> do you have specific object code on the tank, projectiles etc?
19:20:04 <andythenorth> or do you have a single game loop?
19:20:07 <Wolf01> Tiles tells what to do, tank/projectile how to do
19:20:52 <Wolf01> Each object has it's own code
19:21:16 <Wolf01> And there can be different types of the same object
19:21:24 <andythenorth> [without knowing anything more about it]…I would just give each tile a flag
19:21:40 <andythenorth> and the objects have to know which flags exist, and behave accordingly
19:21:49 <andythenorth> or you can define interfaces, and ducktype it
19:21:55 <andythenorth> but that’s a bit….frameworky
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19:23:44 <andythenorth> the object knows which tile it’s in…by collision detection? Or by looking in the array?
19:24:36 <Wolf01> In collision detection, I could pass a closure to the collider to tell what to do with both tile and projectile
19:25:07 <andythenorth> that’s beyond my pay grade :)
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19:25:31 <andythenorth> you need to remove / change state for both objects I guess
19:25:35 <supermop_> what was the company that made N scale BR stuff in the 90s?
19:25:45 <supermop_> something like that
19:25:59 <andythenorth> Lima, Graham Farish
19:26:00 <Wolf01> I have some stuff from LIMA
19:26:05 <supermop_> maybe i'll try a shunting game
19:26:14 <frosch123> isn't lima the singer from neverending story?
19:26:32 <supermop_> but i need wagons shorter than the MK3 set i have from 1997
19:27:04 <andythenorth> AV program needs to update :(
19:27:17 <andythenorth> I never trust AV updates, it’s such a perfect attack vector
19:27:35 <supermop_> anattack vector program needs to update?
19:28:25 <supermop_> andythenorth: whats good cute BR era rolling stock? something that looks like it rolled out of iron horse preffered
19:28:38 <andythenorth> supermop_: N scale?
19:28:57 <supermop_> to be shunted by a rail blue 08
19:29:03 <andythenorth> I should find my brother’s in a my parents’ loft
19:29:38 <supermop_> like the ore hoppers
19:29:39 <andythenorth> you want a bunch around this length
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19:30:09 <supermop_> did they really keep using 2 axel trucks that late over there?
19:30:18 <andythenorth> tanker, cement tanker, speedlink van, speedlink open, brake van, steel carrier
19:30:23 <andythenorth> that’s a shunting game right there
19:32:11 <supermop_> the couplers look so eggregious on these little wagons
19:32:21 <supermop_> weak pound means i should buy up
19:32:32 <supermop_> unless it's stronger than last week
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19:35:34 <supermop_> pikka should have 3d printed N gauge pineapples to sell as fundraiser
19:35:38 <andythenorth> DynDNS is getting DDoed
19:35:45 <andythenorth> Github is patchy
19:35:49 <andythenorth> also other things
19:36:14 <andythenorth> dunno if they do international postage though
19:36:20 <andythenorth> supermop_: you still in NYC?
19:36:25 <supermop_> haha "british industrial sand"
19:36:52 <supermop_> dad's in manchester on business atm though - if the post was fast enough he might catch it
19:37:11 <supermop_> but then he'd have to mail them to nyc domestic anyway
19:38:37 <Wolf01> Different livery but same set
19:40:32 <andythenorth> Wolf01: you had the UK engine?
19:40:56 <andythenorth> I had the car wagon, always wanted the ramp
19:41:43 <supermop_> renumbering those so they didn't all say 918 would be a paint
19:41:45 <Wolf01> But I think it was a DB engine, at least from my memory
19:45:06 <andythenorth> supermop_: also those rinky-dink little wagons are annoying
19:45:35 <andythenorth> just aesthetically
19:46:04 <andythenorth> I can reship UK stuff to you if you need to, but you’ll get customs charges
19:47:29 <supermop_> customs usually not bad from uk
19:47:56 <supermop_> was nice when i worked for a british company that sent containers to new york fortnightly
19:48:22 <supermop_> throw any ebay purchases from around EU in the container - free shipping
19:50:05 <supermop_> still seems like brio would be the best approach
19:53:04 <andythenorth> magnets are quite strong :)
19:53:12 <andythenorth> hard to uncouple ;)
19:53:40 <andythenorth> hmm no good forums today
20:01:18 <supermop_> andythenorth: electromagnetic brio?
20:02:36 <supermop_> yeah fora not too exciting
20:04:27 <supermop_> i wonder, while model MUs don't have distributed power
20:05:07 <andythenorth> you mean propulsion? Or power pickup?
20:05:39 <supermop_> my 158 has only 1 car powered, but whats to stop me from buying 4 sets and running only the powered cars in a rake
20:06:16 <supermop_> 4x motors drawing 1/4 the power each shouldn't be a problem
20:06:17 <andythenorth> you don’t gain much that you wouldn’t gain by wiring all the dummy cars for pickup
20:06:45 <supermop_> i guess you lose seeing the little seats in the windows
20:07:18 <supermop_> 158 dummy car is so light, tends to derail when leading
20:07:55 <andythenorth> when I was a kid I used to dual motor trains
20:08:31 <andythenorth> buy two, cut the chassis in half, glue the parts to get a twin-motor and a dumy
20:08:47 <andythenorth> in retrospect that wasn’t a gain, compared to double heading them :P
20:09:03 <andythenorth> but actually the problem is usually power pickup
20:09:17 <andythenorth> and powered wheels have insulating traction tyres
20:09:34 <andythenorth> so would have been better to have two engines with one motor each, and wire them together
20:09:46 <andythenorth> but the main thing was MOAR POWER
20:10:04 <supermop_> put these in every wagon
20:10:49 <supermop_> conducting emu style couplers
20:15:01 <andythenorth> “HEAVY EQUIPMENT"
20:15:06 * andythenorth should do some OTTD
20:15:33 <supermop_> shapeways -> etsy -> sell meatspace andy grfs
20:16:17 <andythenorth> that’s more for V453000
20:16:18 <supermop_> "i can't figure out how to fit my HO scale Bulk terminal in my living room!"
20:16:27 <andythenorth> V453000 should print the BRIX trains
20:16:48 <supermop_> the box says "site unsuitable!"
20:16:51 <V453000> maybe eventually :P first need to actually finish them
20:19:05 <supermop_> not many model shops left in manhattan
20:20:32 <supermop_> unless you want to pay out the nose at a boutique that imports obscure gundam models
20:23:24 <supermop_> hmmmm... i'd buy a BR large logo gundam
20:35:49 <supermop_> firs iron ore mine has no snow
20:36:01 <andythenorth> FIRS iron ore mine has 99 problems
20:36:44 <ST2> already only with 2 digits? that's good :D
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20:38:03 <supermop_> if you're having snowline problems i feel bad for you son
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20:38:56 <supermop_> also has green grass in non-temperate climes
20:39:08 <supermop_> need some pixel pushing?
20:39:19 <andythenorth> needs a new one drawn
20:40:46 <supermop_> using firs/chips style buildings?
20:41:14 <andythenorth> Dan has drawn it twice already
20:41:20 <andythenorth> but neither version really worked
20:43:24 * andythenorth should play a game
20:45:05 <andythenorth> welshdragon speak any welsh?
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20:52:21 <andythenorth> Alberth: had any GS inspiration? o_O
21:07:41 <supermop> hmm chips tiles could use some snow
21:10:10 <andythenorth> I chose not to :)
21:10:32 <andythenorth> they are very efficiently cleaned :P
21:11:15 <supermop> amazing how the staff got all of the slush out of the crevasse in the cobblestones even on top of this snowy mountain
21:11:41 <supermop> i can see where all my infrastructure maintenance money is going
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21:20:54 <andythenorth> 2 of 5 trams left to do
21:21:20 <andythenorth> supermop: 1 of the pax trams is Melbourne, 2 are Japanese
21:21:27 <andythenorth> you wouldn’t know at TTD scale mind
21:21:42 <andythenorth> the Brit theme has kind of collapsed for trams
21:22:44 <supermop_> i guess melboune is the defacto standard bearer of commonwealth trams
21:23:13 <supermop_> but they never had double decker trams there, which seems essentially british practice to me
21:23:31 <supermop_> between london and hk
21:23:39 <supermop_> blackpool double deck?
21:24:45 <supermop_> melbourne tramways seem to embody the long dead north american systems
21:28:13 <andythenorth> there were plenty of british trams to draw
21:28:17 <andythenorth> but they make no sense in game
21:33:34 <supermop_> aw man my 20 rake of sand up this mountain stopped at signal on incline for steam hauled empty ore train
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22:28:19 <supermop> buying new steam in the 60s to save $
22:29:30 <supermop> hmm one vulcan not quite enough to pull 6 tile container train
22:30:19 <supermop> will do no more than 150 kmh after about 100 tiles of flat, straight track
22:30:44 <supermop> much of that in the 130-140 range
22:30:46 <Ethereal_Shiver> Put a second power unit at the back maybe?
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22:32:47 <supermop_> two 4 tile trains probably better for now
22:34:12 <supermop_> nothing else on this line yet, so no need to run at 160kmh for now
22:35:55 <Ethereal_Shiver> My game currently has 207 trains so that would make me lose my shit
22:36:50 <supermop_> i will probably switch to the slower but stronger gridiron when that comes out anyway so not going to timttable this one yet
22:37:33 <andythenorth> supermop: the Electra is kind of crippled eh?
22:37:46 <supermop_> too skint for wires
22:37:53 <supermop_> i use it sometimes though
22:38:06 <Ethereal_Shiver> I'm currently figuring out what kind of station to build here
22:38:14 <supermop_> 144 is fine for me, but yeah it's not as powerful as you'd hope
22:38:17 <Ethereal_Shiver> All I know so far is that I've given it 6 platforms
22:38:28 <supermop_> Ethereal_Shiver: too many?
22:38:41 <Ethereal_Shiver> It's a 1024x1024 map
22:40:02 <supermop_> i typically would only use 6 platforms if i had a train arriving every 3-5 days from each direction
22:40:36 <Ethereal_Shiver> Well, this one has 10
22:41:31 <supermop_> only 3-4 of those tracks are currently occupied though?
22:41:57 <Ethereal_Shiver> The traffic comes in waves and it merges with a very busy station
22:42:18 <Ethereal_Shiver> I'm using a quad track ML so it's really just 5 platforms per line
22:42:46 <Ethereal_Shiver> Originally it was 3/3; I expanded it since it was getting close to capacity, but I haven't been sending it additional traffic just yet
22:43:48 <Ethereal_Shiver> I think 5/5 is overkill though. I've discovered that in practice, 4 platforms serving 1 track is just about the most you'll ever need. The 5th is in case I get blocking issues since the exit line yields right of way to the other station it's merging with
22:52:48 <supermop_> andythenorth: why does it cost more to build a builder's yard than a hardware store?
22:53:14 <supermop_> the hardware store also accepts goods, and is only 1 tile, so it's arguably a better deal
22:58:28 <supermop_> bit early in the game to drop that kind of cash funding a black hole anyway
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23:09:54 <supermop_> damn just bought 7 little cumbraes the month before marstein was released
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23:38:01 <Ethereal_Shiver> Upgrading 260 locomotives... my bankroll is screaming in pain
23:39:11 <Ethereal_Shiver> ML is jammed as fuck
23:41:26 <Ethereal_Shiver> That cost about $8 million
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