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Posted: **Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:13 pm**

I've a few numbers that are .8, 1.2, etc and was wondering how I'd use those in the SGDK?

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2016 11:37 am**

You should have a look on that :
https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK/wiki/Tuto-Maths

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2016 11:55 pm**

"Serious" games usually use fixed points instead of floating points in game logic because they are way faster. You should use them for things like "position" and "speed", there is a notable difference in response. The big handicap is you no longer have so many decimals, but is strange to use them in great amount in games. So no big deal about not having floating points after all.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2016 4:58 pm**

It's based on old ZX spectrum basic which seems to allow for float point numbers in some weird way!

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:11 pm**

if anyone knows how you'd write this without floating point as an SGDK equivalent I'd be very impressed (grateful)!

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round((sqrt(u16Popularity + u16EnergyCommitedPerTourDate) * 1000) / 120)

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:56 pm**

Having had a good look at the maths support I don't think it's possible for me to do with fix16 via the math functions as u16Popularity goes up to 100 and u16EnergyCommitedPerTourDate goes up to 1000.

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:03 pm**

matteus wrote:if anyone knows how you'd write this without floating point as an SGDK equivalent I'd be very impressed (grateful)!
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round((sqrt(u16Popularity + u16EnergyCommitedPerTourDate) * 1000) / 120)

Should be equivalent :

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u16 v = fix16ToRoundedInt((fix16Sqrt(intTofix16(u16Popularity + u16EnergyCommitedPerTourDate)) * 100) / 12);

But it would be better to use fix16 type variable directly when you need it.

You also need to enable the maths table in SGDK library, change following line in config.h from SGDK:

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MATH_BIG_TABLES 1

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:13 pm**

Thanks! and this one

u16Happiness = u16Happiness + Round(((u16Popularity * 10) / 1000) / 4)

I'm guessing I don't need to change as a standard int will just truncate? lol

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:14 pm**

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main.c|| undefined reference to `sqrttab16'|
main.c|| undefined reference to `sqrttab16'|

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:28 pm**

Did you recompiled the library with the

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MATH_BIG_TABLES 1

change i mentioned above ?

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:55 pm**

yes I've changed the flag, I tried recompiling the libraries as well

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:57 pm**

If you correctly recompiled the library with MATH_BIG_TABLE enabled (set to 1) then you should not meet this error.
How are you compiling your project, command line ? code::block ?

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:09 pm**

I use code::block

Posted: **Tue Sep 20, 2016 8:20 pm**

Did your libmd.a file was correctly regenerated ? try to remove it before compiling the library so you will be sure it will be correctly rebuild

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:25 pm**

I've deleted it and get the error

||=== Build: release in MegaRockBandManager (compiler: Sega Genesis Compiler) ===|
sgdk\lib\libmd.a||No such file or directory|
||=== Build failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 3 second(s)) ===|

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