Hi Simon,
On Day 81 the ground bitmaps were loaded and their X and Y coordinates were randomly generated with random numbers. The expression used on the stream was this
v2 Offset = V2(2.0f * ((real32)RandomNumberTable[RandomNumberIndex++] / (real32)MaxRandomNumber) - 1.0f, 2.0f * ((real32)RandomNumberTable[RandomNumberIndex++] / (real32)MaxRandomNumber) - 1.0f);
In this expression the division is basically assuming that the minimum number is 0. In that case the numerator/denominator will give a number between 0 and 1 randomly distributed. However, thats not the case as we saw on the stream. Although in the stream's case the lower number is close to 0, making this almost correct. And when I use this code (with my random number table) I get this
I am not sure why this is on a straight line though. The random numbers I generated came out with a higher maximum than Casey Muratori's. And Im guessing its because of that, but I can't explain why that would happen.
My min and max are these
#define MaxRandomNumber 0x5f5b1ea #define MinRandomNumber 0x5287
When I modify the expression to subtract the minimum number from the numerator and denominator the grass is laid out properly. Here is the expression I used:
uint32 XIndex = RandomNumberIndex++; uint32 YIndex = RandomNumberIndex++; v2 Offset = V2(2.0f * ((real32)(RandomNumberTable[XIndex] - MinRandomNumber) / (real32)(MaxRandomNumber - MinRandomNumber)) - 1.0f, 2.0f * ((real32)(RandomNumberTable[YIndex] - MinRandomNumber) / (real32)(MaxRandomNumber - MinRandomNumber)) - 1.0f);
And the result from this is
So, can you tell me why would that make a straight line?
P.S. Actually I found later in the qna part of the stream that he did point out the subtraction as in my expression above.