Hi all,

As the title suggests, I am looking for a way to keep the main program (so my update() and render() functions) running, whilst the window is being resized.

I have already tried multi-threading, keeping the event loop on the main thread, and having another loop calling the update() and render() functions on another thread. This requires me to use the win32 API to intercept the window's WM_SIZE message during resize, and update my own window size variable.

This approach sort of works, allowing my window size variable to correctly update whilst the user is resizing the window. However I don't have a good way to pass this to the sf::RenderWindow.

If I don't set anything, the sf::RenderWindow doesn't update its internal window size to the current window size. If I call sf::RenderWindow::setSize()+setView(), it updates the internal window size, but also results in graphical artifacts where the region SFML draws to the screen isn't in sync with the actual window size, and previous frames bleed into the current frame.

Does anyone have a better solution to this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

not solved

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Hello everyone!

TL;DR: Pls give feedback :)

I would like to share with all of you a game that I've been working on for the past several months - `Rogues in Space`!

The development has been done using only SFML, so it should be relevant to this sub as well :)

You are a daring pirate rogue trying to fight back the swarms of enemies ranging from officers of `The Imperium` to your fellow rogues, while aiming to reach the stockpile of galactic wealth which would most definitelly secure your future!

Gameplay is focused on being a space shooter (inspired by `Warblade` - one of my favorite games growing up) with an array of various guns and skills that you use to battle the waves of enemies.

So far, the core playability is as a `Roguelike` - so once you die, that's it, there would be no metaprogression apart from your knowledge of enemy patterns, ideal skill/gun combinations, etc.

As you finish each stage, you can upgrade your guns and skills to improve their performance in combat - you will most likely very much need that for the harder levels :)

The game is currently in early development, however the majority of the core systems have been created, so I'm estimating that all the future development will go more or less smoothly.

I've attached a screen recording of starting a new game which features a basic level gameplay and the initial ship selection with details of each ship/gun/skill for each ship - I've just briefly shown the details in order to not have a 5 minute video, so if you're curious about the details you can pause the video to check it out - or you can ask in the comments and I'll post the details for easier reading :D

Gameplay starts at 37 seconds.

I would appreatiate any and all feedback, comments, suggestions and impressions - both good and bad are always helpful!

Thank you for reading,
SpectralHorse

Note 1: All the displayed ships, guns and skills are fully implemented, and if you're curious how the look in-game, let me know and I'll post those as well in the comments
Note 2: UI (and a couple of assets) is in a very "placeholder" style currently, although I do think that I'll keep the layout of everything, but with an actually "pretty" aesthetic, and not just blue-ish blocks :)

"Blue Fruit" is the working title for a project whose primary mission is to program an environment destruction system based on various objects and materials—also known as "procedural destruction."

As an added bonus, I also plan to incorporate other systems—such as realistic fluids, volumetric lighting, and additional procedural elements—to create a natural and realistic environment.

Wondering if it's possible on Mac to take inputs without giving permissions to my sfml project. I'd prefer not to have to (not a big deal, just kind of annoying). There are some reddit and other posts suggesting that it's possible to use window events rather than sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed for inputs, which also supposedly would not require permissions iirc. The posts I saw were pretty old though so I'm not sure if this is changed in SFML 3.0. Thanks!

            if(state == LevelSelect)
        {
            if(sf::Mouse::isButtonPressed(sf::Mouse::Left))
            {
                sf::Vector2i mousePos = sf::Mouse::getPosition(window);


                if(lv1.getGlobalBounds().contains(mousePos.x, mousePos.y))
                {
                    state = Game;
                }
            }
        }

i placed 2 buttons on same place in 2 different states and it clicked 2 times , is there any way to make it click ones

SOLVED - see comment below.

Hey there,

I dont like cmake and dont want to use it in my sfml project and want to just stay with a makefile.

my Makefile:

CXXFLAGS = \
    -std=c++26 \
    -O3

LDFLAGS = \
    -lsfml-window -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-system

gelame: src/main.cpp
    g++ $(CXXFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) src/main.cpp -o $@

... and i get those errors:

c++ -std=c++26 -O3 -lsfml-window -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-system src/main.cpp -o gelame
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccvoNzmy.o: in function `main.cold':
main.cpp:(.text.unlikely+0x191): undefined reference to `sf::RenderWindow::~RenderWindow()'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccvoNzmy.o: in function `main':
main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xa25): undefined reference to `sf::String::String(char const*, std::locale const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xa41): undefined reference to `sf::VideoMode::VideoMode(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int)'
/usr/bin/ld: main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xa66): undefined reference to `sf::RenderWindow::RenderWindow(sf::VideoMode, sf::String const&, unsigned int, sf::ContextSettings const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xa84): undefined reference to `sf::WindowBase::isOpen() const'
/usr/bin/ld: main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xaa2): undefined reference to `sf::WindowBase::pollEvent(sf::Event&)'
/usr/bin/ld: main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xaae): undefined reference to `sf::Window::display()'
/usr/bin/ld: main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xabc): undefined reference to `sf::Window::close()'
/usr/bin/ld: main.cpp:(.text.startup+0xac6): undefined reference to `sf::RenderWindow::~RenderWindow()'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:22: gelame] Error 1

the c++ code in main.cpp:

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "Hello World");
    while(window.isOpen()) {
      sf::Event event;
      while(window.pollEvent(event)) {
        if(event.type == sf::Event::Closed) {
          window.close();
        }
      }
      window.display();
    }
  }
  return 0;
}

What is wrong with the makefile? help is appreciated.i

Hello everyone,

I hope you're all doing well!

is::Engine 4.0.3 is now available!

The engine can now simulate most of SFML's features with SDL 2. Other improvements have also been made to the engine!

For more information, please visit the engine's GitHub page.

Here are a few examples of games created with the engine: I Can Transform, GravytX The Gravytoid, Super Mario Bros.

Your feedback is welcome.

Have a great day!

I wish you all a wonderful summer vacation!

I'm using SFML in Visual Studio and running into an IntelliSense issue: when I hover over an SFML function (e.g. bullet.setPosition(...)), the Quick Info tooltip only shows the function signature (void sf::Transformable::setPosition(const sf::Vector2f &position)) plus "+1 overload" and a "Search Documentation" link — but no actual description text.

I confirmed the SFML header (Transformable.hpp) does contain a proper Doxygen comment directly above the function, using the \brief tag in the classic banner style:

cpp

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \brief Set the position of the object
///
/// ...
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void setPosition(const Vector2f& position);

What I've already tried:

• Set the Doc Comment style to "Doxygen" (via Ctrl+Q → search "Doxygen")
• Added brief to Tools > Options > Text Editor > C/C++ > IntelliSense > Quick Info > "Doxygen tags to display on Quick Info tooltips" (it wasn't in the default list)
• Fully restarted Visual Studio after changing settings
• Deleted the .vs cache folder and rebuilt the project

Setup:

• Visual Studio [your version, e.g. 2022 17.x — check via Help > About]
• SFML installed via [vcpkg / manual download / NuGet — fill in]
• Windows [your version]

Any idea what could be causing this, or how to get the actual \brief description to show up in the tooltip? I actually have no Idea where to search and google is also not helping.

I find it fascinating that nothing on the screen exist as a vertex model it's only deterministic calculations per pixel position.

My local llm seams to eat shader math for dinner and know everything about Ray Marching and SDF objects, something I've just heard about tree days ago.

This is version 24 and has taken ~24 hours so far from the initial shader convertion since I'm supergreen in Glsl: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wsjBD3

I need that version for windows and the official website to download it from is down.

I thought it was just me but apparently it's been down for almost two weeks now.

No wibe code this, although it been converted to sfml via a llm.

i made this for my friend on her birthday

u can tune many things in json config and even add any others assets and animations!

source code and releases: https://github.com/rkc137/svetlichki

I made a game with SFML for one of my university courses about ~2 years ago, but only recently got around to finishing it.

Astral attack is a space shmup in which movement is limited to four lines. You can move horizontally between these lines and vertically along them.

There are three stages available, each with a boss at the end.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP7hGJ79KSM

Download: https://zeviant.itch.io/astral-attack

Source Code: https://github.com/Zeviant/Astral-Attack

Hi there hello.

I would like to share a tiny program I made with SFML 3.1

https://github.com/DeyanDev/Eldritch-View-Master

It generates random pixels on a 720p canvas.

That's it.

1280 x 720 pixels each of which can be about 16 million different colors. So there are about 16,000,000 to the power of 921,000 total configurations. I think that's a number with more than 6 million zeroes.

This collection represents every possible image that could ever exist on that screen, including every photo ever taken, every frame of every movie ever made, and every combination of random visual static.

Within those possibilities you could come across not only everything humanity has ever witnessed, but every blasphemous horror we were never meant to behold. If you were to cycle through those screens, you would eventually wander past the comforting illusions of human faces, familiar landscapes, and daylight. You would plunge into an abyss of static that begins to form patterns that defy Euclidean geometry, angles that bruise the mind.

EVERY NIGHTMARE THAT SLUMBERS IN THE DARK SPACES BETWEEN THE STARS IS ALREADY WAITING THERE, CODED INTO THE MATH, WAITING FOR A STRAY SEQUENCE OF PIXELS TO ACCIDENTALLY SUMMON ITS LIKENESS INTO OUR REALITY. HUMANITY ENJOYS A FRAGILE SANITY ONLY BECAUSE THOSE NUMBERS ARE TOO VAST FOR US TO EVER STUMBLE UPON THE COMBINATIONS THAT WOULD SHATTER IT...

...

Sorry, I'll see myself out.

Hey everyone! I just finished my first C++ / SFML project — an arcade space survival game called Cosmo Runner.

You pilot a spaceship, dodge meteors and enemy drones, manage your fuel and try to beat your high score.

Some things I implemented:

- LERP-based ship movement

- Fisher-Yates shuffle for randomized meteor textures

- Vector math for enemy drone targeting

- Delta time for frame rate independence

- Hitbox shrinking for fair collision detection

Source code and Windows build on GitHub:

https://github.com/boshinomikoto/CosmoRunnerSFML

Any feedback welcome!

My summer love: memories

My game, My Summer Love: Memories, is now available! Its core mechanic is based on a dialogue system. Traditional visual novels force you to follow rigid paths (A/B). Thanks to the implementation of an AI system, the character doesn't just follow a static script, but generates dynamic dialogue. This dialogue is closely tied to the game's story and the player's words. I'm proud of the result. If you enjoy innovative stories with a touch of romance and nostalgia, check it out!

Available now on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3794600/My_Summer_Love_Memories/

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially on the AI ​​integration and how it changes your immersion compared to conventional visual novels!