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Re: bytes_to_int

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Feb 12, 2006
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your average Joe wrote:
> 
> yes i have been using that method, and as far as i can tell, there seems to
> be
> some sort of clipping going on. by clipping i mean once i reach a certain 
> magnitude it is not converting properly, if that makes sense. i can see it
> visually because i am mapping the returned values into a heightfield in opengl
> and they are all clipped at the exact same height so the tops of the hills at
> a certain elevation appear in the right spot x,z wise but appear below the
> other
> terrain points that arent clipped. The only thing i can trace it back to is
> this method of using {0,0} padding to convert them, note that the tops of the
> hills 
> elevation wise map propely they just all have the same negative clipped
> magnitude

Why don't you put a temporary check in the code where you are appending
the 2 zeros to print an error if any byte in your 4 byte sequence
exceeds the 256 size limit ?

Bernie

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