Why does dividing a float by an integer return 0.0?

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It’s because you’re doing integer division.

Divide by a double or a float, and it will work:

double scale = ( n / 1024.0 ) * 255 ;

Or, if you want it as a float,

float scale = ( n / 1024.0f ) * 255 ;

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