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  1. Jun 16th, 2001, 02:44 PM #1
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    Thumbs up Sastraxi Smooth is Back, with a Vengeance!

    I'm working on my latest installement of SsGraphics, earlier known as CharaEnh/S.Smooth. This one features:

    2x resize, 3x resize, 4x resize. (ROCKET fast, using DDraw)
    Manual Resize - 0.1x - 10x. (fast, using DDraw, although giving this a parameter of 4 will be slower than 4x, although giving basically the same result).
    Alpha-Blending, using vbDabl/Win98-Only alphablending.

    Coming in the form of a DLL, for use in your apps.
    It'll feature input of LONG pixel arrays/DDraw surfaces, and the output of LONG pixels arrays/DDraw surfaces.

    It's not done yet though .
    I need your help, a GOOD tutorial on accessing the memory of a surface in DDraw (dx7), not jack hoxley's tut.

    And HarryW, I finally found out what you meant when you said they weren't all the same picture, it's just that I couldnt screenshot normally at the same time as the kreed's supereagle.
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  2. Jun 16th, 2001, 06:23 PM #2
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    It's no big deal accessing the data behind a surface, use Getlockedarray on it. Anyway you'd be producing much faster DMA using C++, there's some samples i got with the DX8 SDK.
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    Oh I know that, but it never seems to work...
    HELP!
    ...I recently tried to install the "Fury Engine", an RPG maker, on my system.... During the install it locked up and for some reason has overwritten my DX7VB.DLL file!!!
    Can I get another one somewhere?
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  4. Jun 16th, 2001, 10:00 PM #4
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    I've found a happy little directory called Sysbckup.... I am happy once more .
    But I but the DX7VB.DLL back in to the normal SYSTEM dir and it still doesnt work... (after a reboot)
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  6. Jun 17th, 2001, 10:41 PM #5
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    Okay I have fixed it...
    Somehow

    Kedaman what is it about DMA using C++? If possible, could you show me how to do this to populate the array from getlockedarray()?
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  7. Jun 22nd, 2001, 06:23 AM #6
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    Look here:

    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...threadid=83811
    Code:
    Temp = Me.GetIQ()
'Error 9: Overflow
'DON'T PANIC! :eek:

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    Thanks Jotaf98, I'll take a look at that...
    Okay. What you do is this:

    VB Code:
    1. Dim SFX As sGraphics

    2. Dim TheSurf As DirectDrawSurface7

    3. Dim The

    4.  
    5. SFX.Init

    6. Set MySurf = SFX.BiRes(TheSurf)

    That's how you start it. (Init) Then you can call BiRes to do what I like to call a 'mask saving enlargement algorithm'. What this does is it doesn't blend any colours to do the enlargement, so you can still create a crisp sprite. Although I might make one in the future that does alpha-channels...

    Oh well, I just need to finish off and make sure there are no bugs, and then it will work. The DLL will be posted sometime later on today.
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  9. Jun 25th, 2001, 07:05 AM #8
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    Hum I posted that link but forgot that YOU started that thread so you already knew about it
    Code:
    Temp = Me.GetIQ()
'Error 9: Overflow
'DON'T PANIC! :eek:

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