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sorry to bump, but i have a question about the GUI

say i have a GUI which is made up of say only 2 triangles, and just makes a rectangle cover 100 pixels of the right hand side of the screen, am I...

thanks for the comments!

i was going to do textures, but I kinda wanted to finish it, and will try textures for my next project (RTS in 2d again, with directplay hopefully).

i'm only just...

ok, sorry, solved my own question!

it does just what i wanted it to do, and i understand why it wasnt working before, its because the camera always faced 0,0,0, meaning it would "spiral" around...

right, i'm having mighty trouble with this D3DXMatrixLookAtLH thingy for the viewport!

atm, i have a basic cube, and am currently trying to make it so that when you press vbKeyLeft, the "camera"...

erm can anyone link me to tutorial dealing with this stuff, as I don't really know what to search for!

thanks

ok, so i need viewport, matrixworlds and projectoring thingys to do this (properly)?

ill get on it then :D tutorials here we come

hi,

I just though i should post my first game using:

gameloop, directx, and decent modular layout (i hope!!)

it's a real simple game, you move your character using leftarrow + rightarrow and...

I'm planning on making a simple (very) RTS-like game, and atm I'm stumped on displaying a scrollable screen, such as one in any RTS game, where not the whole "world" is displayed at the same time,...

shameless bump

can anyone help?

i've added some scripting support to my basic game, and so far have this:

With frmMain.SC
.Reset
.AddObject "Game", Game
.AddObject "User", User
.AddCode...

many thanks for your help (how many times do i hear myself say this!)!

everything can now be "done" in the fullness of time, all questions answered! (for the moment ;))

but... what kinda FPS do...

cool, many thanks!

ive been trying to keep every seperate, and have a DirectInputFunctions module, DirectGfxFunctions module, "other" functions module, and a declaration module, my game loops has...

oh my, having terrible trouble with direct input :S

i read the tut on it at Directx4vb, which puts quite a lot of stuff into the game_loop(), which i didnt really like, so i tried to shove it all...

oh my word how did I miss that :S i thought all of them after #4 were pure 3d stuff!

thanks!

Thanks to Jacob Roman and Venom555 I am at the next step of programming my Direcx8 game, the GUI.

Should I use simple polygons with textures to create the GUI? And if so, is there a way to draw...

wow dude, you rock hardcore

i myself am only 15, and just starting my first use of DirectX8. Are you planning on becoming a games dev when you're older? i always imagined that the younger you...

lol crazy!

not sure I'll be using that tho.. kinda hard on the eyes after a while! also, the bottom of the screen is all screwed, but i think thats myfault :S

again, thank you so much for your help!

atm im stuck for questions! you've answered everything I need to know atm, expect to see my game in the demo forum pretty soon... maybe a week or so, as...

thanks very much!

a now unrelated question...

i have declared a dynamic array, but whenever i try and get the upperbound of this array, it crashs and returns "subscript out of range", this has...

i just noticed something in my render sub:

Public Sub Render()
'//1. We need to clear the render device before we can draw anything
' This must always happen before you start rendering...

ok i can now render everything i need to, but there are a couple of issues I'm still not sure about...

Backbuffering, if someone could explain this, along with whatever code is neccesary, then I'd...

yes, every 1000 ms a certain piece of code is executed, not related to rendering at all, just something completetly different - something like that.

Is that easily done?

wow thanks very much! Thats a great help!

So I init everything etc I do something like this:

for every Crate()
Polygon() = blah blah Crate.X whatever

D3DDevice.somethingprimitiveUP whatever...

ok many thanks, just a couple more queries.

I looked at all the DX8 2d tuts at Directx4vb.com (with its real address ofc), and i can now draw simple shapes to the screen as well as texture them...

very nice, very polished as well

run perfectly on p4 3, 1024, 5950 ultra

good job :D

right, so you're suggesting DirectX (8) straight off? As this will help in the long run right? (I am wanting to become a game dev when I'm older, I'm only 15 now, so I think I started early... did...

y'ok...

I'll look up a tut on backbuffers, and await your project whence you return!

ok, so on every loop through the game loop, i picScreen.cls and rebitblt everything? I am trying this atm and the image flickers like crazy.

On the other point, I already have something like that,...

After spending quite a bit of time reading tutorials etc around the site, I decided to rewrite a (very simple) game I made a week or so back, but this time using a game loop, better written classes,...

Both this and your 2d Halo type game I would say are looking very good, with clean graphics, good controls and some nice effects - especially in this game. May I ask how long you have been coding?
...

cool

many thanks everyone :bigyello:

thanks very much for the quick response, although I don't think I made myself clear in my original post, I don't require any SQL - no databases in sight.

One more quick question, if a string...

hi,

I'm making a monopoly type game, and am having trouble with the "chance" or "community chest" cards.

I have made a simple card editor that allows user to input values for each card, then...