It's funny how sometimes you over-complecate things

I'm making a program that loads a heightmap and then displays it in 3D. So I start writing methods to load a .dds file, turn it into a DX8 surface, copy the bits to an 1D array, copy the 1D array's bits to a 2D array so I can access the bits easier. Right when I get all this mess actually working I relise I could have just loaded the original .bmp file into a PictureBox class an used the point command. :D :o :D :o :D :o :D :eek:

A Memory DC would have been more efficient. I had problems before, where Point would only give me -1, when the PictureBox was hidden. You dont get this problem using a Memory DC, and GetPixel().

Z.

Remove the DC layer and use the bimap directly, there's huge performance difference.

Then you have to muck around with bitmap Headers, and all of that. Better even, you could preprocess the Bitmap, and write out a .raw file containing a single byte for each height value.

Z.

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Originally posted by Zaei
Then you have to muck around with bitmap Headers, and all of that. Better even, you could preprocess the Bitmap, and write out a .raw file containing a single byte for each height value.

Z.

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or learn C++ ;)

Here's a quote I think you'll like kedaman =).

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - Edsger Dijkstra.

Z.

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Originally posted by Zaei
Here's a quote I think you'll like kedaman =).

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - Edsger Dijkstra.

Z.

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I'm a living miracle to survive that :p

As am I =).

Z.

I have learned C++ and I understand it, while before I was taught BASIC. Ta!

i think C++ & Visual Basic are almost the same thing except for their formats,
but since i'm a newbie in C++ i like VB better cause
in C++ i can only program in that Black window that displays only texts... :confused: :mad:

C++ and VB are quite different. When you get better, and learn more of the nuances, you being to understand that =).

Z.