Darkbasic

anyone heard of DarkBasic here?

Manic

Heard of it - never used it! Isn't it just like QB with lib's??

Yeah, ive heard of darkbasic and i'am really interested in using it to the max and will do that exept one thing I dont have it!

if you have a copy send it to me @

[email protected]

thanks!

Yup i have Dark Basic, its a great 3D games programing language, they just released DB Pro too which is far better than basic DB and alot faster.

Its like VB or QBasic etc as a language so most epople will be at home with it but it has ALOT of extra commands to make 3D programing a breese.

E.G>

Make Matrix 1,100,100,25,25
Make Object Cube 1,10,10
Make Object Sphear 2,20

Will make a 3d Terrain 100X100 in size and divided into 25x25 squares

make a 3D box on screen 10x10
make a sphear 20 units in diameter

Rotate Object 1,90

Will rotate the Cude 90 degrees

Its so easy

Go give it a try at

WWW.DarkBasic.com

You can get a free trail donwload, also check out the games section that people have made to see what its caperble of.

can you nativly load up 3d studio max files, or do they need be converted to something? Got some links to some quick down a dirty tips on this subject. Ive been wanting to buy DarkBasic, but the few things I read about coding it confused me a little.

DarkBasic can use 3DS files or .X files if your useing any other kind of file format for the 3D modles you will need to chage the format

the new pro version can load mdls and md3's and some others as well.

although it is painfully simple to use, it does have some drawbacks when it comes to power (not even a split() type function)

The interface is bad (but is a lot better in Pro).

Manic

Some drawbacks I've found about DB (you can't do any of this that I've found):

1. Can't control windowed/full screen mode
2. Can't give your program a custom icon

If you can do these let me know ;)

there was a update released that lets you switch to windowed. To cvhange the icon you need to find a icon changer program, i used to have one, but i lost it last time i reformatted my HD.

Manic

I saw JS Harbour is briting a book on DBasic, check out this thread...

http://www.visualbasicforum.com/show...0&pagenumber=2

I got DB pro for christmas, they say it is the esiest language, but maybe i just need a decent tutorial :rolleyes: :rolleyes: It's quite good, royalty free too :D sell what you make - if you make anything good enough to sell that is :cool: I have seen some screenshots of some people's games, they look prety good.

www.darkbasicpro.com
www.darkbasic.com
www.realgametools.com

Have a look, see what you think.

Dark basic pro is a bit buggy at the moment, but i't not too bad. Something new to learn ;)

Dave

i dont know if this will work darkbasic but you can change .ico with a prog called resource hacker. im not sure what file extensions dark basic are saved as but you can take a look at resource hacker. but then ull need a prog like microangelo to make .ico