Me = DirectX Newbie

I have no experience in Direct X watsoeva. I am planning a long term game with my friend. I have (i think) grown out of newbieness(disease:cool: ) so i think i can handle dx. I've been through the dx tutorial from vbexplorer but that (i think) is not good enough for a dx newbie like me.

Please recommend and lead me to some resources for Direct X for newbies.

Thanks

Here's my input:

Jack Hoxley's DirectX4VB Site: http://64.23.12.52//index.asp
Lucky's VB Gaming Site: http://rookscape.com/vbgaming/tutorials.php
VoodooVB: http://voodoovb.thenexus.bc.ca/tutorialsindex.html

-Bryk

I would stick with the first one on the list. The tutorials are well written, etc.

Z.

If you're REALLY a newbie or just too lazy, you can use the DX Plug, available at http://www.planet-source-code.com . It has a lot of functions to make DX easier than BitBlt :cool:

I find that using things like that slow down the program, as Directdraw and Bitblt act a lot differently. I used one once from there and it flipped EVERY time you blitted something to the screen.

Hehe lol :p

This one isn't perfect too, I had to improve it a lot until it was faster/had a cleaner code, supported windowed mode, and could store some images in video memory for faster special effects ;)