VB 2005, 3D Spheres

[Rich2189]

How would i go about using Direct X or something similar to draw spheres. I added the direct x type library but none of the direct X objects are avaliable, which is a slight spanner in the works.

ultimatly im looking at drawing this http://scicentr1.tc.cornell.edu/expl...ngifs/trip.gif

and rotatating it in all directions.

[Pino]

Downlaod the SDK,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/sdk/

There are some good examples in there of starting an app loading meshes lighting etc,

Pino

[Rich2189]

Just installed it, seems none of the samples will work with VB 2005 . That settles it, C++ here I come. Great casting errors, hmm fixed that now I have a window YAY. great it can't find the include files. As if battling with C++ wasn't enough.

[Pino]

They work with my 2005.....

:-/

[Rich2189]

There is hope then ,

I get the error "make sure the application for the file type .csproj is installed."

well its VB 2005 Express edition if that makes a difference, got it a month ago

thanks

[Pino]

.csproj

is a c# project file - you will have to download c# express as well. The code can be converted to Vb fairly easily!

[Rich2189]

quality i'll download it later, who would think all this software just to get some DX going. Clogging up the hard drive.

Thanks for your help.

[penagate]

Bleh. C# is better than VB anyway

You'll get used to having tons of development apps - I have three Express Ed's at home, VS 2005 at work - which is nice

[Rich2189]

Bleh. C# is better than VB anyway

You'll get used to having tons of development apps - I have three Express Ed's at home, VS 2005 at work - which is nice

I'm still in turnmoil as to which language I'm going to use, it will be something C based. The most likely route is going to be the winapi, then use the Direct X stuff through that.

[NoteMe]

If you use C#, you don't have to clutter with the Win32API. Makes it a hell of a easier for prototyping and simple DX apps.


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[Rich2189]

If you use C#, you don't have to clutter with the Win32API. Makes it a hell of a easier for prototyping and simple DX apps.


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This is the core of my problem i want it to be easy but C# is windows only, wheras if i use the winapi, I'll learn something about C++ at the same time.

[NoteMe]

C# is not windows only. I am in Linux right now, and I am coding C#... I am the DoomSharp(); monster..

[Rich2189]

linux, thats why i wanted to use C/C++ cause i want to do some developing in linux as some point. Turns out C# is also an option , What distro do you recomend for developing apps in? or compiler. i Have kubuntu at the minute.

Is doom sharp that game your making?

[NoteMe]

DoomSharp kind of died a bit, because of personal problems in the team. But it was started to show that C# and .NET could pull off cross platform 3D rendering from scratch without any graphics libraries like OpenGL or DirectX. We got pretty far.

Here is the DoomSharp section of VBF: http://vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=75

You have to change the "from the" combobox to all to see all the threads. There is a few threads with screenshots there.

As to platform. It doesn't really matter. I use Debian at work, and Ubuntu at the moment home. Kubuntu should do just fine. If you want to do C# in Kubuntu, look at the mono project (google) and monodevelop to get your started.


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[Rich2189]

It looks super decent for something not done in direct x or open GL. Loving the sketches they look like the ones i have for my current project. Covered in circles, trianges, lines with coords.

What would i use if i wanted to do it in C++?

[NoteMe]

gcc is the compiler, and you can use any IDE really. SInce you are in KDE I guess KDevelop(er?) is a good start.


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[Rich2189]

With C# is there a .net version as well as a normal version. Like VB6 is to VB.net.

[penagate]

No, only the .NET version.

[Rich2189]

No, only the .NET version.

Then how is it that you can use C# on linux if it requires the .net framework?

[penagate]

Mono

[Rich2189]