We need more people in GAMES/GRAPHICS

[One Eyed Jack]

Yeah I needed help and it took four days (exaggerating) to get an answer.

[chrisjk]

What do you expect the Admin to do about it?!?!

Trouble is, VB isn't exactly the best games development platform in the world

If after a couple of days you haven't got an answer, most people won't mind if you post something in General VB. But on the whole if people are interesting in graphics/game programming they'll visit that forum anyway.

[Sastraxi]

I just posted to your BitBlt problem OEJack, so go check it out . I'll ALWAYS be in the G&G forum, I'm truly addicted. =)

[kayoca]

Originally posted by chrisjk
Trouble is, VB isn't exactly the best games development platform in the world

Check out Unreal. This game is using VB Runetime files. For some things.

[denniswrenn]

It's made in C++.... some little addons may be made in VB, but I'm sure the majority of the game is made in C++... BTW, even if Unreal is made in VB, that still doesn't make it the best game making language... we all the best is C++(Not necesarily the fastest, that's what ASM is for, but it's the highest level language acceptable for making atleast a half decent game)....

Just my $0.02

[Jethro]

Originally posted by denniswrenn
It's made in C++.... some little addons may be made in VB, but I'm sure the majority of the game is made in C++... BTW, even if Unreal is made in VB, that still doesn't make it the best game making language... we all the best is C++(Not necesarily the fastest, that's what ASM is for, but it's the highest level language acceptable for making atleast a half decent game)....

Just my $0.02

Damn, and l was using vb to create my "Hide the Sausage" game

[Sastraxi]

Well really in about 2-3 years it won't really matter if you use VB over C++. Since both support DirectX and with processor & graphic cards being as great as they are.... It really won't matter.

[JoshT]

I remember reading an article about console gaming that talked about using ASM and C over C++ because classes use too much overhead...

[denniswrenn]

Sastraxi: A reason VB is no good for games is because it's more likely to crash since it requires evil runtimes

[parksie]

The engine is all at least C++, it's just the editor that uses VB, for some reason.

[Sastraxi]

They don't mind if the editor is crap slow, because it's using software rendering anyways.. if you want to test that out put an object (an actor) in a room and go up to it, it kind of morphs when you get too close....