StarFX

**hypnos** · Jul 27th, 2001, 08:55 AM

Hi all,
Just created a little starFX programme. It's nothing special just did it for a laugh. It runs fine on my system (866 PIII); my friend said on he’s system it was quite jerky (333 PII). I guess if you have better than an 866 it will run brilliantly. Let me know what you think.

Link: http://www.geocities.com/hypnos_ric/vb/temp/starFX.zip

**Sastraxi** · Jul 27th, 2001, 06:13 PM

What did you use for the stars? Some form of 3D, Directdraw, Setpixel, something else...?

**hypnos** · Jul 27th, 2001, 06:21 PM

No, I used go old VB all the way. To do the stars I used the PSet method.

**Fox** · Jul 27th, 2001, 08:02 PM

You can't rotate it or anything..

**Fox** · Jul 27th, 2001, 08:04 PM

(user arrows and +/-)

**filburt1** · Jul 27th, 2001, 09:02 PM

Originally posted by hypnos
Hi all,
Just created a little starFX programme. It's nothing special just did it for a laugh. It runs fine on my system (866 PIII); my friend said on he’s system it was quite jerky (333 PII). I guess if you have better than an 866 it will run brilliantly. Let me know what you think.

Link: http://www.geocities.com/hypnos_ric/vb/temp/starFX.zip

404 on the link

**Sastraxi** · Jul 28th, 2001, 12:22 AM

right-click, save as.

**hypnos** · Jul 28th, 2001, 05:46 AM

Thats's right Fox you can't rotate it but as I said, I just did a for a laugh

It only took me 5 minutes to create

**hypnos** · Jul 28th, 2001, 05:51 AM

I like your effect fox although I get a little tired of just seeing the flying through space effect over and over again. Still, yours has the option of moving about which is a nice touch.

**Fox** · Jul 28th, 2001, 07:06 AM

Well what you should do at least is using SetPixel, because PSet really sux in speed..

**hypnos** · Jul 28th, 2001, 07:27 AM

Hi Fox,
I did use SetPixel at first but it went so fast that I couldn't see any of the stars

**hypnos** · Jul 28th, 2001, 07:40 AM

Please help me Fox,
I've changed it to SetPixel but it seems to be missing a lot of stars out. It only draws about half of them. Why is this and how can I fix it?

**hypnos** · Jul 28th, 2001, 07:45 AM

It's ok now, I changed the ScaleMode to Pixels

**Fox** · Jul 28th, 2001, 02:42 PM

*argh*

erm well, a programm can't ever be too fast!!!

Use gettickcount to slow it down to the best framerate, but don't think it'll run as slow as on your computer ie. on mine

**hypnos** · Jul 28th, 2001, 03:19 PM

Thanks for the advice Fox. That was the problem I was having, I wasn't sure how to slow it down without making it really jerky. I got it now though

Thanks

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