Fade screen In/Out -Video Game Title Screen - Please Help

[spyplayer]

I have looked at all the posts and topics on this forum and none of them seem to make sence, I have tried toutorials
(BAD SPELLING) and downloading examples..... I dont get it... I have heard of using DirectX but That looks kinda complicated.. Im confused and lost......... I need help......... I want this for a video Game that I am programming.... I want the title screen to fade in, and then out, and then the selection screen to fade in.... you have seen it on video games.....

Thanks in advance!!!!

Frm_Title
Frm_Selection

[Janus]

You can't do that using forms, unless you have windows 2000 or XP, and even in that case, it'd be slow.

[i00]

it's not only posible but also extremaly fast
and works on ANY VERSION OF WINDOWS

in the attached example i fade to what is behind the window;
but you can fade to whatever is in the picDC.picture

[Sastraxi]

Your example didn't work for me, I'm afraid

[Sastraxi]

Actually, if you could pull it off with a 256-colour titlescreen, you can use palette animation to fade all of the palette values to 0. I think this may be your best bet...

[Janus]

He wants to fade BETWEEN the two WINDOWS, not the images. And that's only possible with some sort of alpha blending, like GDI+ Layered Windows.

[spyplayer]

When I tried your example it highlighted the Get DC in the Private Sub Form Load Procedure........ Can you make it work....... Thanks...... hey and Sastraxi..... what do you mean 256-colour titlescreen... what are you talking about???

And I have seen one of my friends do a fade between forms but he cant help me....

Any other Ideas????

[Sastraxi]

In DirectDraw, you can have a fullscreen app that has an image (surface). If it was 256 colours, there are PALETTES for 256-colour images, which mean each pixel is a pallete entry not a colour. These pixels are directly dependant on the pallette entries, and therefore changing these values changes the pixels... understand? Therefore since you need only change 256 entries it becomes quite a fast procedure

http://www.vbexplorer.com/directx4vb/

A great site, go there if you want to learn more!

[spyplayer]

Im sorry for my brain being so non-compatable with vb, but I have no clue what you are talking about... Direct X, I have heard a little and seen some AWESOME things done with it but I have no clue in this universe on how to do anything with it, where would be a good place to learn about Direct-X??? A VERY VERY VERY BEGINNERS PLACE? Could you put the code up and describe it? I can usually figure things out that way.....

THANKS!!!!!

CAN YOU EXPLAIN????

[Sastraxi]

Well, thats just the thing; I've given you the site so try to figure it out yourself . Normally I'm much more helpful, but all that I've given you is theory; it's never worked for me. Perhaps if it works for you, you could show us, but it hasn't worked for me. In that URL that I gave you, look at the Palettes tutorial.

[jamieoboth]

It worked fine for me (the download) In fact itz brilliant! Im gonna use it too. It comes up with a file not found error at the beginning, and the prgranm wont run, so all you have to do is add in the module from the folder, and run it! It works like a charm!
WELL DONE!

[cyborg]

ive changed some things in the code......
but it sometimes looks strange if you run it from VB...
try to compile it first and run the .exe file...

[spyplayer]

It worked good! I kinda forgot to put the modual with it.... heh

But I have another problem......... Whenever I fade, it fades to the desktop, but it takes the taskbar and kinda shifts it halfway up the page when I put my own logo on the program....... It like shifts the whole screen after it fades it, and then when its done fading it goes back to normal and the taskbar is in the original place, But I need it to fade to black, not the desktop or the program behind it...... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!! I tried deleting things and then I tried to put a form behind the fading form but so far no success.... HELP!!!!

[spyplayer]

It worked good! I kinda forgot to put the modual with it.... heh

But I have another problem......... Whenever I fade, it fades to the desktop, but it takes the taskbar and kinda shifts it halfway up the page when I put my own logo on the program....... It like shifts the whole screen after it fades it, and then when its done fading it goes back to normal and the taskbar is in the original place, But I need it to fade to black, not the desktop or the program behind it...... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!! I tried deleting things and then I tried to put a form behind the fading form but so far no success.... HELP!!!!


I have attached the program that I am using... The fade, but my logo in it, (THE ONE I AM HVING TROUBLE ON) THANKS!!!

[spyplayer]

Thanks soo much cyborg, your prog(The one you edited) worked 10X better! TIGHT! THANKS!

-SPY