Best Way

[Cummings]

What is the best way to make a game as in grpahics?

what type code do you use that is fairly simple, and doesnt require lalot of ram. I dont want a 28mb RAM rock game again.

Also, animated gif's, can we get these in VB?

I am currently making a car game, where you race over the network/internet.

it needs a good set of code to run efficiently tho.

[/\/\isanThr0p]

if its fullscreen DX is the best way. In the DX I don'T know if it would make any sense to use animated gifs.. if it's windowed I would rather use BitBlt with custom animations instead of animated gifs...
how do you do the car physics and what's wrong wiht a 30MB app? I have never checked on my games but since they are fullscreen I don'T mind them using up 30MB of ram.

[Cummings]

Originally posted by /\/\isanThr0p
if its fullscreen DX is the best way. In the DX I don'T know if it would make any sense to use animated gifs.. if it's windowed I would rather use BitBlt with custom animations instead of animated gifs...
how do you do the car physics and what's wrong wiht a 30MB app? I have never checked on my games but since they are fullscreen I don'T mind them using up 30MB of ram.

sry thats a typo there,

it needed 128mb of ram to run properly.

DOnt know what i di wrong tho

[/\/\isanThr0p]

maybe you should try not to load every single graphic you will ever need at a time but only the ones likely to be used soon

[Cummings]

yes, i shal take that into account.

When i did it i was using bitblt but it was in a module, the new peice of code i got has bitblt in a form, plus loads the needed file straight onto a variable.

We will see how it goes tho.

2 more questions,

to play .mod files, or .xm or .it files in visual basic, how would i do so? (these are al music files)

also, how to get flash movies to run in visual basic on computers that dont have it installed.