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RESOURCES: The
Code Bin
Welcome
to the code bin. So what is the 'Code Bin' then?
This section of the site is for partially completed
projects, small sample files and examples - the
stuff thats either not worthy of an article or
tutorial, or code that is still useful yet I haven't
been bothered to write up a tutorial for it (yet!)...
Should
you have something you feel fits in here then
feel free to email me
about it
IMPORTANT:
The Code included within these examples is for
reference only, you are free to rip them to shreds
and use whatever you find useful, but the actual
idea (if a game) and design are copyright (©)
of the original author - should you wish to take
up the project and try and complete it you must
contact the relevant person (or persons) first.
Hardware
Shadow Maps using Direct3D 8 (249kb)
- Visual Basic 6, Direct3D8
- Status: Complete, a few bugs.
- A converted sample showing how to use NVidia's
hardware accelerated shadow maps.
Full-screen
Motion Blurring using D3D8.0 and VB (148kb)
- Converted by Jack Hoxley
- Status: Complete
- Visual Basic 6, Direct3D8
- A conversion from C++ to VB of the full-screen
blurring sample presented in the book "Real-Time
Rendering Tricks and Techniques in DirectX"
by Kelly Dempski. See Readme.txt in the archive
for further details.
DirectX7
Tutorials upgraded to work with DirectX8 (936kb)
- Written by Marius Schmidt
- Status: Complete
- Visual Basic 6, Direct3D8
- Two popular DirectX7 (The error class and 3D
camera movement) have been updated for use in
DirectX8.
nth
Degree Patches (315kb)
- Written by Jack Hoxley
- Status: Complete
- Visual Basic 6, Direct3D8
- An extended version of this tutorial here
on cubic patches. This version extends it to 'n'
degree polynomials, eg, beyond cubic... anything
above 10th degree is very slow though (50th degree
takes 45mins on my 700mhz Athlon!)
The
Man With The Digital Gun (1.83mb)
- Written/Designed by Jack Hoxley
- Incomplete (on pause)
- Visual Basic 6, DirectX 7
- Also the beginnings of a promising game, using
a Direct3D isometric landscaping engine. Time
and interests ran out for this project as well
however, it may return...
Auto-Z
using DirectDraw7 (2.5mb) Updated
Version here
(787kb)
- Written by James Kramer
- Visual Basic 6, DirectX 7
- An example of how to use Z-Ordering in a 2D
Game (ie, some things behind others), useful for
adventure games/RPG's. NB: whilst this demo isn't
particularly _bad_ it does use an animation of
a women in only a bikini (just letting you know
in case you don't like that sort of thing!).
Real-time
Image Manipulation Demo (158kb)
- Written by Thomas Hatfield
- Visual Basic 6, DirectX7
- A good example of doing real-time bump-mapping
without any hardware, using DirectDraw7. Even if
it does prove to be a little too slow for any
heavy-special effects it will improve your
understanding of a very clever graphical
technique...
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