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| Submitted on: 8/13/2000 6:16:09 AM
By: Simon Price
Level: Intermediate
User Rating:
By 34 Users
Compatibility:VB 5.0, VB 6.0
Users have accessed this code 15823 times.
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| | | A WHOLE 3D PARADISE TO WALK AROUND IN REAL TIME!!! This is my first Direct3D program (apart from a plain cube). It demonstates lots of the basic stuff you need to use to make a Direct 3D program, such as : Z-buffering, texture mapping, matrices, polygon sorting and scrolling backgrounds. The 3D world includes a plane and a boat, and some trees. All this packed into a 264KB download! I made the trees using a trick I saw on the game Tombraider - they are 2D sprites which turn to face the camera! Even if this don't teach you much, you can at least have a laugh at the ridiculously low polygon count and cheap effects. NOTE : YOU NEED DIRECTX 7 INSTALLED TO RUN THIS! For the best performance, close all other programs and run "Si's 3D Garden.exe" (included). See "readme.html" for more information. Please COME BACK AND VOTE FOR THIS because I don't think anyone else has given up the source code for a whole 3D world to Planet Source Code!
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8/13/2000 6:19:42 AM:Simon Price
Hello people
Sorry I couldn't
include a screenshot, it made the
upload too big and it wouldn't work.
But once you see it in action, I hope
you come back and vote 'cos this took a
week of learning to make.
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8/13/2000 11:26:29 AM:WILKSEY
I havent seen it in action yet, but as
it sounds so cool, i'll vote it
excellent anyway, i'm sure it is as
good as u say it is anyway.
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8/13/2000 5:01:34 PM:Habeeb
all i get is an automation error
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8/13/2000 5:06:24 PM:Simon Price
Automation errors are to do with
DirectX - either you haven't got the
right version installed another program
is stopping my program from using it,
or you don't have enough memory. Or you
don't have 16 bit memory (unlikely).
Tell me more and I can help you fix it.
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8/13/2000 5:09:03 PM:Simon Price
By the way if someone does get this
working please tell me so. It may help
me fix the bugs. And I'd like some
positive feedback for a change!
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8/13/2000 5:30:31 PM:Habeeb
I've got plenty of system power &
memory and I *believe* I have dx7...but
how do I check my version of direct x?
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8/13/2000 8:54:29 PM:xXx_VipeI2_xXx
Automation Error here too =/
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8/14/2000 3:25:11 AM:Nathan Chere
Wilksey- are you mental voting before
you download it?
Otherwise, nice code
Simon.
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8/14/2000 3:38:04 AM:Simon Price
Thanks Nathan, I'm glad my code worked
for someone. At least this proves that
it is a compatabilty problem. I just
found out that I have DirectX 7a? Maybe
I am using a feature new to version 7a?
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8/14/2000 4:16:35 AM:Da_Mental_One
That is way Kewl! I like it!!! Got a
full 5 globes from me!!! :) I kept on
crashing into to house tho... Made me
feel like I had x-ray specs on... LOL
Keep up the gr8 work Budski!!! :)
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8/14/2000 5:03:04 AM:Rik
The problem may well be Windows 2000
related - for the most part, anything
written in DirectX 7.0a with VB doesn't
run properly on Windows 2000 (according
to Microsoft's web site -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-online/sh
ared/comments/threadedcomments.asp?cID=1
2219&aID;=2063)
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8/14/2000 6:33:35 AM:Simon Price
Well done Rik, thanks alot!!! So there
you have it people, THIS DOESN'T WORK
WITH WINDOWS 2000 (before I get anymore
complaints). Sorry, there's nothing I
can do about that, if you have Win2K
then tough.
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8/14/2000 6:34:21 AM:Rik
Sorry, just to add - the error I get
refers to DDERR_NOTEXTUREHW - this
means that no texture-mapping hardware
is available or present. Any ideas Si ??
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8/14/2000 8:23:43 AM:Richard Hayden
I get automation errors ONLY when
running it from the exe. NOT when
interpreting it in the IDE. I'm using
Win98SE DX7.0a.
My problem is that,
yesterday I ran your prog and it worked
fine, but today when I run it says,
Invalid procedure call or argument,
highlighting the line of code,
"DX3DDEV.SetTexture 0, Tex(TEX_WALL)".
I expect I'd get the same error on your
other DX3DDEV.SetTexture() calls. I've
NOT edited your prog in anyway, and it
worked fine, until today.
*** I did
install the DirectX7.0 SDK yesterday
evening, but I don't think that should
cause any problems. ***
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8/14/2000 10:02:35 AM:jparks
You can check your DirectX version by
typing dxdiag at the Start/run prompt.
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8/14/2000 10:52:19 AM:Rik
Ok - last thing !! It does work on
Windows 2000 - but it seems to depend
on your graphics card !! Some graphics
cards will not support the DirectX
texture calls - hence the Automation
errors. Therefore, it will work with a
Matrox G200 - but not with a NeoMagic
256AV. And that's that !!
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8/14/2000 11:46:49 AM:PhoenixX_2@yahoo.com
Hey i get an automation error too. But
it's the : DDERR_NOTEXTUREHW wich is,
I DON'T KNOW. I have no 3d acc card
btw...
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8/14/2000 1:19:56 PM:Simon Price
Thanks for all the feedbakc people,
Planet Source Code is a good testing
ground. Next time I make a Direct3D
prog, I'll include LOADS of error
handlers, especially the one for if
you've got no texture mapping hardware!
I'll try to make a new program using
all the feedback you've given me.
Thanks for the excellent votes but
please note that while the program
works excellent for some, it' don't
work at all for others. The moral of
the story is don't go learning all that
fun texture mapping stuff without first
learning the basic error handling stuff!
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8/21/2000 6:31:45 AM:Marc Burgess
Sounded good, but dosn't work for me...
Does this NEED hard ware to work then,
because I did a program like this abit
ago, that didn't have textures, and
that worked fine.
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8/22/2000 11:00:24 AM:Kenneth Gilbert Jr.
The code worked flawlessly.
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9/4/2000 2:22:33 AM:Daniel Davies
Worked excellent for me :o) Great
Work...Again!!!
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9/5/2000 9:44:29 PM:Rich
It worked excellent for me after I
updated to DX7a.
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9/7/2000 1:47:13 AM:NLS - Nonlinear Solutions
Nice job. I gave you four globes. And
... a low polygon count is considered a
*good* thing. On the other hand: "I
don't think anyone else has given up
the source code for a whole 3D world to
Planet Source Code"? Check out Eye3D
source just to make sure. ;-)
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9/7/2000 9:11:31 AM:Digital Vampire
I get Automation error too
I'll be
back later with the details
of the
code part it errors out on !
I am
Using DirectX 7.0a since I
Downloaded
it just so I can try this
Code.
However I have a distinct feeling
this
may be caused by the lack of
HardWare
Acceleration .. not sure tho .
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9/8/2000 8:54:01 AM:Jason Foral
I get Run Timer Error, '5'
I have
DirectX7.
What can be wrong?
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9/9/2000 1:45:44 PM:lord_illogical
i added an error trap to sub
RenderScene and found i get an
automation error on this line
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DX3DDEV.DrawPrimitive
D3DPT_TRIANGLESTRIP, D3DFVF_VERTEX,
vEwall(0), 5, D3DDP_DEFAULT
drawing
side walls, any ideas ?
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9/9/2000 2:03:14 PM:Simon Price
TO ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD PROBLEMS
RUNNING THIS : TRY EDITING THE PICTURE
FILE "sidewall.jpeg" TO MAKE IT A SIZE
OF 256 X 256 PIXELS. THIS WILL FIX THE
GAME IF YOUR MACHINE HAD PROBLEMS WITH
NON-SQUARE OR LARGE TEXTURE MAPS. IF
THIS WORKS FOR YOU, PLEASE TELL ME SO
THAT I AND OTHERS KNOW FOR NEXT TIME
SOMEONE MAKES A DIRECT3D PROGRAM.
THANKS FOR ALL THE VOTES TOO.
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9/9/2000 2:05:02 PM:Simon Price
ALSO EDIT "SKY.JPEG" TO MAKE THAT
SQUARE TOO. MAKE EVERYTHING SQUARE AND
256 X 256 AND IT SHOULD WORK. I MIGHT
RELEASE A BETTER PROGRAM SOON THAT IS
COMPATABLE WITH MORE PC'S, AND HAS MORE
ERROR HANDLING CODE.
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9/11/2000 12:31:08 PM:Richard Hayden
I'm using a 950Mhz, 256Mb RAM, GeForce
II, 64MB GTS graphics and I get
automation errors from a compiled exe
and an interpreter error when
interpreting which looks like
this:
"Invalid procedure call or
argument" and it
highlights:
"DX3DDEV.SetTexture 0,
Tex(TEX_WALL)"
It seems like it
could be good, if it worked, though!
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9/11/2000 2:31:35 PM:Richard Hayden
RE previous e-mail:
Yeah, I will try
and sort 'SetTexture' etc. myself, but
when it does work, it must be the best
bit of Direct3D I've seen on PSC
VB!(I've tried it on my 200MHz and it
works, albeit slowly, but it works!). I
haven't seen anything as good as it in
any open source VB site I've been to,
not that I've been to many! I'm sure
with work you could make a dámn good VB
based game (shoot 'em up), probably one
of, if not the best VB game ever made.
I'd like to try and get it to work so I
can make use of this excellent Direct3D
example.
Thanks again for sharing
this excellent piece of code and your
interest in user feedback and problems.
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9/12/2000 6:41:07 AM:Neil Ramsbottom
Has anyone had any trouble running this
on W2K Advanced Server?
Does it work
with a Voodoo3 for anyone else?
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9/15/2000 2:59:21 AM:ecko
works on my win2k
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9/19/2000 1:32:26 AM:josh
for those interested in vb games should
take a look at vbgaming.com
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9/21/2000 10:14:13 PM:CoryUlui
I'll vote for you not because you said,
(which was a silly thing to do)... but
because ur code rocks..... tell the
truth now where'd u get it from... LOL
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9/26/2000 2:29:21 PM:Richard Hayden
Just back to say that over a month
after I downloaded this, I am still
amazed at what can be done with VB in
Direct3D! I never this type of 3D
program was possible in VB, but I was
proved wrong!
Thanks, Again.
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9/28/2000 5:56:24 AM:Sauron
This code is cool and it worked on my
system as soon as I tried it.
This is
the best code I have downloaded of
PlanetSourceCode.com yet :)
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10/28/2000 11:11:45 PM:Jason Brimblecombe
Excellent! I am really interested in
this sort of stuff, so could you tell
me how you learnt to do it? E-Mail me
sometime! jbrimble@vbcity.net
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11/15/2001 3:52:14 PM:Michael Barnathan
I must say, well done. 5 Globes from
me. And it does work with WinXP,
although it might not work with 2k.
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12/20/2001 5:40:25 PM:Bill Gates
Kinda slow... Great *Cough*
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7/1/2002 11:02:59 AM:Skitzo Monk
I got it working briliantly, the only 2
things that wudda made it better was,
better artwork and the option to turn
while moving forward
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8/31/2002 4:05:17 PM:Jacob Roman
AWESOME!!! But there where some
collision detection problems. I had to
practically shake myself pass the
trees. Besides that, it ruled!!! 5
globs of goop from me dood!
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1/3/2003 10:20:09 PM:
I havent downloaded this yet, but i've
noticed many people say that they are
having automations erros and not
specifying that they have win2k.
You can sometimes get an automation
error in dx if your bit depth and
resolution is not correct, try
adjusting that!
Peace!
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