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12/17/2000 9:02:36 AM:Krishna Rath
wow! another teen from England doing
great work.
Nice game, though my
P-166 could not play it well.
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12/17/2000 9:05:21 AM:Krishna Rath
why do you want useless comments like
this?? I mean you said only 4 feedbacks
were posted on your last submission.
Most of us download and then forget
to vote, and the feedback is only if
you have understood the code/ or the
code has blown off the comp.
keep
coding...
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12/17/2000 10:31:29 AM:Jeremy Hope
how come some of the project libraries
are missing, like Direct3DVertexBuffer8?
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12/17/2000 11:35:48 AM:Kurt Maine
Hey, Love your idea of making an 3d
world! ive actually been in one of
those for a year or so now, if you need
any more ideas goto activeworlds.com,
its a 3d universe with many diffrent
worlds, i would love to make a 3d world
but just dont understand the whole
direct3d8 stuff :( anyway Excellent Job!
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12/17/2000 4:10:53 PM:Simon Price
Yes, a great improvement, 5/5 from me
again. I'm going to start learning DX8
now and you've given me a great example
to learn from. So when I make
something, I'll remember to credit you.
One problem, I couldn't see the house
light, the search light or the green
glow. Are those features you've yet to
add? I hope you get more votes, I seem
to remember my 3D world getting loads
of votes and it wasn't anywhere near as
good as this.
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12/18/2000 7:47:57 AM:Krishna Rath
Nice feedbacks..Richard leanred from
Simon and Simon learns from Richard and
I donot understand a word of DX!!
Why
not you both make a VB NFS??
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12/18/2000 11:24:01 AM:Chris
Hey Rich,
Looks really good. I can't
see any of the lights either, must be
this piece of junk I work with. I'll
send you a collision detection scheme
shortly.
A 5 from me...
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12/18/2000 12:39:04 PM:Richard Hayden
Thanks everyone for all of your
comments & votes! I should have
responded to everyone up to this
point
with thanks for votes etc. If I
haven't
then do please remind
me!
If you are confused about the
lighting or it doesn't seem to work,
make sure you have changed to evening,
dawn, dusk, or night mode (the best to
see it) and then turn on the house
light, church glow (only on one side!)
or search light. You can't see it in
midday
mode! (It's too
bright!).
If they still don't work
for anyone, please contact me (feedback
here will do). It could, although I
doubt it, be something to do with your
graphics card etc...... If the time of
day settings work, ie. you have the sun
and the moon (yellow and white light
emissions) in one of the top corners
then the other lights should work, you
just need to be in a dark enough time
of day.
Once again thanks &
regards,
Richard
Hayden.
(r_hayden@breathemail.net)
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12/18/2000 1:37:06 PM:Simon Price
Krishna, what an NFS? OK idea about me
& Richard teaming up but I think he's
happy making his world as it
is.
Chris, I'm interested in collision
detection too, if you or Richard could
send it on that'll be great.
Richard,
as I said in my email but I'll say it
to everyone else who can't see lights :
I changed the vertex processing to
software since I don't have the
hardware, this probably effected the
lighting. Is there going to be a
version 3?
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12/18/2000 1:49:57 PM:Richard Hayden
Simon you're right. Lighting doesn't
work on software vertex processing. If
anyone has anyway around this, ie.
getting lights to work with software
processing, please say! Sorry all of
you out there who can't see my lighting
effects. I think it may be to do with
texture and lighting engines on
graphics cards, which are obviously not
used in software mode. I currently have
plans to release a version 3 and 4
maybe......... Hopefully I can
implement col. detection in one of
those.......
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12/18/2000 3:02:06 PM:Richard Hayden
Hi everyone, me again. If you are
having trouble with lighting, try
using
D3DCREATE_MIXED_VERTEXPROCESSING
in place of
D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING.
I'm not sure what this flag exactly
does to the vertex processing, but I
guess it mixes between hard and
software processing (don't know how or
why). See if you can use lighting then.
I'm not saying it will let you, I don't
know yet.
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12/19/2000 12:56:11 AM:Jacob Allred
reminds me of the good ol' days when
AlphaWorld was free (more commonly
known as ActiveWorlds now) and VRML
based activities were the big thing...
anyways program looks great. good job.
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12/19/2000 10:58:33 AM:Rik
great. But your textures look
'oribble.
You need bigger ones or
something, the all mulsh together and
patternise. Look at the house, on that
pic, the walls all look messed up and
bulgy.
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12/19/2000 6:33:51 PM:Utopian Monarch
Wow, cool. More people who know about
ActiveWorlds. Is there a tutorial or
anything where i can learn directx (and
direct3d) at? I've always wanted to
learn how to do that. Screenshot looks
great.
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12/21/2000 4:25:05 AM:Nathan Chere
Nice code. I myself downloaded the
DX8SDK and have been working flat out
on designing a flashy intro for my RPG
Catalyst but I have had tonnes of
trouble with various things and looking
at your code has helped heaps. 5
globes!
Oh yeah Simon, I think in
NFS he was talking about Need For Speed
but that game su©ks balls anyway so
don't bother :)
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12/21/2000 1:04:05 PM:Amo
Hi, im a newbie to Direct X based vb
programming so I was wondering if you
could help me make a program like the
one you have submitted? e-mail me at
amarjit_chohan@hotmail.com
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12/21/2000 4:18:22 PM:Ace315
I get "Unable to CreateDevice (see
InitD3D() source for comments)" when I
run it, I have a bad video card...
would that be why?
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12/22/2000 5:26:21 AM:Richard Hayden
Hi all, if you are having problems
creating devices, please wait for the
next version. This has device
enumeration and the option at the
beginning of the program to select
between HAL and REF modes and also
software/hardware vertex
processing.
Then, you can modify my
program to work with your system setup
without changing the source.
For the
moment, try reading thesource and
following the various guidelines, ie.
changing HAL to REF and hardware to
software vertex
processing.
Thanks,
Richard
Hayden.
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12/29/2000 3:58:55 PM:Mark Withers
The res sqrews up!
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1/8/2001 12:03:50 PM:Richard Hayden
Wow, I never thought I would get code
of the month!!! Well, thanks to all who
voted and provided feedback, look out
for version 3!
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1/12/2001 10:02:29 PM:jdchristo
Very nice! I have been looking for
something like this to help show me the
differences in dx7 and 8. i am
currently writing a flight sim.
Anyhow, thanks for the source! also,
try inserting these two lines to
improve the quality of the textures.
what they do is some blending of pixels
or some such thing. all i know is they
work... :-)
g_D3DDevice.SetTextureStageState 0,
D3DTSS_MAGFILTER, D3DTEXF_LINEAR
g_D3DDevice.SetTextureStageState 0,
D3DTSS_MINFILTER, D3DTEXF_LINEAR
Jon
christopher
PS: can't wait for
version 3 and collision detection! :-)
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1/13/2001 6:39:25 AM:Mike Canejo
Those two lines did the trick, this
looks much better!
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1/16/2001 4:12:11 PM:Tim
Also cannot create a device for me too.
I first started running on a customized
card and thinking that was the problem
tried on an nVidia TNT2 M64 and a plain
TNT model......? They're kind a popular
graphics sets your missing!
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1/19/2001 10:26:42 AM:kirk
great example.. well
documented!
thanks for sharing!
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1/25/2001 1:54:59 AM:Beuno
good work, keep it up ;)
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1/25/2001 9:53:49 AM:Richard Hayden
Thanks everyone for the votes and
feedback. I am currently well on the
way to completing version 3, but have
unfortunately been slowed slightly by
school work. Version 3 should be a lot
more reliable and work on a LOT more
machines, without those 'cannot create
device' problems and problems with
lighting.
Once again, thanks!
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1/25/2001 1:41:03 PM:Tim Roop
Very Impressive work. I'm just getting
into DirectX and this gives me the
opportunity to experiment. 5 from me!!
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2/6/2001 2:58:45 PM:Soul
Hey great game, I wish to know where to
learn , I want to make 3D games with VB
and Im like not good at it, where can i
learn more on DirectX please help me,
email me at e_man_dan@hotmail.com please
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6/19/2001 1:08:52 PM:Codin Genius
Very cool but the search light, errie
glow, houselights and sun/Moon dont
work 4 me. Still, I like it, Im just
kearning DX 8 though so...Phew...Ill
wait a bit before I even attempt to
understanfd the code. 1 Globe I
think.
SYKE, Only j/k 5 Globes/
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9/21/2001 4:54:33 PM:Brad Harper
I feel that this code is well commented
and easy to learn from. I especially
like the picture of the gorilla inside
the building. Nice work. This type of
submission provided me with an idea of
the real "power" of VB and DirectX8...
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10/10/2001 7:28:36 PM:Serberus
NICE CODE this has helped me a lot on
my DX game.I am having problems running
this in the VB Design Environment, I
had to changed the D3DDevice to
software and D3DDev to REF so it starts
up but I cant move and VB6 stops
responding. Can u send me an EXE at
Dephi10000@aol.com Thanks.
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12/10/2001 1:03:28 AM:Andres Zacarias
Nice code, isnt there around any
terrain code?
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1/12/2002 7:58:21 PM:Michael Manning
Why do I keep getting "Unable to
CreateDevice (see InitD3D() source for
comments)".
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5/20/2002 3:50:16 PM:alaina
Great code, it was very helpful. I am
working on my own 3D game so any
feedback from anyone would be helpful,
also if someone would like to send me
collision detection that would be great
thanks a lot!! email @
alaina_g_@hotmail.com
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11/14/2002 8:19:38 PM:VPUCEO
Awesome code man! Definitely a 5/5 from
me
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11/17/2002 2:54:33 PM:
Very nice piece of code, a great help
for me learning the basics of the Dx8
system. Now lets see... how to drive
Young Shamus and E N Z O nuts by making
something better than Active
Worlds...
Oh, 5 stars by the way
:)
- Mark
- Strike Rapier in Active
Worlds
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6/14/2003 1:03:28 AM:
I Didn't see the code yet
but i seen
the first sample i like this both
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