Why can't we use HTML formatting 
anymore? That didn't come out right. 
Never mind. Here's the link once again: 
http://www.VBgames.co.uk/downloads/exdem
ob1.zip 
Please give feedback and vote 
for me. Thanks.

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Note: I'm uploading the file once again 
with slight changes, so come back in 5 
mins if this is the last message in the 
feedback.

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OK, upload #2 complete, the file size 
has gone up to 1919 KB, sorry, but I 
thought it's better to be safe and 
resize all textures to 256 x 256 
pixels, in case other sizes caused 
problems.

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The only reason i clicked the link to 
this was it said "by simon price" I 
knew it would be good and im right!!!

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Awesome! 5 of 5!

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Very good simon. I'm working on 
something similar and hope to submit it 
this week. Good job. 5/5

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My engine of choice is Revolution3D by 
Dream-X. It's an awesome complete 
DirectX 8 engine which you should have 
a look at, it doesn't include code but 
you still might learn something about 
how to improve your own effort.

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Nathan, I heard of that engine but I 
didn't realise it had been upgraded to 
DX8, so I'll have a good look at 
that.
Jon and Mike, thanks for the 
votes.
Wazerface, thanks (if it's 
good, why not vote that it's 
good?).
I've spotted a 3 bugs already, 
one major one pointed out by Robert 
Rayment (thanks Rob!), so another 
update is in order soon.

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OK, I've udated it again, fixing 2 
bugs. I put an end statement in there 
because Robert said that the program 
didn't left some of itself behind when 
unloading. I also fixed a bug which 
caused the car to get stuck when 
turning around.
170 downloads and 2 
votes, that's like 1%! Please remember 
to vote and give feedback.

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Hmm, that car looks as if it's floating 
though the air on that screenshot. 
Looks like another bug to fix! At least 
no fatal errors have been reported yet, 
I take it everyone who downloaded it 
got it running?

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WOW. I think we can guess who will win 
this month's code of the month! Well 
done Simon, I'm looking forward to the 
next version/game! It ran very well, if 
not too fast on my 950MHz (I was 
running faster than Linford Christie!). 
Anyways, 5 from me!

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Sorry,
I thought i did... 5 globes!

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As always simon, GOOD WORK!
you get 5 
globes from me =)

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Richard (and Kostas, if you see this?), 
I don't understand why the demo runs 
too fast. As you can probably see, 
every single movement in the engine is 
multiplied by the time - so I figured 
it would run the same speed on all 
PC's. I even tested this by slowing 
down my PC until my demo ran at a slow 
frame rate, and the actual speed of 
objects remained the same. Any ideas? 
As for code of the month, maybe, but I 
think people are a bit bored of the 
same old thing. The collision detection 
is a major improvement though. Next 
time it will be a game I promise, I'll 
have to make it free source yet again 
if I want to put it on this site 
though. Wazerface, thanks for the vote. 
Strangly, it says I've got 4 votes, but 
the list there contains 5 people... 
Thanks and keep the votes coming in.

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The speed thing must just be me 
thinking it's too fast.

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Richard, I don't think so, I trust you 
if you say it's too fast then it's too 
fast. I see what you mean about the 
fact that our definitions are fast are 
maybe different, but Kostas also 
emailed me to say it ran to fast. Do 
objects such as the car shoot across 
the scene, or is it just a problem with 
walking? I purposefully made the car go 
slowly so that you could see the wheels 
turning around.

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Hey again simon, It's a shame i voted 
for this project before I actually 
checked out the coding...looks are 
deceiving ;]  I got two bugs in the 
Mars sub and/or the village sub when 
they were called from the 'Start Demo' 
button. A 'bad file mode' error when it 
tried to open to the error log file and 
I also got a out of range substring 
error on "Set cam1stPerson = Camera(1)" 
and couple more like the above.  I'm 
sure it's not my computer, it has dx8.0 
and i dont know if its just me because 
no one seems to be getting this error?  
Thanks.

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Yeh mike I got the same errors. I voted 
this poor because I didn't get to see 
it! Which I really want to. So when i'm 
able to see it you'll have my excellent 
vote.

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I got these errors also but the screen 
shot looks good so thats good enough :]

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John and Kristen
The reason you are 
getting errors: the program isn't 
loading the .exf files, for some 
unknown reason, and so when it tries to 
set variables pointing to objects 
laoded from the file, you get more 
errors there too. I'll have to change 
the code to use the FreeFile() 
function, but I've never used that 
before. Thanks for your feedback, this 
is just the type of bugs I need to know 
about. I think if you try to run the 
demo again, it might even work 
sometimes but not others. Does anyone 
know alot about file input in VB? Maybe 
you could help me. Thanks.

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hmm... Simon someone here is 
namespoofing me...Kristen? I never 
submitted that "I got these errors also 
but the screen 
shot looks good so 
thats good enough :]" hmmm  Anyway good 
job again Simon i voted excellent just 
now because i remembered that i forgot 
to . Welcome.

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	For everyone here who wants to see 
more screen shots of this program taken 
with a GeForce 256 bit 3d card or wants 
to download at a faster speed, goto: 
http://server45.hypermart.net/mike3d/VB/
main.html               There also as a 
seperate download is a modified version 
of simon's project to include more 
screen resolutions up to 1600x1200 
because I myself have a 21 inch monitor 
and the x-engine looks like quake3 at 
1600x1200 for me :)  -Welcome  and 
Simon, tell me what you think because 
I'll take the site down if you want :] 

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http://server45.hypermart.net/mike3d/VB/
main.html

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http://server45.hypermart.net/mike3d/VB/
main.html

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Darn PSC, it screws with the text sorry 
about that, html can't be done now for 
some reason.

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Hi again Simon. The car moves quite 
slowly and I can clearly see the wheels 
moving. It's just the camera's movement 
speed that seems a bit 
disproportionate. When I get more time, 
I might have a look and try and get it 
to slow down on my machine. Mike, I am 
going to download your modified 
version, and try it in 1600x1200 
resolution. That's what I usually run 
all my D3D things in. Maybe Simon, you 
could re-upload to PSC a modified 
version which supports very high res 
modes?

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Simon, I know a bit about file access 
in vb. FreeFile is simply a function 
which returns the next unused file 
number. An example of how you could use 
it could be:
Dim intFreeFile As 
Integer
intFreeFile = FreeFile
Open 
"filename" For Output As 
#intFreeFile
'do file stuff
Close 
#intFreeFile
Hope this helps 
:-).
It's very weird people are 
getting 'Bad file mode' errors. They 
mean that statements used in 
manipulating file contents were not 
appropriate to the mode in which the 
file was opened. Ie. the 'Input #' 
statement was used for a mode other 
than 'Input' etc... I can't understand 
how people could be getting this error, 
if no one else is (You and I certainly 
aren't, and obviously nor are a few 
other people.) The 'Subscript out of 
range' error means an array has 
attempted to be accessed out of its 
defined range, which is probably simply 
a result of a problem caused by the 
file access errors. Anyway, I'm sure 
you'll figure it out.

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Thanks richard. Now I know i'm not the 
only one who uses the 1600x1200 
resolution ;)

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Now THIS is more like it; it 
rocks!
Everything runs fine here, and 
I didn't need to wear sunglasses to 
view it. Great job.
Can we expect a 
S.P. "DOOM"!?

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The code has been updated again! If you 
don't want to download the whole demo, 
just the source (100KB), use 
www.vbgames.co.uk/downloads/exdemob1src.
zip . This one includes high res 
(thanks Mike!), which I couldn't test 
on my cheap PC. I also used the 
FreeFile function (thanks Richard!) to 
fix file error problems. I hope John 
and Kirsten can get it working now. And 
for those of you with fast PC's - 
Linford Christie is dead! Yes, I fixed 
the camera speed bug too! Mike, you can 
keep your website there, the animated 
gif looks cool. Did you just make that 
site now? It had > 800 visitors 
already! Thanks for the help everyone, 
I apologise for all the bugs. I rushed 
the release to get it done for the 
21/01 as I promised on my website. I 
kept to the deadline :) , now if only I 
could do that with my school work. 

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Nah simon, i didnt have time to get 
another Counter account so i just 
borowed the code from one of my old 
sites and pasted it on the new 
one...forgot to reset it ;]  It was at 
749 when i put it on so i guess it went 
up a few ;] Anyway, simon if you would 
like to redirect links on yur website 
to the screen shots or need them, help 
your self since you dont have a 
1600x1200 capable res or the gif 
:)Thanks for the compliment also. I was 
very bored as you could see, so it 
wasn't much out of my time. -Mike

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Simon have you been working on creating 
a "textured person" or thinking about 
it in future 'free source' games 
because i would like to see it. I'm 
trying to learn dx8.0 as you did but 
your obviously fast at surpassing 
others. I hope to also submit something 
like this soon. KeyWord "soon" ;]  
Also, maybe a weapon would be nice, 
maybe a rocket launcher or machine gun 
::heh::  -Mike

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 Simon, I couldn't get yur updated code 
to work. It says "found 3d card should 
run nice and fast" but then once its 
clicked nothing happened. Did you 
change anything to have caused this? I 
tried all the resolutions i have 
..about 7 and none worked. -Thanks, 
Mike

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Mike, I had exact same prob with new 
code, and have told Simon exact same as 
you have by e-mail, this just backs up 
the fact that it must be a simple 
mistake in the code, ie. a missed line 
of code etc............

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OK, I've uploaded AGAIN!!! I think this 
is #5! This time was a stup!d mistake 
by me, I zipped the source code before 
pressing the save button in VB. So 
while I tested it and it worked fine, 
the zip contained partially finished 
code. Please try it again and tell me 
if I have finally got everything right, 
or at least no major blunders!

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Chris (&Mike) : I'm considering a 
shooter as the first game to make with 
this engine, since the bullet can use 
the same collision detection as the 
current demo. But I'm also thinking 
about a flying game, as I think it is 
an easier sort of game to make. Before 
I make a shooter, I will have to add 
BSP trees to the file format and 
engine, which could take months!!!

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And before any games get made, this 
demo has to run perfectly, my modeller 
and scene editing programs must be 
done, and (yes there's more), engineX 
has to be made into a DLL and 
documented, and I have to do some IT 
project for school (remember the 
landscape generator - think of that 
with wireframe contours and loads of 
geography boring educational stuff 
mixed in).

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Nice thing. (I also looked the name 
Simon Price and cliked this link). ps. 
Don't let those C++ gameDev people 
tease you ;)

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AAAhhhhhhh! BSP trees! Keep them away! 
:-o

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Sami, you mean it actually worked 
flawlessly? GREAT! So you're another 
gamedev person. I just joined, but now 
I think I should have waited until I 
was better at C++. I'll be back to 
prove I can make games as well as they 
can :) 
Richard, the people who I 
were talking about who can make games 
better than anything on PSC - well they 
are the type of people who hang around 
www.gamedev.net 
Unfortunately I 
don't fit in well there since I'm a 
VBer!
Anyone else get the demo 
working? More to the point, who can't 
get it to work? I want to crush every 
single bug because I intend on using 
this source as a base for lots of 
future work.

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Richard, what's wrong with BSP trees? I 
can't think of any other ways of making 
huge levels run more than 1 FPS. Can 
you? I'd be interested to hear 
them.
Hey, this page has become a 
chat forum. Sorry Ian!

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No, I know that BSPS are musts for big 
shootem ups or whatever, it's just that 
they look pretty complicated from what 
I've seen, and I was just voicing my 
confusion over the subject.

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Either use BSP's or go back to Doom 
style, but that's not proper 3D. I 
understand how BSP's work now, but I 
still think it would take months for me 
to learn. Or I could come up with a 
brand new concept... that would be alot 
more fun.

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Outstanding code Simon -- exactly what 
I was looking for. Easy to understand 
and manipulate. Please release the EXF 
editor soon, I'd love to get started 
developing a game based off this.

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Simon - I just downloaded the latest 
version you have up there. Now the 
actual 3D rendering is being displayed 
*behind* the form's objects -- that is, 
the readme, buttons, etc. are all still 
visable, but the gameplay is viewed in 
the background instead of the gray form 
-- screenshot of what I 
mean:
http://www.evansims.com/images/st
range_enginex.jpg
I don't know if 
this is just me or what, but it's quite 
odd. This wasn't the case in the first 
version I downloaded, and it was 
working right before I got the new one.

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Yeh simon, he's right but for me the 
readme just blinks with the game's 
frames... So i just made it invisible 
on the LoadDemo function. Sorry i 
forgot to say something. Seems for him 
its worse. Simon just have all the 
objects invisible when the game starts 
or put it on a seperate form then close 
it. I'm sure this might be a problem 
for others.

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OK, I've updated it, thanks for the 
help Evan and Mike. Now all controls go 
invisible upon loading. If you see 
www.VBgames.co.uk/downloads/si3dmodeller
.htm , you'll see a 3D editor I have 
working at the moment. It makes .si3d 
files, which are a more complicated 
version of .exf files, so, to make a 
.exf editor I just need to take some 
features out of the .si3d editor. I 
hope that makes sense. It might take a 
while, I've been thinking of lots of 
improvements but they will be worth 
doing. For example, you'll soon be able 
to get a cCamera or cLight object, and 
call an Attach(ToWhat as Object) to 
attach it to a frame, mesh, camera, 
anything! For example, you could attach 
a camera to follow a car in a racing 
game. I'm open to other suggestions, 
but please note everything takes a long 
time, I can't do things instantly. 
Getting rid of all these bugs is hard 
enough :)

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If anyone else spots a new bug, please 
do tell me, I suppose lots of other 
people saw controls through the 
graphics and didn't tell me. Thanks!

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Simon i found a small glitch or bug. 
Goto http://mike3d.cjb.net/  and its 
under the "Bad Shots" section ;] 

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Mike, that is not a bug, it's just my 
bent drawing skills. I'm a programmer, 
not an artist, that was the first time 
I've ever used 3DS Max. Thanks for 
pointing it out though, I hadn't 
spotted it. You didn't need to make 
like 16 screenshots of the glitch (I 
only needed 1!).

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Simon don't get all crazy... I wasn't 
making a big deal out of it, and it was 
only 4. I got bored and uploaded the 
major screen resolutions, big deal. 
This is a vb community and it was for 
them also to look at.

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Simon, I've started up a new site 
called the EngineX Developer Resource 
Center. I hope you don't mind. I threw 
it together as an alternative to using 
using up PSC's feedback area as a 
message 
board.
http://www.erroneousdata.com/e
nginex/
I've also posted a new code 
bit for a run mode (SHIFT+Arrow will 
run instead of walk) on the 
board:
http://www.erroneousdata.com/e
nginex/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum
=3&topic;=1

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Blimey Simon, EngineX seems to be 
developing quite a following........ I 
like the EngineX dev centre, Evan, well 
done!

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Wow, Evan! That is some cool website, 
I'm chuffed you made all that just 
because of some demo. I'll definately 
have to keep you updated on engineX 
then. As you may have picked up by now, 
engineX will be made into a DLL and 
have documentation written for it, so 
it will be like DX but much easier to 
learn. You'll be able to just add a 
reference to your VB project like you 
do with DX. I'd prefer if people didn't 
start developing games off it and stuff 
until at least the DLL is ready. Then 
people can make games as much as they 
like. I'll make tools such as modellers 
and level editors, and everything can 
be put on your site if you are sure you 
want to maintain it. Maybe I should get 
engineX.com, hmm I wish I had though of 
a more imaginitive name. Thanks for 
your help, please be patient with my 
progress on the engine, I expect it to 
take a month or 2 before I get an alpha 
release, since I have alot of school 
work (boring database stuff).

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Mike, sorry if that sounded like I was 
having a go at you, I wasn't :) thanks 
for your site too.

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If anyone else publishes this code 
(edited or not), please do the right 
thing (like Mike and Evan) and tell me 
about it. I want to know where my code 
goes so I can update people when the 
alpha DLL version is ready.

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Thanks Richard and Simon. I'm here to 
help. :)
Also, enginex.com, .net and 
.org are taken - I looked into it :( An 
alternative might be vb-enginex.com 
though? :)

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I thought engineX was a lame name 
anyway. But I don't want you to have to 
change all the banners on your site. I 
bet I could get engineX.co.uk

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hehe, hey, don't let me hinder any of 
your decisions - everything can be 
changed should it be necessary :)

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Thanks Simon. My site is just up out of 
boredom but good job Evan ;] Hey Simon, 
would you mind if I touched up some of 
your graphics for the demo and send 
them to you after? I think they look 
like a good alternative for the village 
world. I also fixed that blasted Moon 
which had a hole in it. This was 
because as it rendered you had a black 
spot on the moon.bmp file. Your 
probably already aware of it but I said 
it anyway  ;]  -Mike

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Another thing Simon, Is there maybe a 
alternative way of getting the user's 
screen resolutions? Maybe from the 
registry? Because it takes about 20 
seconds to load which I don't think 
should be that necessary. What would be 
a good way to set it up is if you just 
store the user's resolutions into a ini 
file or into the registry on the first 
load this way they don't have to wait 
for it to load so long if they have 
more than 3 resolutions.  Then on 
future loads it will just load the 
values from where it's stored and it 
will be alot quicker. The resolution 
checker on your program takes on 
average 5 seconds for each so since 
there's 4 res. checkers, 4 x 5 = 20 
seconds. I may be wrong but maybe 
someone could agree with me ;] Thanks, 
-Mike

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Wait there's 5 checkers in there, i 
forgot about the new 1600x1200 you 
included. So thats 25 seconds. ;]

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Simon I just finished doing like 
everything I just said above. I also 
added to the game: Flying, Turbo run + 
Turbo Fly (jetpack), and like i said 
above, it will remember the resolutions 
on the first load and on others will 
load the resolutions from file. It runs 
alot quicker now ;] Check it out Simon 
and others please. 
http://mike3d.cjb.net/

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Simon I tried using linear texturing 
and the worlds look much better, 
especially the Mars world. You should 
try it if you havn't already. I just 
reuploaded the project to my website if 
you wish to try it out. -Mike

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Mike, you said that EngineX takes 25 
seconds to load!?!? On my computer it 
takes about 2 seconds to load after the 
first load, which takes about 5. Did I 
misread your comment?

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First load is what i meant. For me its 
more than 5 seconds. Must be because my 
large monitor size ( 21inch) to check 
and checking a resolution probably 
takes longer. 

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OK Mike, thanks for the improvements! 
:) I'm sorry it took a long to load, it 
doesn't do that to me. There is a way I 
could speed it up by 5 times, but it 
would need code in the actual frmDemo. 
The point of the engine is that I'm not 
allowed to put any complicated code in 
frmDemo. When I made this demo, I was 
imagining that all the code was bundled 
into a DLL, and I was just calling the 
functions of the DLL from frmDemo. The 
code on frmDemo must be simple, 
otherwise there's no point in making 
the engine. I will make that 
improvement to the loading some time 
though. What you need to understand is 
that I'm not doing any programming on 
the engine for a while now, I'm going 
back to the drawing board to decide if 
any parts need restructuring, I'm 
looking into rewriting cameras and 
lights alot, and definately changing 
the file format. That's why I said the 
alpha version may take 1 to 2 
months.

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To Bugaboo : does the demo not work? 
Please tell me if you had a problem. 
Just I saw your rating of 1 and wanted 
to fix that.

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Welcome Simon. And I understand the 
whole engine coding thing you got going 
on so it's ok. Plus this is why I made 
my own personalized version of it. ;]  
-Mike

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Don't know if anyone cares, but there's 
an update avaliable to DirectX 8 (8.0a) 
at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
/release.asp?ReleaseID=27398
Not 
much has changed; just some 
improvements to Windows 2K 
international installer process, and 
corrects issues with DInput; disabled 
buttons problem. It's 25Mb.

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Thanks Richard, I downloaded it just 
now. 

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here's another comment just  for the 
heck of it ............ BOO :P ... im 
not even gonna bother trying it on this 
non-3d-accelerated super whizz-pop 
machine LOL .. ohh well maybe one day i 
can dream of that Doom-a-like 3D engine 
that works w/out 3D card properly 
*hint* ;) this is just a random rant so 
it may not make any sense whatsoever LOL

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Hey Tom. I haven't forgotten about the 
non-3d-accelerated stuff! But come one, 
this is so much fun, I spend time on 
this instead of that doom game. I have 
actually picked up the old code several 
times and tried to redsign it. For 
example, I have actually tried to 
change it from a ray caster to a 
semi-3d game (with some success, if you 
like games that go at 1 fps). I am also 
learning about BSP's. Once I know how 
to do BSP's, then I'll be able to make 
a pure VB code shooting game that runs 
fast enough. But it will take alot of 
work, for results that aren't anywhere 
as good as DX. That doesn't mean that's 
it's not worth it though. Because once 
I've learnt it, I can then apply BSP's 
to DX, and make some super fast game. 
Making stuff in pure VB code first is 
the best way to make good games with DX 
in my opinion. If you can make it 
without DX, then with DX you should be 
able to make a very good game. That's 
the theory anyway. Thanks for reminding 
me.

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And Tom, I would be grateful if you 
could try this demo on your machine. I 
would be very interested in the 
results. I suppose it might be so slow 
that it's useless. But it's the sort of 
thing I need to know. I want to support 
99% of PC's, but most of the time 
things only work on like 80%.

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Hey Simon,  wish u said something 
sooner... The game wont run on my 
friends cpu.... 450mhzp3 intel and a 
TNT2 16MB no 3d accerlator and my 
uncles...200MHz p1 intel  4MB memory  
no 3d accel.. LOL  But I thought there 
was a software rendering feature on the 
demo here... is that not working also? 
or is it not switching to neither so it 
just freezes. thanks  -Mike

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:( I thought I had everything working. 
It's time to stop fixing bugs now. I'm 
rewriting the whole thing for the alpha 
version and hopefully it will get many 
times better that way. And I'm not 
going to make a deadline, I'll take as 
long as I need to. It will take a long 
time, but I will eventually produce a 
bug free engine. 
The way people 
vote is pretty stange too. I made a 
crappy single cube and got code of the 
month for it, now I make 2 large scenes 
with collision detection, and it's 
worth 19th place.

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Simon, just to say, I've looked at all 
of the code higher than yours on the 
leader board, and I think yours is the 
best and definetely deserves to be at 
that no. 1 spot! If you don't win this 
month's code of the month, is it 
possible for you to win next month's? 
Maybe next time you should submit @ the 
beginning of the month! Good luck with 
the alpha version.

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Thanks Richard. I guess I just got paid 
back for that time I got code of the 
month for making a single cube 
:)
There's always next month :)

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There are massive bugs in this demo! It 
will only work in R5G6B5 color format, 
which is not what I expected. I took a 
long time for me to work that out. At 
least it will be fixed for the alpha 
demo. The official engineX website is 
ready, although I'm having some trouble 
with url redirection. Go to 
www.engineX.co.uk !

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Cool! This demo just won code of the 
month, that was unexpected. Thanks for 
all the votes! I WILL update this demo 
but do not expect it to happen for at 
least a month. I now have it working in 
all color formats, with fog and alpha 
blending, to name just a few of the new 
features! OK some more, animation is 
done with spline interpolation (curvy 
stuff) and I *hope* to get mesh 
morphing, LOD, heightmaps + quadtrees 
working too.

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Simon,
Just thought I'd let you know 
that
your engine works on the 
following systems:
866MHz PIII 
128 
MBRAM
TNT2 32MB
Windows ME
400MHz 
PII
128MBRAM
VooDoo2 8MB
Windows 98 
SE
266MHz
64MBRAM
(very 
slowly)
Windows 95
Fantastic work, 
few bugs but hey... we can't be 
perfect! 
PS: Pi is  
3.1415926535897932384626433832795
You 
might be able to use that 
Ben

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Well, It works on all of those systems 
but my Aptiva. Iv'e got an IBM Aptiva, 
Win98, 350MHz, 96MB RAM, ATI RAGE PRO 
TURBO AGP with 8MB VRAM. The demo 
window comes up, I click a setting, 
then start demo. Then I get a message 
saying it should be fast(hardware 
acc.). I'm thinking great! Then I stare 
at a blank, black window with nothing 
on it! Sorry, It doesn't work for me. I 
didn't want to criticize it, so I 
didn't vote. Any ideas?
BTW: I've 
got my own 3D engine on this site. Look 
for I3D. It's like this, only with 
.3DS, .MDL, and some other features. 
It's being ported to C++ for a speed 
increase. If anyone's a C++ programmer 
as well, email 
me:
warmaster199@hotmail.com

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I don't see anything besides a black 
screen!  Help!  I might be a good 
programmer, but I'm not THAT good!  I 
need to know if this thing has load 
time, and if so, how long I should wait 
for it.

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Note: Pi is 22/7 That is more 
accurate.
Good job

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Thanks for the tip Ryan.
BTW... I'm 
getting closer to the DLL version of 
this engine... there's about 100 pages 
of documentation to read too.

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Thanks for the tip Ryan.
BTW... I'm 
getting closer to the DLL version of 
this engine :)

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Hi, my name is Ivan. I saw your code in 
planet-source-code.com but it's to big 
and i can't download it. However, my 
problem is: How can I control video 
hardware acceleration like MediaPlayer 
does (see View\Options menu of 
MediaPlayer)?
Please, please answer 
this even if you don't know.

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Hey, awesome code man.  I love it.  5 
globes for you.
Where can I find 
some cool .X files though?  -Andrew

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Hi, only 1 question:
when i update 
code on psc, it doesn't get listed in 
the "latest code" nor does it get sent 
to "mailing list"
how can i change 
this
THANX!

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Hey, i cant find where to download 
this! plz let me know

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you can get it here. 
http://www.vbgames.co.uk/downloads/exdem
ob1.zip but the link is down :'(

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Actually, 22/7 is 'almost' accurate.  
4*atn(1) is right on the money. :)

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3.1415926535897932384626433832795  - 
pi! 

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Simon, I had this code once before but 
I've since lost it.  I've been tryin to 
download it again but the link you gave 
says the file doesn't exist.  Will you 
please send an updated link to the 
source code for this? Thank you.

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the link to the program is broken. can 
u please post an updated url?

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Simon,
Are you still with us bro?  I'd 
really like to get this code again.. 
it's been one of the best I've seen 
yet.. and now I've finally decided to 
dabble in DirectX and would love to see 
this again.
Thank you.

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Hell yeah man, good work. Would like to 
download it but the screenshots look 
like hardwork was put in.

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about the broken URL:
you can find it 
on mike's site 
@
http://server45.hypermart.net/mike3d/
VB/exdemob1.zip
(i don't know how old 
the version is)
btw very nice work, 
simon: 5globes

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Hey man, you still working on the 
project? You put alot of time and hard 
work into this, but i havnt seen an 
update for a while. I am kinda waiting 
on the engine to be done, because i am 
going to make a game for my senior exit 
project... just let us know if your 
still updated. thanks

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I can't download it, not even from the 
link on your website. What can i do?? 
HELP!!!!

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Link is not active

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