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Greg's Pool 3D Version 1.2 |
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| Submitted on: 8/3/2002 12:40:07 PM
By: Greg Holdys
Level: Intermediate
User Rating:
By 126 Users
Compatibility:VB 5.0, VB 6.0
Users have accessed this code 9055 times.
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| | | Third version of "Greg's Pool 3D". New features include better playability with basic European rules for eight-ball pool and some bug-fixes. For those of You, who have not seen the previous versions, I include the original description:
"The programme is an example of a relatively simple game written in Visual Basic 5.0 with Direct3D, DirectSound, some physics and a handful of mathematics. It uses DirectX 8.0, thus appropriate libraries must be installed on Your computer in order to run the code. Techniques used in this project include: collision detection and response, matrix transformations, linear interpolations, vertex and index buffers, textured meshes, shadows, lighting and few more…"
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8/3/2002 1:07:05 PM:Melvin T.
This is very very good work m8!
The 3D
Objects are very cool too.
I think it
would we nice to complete this game,
with official rules, and make a pool
game (with 2 different balls).. then
make it shareware :) (or something)
Anyway, Good job!
Greets,
Melvin
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8/3/2002 1:11:30 PM:Aaron Morris
Wow... This is the best game ever
submitted to PSC. I've been a keen fan
of PSC for years. If I could give it
100 smacks I would !!!!
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8/3/2002 2:08:26 PM:Adam Szabo
This is just plain amazing!!
I wish I
could rate you more than 5!!
Please
post a screenshot so you could help
yourself to get more votes :)
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8/3/2002 2:14:51 PM:Dave
Wow! This is well sweet. Excellent work
Greg! Add the rules and some AI and you
have a good shareware game. Also be
nice to have a better control method
like using the mouse to shoot.
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8/3/2002 5:15:23 PM:Tash
Excellent ! Looked at your
Readme.txt
Couple of comments;
1:
Please finish this.
2: Read the rules
for 9 Ball pool. (It is not a difficult
game and it's easier than snooker ! )
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8/3/2002 6:31:05 PM:Dude2
Its rare to see a good 3d game on psc.
Nice job.
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8/3/2002 7:03:56 PM:James Dougherty
This is just to cool. Awesome physics,
shawdows, awesome Collsion Detection,
Graphics, on and on. 5 from me! I
actually played it for a while.
Awesome!
-James-
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8/3/2002 10:49:50 PM:Robert Kersey
Excellent, I suck at this when I see
codes like this. Makes me realize how
much I still have to learn. Great job
and I hope you keep submitting the
updates
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8/4/2002 2:04:40 AM:Emperor Frollard
Except for when I hit a ball 'hard'
into the corner pocket and it flew off
into infinity...everything else was
EXCELLENT! (had probs loading project
as paths were absolute in .vbp but not
a big problem)
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8/4/2002 4:00:17 AM:Gnome
Greg, this really is good. Thanks for
submitting it.
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8/4/2002 12:22:47 PM:Kristinn Reykdal
Excellent, 5/5. and I like the new
voting system too, no automated
voting.
:)
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8/4/2002 6:39:32 PM:Turki A. Umairan
Man, I couldn't believe this. This code
is really wonderful. 5000 globes from
me.
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8/4/2002 8:39:53 PM:Adam
Uh lol... I shot the cue ball at a
triangle and now I'm shooting at all my
lost balls out in "space."
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8/5/2002 4:03:12 PM:Turki A. Umairan
For the people who voted with less than
5 globes, please show us what you got
and let us know how advanced you people
are.
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8/6/2002 2:36:18 AM:TrickyKeyboard
Wow! 5 globes!
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8/6/2002 7:01:30 AM:dogus18
yep great code. 5 globes
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8/6/2002 1:56:30 PM:uZiGuLa
great code, 5 from me, but I can see de
balls with the textures, i change the
path in the code but It isn't work, I
have DirectX 8.1 installed in my PC,
any Idea
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8/7/2002 5:15:33 PM:Ulli
Hi Greg. I made the pockets a trifle
larger and reduced the bumper
elasticity; this makes it easier to
sink a ball in the corner pockets. Btw,
you wouldn't believe it but its true:
one of the Do Loops waiting for g_dt
got hung at midnight :-) Now that it
has happened it probably will never
happen again. One final thing: cam
elevation at PrepareForAim is a little
to large, I changed it to .33
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8/9/2002 5:27:35 PM:Steve Dude
It's already been said, If I could give
you a 10 I would. What I GREAT piece of
code and a fun game too. If you don't
win something from this one, you got
ripped.
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8/9/2002 6:49:27 PM:George Vassilenko
VEry nicely done
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8/11/2002 7:59:36 AM:michael doering
very nice app, thanks for share this.
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8/12/2002 1:37:49 AM:Adam
I changed it so that the longer you
hold the left mouse button down on the
"Shoot" label, (? I forget) the harder
the shot is. A picture box progress
bar shows the strength your shot is
currently at as you hold the button
down.
I stole the idea from
candystand.com's Life Saver Billiards.
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8/12/2002 10:36:16 AM:Dave Andrews
Holy smoke! This is very good work.
Where did you get your physics code
from? 5 G's
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8/14/2002 11:22:37 AM:The New iSoftware Company!
Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!
Awesome!Awesome! Please do you self a
favor and sell this! You could make
money! This is a keeper! Just make the
balls the right colors (eg solids and
stripes), some rules and fix the
rolling (it takes too long, unreal).
Wow! *****
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8/14/2002 9:48:34 PM:Tash
Re: Mr iSoftware.
European pool uses
red/yellow, not stripes, but there
again, there are no numbers either
!
As for your other comments. I have
tried to persuade him ! :)
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8/15/2002 10:08:43 AM:Elias Barbosa
Everyone should download it!!!
This
game is way too cool!!
It does some
amazing 3D spins!! Looks better than
many Games I bought!!
This game is,
possibly, the best ever posted on
PSC!!
You got 4 stars from
me!!
Kidding!! :)
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8/17/2002 7:07:54 PM:Abhishek.NET
Keep running the game for few min
minimized and you will just see black
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8/18/2002 12:24:57 AM:Qwertyboy
PERFECT!
Could someone tell me where
i can get direct draw (or what ever
program it is to edit .dds files).
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8/18/2002 1:24:37 PM:xim
Very nice submission. I think you need
to add a drag routine (increased
friction and reduced spin) once the
ball's speed has slowed to bring it
into a more "realtime" simulation.
There was just too much roll for my
liking. Try these adjusted lines as a
quick "fix", but not a viable
solution;
D3DXVec3Scale .vVelocity,
.vVelocity, 1 - g_dt * 1.25
'friction change
and
D3DXVec3Scale
vRotation, .vSpin, g_dt * 0.75 ' spin
alteration
Further tweaking might
help. As it is, there is a loss of
total force.
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8/18/2002 5:40:08 PM:Alberto
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT
Thanks !
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8/19/2002 1:04:12 PM:Andrew Sutherland
You can do that with
VB?
WOOOOOW
5G's to the top dog of
the month!
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8/19/2002 1:29:12 PM:Andrew Sutherland
Here is another idea for anyone ...add
a winsock control and make it
networkable.
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8/19/2002 4:10:23 PM:Martins Skujenieks
Next step - ONLINE! 5+
globes!
Excellent! -Martins
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8/19/2002 5:37:34 PM:James Dougherty
.dds are made with the utility that
comes with DirectX. Go to the DirectX
directory /Bin/DXUtils/DXTex.exe
-James-
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8/21/2002 6:07:02 PM:Eric
Wow!! Impressive! The level of detail
is amazing, as is the physics. Are you
a professional game programmer?
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8/22/2002 6:47:33 PM:Grant
Jesus This Is Good Work Im A Begginer
And This Looks Like Chinese To Me But
Jesus This Is Good If I Could 10000 But
I Cant So I'll Have TO Give It A 5
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8/23/2002 8:35:06 AM:Mike Canejo
Very nicely done. Would you give me
permission to make this a multiplayer
app and resubmit it to PSC? I'd love to
play this game with someone over the
internet.. Now that puts the best of
these worlds in this. Great job .. 5
globes
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8/23/2002 2:45:46 PM:Skitzo Monk
OMG amazing
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8/27/2002 3:56:18 AM:Wouter Lievens
Oh my god!
Go commercial with this
game, I beg of you! Become rich!
Please! You're good! Why can I only
give you 5???
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8/27/2002 7:51:37 AM:GoAn
wow
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8/29/2002 4:17:28 PM:David
Amazing stuff - hopefully you'll put
some form of networking capability in
via Winsock and maybe some spin
controls for the cue ball??
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8/29/2002 5:50:03 PM:Chris George
Extremely Impressive. Very nice job.
Go commercial with this!
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8/29/2002 9:43:12 PM:Jake
grr i would rate it but when I play it,
it says player 1 breaks, then it's a
black screen with a green line.. wtf is
up with it? nobody else has problems?
help me out here before i rate it a 1
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8/30/2002 5:15:11 PM:Adam
Make sure you have DirectX 8.0
installed, Jake. Also read over the
project description and check to make
sure you have the requirements.
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8/31/2002 2:01:35 PM:
yeah, try again... I just installed
DirectX 8.1, and there are no system
requirements.. This is one of the worst
games i've ever seen on psc.. all the
other ones at least worked.
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9/2/2002 10:35:41 AM:The New iSoftware Company!
Also try to make sure your system/video
card can support dx 8.x
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9/4/2002 8:29:53 PM:dafhi
outstanding. i downloaded your first
version. the responsiveness of this
version feels about right. 5 globes
for you and the education system of
your country
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9/4/2002 9:52:23 PM:RMD Software
Sorry, I wanted to vote 1 for another
code (I had 2 browser windows
opened...) but I accidentaly voted (1)
for your code... I wrote an e-mail to
Ian asking him to remove my vote. After
it will removed I will put 5
globes!
Excellent code! Sorry
again...
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9/4/2002 10:24:13 PM:michael doering
Hello AMD Software,
you can give a new
vote this
overwrite the old vote.
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9/5/2002 12:34:56 AM:LOOKNAO
Greg, awesome! 5 globes!
Hope you
don't mind...
I changed the colors
of the balls, speed, drag, etc... Also
added 9 ball, allow alter rules, crown
the rack, the ability to break from
left or right of center, network and
internet game, USB and com port head to
head...
1 of the few icons on my
desktop!
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9/6/2002 12:44:01 AM:
AWESOME doesn't even begin to describe
this. I mean, HOLY COW AWESOME! I too
have been a HUGE fan of PSC for YEARS
now and this is BY FAR THE BEST I've
ever seen. WAY TO GO!!!
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9/6/2002 4:39:08 PM:Johannes B
What can i say... vb is not as slow as
many peoples think after all...
excellent and smooth running
graphic!
And this have a very nice
thing that many other 3D games i have
seen here is missing... gameplay
=)
This is the best 3D game on PSC!
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9/7/2002 2:29:35 PM:Jacob Merrill
Superb, definately worth 5 g's. I'm
glad you didn't fall to the pressure
and kept the red and yellow balls.
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9/10/2002 2:55:57 AM:Eugene Wolff
Greg, this is absolutly brilliant, I
could not believe that something like
this could be written in VB. Well, well
done. I have always wanted to write a
game, but I don't want to learn C++
now, so this gives me insperation to
write something in VB. Again well
done, 5 globes from me and thanx for
submitting this to PCS.
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10/7/2002 6:57:29 AM:Ruturaj
Greg , Hi ! Getting following
error.
"Unable to create Device.
Bailing out ..."
Can you please tell
me what's the reason behind ?? How to
solve the problem ??
Thanks.
Ruturaj.
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10/9/2002 5:54:51 PM:
I was asked if I could do something in
VB6 with simple moving graphical
objects. Knowing nothing about
graphics, I came here and downloaded
this solely to pull it apart to see how
it worked. I expected the usual top
view coloured circles etc…
Hmm 4 or 5
games later I let my grandson have a
go. The 3 yr old picked up how to use
it in about 30 seconds then claimed it
as “his game”
Very well written, very
smooth and very usable (addictive??) -
Not something that has ever been said
about my attempts at code.
Well
done!!
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10/16/2002 12:24:19 PM:
I just wanted to Thank you for writting
some very nice code and sharing it with
us. 5 globes from me.
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10/23/2002 3:03:45 PM:Niall Mooney
You sir, are the Master. My pool game
is in the shadow of your own. Excellent!
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11/8/2002 2:50:01 AM:Infra-Red
Awesome - In a class of its own!!
5
Globes To Ya Mate!!
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11/9/2002 12:03:22 PM:Michael Killough
wAHAY! I sooo wish i could find a
tutorial which wud teach me directX but
REALLY good work well done m8
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12/12/2002 12:27:24 AM:Barry Taylor
Excellent work greg, when i first
wanted to learn VB, everybody said it
was slow but now i see this i think
WOW!, i have been looking for some sort
of pool game for a while now, and when
i typed in to look for matrix there it
came accross it, hmmm i dont know why
it dint come up when i searched for
pool, anyway well done i give it a A'
*Star* well done and Thanks for
submitting it on PSC
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1/31/2003 12:20:11 PM:
One word Incredible, and heres another
for free HOW!
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2/22/2003 11:55:06 AM:diabloice
Good job,still I have not found an
accurate collision detecion method
which is fast and returns many
veriables.The way I see this collision
detection here working is a ball has a
vertex location (x,y) and from it's
center a check is done if another ball
has clipped the area of that circle
generated from a set radius.This is
good for a pool game saves processing
power and so on but I still need a more
complex method of collision detection.
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4/8/2003 3:00:56 AM:Süess Roger
perfect code. congratulations!!!
if
you include a virtual second player and
a background, you will be are the hero
of PSC!
Regards Roger
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4/8/2003 3:36:31 AM:Sahir
5 globes from me excellent code!
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4/8/2003 5:10:43 AM:
I seem to be having downloading the zip
file (again), its probably something to
do with AOL.
Anyway, can someone email
me the file?
It sounds great!
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4/9/2003 8:10:29 AM:Foden
if u want sum1 2 send it, leave ur
e-mail
this is good greg
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4/10/2003 1:44:09 AM:
How can I give more than 5 globes ? pls
help. This is the best ever game I have
seen on PSC I must congrat the writer.
Brilliant Work !!!!!
Qamar
Bukhari.
qbukhari@yahoo.com
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4/14/2003 4:30:41 PM:manavo
Excellent!!!
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4/16/2003 9:19:21 AM:OR13
Hi Greg. I love your game, it must have
taken you some time! Except one thing -
it takes the balls to much time to
stop, it's an EXCELLENT game!!!
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4/16/2003 9:21:37 AM:Roger Gilchrist
hi, great code, I've been using it to
test my Code Fixer program. (still one
small thing I don't get right but it
does produce a working version of your
code) Any way I've been looking at your
code a lot and found a couple of quick
and easy additions:
mouse
shooting
Private Sub
Picture1_DblClick()
FireCueBall
m_Power
End Sub
For hi-res screens
full screen is better to look
at:
frmPool.BorderSize = 2 -
Sizable
and use this
Private Sub
Form_Resize()
imgPanel.Top =
frmPool.ScaleHeight - imgPanel.Height +
25
imgPanel.Width =
frmPool.ScaleWidth
picPower.Top =
imgPanel.Top + 12
lblShoot.Top =
imgPanel.Top + 16
lblShoot.Left =
(frmPool.ScaleWidth - lblShoot.Width) /
2
Picture1.Height =
frmPool.ScaleHeight - imgPanel.Height +
25
lblPlayer.Top = imgPanel.Top +
16
lblPlayer.Left = frmPool.ScaleWidth
- lblPlayer.Width
End Sub
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5/6/2003 1:24:45 PM:Chris Seelbach
Hello Greg, an excellent piece of work.
My video card did not support this
program months back when I first tried
to view it. I have finally updated the
video, which is the reason for the time
delay. Here's my vote too. Regards,
Chris :)
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6/19/2003 3:19:29 PM:
Very nice game... although the balls
jump out aster of the kushen then they
came in:-)
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