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     hi all,              i want to make a realistic walk through of my college campus. i know opengl and vc++ .i want suggestions for telling how to proceed. also how to reduce the time ...
How can i play   OpenGL Animations on desktop similar to what Andreas Jönsson is doing here in directx at www.AngelCode.com using overlay techniques? Please show me a simple OPENGL example ...
Hi, I've been working on battle algorithms for an RPG I'm programming, but right now I'm having a tough time on the mathematical aspects of how characteristics such as strength, dexterity, ...
Hi all, I'm asking this question after seeing so many MMORPG-wannabe-developers. No offence to those who really have the passion, devotion, discipline, technology, money, publisher and the ...
Hi Auqa, Below is my code for creation of walls and apply texture to it.All the methods below in the class are used to create the walls in a polygon grid (10 X 10) format.And also create a ...
 We need to evaluate game engines as an option for a simulation system that structurally is little different form a FSP game. I know litttle about off the shelf  engines as previously I have ...
I am trying to work out how I can copy a hbitmap to a surface. I realise in dx9 you have access to GetDC() on the surface. However this needs to be done in dx8. So far I think I am 50% of t...
I am trying to simulate the data acquisition (only the time, X and Y co-ordinates) procedure of a 'pen tablet' (like WACOM) using a mouse on a  Win2K/XP PC. I need to save mouse co-ordinates (...
hi there i am trying to programme something simple for mobile phones using J2ME and midlets, but the problem is a gerneral problem and someone who does not know anything on midlets or J2ME ca...
I have a pc tennis game called "Top Spin" I have created a charactor with certain skills. I now wish to edit the charractors attributes i.e strengths without haveing to play the game from th...
We are development a tournament system for our games and we want to balance the server connections. We want to know how many current connection a server can handled on linux platform vrs wind...
Hi. Does anyone know a free class to draw pixels in directdraw. A very simple one. All I need is a bit depth independent class to plot pixels on the screen. Thanks.
I am simply trying to Compile/Link the source Code for wolfenstein (3-d). I am using Visual C++ 2005 AND I get the following error: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'wi...
I use a game lopp with getmessame but i would like to know what is the best game loop for a 2d game. any code?
Dear experts, I am looking for C++ source code or at least the basic game logic in C++ for an old arcade game that was known under these names: JEZZBALL Qix XONIX It was also released wi...
I need recommendations for college level courses or seminars on gaming, specifically roleplaying games.  I am not interested in Tic-Tac-Toe or economics theory, but rather concept, design and/...
I am looking to build a simple screen saver for Windows. I want my fishing logo to bounce around the page. I want the final screen saver to be self installing .exe or simple .scr file. My logo...
I'm looking for something that does not cost so much to tinker with.   Thank you for your help.
Good evening, I am having problems with setting fonts using DirectX7, mainly dealing with the directdrawsurface7.setfont() function. everything else seems to be working wonderfully. The ...
What is the most efficient way to draw text to a DirectDrawSurface?  All the SDK examples use TextOut, which I read somewhere else is not very efficient and requires you to lock the surface. ...
How to program joysticks? What function call shall I use to get the state of the joystick. Are these functions the same for all the different brand of joysticks? My program environment is VCC6...