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Hello, Firstly, I've done several programs using Visual C#.net with miminal difficulties.  Awhile ago, I started to play around abit with 3D game design.  I've read a fair amount of tutoria...
I have recently made some attempts for a simple 3D program and have come across a problem with converting degrees to radians and then giving the result to sin() MSVC++ function. I understan...
Assume you are in Cartesian space at coordinates {32, 99, -6}.   You are traveling to coordinates  {-16, 44, 36}.  There are two headings (bearings/directions) to find, the angle at which you ...
I think I'm going insane... I'm loading bitmaps from a .Theme file. They are 32-bit. But, for some reason, OpenGL draws the transparent portions as black instead of clear. I'm using the BGR...
I have installed starcraft but have lost my cd key and cannot get onto battle.net. What can i do?
Hai! I AM BEGINNER IN 3DSMAX I WANT TO CREATE MIRROR IN 3DS MAX. KINDLY DO THE NEEDFUL
okay, i'm at work and don't have the details on me, but will try to remember what i can before i get home to check. I'm brand new to visual C++ and OpenGL, and have started doing the first exe...
Hello Experts, I want to do the following: - Import .MAX/.3DS file along with all its animation details - To play certain frames on some keyboard/mouse event. For eg. if I press 'J' the 3...
Hi, Is there some formula I can use to find out an (x,y) location of a point on a circle's edge? Let's say the circle has a radius of 1, and I want to find out 10 equally spaced points a...
I'm making a program using c++ with opengl. I've created models in 3ds max and I need to load them into my program. HOW ???
I am a beginner of openGL, my question is that I am going to create a scene and initially viewer is at (0,0,0) and looks at (0,0,1), suppose Y is vertical axis, I should move viewer parallel t...
Hi! At the moment I'm trying to convert a game I did for Linux to Windows. I've already worked on creating windows etc and most of the stuff is already working. The problem left is that I u...
Hello Expert,   I have created a 10 sec 3d Max animation of a moving arm. I need to get this into VC++ code and run it through OpenGL. Can any one guide me through the process please. Ma...
Hi, I've been having some troubles with Quaternions, I could do with a nice simple example. (i've done google searches, and all I seem to get are massive pre-made Camera classes). My pro...
Hi, I have 2D closed path and I wanted to know the area (surface size) so I can figure out the amount of paint I need for that shape. (1.0f = one meter) Here is what I found for a formula: ...
Can anybody point me in the direction of some code in c++ that implements delaunay triangulation I have done a 3d terrain model of a mountain using data obtained from contour lines. I did it ...
I installed the directx 9 sdk. but it doesnt have conv3ds.exe utility. Where can I get it. I need it bad. thanks nick
Hi everyone, I have a cube defined in GL_QUADS that I want to rotate at a distance of nRadius from the origin (0, 0, 0) about the y-axis. I don't want it to rotate around it's local y-axis...
Ok. How do I detect a mouse over an object? Please be easy...
I started programming a directx 3D graphics engine that runs in full screen, a couple months ago for a game I'm trying to make. I started programming and thought I finished the engine and star...
When I try to compile some OpenGL code (http://oreilly.linux.com/  search for "Black Hole") under VC++ 6.0, I get the following 3 error messages: c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc...
hello guys right now i just started doing some opengl graphic with C++, and i trying to find a simple example about animal . however, i coudn't seem to find any useful example from goo...
Each object in my world has a local axis coordinate system, defined by three vectors. As the objects move, I rotate them around either a local axis or around a world axis. The end result are 3...
What is the refresh rate of the eye?
Hello! I have a spheric panorama rendered by Java applet which is placed onto HTML page. You can see an instance of this applet here: http://www.immervision.com/en/multimedia/index.php?cat=...