My son has taken to playing an online role-playing game, RF Online.
Unfortunately, his big brother is hogging our main PC, so I have installed it onto a spare PC which is quite old.
It's...
I have a VB.net app in Visual Studio 2008 that I need to add a small amount of 3D graphics to. I have the newest Directx SDK. I am familiar with VB but new to Directx.
I am able to make s...
Using DirectX / DirectShow, how can I control the capture resolution of a Logitech webcam in source code without showing any dialogue boxes?
I have been researching this on the internet for...
Hi there,
recently, I saw some commercial games that provide the possibility
to browse the internet in a section of the (fullscreen) gamescreen.
I tried to figure out how this works, bu...
Can anyone please help me with this problem. I look at simmilar questions, but the code is too different from mine to use the solution I found from other got the same error. It's only happens ...
hi ive recently bought hitman 2 on pc. ive got a pentium 3 700mhz pc and when i try and play it, it comes up with this message......Direct3D: Unable to create device. Try changing resolution o...
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I am a newbie to DirectX. I installed the latest SDK, and mostly learnt from examples I found online.
I am trying to render to multiple windows. Basically it is a flight simulato...
Hi there, I currently am making an application to support both streaming from a DV capture source and from a video file eventually outputting the results to a D3D9 texture using the VMR9 rende...
Hi,
below is a code snippet of a sample I found on how to recover from device lost. For some reasons
hr = m_device->Reset( &m_pp );
returns an error.
The error is not one of this methods...
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I recently started a Direct3D project, for which the base was generated through AppWizard. I believe the original code displayed a teapot in the center of the view. It was possible to r...
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I have got the following code off microsoft, all i want to do is have more than one triangle in 2d. I have tryed putting in more verts but it only show the first triangle. What am i doing...
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I'm busy trying to write a 3d engine in Direct3D, but am having issues with my normals. That, however, is not what this question is about (unless you can quickly explain how I can use 3D...
I need an example of how to access the R,G, B, and A pixels in a surface after locking the surface. I need to be able to read and write them as quickly as possible.
I have tried
surfaceOl...
Is there a Direct Draw or DirectX function to allow you to draw a line on the back buffer? I couldnt find one so Im currently using the LineTo() GDI function to draw straight on the screen....
Given a View matrix in DX8.1 :
(MSDN->DirectX 8.1(C++)->DirectX Graphics->Programing Guide->Using Direct3D->Transforms->Matrices->View Transformation)
(ux vx nx 0)
(uy vy ...
My sprites are being drawing antialiased. I don't what this, I what the sprite to be a pixel for pixel match of the texture. What do I need to do?
Thanks,
Matthew
I want to start coding applications that make use of DirectX (Direct3D and DirectInput in particular) however, have no idea where to begin.
If anyone could suggest some good books, articl...
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I was migrating a live multimedia production computer to a laptop for a client, and a specific program they rely on daily is not installing under Vista. I go all through the wizard but ...
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I understand I can set vSync usage (on/off) by DirectX when creating the device (e.g., IDirect3D9::CreateDevice, Parameter D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS). But this would be overwritten by dr...
what do U think,
Is Maya the best modeling tool for Isometric games(with directX) ?
is there a better software?
is there a special version of maya for Game dev ?
In triangle list, for a triangle, I know how to calculate this normal and then assign it to its three vertices...but when I use triangle strip...as you know...one vertex belongs to two triangl...
I need to make an application using directX, but with the background completely transparent, meaning I can see the windows desktop, and interact with desktop folders and icons, and at the same...
How I use directshow to capture and record from web camera in vb.net?
Eli Koren
Hi there,
I'm fairly irrelevant to game graphics, but I do have a question that perfectly fits here. I want a function that given an Image and a trapezoid defined by a four points array (or...
Hello,
suppose I have a dual-head graphics card or even two separate graphics cards. I need to write an app such that the GUI is display on one head/card and on the second one, a full-scree...
