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Is their a trial version of Maya? If so, where can I download it for Mac OSX?
If someone knows, how to access a thread's (program's) (secondary) surfaces from another thread (program). I think the DirectX surface capturing is a well kept secret. /at least i could no...
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...
Is there a site from which I can download src files of an application for loading and displaying *.x files ?
I am using VC++ and DirectX 8.1b. When I load Bitmap from resource into texture, the rendered result is blurred.  The image size of original and rendered are exactly equal.  I magnified the i...
This hp desktop computer is recieving the can't install directx drivers so the game will not install, the os is xp pro and the game has the xp safe logo. the info I have is limited right now b...
I have a video capture device (Logitech's usb web camera). I would like to generate an MPEG2 stream by using directshow filters. I have an MPEG2 encoder filter. I also have the source filte...
Hi All, I am developing an MPEG-2 decoder transform filter. I use libmpeg2 decoder library and class CVideoTransformFilter(). I need some help regarding the timing and quality management...
I have a working application that uses DirectShow to manipulate a webcam. The software module that directly uses DirectShow is written in C++ (managed dll). The rest of the application is ....
Hello, I'm Antoine Vromen from the Netherlands and I'm having a problem with directx diagnostics and some 3D games (not all). When I start up dxdiag, I get get the error message "A fatal ...
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 ?
hi everyone, really need some help here. i'm using windows xp but can't run directx 8.1. when i checked it out, i learned that the direct 3d acceleration is unavailable. i tried downloading di...
Hi,  I've been teaching myself a little of Win32 programming via C++. I know C++ well, but am having some trouble getting Direct3D to compile in Visual Studio .NET. I am using it in Win32 Pro...
I've written a graphics engine for a 2d game using the DirectX 9 'Sprite' system. I simply need to know how to find the widths of strangely dimensioned textures during runtime (eg 80x60, 400x...
Ok, I have looked everywhere to try and fix my problem but to no avail.  I have just decided to start learning games development (I am a web developer), my problem is I have been using Dev C++...
Ok, I'm going to include a code snippet (with all error handling and cleanup removed) to help with this one. I'm using the VMR to render the video stream, and I want to overlay a bitmap image....
From the DirectX SDK I am trying to make a pixel shader. From de pixel shader examples in the SDK I copy the "apply a texture map"  code in my own program. Everything works until the last line...
I have a capture card that can capture s-video from a VHS player. I have the amcap/dscap c++ example programmes that write to avi, but only in the codecs that seems to be hardwired into the ca...
How to build a  full screen DirectDraw on one of a dual screen display (right side) while keep another(left side) in window form mode (for windows form controls.)  
Hello. I'm developing a Full Screen 2D game using DirectX 8.1 and Visual C++ 6.0. I have completed 3 boards and a CutScene. At the start of the game, it loads the background for Board1 like th...
I'd like to come up with a routine that can append a mesh to another mesh. Currently my program creates a Sphere, Cylinder, or Box (using D3DXCreate)  and then translates that mesh out to any ...
I'm using DirectX 8 and trying to create a mesh using code rather than loading it from an .x file.  The mesh is rendering, but it's black; when it should be shiny orange. My variables are: ...
On start-up. Quick View is displaying a file: dxdllreg.exe.  This was after installing Direct X from the MSN Update for Win XP.  What is the problem and the solution?
This is actually quite simple. 1. Can I draw 2d object with 3d object in the same screen ? (from what I understood: YES) 2. is 2d object drawing faster thewn 3d ? (I guess yes but if dx us...
Hello I'm making an application in which I want to display some waveforms. I know how to do this in GDI+, but thought that because sometimes the GDI+ is slow and because I need to display ...