C# Game Examples I would like to see....

C# Game Examples I would like to see....

• svip

  Thanks for your comments,
  I totally understand why you might be irritated. There is only one reason I used the Xilath base framework for the tutorials. For beginners everything can be found in engine.cs and beginners don't have to worry about the device initialization everytime and I thought that by using the engine we could seperate the topic at hand from the ugly things like Device creation etc.
  
  I also thought that by including things like camera code and other base classes that if a developer wishes he/she can look at how an engine is put together in a very logical manner.
  
  It's difficult to satisfy everyone and I value your comments. I will have a look at maybe doing something about the tutorials.
  
  Thank you for your comments once again.
  
  
  
  

• uTILLIty

  Well, I don't know if it would be much help, but I've just added a simple sample on movement yesterday on our MDX site which moves about a point around the screen and does some very basic collision detection to see if it reached its target location. It's the second sample on this page:

  http://www.mdxinfo.com/resources.php view=Basic%20samples

  Hope this helps :)

  
  
  

• HBN

  Shameless plug here, I do a lot of what you suggest in my book, Beginning .NET Game Programming in C#: http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html bID=324

  You can also find similar approaches in other books, like Tom Miller's Beginning 3D Game Programming: http://www.informit.com/bookstore/product.asp isbn=0672326612&aid=4fb68c89-9ff9-4014-b989-e66b786b67aa&rl=1

  You can also look at some of the tutorials on Gamedev.net or at c-unit.com (not to mention many other places).

  
  
  

• JohnFlemming

  Thanks Rim,

  I found your site to be quite helpful. Your tutorials are well written and your code is pristine.

  However all your tutorials are loaded with extraeneous code. You are using a big all-in-wonder engine. I couldn't even load this one. My compiler was unable to link to the plethora of files associated with it, beginning with AssemblyInfo.cs, mutmisc, Security Permissions, etc...
  I tried re-adding them as references but, no go. I'm also on Windows 2000 using .Net 1.1 and DirectX 9, so backwards compatability is key.

  Seriously Rim, I see no reason why a simple tutorial showing how to move a dot from point A to Point B should take up 16 pages.

  For instance, your Draw a Triangle tutorial also contains camera movement. If you're just getting started, this is a wealth of unnecessary, confusing code.

  There are a number of other tutorials with the same problem: They all start out with an empty DirectX shell, then Draw a Triangle, then around Lesson 4 or so, they tack on a huge multi page engine and from then on, nothing works.

  Don't get me wrong. Keep up the good work. You're a good writer, but I think you need to trim the fat on your code examples so they only contain the code relevant to the tutorial at hand.

  Thanks

  
  
  

• anydobbo

  OK, here's what I've got so far:
  As far as I could tell, there is no method to make a dot in C#. The best I could come up with is you make a rectangle which is 1 X 1. Or draw a line 1 point long.

  using System;
  using System.Drawing;
  using System.Windows.Forms;

  namespace Draw_Dot
  {

  public partial class DrawDot : Form
  {
  static void Main()
  {
  Application.EnableVisualStyles();
  Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
  Application.Run(new DrawDot());
  }

  protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)
  {
  Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(50, 30, 1, 1);
  SolidBrush lBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
  pe.Graphics.FillRectangle(lBrush, rect);
  }
  }
  }
  

  
  
  

• miauru

  Actually I just found out about your book earlier today. I will more than likely blow the bucks, but I wanted to see what I could milk off the always free internet first.

  I disagree with your reasoning that this is a comment. There are at least 30 questions on this post, beginning most notably with "How do I get the #%*&^%$#! Triangle to move "

  
  
  

• Slesh

  We've thought about this too and recognize the need for simple tutorials. The problem is, we wanted to work out the tutorials in a simple consistent framework, so Pieter (the author of our basic tutorials) fixed up a basic engine to demonstrate how things could be done, to get into 3D app design right away, rather than showing the bare basics and forcing people to reaquaint themselves with more advanced methods later... At least I think that's what he had in mind, so you'd have to take this up with him

  The samples I wrote on the other hand use the SDK's sample framework to get things done quickly. I tried to hide as much of the framework related code in #regions, but unfortunately it indeed still has to compile and link those files. The sample framework does take some getting into, but once you're accustomed to the structure it should be quite clear what's going on. More information on the sample framework can be found in the Managed SDK docs, under DX SDK -> Introducing DX9 -> Direct3D Graphics -> Sample framework.

  As I said, we've investigated this and it might be useful to use partial classes to trim the 'meat' of the code from the 'fat' of the engine, but those are a .NET 2.0 feature so it's a difficult choice. And finally, the compile problem doesn't sound familiar. I did have some probs with switching to VS2005, but on VS2003 and .NET1.1 you should be out of the woods. If you could supply some more info, that'd be great (preferrably on the mdxinfo feedback address).

  *pfew* Hope that answers some of your questions, thanks for the feedback

  
  
  
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