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• Luiz Ricci DirectX 9 in visual basic 2005

  Hello all,     I am an experinced user of Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, but am failing terribly when trying to apply DirectX, Direct3D and other techniques.  Does anyone know where I can find directx tutorials that have visual basic code examples   I would really like ot learn.  I have tried literally hundreds of c++ tutorials and they never compile, whether the creater of the source says it works or not.  ...Show All

• Jay Longenderfer Simple opacity effect

  How Simple as that. Im trying managed directx 9. I dont want transparent (i still want to see the bitmap). I havent found any samples or documentation on this subject. Any help is much appreciated, or a point in the right direction. Oh, im trying to do this with sprites. hmm, maybe i didnt pass what i wanted to do correctly, i want to do this programatilly, im trying to make a fade in and out effect, and created a 100 pictures with differe ...Show All

• shamuthekillercoder [MDX] Constrain cursor to fullscreen window?

  First of all, I'm not at all sure that this is a DirectX question or a C# question. If it is misplaced please tell me so and I'll repost it elsewhere. But here goes: I have two monitors in dualview, that is: if I move my cursor to the right of my screen it pops up on the other screen. When I'm in windowed mode I would like this behaviour but in fullscreen I would like to constrain the cursor to the primary screen / the fullscreen application. I ...Show All

• RiskSWDeveloper_WorkEmail Problem starting the Managed Samples

  I'm trying to get started by doing the DirectX\Samples\Managed\Direct3D\Tutorials, but I can't seem to get them to run. When I try to open the solution file, I get an error message box that says "The application for project '...DirectX\Samples\Managed\Direct3D\Tutorials\Tutorial\Tutorial1.csproj" is not installed. Make sure the application for the project type (.csproj) is installed." Any ideas Thanks so much to ...Show All

• K8CPA Weird question

  I have a question for all the leval designers out there. Let's just say I'm playing Doom 3 or something..See, Doom 3 or Quake 4 or any other game like that require a lot of visual memory..So let's just say that I'm playing the game and since all of thoes are first person shooters..Here's my master question is..Why don't you just put what you're not looking at in the game in a lower detail or maybe even wireframe But it wouldn't stay in a low det ...Show All

• h_01cs25 Can't Compile DirectX Samples with Visual C++ Beta2 (DXSDK October 2005)

  Hi, when i try to compile DirectX Samples with VC++ 2005 Beta 2, the program can't include Windows.h, why How to Solve this Now the compiler can't find a lot of DirectX(Dx9Err.lib) Symbols! http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=141449&SiteID=1 Also, the final release is out.  Please upgrade to that.  Beta 2 is no longer supported. ...Show All

• tejasjunior .x Model and duplicated vertices issue

  I can see that in a .x template template VertexDuplicationIndices { <b8d65549-d7c9-4995-89cf-53a9a8b031e3> DWORD nIndices; DWORD nOriginalVertices; array DWORD indices[nIndices]; } There is a duplication of vertices. I believe this was done during the export when faces sharing a vertex duplicates that vertex. Am I right to say that My main problem is how can I get pointers or references back to the origina ...Show All

• Vladimir Makarov Flicker in Direct3D application ???

  Hello guys, I developed a small(very simple) 2D game last summer, and I remember I had to use a temporary output for the Drawing/Graphics, and then whole Output draw at once(like one bitmap) so that I avoided "FLICKER PROBLEM". Now, I am trying to get into 3D programming and want to ask, if there could be the same problem, because when my SpaceShip is moving I think its not so smooth as it should be and that it might be the same ...Show All

• S Burris DxDiag and DirectShow error, please help

  as i figure out there is no "real" reliable source of information (or at least not very trustworthy) out there. i came here to seek a solution.   when i was trying to run DxDiag, it popped an error message up telling me that there was a problem accesing DirectShow, the cause of that might be previous improper use of the DxDiag. and it asked me if i want to skip loading DirectShow.   i have no idea what caused this prob ...Show All

• rasky74 HLSL pixel shader: problem with tex coord computation/texture lookup

  I'm sitting on a strange problem for half a day now and can't figure out why things are happening as they happen. :) What I'm trying to do is to look up a texture with entries of size 3*3 texels each ( g_samCurvatureTex : this is a magnified part of it, the whole tex is repeated like this - I am only interested in the blue channel right now). At first I need to compute the centre index of the entry: #define CURV_TEX_ENTRIES 42 ...Show All

• FredSaw I cant Install Directx 9.0c December 2005 dsound.inf problem

  When I try install Directx 9.0c December 2005 Redlist I Envisage with this Error : "An internal system error occurred. Please refer to DXError.log and DirectX.log in your Windows folder to derermine problem." I several time download Directx 9.0c December 2005 and November 2005 but everytime I Envisage with this error and when I go to DXError.log and DirectX.log see this Problem with dsound.inf : -------------------- [01/05/06 01 ...Show All

• Raja_dilly problem loading .x file

  Hi I wrote a code to load and display a .x file. The .x file i am using is provided with the SDK itself namely tiger.x. It is not loading the file. The same code is working fine on a different PC with a different version of Direct-X(older one). Is it a problem of Direct-X version as i have tried two three versions and each of them is giving me the same problem. I have checked everything from file path to the x file using the viewer. code snipp ...Show All

• skinny2 Problem rendering an animated mesh (vb.net)

  I'm trying to render an animated mesh (tiny.x), I have translated the c# sample code to vb.net but when it gets to the DrawSubset method it throws an error: -Run-time exception thrown : System.AccessViolationException. I have realized that it happens an earlier error when trying to set the Device.RenderState.VertexBlend property. The exception is: -ErrorString:"D3DERR_INVALIDCALL" I'm including the device intialization: Dim DispM ...Show All

• kazor Controling Characters

  hi., Could some one please tell me how to code visualbasic so that i can controle a cheracter on the screen. If you can i'll be real greatful. Thanks, jjjames Your question is a very large subject, far too much to be answered in a forum I suggest you read How to ask questions the smart way and try again with something more specific. Otherwise start at the ZBuffer Managed DirectX Tutorials and l ...Show All

• Arindam Sen DirectX February 2006 SDK has Conflict with other DLL

  Hello! I loaded down the new DirectX SDK form February 2006. After installing and doing a device creation test, i've got an error telling me, that two dll's are in conflict with each other. So I went into my C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\DirectX for Managed Code directory and deleteted all subdirectorys in there. I've reinstalled the February SDK but he again tells me that their is a conflikt between two DLL's. Here is the error: Th ...Show All