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• Rocy texture coords fromMesh.Intersect

  I've been looking all over and i cant seem to find an example.   I have a mesh displayed (a simple plane) and I want to get the texture coords of the point clicked. ie if they click in the upper corner i want something like 0,0 and if they click the bottom corner i want something like 1024,1024.  currently im using Mesh.Intersect to determine if the plane is selectected.  is there any way to get/derive  the texture ...Show All

• macky100 directx mesh drawsubset

  hey, im coding a simple 3d scene and encounterde the following problem: whats in the scene: loading a mesh : D3DXLoadMeshFromX( "tile.x", D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM,                                    c.d3dd, NULL,            & ...Show All

• PHILIP LOW mdx 2.0 animation

  mdx 2.0 feb 2006 i copied the code from SimpleAnimation into my engine, and made the few adjustments to the name of variables/properties etc caz going from mdx 1.x to 2.0 and then i try to load tiny.x from the sdk, but it get the error: Unhandled Exception: Error in the application. -2147467259 (E_FAIL) at Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Mesh.LoadHierarchy(Device device, String filena me, MeshFlags flags, AllocateHierarchy hierarchy, LoadUserData us ...Show All

• bosox Mesh modeling tool

  Hi, I'm looking for a mesh modeling tool. I'm beginner in DX programming so I don't need a tool with thousand of functionnalities for the moment. A free or low cost modeling tool would be great ... Thanks, Steve I can vouch for Milkshape 3D, I've been using it for my personal projects for a couple years now.  It also comes with a couple of .x file exporters.  Theres a trial available and a license wil ...Show All

• Joao Ferreirinha DirectInput

  This program doesn't works, and I don't know why. Explain me please. using System; using System.Windows.Forms; using Microsoft.DirectX; using Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput; namespace WindowsApplication1 { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); Device d; d = new Device ( SystemGuid .Keyboard); CooperativeLevelFlags c = CooperativeLevelFl ...Show All

• faiz ahmed D3D: Transformations to World Coordinates

  Hello everyone I am making a game engine, which renders terrain. So far this is going well and it can render a whole plane of polygons based on a heightmap. I want a water effect - so i have decided to: Create a cube Place top of cube somewhere in between plane (will become water level) Place bottom of cube at bottom of plane Fill with water texture/colour. My problem is, creating a cube is tricky for me because of the transformat ...Show All

• newtovisualc help with directx and visual c++ express edition

  I'm having trouble setting up visual c++ express edition with directx. The version of directx is the newest one, released in April 2006. Could someone give me a step by step explanation of how to set it up You are not being very specific, so I am guessing about what your problem is. Hopefully, you have already installed the Platform SDK and configured Visual C++ express to use it. If you have ...Show All

• James Rogers How to show x file?

  dear all, i am new directx programer. I want to show x file in the windows(EmptyProject in October 2005 DirectX SDK). but i didn't know how to do it.  please tell me watch function want to. or have any sample code to do it thank everyone. Equipped with that fantastic information given to you by the kind previous poster. I would like to stress that some people find it difficult to use the sample fram ...Show All

• Straw Multiple configs & EULA

  Hiya, I just had a quick look at XNA Build in between waiting for builds. :) It certainly looks nice and I'm encouraged by what I've seen. I do have some questions though: I can't figure out how to handle multiple configs such as a sku or a platform, is this possible in the Designer window Assuming the above, can I specify what to include/exclude for each config Is it possible to specify what to build E.g.: a particular entity ...Show All

• gdekens February SDK: Where is my frame count? ;-)

  I just installed the February DX SDK. Now I'm missing the fps display I used to have in the status display when I switched off vsync in the old sdk (August 05). With the new sdk it just says "vsync off". How can I diplay the fps with the new sdk Nico Hi NicoRi. It's very simple, the only thing you need to get the FPS info is to pass TRUE as parameter for DXUTGetFrameStats (wich is FALSE by default ...Show All

• mauricio agudelo Image protection/encryption with DDS-files

  Hello, I want to sell image-data in DDS-format for a 3D-viewer. Is there any possibility to get a copy-protection on the DDS-files I thought about encrypting the DDS-files and make the 3D-viewer unencrypt them on-the-fly. Would this be possible or are there licence limitations on DDS-format Or is there already a software-solution for my purpose Thank you very much in advance ! Best Regards, ...Show All

• r4nd0m David Weller, can you help with a message in forum?

  David,   I post a recent message in the forum, and it is not more here! (Subject: MDX 2.0 Funcitons http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=172745&SiteID=1 )   Would I like to know if it was deleted because of something improper or wrong   If I made something wrong, was not intentional.   And sorry I’m not good to write in English.   Tks for attentio ...Show All

• Meltdown61 creating stars

  Im not sure how to do this but im creating a space sim and what I want to do is place billboard sprites in static position's so as you move you get the effect that you really are moving, what should I do here thanks for the responce, but I have a question about rendering multiple meshes and sprites I have a resource manager that makes it very easy to load different meshes/textures, now if I add a object to ...Show All

• Karsinogeeni Please help, trying to get directx up and running in a managed project of c++

  I only added the references of Mocrosoft.Directx and direct3d but when I try to compile i get errors: c:\Projects\Orbital Calc\Physics.h(40): error C3635: 'Microsoft.DirectX.PrivateImplementationDetails::IDirect3DDevice9': undefined native type used in 'Microsoft::DirectX::Direct3D::Device'; imported native types must be defined in the importing source code and so on... do I need to include any libraries or includes   I thought I could just ...Show All

• Dario de Judicibus c# and DirectX Simple2D - replace tiles with background image

  I'm new to c# and DirectX and I'm trying to use the Simple2D as a basic example to my Asteroids game. So I took out alot of functionality from this program, but I'd like to have a background image (night sky) instead of the tiles. I think I saw how to load a background image to a form, but I don't think the Simple2D example uses a form. Thanks for any tips. If you need the source code I'll gladly send. Yuval. U ...Show All