Planet Chili

With windows 7, you have to format if you have winxp, but there is an in place upgrade from vista to 7. In other words you don't have to format if you have Vista already installed. Last time I tried to install win7 over XP it made a Windows.000 folder, can't remember now if that was the old xp file ...

It's seems hit or miss with the autocomplete. Using std::vector functions I can type .si then () and it will finish, but with user data types, even if it is highlighted, it won't finish for me. The auto tabbing is pretty sweet. The way it pairs the brackets and parentheses is king of cool, but diffi...

Could create multiple viewports and have one for the game, one for items(inventory) and one for dialogue.

How are you implementing the alpha, by value or by u,v value (alpha map)

Yeah, I think I made it to lesson 20 before I started practicing on different things. I feel I have learned a lot, but not nearly enough. I use cplusplus.com a lot for referencing. I have spent hours learning how different functions work. Sucks the older I get the longer it takes for something to si...

The details are in the first post of the thread. If you want to help with the project, you can join the irc that Luis is always in. Luis is also hosting a Git server on his laptop that stores the project. Join the irc channel, speak with Luis on how to setup a Git client, we use tortoiseGit for the ...

Currently, there hasn't been a whole lot of progress, because I'm still working out a few issues with code structure. Once I get it figured out we can proceed with finishing the game. If the game actually worked the way it's suppose to, we would have some menus, 8 levels, a controllable player ship,...

The problem is here: D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS d3dpp; ZeroMemory( &d3dpp, sizeof( d3dpp ) ); d3dpp.Windowed = TRUE; d3dpp.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_DISCARD; d3dpp.BackBufferFormat = D3DFMT_UNKNOWN; d3dpp.PresentationInterval = D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_ONE; d3dpp.Flags = D3DPRESENTFLAG_LOCKABLE_BACKBUFFER; d...

chili wrote:

albinopapa wrote:Have you seen the lesson one beginner video, that's him

This.

lol

The locking and unlocking of the back buffer will always be a slow process, the cpu has to wait until all memory access to that block of memory is done before it can use it for drawing. If you are in the beginner series, wait until later lessons and he will show you how to speed up the drawing proce...