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I had to draw everything onto the game window, and do away with the panels. There is no way to use a control in this manner and have it display graphics drawn to a picturebox underneath…it just will not work. I have made a grip of changes to the Orion Engine and will be releasing a revamped version when I get everything working.

Unfortunately that is actually the most helpful explanation I have found. Gwen doesn't look as if it has been worked on since 2013, and I have looked around some and have not found anything that is straight forward for VB.NET and using a compatible UI library from other sources. Right now my options are to just keep with the smaller window that I have now or find something else to run this AI stuff with…and since I only know VB.NET it seems I am limited. If I knew SlimDX could do it I would see about converting it over, but likewise there is little-to-no documentation on doing this.

For the record, no one is ever at that site… I have been working on a heavily modified copy of the Orion Engine for some high-end AI stuff. I have been wanting to use a full screen for the game window, but I will need to have transparent panels for all the UI controls. Right now I am bypassing the opacity requirement and just trying to draw to the panel exactly what is underneath it. This flickers right now really bad, but can be fixed later when it gets put through the render...I did this just for simplicity, and it goes in a panel's paint method and refreshed in the game loop: ``` Dim tempImage = New Bitmap(Picturebox1.Width, Picturebox1.Height) Dim memoryGraphics As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(tempImage) Dim screenPos As Point = Picturebox1.PointToScreen(New Point(0, 0)) memoryGraphics.CopyFromScreen(screenPos.X, screenPos.Y, 0, 0, Picturebox1.Size) Dim destRect As New Rectangle(0, 0, Panel1.Width, Panel1.Height) Dim srcRect As New Rectangle(picscreen.Location.X - 100, picscreen.Location.Y, Panel1.Width, Panel1.Height) e.Graphics.DrawImage(tempImage, destRect, srcRect, GraphicsUnit.Pixel) ```  As you can see the more I bring the offset closer to being lined up (- 100) to the right it picks up the panel and doesn't make it transparent. I'm desperately reaching out hoping that someone here can give me an idea of how to make transparent windows for the controls. I have found dozens of articles of making transparent panels, but those only work if the underlying control has an image or background image, and do not work when graphics are constantly being redrawn to the underlying control. I have asked at a few programming sites as well, but after 5 days and no response or idea how to do this I am hoping that someone here can help.

http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/smf/index.php/topic,29732.0.html I found that. Any modification to the engine, including a complete rewrite to the engine under VB.NET, falls under this licensing, correct? I have found someone that is willing to help me with the DirectX for the VB.NET upgrade of Eclipse Origins.NET by jcsnider, but want to be certain that I would be placing the correct license in any releases of the code that I am making changes to. Thanks.

I am using CS:DE and am having the same issue. I have done a search of the forums and the best guess I can come up with is to mimic the way currency is done for consumables or even resources.

In your graphics/paperdolls/male & graphics/paperdolls/female folders, if you have the same sprite in both folder for each sex wearing the exact same item, then it will show up the same. You have to have the same number (item2 = 2.png) but different sprites labeled as "2.png". If that is the case, and you have the same sprite showing no matter which sex is chosen, and the images in the sex folders are different, then you might try going back over the tutorial to make sure. I have already checked, going Exactly by this tutorial will make paperdolling work for both sexes.

–------------------------- Microsoft Visual Basic --------------------------- Compile error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment --------------------------- OK Help --------------------------- All I did was replace the DrawPaperdoll sub with the one in the first post. I am unable to check where the error is coming from because for some reason VB6 is shutting down on me before I can debug it. Edit: I do have the gender and hair one implemented, and I notice that part of it that are needed for the male/female portions are not there in the update. EDIT: Ignore this! I was replacing with the first one, not the second DrawPaperdoll sub :/

Thanks for the link Quatrz. I wish you would have just said it had already been implemented Robin :). I happened across the animations in the gameloop on the client, because the tutorial link has stuff being sent from the server, to see if a change there might be able to flash one of the map layers…ran the game, and when I went to the map editor I tweaked the scrlAutotile found that this functionality was already there. Now I either have to modify some tilesets because it looks horrible with what I am using now because it is looping through the tiles on the tileset, or change it to simply turn on/off 1 of the unneeded layers with the timer...or just study the code more than what I already have been to see what else I am missing. I guess where I am messing up at is because there has been so much done to this engine already, and I am just now making it in...trying to learn the differences from VB.NET to VB6 doesn't make it any easier though. Thanks for the help.

Alright, I got no-ip setup. rpggame.servebeer.com We have still tried to connect and nothing. I am just going to have to get a host if I am going to do anything cause I am really starting to think it is this sat modem. There are so many settings for it in the advanced setup that I have never even heard of, so I am going to leave it like it is. Thanks for the assistance.

I have DynamicIP. The representative who seemed as knowledgeable as a can of rocks, suggested that I further the expense of adding a static IP. I am probably just going to work on my client/server stuff that I am wanting to change around until after January when I get a host for a game.

Thanks for the effort anyways…I am on chat with tech support to see if there is a reason why this isnt working. I will post results when I have them.

I'm not really sure to be honest…I have not had to check with this connection since I have had it. DHCP is enabled on my local area network connection going to my modem. It has a screen with like 9 billions pages on it showing different stuff I have not run into before.

checkip.org & ipchicken.com are showing 67.142.170.23 The link you provided is showing 69.19.118.20 > Error: I could not see your service on 69.19.118.20 on port (8000) > Reason: Connection timed out I am trying to check on port 8000. I am beginning to think that it has something to do with the modem.

okay, I just checked my ip, started my server again, entered my ip and the port in the link, and the page that it is displaying is attached. I'm not sure what that means. I do have my firewall turned back on for this pic, but it is the same if the firewall is off or on.

I have been searching for this one. Currently I am using Hughesnet. My modem is jacked straight in to my computer. I pulled my external IP address, setup my server for testing, sent a copy of the client to a friend, and he cannot connect. I have looked at all the tutorials, and the results that I can pull up on searches here, but I am not a noob by any means when it comes to setting up stuff like this. I went through to make sure everything was setup on both ends. I even brought down my firewall for a short period to see if that would help but it didn't, so it has nothing to do with the rules sets (I'm using NOD32 btw). He even tried pinging my ip address and returned all lost packed. I have Windows firewall turned completely off as well, since NOD32 is my primary firewall. I wanted to see if someone might have run into this issue or an idea of where I can look on my system. I do have a router that I can use, but have not needed it so I don't even have it hooked up.