Clean, Optimised DX8

[Guest]


So soon I'll be moving on from Visual Basic and I'd like to release my base DX8 source. I'm posting it here because way back when it was based off the same DirectX8 found in Crystalshire, just, y'know, fixed.

**In this pack:**

- Clean, efficient DX8 that doesn't require the use of POT textures (might not work all the time).

- Do-it-all rendering function, RenderGraphic. It supports zooming, hue shifting, transparencies, etc!

- Cleanly commented code.

- Custom BASS module created by Damian666 and edited by me.

- An unfinished example game (showing off sprites, menustates and rendering in general).

**Future**

If a large number of you want me to develop an engine using this I would be happy too. I made the Crawle engine in an older version of this source so it isn't very difficult at this point.

**Download**

http://www.freemmorpgmaker.com/files/imagehost/pics/4f9aa45c38c13479a47a9a78f4e84f22.zip

[JohnPony]

Thanks for the submission 

[aaaron]

I broked it. 

Ocrap. I actually did.. x.x


[JohnPony]

#facepalm.

You break everything Aaron xD

[Guest]

> I broked it. 
>
> Ocrap. I actually did.. x.x
>
> 

Hold on, I uploaded the wrong version xD.

Here it is: http://www.freemmorpgmaker.com/files/imagehost/pics/4f9aa45c38c13479a47a9a78f4e84f22.zip

Uploaded the main post.

[aaaron]

Noooo.

@Sekaru: Ighttt.

[iSnow]

So this is the base CS:DE without some of those frontend features it missed in the first place, but is clean and optimised? Huh, I'd take a crack at it, would like to see some further development to a further usable state though.

[aaaron]

Sidescroller<3

[Guest]

;D VERY NICE

[abhi2011]

Nice

[tslusny]

Ok Sekaru first i must say, your version is really clean  But i found 2 automation errors

1. DirectX is only trying to create 1 type if rendering (not like in EO 3.0 when it chooses useable one)
2. You do not fixed main error what was in CS:DE (lost focus error a.k.a CTRL-ALT-DEL issue)

So i added TryCreateDX8 function and added Handler for Device Lost. Use it or not, its your choice: http://www.mediafire.com/?d4k2raa56mts465

[Ariel]

is that a Fixed CS:DE? LOL

[aaaron]

No.

[Guest]

> So this is the base CS:DE without some of those frontend features it missed in the first place, but is clean and optimised? Huh, I'd take a crack at it, would like to see some further development to a further usable state though.

No this is basically a base DX8 engine. It just has the DirectX bits and not the game stuff (I said in the main post if people want me to work with this as an engine for Eclipse I could). It uses the rendering from CS:DE but cleaned up and fixed.

> Ok Sekaru first i must say, your version is really clean  But i found 2 automation errors
>
> 1. DirectX is only trying to create 1 type if rendering (not like in EO 3.0 when it chooses useable one)
>
>
> 2. You do not fixed main error what was in CS:DE (lost focus error a.k.a CTRL-ALT-DEL issue)
>
> So i added TryCreateDX8 function and added Handler for Device Lost. Use it or not, its your choice: [http://www.mediafire…d4k2raa56mts465](http://www.mediafire.com/?d4k2raa56mts465)

This source is what I used in Crawle. I never really intended it to be an engine but its a simple fix like your error handler there. The ctrl-alt-del issue isn't something that a lot of people get and even sometimes I don't find myself getting that issue so I've never really taken the time to actually work on it.

> is that a Fixed CS:DE? LOL

It uses CS:DE's rendering as a base and improves upon it and well, yes, fixes it.

[iSnow]

@ Sekaru I'd love to see this progress into a feature filled engine, and the Sidescroller idea mentioned above is a decent idea.

However, a single player engine would sell me.

[Guest]

Well yeah it would probably be a singleplayer engine.

[zerosavior115]

Hey theres just a few question

- How come the music/sound doesnt play ingame?

- How for example use the ADDTEXT thing like I wanna write chats or anything else?

- how did you made it that instead of the game being blit to picscreen the game is blit in the FORM itself

- when i read the codes of other DX8 based engine they use Fmod and yours uses BASS so can you make something that uses Fmod instead?

- what does the box(x) in the renderer is for? and how can i Make it layered(like mask,mask2,fringe)

-and if poosible do you know to fix these cuz when i use the engines with SEVERS when i open it theres always an RTE Network subsystem failed

Pleas answer then would help me alot

[Guest]

You must think this is a pre-built engine. It isn't.

- You've messed with BASS somehow?

- The RenderText() method does that.

- There is not "bliting". Direct3D8 draws directly onto the form.

- Why would I do that? Fmod is massively inferior to BASS in every single way imaginable.

- Corners for rendering images. By writing the code yourself.

- There is no networking in this example and I won't help you fix your own incompetence.

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I'm also locking this thread. [This](http://www.touchofdeathforums.com/community/index.php?/topic/131274-base-d3d8/) is a much better base and has a lot more functionality.