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Tech Off - Discuss the Beginning Game Development series on Coding 4 Fun

nmoog — Sun, 07 May 2006 04:15:05 GMT

Just a note about the framerate problem people seem to be having - I started following the video tutes on RocketCommander (http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/gamedevelopment/rocketcmd/) at Coding4fun.

Rocket Commander does not use the OnPaint methods for rendering. I tried the rocket commander method on Battle Tank and my average fps went from 45 fps to over 1000 fps! (which is a bit annoying as it's WAAAY too fast!)

Basically you don't use the Application.Run method and render in OnPaint, but create your own form, have a "while" loop. The while loop calls Application.DoEvents() to make sure it plays nicely.

If you just follow the rocketcommander stuff for the first couple of tutorial you can learn some good stuff to use here - but it doesnt cover the basics of cameras and stuff - goes very advanced very quickly

Tech Off - Discuss the Beginning Game Development series on Coding 4 Fun

nmoog — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:04:26 GMT

Does anyone know when the next lesson will be out, or how often they are released? The anticipation is killing me, and now that I know how to spin triangles, I reaaaally want to know how to spin my objects independently of each other

Tech Off - Discuss the Beginning Game Development series on Coding 4 Fun

nmoog — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:28:40 GMT

I'm seeing the same thing - as the cube spins different faces are getting rendered in the fore-ground which should be in the background etc. I remember reading up about 3d progamming in the olden days ('95) and they always were talking about depth sorting, and z-buffers, and bsp something-somethings that were used to determine which vertices should be rendered in which order.

I reckon this is what will be covered in the next tutorial (I hope so anyway