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Forum: Old Competitions Topic: Addon - Best Tutorial |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:42 am
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| alright, I'd like to apply for knowledge base then. |
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Forum: Old Competitions Topic: Addon - Best Tutorial |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:21 am
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Along the lines, what kind of tut must it be? Does it have to do with adding features onto Mirage Source?
Am I able to create a tut of DX8? |
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Forum: Mirage Source 3.x.x, MSx Topic: Whats going on? |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 10:34 am
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Replies: 18
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ionno..scratch the whole project and start again in DirectX8...
Might come up with something very innovative |
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Forum: General Topic: Faster/Efficient with blitting? |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:46 am
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Replies: 14
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| It wouldnt be laggier, if you Blt the screen using bitmaps instead of forms, well it could clear a few things up if you code it properly |
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Forum: General Topic: Shannara corp... down? |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:20 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 13066
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| I dont like the way things are heading... =/ What happened to the community. |
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Forum: Resources Topic: .gif and .jpeg support |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:18 am
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Replies: 25
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| IMO png isnt worth it, bitmap format using zlib compression is way smaller than png. Although I like the idea of transparency capability, but again bitmap supports that to. Of course, it could provide to be easier :P Who knows. Each to his own ^_^ But you could argue the process of changing PNG to B... |
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Forum: Resources Topic: .gif and .jpeg support |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:10 pm
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Replies: 25
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| in order to load/convert PNG files you must use external DLL calling. VB does not support the PNG format. Look about on the net... I dont really like the png format idea. Just use ZLib with bmp for the win. |
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Forum: Resources Topic: .gif and .jpeg support |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:45 am
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| could always have Dim pic as StdPicture Set pic = loadpicture(app.path & "\Blabnla.jpg") Savepicture pic, app.path & "\tmp" Loadsurf app.path & "\tmp", pic 'Or what ever it is you do with loading a surface. I am also using pic because it has descript... |
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Forum: Resources Topic: 96x96 visual spells |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:44 pm
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Replies: 36
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| I made this Animation system for Benign while back. ..I'm really stingy about releasing my source codes :( I have to work on that. http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/112448/Animation-rar.html the only thing in this source of which I did not make was modHuffman. The rest of the source is entirely my ow... |
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Forum: Resources Topic: Alternative IOCP Tutorial |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:25 am
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Replies: 42
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| question : This IOCP thing. Does it require Winsock to work. I've been trying to mess around with it, I'm confused how to get it to connect. Anyone have any good tutorial references? I will continue to mess about with it regardless... It seems interesting. *edit* Ah I managed to get it working dont ... |
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Forum: Resources Topic: Weather System |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:52 am
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Replies: 55
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Ooohhh ok. Anwyays timers arent that good to use, because they work on depending the computer speed not by..pure seconds. Dont want to cause any seizures now do we?  |
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Forum: Resources Topic: Weather System |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:39 am
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Replies: 55
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| What I dont like is how you are using a timer for the raindrop/snow drop. Use a function like GetTickCount Public Declare Function GetTickCount lib "Kernel32" as long() Global SnowDropTimer1 as long 'Our Tick based timer Global Constant SnowDropTimer2 = 100 'Our constant time in MS... |
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Forum: Resources Topic: Alternative IOCP Tutorial |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:16 am
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Replies: 42
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| You should always ensure that libraries are registered at installation time. Other things to consider are: 1) You should make sure the users who will be installing your application know you will be registering libraries.. 2) Learn to nest your code. I wrote a very simple tutorial on this concept on... |
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Forum: Resources Topic: Alternative IOCP Tutorial |
| Sephiroth187 |
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:35 pm
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Replies: 42
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| just make sure you make a proper installation for clients to use this. Perhaps in the initialization stage of the program; If a error comes up-; Sub Main() On local error goto exts: exit sub exts: if err.number = 91 then If Len(Dir(App.Path & "\COMSocketServer.dll")... |
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