TV3D 6.5 Samples for newbies

[ZaPPZion]

yea i designed it myself, but with some reference of other websites, combined the good parts

[eyesack]

hey i was just wondering
what version of visual studio was this made in?
i have 2008 and the .sln's say that it was made with a later version (2008 im guessing)

it is the .sln i want to open right?
sorry im new to C++. vb-er at heart but i figure i gotta learn it sooner or later

thanks

[ZaPPZion]

Yea, everything is made in visual studio 2008

[shsdevries]

I've just finished porting the other tutorials to VB6
You can download them here:
http://tv3d.simondevries.com/VB6.zip.

[AriusEso]

hey i was just wondering
what version of visual studio was this made in?
i have 2008 and the .sln's say that it was made with a later version (2008 im guessing)

it is the .sln i want to open right?
sorry im new to C++. vb-er at heart but i figure i gotta learn it sooner or later

thanks

The C++ ones are made in 2008 professional. However, they should open and build just fine in express. I'm not using any pro-only features.

I'll mirror that on my server shsdevries.

ZaPP can you PM me a direct link to the new .NET ones so I can mirror them. My wlan atm is running really slowly for some reason so I don't want to spend half an hour browsing sites to find it . Thanks.

[AriusEso]

Well, as a demonstration of the issues with my wireless atm.

Code:

geoff@esoteric:~/downs> wget http://tv3d.simondevries.com/VB6.zip
--2008-08-01 15:23:19--  http://tv3d.simondevries.com/VB6.zip
Resolving tv3d.simondevries.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `tv3d.simondevries.com'

I will mirror it when I can download it Simon.

[ZaPPZion]

Got it all mirrored as well. Separate downloads for the different languages. And of course a separate download for the common folder. Download page direct link: http://www.bartkuipers.com/index.php?id=16

[AriusEso]

Ok, what I've done is mirror every archive. So the C++ one is now also seperate from the media. I've also changed the main url in the initial post to yours - so you should add the mirror urls to your site and we'll use yours as a sort of portal.

http://azazeldev.org/tv65/ReleaseVC++.rar
http://azazeldev.org/tv65/ReleaseVCsharp.zip
http://azazeldev.org/tv65/ReleaseVB6.zip
http://azazeldev.org/tv65/ReleaseVBNET.zip
http://azazeldev.org/tv65/common.zip

Also, I'd appreciate if you could change this line:

"The downloadable tutorials you'll find here are all written by AriusEso."

to

"The downloadable tutorials you'll find here are all written by Geoff Wilson."

Now, new releases. I'll put these in a different folder and then PM you and Simon. This way all releases will be made public at the same time. Rather than having the C++ ones released a day or so earlier than the .NET ones followed by the VB6 ones another day later - or whatever. Saves confusion if we can collaborate properly and get them all out at the same time.

I don't actually have Windows installed at the moment as I'm OpenGL'ing it. So the next samples will be next week sometime.

They will most likely be the following.

#23: HLSL Simple Uniform Point Light Shadow Mapping. ( PVL )
#24: HLSL Simple Uniform Point Light Shadow Mapping. ( PPL Parallax )
#25: Simple Physics

[Daggio]

Hi zappzion, I just looked your website and I realise that the numbers of tutorials are 22
that means there's a new releases because the tutorials I have is only untill no.16

can you make each tutorial downloaded seperetely?so there won't be two tutorial 1 untill 16 in my computer

thanks

edit:

I just finished tutorial 10:simple landscape but I don't see any landscape at all, it just black (i feels like I'm doing tutorial 1 back again)

anyone experiencing the same problem? how do I fix this?

[shsdevries]

Daggio:
Do you have the latest version of TV3D? I had a black screen at the tutorial with Rancor, and by installing the latest version of TV3D it was solved...
You can download it here: http://www.truevision3d.com/downloads/download.php?go=2&file=28&mirror=39 (don't use a mirror).

AriusEso: I'll mirror them all today when I have time

[Daggio]

Yes, I have the newest version of TV3D.
before this, I can't see the Rancor too, but now there's no problem with that.

[ZaPPZion]

Also, I'd appreciate if you could change this line:
"The downloadable tutorials you'll find here are all written by AriusEso."
to
"The downloadable tutorials you'll find here are all written by Geoff Wilson."

Done that
Also put the mirror links on my web page. Simon, if you've got the files mirrored, send me a pm, I'll add the links to my web page.

[AriusEso]

Daggio, show me your code after following the sample.

ZaPP, thanks.

[AriusEso]

hey i was just wondering
what version of visual studio was this made in?
i have 2008 and the .sln's say that it was made with a later version (2008 im guessing)

it is the .sln i want to open right?
sorry im new to C++. vb-er at heart but i figure i gotta learn it sooner or later

thanks

Sorry, missed the second part of your post. Yes, the sln file is what you want to open.

[Daggio]

Daggio, show me your code after following the sample.

ZaPP, thanks.

doesn't matter I can see the landscape now

but all I see is cracking ground, I want to see a little bit more of the landscape (the horayzon...or horeezone...or whatever)

any suggestion where I should set the cam.setLookAt() ?

thanks for wanting to help

edit:
I have a little questions about this landscape tutorial

1.we're creating directional light here and not point of light, and I can see that the parameters are different here.We're defining the direction,the RGB color,the name and the specular level. So where's the light from, just say I set the direction to (-15,0,-10) from where the light is projected? and what is specular level? (sorry, I just want to know)

2.At the Land.GenerateTerrain we take the hmap.dds file from the common directory, I've read the wiki and it says that the DDS is a texture file,but after I generate the terrain I can see the terrain is just like a 3D model (like the .TVM model) so where do we get this terrain data?

sorry if my questions sounds stupid, I'm new to TV3D

[turnA]

edit:
I have a little questions about this landscape tutorial

1.we're creating directional light here and not point of light, and I can see that the parameters are different here.We're defining the direction,the RGB color,the name and the specular level. So where's the light from, just say I set the direction to (-15,0,-10) from where the light is projected? and what is specular level? (sorry, I just want to know)

2.At the Land.GenerateTerrain we take the hmap.dds file from the common directory, I've read the wiki and it says that the DDS is a texture file,but after I generate the terrain I can see the terrain is just like a 3D model (like the .TVM model) so where do we get this terrain data?

sorry if my questions sounds stupid, I'm new to TV3D

Maybe I can help a bit on this one.
1. Directional lighting, as it name suggest, is lighting with one common direction. All the lighting ray in the scene is parallel to the vector direction (in your case, (-15,0,-10)). It doesn't have any specific geometry point as a source.
2. Actually, DDS is composed of Surface and Alpha image. http://wiki.truevision3d.com/tutorialsarticlesandexamples/making_dds_textures_for_use_with_truevision
Right me if I'm wrong, but I think TV3D use the Alpha image as height map for it's landscape. This height map information will decide what part of landscape have certain height (black will have lower height, and white will have higher height, or vice versa, I forgot )

Hope this help Daggio 

[AriusEso]

Maybe I can help a bit on this one.
1. Directional lighting, as it name suggest, is lighting with one common direction. All the lighting ray in the scene is parallel to the vector direction (in your case, (-15,0,-10)). It doesn't have any specific geometry point as a source.
2. Actually, DDS is composed of Surface and Alpha image. http://wiki.truevision3d.com/tutorialsarticlesandexamples/making_dds_textures_for_use_with_truevision
Right me if I'm wrong, but I think TV3D use the Alpha image as height map for it's landscape. This height map information will decide what part of landscape have certain height (black will have lower height, and white will have higher height, or vice versa, I forgot )

Hope this help Daggio 

Well, you said to correct you if you were wrong.

I beleive TV3D uses the Red channel for height data, in this case. However, TV3D does support full colour heightmapping.

[eyesack]

hey im a noob to c++, it'd be cool if i could get some help haha
dont get me wrong i've used 6.3 like two years ago and made my own little game, but it was in VB6..
uhm.. basically i dont know anything about headers.. i'm hoping i can learn a bit from tv3d
okay. when i open up an .sln it says in the debug that it cant find uhm.. 'tvactor.h'?
no idea where to put the cppdll folder but i have the right setup for common and demos but argh

i added all the headers to the project but then it comes up with like 9387483 dll errors

anyway you guys are probably gonna laugh at me
im using vc++ express sooo.. not sure if thats the problem or not
i cant register or reference(?) the c++ dll..

anyways, quickfix GO GO!
 

[Jesse Angell]

Ok in order to fix that problem you have to FIRST register the dll for TV3D65.

First, find and copy the FULL path to the TV3D65.DLL in the sdk folder. On my computer its:
"C:\Program Files\TV3D SDK 6.5\sdk\cppdll\TV3D65.DLL"

Now, go to START>RUN then type in:
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\TV3D SDK 6.5\sdk\cppdll\TV3D65.DLL"

Now, try the project then.
If it still doesn't work then you will have to add the reference in the project file.
It will be in the COM section of the references.

Jesse Angell.

[eyesack]

Ok in order to fix that problem you have to FIRST register the dll for TV3D65.

First, find and copy the FULL path to the TV3D65.DLL in the sdk folder. On my computer its:
"C:\Program Files\TV3D SDK 6.5\sdk\cppdll\TV3D65.DLL"

Now, go to START>RUN then type in:
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\TV3D SDK 6.5\sdk\cppdll\TV3D65.DLL"

Now, try the project then.
If it still doesn't work then you will have to add the reference in the project file.
It will be in the COM section of the references.

Jesse Angell.

cheers man
getting the hang of it now