Looking to start game programming

[ownage]

Hi everyone, I'm new here.

I know the programming language VB.NET (the 2005 & 2008 editions) very well. I have been previously making 2d games using the VB 'paint function'. I made quite a few games, I even made a multilayer one! Anyway, I realised that I needed to start developing 3d games, having looked around a bit, I ended up here.

I have download TV6.5 which and the demo which sets up the TV6.5 engine into a picturebox. Unfortunately, i am stuck here, as i do not know any of the other commands. I looked around this forum for about 5 minutes looking for some VB.net tutorials but could not find any beginner ones. Does anyone here program in VB.net and have and tips/tutorials/projects which i can download.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

[AriusEso]

The 6.5 SDK is currently in open beta. So it is really lacking documentation and samples I'm afraid. However, you can ask for help here( an also on IRC, a lot idle, but when they're not idling they're more than willing to help in a friendly manner ). Also, there were some test docs generated a while back. They don't offer comments on the functions, or even major descriptions of any kind, but it's useful as a quick reference to newbies I guess. You can find that here: http://www.truevision3d.com/ds/docs/frames.html

You'll notice it was made with a demo etc, that is cause it was never really meant to be made public. But hopefully it can help you some. Welcome to the forum .

[ownage]

Thanks for your help

I will read though those and hopefully get a basic understanding of the functions. I would be very grateful if someone has a project made in VB.net which I can download. I find I learn best from other peoples code, but I wont copy your code I promise 

[AriusEso]

I forgot to mention. A lot of the function calls are the same across the 6 version set of the API( with minor changes here and there of course ). Some people download the 6.3 SDK to learn from the samples provided there. As I say, there are difference, but they can give you a general idea of what to do and what not to do. There are some old VB.NET 6.5 beta samples here: http://www.theinstructionlimit.com/?cat=10  - these are mostly shader demos though, but again they might help a little in learning. They won't compile right away however, because they are from an older build etc. Anyways, good luck and as I said before, don't be afraid to pop on IRC and ask if you get stuck .

[tom_namibia]

Here are the tutorials for 6.5:

http://www12.webng.com/freegamedev/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7

Tom

[AriusEso]

Just as a side note, that url Tom posted had the following remark "A15 - Paint on ground <- no way to do this in 6.5?".

Wanted to say. You can do this in 6.5, but 6.5 uses a different method for texturing landscapes( splatting ). Therefore the method for painting is different, and in some cases, more difficult.