A beginner.

[Xibz]

Hello,

I have just finished a few books over the summer on C++. However, I feel it's best to learn through practice. So, I decided to download this engine, TV3D 6.5, and found I had no idea what I was doing. I have Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 and have messed with it with basic coding. I have went through about 50 different threads regarding a basic setup on just getting started. However, it seems my knowledge is insufficient and I was hoping if someone could point me in the right direction or would be willing to write a guide specifically for my compiler. I have tried to set TV3D up once before during July but had no success. I gave up, and I have finally returned willing to give more effort.

Basically, I don't know how to setup my compiler to start using TV3D. I saw some tutorials showing the include files, but I don't think that was enough to get it running.

I had also seen that there was a link instructing the DLing of Microsoft platform SDK. So, I am currently DL'ing that and whether or not if I have the right one is beyound me.

Thank you so much for your help in advanced.

Just want to have some fun with coding.

[Raine]

If I'm not mistaken, Arius has a setup TV3D walkthrough over at his blog - might be wrong though. Worth a try anyway, feel free to come back and ask, I'm sure one of our c++ users will be glad to help you out.

Arius blog: http://esoteric-float.co.uk/

Have fun with your future projects!

[Xibz]

Thank you for your reply. I had visited the website and made some progress. However, I do get some errors during compiling.

1>d:\my documents\visual studio 2008\projects\fighting_game\fighting_game\main.cpp(35) : warning C4996: 'strncpy': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using strncpy_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See online help for details.
1>        d:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\string.h(157) : see declaration of 'strncpy'
1>d:\my documents\visual studio 2008\projects\fighting_game\fighting_game\main.cpp(44) : warning C4996: 'strncpy': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using strncpy_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See online help for details.
1>        d:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\string.h(157) : see declaration of 'strncpy'
1>d:\my documents\visual studio 2008\projects\fighting_game\fighting_game\main.cpp(65) : warning C4996: 'strcat': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using strcat_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See online help for details.
1>        d:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\string.h(79) : see declaration of 'strcat'
1>d:\my documents\visual studio 2008\projects\fighting_game\fighting_game\main.cpp(156) : error C2065: 'IDC_TEMPLATE' : undeclared identifier

I don't know if this is because I had set the include files and other files incorrectly or not.

I'm assuming the code is flawless so I must have done something wrong. 

[Xibz]

I found another tutorial and got it working. Seems that I needed several DLL and .a files inside of the directory of the project. Thank you for your time.

[Raine]

you're welcome, it's nice to see you got it working