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[BraXi]

Just a few pics from my simple game.

Material system



World rendering... multi texturing, lighting, multiple models, UV mapping etc.




What do you think?

[Lossy]

First game? Looks good so far!

[Pønor ø.ø]

interesting

what are you using to create it?

[BraXi]

I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express with GLEW & GLFW libraries.
The engine i made is still WIP and i'm having little performance issues but its getting better and better every day

[Lossy]

forgot to say, may i ask what game are you planning to make?

[Pønor ø.ø]

Respect!


So why are you going for C++ and openGL exactly?

[BraXi]

forgot to say, may i ask what game are you planning to make?

Can't tell you now, otherwise it wouldnt be a suprise

Respect!


So why are you going for C++ and openGL exactly?

Well i was thinking alot about making my own game, i want to test my skills, maybe i will learn something usefull
C++ is a powerfull and fast language and, in my opinion, OpenGL is way better than DirectX, it's additionaly a bit faster than it's rival and its platform independent.

[Pønor ø.ø]

Good enough! I'm no good with C/C++ simply because I have a very hard time to understand it properly probably because my education spend too much time in teaching high-level programming languages and haven't had any in-depth details about computers. I've tried to learn C/C++ a couple of times though I'm planning to give it another go Took me a while to understand Java as well.

However, even though OpenGL is cross-platform, not all C/C++ functions are too so you have to pay attention to what functions you use

If I'd had to create a 3d game I'd either go for XNA (Microsoft's game framework for C# which uses DirectX which you can also publish for Xbox) or OpenGL and Java because I'm familiar with C# and Java Muchos respect for using C/C++. Please keep us posted!

[Redy]

Topic Moved.

Looks good so far. Although I want some details before I say anything else.

[BraXi]

However, even though OpenGL is cross-platform, not all C/C++ functions are too so you have to pay attention to what functions you use

You're right but now im not using platform dependent libs in project (even not windows.h) because GLFW library handles windows.
Better file system will require os dependent libs like "direct.h" for windiws but linux has its equilvant which is nearly the same.

CVar.RegisterCvar( &r_drawgrid );

	bpp = (int)r_bpp.value; // bytes per pixel
	setScreenSize( (int)r_width.value, (int)r_height.value );

	if( !glfwInit() )
	{
		Com.Error( "Failed to initialize GLFW" );
	}
	if( !glfwOpenWindow( width, height, 0,0,0,0, bpp, 0, fullScreen ) )
	{
		glfwTerminate();
		Com.Error( "Failed to open GLFW window" );
	}
	if( glewInit() != GLEW_OK )
	{
		Com.Error( "Failed to initialize GLEW" );
	}

	Com.Print("\n");
	Com.Print( "Vendor	 : %s\n", glGetString( GL_VENDOR ) );
	Com.Print( "Renderer   : %s\n", glGetString( GL_RENDERER ) );
	Com.Print( "Version	: %s\n", glGetString( GL_VERSION ) );
	Com.Print( "Extensions : %s\n", glGetString( GL_EXTENSIONS ) );
	Com.Print("\n");

[Jules]

C++ is a powerfull and fast language and, in my opinion, OpenGL is way better than DirectX, it's additionaly a bit faster than it's rival and its platform independent.

C language +OpenGL sucks I have a project to do in openGL (make an avatar, walking running sitting and some iddle animations) and it is very, very bad

Well, it's not that hard to do things, but the animations are hard... The teacher just gave us the subject, some bits of code, and let us do everything... We were all like wtf? we have no idea how to use that thing!




Owell, respect for trying by yourself! Do keep us posted!

[BraXi]

C language +OpenGL sucks I have a project to do in openGL (make an avatar, walking running sitting and some iddle animations) and it is very, very bad

Well, it's not that hard to do things, but the animations are hard... The teacher just gave us the subject, some bits of code, and let us do everything... We were all like wtf? we have no idea how to use that thing!




Owell, respect for trying by yourself! Do keep us posted!

Hahaha animations? Be tricky and load MD3 with keyframe animations.
Each frame stores verticles in their "animated" position so you only have to calculate timing ;p

[Jules]

That's not in C... it's C++

C is not an object oriented language... whereas C++ is. It's much more complicated than that! And I don't use the same libraries as you do either (we use gl.h, glu.h and glut.h)
We have to go through making a huuuuuuge table to store all the positions of all our angles (one for each part and each articulation of a human body... It's like 50 variables for lengths and angles) at precise timings (or steps), so that it can be animated...

To do our avatar, we got more than 1000 lines of code, and it only walks for now. We can't even control where he walks yet... We still have to do collisions, controlling the walk, running, take an object in hand and sitting on a chair... the idle animations are last (we'll make ours dance or sthg)

[SliZe]

Nice Braxi!

I sould realy start learning programming again

[BraXi]

Dat_GL... i was wondering why my text was rendered incorrectly and after some time i found this:



Dem GL loaded it upside down!




Now it's correct

[SliZe]

Dat_GL... i was wondering why my text was rendered incorrectly and after some time i found this:



Dem GL loaded it upside down!

Tought it was russian at first

[BraXi]

Some updates:

- made own 3d model format and written smd2bxmdl converter
- implemented gl shading language (both vertex and fragment shaders)
- rewritten rendering code to improve performance (for me its two times faster now)
- better camera movment
- meshes are now textured automatically
- removed lots of lighting code as i will use shaders
- fixed matrices ^^
- supplied classes with constructor and destructor
- written cvar (aka. dvar) system
- managed to play sounds

[Lossy]

Some updates:

- made own 3d model format and written smd2bxmdl converter
- implemented gl shading language (both vertex and fragment shaders)
- rewritten rendering code to improve performance (for me its two times faster now)
- better camera movment
- meshes are now textured automatically
- removed lots of lighting code as i will use shaders
- fixed matrices ^^
- supplied classes with constructor and destructor
- written cvar (aka. dvar) system
- managed to play sounds

Tell us what your making!!

[xfearz]

Nice braxi! And did i just see your pc at 1000fps...

[Pønor ø.ø]

smiled when you explicitly said you created destructors well done