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Outerblob
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Are there any DarkBASIC books availible?

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That1Smart Guy
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theres one like 700 page book ive heard of that supposedly really good, but trust me ur WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY better off using TDK's tutorials in the top sticky on this board, they are free and act as a GREAT jumpstart to beginning programmers

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Pincho Paxton
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There's the manual that came with the original box set. I love manuals.. I hate online manuals.

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That1Smart Guy
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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 06:05
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.....box set? o right i dont have that cuz i got it thru Dark Game Studio

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BN2 Productions
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I got the Beginner's Guide to DarkBASIC Game Programming way back in the day when I first started. Still use it as a reference if I need to touch up on something.

Here is the Info:

Beginner's Guide to DarkBASIC Game Programming
By Jonathan S. Harbour with Joshua R. Smith.
ISBN: 1-59200-009-6

It is true that TDK's tutorials are a really good learning source, at the same time though, I would also suggest the book for its completeness (it covers every command, some better than others though).

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TheComet
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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 13:08
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The examples are great. Get right into them and start changing some values and see what effect it has. After some time you will understand how everything works (that's what I did for the first 2 years before I figured out there was a forum).

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That1Smart Guy
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I learned most of the commands simply by looking through the help files on DBC, picking out a ranodm command, and trying to understand and use it

also bn2, I looked at that book and according to this site it has very little on 3d and none on advanced stuff like memblocks (not that TDK does either)

hey theres an idea, TDK should write a memblock tutorial!!

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Quote: "TDK should write a memblock tutorial"


You are right - I should, so I will!

Give me a few days and I'll se what I can come up with...

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That1Smart Guy
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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 21:44
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cool r u gona edit it onto ur sticky or what?

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BN2 Productions
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Quote: "also bn2, I looked at that book and according to this site it has very little on 3d and none on advanced stuff like memblocks (not that TDK does either)"


Hmmm, I don't remember having any problems. Just checked, it's 3d chapter is about 50 pages and explains the basics. It doesn't have collision though (And, more frustratingly, the SET CAMERA TO FOLLOW COMMAND - it took me a couple years of not getting it to work right to finally find a tutorial that explained it)

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That1Smart Guy
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.....u know TDK wrote a tutorial on that command right?

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BN2 Productions
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Yeah, that was the tutorial I found on it that finally explained it.

Just thought of this: TDK's tuts should be part of the DarkBASIC Help files

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That1Smart Guy
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Posted: 28th Jul 2009 23:14
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not a bad idea, only problem is DB wont be getting anymore updates so they cant get put in

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The help files are all HTML, you can add or subtract from them as much as you want (I did a little bit of it for that community functions library I was trying to put together a while back)

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TheComet
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@ TDK

Your memblock tutorial sounds great! I'm just getting into them. Will there by any chance be any vertex manipulation or even boned animation in your tutorial?

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Libervurto
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Quote: "I got the Beginner's Guide to DarkBASIC Game Programming way back in the day when I first started. Still use it as a reference if I need to touch up on something."

Same here
Great book!

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Sinani201
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Posted: 11th Aug 2009 21:17
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I also got that book, but I think I would have been better off with TDK's tutorials.


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you can read this.
you can write this.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/DarkBASIC_Programming
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