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Dark GDK / I need help - FAST! (bored)

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ckrat67
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Posted: 12th Dec 2009 06:34
okay i am new to DarkGDK and am hoping some of you out there can help me. following are the problems facing me when i tried to make a test fps game.
- Crosshair! i tried to make the crosshair come out by using the codes dbLoadImage and dbPasteImage! it works if there are no other objects on the black screen but when i load or make another object, for example dbMakeObjectCube, the crosshair is no where to be seen.
- how do you show FPS? i tried the command before void DarkGDK ( void FPS) but it doesnt work
- how do i load an object (for example the sample ColonelX.X) and control it using whatever keys i designate?

any help is welcome! thanks in advance.


Yseeg!
bloodmage2
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Posted: 14th Dec 2009 01:25
well for starters you should replace pasteimage with dbsprite.
for key control, find the mappings of teh keys somewhere, do an if statement for each key, and do a dbMoveObjectLeft/Right/ /Up/Down, based on what key is pressed.
for fps, it may not work, but you can make the system wait until the system time is divisble by 1000, then add 1 to a number during every loop, and when the system time is agani divisible by 1000, store that number in a separate variable, then when you want to retreive it, make a function that returns that value.

-to the optimist, the glass is half full. to the pessimist, it is half empty, to the engineer, it is twice as big as it needs to be.
Willie Mundermuffin
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Posted: 14th Dec 2009 14:50
I think tgc should start a sticky thread specifically addressing new people and how to get started. There are dozens "I'm new... how do you..... ?" threads created a week. The same questions get asked and answered over and over and over and over and over and over..... Perhaps a "I'm New FAQ" section is in order. I'm serious. I think it would be of much benefit to beginners if there were an easy to find section just for them. I would have LOVED that when I began!
entomophobiac
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Posted: 14th Dec 2009 15:01
Willie: I think this is a direct consequence of the GDK and Visual Studio Express being easier to download than to learn.
Willie Mundermuffin
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Posted: 14th Dec 2009 15:07
Agreed.

Life would be easier if I had the source code.

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