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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Guide NOT TUTORIAL!!

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Darth Vader
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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 04:41 Edited at: 15th Nov 2005 06:39
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I will probably get flamed but who cares!!!!
First of all this is not a Tutorial it is a guide on how I got to understand a fair amount of the DBPro programming launguage. You can follow it and would really love for anyone to point out mistakes if their are any.

The First Step
I read Hamish McHaggises "The Basics of DarkBASIC Pro Tutorial" This has nothing to do with 3D or Game creating but is good if you want a better understanding of the basic programming launguage.
This would probably take you about four days to complete (This is a rough estimate). This tutorial can be found in the "Newcomers" section of the forum.

The Second Step
After this, for a better understanding on 3D programming, I had a look at RUCCUSES "The Newcomers Guide To Creating First Person Shooters" This really helped a lot and I would like to give Ruccus a big round of applause CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP, CLAP. Ahem this tutorial can be found in the "Newcomers" section of the forum.

The Third Step
This the last step for now, and is probably one of the easy ones, all I did was open the DarkBASIC pro editor and experiment with the different commands. Here is one of the tests I preformed

The image is attached. As you can see it is extremly basic but my experiments grew! And now I am creating my first proper FPS Game called Arena!

I do hope this has helped anyone. Please note that the logo name "Ideal Entertainment Studios" is my Game Creating trademark name. If anyone would care to attach there similar guides please, feel free to do so! Just present them in a readable format.

I would like to personally thank Hamish and Ruccus for there help,
THANK YOU!!!!!
Another person I owe a thank you to is Me (Not myself but there is a person on the forum who uses this name)
THANK YOU!!!!!

If you want to flame me I just say:
Quote: "Don't be to rough. Your negative opinion has no effect on my life and will not be allowed to penetrate into me!"


Thank You
Darth Vader

You Don't know the power of the Dark Side!!
Oh but I do!!

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Tachyon
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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 06:53
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May I ask what is the purpose of this? I mean that they are stickied, so everyone should find them. This is soon locked (or dumbed) and nobody cares...
BTW I read that book, curved basic tutorials and pong game, and now I browse the forum. I managed to do href] http://kotisivu.dnainternet.fi/mv61/pelit.html [/href] These (not a spinning cube) and now Im on the bigger project.
I just want to say this is not the only (or maybe the best) way.

(2b)||!(2b) (It's C++) 1. TO B OR NOT 2B (It's DarkBasic!)
But, that's the question!
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Darth Vader
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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 07:00
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Quote: "May I ask what is the purpose of this? "

To help

Quote: "I just want to say this is not the only (or maybe the best) way."

This is the way I learned how to program a fair amount in DarkBASIC pro and I just put it on the forum so it can (if it can) help any newbie. If does'nt help... Well that is because everyone is different.

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Darth Vader
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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 07:16
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BTW Every guide is different as is every person as is every persons ability to learn, this may help people to understand DarkBASIC pro a bit better, but for people who have different learning abilites it may be useless!

Oh I am not saying that this is the best guide and that everyone should read it is they want to be top-notch programmers! No I am merley sharing with everyone how I learned DarkBASIC pro.

BTW again- By learning abilities I mean that a person can learn something that someone else can't whereas this person may not be able to learn something that someone else can!

Thank You for your feedback negative as it may be!
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RUCCUS
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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 14:31
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Tach if you read it all you'd notice he's stating the way he started, and said its a guide, not a rule. I actually think this is a good outline for newcommers to learn from, not doing that exactly but going through the phase of a few tutorials, then experimenting with what you've learnt, then going bigger.

Goodjob Darth.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 15:06
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I think it is a very good outline. Well, good luck Darth.

Hey, I am a total noob to DBP, so if you would be kind enough to just help me along.
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Darth Vader
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Posted: 16th Nov 2005 01:40
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@ RUCCUS and FPS Mastermind
Thank You so much!!

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i dont know all it says is to look at 1 post in the forums and tells you to experiment with the code... I dont really think it should be stickied but its a good start...

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i dont know all it says is to look at 1 post in the forums and tells you to experiment with the code... I dont really think it should be stickied but its a good start...

8. According to plaque, "When Bush gives order, nod politely, wait to hear what Cheney says"
3. The plane's sole security feature: an angry kitty
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Darth Vader
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Posted: 14th Dec 2005 03:37
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The 3D Stuff!
I have no expert knowledge of 3D modeling but I can only try and that is what I am doing!
The first Step
I looked around for a 3D modeler trying to find the perfect one, but soon that there is'nt the perfect modeller it all depends on the modeller himself. Eventually I found gameSpace light a free edition of its big brother (which costs $300) it can be found here
http://www.caligari.com/gamespace/gsl/gsl.asp
After downloading it I got the 'A Guide to Creating Your First Model'tutorial from here
http://www.caligari.com/gamespace/tutorial/index.asp

The second Step
After reading the whole tutorial I started experimenting with the 3D modeler. at first I found I was getting nowhere . But then I approached the object I wanted to create logically I found out what would be needed and were. Then I had a tree!
Unfortunetly the forgot to save my tree
You can only imagine the anger i would have been
But I will post the tree once I have re-done it, just remember dont expect a real good looking model as I am only starting as well in to the long path of 3D modeling...

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