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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / 80 Pages worth of free DBPro Tutorials now on-line

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Richard Davey
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Hi all,

We released the first set of DBPro Tutorials onto the site today. You can get them all from here:

http://www.darkbasicpro.com/tutorials.php

They are PDF files so be sure to have Acrobat Reader installed. Lots of topics are covered (see the page for details and screen shots) and range from Beginner to Advanced. We will be adding more over time and using suggestions posted to the forums to base them upon. But if you want to see something specific - email me ([email protected]) and ask for it!

Hope they help.

Cheers,

Rich
PS - Yes I know #7 is missing, it's coming soon
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make it look good."
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Rob K
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They are very well written - the FOV tutorial is especially useful.

The FOV tutorial does highlight a problem with DBP though - there is no CAMERA FOV() expression command - which would be very useful. Can you ask Lee to add it at some point.

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Richard Davey
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This is true - although to be honest you now know the exact default FOV so unless you forget to switch the autocam off - you will always know the FOV because it won't change without you doing so. It could make a useful command though, but not a vital one. I've already asked Lee for it

If anyone has any questions about them then let me know (I wrote them all, bar the dungeon one which I just editted).

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PATCH 4 PERFORMANCE PEOPLE

Huge Dungeon Demo:

Patch 3.1 - 3FPS
Patch 4 (Beta 1) - 120 FPS

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However - the HD Demo does reveal another REALLY annoying DBP flaw.

The lighting is horrible. As in a polygon is barely lit at all one moment then completely lit the next, there is no smooth transition as there shoulds be. Rich - Please ask Lee to take a look at the lighting system as this is spoling the look of my game quite a bit atm.

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good work rich Ill have to check these out.

Have u had a chance to review the tiles for the tile scroller.?

Its only 3 months late now

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Cool, lot's of reading to do. Think I'll read the fov one first.
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Very nice to see hard work coming through!
Any chance on getting the mini-map/radar-scope tut?

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Nice Work THANKS

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That dungeon one looks suspiciously like a map editor I made in DBP...

Well done

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Thanks Rich & Company



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Great Tutorials [img][/img]

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SWEET merciful RICH! Thank yooooooooooooooou!

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Thanks DBS for the continued support

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hey rich i found this conversion site for pdf to text etc.. (fullacrobat version required )

if u dont have the means as someone moaned about pdf on rgt

http://www.pdfcreation.com/

http://www.lunarpixel.com

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I am happy

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N-I-C-E!!!

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Page 6/10 on the boxes tutorial lists "top right corner" twice when it mentions the vertex colors... is this correct?

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Now if only I had DBPro

Actually, I'll probably buy it at some point in time soon.

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Richard Davey
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Nope it's a typo (which is kinda obvious if you follow the tutorial to its conclusion).

Cheers,

Rich

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Good tutorials. I had no idea you could you could do colour gradients with the box command, that's really cool.
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You obviously haven't used my Selectmode DLL which had gradient filled box as a background...

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YAY! Smilies

Anyway, what is the correct order than (too lazy to find out...)

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For the filled box ? Its :

BOX x,y,dx,dy,c1,c2,c3,c4

where c1-c4 are the colours.

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Yes, I know that. I mean for C1 - C4, which corner does each one represent?

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Bottom left,top left,bottom right and top right.

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Rob K:

Lighting in DBP is the same as in any other DX game. If you take advantage of lightmaps and know how to light properly than anything is possible.

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I have such a long way to go

Better get to work...

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Quick question Rich.
What happened to tutorial 7? I just noticed that it wasn't there.
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Dave J
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Uhh, do you read?

Quote: "PS - Yes I know #7 is missing, it's coming soon "


Rich said that in the first post lol.

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Whoops, I misssed that.
Thanks for pointing that out to me.
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Has anyone gotten Tutorial #1 to work correctly. It is the tut on image scrolling.

My pictures are all torn in apperance, like the redraw isn't syncing

I am also using the DBPro Demo

Thanks

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KingSalami (?!!) - the UV texture scrolling is very sensitive to video cards because we're kinda cheating with the UV values and some cards just really don't like that.

Cheers,

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How about some nice and easy BSP tutorials, I have now got Hammer map editor but would like help from start to end.

Creating a map
Saving
Compiling
Coding it to work

got some code off another post, but not got map editor to work yet

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Heya. Love the tutorials. Got a runtime error from tut 1.
Runtime error 504 - cannot grab image due to an illegal area at line 18

18 get image 1,0,0,800,600,0

using DBPro full version & patch 4.


Overall I must say im impressed with the community and support for DarkBASIC and DBPro. Hope to add to it as I learn more.


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