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Work in Progress / Presentation DVD

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tdb sHAYMAN
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 15:58
Aheeeey! Making a living out of Darkbasic allready!

Okay its not making games, but my current employers asked me to create them a DVD, so decided to do it with Darkbasic, as it allows for 3d,2d,movies the works basically.

It's taken a bit of time, I've got nearly all the media ready, its just on the coding stage at the moment in Beta stage. Alpha was much more feature complete, but was preloading all the media before execution which would have stopped it running on older rig's. Now it runs consuming no more than about 40MB at any1 time, and I think it's shaping up okay.

The final version will have replaced music as I don't think my gaffers are going to fork out for the Killers royalty fee's.

Anyway's I haven't got any screenies, but have uploaded a vid to youtube of the current build.

So any constructive comments or advice would be great
Thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpj6BpIGwCA
General Reed
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2006 21:41
Good work, keep it up and make a fortune.

-General Reed

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DB newbie
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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 01:26
thats asome.

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indi
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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 05:10
nice work mate

tdb sHAYMAN
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Posted: 24th Nov 2006 11:23
Thanks for your comments. Just working on putting in the photo descriptions now for the gallery. Had originally planned just using a background sprite and coding in the text. But have given up on that idea, insted embedding the text into the background. Might use up slightly more mem, but it is loading and deleting the images as needed quickly enough. The advantage of this, is someone else can change the photo's & descriptions on another machine if necessary, without needing DBPro

As for makin' a fortune General Reed, dunno about that yet lol. Only getting paid my normal workin wage at the moment. Trying to keep the presentation as a template though so I could use it for other companies on the side

Anyway's have dug out another vid of the Alpha version, which was a memory hog (using a lot of png's and preloading everything). Had working cursor states and other eye candy in that version so thought it was worth the upload.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5NiFm9a9Sc
HZiM0rT4L
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Posted: 26th Nov 2006 19:16 Edited at: 11th Dec 2010 20:07
Is this going to be a DVD-video or a data DVD for your pc?

looks amazing anyway!

hnnnnnng
Crazy Programmer
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Posted: 26th Nov 2006 19:25
Very Nice.


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tdb sHAYMAN
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 19:22
Cheers, it's a PC DVD, will autorun when inserted. That's why I've gotta keep the memory consumption down because it'll be reading the files from disk.

Could have used flash or something else really but, Darkbasic was the only thing I've got the license for that can deal with 2d 3d, vids, music, sound & text. Have been playin around with some shaders last couple of days, but am waiting now to add the fancy stuff once it's fully working. It'd require hardware profiles being set up for different machine specs, so I'll have to see if there's enough room on a disk first!

TBH Progress is slowin a little at the moment, cos its getting harder to keep track of all the code and files as it's got bigger. Spent today cutting the source code into seperate files to make it a little easier (in theory).

So far with the media it's only takin up 40MB in HD, but that isn't including the videos that will be added in later, might make a downloadable version with compressed vids, but will see later...

They want me to update their website once that's done! Gonna have to see about a wage rise at this rate
greenlig
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Posted: 28th Nov 2006 03:35
Looks excellent mate! I have had to do something similar at my work, only I didnt do it in Dbpro. Great idea!!

Will you be releasing it as a program that you can make presentations in? THAT would rock....

greenlig

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tdb sHAYMAN
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Posted: 28th Nov 2006 22:15
Cheers, to be honest haven't decided fully what to do with the code once complete.

TBH I could do with making some money out of it as it doesnt look like I'll be recieving anything from my gaffers, and I'm skint. I'm planning to give them ownership of the media(models images vids etc), but I own the code, so presentations could be made for other companies by simply replacing the media.

Had a bad days work on it today, there was a couple of bugs causing a CTD, and the debugger was no help as it was crashing inside a function so couldn't tell where the error was coming from.

Still sorted it out now, and progress continues. Now working on creating the text pages The pages are images, textured to a plain, which will turn like a real page, when selected, thats the plan anyway! For now I've rigged in some templates and the real text will be added once the program is fully functional.

On a downer, have thought of a disadvantage of using DB for presentations. Obviously it's made for games primarily, but people who play modern games generally use decent rigs.

I can just imagine a load of clueless business peeps trying to run this thing on a Pentium 100
tdb sHAYMAN
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Posted: 29th Nov 2006 20:29
AAaaaaaay, good day's work on it today. After all the hardwork ironing out a few bugs yesterday, this is the most solid build yet. (Hasn't crashed at all yet!) So progress continues, for each section under the services menu there will be 5 pages of text, under a general information heading, this is now fully working, and a very early video gallery is in production.

Plz note that this isn't the final running speed of the app. Running fraps to record the demo and compressing the video for Youtube has affected the frame rate quite a bit. The new content is just a collection of placeholders until the program is complete, the UVW's on the TV screen need flipping, and the TV model needs updating a bit - (looks a bit primitive). Anyways see what u think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du7p1WsVre8

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