Forum: Game Development Feb 3rd, 2009 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,225 Do you want a bot which plays the Vampires game? |
Forum: Game Development Feb 3rd, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,028 If you want to try your hand at 2D game, you can use http://love2d.org/ . It's basically a lua game engine, which allows you to write games using lua scripts.
If you are fimiliar with C++ SFML (... |
Forum: Game Development Nov 29th, 2008 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 1,321 Try http://gamedev.net 'Help Wanted' forum |
Forum: Game Development Nov 29th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,420 There's no tool that can convert a complex 2d image in to a 3d model, simply because there is not enough data present in a flat image. Artists can use 3d modeling software and sample images to make... |
Forum: C++ Oct 9th, 2008 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 2,704 This is funny .....
Dint you read the faq .. no homework solutions. |
Forum: Game Development May 5th, 2008 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 5,038 You use simple vectors. You can rotate vectors with minimal calculations.
So when the ball hits the paddle, based on the distance from the center, rotate the directional vector of the ball by a... |
Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Apr 16th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 5,762 Yea, I can see how it works. Thank you. |
Forum: JavaScript / DHTML / AJAX Apr 14th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 5,762 Hi,
I am looking for a way to use minimal javascript to open a popup window when the user clicks on an input field and allow them to choose one string inside the pop up window (like click on a... |
Forum: Game Development Apr 1st, 2008 |
| Replies: 34 Views: 4,721 Start really simple. Learn the basics/intermediate stuff in C++ ... should know classes, file i/o, a working knowledge of STL and a bit of Win32 programming and you are good to go.
When I started... |
Forum: C++ Mar 7th, 2008 |
| Replies: 57 Views: 6,480 :)
Displaying the image is real easy if it is not encrypted ...
You can use glut + corona to easily display images.
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread63827.html#5
Also if you are... |
Forum: C++ Feb 25th, 2008 |
| Replies: 57 Views: 6,480 Use binary mode to open files which deal with encrypted text.
That should solve the problem with the EOF char :)
P.S Refer to my reply to your mail.
If you get it working post the working... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 26th, 2007 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,415 You can render it as text.
The following link shows how to render text in glut:
http://www.lighthouse3d.com/opengl/glut/index.php?bmpfont
You can use sprintf to convert numbers into strings:... |
Forum: PHP Dec 25th, 2007 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 1,823 use regular expressions
Look here:
http://ca3.php.net/preg-match-all |
Forum: Game Development Dec 25th, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,868 Try searching around for a 3D engine
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/ |
Forum: Game Development Dec 22nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 9,712 Try making simple 2d games first.
However if you do want to make a counter-strike style game it is possible (when you've had enough experiance ofcourse) with the tons of 3d engines available now... |
Forum: PHP Dec 20th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 594 If you need multiple comments, use 2 tables. One for the program details, and one for the comments. Use an id tag (preferably the unique key from the program details)
CREATE TABLE tvprograms (... |
Forum: PHP Dec 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 964 use the function mysql_escape_string();
It will make sure all the characters are escaped and safe to use in a mysql query
escaping a character is adding a \ in front of a character. Eg: \'
... |
Forum: PHP Dec 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 723 If you have a domain on a web host goto your control panel in your hosting account and look for a button/link/panel titled subdomains. Most control panels would just have you enter the name of the... |
Forum: PHP Dec 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,417 O.o
The balance , profile etc can be part of a member table, and the sign up/upgrade areas can be scripts that modify the table when signup/payment is received.
If you are looking to make a pay... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Dec 14th, 2007 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 9,021 Just a warning .... dont buy referrals ^^
Oh and since you are making money
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/
Live wisely son :) |
Forum: C++ Dec 14th, 2007 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 12,817 Or over load the << operator for an ostringstream inheriting class and pipe all the output to into a text box.
eg...
class mfc_text_box : public ostringstream
{
//pseudo -code
operator <<... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Dec 13th, 2007 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 9,021 :P
O.o
Checked bux ...... 20 ads per day... 1 cent per ad.... payout at $10. That means 50 days of work. and 10-20 mins everyday.
9-11 Hours of work and $10 !!!!!
Use that time to learn... |
Forum: C++ Dec 13th, 2007 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 12,817 Old style cast.
Read:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174288(VS.80).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/awkwbzyc(VS.80).aspx |
Forum: Website Reviews Dec 13th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,677 Either crop/scale your images. Having 5-10 1208x794 images wont do anything for your bandwidth or for your visitors. |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Dec 13th, 2007 |
| Replies: 40 Views: 10,370 wicked.
On a similar note, you could look into tag clouds ...... and attach ad pop-ups to them. Some ad networks even provide the code to do that automatically. People have a tendency to move... |
Forum: PHP Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 3,671 First ... use code tags to highlight your code...
[*code]
[*/code]
(without the *)
Also dumping the whole file into your post does not really help... where's line 376... one's going count... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,203 |
Forum: PHP Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 781 Simple.
Take the text of the article as a string, crop the string to a certain size, append "......" to the string and display it.
<?php
... |
Forum: PHP Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 3,608 Oh,
Are you asking how to set custom error pages?
Well, .htaccess or by using the control panel. Look in you CP for custom page or custom error pages. |
Forum: PHP Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 921 |
Forum: PHP Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,475 If you are sure it has the answer you could always buy it ^^.
Or you could just ask the question about the problem you are having.... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,456 You could try factory methods:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_factory
For a game you could have an array/vector like
std::vector<bcAbility> hero_ability;
The base ability class
... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,011 C++,Java
Math
GFX - (OGL,DX)
3D - (basics, rendering, lighting)
Physics - (basics, some API)
Shaders - (GLSL,HSL, CG)
Engines - (pick one or 2)
Networking - (some APIs)
Basically you should... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,203 8800GTS
HAHA.... you dont need to worry about frame rates in the near future. Just make sure v-sync is off in the games and they should run fine.
If you are playing multi player games, dont... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 16,306 Most of the resources mentioned here are a bit advanced , used for 3D games, and requires quite a bit of reading to actually use in a game.
Here are a few libraries that should hopefully help in... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,065 Let me warn you .... modding is not the way to go if you have no previous experiance with game programming. Sure, you will be able to get some fancy effects to the screen, but mostly you would be... |
Forum: Game Development Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,306 http://tvision.sourceforge.net/
http://www.trumphurst.com/toolkit.phtml
http://www.usinglinux.org/devel/rhtvision.html
O.o I would think learning a GUI API would be easier (lots of choices, lots... |
Forum: C++ Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 4,380 I agree with Duoas. If you want delays used timed functions like delay() or sleep() or whatever else.
If you are doing a txt game ... the screen can be cleared using clrscr() (conio.h)
If... |
Forum: PHP Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 20,241 Try this page:
http://www.easysoft.com/developer/languages/php/sql_server_unix_tutorial.html
However I'd recommed you use MySQL rather than MS SQL.
Get XAMPP at portableapps.org if you need... |
Forum: PHP Dec 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,475 Hi,
You should always look on the net for tutorials first. Then there's the php documentation pages.
Also checkout these:
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/
http://www.php.net/curl
However if you... |