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Would someone care to explain or outline how developers implement time control into engines? Especially when you can go back in time, like in the game 'Braid'. I don't understand how its...

Ah yes, that makes sense. Thank you.

Are there any good tutorials/articles on threading & or mutex, as I have very little experience in that area.

It looks great mate. I am also currently working on a small game engine in C++. Maybe add me to MSN <email snipped> would be great to chat about Game Engine related things :)

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I'm building a simple game engine (yes I know...) but it's more for personal experience. I'm up to the stage where I have built a simple wrapper for directx and win32. Anyway, all is going...

Thank you for your help mate. But none of this is going the right way, so I am going to take a completely different approach to it. I've got directx working wonderfully countless times using it...

I'm not sure how I check that directly, but I added a breakpoint just below the call, and checked d3d as that's holding CreateDevice's return value (I believe), and it's saying the same thing as...

Does this have something to do with the fact that I am calling DirectX from within a DLL? I have never worked with DLL's before so I am assuming things. Other than that, are you allowed to create/use...

No, I believe I am setting it to something, but during that setup its failing. Here's the exact function taken straight out the DLL source code:

extern "C" e2api void initDirectX(HWND &handle, int...

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I am trying to create a DLL to handle some directx for me. But it seems to be acting up. If you take a look at the picture below you will see that the LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 d3ddev; pointer is...