Looking for step my step guide for visual studio

BigBadBeef · 2015-04-12T08:44:17

Hello everyone, This is the 3rd site I'm trying to get my answers from. In the first one, I am still waiting to get through the moderator queue for my account to get activated which was a month ago, I have asked for help in daniweb but there is nothing in almost 3 weeks, so you're my only hope! I came out a programming school, but I'm one of these who are "last gen" programmers which got stuck with old stuff such as turbo pascal or even older hardware code, we only had C# in our last months of a 4-years education. I have an idea about a RTS strategy, the idea took me years to develop with offering a lot of flexibility, but every damn developer I've contacted has completely ignore me, some mainstream developers have their heads so far up their a***es that it comes out the right end again, but I digrees. My momma always said: You want something done right, do it yourself! So I want to make the game (that has literally haunted me) myself. It will be a strategy game, 3D in nature but no verticality, naval battles with sporadic landmasses serving only as obstacles. But the problem is that I don't know where to begin. I know that some of you will outright recommend existing game engines for me to go for, but unfortunately they do not grant the programming freedoms for the features that I require. I even asked some of them if that which I need is doable in their engine and they rejected me. So I'm afraid C# is my only option. But I don't know where to begin. I don't know how to structure it, I don't know what libraries to include, I don't know much in general. In school, we only came as far as 2D grids and a few jokes for a program for which I've done better even dabbling at home. So if you guys could help somebody who knows algorightms, some code (but not a lot) to get started, I would appreiciate that. I am not picky, and can go for anything DirectX, OpenGL or even mantle. And yes I tried google, but it is insistant to keep pushing cryengine and other engine tutorials in my face. Thank you in advance for all your help!

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Started by BigBadBeef April 05, 2015 06:50 PM

42 comments, last by BigBadBeef 9 years ago

Brain

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April 11, 2015 08:03 PM

<old yorkshireman music>

You're lucky to have an engine to do all this for you.

When I was but a lad knee high to a z80 we didn't even have hardware acceleration. If you wanted 3D you had to write fast code to rasterize polygons yourself and write your own matrix maths functions. You had to learn shading and how to deal with vesa graphics and and and... You youngins have it so easy.

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BigBadBeef

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April 11, 2015 08:27 PM

Hey, they don't call me beef for a reason. I like butting heads with people and I'm as tough as a raw steak! Ask the guy whose teeth they still haven't finished replacing after 12 years!

youngin? LOL!

I am not "THAT" young, we started off in Intel x86 assembler... in hex! First grade of programming school was never more than a few lessons a week, because after the schooling hour was over, it felt the worst migraine ever... while being butt-f***ed with a barbed wire-wrapped dildo at the same time.

What was even worse that the teacher was more interested in the consistency of squirrel droppings under school-yard acorn tree than delivering knowledge to us in the most consistent manner possible.

Fortunately what made school bearable was our biology teacher... she was young, cute... and interested... I almost had her, if only the damn geek didn't barge in 10 minutes after class was dismissed, asking for "homework clarification". I swear the sick, evil bastard was on to me and did that on purpose, I saw him smurking outside hall later... it was like the whole thing was from a damn movie or something!

#EHEM#

So no, not defensive, confrontational!

jacmoe

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April 11, 2015 08:43 PM

So no, not defensive, confrontational!

Unfortunately, being "confrontational" through an on-line textual medium is awkward at best (and devastating at worst).

Because the only thing that people can relate to when doing the translation is text and perhaps even emoticons.

I know how hard it can be because I've been nominated Moderator from Hell several years during my "reign" on the Ogre3d forum.
I like to be blunt, but that walk is not an easy one to walk successfully.

Especially not when you, like now, is the Original Poster and have asked people to help you.
We don't like to be name-called when we have taken our time to try and answer your question and all we get is confrontational butthurt.

<damage_control>

'all we get' is supposed to be a dramatic exaggeration, because I think that our conversation in the topic has been relatively fruitful, despite some unfortunate changes of tone here and there.

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Too many projects; too much time

BigBadBeef

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April 11, 2015 08:51 PM

I've been going over the C#, and it seems like Visual studio has changed quite a bit since last I used it, in the old days it was like typing in the notepad, now it appears to manage the code quite smartly, it reports errors before even trying to run it.

What is that feeling called, the one opposite from nostalgia?