Help A Newbie

PsYcHoPrOg · 2000-02-15T16:49:49

I am new to the world of game/graphics(in C/C++) programming. I know very little DirectDraw and don''t know where to start. I''m also having trouble finding a way to load a bitmap on screen. How do you recommend building up to eventually getting my first game finished? What kind of game should I make first?

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by PsYcHoPrOg February 14, 2000 05:38 PM

13 comments, last by PsYcHoPrOg 24 years, 2 months ago

PsYcHoPrOg

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February 14, 2000 07:43 PM

My e-mail adress is Psychoprog@hotmail.com

Bully

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February 15, 2000 05:30 AM

My advice is not to just have a look just at the bitmap loading part in the book but read both of the chapters on directdraw in "tricks of the windows game programming gurus
Then you should be able to understand it. After all these books are for begineers arn''t they

-David

" The fastest code is the code you don't call "

PsYcHoPrOg

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February 15, 2000 07:46 AM

I have read them, and I know, at least, how to create a surface and set it up. I also know how to set it to 16-bit or 8-bit w/ a palette. But I am having a lot of trouble loading bitmaps. Any code w/explination would help out a lot.

Games are the path to another dimension.

khawk

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February 15, 2000 04:23 PM

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/programming/directx/article608.asp

Kevin

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Staffan

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February 15, 2000 04:49 PM

If you did read all those books you _should_ be able to figure out how to load it. If not, read them again. Look up the bmp format on wotsit.org and you should have a pretty good idea to how it works.

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