I want to write casino type games but I need to understand some principles first. I have 3D studio Max and numerous other graphic programs, Poser,Worldbuilder and lots of 3D programs. If I was to develop the graphics for these games what format would I use for them. Bear in mind I want 3D and possible animation. One of the games I looked at uses .BMP files. In one graphic file they had 10 different frames seperated by a yellow line. In programming is there a routine that you would use to access the different images in the single file ?

Is this the best way of doing things. Can I also use the same thing using JPG''s

Thanks

perhaps you may want to learn to program first? That might help with your questions, first you'll need to learn a language C / C++ / VB for instance. Then an API DirectDraw / Direct3D / SDL / OpenGl.

Take a look at the "For Beginners" link and it'll guide you towards some good books.

If you're looking to make 2D casino games cone3d might have everything there or you

EDIT: Sorry I didn't read your post properly, perhaps you may want to check out NeHe after Cone3D.

[edited by - garconbifteck on June 26, 2002 11:46:27 AM]

Jpeg is a lossy compression system, BMP, TGA and PNG are all lossless. You wouldn't want to use a lossy image format because of the loss of detail.

,Jay

Edit: Forgot to mention, you would uncompress any image before using in memory for speed reasons. BMP is pretty similar to what you'd end up with in memory, just a raw array of bytes.

[edited by - Jason Zelos on June 26, 2002 2:43:24 PM]