[.net] [DirectX] Very very basic project
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Hi everyone ! I feel now that I should make a little project to see if I understood well everything I just learned about C# DirectX. Do you guys have any idea of something really really basic to do that would help me see if I understood all the stuff taught here ? http://users.pandora.be/riemer/index.html.
[Edited by - White Scorpion on January 3, 2005 7:40:28 PM]
Well, the tutorial taught you to make a VB/ID'd heightmap, which I'm assuming that you did. :)
If you want a challenge to spice things up while still building off of your existing heightmap project, try one/some of these:
* Applying colours to each vertex based on the pixel colour on the image file (simple-ish)
* Applying textures to each vertex based on the pixel colour on the image file read (intermediate)
* Adding a variable-height 'water' plane over the terrain (simple-ish) and perhaps a scrolling texture across it (intermediate)
* Play with billboarding (see the SDK example) and get trees scattered around your heightmap (more challenging)
* To test your understanding, how about allowing the size (width/height) of the heightmap to be modified during runtime? (tricky :P)
Good luck, directxmonger. :)
If you want a challenge to spice things up while still building off of your existing heightmap project, try one/some of these:
* Applying colours to each vertex based on the pixel colour on the image file (simple-ish)
* Applying textures to each vertex based on the pixel colour on the image file read (intermediate)
* Adding a variable-height 'water' plane over the terrain (simple-ish) and perhaps a scrolling texture across it (intermediate)
* Play with billboarding (see the SDK example) and get trees scattered around your heightmap (more challenging)
* To test your understanding, how about allowing the size (width/height) of the heightmap to be modified during runtime? (tricky :P)
Good luck, directxmonger. :)
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Do you have any good link on using textures ? And when you say "based on the pixel color", what file format are you talking about ? Because that tutorial used .raw files so it's only black&white. I managed to set the vertices to the proper color though. As for the other points well I think I'll have to read a little more on DX before I can do them :P
Quote:Do you have any good link on using textures ?
Check out Tutorial 5 in the DXSDK samples.
Quote:And when you say "based on the pixel color", what file format are you talking about ? Because that tutorial used .raw files so it's only black&white.
Ah, I was assuming you were using an RGB(A) image format. It shouldn't be very hard to convert the RAW image to a BMP/PNG/JPG to load instead, though. :)
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I took a peek at the tutorial and initialized my texture and all but now I have to use the Tu and Tv members... I don't quite understand what they are each... I know you have to specify the top-left coordinate of the texture and bottom right... but how ? I already have this code... but now I must replace the color member by those Tu and Tv, how should I do this ? I made a 2 "textures"... one is a completely green bitmap ("grass") and the other one is completely brown ("mudd"). I wish the mudd to be the texture used when Z > 0 and grass when Z == 0 but I don't really know how to mess with the vertex buffer again...
Here's the code I've got so far:Should I do something like this ?
Here's the code I've got so far:
/// <summary>/// Creates the VertexBuffer object/// Sets up each vertex with its corresponding position/color/// </summary>public void VertexBufferSetUp(){ VBuf = new VertexBuffer(typeof(CustomVertex.PositionTextured), WIDTH*HEIGHT, D3DDevice, Usage.Dynamic | Usage.WriteOnly, CustomVertex.PositionTextured.Format, Pool.Default); Vertices = new CustomVertex.PositionTextured[WIDTH*HEIGHT]; for(int x = 0; x < WIDTH; x++) { for(int y = 0; y < HEIGHT; y++) { Vertices[x+y*WIDTH].Position = new Vector3(x, y, HeightData[x,y]); if(HeightData[x,y] == 0) { Vertices[x+y*WIDTH].Color = Color.Black.ToArgb(); } if(HeightData[x,y] > 0) { Vertices[x+y*WIDTH].Color = Color.White.ToArgb(); } } } VBuf.SetData(Vertices, 0, LockFlags.None);}if(HeightData[x,y] == 0){ // Tell it to use the grass texture, but how ???!!}if(HeightData[x,y] > 0){ // Tell it to use the mudd texture, but how ???!!}Vertices[x+y*WIDTH].Tu = ((x%2) ? 1.0f : 0.0f);Vertices[x+y*WIDTH].Tv = ((y%2) ? 1.0f : 0.0f);This topic is closed to new replies.
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