ok i am learning direct3D and i was wondering how you place objects in 3D space since its position in 3D space is defined by cordinates, it will be hard to tell exactly where to put them! i thaught about making a dummy item you could control with the arrow keys, and some text displaying your dummy items cuurent position in cordinates, so you could read it of and go back to your code, and set these cordinates for the model you want to be there. the problem is just this would take a long time to do, if you are doing big projects! are there any easier way to do this? not because i need it. i am not completely finnished with the tutorial yet, but i will soon, and then it will be nice to know it :) Thanks in advance sorry for my bad english btw. :/

thanks xD

now i got another question! its a little of topic, but i dont want to create a new thread for every noob question i have:

i copy and pasted some code from a tutorial.
the code does nothing else than displaying a box, with some lights on it, and then exits, if ESC key is pressed.
its woking fine, but when i try to close it down by pressing the esc key, my computer freezes and i have to ctrl+alt+del to close the visual studio!

i got the martch 08 release of DX9, and i am using vc++ 08 EE.

i am using windows vista (poor me :'( ) if that can have anything to do with it!

hope you can help me!

Is the application running fullscreen or windowed? You definitely want to be doing debugging in windowed mode. Any output from the Debug Runtiems?

i am fullscreen... and i cant see if it gets any output because my computer freezes.
also if i run the .exe from the projects folder it bugs. i am able to close it but it says "bla bla bla.exe stopped working. trying to find a sulution"

but ill try to debug windowed and see if that helps

Quote:Original post by craksy
i am fullscreen... and i cant see if it gets any output because my computer freezes.
also if i run the .exe from the projects folder it bugs. i am able to close it but it says "bla bla bla.exe stopped working. trying to find a sulution"

but ill try to debug windowed and see if that helps

The computer doesn't freeze - the application is crashing, and it's breaking to the debugger to tell you the error. Except because it's fullscreen, you can't see the debugger. That's why windowed mode is mucch better for debugging, unless you have multiple monitors or are doing remote debugging.

yea!
it actually helped, though when i close the program using the esc key, it closes the application, but doesn't stop debugging so i have to do that my self, but atleast its better than before xD
thanks a lot!

ill use this thread if i have other problems, like i said before, so i dont fill up the forum with stupid newb questions.

i know its off topic, and its against the rules, but i guess its better than stuffing the forum with all my questions?

and again: Thanks :D

EDIT:
and about the debug output btw:

<code>
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
The program '[5880] DirectX2.exe: Native' has exited with code -1073741819 (0xc0000005).
</code>

i think its from my texture (i dont really know what the addresses is... i kinda rushed the texture part of the tutorial)
do you see the problem (if it can even be told from the debug report :/ )

Quote:Original post by craksy
yea!
it actually helped, though when i close the program using the esc key, it closes the application, but doesn't stop debugging so i have to do that my self, but atleast its better than before xD
thanks a lot!

ill use this thread if i have other problems, like i said before, so i dont fill up the forum with stupid newb questions.

i know its off topic, and its against the rules, but i guess its better than stuffing the forum with all my questions?

You're probably best creating a seperate thread, unless the new problem is related to the original one. Might as well leave this question in this thread though.

Quote:Original post by craksy
and about the debug output btw:

<code>
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
Unhandled exception at 0x00e51f1f in DirectX2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.
The program '[5880] DirectX2.exe: Native' has exited with code -1073741819 (0xc0000005).
</code>

i think its from my texture (i dont really know what the addresses is... i kinda rushed the texture part of the tutorial)
do you see the problem (if it can even be told from the debug report :/ )

"Access violation reading location 0x00000000" means you have a NULL pointer that you just tried to use. Superpig wrote an Excellent article on debugging, which is definitely worth reading. Once you know how to use your debugger, you'll be able to see exactly what is null, why it's null and what's going on with you using it.
My guess is:
1. You're just calling Release() without checking if your pointer is null, or
2. You're running your render loop after you've cleaned up your D3D pointers.

As an aside, the bbcode tags on this forum use [square brackets], and there's [ source ] for longer chunks of code (That syntax highlights it, and puts it in an inline frame), or for shorter chunks (Which just does monospace text).

tried, but couldnt find the error.

anyway thanks alot!
and about the code tags, its because i got used to another forums tags.