Working with "3D Game Engine Programming" or "Programming Multiplayer FPS in DirectX"

I think you should give the thread a more descriptive title, it will get more views that way.

Regarding "Programming a Multi-Player FPS in DirectX", you are much more likely to get help over at the book's website: www.coderedgames.com.

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Original post by Gage64 I think you should give the thread a more descriptive title, it will get more views that way. Regarding "Programming a Multi-Player FPS in DirectX", you are much more likely to get help over at the book's website: www.coderedgames.com.

The forums have been dead for some time and are now locked, i've already attempted to post a similar thread there. And since I do not speak german, zfx.info is out as well.

i have 3D Game Engine Programming so if you got any problems just ask

Well I've compiled up to chapter 6, which is really the first demo of the renderer, but it is not texturing at all. There are no screen shots of that chapter in the book, but i'm assuming that the 3 items should be textured? were you able to compile this using a later DXSDK? i'm attempting to use the march 09 release. I'd like to see this in action but cannot seem to find what is wrong on my own. I've also attempted to compile later chapters and get blank polys as well (Like Chapter 7 and the lighting shading demos,they just display a black quad, although there is pic in the book that shows spec reflection on a brick wall.)

would you want me to publish the source code of that chapter or only specific source file or maybe even the exe file

as i said, i have the source, but perhaps confirm that chapter 6 will display textures with the latest directx sdk (august/09). I see the meshes, but no textures. And if it does, then i've a bug i can't find to squish.

Are you sure the textures are loading correctly? How robust is the error checking in this engine and its sample programs?

Also, enable the Direct3D Debug Runtime, it might give you some useful information.

here is some screen shots of chapter 6

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Original post by Gage64 Are you sure the textures are loading correctly? How robust is the error checking in this engine and its sample programs? Also, enable the Direct3D Debug Runtime, it might give you some useful information.

I think so, although without seeing them it's hard to tell. the files are being read though, and textures are being saved in the skinmanager. I've activated the debug dlls, and now see that i'm getting 2 errors(IDirect3D9::GetDeviceCaps failed: D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE) and a ((WARN) :SetVertexDeclaration: NULL declaration pointer), and then the program as it always has. Until i try to close it that is, and then i'm inundated with:


Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [0] : Address 0109E4CB
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [1] : Address 0109E59B
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [2] : Address 0109E440
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [3] : Address 01092DB4
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [4] : Address 4FDFAF2E
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [5] : Address 1004A0B0
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [6] : Address 10049910
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [7] : Address 0043D72C
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [8] : Address 0043CC9C
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [9] : Address 00447176
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [10] : Address 00446FFF
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [11] : Address 7C817077
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [12] : Address 00000000
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [13] : Address 00000000
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [14] : Address 00000000
Direct3D9: (ERROR) : [15] : Address 00000000

repeating printing out for uhm... 2670 lines or so. same 16 lines over and over, although the addresses are different each time the program is run.
I'm going to poke around the getdevicecaps calls in this code tonight, and hopefully come up with something, but I feel I'm no further ahead now then i was before.

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Original post by avig2009 here is some screen shots of chapter 6

something i'd nevernoticed before as i've always run windowed mode, my screen resolution is not as it should be, hopefully this leads me to some sort of solution.

The "address" errors mean that certain resources are not being released. You should look into that later.

The first two errors are more interesting. It seems that SetVertexDeclaration is being passed a NULL pointer. I think this is what's causing the problem.

It also seems strange that GetDeviceCaps fails...

Can you post the code that calls these two functions, and the code that creates the vertex declaration?

If you have several calls to SetVertexDeclaration, you can step through the program with the debugger and see which call generates that error message.

this is the code that is causing the getdevicecaps failure, and this:

is the function that is calling SetVertexDeclaration. I understand that these might not be enough on their own to solve the issue, but who knows. I came across a similar thread (a clone of the engine from the book) and it was a shader issue. more digging i guess

here is the source code withe the exe and textures try it :)

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here is the source code withe the exe and textures try it :)

hmmm... well this exe/dll combo does work, but it's not compiled with 9.0c, and when i bring it up to date ( with the createfont and draw text edits ) it no longer works. The dll is almost a 3rd the size of the one you provided.

back to the original question, Has anyone successfully compiled chapter 6 from this book with the latest DirectXSDK?

i compiled it with visual studio 2008 and directx sdk 2008
why it is not working for you too??

well, if i knew that i wouldn't have started this thread :). I'm using the latest (aug/09) direct x sdk, perhaps i'll try with a 2008 sdk, what quarter was the release?

That doesn't explain the missing 1.3 mb or so that the zfxd3d.dll is off by. hmmm....

i am using this DXSDK_Nov08.exe