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mactabilis · 2002-02-06T22:48:23

Alright i got into C++ back in 1998, i got into making a Tic-Tac-Toe game with a basic Array and basic cin-cout stuff. I tried to learn how to make it a directx game and just got confused. I didn''t really do much with C++ until now. Ive been making some games in flash, and have really liked it, but its only good for simple 2d vector-based graphic games. I want to make a 3d game. But not a 3d shooter. I want to make a game where a guy does tricks on a trampoline (theres more to it, but thats the basic premise). I want it to be 3rd person. I don''t know where to go. Ive tried learning C++ but i cannot apply it to what i want to do at all. Any book i can find throughs some code of a 3d shooter at you. How should i go about learning to do what i want? I am pretty good at 3d modelling, and animating, and very basic C++ programming, and Actionscript programming. But I can''t get a hold of anything that will help me to anything. Can anyone help me? .. Thanks..

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Started by mactabilis February 04, 2002 09:45 PM

14 comments, last by mactabilis 22 years, 2 months ago

mactabilis

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February 06, 2002 01:10 AM

SIGMA, thanks a lot, but one (stupid) question, what do you mean by COM programming?

mactabilis

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February 06, 2002 08:06 PM

can anyone else answer what COM programming is.. may sound dumb but i just don''t know.

zealouselixir

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February 06, 2002 08:36 PM

Learn OpenGL. COM is evil.

Seriously, COM stands for "Component Object Model." It''s basically a method of creating an interface which can then be easily updated without effect on earlier implementations (reverse compatibility). Of course, if you really wanted to know, you could do a search on Google, and all would be made clear.

The reason he mentioned COM is because DirectX is "based on" the COM.

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mactabilis

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February 06, 2002 08:52 PM

speaking of google, isnt it great? I searched MADxHATR and found myself asking about game programming in C++ with DOS DJGPP from 1998..

mactabilis

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February 06, 2002 08:55 PM

still reading.. so is COM basically multiple source files in one project? i never understood that. And should i actually stay away from it ?

Oluseyi

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February 06, 2002 10:48 PM

Microsoft COM Technologies Homepage

And use Google a little more extensively. You can find a lot of answers to your questions that way. You might also want to check out the GDNet Resources page.

[ GDNet Start Here | GDNet Search Tool | GDNet FAQ | MS RTFM [MSDN] | SGI STL Docs | Google! ]
Thanks to Kylotan for the idea!

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