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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Numsgil on March 12, 2005, 12:42:20 AM

Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
Post by: Numsgil on March 12, 2005, 12:42:20 AM: I thought that I'd look into working on my old space game again once 3.0 is out and reasonably stable.

In my space game, I need a system for zooming around the universe of known stars easily.

A program I found that does this very well is Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/). I haven't tried to look at the source code yet for it though (yuck! there's like a trillion files).

I plan to use VB since it allows for faster development, which is what I'm really after, and most of my program isn't time sensitive at all anyway. Mostly menu driven.

I found this sample OpenGL space progam for VB (http://www.vbcode.com/code/OpenGL-VB_08052003.zip). Looks promising.

Anyone look into 3D programming in VB? Anyone want to give it a look?
Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
Post by: Botsareus on March 12, 2005, 11:47:06 AM: I never did D3X or OpenGL, Lest time (and only time) I made a 3D game , I made my own Engine for 3D.

Worning: 2D circles (witch change size based on distance) for starts wont work well on close range orbits.
Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
Post by: Botsareus on March 12, 2005, 11:50:32 AM: I think Celestia does not generate its own stars or planets, thats why there are so mutch files.
Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
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Thats the link with openGL code , I'll try later or somthing
Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
Post by: Numsgil on March 12, 2005, 03:51:10 PM: Celestia uses all the known stars (that are in certain catalogues anyway), so it's not a good representation of psuedo random techniques.

However, it's logarithmic zooming ability is very nice. The whole navigation system is very easy. I'd like to mimic that for my game.

Sorry the link didn't work for the 3D visual stuff. Look here for the real thing (http://planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?lngWId=1&txtCodeId=47711).
Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
Post by: Numsgil on March 16, 2005, 07:34:59 AM: Okay, anyone who wants to give OpenGL a look should check out NeHe's tutorials (http://nehe.gamedev.net/). They're on the left.

He goes through them in C++, but for those of you with a C++ phobia, there's visual basic code at the bottom of most of the tutorials.
Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
Post by: Botsareus on March 16, 2005, 12:03:07 PM: wow , this is great! Now I can learn some c++ and OpenGL in one go.
The visual basic translations form c++ will really help.
Title: 3D Visual Basic Programming
Post by: Numsgil on March 16, 2005, 12:04:52 PM: OpenGL actually looks alot easier than I thought at first. I've already made a sphere and now I'm working on texturing it. Weeee.