I did recompile SXMedia yesterday with some work thu, It went all ok and I can run it and I'll see the components in the palette. But the propertyEditors wont...
Hi all! I just wonder if there is more game development Libs/tools as UnDelphiX and SDL out there on the internet wich is constant in updates? DelphiX has not...
Personally I like SDL, the port to Delphi by JEDI (Dominique Louis) is excellent (Tons of Samples). I have a simple game that was written mainly as a test to...
As far as I know, there are no other (recent) DirectX-libs (maybe WDirectX?), maybe there are some good OpenGL engines. But I have good news for you: I have...
Oh, thanx for the comments! Would you please tell me about it when your done? Thanx in advance, Mindsafe. ... good news ... 2d/isometric, ... (yet), the ... ...
Hi mindsafe Sure, I will tell everyone when I'm done. I'm also planning to make a little site for the library. I just have to have some months patience to...
... Try this: http://www.truevision3dsdk.com I cannot install package since it requires Delphi6 (I have Delphi4). I've seen it running on Delphi6, samples are...
How can I link number of sprites together in chain-like structure. Example: a train with many wagons, each one pulls the one behind... sprite definition should...
Hi Samo, Just use a TList to save your wagons in. Try something like this: var List : TList; Wagon : TWagon; i : Integer; List := TList.Create; for i := 0 to...
Hi Marcel, Why not saving the chess-pieces in an array of records? Something like this: TChessPiece = record Row : Integer; Column : Integer; Moved : Boolean; ...
Hi Martin, To let a computerprogram make reasonable speed in searching through boards (you will need at least 1.000.000 boards per second) you need to store...
... Ideally, you will only store 2 board at a time: 1 "current" board, 1 "work" board (the search tree nodes are usually connected with moves information, and...
This is a fun question. If you broke up the byte as you've suggested, then you've got your piece done, what it doesn't do is show en-passe (I don't know the...
I tried out your program and it looks like a great start. However it did do an illigal move. ..10..3040506070031222324151627206162645..5666760725276447247477 ...
Yes, I know.. ;-) There have only been 6 hours of work in the program so far so it needs still a lot of work. Thanks for looking at it. Marcel ... it did do an...
... Delphi4). ... FREE !! Yeah! It's a great package and a 3D engine! :) I run Delphi7 but the .BPL file wont work yet as it's for Delphi6, but hopefulley it ...
Hi guys, I just want to let you know I have found a very fast way. This is what I made will use in the program: unit ChessPieces; interface const B000000000000...
Hello Delphi Games, I worked a lot and hard and finally made complete SDLGui with many additional features. Now I dare you all to find better and more complete...
Hello, i had intention to learn DirectX but thanx to this group i discovered SDL and i believe that this is a better way to invest my time (since it is a...
Hi Luca, ... With SDL there are 2 ways of handling updating of the screen. Firstly, you can use SDL_Flip, which effectively works like most double buffering...
Hi Folks, Here is a link to Hexmap12.zip (not by me). It is 180.3kB and written in Delphi. The purpose of it is to allow you to draw a map with a hexagonal...
Hello Everyone, I'm trying to make a jump-and-run game that looks like Prince of Persia meets Maria Brothers (or a less perfect Prince Of Persia). :) While I...
Hi Armand, maybe you could make a 2-dimensional (color)array for each bitmap (of each game-character). Then when 2 rectangles overlap, you could write a...
Hey Martin, Thanks for the reply... I haven't tried it yet, but your method should work just fine. I didn't think of checking for rectangular-collisions first...
Hi DelphiGamers! Normally I have one array that contains all my images that have something to do with my characters and one that is used for backgrounds etc....
Hi Armand I just have one huge array / imagelist (but several of these are swapped in and out of memory during the game). Every Object/Character has a...
Dominik Kroell
dominik@...
Oct 26, 2002 10:25 am
6650
Hey Dominik, Thanks for your reply, I think it would be a good idea to put all of the characters movements into one bitmap! The only downside would be that...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
