I need some satisfaction

I finally got this bastard spaceship to move the way I want it to, and I'm posting it, and despite the fact that the view transformation makes one side show through the other side of the spaceship everyone here is going to grit their teeth and tell me how nice it looks, and then maybe I won't shoot myself.


EDIT: I must send the files in two separate zips, just make sure when you extract the executable you put the bitmap and the .ms3d file in the same folder. And yes I know this whole thing isn't very professional looking, it's still in developing phase

Here is the second part

EDIT: w, a, s and d move the spaceship around, you use the mouse to turn left and right, and as of right now you cannot go up or down

So how do you use mouse input? Fomr DirectInput?

No, I did it similarly to gametutorials, I used GetCursorPos to find out how far the mouse deviated from the center of the screen, then I calculated how far (in radians) to rotate the view vector about the y axis. Then I found the current strafe vector for the updated view vector, then i calculated the rotation for the spaceship (in degrees). This is extremely simple if you think about it because I'm only rotating about the Y axis, and it's a very simple matrix to understand. Rotating about an arbitrary axis is more complicated that's why I haven't got the up/down movement working yet, but I will in time.

How do you plan on checking for collisions?

Good question, probably with a binary or quad tree to determine if objects are in the same sector, and if they are to do a radius or box collision test. This isn't going to be for a while because honestly I hate the plane equations.

I thought this was going to be a dirty thread:p

silver your program crashed my sys it froze the screen no mouse movement i did the dumb ctl alt del after reboot my internet connection is gone i dont know i gote start working on my connection now.

im writing this from my other comp.

Silver posted a trojan :p

well i got it working again .

but it happend right after the messgebox asking me if i wanted fulls or window ,i chose window and it froze the screen and the mouse inside it.

why silver ?did u have this problem when debugging?which system did u test it on?

I've had absolutely no problems, you more than likely didn't follow my directions i.e there was a file io error becausey you didn't put the bitmap and/or the .ms3d file in the same directory as the executable. I haven't had any problems with freezing at all while testing, and I've had a few other people test before posting and they didn't get any problems, so I'm hoping it's somehow just your system and not a coding error (although chances are it is).

EDIT: did anyone else have any problems?

EDIT1:

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Silver posted a trojan

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I most certainly did not

silvercord you are an incredibly attractive individual.

Well i got the zip downloaded to one folder on ma other comp win 98 and it works fine but i try it on my xp comp and it freezes
i have no clue?

i gone get me some of them teeth!

when i run the exe i get, ERROR: cant create a GL rendering context. im using win 2000 pro with service patch 3

Note: If Silver's program doesn't run like it should seek the
problem at your own pc as it's running like a dream here.

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ERROR: cant create a GL rendering context

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As Travis said that's almost definitely your system, probably your display doesn't even support OpenGL if it cannot create a rendering context (I know that isn't my fault, I'm using NeHe's basecode from lesson1 and it sets up everything perfectly and checks for errors). Has anyone actually got this working on a non xp system?

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Originally posted by Shadow12345
Has anyone actually got this working on a non xp system?

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Nehe's Basecode is about 3 years old meaning it never was ment
to run in XP, I would be suprised if it can ONLY run in XP:D

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Nehe's Basecode is about 3 years old meaning it never was ment
to run in XP, I would be suprised if it can ONLY run in XP

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Good point

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Originally posted by SAMSAM
silver your program crashed my sys it froze the screen no mouse movement i did the dumb ctl alt del after reboot my internet connection is gone i dont know i gote start working on my connection now.

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I'd say your computer seriously needs maintenance!:p

it works just fine on my win 98 but i still have problem with it on xp any idea?

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Originally posted by SAMSAM
it works just fine on my win 98 but i still have problem with it on xp any idea?

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How about telling us what the problem is?

ok;

i download the files.
create a new folder named "spaceship".
put spaceship file.zip in "spaceship"
put spaceship.exe in the same directory in "spaceship"

click the exe icon and once the msg box comes as to choice
between fullscreen or window ,if i choose window, everything
freezes with the mouse in middle of the window. and i get a black window "buffer window bkground"and two stretched white ellipses on it thats it,

if i choose fullscreen.ofcourse nomore mouse but frozen screen.with the same description.

thats all i can say:P

Computer specifications? OS? Drivers? Videocard?

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silvercord you are an incredibly attractive individual.

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that's pretty good lol...

I'll try out the program later :)

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I thought this was going to be a dirty thread

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Silver posted a trojan

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I guess it IS a dirty thread:D

No, it still isn't a dirty thread :D

I guess I'll have to make it one!

*bleep* in your wet, shiny *bleep* while I rub *bleep* all over your *bleep*, while I start to *bleep* all over your *bleep*.

Bleep?:p

yes, bleep :D

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yes, bleep :D

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Oke, Sounds better than bump

Bleeep!

win xp;
sp1
opengl 1.4
nvidia geforce440 64 ram
p4 2.4g
256ram
directx9 if it matters.
quake||| A1.32(which might have latest opengl drivers)

biege monitor
:p

Get rid of the biege monitor that's obviously the problem

seriously though I have no clue why it wouldn't be working on your system. It's worked on the several systems I've tried it on (including mine, my friend's, and it seems to have worked on most of the people's who've tried it on this board).

You're supplying us Quake3 as your OpenGL drivers? HAHAHAHA,
Ok now that's out tell us what drivers you REALLY have...

i have the latest drivers with nvidia latest service pack 4.09
which includes 1.4 opengl for my video cards geforce440.

NVidia's service pack? Huh? Go to your destop, Select propertyse,
<- ugly englisch,options and then your videocard.

driver version info on my adapter GeForce4 MX 420 :


as before the driver info on my adapter propertis is:

nvoglnt openGL instalable client driver version 6.13.10.4109

as i said earlier the version for nvidia driver is unified driver pack version 4.09 as of dec 2002.

reason i put quake info up in the last thread is absolutly legit ,
first to show you that my card works fine with latest q3 version

and secondly , in q3 there is a section under
the menu setup/system that shows you the latest drivers on your system for your card and it shows mine to be :

nvidia corp opengl 1.4.0;

my pixelformat:

32 bits Z(24 bits) stencil(8bits)

does this help.

Oke, Download a driver called "nvidia detonator X.XX", You can find it on thier site, it might help.