While we're on the topic, I am also looking for advice on a book. I'm after a book that teaches more the theory of games programming than any particular API. Stuff like tiling and representing data, collision detection, etc. In fact a book that avoided API specific code all togethor. Does such a book exist and would it be helpful?
"Assumptions are the mother of all **** ups!"
So would this be a very simple example of a wrapper?
Code:int setColor(unsigned short color) { HANDLE hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); SetConsoleTextAttribute(hOut,color); return 1; }
in a way, yes...
this is my initialization function in my direct3d wrapper. i pass in the hWnd of my window, the size of it, and a bool for fullscreen. my wrapper then tells directx to do this:
Code:BOOL CDisplay::Init( HWND hWnd, int iWidth, int iHeight, BOOL bFullScreen ) { // create the main d3d obj m_d3dObj = Direct3DCreate9( D3D_SDK_VERSION ); if ( !m_d3dObj ) { MessageBox( NULL, "Failed to create d3d object", "error", MB_OK ); m_pEL->Log( "Failed to create d3d object" ); return false; } // setup device parameters memset( &m_d3dPresent, 0, sizeof( m_d3dPresent ) ); m_d3dPresent.BackBufferWidth = iWidth; m_d3dPresent.BackBufferHeight = iHeight; // windowed = D3DFMT_UNKNOWN // fullscreen = D3DFMT_R5G6B5 m_d3dPresent.BackBufferFormat = (bFullScreen ? D3DFMT_R5G6B5 : D3DFMT_UNKNOWN); m_d3dPresent.BackBufferCount = 1; m_d3dPresent.Windowed = !bFullScreen; m_d3dPresent.hDeviceWindow = hWnd; m_d3dPresent.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_DISCARD; m_d3dPresent.Flags = D3DPRESENTFLAG_LOCKABLE_BACKBUFFER; HRESULT hr = 0; hr = m_d3dObj->CreateDevice( D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, hWnd, D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING, &m_d3dPresent, &m_d3dDevice ); *m_pEL << DXGetErrorString9( hr ) << " - " << DXGetErrorDescription9( hr ) << "\n"; if ( FAILED( hr ) ) { MessageBox( NULL, "Failed creating d3d device", "error", MB_OK ); m_pEL->Log( "Failed creating d3d device" ); m_d3dObj->Release(); m_d3dObj = NULL; return false; } m_hWnd = hWnd; return true; }
I came up with a cool phrase to put down here, but i forgot it...
Thanks a lot everyone! I got the OpenGL Game Programming book - and the Tricks of the Trade of Windows Game Programming Book (directX). OpenGL Game Programming is great - It's works great when using it with NeHe tutorials. I'm going to skim through TOTWGP just for a basic idea of directX.
Also - the OpenGL Game programming uses DirectInput and DirectSound. That's great, but if I want to port to mac/linux, is there something platform independant i can use? Any ideas?
ps: look at my win32/tcp/ip book thread. i don't want to double post, and i have some questions
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...633064-5829400Originally posted by Kinasz
While we're on the topic, I am also looking for advice on a book. I'm after a book that teaches more the theory of games programming than any particular API. Stuff like tiling and representing data, collision detection, etc. In fact a book that avoided API specific code all togethor. Does such a book exist and would it be helpful?
That is supposed to be pretty good - 5 stars on gameDev.net
You can use FreeGLUT for input and FMOD for sound. OpenAL is good for 3D sound too.
FreeGLUT
freeglut.sourceforge.net
FMOD
www.fmod.org
OpenAL
www.openal.org
FreeGLUT is not only an input library though. It also does all the work of creating a window and handling messages for you.
FMOD is an awesome sound and music library. It is free to use, and it is platform-independent. You can even use it on the PS2, Gamecube, and XBox if you want (I think you have to buy a license to use it for consoles though. The computer versions are free though).
OpenAL is library that resembles OpenGL, but is for audio. It works really nicely, and is platform-independent. It works really well with 3D audio. I prefer FMOD though.
