Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

Eric Dzikowski — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:33:57 GMT

Just a note to let you know that I think this series is excellent. It shocks me that you have no comments on any of these articles. You've done a great job and I hope you continue with this series.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

Hamed — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:00:22 GMT

im mulimedia & Graphic Programmer And

I Want professional sample From Directx By C#

TERRAIN IS NOT BEING RENDERED

Shadow — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:43:39 GMT

I have been testing in my pc this guide, and everything seems to be ok, except that the terrain is not being rendered in the screen.

I dont know why, there is no error.

I'm using

WinXP SP2

.Net framework 2 and 3 installed

VS.NET 2005 Standar Edition

December 2006 DirectX SDK

It just dont render the triangles.

I was wondering i anyone else has have this problem. or its just me.

Any hekp will be appreciated.

Thank you very much

faranda@runagames.com

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

Abi George Ullattil — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:30:20 GMT

I think there's a typo in the LoadVertexBuffer() section... the VB corresponds to the LoadIndexBuffer()... and also for some reason i'm getting an error when trying the LoadIndexBuffer function.... i'm doing this in C++.

cheers!!!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

Jeromy Walsh — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:38:17 GMT

I just wanted to thank you for referencing my article about normal computations for heightfield lighting on GameDev.net. It's good to know that it is still providing further use to people.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

Goose — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:41:22 GMT

@Shadow:

I'm getting the same thing. However, when you rotate the camera around a bit, sometimes you see lots of triangles being drawn all over each other - and this scene changes every frame whether you move or not.

Not sure where the problem is - any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

Bermil Rossiter — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:32:53 GMT

bmr12@sbcglobal.net

Windows Vista Home Premium

Microsoft DirectX SDK (August 2007)

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition - ENU

Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0

In Parts VI, VII, and VIII I get a run time error from the folloeing code

The last line of Render() in class Terrain

_device.DrawIndexedPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleStrip, 0, 0, _totalNumberOfVertices, 0, _indices.Length - 2);

Help!!!!

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

TankCreator — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:41:24 GMT

I got stuck on this one for a few days now, but I managed to get it working. Everytime I tried using the IndexBuffer, my GPU crashed on me.

After trying to simplify the code for a day or two, I started browsing the internet and found out that the indexbuffer can only be filled with SHORT, not INT.

changed the code to:

_ib = new IndexBuffer(typeof(short), _indices.Length, _device, Usage.WriteOnly, Pool.Managed);

and:

_indices[index++] = (short)(x + (z * _numberOfVerticesX));

and:

_indices = new short[numIndices];

// Array for the indexes of the vertices

private short[] _indices;

All in the terrain class. Working fine now. Guess I will move on to the next part now.. hope there will be more chapters some time soon.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

L4ngford — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:32:16 GMT

Hi, nice tip TankCreator :)

Once again, great tutorial. I've created a Light class, so I can quickly create many different lights, varying in types, easier, and stored them all in a list, with names, so I can toggle them at will :D

I am having a problem with the terrain, however: The heightmap loads, but either the light doesn't shine down on the terrain ( and I've tried fixing that :P ), or the lights arent' getting enabled, which is what I'm thinking, or there's something I'm doing wrong with the material on the terrain itself.

Anyone else having this problem? or know how to fix objects rendering all black?

I noticed in your example here that when the lights are off, the car is black, and with lights on, it's textured.

I'm just trying to see my terrain textured, I can see it as a point list. Also, while viewing it as a trianglestrip, in wireframe, or point mode, The graphics aren't clearing from the screen before the next frame renders. I'm not sure why this happens either :/

Anyway, I'll continue to fiddle, I know this tutorial is old now but you've still got my compliments :)

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

icetea — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:59:48 GMT

I had also a problem with the lights. I have done it like the source code in the tutorial but it doesn't shine on the obstacles and tanks. I also created a point light but it doesn't shine too.

re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

kaplan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:41:08 GMT

best tutorial about "direct3d and c#" i have read until now. i have experience as c# web developer but still some issues at fully understanding the code but so far i have learnt many great things. thanks a lot...

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re: Beginning Game Development: Part VI - Lights, Materials and Terrain

Austin — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:10 GMT

Is there any reason the following should not work? I want to note that I am not trying to build or anything else, I simply just want to be able to create a DirectX font.

Imports Microsoft.DirectX

Imports Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3d

Public Class Form1

Private font as Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Font

End Class

I keep getting an error message stating, 'Type "Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Font" is not defined.' I cannot figure out for the life of me why this is not working. Thanks in advance.