Re:

["Patrick Clerkin" <p_clerkin@Hotmail.com>]

Sorry!  Saw the C++, missed the Basic!!!


>From: "Patrick Clerkin" <p_clerkin@Hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>Subject: Re:
>Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 06:16:14 PDT
>
>I'm not familiar with Patrick Scribe's typelib, but if you're getting a
>compile error, try going to Tools>Options, and point your library and
>include file paths to the appropriate directories in your sdk - and it's
>essential that you make sure to move these paths up to before VC++'s paths
>for the corresponding directories.
>
>Patrick.
>
>>
>>Where  can I find a direct3drm fullscreen sample for Visual Basic 5?. I've
>>got a sample writen for Visual C++.Here is a part of this code:
>>
>>//create d3d retained mode interface
>>	Direct3DRMCreate(&d3drm);
>>	//create directdraw interface
>>	DirectDrawCreate(0,&ddraw,0);
>>	ddraw->SetCooperativeLevel( hwnd, DDSCL_EXCLUSIVE | DDSCL_FULLSCREEN );
>>	ddraw->SetDisplayMode( modewidth, modeheight, modedepth );
>>	//create the primary surface(with attached back surface)
>>	DDSURFACEDESC desc;
>>	desc.dwSize = sizeof(desc);
>>	desc.dwFlags = DDSD_BACKBUFFERCOUNT | DDSD_CAPS;
>>	desc.dwBackBufferCount = 1;
>>	desc.ddsCaps.dwCaps = DDSCAPS_PRIMARYSURFACE | DDSCAPS_3DDEVICE |
>>DDSCAPS_FLIP | DDSCAPS_COMPLEX;
>>	ddraw->CreateSurface(&desc,&primsurf,0);
>>	//create the attached back surface
>>	DDSCAPS ddscaps;
>>	ddscaps.dwCaps = DDSCAPS_BACKBUFFER;
>>	primsurf->GetAttachedSurface(&ddscaps,&backsurf);
>>	//create the zbuffer
>>	memset(&desc,0,sizeof(desc));
>>	desc.dwSize = sizeof(DDSURFACEDESC);
>>	desc.dwFlags = DDSD_WIDTH | DDSD_HEIGHT |DDSD_CAPS | 
>>DDSD_ZBUFFERBITDEPTH;
>>	desc.dwWidth = modewidth;
>>	desc.dwHeight = modeheight;
>>	desc.dwZBufferBitDepth = modedepth;
>>	desc.ddsCaps.dwCaps = DDSCAPS_ZBUFFER | DDSCAPS_SYSTEMMEMORY;
>>	ddraw->CreateSurface(&desc,&zbufsurf,0);
>>	backsurf->AddAttachedSurface(zbufsurf);
>>	//create d3d device from directdraw surface
>>	d3drm->CreateDeviceFromSurface(0,ddraw,backsurf,&device);
>>	device->SetQuality(D3DRMRENDER_GOURAUD);
>>
>>My problem is that I'm using the Directx5 typelib by Patrick
>>Scribe and there is no member "dwZBufferBitDepth" in the DDSURFACEDESC
>>structure. Maybe I must change the typelib.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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