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I am doing a c++ project on cows and bulls where the computer has to guess the number. I have a few questions.? I recently heard of the pigeon hole principle( i am not exactly sure about how to use it)and I am trying to use this to do my …

What is the difference between absolute and relative position in 3D?

I am a budding game programmer trying to get into the industry programming for PS3, Xbox 360. The main problem I see is the need to demonstrate my skills to a potential employer, but without access to Dev kits for the PS3 or Xbox 360, doing this directly is impossible. …

Hi guys; Just like I said in the <title>, How can I install JBullet in Netbeans? Do I need to write the Monotone commands? 1:0 case:1 then how do I get the mtn commands, is just because it shows this output<< "mtn" is not recognized as an internal or external …

Hi I am doing a game design course and am in my last year. The title of this thread is the title I have chosen for my final year project. My aim is to produce a program that will mimic the effects of weather conditions on a model in an …

Hi, I've just started reading about OpenGL and I found out that this is a really low level api. I've created some simple 2d games in xna and sfml and now I want to try my hands at 3d and OpenGL. I've already learned that I can't simply load a …

ok, i am relly messed up...im currently developing a flash game..and there in frame 1, i have many instances (movieClip), event listeners, etc. But the problem is, when i tell it to go to the next frame, it shows an error saying this cannot be found or other things... how …

Whatever directX program i run gives this error. I am seriously getting pissed by this error. Cant find in which line too. Somebody please help me out.

So I have this problem, I have just started learning DirectX 9 with the Strategy Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 book, I have a header including this code: [CODE]class TileClass { private: int*m_iValue; int m_iNumLayers; float *m_fRotX; float *m_fSize; public: TileClass(); ~TileClass(); int iGetValue(int layer); void vSetValue(int value, int layer); …

Currently making a space invaders game using a game engine framework from my university called EGG. It tackles all the DirectX for me and even has collision detection. All I have to do is add the game code into the framework using c++. At the moment I'm finding it hard …

Hi, beginner to directX following a tutorial to set up a simple window. nothing fancy just the window. Two errors. [CODE] error C2065: 'wndHandle' : undeclared identifier error C2065: 'WndProc' : undeclared identifier [/CODE] These errors are present in [QUOTE]InitWindow.cpp[/QUOTE] Heres my code [B]WinMain[/B] [CODE] /****************************************************************** * This is the …

Hi, Iam writing a algorithm that generates buildings using shaders and vertex buffers. Lets not go deep into it. What i need is. How to implement Field of Vision (FOV) in such a scenario ? How can i restrict the user's view ? Hope my question is clear enough.. Waiting …

Hi out of personal interest i have decided to make a space invaders games. I know all the things i need to implement and i have done a good job if i do say so myself :D. But i have one final problem. When my space ship is just staying …

Hello, I need a simple open source audio library that can be used to play music and sound effects for C/C++. The audio files that I use are mp3, midi and ogg. My operating systems are Windows XP and Linux (Ubuntu). I need that the library be able to play …

Hi, I'm working on a multiplayer internet game. I decided to use UDP protocol, as it's faster than TCP. The problem is that UDP doesn't have an established server-client connection which makes it impossible for me to send data from server (with public ip) to a client (with non-public ip). …

guys,,, m doin my final year BE-cse...i need a career advise..my passion is game design (not coding) like char,areas,etc...but if sme1 really teach me the easiest way to code definetly i will copeup..what is the scope for game designers now a days..??? i want tis information to pursue my higher …

My friend downloaded Unity3d to get started in 3D game development for our site; but found out it costs. We are tight on budget and need a free solution for the time being. Thankyou so much for your help.

Having the following message when trying to run my DirectX10 application. A screen shot of the message is attached. Would appreciate help with this and just before someone asks yes I have DirectX10 installed. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this thread. Thanks.

Hi I'm making a game in Python with the use of Soya3d. I can load all the models and textures in Soya3D but the animation that i made for the models doesn't get imported. It keeps asking for a cfg file and is was wondering how I could fix that …

[URL=http://img690.imageshack.us/i/12946613.jpg/][IMG]http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7592/12946613.jpg[/IMG][/URL] why is there a hole in my cube when I rotate it like this? colors: front side is red back side is white left side is blue right side is green top side is yellow bottom is teal

I am in an artificial intelligence class. We got our semester long project. We have to build a game of dragon checkers. The game has been created by our professor. It is very similar to animal checkers only a little bit more complex. I have played both animal checkers and …

Hi. I'm making a space game and I need the spaceship to shoot bullets. So in order to make this happen I need a collection which can allow the following: 1.Adding an object (so that we can shoot new bullets) 2.Looping through and modifying all the objects (so that we …

Hello Daniweb, In 3D space I have generated a path which jumps between points in a grid of 100x100x100. When simulating movement through this path, I tried making a bezier curve of the points in the path, but the results were not good enough. I googled a lot, and the …

Hi, I made a post about a similar subject quite a while ago, but I'm a little more serious about it now. I've created two games in C++ and one in Python, but I'd like to start making games for the web to let them be more visible and more …

Hello guys, I hope someone can assist me here. I got an interview with a company that develops software for casino games and such. Any one has any tips, ideas, advice, for someone to be interviewed as a potential entry-level quality assurer/software tester. RS

In short, I've created a program that when a user left clicks it will create a dot at that location (cursor position). After doing some debugging (reviewing coords printed) it doesn't appear to be a coord problem (not sure though), but a perspective problem (may be displaying improperly). The problem …

Starting a new video game idea almost done with the designs of the characters and just starting the story board. I need video game developers, animators etc. And of course at the end I need voice actors. Does anybody know where to find: Video game publisher Video game developer 3D …

Hi Recently I finished a C++ course(used this book [url]http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-Early-Objects-6th/dp/0321512383[/url] ;whether its a decent book or not I have no clue). However it was just a one semester thing and well I found my teachers rather incompetent(they basically gave everything to us; horrible way to teach). Anyway I've been following …

Hi everyone, We are doing our minor project. We(project team) are planning on making a [I]strategy game[/I]. If we succeed it will be somewhat like DOTA([I][U]not that great![/U][/I]). We have started learning OpenGL + SDL for graphics, boost.threads for threading, and for artificial intelligence we are planning on implementing Finite …

Hi guys....I want to make a simple game using openGL Should I go for GLUT or MFC...don't know anything about any of these.... please refer me to some ebooks on net or tutorials (not very advanced please)

Hi guys. I'd like to learn how to make games. I'm on a mac, so I suppose I'd like to learn how to make it on a mac. I know java pretty darn well and I'm not to shabby in C++. I've also got a large book on openGL. I …

Hi. I'm currently making a little game just for fun and I have something I want to do but just don't know how to go about doing it in a good way. I want to load in a level from a text file where: 0 = Wall (Can't walk here) …

I am using Direct2D to write a simple rendering system that I could use to easily write a game. I have a function that renders each object every frame. Now, if my game is going to be dynamic, I can't hardcode every object into that function. I would much prefer …

Has anyone tried (or heard about) this website's tutorials? I want a good tutorial on openGL for my computer graphics subject's project. Does it really worth 70$?! there is a demo available here: [url]http://www.gametutorials.com/gtstore/Download/Demos/GT_Demo.zip[/url]

Hi all. Can anyone give me the ideas how to maneuver a snake in Snake game? I currently trying to do a snake game from scratch. Hope someone can give me an idea. TQ.. :)

I've read 4 books on c++ and i understand it very well. My ultimate goal is to create a 3rd person shooter and i know im a long ways, but i don't know where to go from now. I just ordered a opengl book and im wondering if it will …

A small story in the context of the rest of the world is the UK Government's call for the banning of forthcoming computer game, [URL="http://www.medalofhonor.com"]Medal of Honor[/URL]. British Defence Secretary [URL="http://http://www.liamfox.co.uk/text.aspx?id=1"]Liam Fox[/URL] has called for the ban because unlike its predecessors the game is set in Afghanistan, where of course …

... hello everyone... i'm a computer science student here in the Philippines and i just want to ask help on how to develop a game... honestly, i am very clueless on how can i start my program... i really don't know what to do. i need to make a program …

Hi all the gurus and experts out there, I need your opinion on this: [url]http://www.simcountry.com[/url] What do you guys think is needed for programming/developing such game at this scale? Any advice for the platform to use and which server should I tap in for a good start?

I looked through other threads, but could not find on how one would be set up. So my question is, How would you set up a C++ text based game.

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16400[/ATTACH]Today [URL="http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=59530"]University of Washington researchers scored a triumph[/URL] in the ongoing battle for domination of the planet by demonstrating that sometimes humans are better at video games. The announcement came from David Baker, a biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Zoran Popovic and Seth Cooper, computer scientists at …

I have a gaming application developed using C#. Please suggest me a good installer for my application...

I am working on a 2d breakout game but I am having problem with the collision. Currently the game is working good with a normal box collision for the ball and the brick. But for making the ball speed negative/positive I need collision for different sides. Image: [URL="http://i.imgur.com/KSKDN.gif"]http://i.imgur.com/KSKDN.gif[/URL] In the …

My friend and I were making a pac man console game in C++, and we can't seem to get the AI we wrote for our ghosts to work properly [code] #include <iostream> #include <Windows.h> using namespace std; struct Player { int x, y; Player() { x = -1; y = …

Ok Im new to shaders and I am using glew... okay here is my code #include <iostream> #include <gl/glew.h> #include <gl/glut.h> float angle = 0.0f; //global shader handle GLhandleARB g_shader; char * LoadShader(char *file) { FILE *f; fopen_s(&f,file, "r"); if( f == NULL) return NULL; fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END); int size …

I have a gaming application developed in C#. I want to have animation, lot of customization in my installation package. Please recommend me a good software.

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16267[/ATTACH]Indie game developer Jeff Vogel (head of Spiderweb Soft.) wrote a thoughtful [URL="http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2010/07/sometimes-its-ok-to-steal-my-games.html"]piece[/URL] on piracy on Wednesday, for his blog, [URL="http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/"]The Bottom Feeder[/URL]. As an industry veteran and most important of all, human, he explains why piracy isn't always a bad thing, and can often be downright justifiable given the …

Hi everyone This is my first post here, so sorry if I break the etiquette of the forum. Anyway I am a founder in a small Danish company producing tools and services that help developers build better games. Historically we have focused primarily on flash due to the ease of …

Hi guys, I'm currently attempting to create a game similar to that of a Rubik's Cube but I've come to a standstill. I have a Cube made up of 8 smaller cubes, so its 2x2x2. Problem is, I have no idea how to go about rotating each of these cubes. …

I seem to be getting a null error and I can't for the life of me solve it. I'm basically creating a Tetris clone, but I can't seem to get this to work. I'm creating an array to hold the square shape, and then I am creating rectangles that are …