If you like to help ?

i found a OLD dos game called Scorched Earth 1.5 and Win me cant load dos games will it sucks. i like to now if some ppl would like to make a win32 Scorched Earth kind of game. nothing hard just a small game. Freeware if you like to help or add ideas then post here or e-mail me at M_I_K1@yahoo.com

thank you

I have a bit of free time coming up over the next few months so if you want a hand just let me know. I am pretty new to VB still but doing a project would probably help...
Just reply here and I'll send you my email addy..

Great is there more that would like to help. is not going to be big just a small game not hard at all and god to learn form.

i dunno if you have read my previous posts but... some friends and i are making a game very similar to scorched earth and worms.. it will have better graphix and will contain various tanks/catapults/cannons/hovertanks to chose from.. the game is currently in early stages of production .. we don't have a set date for it's completion

-RC

o ok well then do you need help ?

i don't think so.. but i do have some questions which might help us in the future..
i remember reading a really good tutorial on how to make sprites in vb using (ithink) picXOR command (i am not sure)
but i need to know how to make sprites.. also i would like to know if you could help me how can i make the taskbar disapear or place the form over the taskbar so the user can't click it.. or if the user presses the windows button etc.. essentially what i am trying to do is make the game in 640 by 480 format and change the users res. to 640 by 480 like most games do... ne suggestion (i have already figured out how to change the res with API's)
THANX...

-RC

you got me there. i am d/ling a VB 5.0 book of the net it's only 1.2mb if you want it a call e-mail to you

One possible way to make sprites is to use a bunch of image controls. Also, I seem to recall a screensaver on http://www.thescarms.com/defaultnav.htm that used sprites...

"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder

I have left a way to get rid of the taskbar under the API question you left Raf.

hey, I'd like to help. I'm a novice, but I'm taking another class at my school and i have vb6 at home too. I think it would help me in my class, too.

can you tell me the animation controlls that you are reffereing too???.. BILL
and THANX for the module.. HR


-RC

I'm not talking about animation controls, I'm referring to the image controls that are part of the standard toolbar. The basic idea is to make sprite bitmap using, say, paint, then load it into an image control. You then move the image control around the screen using its left and top properties. The main problem with this method is the lack of a transparent background. But it would be a good way to get started and lay out the basic algorithms. Later on you could rewrite this section to use transparent bitblt or something like that.

"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder

ok that is good but i saw a tutorial that involved something like using the picture then converting it to greyscale and making the negative space black or something... and then using the picoxr command (or something similar) you make the negative space transparent or the same as the texture in the background... any input??
i forgot what site i saw it on maybee you know..

-RC

You are talking about traditional bitblt operations to get the effect of a transparent background. Basically, you have a sprite, you make a mask of the sprite, you "AND" the mask onto the screen to make a hole, then you "OR" the sprite into the hole. Voila, the sprite is on the screen with the background showing.

There is an API function that simplifies things. Its called TransparentBlt. See an example at:

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/xq/ASP/txtCodeId.12095/lngWId.1/qx/vb/scripts/ShowCode.htm

"I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel!" - Edmund Blackadder