Writing a game engine from the scratch

[User137]

That is correct as explained before And the same applies for OpenGL, which has numerous EXT, ARB, NV and others that differ greatly depending on graphics card. If use extensions/high end abilities be sure to check whether card is capable of using them. Some games have unique settings for different cards to display everything as optimal as possible.

[chronozphere]

Thank you for you explanation.

[NecroDOME]

3D game engine created from scratch by me:
http://necrodome.homeftp.net/Project...ct=App_Necro3D
I'm currently building the game .S.C.A.G. with it. It's using only triangles and DX9. Take a look. I also have created an engine with DX7, with NecroSPACE 2 was build on.

Success with your project!

[chronozphere]

Yeah, i have already seen your website and the screenies. There is only on thing to say:

WOW

You must be a DirectX guru. How long are you programming with it??

I have allready played NecroSpace a few month's earlier, and it's a realy cool game, simple gameplay but amazing graphics. It has also a very nice intro movie. Very well done.

If i where you, i would write some tutorials to show other people how to make games with Direct3d.
(That's exactly what im gonna do when i have that much experience).

[NecroDOME]

The intro of NecroSPACE 2 sux, I wanted to make in fully 3D in my engine

I'm currently creating an engine that you can script your games.

ToDo list in engine:

- Model animation
- Model scripting
- Advance physics with newton (including ragdolls and car physics)
- Pixel and vertex shader support by .fx files
- More script functions, I already created pong
- Scene manegment
- Better skyboxes
- Maybe an advance/scripted particle system

For my next game I want to create some sort of race game, fully 3D.

[chronozphere]

The intro of NecroSPACE 2 sux, I wanted to make in fully 3D in my engine

It may be a low resolution movie, but i do like the camera movement a lot. And yeah it would definitly better to make it in your engine (It reduces game filesize), but its way harder to do that.

I played the game but unfortunatly, it showed some hiccups, even if i set graphics detail to low. :cry:
Here are my specs:

 
Processor: intel pentium 4 (3.2 Ghz hyperthreading)
RAM: 512 MB DDR.
GFX Card: ATI Radeon 300X (128MB Video-ram and DX9 compatilbe)

I have no idea why this happens, although if i switch to windowed-mode its a lot faster.
The graphics are fantastic but apparently they also occupy quite a lot of system resources.
I couldn't exactly measure the speed because no FPS was shown.
I think i should upgrade my GFX card to get better results. Besides that its one of the best (non-commercial) games i've ever seen.

Even though S.C.A.G's screenies look very promising, it might be a good idea to add some extra options, like resolution, particle density, background detail etc.. for those who dont have an expensive GFX card (Mine was about 70 Euro).

I wonder what your specs are and how your games run on your pc??

Besides this all your work looks great. good luck with S.C.A.G

[NecroDOME]

NecroSPACE 2 has no real fullscreen option, its juist that I set a form fullscreen (i know, not the correct way)

The movie looks cool, but it was juist that I wanted exploding astroids and the ships shooting around. I'm just not that good in 3D max. I can model some things but animating it and making a movie out of it is a lot harder. In .S.C.A.G. I WILL NOT put .avi .mpg or whatever, I'm planning to make a real ingame movie (Hope I'll finish it before te compo ends)

Anyway, my computer specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (2.2 GHz)
1024 MB ram
2x nVidia GeForce 6800 - SLI configuration since I am a gamer
And a nice case

All games have no trouble running. I should test them on lower systems.

[chronozphere]

NecroSPACE 2 has no real fullscreen option, its juist that I set a form fullscreen (i know, not the correct way)

Hmmm.... Interesting. I looked it up and i didn't found something yet.

One way to do this is using A directdraw object, and two flipping surfaces. You only have to render your scene to the backbuffer. (I dont know how you do such things, but i know they can be done ).

The movie looks cool, but it was juist that I wanted exploding astroids and the ships shooting around. I'm just not that good in 3D max. I can model some things but animating it and making a movie out of it is a lot harder.

I have 3ds Max too, i'am not a hardcore 3d artist but i can do some things with it. I will use it in the future to make some background images and maybe some of the sprites i will use in my games.

2x nVidia GeForce 6800 - SLI configuration since I am a gamer

Holy crap .. my ATI Radeon X300 is nothing compared to that.

All games have no trouble running. I should test them on lower systems.

That's indeed a good idea. I would like to test S.C.A.G when it is finished, and show you my FPS.

[chronozphere]

Ohw... I found something. Clooties CD3DApplication
has a 'device and displaymode switching' feature.

I will try to figure out how it works, because i want to use it for my own engine.

If there is somebody here who could explain how to switch to another display-mode, could you please explain how this is done??

[NecroDOME]

Currently I use the Omega DX9 components, they have a fullscreen option, but it needs some tweaking since resolusions are hard coded.