ThePentiumGuy

Whee. 2 people PM'ed me. 2 invites given out. One more left. Not sure about coldfusion244. Note: You need to give me your email address so I can invite you (how am I supposed to send u an invite without your email address? -The Pentium Guy

<I think the "restrictions" are working> :ThumbsUp:

Alright alright I know, fools from google will come here spamming this forum for invites. Oh well. (Admins, watch the number of members on this forum triple!;)) Anyways, with that aside, who wants gmail? I didn't want to be too mean to the forum owners, so I decided to come up with a little system to prevent googlers from spamming this forum. You must be a "long time" registered member. Aka, if I see you registered today, on the day of this post, then no, bye. (Heh, sorry to ye who registered today and happened to find this post). I got 3 invites. Googlers (or any guys using search engines to come across this post for that matter), don't bother. -The Pentium Guy

Oh. Good point ;). "gfx = Me.CreateGraphics()" I'll give that a try. Thanks. Yep. Right there in my bin folder. The error was some Invalid Argument error. I'll give what you said a try (computer with .net doesn't have internet). -The Pentium Guy Edit: Wow. WYS is NOT WYG. I typed the post in normal characters and somehow it got to italics.

Hey, Is there a way to use ur Graphics object in another class? For example, I've done something like public class Gameclass Public shared gfx as Graphics Public Sub Paint(e as painteventargs) gfx = e.graphics gfx.drawimage("etc...") <-- this line works ... but end sub end class Public class clsSomething Public sub Paint() gameclass.gfx.drawimage("etc...") <-- this one doesn't. End Sub End class Oh btw, i'm getting the graphics by going to form1_paint: myGameClass.Paint(e) I'm getting an argument error (In clsSomething.Paint), although I'm using the exact same arguments for DrawImage in GameClass as well as clsSomething. What's going on? I just want to be able to draw from other classes (preferably from the graphics object in GameClass). Or should I take another route and use AddHandler in GameClass to do the same, if so - can you please remind me how to use it? Heh I need to brush up my AddHandler skills. -The Pentium Guy -The Pentium Guy

Yep. It's myButton.Image (or myButton.Picture). I'm sure you can put almost anything you want. BMP JPG PNG GIF (not sure about animating GIF) TIF. -TPG

Hehe, people usualyl only install windows on those HD's (and install programs on their slower, 7200 RPM hdd's). It's mainly a windows-drive I guess (for much faster boot times and stuff). -TPG

Heh, yeah I hate that. Stupid fools need guidance in everything. Some guy robbed a house, and went to the garage. He closed the door behind him, and it locked. So he tried using the garage door. Apparently the thing wasn't working. He got stuck in the garage for 3 days, starved. After the people came back (from vacation or something), they found him and arrested him. After getting out of jail, the guy sued the garage door company (apparently) for malfunctioning garage door openers. He won. Go figure, -The Pentium Guy

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Hey, You guys have to check this out: http://www.dumbwarnings.com It's a list of retarded warnings that companies in the manual. Some of my fav's: Unknown Hair Coloring Do not use as an ice cream topping. Unknown Air Conditioner Caution: Avoid dropping air conditioners out of windows. Life saving device This is NOT a life saving device!!! 7 Up Contents under pressure. Cap may blow off causing eye or other serious injury. Point away from face and people, especially when opening. Swansea Institute of Higher Education, Wales, UK A letter distributed to staff and students included the following message: For safety reasons all staff and students are reminded that the taking of hot drinks out of the Refectory / fast food areas is strictly forbidden. Several slipping accidents have already occurred as a result of liquid being spilt on the floor and the probability of someone suffering from a serious scalding accident whilst walking along busy corridors and getting into crowded lifts is high. Your full cooperation in ensuring that you do not put yourself and others at risk is required. Tesco Fruit Juice Carton On bottom side: "Keep Upright". Sainsburys Mineral Water Suitable for vegetarians. Slush Puppy Cup (On the side of the cup) "This ice may be cold" Child-Sized Superman Costume Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly. Hehe, this one's great: Various Computers Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue Lucent Technologies Model 6210 Telephone The following is found on page 4 of the instruction book: To place or answer a call, lift the handset. To place a call, dial the desired number. To end the call, hang up the handset. Another gem, also on Page 4: To put a call on Hold: Press "Hold". Blockbuster Rental DVD Be kind - rewind. Nabisco Easy Cheese For best results, remove cap. Swanson TV Dinners This product must be cooked before eating. There's a lot more, just check out the link I posted above. -The Pentium Guy Edit: Oh crap, my font screwed up. Bah oh well

Look for a flash OCX file, Right click your toolbar (Toolbox?) and add it. I'm sure there'll be one on the list too. -The Pentium Guy

Oh I know that ;P. I'm just saying we should (if it's OK with you admins) make the default from The Beginning. -The Pentium Guy

Hey, All you have to do is simply rotate the character. d3ddev.transform.world = MapMatrix RenderMap() d3ddev.transfrom.world = matrix.rotation(Matrix.Multiply(characterPosition, characterRotation)) RenderCharacter The characterRotation matrix wuold be some Matrix.RotationYawPitchandRoll matrix and the characterPosition would be some Matrix.Translation matrix. I'm not 100% sure if it's: Matrix.Multiply(characterPosition, characterRotation) or Matrix.Multiply(characterRotation, characterPosition) I'm assuming, since you said that the camera is always fixed that your view matrix is a matrix.lookatLH or RH with a constant camreaPosition CamreaTarget and cameraTarget. -The Pentium Guy

It's incredible how confusing Microsoft code gets... " [system.Security.SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity] // We won't use this maliciously [DllImport("kernel32")] " MAN. -The Pentium Guy

Heheheh yeah you gotta hate those timers. I wish there was some way you can use the timers that you use in C++ (can't remember the name), it was in winmm.dll. See if you can find a wrapper for that. -The Pentium Guy

Pretty good, I just got kinda bored after a while (too slow for me)

Which mobo has SLi ??

Well what's your Wants for christmas this year? Wants: Half Life 2 NFSU2 Steering Wheel Thermalright XP-120 heatsink - makes great overclocking. My friend got his 3.0c to a 3.8, running stable!! A little unstable was when he clocked to 4.5 ghz. Meh. It did work though. I can only clock to 3.5 with my current heatsink. Vantec Tornado fan (for CPU) 1 GB DDR 5400 HyperX (Yes, another gig) DDR Ram booster Faster DSL (from 1.5 mbps to 3 mbps, it's only 5 extra bucks a month!) Flat Panel monitor 6800GT Klipsch Promedia Ultra 500W 5.1 surround New TV (only at least 25 inches, I mean that's not a lot to ask :rolleyes:) Cell phone Some sort of written permission from the government that I don't have to go to school (ever)and that they'll pay me (high wage) without having to work for the rest of my life. Blah I can ramble on and on and on and on about stuff I want, knowing that it's not gonna get me anywhere in the long run ;P. Getting: Half Life 2 -As you can tell, Santa doesn't like my house ;) :D -The Pentium Guy

:D Shouldn't it be 9.0c. By the way, there's a later verion out (I beleive it's the December update). -The Pentium Guy

Welcome back Hog. Well, I usually never uninstall the previous versions. So I get to keep all the samples and goodies :D. -The Pentium Guy

Hey, In my opinion we really need to change the default cutoff date to "The Beginning". I mean look in Random Thoughts for example. There's like 4 posts there in total because the default cutoff date is 1 month. It really makes the forum dull. -The Pentium Guy

Try signing on with the same username/password combination on this site as you would in xvb. -The Pentium Guy

Check out my site while you're at it: www.vbprogramming.8k.com - Plenty of tutorials to get you started into Game Programming. You could either use GDI+ or Direct3D. If you're really new I wouldn't venture into Direct3d/DirectDraw just yet, try to make a game in GDI+ first. -The Pentium Guy

WHAT? Can't they just release a damn framework upgrade for this (For 2003), it's not like we're all rich and we can afford buying .NET almost every year.