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hi ville, thanks for the tips! the STDCALL convention turned the crash into a more elegant error: now a window titled "ZZDC Error" containing the function name ("InOut") pops up. adding C-linkage does not change that, i'm afraid. i'm currently using CodeBlocks and the GNU GCC Com...

hmmm, after trying several different ways of passing pointers around, i only ever got Assertion Failures or flat out crashes :( but i'm optimistic that the flat out crashes are only a bug in the ZGE implementation :) i attached a simple DLL with a function like the following: int InOut( int i ) { re...

To help people looking for the info, here's a paste: (the following applies to a CodeBlocks + MinGW setup) 1) ZGE requires "stdcall" as calling convention. It's also common to specify C-linkage. Declare functions like: void DLL_EXPORT STDCALL FunctionName( int argument ) // or void DLL_EX...

hi kjell, those tips are helpful - as always! :)

hi, i noticed that the zbuffer is not cleared after a renderpass, independent of the used ClearScreenMode. could we have a setting for that? i'm trying to render a scene with large differences in size (far away planets and close small things on the surface of one planet), and i tried to achieve this...

definitely physics :)
i'm currently looking into box2d for starters. taking baby steps, though; got a blank dll to compile in codeblocks & talk to zge today. looks like building dlls is still in range of my abilities :)

edit: f* yes, box2d dll builds & gets invoked just fine :D

physics are not yet a part of zge, so i'm afraid you'll have to script your own.

The co-ords are x -1 to +1, Y -1 to +1 take care that this depends on the Camera Settings. a camera with FOV 45 situated at position [0, 0, 1] and a square viewport (window) will look at the area between -1/+1 for x and y. when you put it further away on the z-axis or enlarge the FOV, the visible a...

this is worth enabling smilies!



very neat implementation! this should greatly help avoiding featuritis in the zge core components. maybe we can collect a handful of useful free / open source dll's that can be elegantly plugged in.

most definitely :)

do i understand correctly that this basically wraps the functionality of any dll into zge?
because i approve so much of this i could burst! :D

neat idea! no-button qix sounds like a challenge in interface design, but this looks rather promising! laying down rectangles & trapping enemies has a nice feel to it already, even with the slighly wonky controls. i have to admit that i'm a bit envious of that idea :)

hi,
although this feels very raw, i think it has some potential. right now i like the slightly angled scroll, it's got that guitar-hero tunnel vision going on ;) the flat, rolling spaceship design has also got something to it. definitely needs more variety, though.

nice! i really like the depth this creates when multiple layers zoom slowly; like a starfield with more volume. i also enjoy the suble colors shifts inside the circles when they are larger / blurry, reminds me of looking up into the sun through the leafs of a tree - very beautiful! and there's a goo...

thank you! :)

kjell: those are really good suggestions to speed things up & make it more usable in general. i'll see what i can do :)