My first D3D demo

[Humus]

My first Direct3D demo has arrived
It's a keyframe animated little Bubble Bobble dragon at 17000+ polys. Not too bad for being my first D3D demo

Get it here:
http://esprit.campus.luth.se/~humus/?page=3D

 

[Hyp-X]

Couldn't initialize Direct3D.
Make sure you have installed DirectX 8 or later.

I guess I need to get 8.1 ...
Oh btw, please provide fallback for SW T&L if one of your HW T&L requirements are not met. This would make it run on nVidia cards too!
(None of the nVidia cards has fixed function tweening support.)

 

[Hyp-X]

Actually it starts on GF2, because this condition

if (!(caps.DevCaps & D3DDEVCAPS_HWTRANSFORMANDLIGHT) &&
		 (caps.VertexProcessingCaps & D3DVTXPCAPS_TWEENING))

is miscoded.

Of cos, it does not animate the model on the GF2.

 

[tkopp]

It's not working on my 8500.
"Couldn't create Direct3D device interface"
6037 drivers.

 

[Humus]

Actually it starts on GF2, because this condition

if (!(caps.DevCaps & D3DDEVCAPS_HWTRANSFORMANDLIGHT) &&
		 (caps.VertexProcessingCaps & D3DVTXPCAPS_TWEENING))

is miscoded.

Of cos, it does not animate the model on the GF2.

Damn, a missing parenthesis ...
I'll add SW T&L support, but now it's bedtime for me, will do that tomorrow maybe. What I don't get is why to make a difference in the API between hardware and software T&L.

 

[Humus]

It's not working on my 8500.
"Couldn't create Direct3D device interface"
6037 drivers.

Make sure you haven't disabled TCL or something with a tweaker.
Or try a newer driver, the 6037 is said to be quite buggy. 6052 works fine for me.

 

[Althornin]

my gf3 just gets a nice glowing white ball that floats around...

 

[EgonOlsen]

my gf3 just gets a nice glowing white ball that floats around...

The same here...but it floats around at 650 fps...

 

[pascal]

The same here with a small framecounter up left.
GF3 with 85fps

 

[Thowllly]

I works on my GF2 GTS (doesn't animate, though), but there seems to be a single missing triangle in the model:

Look here.

 

[pascal]

What is your OS, DirectX and driver?
Thanks

 

[Mystiq]

Humus has fallen to the dark side. Noooo!


It runs fine on my Radeon 8500. Quite amusing is the framerate counter. It periodically shows 4 digits when the light goes out of the screen. I tried to capture it at 4 digits but alas...

Looks good, but weren't the Bubble Bobble guys slightly taller with a shorter tail?

 

[Humus]

I works on my GF2 GTS (doesn't animate, though), but there seems to be a single missing triangle in the model:

<a href="http://www.lstud.ii.uib.no/~s048/temp/missing.jpg">Look here.</a>

Must be a driver glitch. Doesn't occure on my Radeon 8500.

 

[Humus]

Looks good, but weren't the Bubble Bobble guys slightly taller with a shorter tail?

Hard to judge on that 16x16 sprite I can see in my C64 emulator
I noticed though that it should have small arms though, never noticed before I looked at it today.

 

[Gubbi]

Humus, you're sandbagging the C64's sprite capabilities, Everone knows that the C64's sprites are 24x21 pixels. Jeez

Cheers
Gubbi

 

[Humus]

Well, after looking harder and counting the pixels the actual character is 20x17 pixels large.