Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-13, 13:23

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I passed the directmedia objects to the game directly, and naturally now I'm getting a crash somewhere inside the directmedia dlls.. so yeah, this might take a while.

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-13, 05:37

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isamu wrote: Hello everyone. I'm sorry I don't know where else to post this but I am desperately in need of an OpenGL to D3D wrapper GLDirect is pretty much the only game in town: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gldirect/ and it only supports OpenGL 1.x, so you're very likely out of luck there.

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-12, 18:17

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Okay. Crimson Skies seems to be nuts. It's supposedly a dx7 game, the exe contains the string "d3d8.dll", and as far as I've traced its behavior.. well.. just take a look: DirectDrawCreate IDirectDraw::QueryInterface -> Interface Query: IDirectDraw2 IDirectDraw2::Release IDirectDraw:: …

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-11, 16:58

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Stiletto wrote: Sol_HSA wrote: Too bad csfix sources aren't available, or this would be easier.. Have you tried asking? 😀 Yes, through different channels even, but he's not answering =) Anyway, I got through that stumbling block, now I just need time to play with it..

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-08, 19:15

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Turns out, the above was my mistake; the crash occurred in dx9 setup, trying to create a 0x0 window. Oops.. So I kept tracing. And boy, does crimson skies ever do a lot of work at init. - Create DirectDraw through DirectDrawCreate() - Create DirectDraw2 through DirectDraw::queryInterface(). - Set …

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Re: Just an idea I had for the forums...

Posted on 2013-05-08, 16:11

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I was a n00b here not that long ago, and I still ask stupid questions semi-regularly. There are no stupid questions. Just stupid askers. =) I moderate the Legend of Grimrock forums, and I totally symphatize with the spambot / stupid user problem. To compound things, there seem to be some kind of …

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-08, 09:25

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Some stuff implemented, crimson skies dies after a couple calls. Sigh. Too bad csfix sources aren't available, or this would be easier..

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-07, 18:08

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Yay, it compiles - 178k of code that does exactly nothing. From here on out the actual work starts..

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-07, 12:49

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Made stubs for the 48 COM interfaces yesterday. Lots of search&replace stuff, but also lots of things that had to be done manually. The work reminded me of the time I was doing HTML work.. =) (Oh sure, some complex regexes might have worked too, but I'm not a regex wizard). I figured I might as well …

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Re: Ouya console scores 3950 in 3D Mark

Posted on 2013-05-07, 09:28

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I said before the ouya kickstarer even ended that it's a early 2012 phone as a 2013 console.. so the backslash isn't all that surprising. =) On the other hand, it's - so far - a homogenious platform for games, so.. it's a bit different from phones. I wouldn't stare at the performance all that much, …

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Re: Just an idea I had for the forums...

Posted on 2013-05-07, 09:22

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I doubt a splash screen will stop anyone. Don't underestimate the stubbornness of people. A keyword search during writing of a post and a notice that pops up before posting for new users if some offending keyword is found might work.. ..or if that's too difficult, then the above kind of popup for …

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-05, 05:06

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ddraw and d3d have something in order of 35 different COM interfaces in dx1-dx7. Fun. Lots of manual work before I even get to try to compile for the first time =)

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-02, 08:48

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Wouldn't it be better to contact DXGL/WineD3D devs first as they may already have some more recent source, exchange ideas and generally cooperate? The bleeding edge DXGL source is available, and yeah, I've been contacting people all around.. The thing with software development like this is, you …

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-02, 08:29

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That's why I have faith that if I instigate enough, you or nGlide authors will kick off a Direct3D version of DXGL/WineD3D :D I'm kinda tempted. DXGL apparently already handles creating of all the dx objects, so that part of the work is done there.. There's other problems than just patching directx …

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-01, 19:30

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Hey, even I have been contacted by gog due to ddhack =)

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-01, 18:46

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..apparently an older version of the ddfix DOES convert dx7 calls to dx9 calls; it doesn't work as is with crimson skies, but at least it's a solid starting point.

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-01, 17:27

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Hah, found yet another project that attempts this - DXTweaker or directx tweaker, last updated around 2005; describes dx7 support as "in an early state".

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-01, 16:46

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Ah rats, it doesn't. It's "just" a directdraw/d3d3 wrapper.

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers and 3d vision

Posted on 2013-05-01, 16:35

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I got a reply from SiO2, and he pointed me at the ddfix for thief2.. if it does the dx7->dx9 translation, it's all I really need. I'll look into it.. =)

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Re: directx / opengl / whatever wrappers

Posted on 2013-05-01, 04:44

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And apparently the pro Quadro cards with 3D Vision support (a few thousand USD) have supported OpenGL all along. Do they "auto 3D vision" too? That might be a permanent solution, if however extremely costly. Nope. I have found that the mobile version does include "auto 3d vision"; I really do …

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