Well on the DX7/DX9 thing. Have anyone of you worked with DarkBasic Pro? Well I have and I left wanting more, thats when I found B3D.
Let me explain DBPro handles .FX shaders and a great deal of other DX9 features, but even their "showcase" demos only run on 1 out of 5 of my computers. And they all have the latest DX9 installed.
Let me explain DBPro handles .FX shaders and a great deal of other DX9 features, but even their "showcase" demos only run on 1 out of 5 of my computers. And they all have the latest DX9 installed.
Yes I have tried it, and with similar results to you. I was attracted by the prospect of real bumpmapping and blended vertex weights. The original bumpmapping was promptly removed in favour of an .fx shader that doesn't work on either of my PC's and now Blitz has vertex weights. And the other shaders don't work properly on either machine come to think of it.