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Ultimate Single Surface collection! by Rob(Posted 23 years ago) |
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*Completely FREE for Blitz users!*
-Single Surface Stuff Collection-
The zip includes 3 systems:
Single Surface Particle systems:
Throw around thousands of particles almost with the ease of Blitz sprites! Zing!
Single Surface Entity systems:
Every single Blitz Entity command is reproduced in an easy to use single surface system for entities! Faster than standalone blitz entities when used carefully in batches or static. Great stuff!
Single Surface 2D in 3D replacement lib:
The Blitz2D command set is expanded and replaced on! Use special 3D cls and blit commands for the ULTIMATE in easy to use 2D in 3D! Awesome!
Enjoy! |
http://www.redflame.net/files/singlesurfacestuff.zip |
Comments
Rob,
I've a problem with the single surface entity system. I find that I can not create more than 50 spheres in your demo or I get a runtime error. "bbBank Does not Exist" - in the Writebankfloat function.
Great work btw.
Hmmm... sounds like you've gone over the limit somehow. Try increasing the bank size.
Also, remember there is a limit to how many polys you can shovel into a single surface (dx limit).
Remember it won't be efficient beyond 2,000 polys or so... it's a good idea to make several single surface "batches" so that they are bite size for the graphics card :)
Rob,
I've just looked at this and I don't understand half of it, ironically I was about to release my particle system to see if anyone wants to try and make it single surface.
Is there any chance you can document what's going on a little so I can try and plug my code into it or vica vesa.
At least explain what each of the functions do. I've been meaning to write a single surface particle system for a while and it seem pretty pointless to re-invent the wheel.
Obviously if I update this into a spangly effort I'll re-submit it as an open source system.
Hats off here, my single surface system is limited, does the job, but this interface is far easier! Fantastic!
nice work!
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sorry my browser crashed..
The CreateBank problem is that Fields nx, ny and nz are declared as Floats....in fact its the bank that store floats, these 3 values are handles of bank so int.
This lib is wonderfull, nice job !
Nice lib!
Durr! Where the link go!? :-(
Aahh! I want these libs! the link is broken...
In Rob's profile is a link to his homepage which has a
contact page
Sorry I lost a lot of webspace stuff, I'll look for it as soon as I can, very busy with real life stuff.
If someone else can mirror it in the meantime I'd be grateful as its helped a lot of people.
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