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Working on it, but you'll find that it's just a modified version of PB's terrain example with a different terrain and a cube added for the water.

At the moment it's a bit of a mess, but as soon as I got it to work I'll make you a nice little, shiny new .zip package containing the code

Wow!!!!

Niceeeee ....

Your water looks better in the intersections!

Btw, which program do you use to create the terrain ?

I used L3DT for this terrain, after I found a link to it somewhere on these forums :P As for the intersections, I just used your suggestion about the 32-depth screen, and ...

Well, here are my screenshots as promised :) Don't worry about the ugly cursor, that's a bit blurred because i convert the screenshot from bmp to jpg, it looks good in-game ;)

http://www.v5img.net/upload/68356184BurningDawnSS.jpg

and, underwater, only without your bubbles:

http://www.v5img.net ...

Thank you very much for the code. I'm sorry to say I managed quite a bit of it by myself already, but the upgoing bubbles were nice.

If I manage to get my app to allow me to take screenies I'll post some pictures of it

Hmm yes, that definately looks nice. If I'm permitted... Would you please post the code to create that? :twisted:

And, I managed to create an effect a little like it, not as good though, and indeed, the place where the water cube crosses the terrain gets quite ugly. I hope someone's got ideas on ...

Well, the problem with the fog function is that it's not so useful on short distances (or so it seems). If I have a fog at a startdistance of 10 for example, the fog turns into a wall in the color I specified. There's nothing translucent about that...

If you look at this image:
http://www.luckypp ...

Changing the ambientcolor is easy enough. The thing is, when I'm underwater (not that I swim so often, but still :P) I always notice that anything above it is much more vague. Therefore I need some sort of fog effect, or maybe a blueish translucent sprite at the water-level so that it doesn't look ...

Well, I managed to do it with the cube suggestion. With a scrolling texture you can even make the water 'move' (waves etc.).
I'm not yet sure about how to make an 'underwater' feeling, but I might do something with translucent sprites (I tried fog and a changed ambientcolor, but that's too heavy ...

I'm still experimenting a bit with PureBasic's 3D functionality, and I've gotten the hang of creating terrains and displaying textures on them a bit. However, I can only create 'waterless' terrains as it is because I haven't got a clue about how to create 'swimmable' water.

Swimming animations and ...

Ah, thanks a lot, it works like a charm. I had to mess around a bit to get it working but now it does and I can happily adjust mousespeed now. I think I got a bit fixed on the idea that the mouseposition was like a 'fixed' position, only attainable by MouseX/Y(). However, if you set your own ...

But MouseDeltaX/Y() only returns a value, doesn't it? How would that increase my mouse speed? And I'm not sure about this, but can it be that my "apparent" mousespeed can be slow because of the time the mainloop takes?

Thank you very much for your suggestion. I now have a transparent mouse, but it's still a bit slow. I suppose that's just normal if you load more and more images on a screen.
And I did use the decoder for JPEG, only I didn't include it in my code example

I decided to start with some game programming lately, and I quite manage to create a screen, and render images on it etc. but I noticed I had to create a mouse icon myself.

I created a nice sword, using Adobe photoshop elements with a transparent background, but no matter what extension I save it ...

I needed some extra sound functionality too (check if a sound was playing or not) and found this on the german boards:

http://forums.purebasic.com/german/viewtopic.php?t=1820

The guy who wrote that post has made a number of procedures you can use to get more information about your sound files...

Where do I find that? :oops: ( I know I should have bothered reading the documentation )

Edit: I suppose it's version 4, as I can't find it in 3.94. I'll have to upgrade soon. However, that does not change the fact that this bug is quite strange. It sometimes happens that the finishing of one timer ...