SpriteDX9 Lib - New release - v0.58

[va!n]

Version 0.579 released! [27-September-2005 @ 22:10]
- LoadTexture() has been fixed and seems to work now!

LoadTextureDX9() works now, however Deeem2031 always still not reached the state he wanted to have for version 0.58! So here is 0.579 Smile! For changes since 0.57 just simple read the last posting. Only difference are the fixed LoadTextureDX9(), updated helpfile and resident file!

feedback is welcome

Edit:
Here are the latest reworked example files: www.superfilm.tv/SpriteDX9_Examples0579.zip

[Psychophanta]

Hi, va!n

Any new about vsync CPU wasted time matter?

[va!n]

@Psychophanta:
With enabled VSync the examples require here about 4% CPU usage - without VSync the CPU will eat 100% ...

[Psychophanta]

Oh! here still gets 100% for both cases at full screen
Moreover, with Vsync enabled it runs too slow

Taking a look to the help file of this lib it seems very nice, but still i can't see the real DX9 2D and 3D graphics power.

[djes]

I have to activate alpha in startdrawing to enable hardware acceleration... Not a bug, I think?!

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StartDX9(#D3DXSPRITE_ALPHABLEND)

[va!n]

Oh! here still gets 100% for both cases at full screen
Moreover, with Vsync enabled it runs too slow

Taking a look to the help file of this lib it seems very nice, but still i can't see the real DX9 2D and 3D graphics power.

@Psychophanta:
I have tested it with FullScreenMode and you are right! CPU ussage is still 100% ! But not so in WindowedMode when VSync is enabled. We noticed the problem of slowing down when using enabled VSync.

[Deeem2031]

Oh! here still gets 100% for both cases at full screen

Hm, here it works fine. Maybe you should know that "Alt-Tab" still is not supported, so whether you use that the CPU-usage increases to 100%

Moreover, with Vsync enabled it runs too slow

Yea... don't you think its normal

Taking a look to the help file of this lib it seems very nice, but still i can't see the real DX9 2D and 3D graphics power.

It isn't so easy as it looks like

I have to activate alpha in startdrawing to enable hardware acceleration... Not a bug, I think?!

I don't understand what you mean.. it runs faster if you use "StartDX9(#D3DXSPRITE_ALPHABLEND)" ?

[Psychophanta]

Moreover, with Vsync enabled it runs too slow

Yea... don't you think its normal

It depends.
'VSync Disable' can mean one of 2 things (as long as i know):
- The program renders to display ignoring VSYNC event (no syncroniztion, just process and render without any kind of wait or sleep).
- The program syncronize its rendering to a stablished time chunk, ignoring when real VSYNC event is happening (so tearing effect will appear).

So if you have implemented the first case, there is logical that the examples run slower when 'VSync Enabled' feature.But if you have implemented the second case, then it is not logical.
So, what do you refer with 'VSync Disable' ?

[djes]

I have to activate alpha in startdrawing to enable hardware acceleration... Not a bug, I think?!

I don't understand what you mean.. it runs faster if you use "StartDX9(#D3DXSPRITE_ALPHABLEND)" ?

Yes, i'm drawing lines with an alpha effect, and it runs slower (and without alpha) if I do not activate alpha in startdrawing. But it is NOT a problem

About static dll, I was wondering if I could include the functions of the directx9 dll into my program. Fortunately, I found this site http://www.toymaker.info/Games/html/directx_9_0c.html and I discovered that Microsoft had changed his mind and that this dll is now included by default in directx runtimes, as dynamic! So, all these people asking for this are wrong!

However, maybe we could, with all this work done by traumatic and others on the linker, but I don't think it's usefull by now. I do prefer functions to integrate transformations and maybe... easy ps2 shading on textures!

Thank you for all this good work!

[djes]

I have decided to give some code samples (some I have collected and some I've done myself) on the french forum. Included is a lightwave loader (lwo objects files).

Note that the code is not optimised at all, and that I have omitted some "thank you" because it wasn't destined to be spread.

http://purebasic.hmt-forum.com/viewtopi ... 6783#36783

Have fun!

[Shannara]

Holy cow, I thought I replied to this already .. ouch! Sorry about that!

Anyways, to answer your question in response to my light question ... Well, for lights, I mean, being able to change a corner of a texture's color to a certain color. That way, if A and B was red, and C and D was black, then the texture would still show the texture but have the red to black gradiant over/on the texture. This helps emulates lights.

Albit, not perfect, but it looks ok

The other thing is that directX 9.0c (or d?) has it's own internal GUI library. This allows you to make textured edit boxes, buttons and other controls directly from DirectX's internal library, itself.

Any chance of this being added to this library? If so ... YES!!!!

[va!n]

SpriteDX9 v0.58 has been released!