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Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:51 am**

How good is PureBasic for making games??

i need a good compiler to make games
is pure basic fast and good enoigh for making 2d games and little 3d with
alpha effects and blending

RedmoonX

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:53 am**

PB is excellent for 2D games! Very fast and super compact EXEs. It also has some 2D features that are very useful, that all of the competition lacks.

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:14 am**

that was good to hear.. what about 3d then

will it be good for making average 3d games??

RedmoonX

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:30 pm**

Currently, PB 3D support is not complete enough to do cool 3D games, so better user another tool (Blitz 3D ?) to program such games. On other side, the PureBasic 3D library will be updated in the next month, but don't expect many new functions then, it will just use the lastest version of the OGRE engine.. More will come later

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 12:37 pm**

PB is excellent for 2D games and... if you combinate PB 2D Power with Danilo's lib (PureTools), you can make easly very good games..

Try my "Mad Mix Game Remake" and you can see what can you do with PB

http://remakeszone.com/juegos/descarga. ... &entorno=3

Bye!

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 1:20 pm**

gr8 then... i maybe use purebasic for my games than

what can i compare purebasic to
i only have demo at the moment so i cant really test

but what program is most equal to purebasic

i saw some network functions in the helpfile but has anyone maked any internet games??

RedmoonX

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:27 pm**

PB is excellent for making 2D games, it also has 3Dsprites than can be very easily combined with 2D ones. Purebasic's Linked Lists are amazing and very useful when making games. It also has structures. I also own Blitz3D (realy only use the 2D side of it) it's also a very good product. Both are very capable of making good games, but if I were forced to just use one I would have to choose PureBasic.

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:52 pm**

good i have enough good thoughts of purebasic to begin use it myself

im making a little scrolling shooter at the moment

it works fine so far

i still really liked to know about the internet possiblity

IMPORTANT
i have a qeastion

how can i make a script memory to execute some code with only a call
like

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; this is no real function
startscript myscript(arguments1.2.3)
  ; action 1
  ; action 2
  ; action 3
  ; action 4
  ..
scriptreturn
endscript

; and then call it like this
myscript(argument0.1.2)

RedmoonX[/code]

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:57 pm**

Procedures!

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procedure RedMoon(arguments)
 ;Actions etc
 ;Even more actions ;)
 ;You dont need procedurereturn but it can be there if you want to
Procedurereturn VALUE
EndProcedure

;Now, you call it like a normal command:
RedMoon(argument)

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:46 pm**

i tryed procedures but the actions didnt executed example

procedure create_laser(_x,_y)
laserx(lasernum) = _x
lasery(lasernum) = _y
lasernum + 1
endprocedure

it didnt work so i used "gosub" instead
but then i cant use arguments
ill guess ill make another try

im proud i succed making a scrolling shooter the second day i used PureBasic

RedmoonX

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:52 pm**

you cant do:

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lasery(lasernum) = _y

but you can do:

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_y = lasery(lasernum)

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:02 pm**

thefool I think that's an array.

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:09 pm**

RedmoonX wrote:i tryed procedures but the actions didnt executed example

procedure create_laser(_x,_y)
laserx(lasernum) = _x
lasery(lasernum) = _y
lasernum + 1
endprocedure

it didnt work so i used "gosub" instead
but then i cant use arguments
ill guess ill make another try

im proud i succed making a scrolling shooter the second day i used PureBasic

RedmoonX

Variables are not global unless specified so in your example, you are saying: laserx(0)=_x
So unless you state: Global lasernum (at the start of your program) or use Shared lasernum (at the start of your procedure), lasernum will always be 0

It would be better to also pass lasernum to your procedure...

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Procedure create_laser(_x,_y,lasernum)
  laserx(lasernum) = _x
  lasery(lasernum) = _y
EndProcedure

BTW: a few other games made in PureBasic (quite a few years back)
www.pureproject.net

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:30 pm**

whoops very sory i didnt notice that.

btw: arrays are always global by themself..

also have a look here for PB programs and games & more:
http://purearea.net/pb/english/index.htm

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:43 pm**

check out my page for some very basic intro stuff