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Re: DirectX 8 Issue

Night Hawk Games — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:42:38 GMT

Okay I got my answer from GameDev forums he said to use SlimDX, and right now it's working.

Re: DirectX 8 Issue

Night Hawk Games — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:59:44 GMT

Oh never mind I just looked it up and it's a drag and drop engine is it not? I just need a graphics program like Direct X that works with VB. Oh and it has to be free also.

Re: DirectX 8 Issue

Night Hawk Games — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:55:20 GMT

Does the new game studio work for Visual Basic? Because I'm new to game programming and want to follow along with the book. Unfortunately I made a mistake and didn't buy the second edition which is a little closer to this years technology.

Re: DirectX 8 Issue

Ralf Kornmann — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:47:16 GMT

DirectX 8 is pretty old and deprecated for some time. The DirectX 8 add on for Visual Basic 6 was a very special solution and doesn’t work for newer versions anymore.
You should have a look at the new Game Studio. It is sing C# instead of Visual Basic but it should be so hard to understand.

DirectX 8 Issue

Night Hawk Games — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:36:34 GMT

Hey I'm back after a long time of exile from the game developing community largely because of my inexperience, but anyways I have a question. I am reading a book called Visual Basic Game Programming For Teens the author is using Visual Basic 6 and I have 2008 but I heard you could use 08 for it. Gosh I get off tracks so easily. Okay I'm going to focus. It says I need DirectX 8 and to add it as a reference. I downloaded it (I think) but when I click add reference DirectX 8 is not there. Can anyone tell me why and how to fix the problem?