its my dream come true: I GOT C++ and i have (after a very WERID and to me as of yet unsolved bug) run my first programm (all text) then came the BIG speed bumps

#1 i hit at full speed, (reminded me of when my aunt drove full speed into that speed bump up near our friend's capbin, i swear that seat belt streched a good foot or so...) i need a graphic library to put ANY images in c++! i have no clue what a graphic library is, only that it could potentially cost me a lot of money and a lot of brain stress trying to make it work. if anybody knows what a graphic library is, plz tell me, and i would really appreciate if it was free. I (foolishly, but hey, a guy can hope, RIGHT?) also wanted to do 3d stuff too... what would i need for that?

After that bump i slowed down considerably... then i switched to BB3d, my own, comfortable language i know so well (only to start full speed and run into one of those stupid should-be-working bugs that have no reason to not work) and BAM!

#2 i hit going at a medium speed, but the way it hit me, it might as well have been one of those spiky things that keep you from going that one way and blow holes in your tires when you try.

all of my BB3d pograms were running CONSIERABLY s l o w e r
which REALLY made me mad...

oh yeah, and for a terrifying moment i thought i lost my rabbit...

so... its been one of those up and down days... and my dad just got on the phone so the internet connections lost, so ill copy and past this and go back on when he gets of the phone..

(')__(')

cheers...

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God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

I feel ya, I've had those types of days before!

For free graphics libs yeah, there are plenty. But I only know of two that I can say are really good ones. There is Irrlicht and OGRE. I'd recommend Irrlicht for ease and power. And OGRE for power and a tough challenge! It uses OOP to an extreme degree. OGRE is better, but Irrlicht is way more simple.

Oh, and I'm glad you found yer rabbit

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[This message has been edited by brandon (edited August 16, 2005).]

i kept forgetting i let her out... ( i let her run around a protion of our backyard every once and a while for exercise and plain enjoyment)

hm... Irrlichit and OGER eh? assuming their free of course...
still a sheer newbie to C++ but hey, if you don't try and push yourself, your gonna end up making not-so-great games!

I was on CW (codersworkshop) and the poeple there reccomended SDL... now, to get MY computer connected to the internet....

or i could just download whatever-the-heck-i-want on THIS computer and transferr it to the OTHER computer.

say, bradon, do those work ONLY for 2d images, or can you do 3d stuff too (being a BlitzBasic3d user FIRST, im probably expecting more than i should be. thanks again!

PS: when i download these libraries, do they come with... well some sort of insturctions, so i konw how to use them?
...oh yes, text too.. so far all i can do is the

std::cont << "Hello...?" << std::endl;

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

SDL or Allegro are two of the more popular C++ 2D graphics libraries, and if you want 3D, there are many popular ones, and both OGRE and Irrlicht are very popular ones.

Respectfully,
clint

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http://www.includingjudas.com/christiangame.html

goodygoodygoodygoody!

wait.... are they free?

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

Just checked out Irrcilit, IM SO EXCITED!!!!

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

[This message has been edited by Realm Master (edited August 16, 2005).]

Hope that helps some

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A: tried to get OGRE, for somereason it didn't work and the web page litterally turned into rubbish.

B: got Irrlichit, HOWEVER:
IVE (pardon the use of all caps) GOT NO BLOODY CLUE HOW TO USE IT!

i know i have to somehow get it so Dev C++ can use the irrlichit.h (pardon the spelling... ) header, and the .dll, but what else? the HTML document only did the Virtual C++ way, I'VE go Dev C++!

a little help plz?

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

For Irrlicht, there is a tutorial for setting up your project here: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut001b.html Also, it might be good to look over some of the examples that came with it, maybe even modify them some.

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I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

quote:

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Originally posted by Realm Master:
Okay brandon, i could use some help!

A: tried to get OGRE, for somereason it didn't work and the web page litterally turned into rubbish.

B: got Irrlichit, HOWEVER:
IVE (pardon the use of all caps) GOT NO BLOODY CLUE HOW TO USE IT!

i know i have to somehow get it so Dev C++ can use the irrlichit.h (pardon the spelling... ) header, and the .dll, but what else? the HTML document only did the Virtual C++ way, I'VE go Dev C++!

a little help plz?

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I personally think you may be a little over your head. You need to be fairly competant with C++ before you can even begin to look at 3D game engines.

Maybe take some time out to learn a slower pace and really get a good grasp of it, before moving on

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

// Crimson Caves #include <stdio.h> #include <iostream.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> int hp = 10, thp = 10, turns = 0, str = 5, def = 3; // Player values int rnd = 0; int mrnd = 0; int mhp; int oroom, room = 1; int skulls = 0; char name[10]; // Player Name char input; // Input char sive; // Catches newlines char command[10]; // Commands char choice; // Attack or Defend? void status(); // Prototypes void atmos(); void battle(); void main() { srand ( time(NULL) ); // Seed Random printf("-= Welcome to Crimson Caves =-\n"); printf("Please enter your name: "); scanf("%s%c", &name, &sive); printf("\n<--------------- Your quest begins ------------------>\n" "Welcome %s, to the dark underworld. You have become\n" "trapped in this cave with another. You cant see anything\n" "but you can hear something eating, deeper within. Try\n" "to find the light of day before before it finds you.....\n" "Enter 'help' to view the command reference.\n", name); Begin: if (oroom != room) { rnd = ((rand() % 3) + 1); // Block a random path mrnd = ((rand() % 7) + 1); // Monster encounter } oroom = room; printf("\n> "); gets(command); if (strcmp(command, "help") == 0) { // Help printf("\nCommands: n, e, w, s, stat, quit, search, take\n"); } else if (strcmp(command, "n") == 0) { // North turns += 1; if (rnd != 1) { printf("\nYou walk north."); atmos(); room += 1; } else { printf("\nThat way is blocked."); } } else if (strcmp(command, "s") == 0) { // South turns += 1; if (rnd != 2) { printf("\nYou walk south."); atmos(); room += 1; } else { printf("\nThat way is blocked."); } } else if (strcmp(command, "e") == 0) { // East turns += 1; if (rnd != 3) { printf("\nYou walk east."); atmos(); room += 1; } else { printf("\nThat way is blocked."); } } else if (strcmp(command, "w") == 0) { // West turns += 1; if (rnd != 1) { printf("\nYou walk west."); atmos(); room += 1; } else { printf("\nThat way is blocked."); } } else if (strcmp(command, "stat") == 0) { // Status status(); } else if (strcmp(command, "quit") == 0) { // Quit hp = 0; } else if (strcmp(command, "search") == 0) { // Search turns += 1; rnd = ((rand() % 5) + 1); if (rnd == 3) { // Found Food rnd = ((rand() % 4) + 2); printf("\nYou found some food! You gained %dhp.\n", rnd); hp += rnd; if (hp >= thp) hp = thp; } else { // Nothing printf("\nYou search blindly with no result.\n"); } } else { // Unknown Command printf("\nSorry, I dont understand the command %s.\n", command); } if (mrnd == 4) { // Encounter the monster battle(); } if (hp > 0 && turns < 50) goto Begin; if (hp <= 0) { // Death printf("\n%s dies consumed in darkness. Total turns: %d | Skulls: %d\n", name, turns, skulls); } else if (turns >= 50) { // Victory printf("\nYou make your way torwads the sunlight and emerge in a sunny field." "\n%s made it out of Crimson Caves alive! Total turns: %d | Skulls: %d\n", name, turns, skulls); } system("PAUSE"); } void status() // Status { printf("\n%s has %d/%dhp | Turn: %d | Skulls: %d\n", name, hp, thp, turns, skulls); turns += 1; } void battle() // Battle { mhp = ((rand() % thp) + (thp/2)); printf("\n\nFrom the darkness you see two red eyes moving torward you." "\nSuddenly a huge creature looms above you!"); do { printf("\nA)ttack, R)un | You have %d/%dhp", hp, thp); printf("\n>"); scanf("%c%c", &choice, &sive); if (choice = 'a') { // Attack turns += 1; rnd = ((rand() % (thp/2)) + (thp/2)); printf("\nYou swing wildly at the creature for %d damage.", rnd); mhp -= rnd; mrnd = (thp / 2); rnd = ((rand() % mrnd) + (mrnd / 2)); printf("\nThe beast claws you for %dhp\n", rnd); hp -= rnd; } } while (mhp > 0 && hp > 0); if (mhp <= 0) { // Killed it! printf("\nYou destroyed the vile creature! You add its skull to your collection.\n"); rnd = ((rand() % 4) + 1); thp += rnd; hp = thp; printf("\nYour total hp increased by %d. You now have %d/%dhp", rnd, hp, thp); skulls += 1; room += 1; } } void atmos() // Atmosphere { rnd = ((rand() % 7) + 1); if (rnd == 4) { rnd = ((rand() % 4) + 1); if (rnd == 1) { printf("\nYou hear something breathing heavily near you..."); } else if (rnd == 2) { printf("\nYou hear a dripping noise in the distance..."); } else if (rnd == 3) { printf("\nYou smell rotting flesh close by..."); } else if (rnd == 4) { rnd = ((rand() % 5) + 1); printf("\nA bat bites you for %dhp and then vanishes...", rnd); hp -= rnd; } else if (rnd == 5) { printf("\nYou stumble over a pile of human bones..."); } } }

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"Be nice to the nerds because later on, you'll be working for them" - Bill Gates

bool attack_or_defend;

and i don't have time to proofread the rest of your code, though it looks like it will definantly work!
i suppose ill learn later...

not@firmaker ( )

dont work D-SIPL, ill do what ill do and it wont be any of your faults i just wanna know how to be able to use irrlichit.

thanks,

RM

PS: (HOLY SMOKES firemaker, you know C++ AND BB3d (and, apparently are better at both than i am) wow! howlong have you been programming??!?!)

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

[This message has been edited by Realm Master (edited August 17, 2005).]

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

yes yes, ill chekc out that link, but you should know i DO have a C++ book...

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

quote:

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Originally posted by en972:
I do not reccommend books. I find most books compeltly useless. Those tutorials are the best you can get. Except for www.gameinstitute.com

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Sample of memory leak// put a object on the free store not the stack// if you don't know what the free store or the stack is,then this is another reason to use/get a c++ BOOK and study study. //Create a pointer and assign it the address of an area on the free store int *pint = new int; *pint = 60; //reassign the pointer to another area of memory pint = new int; ut Oh, this could be a leak cause we did not delete the memory before we reassigned are pointer .ewwww right way.... int *pint = new int;//put it on the free store *pint = 60;//give it a value delete pint;//free the memory pint = new int;//reassign it the address of and area on the free store *pint = 20;//give it a different value delete pint;//free memory

God bless you all!!!

[This message has been edited by cwc (edited August 17, 2005).]

*pant, pant, pant* can ANYONE help?!?!?!

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

About 6 and a half months.

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"Be nice to the nerds because later on, you'll be working for them" - Bill Gates

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

alos notice that you won't get out until you do anything 50 times.

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"Be nice to the nerds because later on, you'll be working for them" - Bill Gates

hopefully ill get over it,

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

quote:

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Originally posted by firemaker103:
@realm
the program works without your fixes, don't worry.

alos notice that you won't get out until you do anything 50 times.

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ok! it compiled and ran for me. anyone knows why after copying and pasting I have to manually add return after every statement? everything comes out as 1 line in visual studio.

btw, I made it out of the cave in 50 moves!!! pretty good eyh?

CAN I PLZ LEARN HOW TO USE IT!?!?!?!?!?
ITS JUST SITTING ON MY COMPTUER, HOGGIN MEGABYTES!
woops, i just realized, my caps lock was on.

Or WAS it?

plz, HELP!

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

But if you insist, this tutorial should help you out as far as setting up your projects.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Realm Master:
this is really nice and all, but i still have that Currently Useless Irrichilit gfx engine i REALLY WANT TO USE IT BUT AS OF YET NOBODY HAS BEEN ANY HELP!!!!!!

CAN I PLZ LEARN HOW TO USE IT!?!?!?!?!?
ITS JUST SITTING ON MY COMPTUER, HOGGIN MEGABYTES!
woops, i just realized, my caps lock was on.

Or WAS it?

plz, HELP!

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If you can't even compile it, then seriously (you can ignore this advice ) don't even bother coming back to it, until you are more competant at C++

To be honest i'm not a huge fan of books, they are good for the basics, but i like to then pick a project that interests me, and just learn how to write it.

For instance, when I was learning Python, I was really interested in making a console based IRC client. Within a week I had one written. If i had stuck to books, I would have probably just been touching the surface of GUI stuff, instead i was dong socket stuff and writing interfaces in ncurses. The hands on imperative works best for me.

Here's a quote from Eric Raymond, one of my top hackers.

quote:

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I can tell you that books and courses won't do it (many, maybe most of the best hackers are self-taught). You can learn language features — bits of knowledge — from books, but the mind-set that makes that knowledge into living skill can be learned only by practice and apprenticeship. What will do it is (a) reading code and (b) writing code.

Learning to program is like learning to write good natural language. The best way to do it is to read some stuff written by masters of the form, write some things yourself, read a lot more, write a little more, read a lot more, write some more ... and repeat until your writing begins to develop the kind of strength and economy you see in your models.

Finding good code to read used to be hard, because there were few large programs available in source for fledgeling hackers to read and tinker with. This has changed dramatically; open-source software, programming tools, and operating systems (all built by hackers) are now widely available. Which brings me neatly to our next topic...

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No flaming please, just my 2 cents

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

adn just winging it, well, it would HELP if i knew all of the functions in all of the include files.

for instance, BB3d has a very well documented Command Refference. Dev C++, as far a i know, has none, so i gotta learn what everything means SOMEHOW!

B: ....wait, holdon, i forgot what 'B' was...
being a self taught C++ programmer would be all the cooler, but i HAVE to LEARN the basics somehow, weather form online tutorials (for some reason, i do bad with those... probabaly because my entire family is all around the computer.

i have to go

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

If you really want easy graphics, go to www.libsdl.org. They have lots of tutorials, very complete reference, all that.

And, no, Dev-C++ is not like Blitz in that it has tons of built-in commands. For C/C++/C# commands, you need libraries. Like the Standard Template Library, say. Sites like www.cplusplus.com have a basic listing, and for most rudimentary stuff Dev-C++ does have something in its help files.

[This message has been edited by Nomad (edited August 18, 2005).]

Anyways Realm Master. Did you try this
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut001b.html
tutorial that brandon gave you? If you did, what errors are you getting, if you can't get it to work?? Also is there something you don't under stand in the tutorial? If so what?

God bless you all.

sorry bradon, i guess i accidentally skipped your post! REALLY sorry!

thanks, now at least it will be GOOD for SOMETHING... depending on if i EVER get good enought to use it. (Spent 2 days trying to get a class function to work, and it wasn't because i was doing

b1.SetStats(int beast, char name)

b1.SetStats(beast,name)

thanks, and sorry again that i didn't see that bradon.

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

in the tut, it said to add these librarys, but however, the irr engine i hAve DOSNT HAVE A
DevCpp folder in the lib folder~ WHAT GIVES???

WAAA!! WHY DOES oops, caps lock was on... why does this always seem to hapen to me???

i only found 1 version to download, so i downloaded that... what is the most recent, and where can i get it.

i do belive mine is irrichilit 0.11 or something like that...

apwe8q-987fusiafpaewoir7u2085werpouqf98532yqwe!! (yes, that was intentional)

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

eh???

ill look at that tut again...

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

libIrrlicht.a -- the Irrlicht library

libjpeg.a -- the Independant JPEG group library

libz.a -- the zlib compression library

then what about that ^ ???

agophae... just when i thought it was safe to relax....

(dun- dunt... dun- dunt.. dun-dunt, dun-dunt, DUN-DUNT, DUN-DUNT) DUN DUN DUHHH!!!

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

the tut is for verson .3 thou... so my irrchilit dosn't have the DevCpp lib folder.

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

not many do, despite the fact that its free...

i mean, not many people i know...

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

what do i need to include to use irrichilit?

can i get some help with this last part (im really sorry im so drn helpless, but i hope (and am praying) that i will learn and will acutally be able to help other people, instead of vise versa.

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

In Christ
-Reagan

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

Sure, i will. (AIM? Aol Instant Messenger? don't got one of those...)

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

Later

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

Also Realm Master, Get ICQ messenger from
http://www.icq.com]http://www.icq.com ,
there you can talk to me(So I can help to walk you through it) and also you will be able to talk to en and others, cause icq can be used for aol buddies as well.

God Bless you ALL

[This message has been edited by cwc (edited August 19, 2005).]

Also Realm Master, Get ICQ messenger from
http://www.icq.com]http://www.icq.com ,
there you can talk to me(So I can help to walk you through it) and also you will be able to talk to en and others, cause icq can be used for aol buddies as well.

God Bless you ALL

[This message has been edited by cwc (edited August 19, 2005).]

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

quote:

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Originally posted by en972:
Oh really? Hey CWC maybe we can talk to?

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Sure, no problem.

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.

quote:

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Originally posted by cwc:
[B] Realm Master, I have never used that graphic lib but I do use DEV-CPP, I just downloaded the graphic lib and I got it working in 5 min. Anyways, If you still need help with it let me know and I will tell you here what you have to do to get it to work with DEV-CPP. Its pretty simple really. This is where you need to know the basics of programming and you will only learn that through some good BOOKs or a teacher. Anyways just let me know if you still need help and I will be glad to tell you how to do it.

Also Realm Master, Get ICQ messenger from
http://www.icq.com]http://www.icq.com]http://www.icq.com ,
there you can talk to me(So I can help to walk you through it) and also you will be able to talk to en and others, cause icq can be used for aol buddies as well.

God Bless you ALL

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sure, i could still use some help!

plz!

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

libjpeg.a -- the Independant JPEG group library
libz.a -- the zlib compression library

you do not need them, all you need is

libIrrlicht.a

this file is located at

somewhere\irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\lib\Win32-gcc

You do need to do this

Add the "irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\bin" directory from Step 1 to your PATH. or
Copy the "irrlicht.dll", which is located at somewhere\irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\bin\Win32-gcc to your windows\system32 directory, which is in the PATH by default

Also add the somewhere\irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\include to the directory as the tutorial shows you.

or do this
//Note this is my path cause I unziped irrlicht to my Dev-Cpp folder
#include "C:\Dev-Cpp\irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\include\irrlicht.h"

After you do all this copy the code from the tutorial and compile and run.

Hope this helps, if you have question ask. Also note I am using Dev-Cpp 5 beta

quote:

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Originally posted by cwc:
Ok Realm Master, did you get ICQ at http://www.ICQ.com by chance?
If so whats your number or id so I can add you. it would be best that I explain this to you over messenger so I don't have to write a whole tutorial. But to cut it short you can use the tuttorial that brandon gave you, you just have to change a few things.

you do not need them, all you need is

libIrrlicht.a

this file is located at

somewhere\irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\lib\Win32-gcc

You do need to do this
[U]Add the "irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\bin" directory from Step 1 to your PATH[/U]

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no i didn't

what is my PATH? step 1 didn't mention aything about the bin directory...

can you elaborate?

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God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Originally posted by Realm Master:
no i didn't

what is my PATH? step 1 didn't mention aything about the bin directory...

can you elaborate?

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Your Path is where your compiler looks for files, by defualt it will look into your windows/system32 folder. But you can also set your path variable. To set your path variable, it depends on what windows os you are running.
For 98-Me You open and modify the autoexec.bat file and for

Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, and XP

Choose Start, Settings, Control Panel, and double-click System. On Microsoft Windows NT, select the Environment tab; on Microsoft Windows 2000 select the Advanced tab and then Environment Variables. Look for "Path" in the User Variables and System Variables. If you're not sure where to add the path, add it to the right end of the "Path" in the User Variables. A typical value for PATH is:
C:\Dev-Cpp\irrlicht-0.11.0\irrlicht-0.11.0\bin

Get ICQ, It will allow me to be able to help you better. And we can go through this step by step.

God bless

[This message has been edited by cwc (edited August 19, 2005).]

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Originally posted by Realm Master:
yes, step by step as i run upstairs and back down switching my computers from the one with internet connection to the one with C++ on it...

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Do you have MSN messenger then???

how do I get the ICU or IQU or whatever it is?

its better than nothing

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

its better than nothing

Seems kinda like a smart remark to me ,(maybe I am wrong) but maybe its best you figure it out yourself("its simple"). For my time is valuable and I do not need remarks like "how do I get to ICU or IQU",("I think you know what I was saying"), if you can't even get that right, how do you expect me to explain to you how to set up a c++ graphic lib? Anyways, I wash my hands of this. God bless you and I wish you luck.

[This message has been edited by cwc (edited August 20, 2005).]

sorry!

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Oh you program? Awsome! I try to get in a little....I spend most of my time debugging.