Tried and it wont load the 3D object. I'm off to bed. I'll have another look tomorrow.

Hmm... that's odd. Maybe that's the standard from where the PC came from.. but the ones I listed are more US.

I love the resolution. I show it off to people all the time and they're typically impressed.

I also use POV-Ray 3.6 for Windows to build various scenes... But that's something else.

Can anyone point me in the proper direction with animation and 3D object creation with Blender? A hands-on tutorial would be preferred.

Also, I've just purchased the Blender GameKit from their website as an e-book download. It's $9.54 US (8 Euros).

Thanks.

thats weird, the sample works perfectly on my machine. for some reason DBP sometimes get screwed up and many people have resolved errors by either updating, or completely reinstalling. or you could try remarking out different lines to single out the problem code.

Quick Note, RC:
I tried and retried this snippet and it wont run.

I keep getting an error in line 13: File cannot be found.

Here's the code, and the full pathname of the file!



Am I doing something wrong? Have I typed something incorrectly in the pathname?
Please help.

I think the problem is with the
part. where you specify the path to the file, theres no actual name of the file at the end. it should be something like:
or something.

Have you let DBpro create a .dbpro (project) file for the .dba file? if not, I've had trouble with finding files without one. Once you have a project file for your .dba file, allways open your work by clicking on the .dbpro file.

Also there is no need to write out the whole path as long as the skybox model is within the project's folder.
if you write out the whole path to the file, and someone else installs the finished product, they would have to install the program in the exact same place as your project is or it wouldn't run. so just put the model into a folder named whatever you like, for instance "SKY", and put that folder in the same folder as your .dbpro file. then when you load the file, write it like:

or

There's no "pos_x.x"... There's only "pos_x.bmp".
There are no .x objects in the download sampler.

I used a SPHERE to place the .bmp, but it gives me a black screen.
Here's the code.


Have I done something wrong? How do I translate the SPHERE to the player's position?

I was talking about the demo that I posted. reguardless, the code you posted wont work for a few reasons.

1)in the line , you are just specifying a path to a folder. you say it is pos_x.bmp, then you need to write .bmp at the end or dbpro cant possibly know you want to open a file. all files have a file extension, otherwise, they're considered to be a folder.

2) in the line , assuming you added the file extension to problem #1, you are telling it to open a bitmap as an object. models have the file extensions .X, .3ds, .Dbo, .md2 and so on.

so you need to first change problem #1's line to something like this:. Second you cant just use a dbpro primitive cube, because you can't texture the sides of the cube differently. Have you tried the demo I posted? that should explain every problem youv'e posted on the matter. just re-use the skybox2.x model and rename your textures that you want to use, to the names of the files in the demo.

Have I done something wrong? How do I translate the SPHERE to the player's position?

where in your last post's code does it mention any sphere? all I see is a cube. I need to know if you tried the demo I posted, not the sample TGC.

Yes, RC, I tried your 'skybox' demo. It wont work.
It gives me an error about not finding the file.