CUBOID CITY by Robert Rayment. Demo of what can be done with wire-frame cuboids, using pure VB & a couple of APIs for creating & animating scenes. Several thousand cuboids can be happily handled but make sure to compile the animation program!. Two progs, one to draw cuboid pictures (including random mazes) and the other to use the output files (*.ccc) and animate them. There are lots of options to help with drawing - too many to describe here. The animation program uses planar perspective for speed with mostly pure VB. Speed & direction set by distance of cursor from center of display, eye (camera) level and block heights changeable, collison detection and reaching the pyramid in the mazes explodes all. These progs provide a start for a full 3D wire-frame drawing program. Example ccc files included. See Notes. (Exe tested on WinXP) Win98. Zip 115 KB.
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Very impressive! Great work as always Robert. Code is clean and fast, and this is a great unique program. Definetly worth a 5! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Yes, you deserve to win this month, or at least get an excellent votes cause this program is different from others. ;) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
5 Globes!!!! But what does (Exe WinXP) mean. Will this, or won't this run on XP? Just a Question. But you are truly an awsome programmer... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Thanks for votes. VeeJay: my VB6 is on a PC with Win98, (Exe WinXP) means I have tested that the compiled programs run OK on a PC with WinXP. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Very nice programming Robert. Thank you for sharing that with the rest of the programming community. Keep it up. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
" Ex-serious VB programmer, now just for fun.". Hmm..., out of context question, how old are you, Mr. Rayment. (if you don't mind to answer). You are very good in VB. And this prog. got 30 votes sor far with 5/5 from our fellow coders. Hope you win this month, good luck. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
can this be render with textures like dx does? well not exactly but can it? ;) ...any way very good implementation... (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
MArio Flores G: Rendering, in principle yes. The coords of all quadrilaterals are known so they could be filled in & from normals, hidden planes & lighting could be done. It's a question of speed and probably needs DX to make that adequate for thousands of shapes. But I'm sure, if you wanted to, you're in a much better position than me to write a DirectX version. About 33% of DX progs fail on my PC. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Some cool stuff to absorb here... 5 christmas ballz for you... great as always; thanks for posting. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
excellent work Mr. Rayment. I wonder If everyone there found this so usefull as I do:P you got my five balls (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
You deserve medals for the winner of the month. Not only the winner of the month, but the winner of the year! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
wonderful! make the rendering part and you can sell it! lol thanks for sharing and keep up the gr8 works ;) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
very cool !!! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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