I decided to tackle this project simply because of my curiosity in custom 3D and ray casting engines. This is a simple collect-'em-up game demonstrating the recursive raycasting engine that I have developed. It supports multi-layering for animated water and semi-transparent glass windows. It also supports simple sprites and other neat little features. This is written in purely VB and windows API, no DirectX or OpenGL. Check out the code for more detail. Do not forget to explore all corners and to take the time to enjoy the sceneries!!
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Did not run in IDE, but compiled was OK. Impressive job!! Question: how do you catch the little green balls and/or move to the next level? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
very beautiful! i noticed Get / SetDiBits and CreateDibSection. Robert showed that StretchDiBits is very fast. I should post an example in a couple days (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I forgot to mention. You might have noticed, but there are some maps I left out of the game. You can use Load Level to play these maps. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This Is Great. Well Done!! Only one thing that I want to know is there a way to change the screen res make the refresh rate go back to what it was before. Because whenever I run this program it changes my refresh rate to 60 hertz. I thought that you would like to know just incase you didn't notice, you probably did though :). The only way I have found to correct this is to use DirectX or OpenGL to change the screen res. Thank you. Rate 5 Excellent -MadGamer.
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hi very nise indeed this has to be the only REAL raycaster made in VB that is not all 90 degree angaled walls, very well done, tho using some Dx or open GL may speed it up a little, and it look almost cool with textures, I know you can use ASM rotations to speed up this to get it to run very fast, I once found a Port of Wolf3D engine that loads the maps and renders them like Wolf3D that uses ASM in VB email me and I send the URL were I got it from may give you some ideas.
5 form me***** (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
5 stars for this 3D Pac-Man game. Maybe it will be more exciting with some Monsters. ;) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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