i am trying to make a game in vb.net and so far have managed to create a sprite which is animated on key event. the only problem is it able to walk off the form out of site. i want to be able to create some sort of boundary so that when sprite position equals greater or smaller then the form width it can no longer walk in that direction, the same goes for the hight. i have tryed this myself like this
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Well I attempted collision detection and it was only ok. First of all only the out of bounds place would work because I just made the right side of the screen make you go left etc.My moving button also goes outside of the area for a brief second before it teleports back to the bounds + 3 or w/e.Never mind all of that I guess.Could someone give me some source code for the simplest way to do collisions from all angles (like a zelda game or something...) or just up/down or left/right (like in pong).
View 1 RepliesOk I am making an RPG that is checking for collisions whenever the user is walking...Basically i made an array of points in which the user is not allowed to access and if they do try to access them it will not walk...
Public Class cityshop2010
Dim abletomove As Boolean = True
Dim moveto As Point
Dim badpoints(1) As Point
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with that code there I want to be able to say badpoints(0-50) or badpoints (0 to 50) whatever... or even badpoints(*) for any badpoint....How do i make it check all the badpoints?
With battleaxe knight loaded and moving, I'd like to add animationI already have the frames for him to be animated, I just don't know how to animate him. (I have no experaince in game animation)
View 5 RepliesI'm having problems getting random rooms generated without having them over lap one another. I've tried everything that I can think of and none of them work right when there is more than three room being generated, but even then two of the three rooms over lap. Is there any other way to check to see if the rooms are over laping or not. Here is the code I'm using.
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I'm trying to make a trading card computer game with my own trading cards and I was wondering if I can load the sprites of all the cards into an array that looks like this: Dim Card(342) as CSprite (CSprite class helps display the sprite on screen) and not have any problems displaying each one on the screen.
View 1 RepliesNot wanting to hijack 45minutes thread, I thought I might spawn a thread of my own based on his question.
PlausiblyDamp was kind enough to provide some generic code, which I have modified and attached.
I have made a few alterations mostly around removing random objects, as the game in question (Space Invaders) has a set amount of aliens and set starting positions.
As a start I have limited the UpdatedPostion to horizontal movement as the aliens only go side to side unless they hit an edge.[code]...
I'm trying to control him using the arrow keys.
I've already tryed using the case key event handler, but I must be using it the wrong way, because VB 2008 express (what I'm using) produces a bunch of errors("Type expected" as well as it won't work). This is what I've tryed:
Private Sub GameField_KeyDown(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal E As
System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyDown
Select Case E.KeyCode
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I am embarking in the wonderous world of 2D animation and using directx9. I am a complete noob in the world of game engine design etc. I find DX quite usefull and in fact easy to use but in my opinion it's the engine design that makes or breaks the application. There are a massive amount of tutorials on the web explaning how to render a single image to a target but not so much for rendering a lot of sprites.
View 3 RepliesI am making a user control named MultiSelect, which consists of a textbox. In this textbox I put substring. I want the user control to show a treeview outside the MultiSelect boundaries where items matching the substring will be shown.
For me its no problem to make a treeview inside the MultiSelect boundaries but I need to save space on the original form where a MultiSelect control will appear, so I need to do it like the treeview will appear and after I choose items, it will disappear
say your silverlight area on a webpage is 200px by 200px.you open a child window, is there a way to make it moveable outside the 200x200 silverlight area?or say you drop down a combo box, let the drop down go out side of the 200x200 aea?
View 1 RepliesI'm using KeyDown to get the picturebox to move around, but I don't know how to keep the boat within the boundaries of the form. So if it hits the side of the form, I want it to just stop.
What control/procedure should I use to do this?
[url] How is this done? Is it a control of that form? Or is it a splashscreen or something like that?. I've tried by doing that with another form instead, but the first form will get unfocused, and i want the main form to be always focused.
View 6 RepliesToday I started a little sub that would let me move a control around the form using ssigned keys but would stop at the edges of the form. I can get it to move around alright but I can't get it to stop at the edges of the form.
View 2 RepliesSo I've created a series of objects that interact with a piece of hardware over a serial port. There is a thread running monitoring the serial port, and if the state of the hardware changes it updates properties in my objects. I'm using observable collections, and INotifyPropertyChanged.
I've built a UI in WPF and it works great, showing me real time updating when the hardware changes and allows me to send changes to the hardware as well by changing these properties using bindings.
What I'm hoping is that I can run the UI on a different machine than what the hardware is hooked up to without a lot of wiring up of events. Possibly even allow multiple UI's to connect to the same service and interact with this hardware.
So far I understand I'm going to need to create a WCF service. I'm trying to figure out if I'll be able to pass a reference to an object created at the service to the client leaving events intact. So that the UI will really just be bound to a remote object.
Am I moving the right direction with WCF?
Also I see tons of examples for WCF in C#, are there any good practical use examples in VB that might be along the lines of what I'm trying to do?
is it possible to draw an accurate circle in vb.net with mouseDown and mouseUp boundaries? I only manage to create circle-settings with rectangular boundaries using DrawEllipse. I've tried to work around it using pythagoras but it just doesn't work and I'm pretty sure I've got my maths right...
Is it possible to define a circle with DrawEllipse(pencil,x1,y1,width,length) ?
i've drawn two boxes (one with spotcolour color of orange) in a picture box. box a stays fixed at the bottom and box b can move. i've restricted box not move outside the picbox, but it needs to change color (to red) when it touches the picbox, and i've tried can't seem to do it. boxb also can't overlap boxa.
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I'm making a game engine, its coming along pretty nicely, but I'm having trouble with collision detection.. This will be a platform game..I'm using GDI+ for my rendering.My rendering engine, basically draws upon a sprite class I wrote, this class is getting pumped into a collection, then I'm using a for loop to draw the images in the collection..
Code: Private Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint Try For i As Integer = 1 To SCollection.Count Step 1 Dim Image As New Bitmap(DirectCast(SCollection.Item(i), clsSprite).Filename)
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initialize an indefinite (eg. Decimal) array without setting boundaries on the array length?
View 2 RepliesI read the boundary thread and I think im still lost on how to do this but my goal is to set boundaries so the snake doesnt just keep going off the screen, also how to set a boundary up so the snake cannot hit itself (like in the original snake game)
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