Overlaying A Form Over A Game?
Feb 28, 2009Say I wanted to show Form1 by pressing ctrl+h ingame it would show and when i press it again it would hide. but when it shows, it overlays the game.
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Game Development - .net Transparent Png Overlaying Each Other?
Feb 20, 2012Trying to start a game that involve in a lot of .png and animation. All these .png are already transparent and set to an individual picture box when i overlay one over the other. There "transparency" actually gets the form background color. and not i'm not able to see through the image behind it.
i set the forecolor to transparent in the attribute am i missing something?
*side question... should i make my game in vb.net if it using a lot of images and animations files? (working solo might get my friend to help later)
Overlaying Form Over DirectX?
May 30, 2010I have a vb.net application. I want to overlay my application over a DirectX game. When the user presses a hotkey the window is displayed and when the window is overlayed ontop of the game. I want it fully interactable. How can I do this in vb.net?
View 3 RepliesGame Programming :: High Low Game - Entering A Name On My First Form ?
Jun 10, 2012So I pretty much built the game, that was the easy part. I am having trouble entering a name on my first form(startup) and keeping track of the score on second form(game) and displaying it both combined on the first page with the current users score. Also the way it set up now if you are running the game for the first time it says can't find LowScores.Text. Start Up
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.net - Overlaying Images From Stream
Dec 27, 2009I'd like to overlay a number of images (PNG, same size for all, with transparency). So far, my code is as follows.
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Now, I would like to overlay one more image, but this is based on a user's input from a textbox. So, to get that image, we need to take the user's input, and get the respective resource file. I do it as follows:
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The overlay works correctly. So question is: Why is the overlay not working from the stream? Edit: It turns out that the overlay does actually work, but seems to overlay an enlarged image rather than the true size. Would there be any reason for this?
VS 2010 Drawing/Overlaying Text Directly To Screen?
May 11, 2011how to Draw text directly to the screen - effectively overlapping anything underneath it - but have it out side a form area! I would really like to have no user interface at all if possible I know what I wanted after recently using FRAPs.
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Jul 12, 2009I' m trying to make a form always on top also in a Client Game...
View 9 RepliesDisplay The Game Scores On And Another Form?
Mar 14, 2010I'm doing a game. I have a form I want to display the game scores on and another form I have that calculates the scores. How do I make variables work from the first form on the second?
Lets just call one form frmStats and the other frmMain, do you get what I mean?
Play A Java Game In VB Form?
Sep 22, 2011Can I play a Java Game in my visual basic form?
I wan't to create a OS and add minecraft to it ...
Poker Game Is Made In Web Form?
Jun 9, 2010I am making poker game using webform in visual basic?However , i am stuck now. I don't know how to random the cards
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Display/Focus/Show Form On Top Of PC Game?
May 4, 2011What I am trying to accomplish is this: I want to be able to press the F5 key on my keyboard, while playing a PC game, to show (bring forward, focus, etc.) my program. My 3 attempts so far have failed. Any idea on how I could accomplish my goal? Similar posts on other forums say to set the form's key preview to true and use on keyPress... which failed.
View 1 RepliesGame Development - Load Another Form With Splashscreen ?
Feb 12, 2011So I'm developing a game and it's a little heavy on some systems, so here's what I would like to do when the game opens (pseudo code):
Show Splashscreen
Load GameForm
When GameForm Is Completely Loaded
Splashscreen Close
Show GameForm
How is this done in actual VB code?
Game Development - Load Another Form With Splashscreen?
May 29, 2012So I'm developing a game and it's a little heavy on some systems, so here's what I would like to do when the game opens (pseudo code):
Show Splashscreen
Load GameForm
When GameForm Is Completely Loaded
Splashscreen Close
Show GameForm
How is this done in actual VB code?
Game Programming :: Adding Pictureboxes To Form
Jul 23, 2008I know how to make a single picturebox, but I need to make more different pictureboxes. Example: I want to make a picturebox every time snake and food crash (I'm making snake with pictureboxes, yes). But for that, I need a code that will make a new picturebox with different name every time they crash. For example When they first crash, the code should make a picturebox called snakepart(1) next time they crash it should make snakepart(2). Something like that.
View 1 RepliesGame Programming :: Disposing A Picturebox From A Form?
Jun 24, 2011I've tried so many ways to get rid of picture boxes for my space invaders game, yet it's not working. The bullet hits the alien, the alien goes invisible (which it should) but it doesn't go to a new location or get disposed. And the bullet then intersects with it again but because it's invisible the user just see the bullet reset out of no where and the score gets added which it shouldn't.
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If Bullet1.Bounds.IntersectsWith(AlienArray(0).Bounds) Or Bullet2.Bounds.IntersectsWith(AlienArray(0).Bounds) Or Bullet3.Bounds.IntersectsWith(AlienArray(0).Bounds) Or Bullet4.Bounds.IntersectsWith(AlienArray(0).Bounds) And AlienHitArray(0) = False Then
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So, basically my question is how do I remove aliens (pictureboxes) off the board or disabled the picture box in space invaders when they are hit. (my bullet collision works fine).
Game Programming :: Dynamically Add Objects To A Form
Dec 27, 2011Trying to dynamically add Alien objects (Picture boxes) to my game form. The picture boxes are invisible when I run the game. All of the other controls for the picture box seen to work just fine. Movement, Alien Shots ,etc, etc. [code]
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Feb 9, 2011How do I keep my picture box from leaving the form screen and how do I make it 'bounce off the walls" when it hits one edge of the form?
View 4 RepliesGame Programming :: Paint Onto The Form At Different Times?
Dec 6, 2008im making a 2D game which involves things to paint onto the form at different times. how can i do this? ive tried this
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Game Programming :: Redrawing Rectangles On A Form?
Jul 30, 2008Redrawing rectangles on a Form? I have a problem repainting my form, I'm creating a "Bouncing block" Type of game , the Ball as a PicturBox, the Bar as A Picture Box And the Breakable "Targets" as An Array of Rectangles created in my forms Paint event using "e.Graphics.FillRectangles(Brush, rectsF)". It Looks a little like this:
Top of my Form(in the MainForm class):
Dim Brush As New SolidBrush(Color.Red)
Dim rectsF() As Rectangle
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How To Make The Form Open A Game Save
Sep 2, 2011I am very much a beginner to VB.net and I'm still flicking through tutorials, learning basic stuff however I need to make a program fast and need help with it. I need to know how to make the form open a game save,whether that be for PC, Xbox or anything else.
View 3 RepliesVS 2008 Make A Form Stay ABOVE A Game?
Aug 22, 2009How can I make a form stay above a game? Something like a D3D/OpenGL game
View 12 Replies[2008] Running A Game Inside Form?
Dec 19, 2008I have a FPS game i built using FPS creator that works fine but i want to run it inside my form. Like so for example:
View 2 RepliesCreate A Form That Displays Rules Of Game On Label
May 10, 2011I am having trouble with my code for Guess my number. I am definitely amatuer. Yes it is a homework assignment. No I am not asking you to do it for me. But I am stuck.Your GUI program is a game to be played by the user. See Screen Shot on Screen Shot Tab..A new employee is working on a classified mission and the program will randomly pick an expected profit to be guessed by the user.The program must randomly select an number within the range of 1 to 900.Do NOT use a 'Start Game' button to generate the rand number. Generate a rand number when the GUI is loaded.
1. Create a form that displays the rules of the game on a label.
2. Create a textbox for the user to input the guess and also a 'guess' button.
3. If the user is outside the given range, provide a proper message (<1 Is not a valid guess or >900 is not a valid guess)and clear the guess.
4. When a user has a valid guess, display a proper message (either too high or too low) and tell the user to guess again.
5. With a correct guess, display a proper message and change the form's background color to red and disable the guess textbox.
6. Create a reset button that allows the user to play the another game with a new random number.
7. Create a show me button that displays the number and does not generate another random number (allow the current game to continue).
8. Create a exit button to exit the program.
9. Ensure that you include error checking to prevent a user guess that is out of the given range and for any non-numeric characters.
10. Create a single Help menu item that launches a message box that displays valuable and meaningful information for the program and usage.
11. Create a label that tracks the guess count per game. Each time a new number is generated, start the guess count at 0.
12. Create a max guess limit set to 5 and use a progress bar to track the progress to approach the limit.
13. After each valid guess (1-900), clear the guess and update a label/textbox that displays all of the previous guesses up to 5 entries.
Here is my code so far. I have been working on one point at a time and then testing it. I have not even made it to numbers 11 - 13. I am not getting actual errors. Instead of my reset button clearing all fields at once I am having to click it more than once. Instead of displaying messages per scenario the message label is staying on either input a number or your number is too low. My Answer is not displaying when Show answer is clicked-perhaps my answer coding is wrong? [code]
Game Programming :: Detect A Collision With The Edge Of A Form
Oct 2, 2009I am currently investigating vb gaming and have set up a test project to move an object; it moves fine. The problem is that when it reaches the edge of the form it continues to move and eventually leaves the form entirely. So my question is how do i work out if my object has touched the edge of the form?
View 5 RepliesGame Programming :: Faster Image Drawing On Form?
Aug 12, 2011I'm writing a game in VB 2005 Express and at the moment it involves using the drawimage method to first draw a background and then various sprites onto my form every time a timer ticks. It's all double buffered so there's no flicker or anything but it just goes very slowly, how to speed it up. I've come across the term blitting (bitblt), which seems like it would be useful, but haven't been able to work out exactly what it is, whether it can be used in this version of vb, how to use it etc.
Here's my code (or at least an approximation of the relevant bits seeing as the whole thing is rather long):
Public Class Form1
Dim BackgroundImg as Image 'plus all of my sprite images declared
Dim Mybuffer As BufferedGraphics
Dim MyContext As BufferedGraphicsContext
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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Game Programming :: How To Destroy An Instance Of A Form Class
Feb 17, 2009I am writing a chat application quite similar to MSN and others alike, where you have a main window that can spawn several chat windows.So I have a chat class form (called frmChat) that I just instantiate whenever I need it, with the following code from the main form:[code]In this form I have a button labeled as 'End chat'. I would like not just to close the form, but actually to destroy its instance in order to dispose memory. I tried what would seemed to be to me the more direct and obvious way to do that (see below), but unfortunatelly VB syntax checker doesn't allow me to do that:[code]
View 3 RepliesGame Programming :: Putting Labels (on My Form) In An Array?
Jun 7, 2010How do I put all my labels in my form in an array???
I have labels on my board game squares and I need them to be in an array.
Game Programming :: Way To Minimize Or To Remove Lag Or Delay Of Form
Sep 28, 2010I have created a game similar to plants vs. zombies or simply called a tower defense game. I have already completed it. but I have 1 big problem. and this is the game is very very lag / high delay. structures , explosions , enemies , projectiles are created using picturebox and declared it using an array and now to my question. Is there any way to minimize or to remove the lag or delay of the form?
View 3 RepliesShow Form Over Full Screen Game Window?
Nov 22, 2010I want to show my app form over the full screen game windows without minimizing the game window (Like a pop-up window). I have tried a few APIs (BringWindowToTop, SetWindowPosition and SetForegroundWindow). But they didn't work for me.
View 3 RepliesVS 2010 Use Window Form Application To Write This Game?
Mar 27, 2011i want to use window form application to write this game?
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