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| I want to buy BlitzPlus. I just want to know what kind of software we can make with it ( expect full sceen games ) ? My first goal is to make a map editor and a music tracker for my next games. What about the OpenGL ? |
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| Map-editors are a cookie in B+. Trackers: I'm working on one (using someone's audio-engine via DLL's, so I only send pattern-data etc.). Natively it's tricky to do with B+, you definitely want the GetASyncKeyState function from some DLL before seriously considering making a tracker. Basically there's not that many widgets available in native B+, it's however relativily easy to make your own ones. I esp. recommend B+ for anything app'ish, and you'll love the event-system! |
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| I would ignore OpenGL in B+ unless you just want to learn and tinker. Checkout Fontext (link in my sig) which was made in B+. |
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| I made a form editor in Blitz+. Check it out at the link below. |
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| For the tracker, I think I'll just export sting variables datas ( note, effect pan/vol, etc ) and read them in the game using 16/24 chanels playsound. But for the GUI, exept for the windows of samples/instruments, can we do something like "Modplug tracker" ? Can we make a text editor like "World" ? What Plus can't do ? Can Blitz plus users show screenshots of their apps ? I am just curious of the power of Plus, because we don't see a lot of Plus creations here ;) Thanks ! |
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| http://www.blitzbasic.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=40637 And below a small stupid test-app. Point of interest are the image-buttons, the remote help-display and the gfx themself. The imagebuttons are my own gadgets I use for more than a year already... they work like a charm. The remote help was something I made a month ago, it's 100% self-contained, you don't need any global vars or whatever.. just use a hlp=CreateHelpviewer(32,32,640,64) command orso, and after this: use 'hlp' in combination with a SendHelp hlp,txt command. Where txt is not a string, but a bank with formatted text (with indenting etc.) which was generated from a script in a string :) The help-font was designed in a small font editor I made, which outputs a script again :) So, to have this font in my apps is simply a matter of having a long string and an unpacker.. strings rule more than data-lines imho. The gfx for the buttons (and the gfx for the help-viewer-border) were also created from a texgen-script. Once might say that I did all these 3 scripts because B+ can't incbin, but on the other hand: I'm sure I can create buttons faster with a script than in photoshop. And as my sig says: all with banks! http://quor-toth.balpol.tudelft.nl/~mvs/CS_TBL__newbutton_testapp.rar To make things more exciting: the app is fairly small.. and clean, see the source below .. which is everything! (the rest is tucked away in generic/blackbox include-files) Don't try this at home .. as most commands are completely alien without include-files, not to mention the DML-scripts :)
Include"__BW__.bb"
Include"__strings__.bb"
Include"__DML3__.bb"
Global imgButton
setupDML3()
app=CreateApp("test",256,256)
hlp=CreateHelpmanager()
UB=CreateUB(4,4,3,3,32,32,app,hlp)
AddUB(0,1,imgButton,"1",1,UB,TG("#32@1~Help 1 o_O"))
AddUB(1,0,imgButton,"2",0,UB,TG("#32@1~Help 2 O_o@blabla1@blabla2@blabla3@blabla4"))
AddUB(2,1,imgButton,"3",0,UB,TG("#32@1~Help 3 o_o"))
AddUB(1,2,imgButton,"4",0,UB,TG("#32@1~Help 4 O_O"))
helpdisplay=CreateHelpdisplay(32,32,256,50)
Repeat
WaitEvent()
If EventID()=$803 quit=True
Delay 4
ev$=UBevents(UB)
HelpdisplayEvents(helpdisplay)
If HelpmanagerCurrent(hlp) ; new help?
SetHelpdisplayHelp(helpdisplay,HelpmanagerCurrent(hlp))
EndIf
Until quit
FreeHelpdisplay(helpdisplay)
FreeBank hlp
End
Function setupDML3()
i0=DML3("v32,32i<v176,168,160,t-0#180t9-1#160t9-1#140t9x13y8v0,0,0>5v5>6rgdhleuf")
imglist=CreateBank()
ImageBankAdd(imglist,i0)
imgButton=DML3("i0,4,1i1v$@6#32$#64$#96$xyx31y31v32>2v288jm9v320jm9v352jm9",imglist)
FreeImage i0
FreeBank imglist
End Function
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| Very interesting... I see we can make a drawing tool with a map editor, that's great ! for the tracker, have you got the formula to pitch a song to a note ( imagine 22050hz is C5 default ) ? |
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| I don't quite get the question.. "pitch a song to a note" .. you mean a global transpose? Or do you mean: notenumber -> hz-freq ? |
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| Yes, it's a transpose ;) EX : I load a 22050hz sample. "C5" plays it normaly. But have you got the formula ( maths ) to play ( transpose / pitch ) it in "C4", "F6", etc... ? ( sorry for my english ). |
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| one sample? or the whole tune? I bet it's for one sample, I should have the formula somewhere.. need to dig for it.. patience=gold ^^; |
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freq#=22050 transpose=0 ; 0=C5, 12=C6, 24=C7, 1=C#5, -12=C4, -1=B4 etc. newfreq#=freq#*(2^(transpose/12.0)) Notify newfreq# End |
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| Ahh, i remember usnig that with my DOS FM Synthesizer/Sequencer i made in (seriously this time...) Qbasic 1.1. I never figured out if that formula was wrong, or if my card went out of pitch at higher pithes. ..Oh wait, not quite the same formula. Mine was the pitch>pitch change formula for every key :/ Course, I should have this formula in my lil synth in my sig :) |
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| THANKS a lot CS_TBL !!! |
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| http://pes4online.acsv.net made with b+ |
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| ProPixel also made with B+ (like no one knows that) |
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| Well, I am entirely convinced... I will buy B+ ;) |
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Out of boredom, i've decided to post a pic of one of my BPlus apps you can download this at http://www.geocities.com/blitzamateur/TilemapEditorv02.zip if you are interested |
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| I would ignore OpenGL in B+ unless you just want to learn and tinker. Or if you want to give people the option of running your game MUCH faster on most modern gfx cards ;] Blitz Amateur, I know those games all look very similar ;] but are you recreating a map out of Speris Legacy? ;] |
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| In case you need more examples: Download my Cardwar game + Deck editor. |
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