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Remove Filter  | Hi all. I am trying >_< to use Ejay Dance 7 to make music to put in the games that I make. I put the disc in and a menu comes up: play, install, unistall blah blah blah. So I click play, obviously. The screen goes black, and the mouse …  |
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| | Hi all. I have a virtual CD drive on my computer and I need to change that to the default disc-drive. Eg. The proper CD drive is letter D and the virtual CD-Drive is letter G. Can I just change the drive letters around? Thanks  |
| | I'm thinking of adding a mini pcie SSD to my netbook seeing as they seem reasonably cheap. I have a spare mini pcie slot but I'm a completely new to this so what I want to ask is this: * Can I just get [this](http://www.suntekstore.co.uk/goods.php?id=10010412&utm_source=gbuk) card and fit it? How …  |
| | I have a half-mini PCI-E WiFi card (RTL8192E to be exact), which has 2 small aerial pins plugged into it. Can I use this without any aerials in a new PC build so I don't have to buy a new WiFi card? If it will work, would the signal be … |
| | Hi there, My friend and I are making a game, which is based on a tile engine we are making. The map is loaded into an array of integers to represent each different tile. However, in the map class, we need the variable `data` to hold the integer array so … |
| | Hi all, I'm a total newbie to Ubuntu (12.04) - I've literally been using it a few hours. I have a samsung n220 netbook with an RTL8192e card, but its not recognised. I've been slaving away trying to get this thing working (connected to router via ethernet right now). I … |
| | Hi all, I have a simple OpenGL program (learnt from NeHe of course) and I've tried to implement GLSL shaders into my program. Currently, its meant to draw a cube with a shader and quit on escape. However, at the line **`GLenum program = glCreateProgramObjectARB();`** it stops responding and closes. … |
| | I have finally managed to make some progress on PyOpenGL textures. Now I have another problem. Here is my OpenGL init function (its in a script called gl2D.py: [CODE]def init(): glEnable(GL_BLEND) glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA) glTexEnvi(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_MODULATE) glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D) glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH) glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0) glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST) glEnable(GL_ALPHA_TEST) glHint(GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_NICEST) glAlphaFunc(GL_NOTEQUAL,0.0)[/CODE] And here is … |
| | Hi all. I'm using DragonFireSDK to make an iPhone app, which means that I can't use any external libraries other than the SDK one. I am trying to get an integer variable for score to a function which will display text on the screen. However, that function takes a char* …  |
| | Bit of a noob question this. I am using a library which has this function: [ICODE]int TextAdd(int x, int y, char *text, int font);[/ICODE] I need to use this function to display a score. I have the variable [ICODE]int score[/ICODE] and I would like to put it into that function … |
| | I was wondering if it's possible for me to create a Digital Sound Processing (DSP) program using Python. Basically, I don't know anything about how I would do this and I would like somebody to point me in the right direction. I don't want somebody to write code, but I … |
| | Hi all :) I figured out the other problem but now I need more help :'( I need to rename a disc and it needs a title which is 16 characters, long, but I am not allowed that many. And for long complicated reasons, it has to have this name. … |
| | Hi there. On my home computer, I have a folder with all my IT homework in it. At school, I have another IT folder for all of my lesson work. Is it possible to sync the documents between these two folder into one folder with everything? So if I save … |
| | Hi there. I have made a program in Python with PyGame and PyOpenGL to test out vertex and pixel (fragment) shaders. I would like to be able to right click on the shader file (just a text file with a custom extension) and choose Open With... and then open with … |
| | I have made a python program which will create an OpenGL and render a teapot (GLUT standard teapot) with a shader that I specify. The shader is specified as follows: [LIST] [*]I have a file called "index.ini" which contains the file paths to a vertex shader and pixel shader file … |
| | What are the post count ranks?! Can someone give me a complete list? |
| | Hi. Not had any problems up until this point. I changed some settings on services earlier, and then I noticed this problem: whenever I try to open a 3D game, the program will freeze. I have opened 3D programs like Blender3D and Quick3D fine, but games don't work. Assuming it …  |
| | Hi all. There have been several threads where people are asking, [B]"is there any way we can develop iPhone Apps on Windows, or without using Objective-C?" [/B]The main reason people ask this is because [I]they either cannot afford a Mac, or cannot afford all the additional costs one has to … |
| | I know that it's not really related to programming and hardware (which is what the rest of the site seems to be), but I think it would be great if we could create a 3D modeling or visual effects forum. Maybe even just one forum for all 3D modeling programs? …  |
| | Hi there. My Mum's laptop is practically unusable. It will work for anywhere between 20 and 80 minutes, and then one (or even a combination) of the following will happen. a.) Blue-screen of death (BSoD): Physical dump of memory b.) ATI graphics card driver will crash, screen resolution drops to … |
| | Have another problem with an OBJ model format converter I'm making. As a test, I want to read in data from an OBJ file, and write it out in a different format, and then the other way around. The problem I currently have is that I want it to be … |
| | Hi just a simple n00b question. I need to split a string (from a .obj 3D model format) into a list of three doubles (the vertices). example string: v 0.200006 -0.093641 0.584690 I want to make it into an array of (for example): {0.200006, -0.093641, 0.584690} I can get rid … |
| | On msn, some of my contacts do not appear online, even when I know they are, and they cant see me either. Others cant recieve my messages, but they appear to send ok. And no, we havent blocked eachother, were not choosing to appear offline or anything else, so dont … |
| | Hi all. Before I say any more, I am a compete noob at JavaScript. I have been attempting to learn some though. I want to make some Windows 7/Vista sidebar gadgets, so, as a practise, I am making a very simple calender. It uses a CSS to draw up a … |
| | Hi all. When I try to run games on my computer, the window is in fullscreen mode, but the view doesn't cover the whole screen; as to say there are black bars on the left and right. I changed the ingame settings, but I can't get it back to where … |
| | I want to make an array (using the built-in array module), to create an array made up of classes. All the objects in the array will be the same class, but I want to be able to append new classes on the end and read the values. Thanks in advance. |
| | As I write this to you, I am feeling relieved, as I have just managed to come out on top of a heavy virus situation. I downloaded a file, and, unkown to McAfee (I now have, Avast, McAfee and SUPERantispyware, it contained a virus. This installed a few more viruses …  |
| | Say I have a file structure that looks like this [CODE]root folder/ main.py -folder a -script.py -folder b -img.png[/CODE] How could I load the img.png file from script.py? Should I just have a function in main.py that gets the path of the root folder, and then tac the 'folder a' … |
| | Hi. I am trying to get texturing to work in PyOpenGL in 2D. I have the following code so far for textures: [CODE]def tex(path): img = pygame.image.load(path) img.convert_alpha() try: ix, iy, image = img.get_width(), img.get_height(), pygame.image.tostring(img, 'RGBA') except SystemError: ix, iy, image = imgs.get_width(), img.get_height(), pygame.image.tostring(img, 'RGBA') ID = glGenTextures(1) … |
| | I have recently purchased ToCA Race Driver 3 for my PC. I used systemrequirementslab.com to check that it would work, and the only issue that came up was that Windows 7 was not released at the time and it was not officialy compatible. I found this website and I followed … |
| | Hi. I'm just trying to make a simple analogue clock as I learn to use TKinter with python. I need to know the maths behind calculating the x, y values for drawing the end of the hands. I don't need to post the whole program, all you need to see … |
| | Let's say I have this: [CODE] class main: def add(self): print '1 + 2 = 3' [/CODE] I then want to be able to call the add function again from within itself. Like this (BUT THIS DOESNT WORK!!!) [CODE] class main: def add(self): print '1 + 2 = 3' self.add() … |
| | Hi again. I want to have a file for one of my python programs, that looks something like this: [CODE]<WINDOW> #Window size 640 480 <WINDOW TITLE> App Platform Test <ICON> icon.png[/CODE] I have a function that reads each line of, and uses the data to make a window. What happens …  |
| | Hi guys! I am in the process of making a game...similar to this one: [url]http://www.miniclip.com/games/nfl-lateral-collateral/en/[/url] I am using the following code to detect key presses: [CODE] pygame.event.pump() key = pygame.key.get_pressed() if key[pygame.K_LEFT]: ... [/CODE] How can I detect if a key is released? I have seen this done with using … |
| | Hi all. :) I'm having trouble with pygame, images and transparency. Lets say I have an image...a circle to keep it simple (for example only). What I want is to be able to draw the image, but with only the circle showing (ie. not a white box around it). Oh … |
| | Hi all. :) I'm having trouble with pygame, images and transparency. Lets say I have an image...a circle to keep it simple (for example only). What I want is to be able to draw the image, but with only the circle showing (ie. not a white box around it). Oh … |
| | Hi everyone! I would like to make an Air Hockey game in pygame. I was wondering if it was possible to have 'proper' bouncing (ie. the puck goes in a direction relative to the angle the paddle hit it in). I can easily write the rest of the code. Thank … |
| | Hi all. Every now and again I get these Java update messages, which (if I choose to) in stall the latest JRE. In the C:\Program Files\Java folder, I have: One folder named: 'jre6' Several named: 'jre1.60_' and then a number (01, 02, etc.) I presume that the folders 'jre1.60_...' are …  |
| | Hi all. I'm interested in Java ME, so I downloaded Netbeans with the JDK. Here is the story: 1.) I installed the wrong version of Java JDK 2.) I removed the JDK 3.) Accidentally removed JRE as well :( 4.) JDK data still on system 7.) Downloaded and 'installed' Netbeans … |
| | Hi all. I'm using the following tutorials: [url]http://lighthouse3d.com/opengl/glut/[/url] (for GLUT) [url]http://www.3dcodingtutorial.com/[/url] (for GLM (3D models)) I'm using OpenGL with GLUT and GLM to make a 3D game. Seeing as I was a complete noob, my friend challenged me to make a game 'where you can shoot stuff'. Anyhoo, all was … |
| | Now I must explain that I am a noob. I would like to write my own header file, and use the functions from it in a program. When I get Dev-C++ to compile, it says that it is an invalid function, and I need to put that before the main. … |
| | Hi. Firstly, I am a complete noob, and cannot understand complicated answers. OK. I'm making a noobish space game, called Galactic Armageddon. I'm just testing the variables right now (for getting hit by lasers, missiles, etc.). I'm compiling using Dev-C++ and the default compiler. The program is written using the … |
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