On dc I just rendered the same object several times a la version 1 as I described below. So you have: a) render object b) render object with alpha < 1 and scale > 1 c) render again with alpha less than previous step and scale > previous step d) repeat c until satisfied Expensive as hell because of a...

There are several ways to do radial blur. For simplicity I am going to ignore pure "render to texture" stuff and go with the two ways that are similar to how I usually do it: 1: a) render scene b) copy frame buffer to texture c) draw this texture to the scene with alpha < 1 and scale > 1 d...

If jpeg's are giving you a problem, just comment out the jpeg stuff...

Also, note that this creates DC bumpmaps from heightmaps, not normalmaps... (Although, writing something that creates DC bumpmaps from normalmaps shouldn't be that hard)

Bump Mapping, Fog, Alpha-Bending (transparency), Mip Mapping (polygon-texture auto switch), Tri-Linear Filtering, Anti-Aliasing, Environment Mapping, and Specular Effect. Fog, Alpha-blending, Mip Mapping and Tri-Linear filtering is standard in KOS. I think you can easily enable Anti-Aliasing aswell...

I just do this in my projects: // ...Somewhere in the setup-phase... #ifndef FINAL fs_chdir("/pc/home/quarn/code/dreamcast/<insert projectname here>/data"); #else fs_chdir("/cd/data"); #endif and then load all files relative to this base. That would be: // do this FILE *fp = fope...

JS Lemming wrote:I simply don't understand... and this is serously hendering me from making homebrews. Does anybody see what could possibly be wrong here?

Yes, you are not using a patched newlib/gcc/etc. If you where using *nix you could just follow the guide at http://gamedev.allusion.net/softprj/kos/setup.php

Does anyone know how to get visualization type information out of libmp3 on the DC? I am trying to tie some graphical output up with music being played - not sure how to do it... I'm not sure exactly what you mean with "visualization type information"... Beat detection? Spectrum analysis?...

Try atan2(x,y) instead, regular atan does not determine the quadrant and thus only covers half the angles.

I suggest AngelScript. The interopability with C++ is fantastic. You do not have to write any wrapper-functions and you can register object methods, variables and everything directly.

That extra level of indirection will hurt performance because every function call requires a lookup in the vtable for that class. Though it would most probably not be the performance bottleneck. The class to which an interface pointer will point to will never change, so it's unecessary. Though it w...

Ok.. I guess there is nothing I can do then..

I get a "loading game please wait"-text and a "NEOGEO DEMO EN"-text. Then what?

Ok, I got it to compile with my kos-setup and everything, though I do not have a NEO GEO cd so I'm not sure how I am supposed to test if the code works... Are there any free (legal and good) NEO GEO cds available on the net?

quzar wrote:Thanks for the effort, it crashes my DC though =(

Yeah, I thought it would... If you give me a link to the code, I might try some more when I have time.

I would remove the "*" from the br1 declaration. Having it there declares br1 to be an array of pointers to u16 values. Meaning, that br[0] and br[1] is br1[0], br[2] and br[3] is br1[1] etc as pointers take 4 bytes. So, remove the "*" from the br1 declaration. Second, the if (br...

INLINE void draw_fix(u16 code, u16 colour, u16 sx, u16 sy,u16 * palette, char * fix_memory){ unsigned short br1[64]; // removed * unsigned short * br = (unsigned short *)br1; // and this is not really needed.. unsigned short * paldata=&palette[colour]; u32 * fix=(u32*)&(fix_memory[code<<5])...

unsigned short *br; unsigned short *secondthing; ... draw_font(*br, secondthing, fix); the second of the two crashes my DC. any idea as to why? Yeah, "br" and "secondthing" does not point to anything. Without having tested, or looked too much at the code, I'd say that you should...

Yes, you load it with specifiying "PNG_MASK_ALPHA". For example:

png_to_texture("texture.png", textureaddr, PNG_MASK_ALPHA);

and then you specify ARGB1555 as texturemode

OK thanks once more, I tried the GIMP but for some reason the area I want to be transparent is white instead and the rest of the picture has only the Red channel it seems... how exactly do I go about in GIMP? All I want is to set RGB(0,0,0) to 100% transparent. 1) Open the GIMP. 2) Open your pictur...

Don't know if there is something built in into kos, but you can draw lines by using regular polygons. Here is some code I wrote a couple of years ago to do just that: // Draw a line between p1(x,y,z) to p2(x,y,z) with the specified thickness void q3dFillerWireframeDrawLine(pvr_vertex_t *p1, pvr_vert...