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devronious
05-07-2007, 12:13 PM
I just got done with the DirectForms final performance improvements and wish that a couple of users can download and test. Perhaps a few from the low end and a few from the high end and inbetween please ?

This is the Technology Demonstration for DirectForms. GUI editing and engine for your game and game engine.

Anyways, I incorperated a speed load and fast size algorithm on top of operating the main vertex buffers as dynamic and giving some size surplus.

Sped things up my my system here quite a but. The low end FX5200 didn't see much improvement but the other 7900gt and 6800gtx systems did.

This will be great too for people building free projects as the cost to them will be nothing.

Next I will have it generate c++ code as well as the current c# code. Should only take a week or two for that.

<a href="http://www.wintschlabs.com/Downloads/DirectForms%20Tech%20Demo.zip">Please download here and test out.</a>

Devin
luggage
05-07-2007, 02:00 PM
How about straight old C code? Any chance of that?
devronious
05-07-2007, 02:22 PM
Oh, you mean c instead of c++? Mind if I ask why c and not c++?
lennard
05-07-2007, 03:36 PM
Cause some of us cavemen programmers still much prefer C!

Anyhow, cool idea, I was thinking of developing something like this myself after playing around with the resource editor again recently. Licensing terms are prohibitive for the indie market though - I would suggest selling as an unencumbered stand alone might net you a lot more sales - the licensing terms were enough to put me off downloading it.

Best of luck!
luggage
05-07-2007, 04:58 PM
As Lennard said, some of us still use C and if you write a C interface then both C and C++ whereas writing a C++ interface means it's C++ only.
devronious
05-07-2007, 08:38 PM
the licensing terms were enough to put me off downloading it.

I'm not sure how you would like to see this licensed, could you explain an example of such?
Bernard François
05-07-2007, 11:26 PM
When I tried to launch your demo it crashed (after pressing the start button).

This is the error according to the event viewer:


EventType clr20r3, P1 directforms tech demo.exe, P2 2.1.0.0, P3 463f74f7, P4 directforms, P5 2.1.0.0, P6 463f7308, P7 6a4, P8 6d, P9 system.io.filenotfoundexception, P10 NIL.


There's also mentioned it's a ".NET Runtime 2.0 Error"
esmelon
05-08-2007, 12:47 AM
Also have 'file not found exception' after start press.

BTW why .NET ?
devronious
05-08-2007, 07:40 AM
I'm getting the file not found thing alot. It's part of the fast load system. I'll look into, for now I'll mod it to build at run time. May be a little slower at starting.

[edit]

OK, this should fix that problem, Font might be large but for now, please try this...

<a href="http://www.wintschlabs.com/Downloads/DirectForms%20Tech%20Demo.zip">Please download here and test out.</a>

Thanks,

Devin