Any tutorial out there?

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You should search www.ask.com, www.google.com, and GDSE for tutorials.

I''m going to make two assumptions:
1) You would like to start with the graphics, first.
2) Your using DirectX 8.x (x==0 || x==1)

If that''s the case, you have 5 good tutorials to start with on your hard drive. You''ll find them in your DirectX install directory, along the path (as an example)

C:\MSDX8\samples\multimedia\Direct3D\Tutorials

(Direct3D being the portion of DirectX that handles the graphics)
You will also find three dozen or so examples of code in those directories- everything from joystick control to playing movie cutscenes.
-Tok.

I gotta agree w/ this last post. The DirectX sdk is Awsome! Read the docs and look at the samples and your like 90% there. I started 2 weeks ago w/ the Guru''s book and the kit and now I can do Direct Draw. I''m still using version 6 but if you have a game called Dounugts in your Sdk you might wanna look at it. It''s been the most helpful to me. (plus it''s really easy and has nice graphics, great stress reliver when you get annoyed w/ programming)

Well, I''m not really a beginner in game programming. I have already tried to program some easy 2D stuff. Now I want to try 3D and I need DirectX for it. Direct3D, DirectInput and maybe DirectSound...

Yeah, google is a good source, but I asked for _good_ tutorials

The DirectX SDK was too big for my connection to download it completely, so I downloaded only the stuff you really need. I don''t have those tutorials and if I had...are they good?

Thanks

WIT

Programmer.But beginner in programming games.
07.11.2000

There are tons of articles here.

I''ve been on the DirectX Dev mailing list for a while now and I''ve found that some of the people on that mailing list are people that either helped in the making of DX or are experts, or work for nVidia. I''m not quite sure how I got onto it, but I think if you go to msdn.microsoft.com/library, under the multimedia section, under the directx section, under the columns section, under the driving directx column section, and go to one of the articles there, at the bottom of each aritcle is a link to get on to the mailing list.

The tutorials in the SDK are extremely good and easily the best place to start. Just go through each of them slowly in order, and you''ll come out with a very solid foundation in Direct3D.


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