Terrain Demo DirectX Visual Basic

Short video of my Terrain Demo written in Visual Basic .Net. It utilizes DirectX9 for the rendering API. Written several years ago while I was just starting to learning DirectX programming. I have since started using C++ as my language of choice, but VB.Net remains one of my favorite languages.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• DirectX
• Direct
• Visual
• Basic
• VB
• .net
• Terrain
• Demo
• Programming

[JoeSulleyMan]

are you able to do third person animation with vb6?

[noflashbang]

@JoeSulleyMan

Sure. Although I think that you need to use DirectX 8 with VB6. I use VB.net and managed DirectX9.

[TheLinkElf]

How did you make the Grass look like that? O_O

[noflashbang]

@TheLinkElf

It's just a grass texture, stood up perpendicular to the ground with two of them making a “X” shape from above(two quads crossing in the middle). Then just densely placed over another grass texture on the ground. The special thing, if you can call it that, is that I just nudge the ends of the “X” by some random amounts in all directions. This adds a little visual randomness to the grass. If you don't do this the grass looks too perfect.

[supershadow70]

tutorial for use directX on visual basic?

[noflashbang]

@supershadow70

I'm thinking about making one in the future mostly because there is not a lot of info out there....probably because Microsoft killed managed DirectX in favor of XNA(which last I check was not supported for VB).

[incaseofx]

So... Wheres the tutorial anyway?

[edgarrammler]

nice grass-rendering!!

[TheLinkElf]

@noflashbang Could you give me that texture? >.<

[andrew8833]

@noflashbang I think the reason why there aren't allot of good resources out there, is because the library is so vast.

[darkwizzard70]

Cant wait for a tutorial , its awesome !!!

[ferna2294]

A VB tutorial would be awesome, BTW I´m downloading the SDK because I wanna start to make some things in VB with DirectX...

Honestly, I never knew that it was possible to use DirectX with VB, I learned it some days ago, and now that I see what you´ve done I´m inspired, I know that it´s not easy but I want to learn :) ...