Magic Library - True Type windows font

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:28 am

ok , looking forward to see the resultes of your brother work,wishing him
a good luck...

i really did not get your problem,so if you could post a small demo to see
the error this will help.

thanks

krama757 · Post by **krama757** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:19 am

Check that out.

When my character moves across the landscape, the skybox keeps shaking. But if I stop and just look around, the skybox looks fine.

It might just be the frames not updating fast enough, but I have a damn good graphics card...so I doubt it.

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:48 am

what is your FPS When your character moves across the landscape,and
when it stop?

and fee what is the deffrent, may by your character has many Vertixes
which take more Cpu time for render it.

try a small character and see what happened.

by the way how could you did the shadow on the landscape? it is very nice.

xterminhate · Post by **xterminhate** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:10 pm

Emil_halim, I had a hard time to build your examples with code::block and VC toolkit 2003.

Here after a short list of libraries required by Magic 2D :

from irrlicht :
irrlicht.lib

from your package :
magic2d.lib
glu32.lib
opengl32.lib
glaux.lib

from windows plateform sdk :
ole32.lib (not sure)
gdi32.lib
user32.lib

Unfortunately, movie example do not work on my plateform.... still investigating !

Thanks,
Xterminhate.

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:53 pm

It seems your system does not update the movie as fast as needed,that causes your
Movie to freeze.

there are many reasones,first is the kind 'format' of Movie ,DivX movie may not be
played becouse it eats the most CPU time and old AVI is faster than Mpeg and so ...

the second is the codec of the Movie that meanes you could play the movie which it's
codecs is installed in your system,if you install WMplayer 10 there are many codecs installed
by default.

the other reason is your hardware ,the movie class will update the movie and lock your
texture then lock the movie surface then copy from movie surface to your texture
so if this cycle takes more time than irrlicht loop time the movie will freeze.

try to play with SetMovieFPS function for setting lower FPS and see what happened.

all the libs you have mentioned is necessary for building your exe.

good luck.

xterminhate · Post by **xterminhate** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:21 pm

Thanks for your quick reply !

In fact, Irrlicht/Magic2D renders correctly the first frame, and then renders incorrectly the next frames : a small amout of pixels at both right and left edge of the texture appear (one per frame). I played with FPS, in vain.

I tried, OpenGl and DirectX Magic2D and got the same result. I tried on two different computer... the same. Don't know what happen.

My plateform : winXP, VC toolkit 2003, windows 2003 plateform SDK, last ATI video driver (RADEON).

Please, have a look at this screenshot :

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:05 pm

This is really strange,you said that the firest Frame renders correclly that meanes
it does not belong to Magic2D or Irrlicht but i think it is a memory align problem.

did you try an other movie, did that movie played ok with your Mplayer?
and what the VGA Card of other computers that you uesed in testing?

xterminhate · Post by **xterminhate** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:05 pm

I added a "movie->NextMovieFrame();" just before the "render loop" and the first frame drawn is blank (black texture). Magic2D seems to extract only the first frame of the video file.

xterminhate · Post by **xterminhate** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:10 pm

I tried with another movie (*.avi). Both movies are well accepted by Windows MediaPlayer. My computer are fitted with RADEON (9200 & 9000Mobility).

Perahps, my own compilation/linking settings may cause alignment pb ?

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:13 pm

No this is not correct , here is the source of NextMovieFrame function

Code: Select all

void TMovie::NextMovieFrame()
            {
               if(GetTickCount()-oldtick < time){flg = false ;return;}
               oldtick = GetTickCount();
               flg = true;
               ((IDirectDrawStreamSample*)pSample)->Update( 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
            }

as you see it is rely on DirectShow and update the movie as you set
the FPS value

also you have to put this Function inside the loop game for updating
the movie.

xterminhate · Post by **xterminhate** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:19 pm

Alright, I understood well.

May I ask you to send me the source code of Magic2D Lib in order to rebuild it on my platfom ?

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:29 pm

At the moment i am afraid,the code does not tidy and looks vry bad if you want the source code of Movie class you will find it in the wiki here is the link
http://www.irrforge.org/index.php/Playi ... in_texture

good luck

xterminhate · Post by **xterminhate** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:55 pm

I'm just damned !

After installing last DirectX9 SDK, I integrated your code. I got the same pb again. Give me a rope or a sharp object....

Thanks for your help anyway.

xterminhate · Post by **xterminhate** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:02 am

Miracle ! Movie class works perfectly well in D3D9 mode (but not in OpenGl with me).

Emil_halim · Post by **Emil_halim** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:20 am

ok,it works with you now under Dx9 and not with OpenGl , i think it is
because the VGA driver of your Card , my Card is Nvidia and it supports
OpenGL very well.

any way i am glad to hear that it works with you.