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Dark GDK / I am available on Skype today for anyone who has questions about DarkGDK 2.0

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Mistrel
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Posted: 16th May 2012 16:39
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Feel free to IM or call me. My Skype username is "matt_darkgdk". If I don't answer a call then I may have stepped away; leave an IM and I'll get back to you.

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DeadTomGC
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Posted: 16th May 2012 17:30
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What? DarkGDK 2.0?

Is it officially being made by TGC? is there anywhere I can read more about it?


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Olby
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Quote: "is there anywhere I can read more about it?"


http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=196865&b=22

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DeadTomGC
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oh, thanks!


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prasoc
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Anyway of returning the Direct3D device that DarkGDK 2.0 has created? dbGetDirect3DDevice() seems to return an int32_t instead of a LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 like it did in v1.0
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Mistrel
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You have to cast it yourself at the moment. Strict types are planned but not yet implemented for return values. They are working fine for parameters though such as "HWND".

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hwoarang
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hi, i am new at programming and i need help with gdk. i dont know how to make my charater to jump in 2d game.
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Morcilla
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Hi there, congratulations for the great job

I would like to ask, in rough terms, how complex would it be to migrate a DGDK 1.0 project to DGDK 2.0, having into account that it uses

- Dark Shader
- EZRotate double float version.
- Cloggy's D3DFunc

and of course all kind of DGDK functions.

Also, how does DGDK 2.0 performs? Is it equally fast to DGDK?

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Mistrel
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Quote: "I would like to ask, in rough terms, how complex would it be to migrate a DGDK 1.0 project to DGDK 2.0"


Getting a project up and running with DarkGDK 2.0 is very easy to do. The difficulty you will experience in the transition will be from some renamed functions, reordered parameters, and obsolete commands.

For example, DarkGDK 2.0 does not include the file handling library; you must use the commands provided by the host language.

Quote: "Also, how does DGDK 2.0 performs? Is it equally fast to DGDK?"


From what I've seen on a function-for-function basis it is faster than DarkGDK 1.0 but slightly slower than DBP due to some overhead. However, you gain the ability of being able to use a more powerful language with it such as C++.

Also, using DarkGDK 2.0 with DBP plugins is a snap. Most popular plugins are supported out-of-the-box.

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Red Eye
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Quote: "From what I've seen on a function-for-function basis it is faster than DarkGDK 1.0 but slightly slower than DBP due to some overhead. However, you gain the ability of being able to use a more powerful language with it such as C++."


Wasn't DarkGDK faster than DBP? I believe so. At least that is what is stated on the TGC DarkGDK webpage.

Cheers,

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budokaiman
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Quote: "Wasn't DarkGDK faster than DBP? I believe so. At least that is what is stated on the TGC DarkGDK webpage."

WLGfx did a benchmark test of DBP, DGDK and PGDK (what's now DGDK 2.0) a little while back, these were the results:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=192633&b=5


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