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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Setting up sparkys collision dll

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cheese pwner
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although this might seem dumb, i am unsure how to make darkbasic use sparkys. Even when i run the demos, it isnt interfacing with sparkys. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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KISTech
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Posted: 6th Jun 2011 20:41
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In what way to you mean it's not interfacing with Sparky's?

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By not interfacing, i mean when I click compile and run or f5, the sparkys commands wont compile. It says error for all sparkys commands
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The Sparky's DLL should be in the DBPro\Compiler\Plugins-user directory.

The ini file should be in the DBPro\Editor\Keywords directory.

Then restart your editor. Then it should work.

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The command was blue, and i thought it would work,

But it said could not understand command.

SC_setMaxCollisions 100

that was the command that was not understood, did i put one of the files in the wrong place?
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Have you tried rebuilding the keywords in your editor?

Odd that it's being picked up as a keyword but not compiling...

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That usually happens when the DLL is in the wrong place.

The DLL is called SC_Collision.dll, and should be in your DBPro\Compiler\Plugins-user directory.

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I forgot to put it in plugins-user and just put it in plugins. I thought i could skip the readme, but i guess not. Sorry if i wasted your guys time

I didnt directly say this but it is working now, thanks.
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Posted: 10th Jun 2011 05:04
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It's only a waste if we didn't all learn something.

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haha, and i did. A valuable lesson and what to do. I have another question for anyone who can answer, if i set it to write to a file, where is that file at. Is it saved somewhere in temporary files? And is there a way to make it save to a file that i can actually look at and see (just a boring notepad text file), and that will stay with all the values even if i open and close my program.
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The default directory for anything in a DBPro program is the program's main directory where you run the exe from. So if you create a file without specifying a directory, it will be there.

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What is this collision dll? I haven't ever heard anything about it till now...


Cheers.

God help me, Please.

Come on down to my site at Unleashed FPSCreators
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Quote: "What is this collision dll? I haven't ever heard anything about it till now..."

It's a free 3D collision detection plugin. It works much quicker and more accurately than the native DBP commands and I thoroughly recomend it to anyone doing 3D games in DBP:
Sparky's collision dll

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