DPrint: A wrapper/helper class for gamehackers

[why06]

This for you guys. I've been working a couple months on a way to help making using DirectX Easier for nubs and pros and I think this is the solution.
Please try it out, you use it the same as any other library. Try it out if you don't like it you can get you money back!

DPrint -A wrapper for DirectX-

I still have a lot of documenting to do left on the functions, but will get to it soon, probably in a later update. Speaking of updates did I mention its going to be open source? Im releasing the code publicly in a few days, I hope all will join in to help creates MPGH's own little D3D helper function library as well.

This is only version one I have a lot of stuff I want to add to it, but I figured the library has reached the point where its beneficial so I decided to release it now, but I'm planning to add more typefaces, and even allow the addition of custom typefaces. So let me know what you think.

PS: No its not a Menu, but it greatly improves the speed of creating menus, as far as Menus go I have a Project for that in the works too, but that will be released some time later. DPrint was actually formed as a side project of of DMenu, so it should go without saying as DMenu continues to grow so will DPrint. Hopefully by the time of DMenu's release, I can add a lot more functionality to DPrint now that structure's foundation has been laid.

[Houston]

Thanks allot, Bro

[Crash]

I think I might finish my base / menu generator. This sorta got me motivated.

[IcySeal]

I think I might finish my base / menu generator. This sorta got me motivated.

Your progress 0%, still.

[Crash]

Your progress 0%, still.

You haven't looked at it so you wouldn't know. And fyi I added in folders / hacks.
QQ

[whatup777]

Its so sad how this gets throw to the wayside.

Great Effort I love it.

Now I wanna make something of my own.

Thanks + rep.

[_Fk127_]

orly. A coder in the coding section. holy shit.

[why06]

orly. A coder in the coding section. holy shit.

I mainly hang around Programming sub forum. Anyway I'll be putting out all the sourcecode for it tomorrow. I should probably start checking here more, but I think its kinda annoting there's 10 different hacking sections, one for every game. Since games are so similar I think it would be better if there was just one section for all of them.

[-Stephen]

Great Idea (:

Love it. I commend you

[topblast]

It look nice great work
Direct3D part :
The fact that LPD3DXFont is slow to start with, creating a class around it might make it slower. I do not know your code so I may be wrong but unless u have ur font in a Begin(), Draw(), End() the chances are it is going to be slow
(this also depends on how the user uses it. )

IDEA:
An ENUM for types of font, CD3DFont, D3DxFont, dhFastFont and stuff,( just an idea dont really have to do it )

[freedompeace]

It look nice great work
Direct3D part :
The fact that LPD3DXFont is slow to start with, creating a class around it might make it slower. I do not know your code so I may be wrong but unless u have ur font in a Begin(), Draw(), End() the chances are it is going to be slow
(this also depends on how the user uses it. )

IDEA:
An ENUM for types of font, CD3DFont, D3DxFont, dhFastFont and stuff,( just an idea dont really have to do it )

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LPD3DXFont is not slow, just like how Sprites aren't slow (and like how you said they were)...

LPD3DXFont is on-par with CD3DFont, and possibly other fonts as well. :)

[why06]

IDEA:
An ENUM for types of font, CD3DFont, D3DxFont, dhFastFont and stuff,( just an idea dont really have to do it )

The code's posted so you can look at it if you want, I didn't use sprite for the fonts, but if there's a difference I don't think its noticeable, ofcourse you can download the fonts and see for urself.

About including other fonts, that sounds like a lotta extra work, I've never heard a strong argument for CD3D vs. D3DX, but I thought CD3D was just a wrapper for D3DX.

[mmbob]

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LPD3DXFont is not slow, just like how Sprites aren't slow (and like how you said they were)...

LPD3DXFont is on-par with CD3DFont, and possibly other fonts as well.

Actually, topblast is right. ID3DXFont is something like 5 times slower than CD3DFont.

The code's posted so you can look at it if you want, I didn't use sprite for the fonts, but if there's a difference I don't think its noticeable, ofcourse you can download the fonts and see for urself.

About including other fonts, that sounds like a lotta extra work, I've never heard a strong argument for CD3D vs. D3DX, but I thought CD3D was just a wrapper for D3DX.

CD3DFont isn't a wrapper, it is a separate font class.

[why06]

Hmmm okay I did a little Googling, and from what I see CD3DFont was a older font class superseded, by ID3DXFONT. It's faster, but not 5 times faster, but from what I see supposedly doesn't support as much, or international languages. Ofcourse most of the imformation I could find was old. Im not sure if there's been any updates to CD3DFONT since 2005.

[whatup777]

I heard ID3DXFont was faster after they abandoned the GDI for drawing or something.