Starting in Direct-X 8.1

**Wizzo1d** · 10-12-2007

Originally Posted by hjerherjdsd

i use Ogre (an Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine), a lot easyer then learning the directX api and 100 times quicker to learn. i know a bit of directX but its just too time consuming to do even simple things. u might think a prebuilt engine would be slower and limit u to certain game types but u can build anything in ogre. look at this game https://www.alliancethegame.com/screenshots.php this was built on ogre.

Thanks for that link and the information on OGRE. It's a great program!

**[MPGH]Dave84311** · 10-12-2007

Great engine*

**castaway** · 10-13-2007

that alliance game is fckin nice

mpgh shud have its own shotter like that :P

**[MPGH]Dave84311** · 10-13-2007

lol if anyone wants to write a game like that + model the models + make the music, then GL!

**wieter20** · 01-16-2008

Where can i download a d3d starter kit?

**cothen12** · 01-16-2008

Yup, i need it to.. I forget it..:/

**Mr. Bond** · 03-15-2008

Nice tutorial, however it has nothing to do with Direct-X (Apart from the fact that you included d3d8.h and used InitializeDirectX()). Just creating a simple window in Win API.