Making a game engine...

So you basically want to see IF you can understand it.

We are telling you now, so you don't waste your time. You won't understand it.

Yeah you're probably right. I've had a bit of experience with Direct3D ( non-hacking related ) and have been programming for about a year. But you'll still have a better understanding of how DirectX API and a game engine works. Makes perfect sense.

Don't flame me. Don't tell me to learn c++ first. Don't tell me I can't do it. Don't tell me I won't be able to do it. Don't tell me it's impossible.

NOTHING is impossible, just difficult. And if it was easy, why would I do it.

I WANT to learn it this way. This is the best way for me to learn about basic c++...


Anyways, enough with the antiflamers. I've learned about loops, if statements, structures, header files, file input/output (kinda... haven't used it yet but I know how to sorta...)

I somewhat understand classes, but to fully understand all these basics, I need to see them in proper use. I need to see how they can be used, how they can be pushed, how they can be combined. And seeing as I am planning on following solo game design (epic fail, I know... But it's my life choice... Lawyer/gameprogrammer), it would be best to see how they can be used in game programming. And seeing as the best place to start game programming is the engine itself. I'd like to either be taught how to make one, or see the code for one.


I plan on using directx and c++.
Are there any books that I can read, or websites that I can read that will teach me how to create a game engine using c++ and directx? Or are there any open source 2d game engines that were created using directx?


If you're going to be telling me to learn c++ first before going into advanced stuff. Get the **** off. It isn't teaching me shiet. It's all common sense and logic in the basic stuff, in the advanced I can LEARN.

Then I'll learn STL if I get confused.

not reading a book. I use cplusplus.com/tutorials and look at the code given to me... I then try and change the code to see what I can do with it. If I experience errors, or problems then I go back and I read up on it. If I still don't understand I re-read it, if I still don't understand I give up for a day and come back the next day and re-read it with a clear mind. If then I still don't understand, I re-read everything that could possibly help me on that website, if then I still can't get it I ask for help.

I understand that... I never said I wanted to finish making one. I said I want to learn how to make one so I can learn the more basic things. Please understand that.

It's not going to go how you planned it out. You're going to have to learn DirectX API first, before actually incorporating in your project. After you've grasped Direct3D, then you can start..

making a game engine... honestly... nop, it might be really rude.. but you won't even make 1% of it...
You should really train your basic c++ skills... concepts.. etc.. Then do what everyone is saying... Learn D3D.. etc.. This takes time.

You can try a simple game.. but a engine...

~ Fixed by hell ~

Are you going to help me with what I asked for, or continue ignoring what I asked you NOT to do. If you're going to ignore me then go away, find somebody who will accept your help. I don't want your help.

Not gonna happen.

Game engine is kind of a big project for anyone who's on their own.. Think smaller..

Not with that attitude. Posting here and not answering my question is the same as telling a dead man to die -- it's useless.





I KNOW IT'S A BIG PROJECT. THATS WHY I WANTED THIS PROJECT.

It's not just big.. For you, it's impossible.

No... That's more like stating the obvious.

There is no way a beginner in C++ can write a game engine, no matter how much time he puts into it...

I've been programming in C++ since I was 9(and i'm 2 months away from being 18), and I am not able to write a game engine.
I only know the hack part of D3D, never worked with normal D3D code.

I do not want to FINISH IT. I want to TRY. What part of that don't you understand.

Please think before posting next time. Is your goddamn post going to help me or tell me the "truth".

WTF 9 years of coding?? Holy Jesus.. I started like, just over a year ago....

If you want a challenge, go ahead and make one. Why do you need us?
You ask for advice, we give you advice and you reject it.
Perhaps we just won't give advice to someone as rude as you.

This seems to be a recurring thing for you.
Get your priorities straight and stop being so ambitious. Really.

Requesting closure of this thread -_-

Thats what I'm doing right now... I was already working on a pong clone using c++ and direct3d. I obviously know and understand I will never be able to finish a complete game engine. I simple want to look at it and see the code behind it. See what I can change, and all that stuff. See how the classes are being used, how the functions are being used. New ideas for new functions that I can use in my programs. I just want to see the damn code. Why is that so damn hard to understand.




I specifically said I do NOT want to be told I can't do it. I specifically said I do NOT want to be told it's impossible. I specifically said I do NOT want to be told to learn c++, do basic things first. And yet theres three pages of people telling me these.

And I accept advice, when its advice that I need. If I don't need it or want it then I will reject it. Because it has no use for me.

My priorities are straight, and I'm not being ambitious. I'm trying to learn. And you can't request closure of somebody else's thread. For multiple reasons
1. It's not your thread.
2. It may not need to be closed
3. It may not be resolved.

It's not resolved and therefore does not need to be closed.






I know that, I know I won't finish it. I know it's not going to happen. I don't need others telling me that.

There is code behind a game engine.

I want to see how classes and functions are being used in the game engine.

IDGAF about simple things... They're simple.

we are helping you by saying what to do..

offtopic: lol nice one HD /

edit: lulz this is going on 3rd page and i answered a first page think... /stupid

I understand the limitations of cin >> it's just extremely glitchy for me, I've copied and pasted code from another site and it fucks up. I don't know why, I don't know how, and I can't understand how that could possibly happen but it does. It's not that I don't understand, it's that it doesn't work properly for me.
I knew how to USE an array but I had a simple question that you didn't fucking understand. Thank god hell was there to answer my question with what? 12 words? maybe 20.
I do have the right to say IDGAF about simple things. I don't want to fucking learn about classes in a damn console application. I want to see them in use by a professional. Jesus Christ. Tell me a good 2d open source engine made with directx/c++ or gtfo already.




I appreciate your help Brinuz you do what you think is best but if I ask you not to, you don't continue. Thanks for that

You aren't giving advice, I asked you NOT to say what you've said. And you continue on. Look at the ENTIRE three pages of posts, then come back and say you're right and I'm wrong. The entire damn time I've said I KNOW ITS NOT GOING TO FUCKING WORK I JUST NEED TO SEE IT. But you continue on. I say it again, and again, and again, and again, you are now purposely trying to piss me off. So if you aren't going to answer my fucking question get the fuck off.

I KNOW the damn truth. I KNOW I won't finish it. I KNOW I need to know more basic c++ to understand even the simplest things in the game engine. I KNOW it takes years. I KNOW I don't know much c++. I KNOW all this shit.

I still want to see the fucking code behind it, so I can see how it's being used. Jesus Christ, what part of that don't you understand...

The advice given is the advice I specifically asked you NOT to give me. By asking NOT to give it to me, I clearly aknowledge the fact that I already know all that. And yet you continue to tell me this stuff.


Here, lets basically say how this conversation is going.

There is a grade 4 math student and you and the math student has a question.

The grade 4 math student wants to know how to do algebra, and specifically tells you that he knows it will be hard but he wants to see a question or two and see if he can understand it.

You then explain to him he needs to know the basic maths before algebra.

The math student says he knows that he just wants to see algebra because he wants to see if he can understand it or not.

You then repeat what you said.

The math student repeats what he says again.

This goes on for an HOUR.

The math student gets pissed off because he knows algebra is going to be hard, he just wants to see if he can understand it.


I need to go to work now, think about what I've said and asked. Think about what you've said and recommended. Then either tell me a good engine or don't post. In fact, me, the topic starter is requesting you do NOT post unless you are going to be telling me a good engine. I believe it's counted as spam if you do anything else.

ffs... can you understand what I want now?