http://www.mikoweb.eu miko's private website en-us Submitted a small free web app to AppUp, trying out their Developer program's work flow. 'Ugaah (WebApp)' is a basic dice board game. As recently announced, the DXStudio 3.x Commercial Pro edition is now available for free. If you haven't done already, it would be on time now to grab it and give it a go. Very similar to the DXMesh exporter mentioned before, there is now a plugin for L3DT that exports to Autodesk's FBX. The DXMesh exporter plugin for L3DT has been updated and prepared for upcoming L3DT v3 (does already run with available development builds). It now supports texture and normal maps, vertex normals, tiled export and some things more. Just released a 'Beta Preview' of the Chess Game I'm working on. It uses the chess plugin, mentioned below. Some features still missing (and bugs certainly in there, too). But it should already be playable. The DXStudio Chess Plugin has been updated to v1.0.2. Some bug fixes and new features. mikoweb.eu (and my other sites) moved to a new home! Running on a Pentium733 with 512MB Ram for several years, it is now located on a vServer with 2GHz and 1GB Ram granted specs. Let see how this works :) This DXStudio plugin contains a threaded C++ chess engine. It is GPL licensed. Here is another small helper plugin for DXStudio. Detecting the states of 'lock keys' (e.g. SCROLL LOCK) this time. Again, released a small helper plugin (encrypting/decrypting of strings and byte data) for DXStudio. Released a small helper plugin for DXStudio (particle emitters in 2D scenes). Released a small utility plugin for DXStudio. Added two models to the Models/Render section: Robot and Winebarrel. Nothing fancy really, just some practice work. Also, did choose the robot as my website mascot. There have been problems reported using the GPP package on Windows7. While it works with a certain application on XP and Vista, the same config fails on W7. To get an overview, please drop me a short note (miko@mikoweb.de) if you have the GPP/ProxyDLL running on W7 - or if you failed in trying to do so. Thanks. My first take on a pathfinding DLL for DXStudio can now be found in the "DXStudio Goodies" section. This one does feature "oneCall" calculation of a path, but has no threading in yet (so, long paths/big waypoint arrays could lead to slow-down effects. It still is significantly faster than doing calculations in JS script, though). Finally, I submitted my entry to the DXStudio Summer Demo Contest, ending Sept.17. Trying to build a networked 3D space sim, taking Jumpgate Classic by Netdevil as a role model (especially for the inflight controls). Sadly, I could not even bring in half of all the features originally planned, due to time restrictions and personal availability. Well, as a demo, it might do. Note that it does not even show half of all the possibilities the DXStudio engine offers (especially, in the 'quality graphics part'). The file is available for download here, too. NestorX sent in a VB6 demo source to show the usage of the GPP1.5 package (d3dx.dll/gpcomms.dll). Thanks a lot for this. Please see the proxy-dll users' contribution download section. A fast composed little app for creating links to Google's Chart API is now available. There still seems to be some interest in the proxy-dll concept, as questions and requests drop in from time to time. I'm not actively working on it anymore, due to personal time restrictions. So, I'd like to give others a head-start and use the 'GPP' package as a base (DX8 and DX9 versions). It was held 'private' up to now. The complete code of this application, using the proxy-dll approach, is now marked 'public domain' and ready to download. As before, I'd be very interested in what the concept is used for, so drop me a line if you use it (no further implications). The pnp TerrainCreator export plugin is available with v1.4 now. Fixed a bug in the 'set terrain to height 0' export option and adapted to new DXMesh API version 1.0.1. Further more, the complete source of the plug-in is available for download now, too. Shane sent me a base implementation of the IDDrawSurface7 interface for the DDraw7 proxy dll (which hasn't been in so far). Along with my own code additions, this is now working to some extent. Some applications can stand proxy'd Surface7, some can't, as it seems. The problem might be a mixup of original and 'faked' pointers somewhere. At tests, crashes happened when an app was using Clipper regions. Feel free to play with the code and use it as a base for your own testings. A new website feature where you can select different color schemes is in test mode now (see upper right screen area). More new schemes will be added soon.