3D Mode Help

I just got Blitz and i like it but i don't understand why it keeps telling me "3D mode is not working". I can't build terrain or anything. Sorry if i'm a little vague but i'm not to Blitz inclined yet.

Could this be your problem:?

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=45254

Yes, please tell us about your hardware. It may be the same Intel Problem WolRon mentioned, or maybe your system is kind of old, so it won't support Direct3D. You can test this when you run DXDIAG.EXE from the "Start>Run Program" Menu.

Thanks but windows cannot find DXDIAG.EXE. Any other ideas.

By the by, does anyone know what an illegal memory address is. i got that message when i tried to run a copy paste version of the 3d rocket tutorial.

What OS are you running? When abouts did you purchase your computer. Sounds like your running windows 95 with the absence of that program.

Then that's your problem. You need DirectX 7.

What is os and i am running windows XP. Computer was perchased Aug of 2003. How do i see what Direct X i have.

i searched my PC and found that i have DirectX9. Does it absolutly have to be 7 or can it be higher.

Thanks

Could it be this here
What graphics card are you using?

Thank You tonyg that was it with one exception): Now it tells me i have an "illegal memory access" where i used to have the "3d mode" message. One last hurdle

could this be the 8bit vs 24bit toolbar bitmap thingy?

try copying these bitmaps into Blitz3D\cfg (backup your old ones first just to be safe).

once again confused. what is a cfg and is Blitr3D different from blitz3D. how do i do it. it won't let me copy them into a doc. otherwise i don't know where to place them

cfg is a folder in your Blitz3D install directory.
(the default I believe is c:\Program Files\Blitz3D )
use winzip or a similar program to extract the files to that directory.

Ok perturbatio, i took the icons and dragged them into the cfg file. they stand alone in that folder along with files such as bin and uninstall and samples and still no dice. Anything else?

I should just shut up sometimes, this is one of those times.

"illegal memory access" is the standard error message as long as you have turned off the debugging mode. Turn it on (in the Menu: Program > Debug enabled ) and you'll get a more informative message. Probably something's wrong with your code, or a typo or somthing. ALso make sure to update your Version of Blitz when you want to use the sources from the code archives, most of them require one of the latest versions of blitz3d.

PositionEntity rocket,0,0,7 does not exist is the new message i recieve. This is obviously in the rocket tutorial in the 3d tutorials.(the one after the cube). Getting Closer. this is the whole code:

Graphics3D 800,600

SetBuffer BackBuffer()

camera=CreateCamera()
CameraViewport camera,0,0,800,600

light=CreateLight()

rocket=LoadMesh( "rocket.3ds" )
PositionEntity rocket,0,0,7

While Not KeyHit(1)

If KeyDown(200) Then
MoveEntity rocket,0,0.05,0
EndIf

If KeyDown(203) Then
TurnEntity rocket,0,0,1.0
EndIf

If KeyDown(205) Then
TurnEntity rocket,0,0,-1.0
EndIf

UpdateWorld
RenderWorld

Text 320,500,"Movement & Rotation"

Flip

Wend
End

that would suggest that rocket.3ds is not in the same directory as the .bb file

NOTE: You will need to have the object ROCKET.3DS in the same directory as the sourcecode for Blitz to find it. This message appears above the code.(how stupid am i) I assume that this is what perturbatio is talking about, but i don't know how to put ROCKET.3DS in a directory.

Use windows explorer to put it in there.

what? what am i putting, where am i putting it, and what is windows explorer.

Windows explorer is just the regular windows that come up when you open a folder or something. Just open the folder where ROCKET.3DS is and open the folder where the .bb file is and move the ROCKET.3DS file into that folder.

If you don't know how to move/edit files and folders, you will be lost as a programmer...

Time to learn.

Ok, i said that kind of wierd didn't i. i don't know where the rocket.3ds and .bb files are. do i have to create them. Literally all i did was put the code above into a doc and hit run.

THE SAGA IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to all of you i have sucessfully trouble shot my problem. It was being caused due to my less than smart codes. I put things in wrong places and messed stuff up royally. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Glink