TrueVision3D 6.5 Open Prerelease

hey cool, does that mean people will be able to show off what they have done with your wrapper soon?

Gabe..how hard is to use TV3D wrapper with Bmax??

SuperStrict

Import glimmer.tv3d65

Global pEngine:CTVEngine=CTVEngine.Create()
Global pWindow:CTVWindow=CTVWindow.Create(640,480,"Bump Test")
Global pScene:CTVScene
Global pInput:CTVInputEngine
Global pTextureFactory:CTVTextureFactory
Global pLightEngine:CTVLightEngine

Global BumpLight:Int
Global BumpTexture1:Int
Global DiffuseTexture1:Int
Global SpecularTexture1:Int
Global Sphere:CTVMesh




' Set Beta Key

' Initialize Windowed
pEngine.Init3DWindowed(pWindow.hWnd,True)

' SET WINDOW TO AUTORESIZE
pEngine.GetViewport().SetAutoResize(True)

'Tell it To display the FPS
pEngine.DisplayFPS(True)



' SCENE AND SPHERE MESH
pScene=CTVScene.Create()
pScene.SetBackgroundColor(0.2,0.0,0.0)

' LIGHTING

pLightEngine=CTVLightEngine.Create()
BumpLight=pLightEngine.CreatePointLight(_cTV_3DVECTOR(10,10,0),1,1,1,100,"Bump Light")

pTextureFactory=CTVTextureFactory.Create()
BumpTexture1=pTextureFactory.LoadBumpTexture("rockwall_height.bmp","Bump1",,,,30)
DiffuseTexture1=pTextureFactory.LoadTexture("rockwall.bmp","Diffuse1")

Sphere=pScene.CreateMeshBuilder("Sphere1")
Sphere.CreateSphere(20,24,24)
Sphere.SetPosition(0,0,40)

Sphere.SetMaterial(0)

Sphere.SetTextureEx cTV_LAYER_BASETEXTURE,DiffuseTexture1
Sphere.SetTextureEx cTV_LAYER_BUMPMAP,BumpTexture1
Sphere.SetTextureEx cTV_LAYER_HEIGHTMAP,BumpTexture1

Sphere.SetLightingMode cTV_LIGHTING_OFFSETBUMPMAPPING_TANGENTSPACE



'Init Input after main init
pInput=CTVInputEngine.Create()
pInput.Initialize()

'Main loop	
While(pWindow.AppQuit=False)
	
	If pWindow.Update()=True
				
		Update()
		Render()
		DoInput()
		
	End If

Wend

'pWindow.Close()

pLightEngine.DeleteLight(BumpLight)
pLightEngine=Null
Sphere.Destroy()
Sphere=Null
pTextureFactory.DeleteTexture(DiffuseTexture1)
pTextureFactory.DeleteTexture(BumpTexture1)
pTextureFactory=Null
pScene=Null
pInput=Null
pEngine.ReleaseAll()
pEngine=Null

GCCollect

End 	


Function Update()
	Sphere.RotateY(0.0001)
End Function


Function Render()
	
	pEngine.Clear(False)
	Sphere.Render()
	pEngine.RenderToScreen()
	
End Function


Function DoInput()
	If(pInput.IsKeyPressed(cTV_KEY_ESCAPE))
		pWindow.Quit()
	End If 	
End Function

Goodie, does this mean I can use TV3D and your wrapper with BlitzMax without having to pay a cent?

et a failed to register DLL TVb65.dll error at the end of running the installer.

And yes, my video drivers are up to date. Well, so much for that.

get a failed to register DLL TVb65.dll error at the end of running the installer.

Hurry up ;)

Bandwidth usage isn't that big of a problem.

Doesn't sound like your DirectX version is. Have you got the August 2007 update?

BLide hates this version.

I get this error code when I try to run my game or any of the samples.

// Enable 4x4 antialiasing effect
TV.MultiSampleTp = TV3D_MULTISAMPLE_4SAMPLES
// Init the engine
TV.Init3DFullscreen 800, 600, 32
// second call
TV.EnableAntialiasing True

Probably not the place for this but I've been through the TV3D docs and can't get antialiasing to work. Here's what the docs say...

Why is Newton necessary? Is that the only way to do collisions in TV?

How do you do math stuff like AlignToVector, PointEntity, TFormPoint, DeltaYaw? Do you have to write your own?

I think this would be a great dx9 engine to wrap up into a blitz like command set ie add stuff like aligntovector, turnentity, moveentity etc

Do you know if there somewhere we can see all the TV3D commands? I've been to the main website and the only complete help file I can find is for 6.3.

What bothers me about the licensing scheme is that it's been introduced after purchase for most people. At this stage, I don't know enough about it to know whether it will be a bother or not, but I won't be at all surprised if someone takes them to court. Trying to change a license after the contract ( in this case the purchase ) is usually illegal and I'd be surprised if they could get any judge to support them in their decision to spring a license change on people.

Let me clarify some things here :

1. Licensing didn't change at all between 6.2 and 6.5. We just replaced License Keys by License Files which are more secure. But nothing changed with the watermark, it was always present in the free version and you can remove it when you have a commercial license. Nobody complained before about that...

2. When you have a license, you can generate several "developer license files" for your machines , which unlock any TV3D application that you will run on the machines. It takes less than 1 min to do so and you have to do it once. So you can develop your projects and use tools without being annoyed by the watermark.

3. To release things to some people :
a. You are releasing source code. No problem anymore, you don't even have to remove keys from your code since there are no more keys ( this key system was really annoying for code sharing ). You don't have to do anything about license.
b. You are distributing executables.
i) To your other programmers on your team : just send the executable without running the license signer. They have developer keys on their machine too, so they won't be annoyed by the watermark.
ii) To the public (for beta testing or final release) : you must generate the license file that goes with your .exe with the license signer, and distribute the generated license file with your .exe so that people that runs your executable won't see the watermark. The .lic is linked to the .exe so it's important to regenerate it when the program was updated. There is no raw limit to the number of license file creation, just a daily limit so that the same license account is not used for lots of people. You can also "sign" several .exe files even with a Single Commercial license (for example game.exe, editor.exe, tool.exe) . Your .exe files are not changed at all, they are just used to generate the License file.

So I think that the new system is nice for everybody. Yes, it adds one small step and one file when you release to the public, but the code sharing is simplified and developer license files really help.

Here's the reply.
As for the license, if it is the same product, even a new version, it is still covered under the initial license purchase. We consider the license to cover one product, through its entire lifetime.

Hope this clears things up a bit for you. Thanks!

Gabriel, I think you've mentioned this before, but what does your pro-wrapper come with again?

Essentially I'm just looking at some commands and I have absolutely no clue how to implement them under bmx. When you answered my question on antialiasing the other day I don't know where you found the initial info, is this something that comes with a licensed version of tv3d 6.5?

For example, camera commands. What would be the commands to set up and move/rotate a camera around a scene?

In order to activate your license you will need to call the following command prior to initializing the engine:

TVEngine.SetLicenseKey( License Type, Licensed To, License Key)

Doesn't matter, it's not my intention to smack it, i just would love to see something. :O)

This is a 3D-engine I pressume that is actually working in BlitzMAX using your wrapper?

If that's the case, why is everyone saying there is no good 3D for Max?

Whats the catch, am I missing something?

Truevision has some strange and restricting licensing issues. I suggest you investigate before purchasing.

I have the latest TV3D 6.5 Beta and I'm in the process of updating all the tutorials to suit the new license scheme. I know I've said it before, but this time I'm planning to have at least some of the tutorials back up for download at glimmergames.com by the end of this week