Morfit or not to Morfit, that is the question
Hello everyone,
Longlifter has bascially inspired me to get the MORFIT 3D SDK
working with Euphoria by directing me to the MORFIT's website.
There's alot of neat things you can do with MORFIT to make
a 3D game. It also includes a World Builder and a Terrain Builder
utilities to help you make a 3D World faster. Plus, whenever
you make a cool 3D game with Morfit, they will advertize your
game on the internet where you can make 33% of the profits for what
ever the game sells for.
I was wondering if anyone else would be also interested in a
3D engine SDK for Euphoria like this???
At this time, with the help of David Cuny's Win32Lib, I finally
got Morfit to draw it's graphics on to the window. But there are
Morfit functions that are important to use in order to use this
API correctly, but I am unable to code it in Euphoria without
it giving me an Application Error pop-up stating: The instruction
at 10073b4 referanced memory at ffffffff. The memory could not be
read from. ( I do understand the "basics" of that problem)
From the morfit.dll, I need to call this 'c' function:
void Morfit_camera_get_location(DWORD camera_handle, double *x, double
*y, double *z);
I would think I would need to code it in euphoria like this:
Morfit_camera_get_location =
link_c_proc(morfit,"Morfit_camera_get_location",{C_ULONG, C_POINTER,
C_POINTER, C_POINTER})
In "c", the Morfit_camera_get_location expects the x,y and z params
to be the address locations of x,y and z. Like in 'c', I would put
&x, &y, &z respectivly to referance the address location of these
varables.
Two issues here: First, as I look in the Euphoria Docs, I see that
C_POINTER = C_ULONG. But as you see above, the 'c' params are a
pointer to a DOUBLE varable. So, if I could use C_POINTER, I would
loose 32 bits of info since a DOUBLE is 64 bits, right?
Second, I remember the topic of 'returning the address of an atom'
have been brought up before on the mailing list. I've searched
the mailing list archives about it, and didn't find any answer
on how to do it.
So, How do you return the address of an atom?
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Longlifter, I know you had origanlly asked for help on helping you
to get Morfit to work with Euphoria. I'm not trying to 'steal' this
project behind your back. Ofcoarse, if you would like me to, I would
be glad to try to complete the project to the end. As you see what
I have written above, there are issues with translating 'c' functions
in the morfit.dll that seem to me that making a full Euphoria program
with Morfit not possible unless someone can help me solve them.
So, If the above problem can be solve, I'll send you what I have so
you can complete the project and try to help you with whatever problems
that you might need. Also, you have asked me for help with Exotica
problems you're having and I am about to write stuff for you to help you
out with that. Have you figured the Exotica problems out yet, or do you
still need help on that?
-- Todd Riggins
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