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Re: VB-to-Eu converter for Morfit's VB SDK

• Posted by Mark Brown <mabrown at SENET.COM.AU> Jan 30, 2000
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-----Original Message-----
From: M King <boot_me at GEOCITIES.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: VB-to-Eu converter for Morfit's VB SDK


Hi Monty

I'm replying to your post just in case Rod can't (he said he was signing off
for a short while).

>     I tried it and it worked great.  Even had an animated world running at
>an amazing 3 fps.  I searched through the genereated .e file, and couldn't
>find a wrapper for the mentioned:
>Morfit_engine_activate_DirectX
>routine.  Did they leave it out of the VB version?  This was the 3.0 sdk
for
>vb 6.

I just checked for that function in the VB include and I couldn't find the
function you mentioned (Morfit_engine_activate_DirectX).

I also checked the C include and it is not there either (that I could see).

It is certainly in the documentation though. Perhaps it is obsolete?

You could add it by hand to the file generated by Rod's program using the
following :-


global constant Morfit_engine_activate_DirectX =

The function takes no parameters and returns a C integer which is just OK or
VR_ERROR.

You should be able to add any functions you find missing in this way. (I'd
like to know if you find any more)

If the above doesn't allow you to use the function, check that the dll name
variable (morfit_dll) etc I have used is correct as I haven't had a good
chance to look at Rod's work.


>I was thinking I might get a major fps jump with this enabled.  I tried
>activating the 3d card, but didn't get an increase, and tried the ctr-alt-v
>that it mentioned to activate the card, but got an error.(it did generate a
>3d card file though)
>any help would be appreciated.  Thanks for the glimps into Morfit. (would
>the c version be faster?)
>Monty in Oregon
>
>


I doubt that the C version would be faster. I would think that the dll for
all versions of the SDK would be the same. The way the functions are called
is different and therefore the need for different includes. I may be wrong
about this but I have had both dll's installed at various stages and there
appears to be no difference.

In speed terms (on my 333Mhz Celeron, 3D card etc) there wasn't all that
much difference between an EU version and the C ones when the functions
being used are simple (ie. they don't use floating point or require pointers
to arrays in memory) and still seems to be quite good when complex functions
are used.

Good luck.

Mark Brown