Monster X / News: Recent posts

Fixed problems with program ending not disposing all objects properly.

Improved performance of text rendering.

Added line drawing commands. Added more text drawing commands. Added Graphics properties.

Just re-iterating this information everywhere so no one misses it.

IMPORTANT DISABLE LOADER LOCK !!!
Some parts of DirectX require the loaderlock exceptions to be turned off. Turn it off under the menu->debug->Exceptions, Loader lock, uncheck thrown box.

Vertices are now mostly precalculated for a performance increase. A cleanup code has been er uhm cleaned up.

Release 8C now has the ability to render text. See CreateFont and DrawText commands in the Wiki.

The Monster Wiki has been updated to document use of graphics, sounds, and SAML commands. Feel free to discuss any proposed changes to Monster X on those WIKI pages.

Completely redone with working animation, movement,sound,music and input. Compiled with VBEXpress 8.

Sorry about the delay inbetween releases (I'd like to get a release out every day or two), but I hurt my back and have been bed ridden. In addition, I have been having other health problems, but do not have health coverage (American). Anways, with any luck, I can recover and continue this project and see it to completion.

DirectSound system has been completely reworked. Now has ability to play multiple wave files simultaneosly.... read more

A Monster API like no Monster API before it! Now complete with some sound commands. Get it and party like its 2004, wait it is 2004. Ok, Party like its not 2004!!!

Gone from this release is the command InKey, which I might add didn't work in last release. This command has been replaced by KeyState (Which returns 0 or 1 depending on if the key in question is down) and KeyClicked (Which returns the number of times a key has been pressed and released since the last time you checked that key).

In keeping with the logical names of the commands KeyState and KeyClicked, the mouse has similar commands for checking its buttons. MouseState(ButtonNumber) and MouseClicked(ButtonNumber) that work much like KeyState and KeyClicked except they are used to check the status of the mouse buttons. The mouse read/write properties of MouseX, MouseY, and MouseZ (scroll wheel) have been added as well.... read more

I have just released the first preview of the Monster API. Included in this release under the MonsterLibrary\MonsterTest\Bin directory is a file MonsterTest.exe which shows the first test of the MonsterAPI. Of course, the sources are included and can be opened by clicking the MonsterLibrary\MonsterLibrary.sln file, if you have Visual Studio .NET installed.

Commands Implemented To Date: Graphics(), Cls(), LoadImage(), DrawImage(), Flip(), DoEvents(), MillisecondsPassed(), ImageWidth, ImageHeight, ImageFrames... read more