VBGamer

> What are some of the disadvantages someone could run into when developing a >game with VB? Is it possible to make an FPS engine in VB that runs well? By all means, particularly using Direct3D, you can create FPS games that run at high speeds. (Of course, this depends on your computer... don't expect 60 fps on a 486/66) >Is DirectX 8 going to make things harder? Because I heard something about >needing to do 3d calls to do 2d graphics or something, I dunno Unfortunately, my guess is yes, but I don't know that much about what they're planning on doing... I know nothing about Direct3D (yet), so, doing 5D graphics won't be that easy for me. >Why do C programmers literally look down in disgust at VB programmers? Because they refuse to believe that there is a very easy alternative to C++... C++ has only a few features that VB is lacking, and that seems to be decreasing with every release. How did this all start? So far I've hear these comments on VB today - It's Microsoft shit <- I may not like Microsoft, but I LOVE VB, it's the only program of theirs I have NOT crashed once. you'd need to do some fancy coding to make it crash (I don't include using foreign DLLs there...) - You can hardly do anything with it <- Sure, that's why VB is used very widely in the business world for rapid software development. VB does almost everything C++ does. - It takes alot of code to do something cool <- and yet half the lines of code to do the same effect in C++, however, it is slower (VB isn't the fastest language in terms of memory access) - The executable is huge <- No, the runtimes that come with it are huge. But that is because the Runtime files are a set of instructions to a considerable amount of commands from the window API (Advanced Programming Interface). Executables get large because they have graphics files embedded within them also. A problem that CAN plague C++ to if they wanted it to. But don't take my word for it. I'm just starting to learn C++ to help me beat VB's memory slowness by making C++ subs for my VB programs. Reguards, Steven Blom AKA LynxofCP (Lynx of Central Programming)