New Release D3D9Client Development

[Felipi1205]

I have a problem. When running in the GDI compatibility mode, I see some flahes in the full screen mode. Any solution?

 

[n72.75]

Hi! This is a long shot, but can anybody here check Kulch's ENERGY project? The Energia rocket add-on works fine, but the custom HUD display is missing while I run under RC39. Can anybody check if it could be fixed at the client side? Thanks! :tiphat:

GPS

I haven't seen Kulch around the forum lately, anyone heard from him?

 

[Felipi1205]

I have a problem. When running in the GDI compatibility mode, I see some flahes in the full screen mode. Any solution?
And another bug. When I'm around the Earth, if use use the Time acceleration too much time (10 seconds or less), the texture L11-14 looks like the original texture of the Earth. This is the worst bug!!! And I checked load at pre-start, but nothing changed...

 

[jarmonik]

I have a problem. When running in the GDI compatibility mode, I see some flahes in the full screen mode. Any solution?

Never heard of such problem on D3D9 before. I don't know what's going on there.

 

[Felipi1205]

I think I know what's the problem. My download accelerator is causing it... It's called DAP (Download Accelerator Plus).

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And what about the second problem?
When I'm around the Earth, if use use the Time acceleration too much time (10 seconds or less), the texture L11-14 looks like the original texture of the Earth. This is the worst bug!!! And I checked load at pre-start, but nothing changed...
And a third problem! When i'm using a skin in the XR2, if i press F1 to enter in the cabin, the Orbiter crashes and the module of the problem is the D3D9.dll. When i run the same scenario without the client, everything is fine...

 

[Ragtag]

I have a problem. When running in the GDI compatibility mode, I see some flahes in the full screen mode. Any solution?
And another bug. When I'm around the Earth, if use use the Time acceleration too much time (10 seconds or less), the texture L11-14 looks like the original texture of the Earth. This is the worst bug!!! And I checked load at pre-start, but nothing changed...

I get that just running 2010P1 standard in full screen. A flash every 2 seconds or so. It has always been that way for me. On the other hand full screen works really well for me with the D3D9 client.

 

[Felipi1205]

No, the problem is the Download Accelerator. Closing it, everything is fine! :thumbup:
The current probles are the other problems that I talked in my anterior post, the post #1085

 

[Felipi1205]

Hi! The previous problems were solved. Now I can't see the shadows in the Saturn's rings? It's a bug?

 

[jarmonik]

Harddrive break down

I have just experienced a harddrive break down that will drive me back into a stone age. I was able to back up some data before I lost the drive complitely. So, the project should be in safe. I have implemented several bug fixes and specular and emission maps.

I should be able to get a new drive in a few days and start installing Windows. Isn't that sweet ? I don't even dare to think about how much data I lost today.:facepalm:
:compbash2:

 

[Felipi1205]

:facepalm: Good Luck!

 

[Artlav]

I should be able to get a new drive in a few days and start installing Windows. Isn't that sweet ? I don't even dare to think about how much data I lost today.:

Regular backups save the day...
Are you sure nothing can be saved by data recovery people?

If it just makes sounds like that:
http://www.rumaxclub.ru/etc/hdddeath.mp3
And refuses to open, then there may be hope.

 

[Cras]

Sorry to hear this. Was in a similar position about a year ago.
Those data recovery people are expensive. But they are good. I thought I lost a drive, but they were able to recover every bit of data on the thing.

 

[Face]

I have just experienced a harddrive break down that will drive me back into a stone age.

That's always a disastrous event. I hope you'll be able to restore as much as possible.

I hate to say this now (as I can understand how bad you may feel in such a situation), but this in one of the reasons why I always use some kind of version control right from start of a project. And always commit after a logical step.

If you have a copy off in the cloud additionaly, a HD failure is not so scary anymore. That's also one of the reasons why I mirrored your ZIP archives on Bitbucket. If you need something from there, just drop me a note...

regards,
Face

 

[Ripley]

...I don't even dare to think about how much data I lost today...

Noooo!! Didn't you keep a backup??

 

[jarmonik]

Regular backups save the day...
Are you sure nothing can be saved by data recovery people?

Yes, I belive they can. My best quess is that some of the drive's heads are lose or something like that. I don't see a way to salvage the data without opening the drive. I quess we are talking about 800-1600EUR. I'll think about it but I haven't lost any source codes for the latest builds or any other critical data.

Mostly:
- Lot of photos
- Lot of installation files for SDKs and other things. (can be re-downloaded from the net of course)
- Saved games
- Some documents
- A few circuit board designs (have them on paper)

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Noooo!! Didn't you keep a backup??

Of course, I had backups but the latest one is more than 2 months old and not everything is packed up.

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That's also one of the reasons why I mirrored your ZIP archives on Bitbucket. If you need something from there, just drop me a note...

Thanks, about that. I may have lost the source codes for some older releases of the client. If I need them I let you know.

 

[alagreca]

Archive

I have just experienced a harddrive break down that will drive me back into a stone age. I was able to back up some data before I lost the drive complitely. So, the project should be in safe. I have implemented several bug fixes and specular and emission maps.

I should be able to get a new drive in a few days and start installing Windows. Isn't that sweet ? I don't even dare to think about how much data I lost today.:facepalm:
:compbash2:

I don't know if it would help, but I have most of what you have posted on this forum archived. Let me know if you need any of that, although I know it's not the same as source code. Cheers

 

[Donamy]

Is there a way to get Fly-by-wire to work with D3D9 ?

 

[jarmonik]

Is there a way to get Fly-by-wire to work with D3D9 ?

I don't have a proper hardware nor a working computer right now to test it. What's wrong with it ? And why is a graphics client effecting into a flight controls ? Have you talked to Redburne about it ?

I should get my computer up and running again during the weekend and I'll give it a try then.

 

[Donamy]

When I start Orbiter NG there is no Fly-By-wire to choose from the extras tab in the launchpad.

 

[kuddel]

Hi jarmonik,

I wanted to contibute a little bit to this GREAT client and decided to implement a small feature that is still missing: ShowGrapplePoints

But I have no idea how to draw simple meshes/vertice-groups (in this case: the arrows).
I've had no problem in getting all the needed information for the rendering (position-vector, direction-vector and rotation-vector) but I have no idea how to let the arrows render.

Here's my code that uses the vObject::RenderSpot method to indicate at least where they should be

void vVessel::RenderGrapplePoints (LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 dev)
{
  if (!oapiGetShowGrapplePoints()) return; // nothing to do

  DWORD i;
  ATTACHMENTHANDLE hAtt;
  VECTOR3 pos, dir, rot;
  static VECTOR3 colRed = {1,0,0},
                 colBlue = {0,0,1};
  static int shape = 2; // [0...2]
  static float size = 1.0;

  // Flash calculations
  static double lastTime = 0;
  static bool isOn = true;
  double simt = oapiGetSimTime();
  if (simt-lastTime > 0.5) // Flashing period (twice per second)
  {
    isOn = !isOn;
    lastTime = simt;
  }

  if (!isOn) return; // nothing to do

  // attachment points to parent
  for (i = 0; i < vessel->AttachmentCount(true); ++i)
  {
    hAtt = vessel->GetAttachmentHandle(true, i);
    vessel->GetAttachmentParams(hAtt, pos, dir, rot);
    const char *id = vessel->GetAttachmentId (hAtt);

    // TODO: Here I would like to render one arrow instead
    RenderSpot(dev, &pos, (float)size, colRed, false, shape);
  }

  // attachment points to children
  for (i = 0; i < vessel->AttachmentCount(false); ++i)
  {
    hAtt = vessel->GetAttachmentHandle(false, i);
    vessel->GetAttachmentParams(hAtt, pos, dir, rot);
    const char *id = vessel->GetAttachmentId (hAtt);

    // TODO: Here I would like to render one arrow instead
    RenderSpot(dev, &pos, (float)size, colBlue, false, shape);
  }
}

The method is called from Scene::Render in the same manner as vVessel::RenderBeacons is called. Like this:

    ...
    // should we render grapple points?
    //
    for (pv=vobjFirst; pv; pv=pv->next) {
        if (!pv->vobj->IsActive()) continue;
        pv->vobj->RenderGrapplePoints(pDevice);
    }
    ...

But from here on I am not experiencd enough in DirectX...
In a first shot I created two Vertex definitions for the arrow(s)...

VERTEX_XYZC GrapplePoint::arrow_blue[] = {
  // Head
  { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)},
  {-1.0, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)},
  { 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)},

  { 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)}, // degenerate triangle
  {-0.5, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)}, // degenerate triangle
  // Body
  {-0.5, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)},
  {-0.5, 2.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)},
  { 0.5, 2.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)},
  { 0.5, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0, 0, 255)}
};

VERTEX_XYZC GrapplePoint::arrow_red[] = {
  // Head
  { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)},
  {-1.0, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)},
  { 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)},

  { 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)}, // degenerate triangle
  {-0.5, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)}, // degenerate triangle
  // Body
  {-0.5, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)},
  {-0.5, 2.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)},
  { 0.5, 2.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)},
  { 0.5, 1.0, 0.0, D3DCOLOR_XRGB(255, 0, 0)}
};

Can you give me a hint on how to render the Meshes?
Am I on the right track?
Or should I have used some other technique?

Regards,
Kuddel

P.S.: Please don't mind the many statics, I'll move them to members and initialize them at construction once I found out how to make this work