Engines, Textures and other stuff

[OverkillMonkey]

I am very new to visual basic (well not THAT new, I suceeded in multiple winsock connections) and I am attempting to make a mmorpg. (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game). I finnished the chat and everything, the chat could handle as many people as I want it to. Now, I want to actual enviorment to be an extension of the chat...thats not really a problem - I can just put it in a form near the chat and make it so that when one moves the other will move. The actual problem is that I have no idea how to make an engine. I would like a website of a premade engine that was made in visual basic so that I can actualy ADD stuff, or change how some things work. I do not need a state - of - the art engine, but I would like a pretty good one, maybe about as good as everquest engine? If that is impossible then gimmy anything you guys got =). Another thing that I am concered about is textures, how do I edit them? How do I make new charecter? Are these questions engine specific? Please reply ASAP
Thefurly@Hotmail.com

 

[OverkillMonkey]

bump...no one ever answers =(

 

[OverkillMonkey]

bump, please help =(

 

[TheInsider]

You probably won't find very much info in this forum on game programming. You might want to consider writing your game in Java. The book: "Java Game Programming for Dummies" is a good source. Rob Marriott
rob@career-connections.net

 

[OverkillMonkey]

it was hard enough learning visual basic to the level I know =(... I made the client/server though - so I might make the actual game in darkbasic...but I don't know that language at all. Could you please redirect me to some forum that can help me?

 

[TheInsider]

Hi,
Unfourtunately I don't know anything about darkbasic (it's a free Basic compiler I think), and there aren't too many forums on this site that deal with game development. I still recommend that you look into Java... it won't give you blazing 3-D graphics, but for developing platform independant, 2-D/isometric web games (i.e. RPG's) -- it works quites well. You can download Java for free. The only other sites that I know of are GameDev.net and GameProgrammer.com Rob Marriott
rob@career-connections.net

 

[Ruairi]

There is a darkbasic forum here Programmers>Languages>DarkBasic. The secret to getting answers to your questions is to ask questions that don't require writing a large book to answer. No one is going to hand you source code for a huge application that is ready to use. Ruairi

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