Hello all together :-)

First of all: I'm female ( naturally -5 on technology-skill ;-) ), I'm german ( -2 on IN due to communication-difficulties ), I don't know much about (game-)programming ( uhuh ) and I know Verge3 now since three days - not the best basics to start off but I'll try hard *g*

There are many, many questions flying through my mind, but most of them I'll try to answer myself (you all wrote much already, hopefully there'll be some answers for me amongst it). Let's start with a tiny little problem I ran into playing around with V3 and Rysens wonderful tutorial for beginners ( which sadly isn't finished yet ;-( ) - your change-log on V3 says that automax 0 is functioning again ... but not for me :-/ I followed the first steps of the tutorial and was able to get 'Darin' to walk over the map - then I wanted to try how it looks like when I set automax to 0, but when I do this I just get:



No screen, no map, just this - uhm - title-bar and the music can be heard. I'm running Win98, by the way.
Can anybody help me? Well, I could also live with automax 1, but I'd love to see how all looks like without being stretched and getting blurry ...

Thx in advance
Newbie-Abalone

Only thing I can think of is if your resolution isn't set in verge.cfg...
Try tossing:

xres 640


yres 480

in there. If that doesn't do it, try adding 'windowmode 1', too.
All assuming they aren't set already, of course. If they are, I've no idea.

Regardless, welcome to the community. Hope you figure it out :)

Hmm... not seen this problem before. As something to try, put this line near the top of your autoexec() somewhere:

WindowSetSize(1, 320 + 8, 240 + 27);

Should manualy force to window to be the right size.

Zip

[Edit: Thanks to the wonderful ovk, I can now say this doesn't work. Which is probably why the size isn't set right in the first place.]

Woah, I never got the idea just to DRAG the corner *lol* Wonderful, overkill, that works! :-D

Also: Wie Geht's!
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Danke, gut! ;-)

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Woo! Does this mean I don't have to write my own windowing system? After the r-b tree, binary tree, DMA string, linked list and all the hashes that went into the ClassBuilder script I'm getting pretty sick of looking at data structures. While the thought of writing an awesome little OS for my game (mmm, click and drag windows!) is appealing, I don't think I can stomach much more of this low-level stuff at the moment. ;-;

Aww. I remembered reading about all the work you put into the textboxes, thought you might have done a generic window to base the textboxes on, that I could use to handle menus and hold buttons and junk.

Well, no worries. I'll just work on physics and stuff until I'm ready to write what I want. I'm starting to suspect I'm going to end up with something closer to an operating system than a game. o_O

Whoah...I just had this freaky mental image of a Linux emulator written in VC. o__o And then you could run wine on it, and run a second copy of V3 on that! That would be awesome.

...or maybe I just need to get to sleep.

Feyr: I think your sig lies :D