A friend recently asked me something about Visual Basic. He wanted 50 textboxes in a row, but they had to be in an index, and he didnt want to place just 50 textboxes in his form.

Here’s the sollution i made:

- Create a textbox
- Give it Index = 0
- Set Visible = False
- Place it at the left-top of the form
- Enter this code:

Private Sub Form_Load()
For a% = 1 To 50 ‘50 textboxes
Load Text1(a%) ‘Load them
Text1(a%).Left = Text1(0).Left ‘The left has to be the same as the other one
Text1(a%).Top = Text1(a% - 1).Top + Text1(a% - 1).Height + 20 ‘The bottom of the previous one + 20 (change to your like)
Text1(a%).Visible = True ‘Make sure it’s visible (loaded objects have Visible = false as default)
Next a%
End Sub

This works for most other (ActiveX) controlls to.

I didn’t post much in a while, but I really should. I just got my laptop yesterday. It’s an 1.6 ghz with an ATi radeon 9700 256 mb. Which is quite nice for a laptop right?

Doom 3 and Half Life 2 work fine. Off course I didn’t get it for gaming. I got it for my study at the HAN University of higher studies. Now I only need to buy OrCAD, and Borland C++ Builder 6. And some more programs. To be honest, I tried downloading it at first… but it’s not really working. Or my downloads aren’t. Anyway, I can get them for a nice discount at the school, so i’ll just buy it. I have to use it for 4 to 5 years anyway. Why not invest?

Well it’s still vacation now and i’m working on the RPG with serveral other people. I implanted MySQL for the login system, and to store everything. I implanted an object/model selection system (to select NPC’s, items and monsters). And i’m programming the NPC functions now. It’s all going better then I expected. Here’s a list of the people currently working on the RPG:

Robin Degen (Me ): Programmer, Torque Scripter, Mapper, DIF Shapes, Music & Sound effects
Joe Da Silva: Modeller (Low poly: Weapons, items), Mapper
Mike Kuntz: Concept Art, Names, Ideas
Bart Plovie: Database, PHP, Website, Torque Scripter
Maarten de Koning: Mapper, World design
Scott Timlock: Mapper, World design

I also might have found a great modeller (Richard Garcia). But unfortinutly he hasn’t replied to my emails yet. Let’s hope he will, or we’ll have to start looking again.

We can allways use extra talents. Modellers, texture artists, mappers, scripters, programmers… everything. It’s planned to be a huge MMORPG, so we’ll need a lot of people on this. You can also apply yourself for beta testing, and you will receive various versions to test when we’re ready for that. Email me, or comment here about anything.

Want to know everything about modding? My friend Mike “Vulture” Kuntz is still working on it, but it looks promissing. There are forums there to, feel free to register. Heh… you can even call him.

Remember that this site is still in development, and that the forums aren’t online that long yet. But there has to be someone to register as one of the first right? We will also discuss the MMORPG ideas on that forum.

http://www.twiztedm0d.cjb.net

The engine has been desided on. It became Torque. I bought the sourcecode, and am now changing it a lot for it to forfill everything we need from it (special terrain rendering, special 3rd person camera movements, etc.). I am hoping to port it from OpenGL (1.0) to DirectX 9, and be able to use shaders, and this way saving me a little (read: about 400$) money on the Torque Shader engine.

Before I (we actually… we’re still looking for a modeller and texture artist though) start on the RPG, I’ll make some small “test” games. So far I made an online first person shooter with 2 weapons and a bunch of maps. I’m now working on an offroad rally game. I’m doing this for me to learn Torque scripting, and have more experience before I can begin on the RPG.

While creating the rally game I messed around with the particle system and it’s effects. When you drive, you’ll leave a blue trail now that will float there for about a minute. It doesn’t really make any sence, but it looks great, doesn’t really effect the FPS much and I learned how it works.

More about this later. Maybe even a (few) release(s) of (a) game(s)… (damn that’s a lot of (’s and )’s )