Welcome to our ever growing collection of Dark Basic source code snippets. These source codes are for fellow DB/Dbpro programmers to examine, use and modify. Perhaps even learn something new !

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2D Misc

• Snap Mouse To Grid


• 2D Text Typer


• 2D Fade Bitmaps


• 2D Plasma Sine Wave Screen Wipe


• Filled_Circle_Picture Displayer


• Unlimited Sprites


• Easy Raster Font Creator


• Star field


• 2D Homing Missile Demo


• 2D Bullet Examples


• Street Fighter Styled 2D Floor Scrolling Example



Scrolling/Tile Maps



• 2D Scrolling Tile Map Code


• 2D 8 Way Wrap Scrolling Demo


• 2D X axis only Scrolling Demo


• 2D Sine Wave Text Scroller


• 2D Right To Left Parallax Scrolling



3D Effects In 2D



• 3D Perspective Star Field


• WOLF 3D Engine Clone, COMPLETELY in 2D


• Vector Graphics (FILLED & WIRE FRAME)


• 3D Fire Lines


• 3D Dot Sine Waves



Dot Effects



• Crazy Dots (Spheres of Chaos style!!)


• Dot Tunnel


• Densely Layered 2D Star Field



Shape Drawing & Effects



• Draw/Convert Convex/Concave Polygons to Triangle Lists


• Custom Line Draw Function


• 2D Fast Array based Flood Filler (updated Nov 2003)


• 2D Ratio Filled Circle


• RotZoom (rotation zoomer) with real time Fire


• 2D Fire Example

• 3D Dynamic Object Cache Example


• 3D Particle System


• 2D Portal Builder and Viewer For 3D worlds


• 3D Calc Rotated Points Round An Object


• Pause 3D Game Example


• 3D Get Orthogonal Ground Height From .X Model)


• 3D Pick Object Selection Code


• 3D Object Positioning With Mouse


• 3D Custom Matrix Get Height Function Demo


• 3D Plasma Cube


• 3D Get Ground Height From Any Poly


• Matrix / Terrain - Find 3d impact point of 2D mouse click on Matrix


• Matrix / Terrain Calc Height Map Normals


• Matrix / Terrain Line Of Sight

• 2D Line Intersect Circle


• 2D Platform Game Collision (includes scrolling and gravity)


• 2D/3D Sliding Circle Collision


• 2D line To Line Intersection


• 2D Line To Box Intersection


• 2D Box Math Collision


• Fast Point In Triangle Polygon


• Point In Polygon (2d Triangles)


• Point In Convex Polygon


• 2D Rotated Box Collision


• Sliding Cone Collision Demo Src

• Speeding up Get Distance Examples


• Binary IF/THEN speed up Example

• Test DB Compilers Variable Limits


• Delete Static Collision Boxes


• Line Count Dark Basic Source Files

• Radix Sorting (32bit +variable versions)


• String Cache Functions


• Sort Strings


• Quick Sort Example Code


• Binary Chop Searching

• Recursive Folder Listing (get all files within a folder)


• Reading And Writing Massive Files via a Cache

• Save 32bit Bitmap
10k (DBPRO only - Updated June 2003 )

• IFF To Array Loader


• IFF To Array Loader & Image Pack


• X Object Read / Ripper


• Load Bitmap To Array


• Numeric Int & Floating Point Text file Decoder

• Keyboard Defines and Scan Code to ASC II conversion


• Custom Scan Code Input Replacement (V0.04)

• Logic Functions


• 2D Get Angle


• 2D Vertex Rotation


• 2D Point In Front of Line


• Common Point Rotation Example

• Convert Timer Milliseconds to Hours / Min / Seconds


• Program Settings Parser (lets you decode a settings file))

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Language : Dark Basic or Dark Basic Pro
Processor : P2 450 or Above
Direct X: 7.1 or higher
Ram : 16 Mb
HD space : 512kb
Sound : SoundBlaster ( or compatible device )