Metalwork

[hitchhikr]

You might be eventually interested by that piece of directx work of mine:

http://perso.orange.fr/franck.charlet/metalwork.zip
http://perso.orange.fr/franck.charlet/metalwork_src.zip

It requires latest directx update & a gfxcard handling pixel shaders 2.0.
The packer used for the job is a specialized one which sole purpose is to pack object files (it's a linker) like hell & generate very small executables (it's using context modelling as packing algorithm).

[hutch--]

hitch,

It GP faults on my win2k sp4. Perhaps the graphics card is not up to scratch, its a 2 year old 128 meg Winfast.

[hitchhikr]

It should be ok but it really does require d3dx9_30.dll which is found in the latest directx 9 update.

Btw, the source archive contains a masm32 directory with the include & lib files for the masm32 distribution.

[u]

Nice, considering the size  :U
It didn't work on my w2ksp4 either, until I fetched that d3dx dll.

[EduardoS]

Worked fine here, Vista x64, Radeon 9600XT (WOW! The first time i sayed my video card instead of my processor...).

[hutch--]

OK, downloaded the required DLL and it works fine, it showed two (2) effects, the first was a radial fan type of image with it fading on the right side, the second was a moving tunnel with light at the outer end. It ran then stopped and it was very difficult to shut it down. Repeated Ctrl+Alt+Del eventually got there.

The tunnel effect was very good and the EXE size is impressive.  :U

[Wistrik]

No problems at all running on my WinXP SP2 system (AMD64, GeForce 6800GT). Watched it until I was satisfied, then pressed ESC to exit to desktop. Well done.

[Siekmanski]

Very cool effect, nice demonstration.

[Grincheux]

Very nice, works fine on my pc too. Chapeau !

[hitchhikr]

Very cool effect, nice demonstration.

There's 2 effects, the second one (a raycasted tunnel) will appear after a while.

[Grincheux]

I saw the 2 effects.

I don't know which is the best.

Very good.

[Siekmanski]

Yeah, both effectS are very nice   :U

[daydreamer]

nice effects
interesting calling methods with lots of pushs
makes me wonder if not single rep movsd from datasection to stack, would be even smaller and a cool solution even in normal dx programming to keep all data structured and reusable in structs

[Seb]

The effects were nice, but it wouldn't exit to the desktop - I had to force a reboot using the reset button. :tdown

But all in all, well done.

[hitchhikr]

makes me wonder if not single rep movsd from datasection to stack, would be even smaller and a cool solution even in normal dx programming to keep all data structured and reusable in structs

Some calls are dependant on other calls results, i think it it would lower the compression ratio anyway.

The effects were nice, but it wouldn't exit to the desktop - I had to force a reboot using the reset button.

Did you try the escape key ? What is your config (windows/dx/gfxcard) ?