StarGate 64-bit

[Patrice Terrier]

StarGate 64-bit (mini demoscene project).

It is based on a combination of:

• OpenGL for animation.
• BASS.dll for audio.
• WinLIFT for skinning.
• GDImage for WGL extension support.
• Pure SDK flat API for performance and small code size.

Screen shot:



Main points of this demo:

• Animation, on I7 multi-core could be performed from a dedicated loop thread, instead of using a TIMER.
• Private font, ensure that the GUI always look the same on all computers.
• Controls, are skinned on the fly (after the SkinEngine itself has been fired).
• Effects, all animations are based on real time processing of the audio signal.
• Antialias, is GPU based via the use of WGL GDImage extensions.

This is a VS2010+ C++ project, all bin files and resources are provided within the \X64\Release subfolder.

This version uses an XM sound tracker audio file to reduce the size of the ZIP file.

[Patrice Terrier]

The ZIP attached to the first post of this thread has been updated to fix a bug that was detected when i compiled the code in VS2013.

In BassAudio.h

long BassStreamFree() {
    long nRet = 0;
    if (ta.Channel) {
        if (ta.MediaType == MUSIC) {
            nRet = BASS_MusicFree(ta.Channel); }
        else {
            nRet = BASS_StreamFree(ta.Channel);
       }
       ta.Channel = 0; ta.MediaType = 0;
    }
    return nRet;
}

I was using only one single = instead of two  (that's a very common error when translating from PB to C++)

However the ZIP file is still using the VS2010 version, because it produces smaller EXE: 110 Kb, while VS2013 is 150 Kb, 36% larger.

I also swap back the thread animation to a WM_TIMER, because a WM_TIMER produces more accurate result on slower machine, and single core processor.

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