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I stumbled on this place while looking into ideas on making alterations for DarkGDK for personal use because I am highly unsatisfied with almost every other Game Library out there other than GDK.

Anyway, I noticed the Sticky about the Freelancing stuff and was curious if that is still a thing and if so how one gets involved? C++ experience as well as graphical programming mostly in OpenGL however some experience in DirectX. I regularly write small personal engines( really small, im just one dude lol) for various projects and wouldn't mind pitching in on a project such as this esp if there are bounty's.
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Hi Sedit and welcome to the Forums

Gameguru is on GitHub you can find details here https://github.com/TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo depending on your coding skills yes there are 'bountys' available not the chocolate kind
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They are the chocolate kind, you get one fun size Bounty for every thousand lines of C++.

Only joking, I'm sure they'd stretch to a Kit-Kat if you asked nicely.
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Quote: "Anyway, I noticed the Sticky about the Freelancing stuff and was curious if that is still a thing and if so how one gets involved?"

It is still a thing and if you want to help, your welcome. If you want to do a payed task, then you need to write Lee a mail. I think the freelancer thread is not updated.

If you want to do your stuff in the engine and maybe give them to the community, then you can start in the issues on github to see what other users need.

For money always write Lee a mail
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Still a thing? Hasnt only recently become a thing?

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Posted: 15th Dec 2018 16:39
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Lol, not sure what a chocolate bounty is.


Since I am not trying to capture or kill you it must be the second one

I did not know if it was a recent thing, the initial post I read was from March so I was not sure.

Thank you for your replies and the Github link. I will be happy to check it out, as far as getting paid, that would mainly be for projects that involved substantial involvement in time but if small bugs or code refactoring should not be a problem.
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Posted: 15th Dec 2018 17:14 Edited at: 15th Dec 2018 17:14
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LOL this is a Bounty

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Never do 3d modeling without a good supply of bounty, its the taste of paradise!


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Bahhh Coconut no wonder I didn't know what it was.
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Never been a Bounty fan, such a waste of chocolate ;p
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@Sedit: The freelancer offer and non-chocolate bounty is definitely still a thing! I have not had a lot of takers on accepting some of the freelance tasks currently posted. If you have C++ experience and some spare time, that is all you really need to collect many small bounties. All the DirectX stuff has been done so don't worry about maintaining the graphics engine, there are plenty of other items. If you drop me an email at lee@thegamecreators.com I can go through the tasks you can choose from and show you the donation pots to give you an idea of the budget you can work with. Thanks for reaching out!
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I have been writing Graphic Engines in DirectX and OpenGL in my spare time for the last year and a half or so, so even if I came up on any issue that required me to handle something like that it would not be a problem.
As far as free time, well, I got more than I like to have these days to be honest to perhaps I can find something that fill that void.
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I've personally never been a fan of bounty chocolate either.. cause of the coconut.

But its great to hear from you Sedit! I'm sure TGC would love your help/assistance!
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Posted: 17th Dec 2018 20:39 Edited at: 17th Dec 2018 20:41
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Email sent.

Thank you for the warm welcome, I am sure compared to many of you my experience might be relatively limited but i will surely put my full effort forth and hope to be of some assistance.
Ps: Yeah not a fan of the Coconut, unless its in margaritas or something its never been my taste
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I downloaded the Zip from the Repo and am just trying to get myself acquainted with the project over the next few days.

For the most part the build went fine other than an output error due to it attempting to output to the F: drive which I don't have. Here is the build information for those interested after just downloading the zip and building the solution located in /GameGuruCore/GameGuru.sln
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Nothing to major just thought I would let you know the results of someone just grabbing the repo and attempting to build it. I got Gitdesktop cloning it but its taking its good ol' time in the Files\ directory lol.
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Just use a usb stick or extract some mb from your D: or C: drive I do not know the reason for the hardcoded F: drive, but it is easy to fix.

Here is a github help thread:
https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/219241
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Posted: 18th Dec 2018 00:28 Edited at: 18th Dec 2018 00:56
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Ty Corno, I fixed it already, I just partitioned my Harddrive and added an F:, I been meaning to do so anyway as I needed a place to back up some other files to.

Sadly I do most of my coding on my Potato of a Laptop and it its not fully compatible with DirectX 11 so I will have to reset everything back up on a desktop computer. I got it to all build successfully but it I get an unable to initialize DirectX 11 error. Puts a bit of a damper on things because I can not bring my desktop everywhere with me.
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Is there any intention of supporting earlier versions of DirectX since limiting to 11 will basically mean anyone with a computer a little over 3 years old or so would not support GG if I am understanding these release dates correctly[im not opps, 2011, released a few months before the laptop I am using].
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@Sedit-In VS2017, I just reassign the F: folder to the gameguru folder where I compile the source code. I wouldn't bother partitioning your hard drive unless of course you really want to.
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I planned on it anyway, only difference is I was going to name it E: lol. It just lit a fire under my ass to finally do it is all.
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The Github thing looks interesting, I'll see if I can download the source and compile the code, would be good to contribute
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Well, that ban was quick, I just noticed he sent that message earlier and came to mention that attempting to use VS 2017 is causing me issues even though I compiled the project fine in 2015. Not 100% sure its a compiler error or more to do with me having something setup wrong but I am having issues locating the atlbase.h and other various C++ libraries. Might have botched something on the install. My 2015 was a good copy, this 2017 I got from Microsofts website.
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I had everything working under 2015 as well, then MS in their wisdom forced 2017 on me and now although I can compile the Release target I can't compile the Debug target. Makes debugging rather difficult which is why I'm pretty much sticking to new functionality and only tackling bugs as I stumble across them in the code.
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Posted: 20th Dec 2018 22:04 Edited at: 20th Dec 2018 22:12
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Ok. I use VS2017 from the beginning and never had a problem with compiling GG.

I answered here what you need to do:
https://github.com/TheGameCreators/GameGuruRepo/issues/471

Check out my github fork to see what I did:
https://github.com/HierToo/GameGuruRepo
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