Blitz3D
A downloadable tool for Windows
The classic game programming language for PC, now available for free!
The full Blitz3D source code is available here https://github.com/blitz-research/blitz3d_soloud
A hardcopy manual is also available here: https://www.lulu.com/search?adult_audience_rating=00&page=1&pageSize=10&q=blitz3...
No ebook though sorry!
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Development log
- Blitz3D V1.118 now availableSep 04, 2024
- Blitz3D V1.117 now available!Aug 19, 2024
- Minor Blitz3D updates now up!Jul 22, 2024
- Blitz3Dx95-V1.109 for Windows 95 released!Jun 24, 2024
- Blitz3D-V1.114 now available and MORE!Jun 18, 2024
- Blitz3D-V1.113 now available!Jun 04, 2024
- Blitz3D V1.112 now available!Apr 14, 2024
- Blitz3D-V1.111 now available!Apr 13, 2024
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On Windows 95, after compiling, I get a runtime error “unable to set graphics mode”
How can I fix that?
I found a way to solve the missing "linker.dll" problem. Download Blitz3D-x95-V1.110.zip, and copy the "linker.dll" file from the bin folder. Next you have to download Blitz3D-V1.118.zip, unpack it and copy the "linker.dll" to the bin folder, and launch Blitz3D. Rest in piece, Mark.
rest in piece
the latest download is reported as a virus, and cannot locate linker.dll when you run it. Whats the problem?
just put in exception in your antivirus program. Unfortunately microsoft defender started complaining about this file two weeks ago. Most likely you need to recompile blitz3d to the latest version of msvc. I don't think anyone will solve this problem, especially now that Mark is not with us.
Yes, thank you. I was looking into doing just that. Sorry to hear about Mark. May he RIP.
I just build a latest version of blitz3d from github source its 1.119 version according version.txt file. Seams windows defender not complaining about linker.dll for now. Edited: 11 days lately defender again complaining about this file :) idk
Latest build on Itch is shown to be 1.118. My windows Defender warned about "VIGORF" so I looked it up and it says that it's a trojan. If you don't use a certain Adobe software, check as an administrator into C:\Documents and Settings\ . Look out.
I don't know who Mark is, but I wish his family peace over his passing.
Ek is baie jammer vir jou heengaan, Mark. Jou was baie goed mens en 'n inspirasie. Ek het jou werk gelief. R.I.P Dankie vir alles.
Fatal Error: x0011000
In the code where shadows play, A creator’s light fades away. Blitz3D, BlitzMax, our guiding stars, Left behind in lines, near and far.
But in the bytes, his legacy lives, A language built, a gift he gives. Though the screen may fade to black, His vision stays, it won’t turn back.
Fatal Error: x0011000, the final call, Yet in our hearts, he stands tall.
:(
Gracias Sibly por tu serie Blitz Basic de Amiga.
Gracias por tu Dark Basic, Blitz2D, Blitz Plus y Blitz3D.
Gracias por todo.
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Thank you Sibly for your Amiga Blitz Basic series.
Thank you for your Dark Basic, Blitz2D, Blitz Plus, and Blitz3D.
Thanks for everything.
Only now I learned of Mark Sibly's death, and I'm truly sad about this. Thanks Mark for Blitz3D and Monkey, I enjoyed these languages/tools a lot! RIP!
Just heard you passed away
rest in peace man…
RIP!
R.I.P, May peace be with him.
Oh no, this is so sad. Rest in Peace, Mark "The Man" Sibly. We will uphold Your Legacy!
I just wanted to thank him again, because now I use Blitz3D for procedural mesh creation that imports in Cura and then prints on a 3D-printer, Tutorial here:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6886104
He didn't like swearing on his forum, and he only once said "crap" in quotes - so I say it too today - crap! But at least, at the current state of the world, he is definitely in a better place now, because even hell seems like a Spa in comparison. But he's not in hell, rather is he working on a compiler that is "cloud-compatible", up there.
So sad news for me on this dec 24. ... a great Man was taken from us .
Rest in Peace!
Rest In Peace
Mia fora k enan kero ipirkse o pateras mou pou douleve stis farmes. san namin eftane auto, ixe k mia kali doulia sto
chimentopio. Kalos anthropos den legw. Kalos ma erimitis. K aravoniastike tin mana mou. Ma pou nakseran tin pagida
pou tous etimasan i kyprioi Gia ena diploma meta to allo. Ta xartia tis ieromiosinis.
Mia fora lipon mas prostaksan sto xarti na anametrithoume me ton theo, mas stisan pagida, me phychologika proionta k
ipoproionta tou theou akrodamasti.
Na min ta polilogoume lipon mas stisan pagida. Egw na min milw, o pateras na min tin theli, oi mas, emas mas ithele, alla
oxi gia kini, tin kaimeni tin manoula mou. Pige na tin ekdikithi. Ekane emena. Ton number one bastardo, opos me ipe.
O papas me ipe etsi. Meta katalavenete, prospathousa na agorasw tin agapi mou me auton k olous, k mas odigisan sto kremo.
Thee mou voithise me, min afinis ton isou xristo na me katastrepsi. Mou katastrepse tin zwi ws exi eki pou thimame.
Oxi allo.
Telos.
greeklish
Auti i apistefti alithini istoria epeksergazete to kimeno tou isou xristou san satanas gios tis bithleem. Prokite gia enan
tixodioxti pou efarmose tin lavi kamexamet san kalampoki k epnikse k pligose tous pantes. Auti i storia ksekina apo tote
pou i tourki isevalan sto nisi tis kyprou, dioti opos tha sas pw, eksistori mia ikogenia apo mia vromiki doulia, den epafse
na zi mesa stin distixia.
Gia mia ikogenia san tin diki mas irthan i tourki k prosvalan tin mitera mou sta psichologika tis problimata, me optasies
k tou theou martirio na megalosi ta duo tis pedia. Me enan diaolo sto xeri , ena pedi pou den emilan, to skotosan , piran
tis anamnisis tou k to kathisan sto sxolio k as min mathene tipota, menontas eki ospou tou kerasan k aftounou ta psichologika
problimata me akoustikes psevdesthisis k ena papagalo sto xeri. Den kani afto, gia na to katastrepsoun , to kaman na
erethizete xwris idietero logo, meta autonoita na epakolouthoun.
rest in peace, andreas
Rest In Peace
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rest in peace
rest in peace
Sad news, Mark Sibly passed away. Rest in Peace! Always loved what you created....
Yes, way to early. RIP.
:sob:
i recieve a crash when using writepixelfast commands on a locked buffer
i gave it correct coordinates
is there a fix to it or is it just a bug?
Hi, I recently downloaded Blitz3D in an attempt to upgrade the version used by SCP:CB, but there are certain bin files that are supposed to be replaced that contain certain functions like bump mapping and are required if you intend to compile the game. I was wondering if it would be either possible to implement these functions directly into the newest versions of Blitz3d, whether it be in a new update or upgrading the mavless functions.
Hi, I don't know if you check the blitzcoder forum anymore but I asked some questions about blitz3d on there
Hi used to use Blitz3D for 2D games many years ago. I'm looking to get back into coding 2D games and was wondering is Blitz2D still a good choice for this?
I would like to have some torches that light part of the game map in a 2D game, is this something that is possible using Blitz3D or can it not do something like this?
TBH, I would not recommend starting a new project in Blitz3D unless you wanting to support ancient versions of Windows, in which case you can use Blitz3DxWin95 to produce Windows95 compatible apps. Blitz3D is 20-ish years old by now and the development environment and underlying technology are very outdated.
I would personally recommend Raylib + your favoruite language if you enjoy programming everything by hand, or Godot if you're into GUIs.
Bitdefender reports 1.118 as a virus and wont let me extract or download it?
This is probably a false positive (the Wacatac one esp. comes up a lot) and there is nothing I can do about these.
I have started posting hashcodes for all zip downloads at the bottom of the devlog release announcement posts. If you run certutil on the downloaded zip, eg:
cvertutil -hashfile blah.zip SHA256
...and it comes up with the same SHA256 number, then the file you have received is at least the file I sent, meaning at least it hasn't been interferred with en-route. Past that, it's purely up to you whether you trust that I sent a 'clean' file in the first place or not.
You can also send the file to 'Virus Total' online but that does sometimes come back with a few false positives too - esp. through the 'AI' virus checkers. Bye, Mark
Amazing, still getting updates. Wish Mark Sibly came along and started some quality youtube tutorials on making proper stuff like FPS, 3rd person games with quality levels and HU etc...
Hi, is it possible to bring back support for older DLLs like it was in 1.106, it'd be real nice to use some of the DLLs such as FastExt
Thanks, Mark, hope You're fine!
bets shit i had ever used!
easy, great and cool :)
i wish this framework the best :]
we playing scpcbdc with this one
Ok so after dropping unity because it almost oofed my pc, i moved to Blitz3D. And i downloaded V1.116, is it made for windows 11 or not? Because im experiencing constant issues.
Blitz3D isn't 'made for Windows 11' (not sure anything is yet?) but I haven't had any reports of it not working on Windows 11 yet either. What are the issues you are experiencing?
But Blitz3D is getting pretty old by now, and it's pretty likely it wont be a 'comfortable' choice for users who are used to more modern tools. It seems to be mostly popular with people writing retro games these days.
The longevity of support on this is mind-blowing. Thank you!
I'm having trouble understanding the LoadTexture flags 2 and 4. Specifically, despite loading a PNG or TGA 32ARGB texture with flag 1+2 I get a flag 1+4 behaviour of 32RGB texture with alpha channel being ignored completely. Does B3D even support alpha channel textures in the "modern" way we understand it?
EDIT: figured things out, the problem was unrelated to the texture handling.
Textures with alpha channel used to work just fine in Blitz3d. (Haven’t tried it with the 2024 versions.) Back then, a common problem was that one would use 16-bit graphics mode, where there isn’t a lot of bits left for alpha info. This would make gradients feel like masked; it could be solved by also adding mode 512.
The real problem is the lack of Z-ordering of surfaces with alpha. We are reviving an old gaming project which went open source and try to modernise the graphics to reach some new audience. We wanted to switch from masked to alpha textures and we have a tough decision to make now.
I find the omission of alpha Z-ordering rather puzzling as it had to be implemented analogously for opaque surfaces before alpha surfaces were even considered. It probably wouldn't be difficult to add a flag enabling alpha Z-ordering directly in the Blitz source, and certainly easier than doing it in the Blitz code, as the Z-order needs to be updated per-mesh relative to active camera, in each frame.
Thank you so much, Mark Sibly. I started learning programming with Blitz3D, and it sparked my interest in software development, ultimately leading to my career as a software developer. Now, two decades later, as a senior developer, revisiting Blitz3D brings back memories and makes me a bit emotional. I often wonder what I would be doing now if I hadn't discovered Blitz3D back then. I once had a large collection of programming books on various languages, including one titled Game Programming with Blitz3D. This is the only book I've kept, and I probably will never sell or throw it away.
I just wanted to thank you, Mr. Sibly! :)
Thank you Mark Silby! Everything seems to be operating corectly!
Woah, there are updates to Blitz3D? In 2024? And here I was about to tell myself to move on to another language. I mean, I echo the sentiments that it'd be one of my fondest dreams for Blitz3D to be fully modernized and with a few of the features you had in Monkey and such (like passable functions and references and whatnot) and IDE QoL updates, but the realistic part of me would be satisfied just from it being brought back to a functional state (putting a dagger in FMOD is a good chunk of the way there, but there's the dead network functions--yes, I used them--, some issues with the window not refreshing after it leaves the foreground until graphics are reset, and some weird performance issues with the IDE, though admittedly it's been a while since I checked for those and they might be addressed already). I wouldn't be surprised if there were huge improvements just from the recompile. I'll have to take it for a test drive.
I look forward to seeing what new life you can breathe into it with LibSGD. I think part of its success will depend on keeping things simple and in-line with basic language tradition, and having integrated documentation with examples like you did with Blitz3D. I'm sure it'd help non-programmers like myself if it was integrated into Blitz3D instead of having to deal with adding libraries and such; the nail-in-the-coffin on a number of my hobby projects has been that I couldn't get Blitz3D reconfigured correctly after a hard drive died. It's great to just be able to reinstall Blitz3D and have everything working again so vanilla is kinda my default these days, but maybe the zip download will change all that since I could just carry my favorite configuration around on a flash drive.
I know Blitz3D was made for games, and I did a bunch of that as a hobby, but it's also my go-to language for quickly pushing out little tools just to help me and my co-workers with repetitive tasks at the office. I'm not a programmer professionally, but Blitz3D is definitely part of my professional success. Opening Blitz3D is a dopamine rush, it's like getting my drug fix.
Good to see you back, Mark!
Wow! Amazing to hear Blitz3D is back!
One thing that I would really love is a very simple serial comms built directly into Blitz3D. With an interest in using Arduinos and python cards to control 3D environments such as movement and rotations my 3D projects, I had to resort to external programs get the initial serial data and then send that data to Blitz3D using text files! Would be great if serial comms was supported like in other basic languages, e.g. open comms, read incoming bytes, done! See my 3D scanner, 3D digitizer and 3D VR headset linked below that all use Blitz3D for the 3D visualisations! https://sites.google.com/site/colinord
It should be possible to do this with a simple userlib. Here's a thread on the topic - 20 years old but it might be useful!
https://archive.blitzcoder.org/forums/b3d-programming/53540.html
I tried a few different B3D serial comms userlibs over the years always hoping to get one working, but to no avail. I don't know why they didn't work, but they were always blocked in some way! Other languages I use such as VB6, LibertyBasic, Just Basic, Free Basic, Python, Processing usually get me started, Their serial comms libraries don't get blocked, but I always want to use Blitz3D for the great 3D stuff! Creating intermediate serial comms 'drivers', that suck in the serial data from Adruinos, and output the data to files in RAM disks, to be read back into Blitz3D is a real pain and very slow! How I wish serial comms was built into B3D to help with this. I really feel that would help open up your userbase to others wanting that hardware capability too!