DarkBASIC Professional - Addon Packs

Addon Packs

The Game Creators have helped nurture other external programmers who fill the missing gaps and co-released a number of additional .DLL addons for DarkBasic Professional. These include:

• 2D Plugin kit- Add particle effects and fake 2d light easily.
• Advanced Terrain - Limited free version and pay version. Creates 'fast' terrain based on a black and white bitmap heightmap.
• Box2D - Adds a range of 2D commands including 2D physics
• Dark AI - Adds artificial intelligence commands such as pathfinding
• Dark Clouds - Allows you to make high quality clouds for your games
• Dark Data - Adds database management commands
• Dark Ink - Adds printing commands
• Dark Lights - Adds new light mapping commands
• Dark Net - Adds networking commands using both UDP and TCP protocols
• Dark Physics - Adds physics related commands compatible with the new nVidia Physics Processing Unit (PPU). The new version now has fluid support without a PPU.
• Dark Shader - Adds the ability to create homemade shaders easily
• Dark Video - Adds movie encoding, decoding and playback commands
• Enhanced Animations - Adds new commands for manipulating 3D models
• Enhancement Pack - Adds numerous commands such as user information gathering
• eXtends - Adds a large range of commands, especially in relation to 2D and 3D graphics. However it does not support Windows Vista or Windows 7
• EZrotate - Adds powerful maths commands
• Green-Ear - Adds Voice and text chat commands for multiplayer games
• Nuclear Glory - Adds complex 3D collision commands
• STYX - Adds over 200 commands including XML reading and writing commands, dialog commands and some lower level commands
• Texture Max - Adds commands for manipulating textures
• Unity - Adds commands allowing Lua scripts to be executed

There are also a number of free addon packs created by the community, these include:

• BlitzTerrain - Free LOD Terrain plugin
• BlueGUI - Use windows dialog commands in applications and games
• Box2D Plugin Wrapper - Free 2D rigid body physics plugin, wrapping Box2D for DBPro
• DBPTime - Adds time commands
• DBP Collision DLL - Provides ray casting and collision
• Matrix1Utils plugin pack - Huge collection of commands, almost essential for DBPro programmers
• MultiSync - Free plugin for added networking capabilities
• Newton Physics - Provides rigid body physics
• Octree Culling Plugin - Free plugin to allow easy octree based culling of DBPro objects
• Tempest - Free plugin for added networking capabilities
• ViewGUI - Free, simple to use GUI using Direct3D with a WYSIWYG editor
• WinGUI - Provides an open-source solution to building windows environments