Here are useful links for all who wants start or continue game creation with Dark Basic Pro

This page will updated as soon as I find some new and useful stuff.

Dark Basic Professional. Already have bunch of tutorials and examples. Just check built-in help files. Editor is also included.

DarkBasicPro_Setup

 

Additional media and plugins you can grab on this page.

 

DarkBasicPro_Media

 

Collection of games made with DarkBasicPro.

 

DarkBasicPro_Games

 

After installation you can update with one of this patches. Then grab some plugins from this page or from https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/92836

 

To run Dark Basic Pro executables be sure to install this updates from Microsoft official website:

1) Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime

2) Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

3) .NET Framework 4.8 Web Installer

Sometimes links on official Microsoft website can be changed or removed - if so, try to search them and download manually.

Updates

 

Last official update 7.62

 

dbpro_upgrade_7_62

 

Last candidate update ver. 7.7 Release 7

 

It fixes some issues but incompatible with last plugins like Dark Dynamix.

 

dbpro_upgrade_7_7_RC7

 

Unofficial update DBPro 9Ex 1.0.1.0 - I use this one

 

Update for last official and then install this one. It fixes some issues and granted quicker compilation. I use it for 20k+ lines of code projects.

 

DBPro9Ex_v1010

 

Forum thread : https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/217979

 

Unofficial DirectX 11 update. Add tons of new features. Still in development.

 

https://forum.thegamecreators.com/attachment/77916

 

Forum thread about: https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/210180

IDE ( Editors for DBPro )

 

Last version of Synergy Editor  1.1  12th Dec 2013

 

Windows 8.1 & 10 Compatible - I use this one

 

synergy_editor_v1.1_2013.12.12

The Game Creators Collection ( Plugins for DBPro )

 

Some of plugins below need to be registered. Due to inactive TheGameCreators license server it is now impossible. But don't worry! Here are all necessary certificate files in one folder. Just unzip it to "Dark Basic Professional\Compiler" folder.

 

Certificates

Cloth & Particles Expansion Pack provides a set of commands for creating emitters, colliders and cloth. Using these new commands it's possible to create all kinds of particle and cloth effects within a 3D scene. ( for realtime physics use DarkDynamix or DarkPhysics plugins )

 

ClothParticles

Dark AI. Easy create AI for your games.

 

DarkAI_v105

DarkDynamix download. Powerful physic system using PhysX by Nvidia. Cloth, ragdoll and terrain physics.

DarkDynamix

DarkPhysics download. Another physics system based on PhysX. Liquid, soft and rigid body physics.

DarkPhysics_v105_Upgrade_and_Projects

 

PhysX Free Media download.

 

PhysX_Free_Media

DarkLights download. LightMapping functions.

 

DarkLights

DarkNet download.Functions for Multiplayer.

 

DarkNet_2.0.2

Dark Occlusion download. Optimize rendering geometry.

 

DarkOcclusion

DarkShader tool for easy shader creation.

 

DarkShader_and_Upgrade

DarkSource download. Collection of tutorials for Dark Basic Professional.If you are a beginner then you can start from DarkSource pack.

 

DarkSOURCE

DarkVideo download. Video compression and playing. Dark Video is a complete movie encoder and decoder solution, targeted at anyone interested in adding hyper speed movie playback into their game.

DarkVideo

DarkVOICES download. Lip sync functions.

 

DarkVOICES_DBPro

Enhanced Animation download. Advanced animation system.

 

Enhanced_Animations

DBPro eXtends download. GUI , sprites , particles and more.

 

Extends

Download Unity plugin. LUA scripting language in DBPro.

 

Unity_v3

DBPro STYX download. It contains over 200 new commands.

 

Styx

The Enhancements Expansion Pack is a new product for existing Dark BASIC Professional owners. It extends the power of Dark BASIC Professional by providing 12 new sets of commands allowing access to many new features

 

ENHANCEPACK V4

DarkMATTER pack download. Objects and textures.

 

DarkMATTER

IF YOU HAVE SOME TGC STUFF ( PLUGINS, CONTENT PACKS ) WHICH IS NOT AVAILABLE HERE PLEASE CONTACT ME. anyhowstudio@gmail.com

 

Here is request list. All this stuff is lost and was not found.

 

DarkMatter model packs

 

SkyMatter skybox packs

 

SoundMatter audio packs

 

DarkData,Tree Party,Dark Ink,Texture Max - plugins for DBPro