Question

[Tony]

It won't take you a few years. More like a few weeks. Learn DX8. It may seem hard on the outside but it really is easy. I started messing around with Robin's dx8 engine like a while ago then I started to actually learn it from some website and it was easier to understand after messing around with it already.

http://directx4vb.vbgamer.com/DirectX4VB/TUT_DX8_DG.asp

After you learn all that, setup winsock, split the data sent and received (packets) so you can read more than just one thing in a packet (i.e. Packet = hairstyle, haircolor, hairsmoothness you need to split that up to read it seperately), and start with some account creation. Learn how to read and write binary files.

Split a string

Code:

Dim Packet() as string
Packet() = Split(the data that needs to be split up here (unsplitted packet?), the character that's the seperator)

Code:

Dim Packet() as string
receiveddata = 200 & "," & 300 & "," & "995cool"   ' which is 200,300,995cool
Packet() = Split(ReceivedData, ",")
' packet(0) would = 200
' packet(1) would = 300
' packet(2) would = 995cool

I'm splitting up the received data by indicating the commas as the separators

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