Ingame UI with C#?

[Mr.Zunz]

I recently started getting into reversing and detouring stuff a bit for a game that uses DX10. I thought it would be usefull to get a ingame UI going.
Now here I am, stuck for like a week finding out how all this drawing stuff works without any luck... Seems like there aint that much libraries out there that I can use.

I tried SlimDX but I can't compile the latest sourcecode so I can't fix a bug that was in the public release (StateBlock). I can't manage to get CEGUI# working either... are there any other options around or can someone help me out with all this? I'm clueless at the moment on what to do and what to use...

[EvsonRARA]

You're going to have to use low level drawing by hooking your favorite DX and injecting low(ish) level drawing code. There's nothing that I've ever seen that involves third party libraries and drawing to an external process.

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...wing-game.html
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...-happened.html

I think you need to hook into CWorldSceneRender::Render

[Mr.Zunz]

Well, I am using a different game and the game only has DX10.

[DarkLinux]

1) Dont use C#
2) Use D3D9 or D3D11.... I dont think 10 was any good
3) Take a look at my code, I draw text ingame but it should be easy for you to add more. The Draw code should work with most D3D9 games.. just removed the warden crap...
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...n-scanner.html (EverScan - An Open Source Warden Scanner)

[Apoc]

1) Dont use C#
2) Use D3D9 or D3D11.... I dont think 10 was any good
3) Take a look at my code, I draw text ingame but it should be easy for you to add more. The Draw code should work with most D3D9 games.. just removed the warden crap...
http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...n-scanner.html (EverScan - An Open Source Warden Scanner)

Why not use C#? I've gotten UIs working with pure C# just fine.

Realistically, you'll be using the same code whether you use C# or C++. C# just has pretty verbose wrappers around the native DX stuff. (SlimDX, etc)

10 was perfectly fine for what it was meant to do, but 11 expanded on it quite nicely.

[DarkLinux]

I guess I'm just not a big fan of wrappers :\ And yes 10 was fine, but you will find 9 and 11 more used. ops I did not see that the game only works in 10. My bad XD

[jjaa]

Have you guys looked at https://code.google.com/p/sharpdx/ at all? I've never used it. But my understanding is that its a very thin wrapper. I've seen it used in C# Windows 8 apps that embed a DirectX view in XAML.

[Bananenbrot]

I'm using it for my stuff. Works perfectly.