🎮 Direct3D 8 — freecam for every AirStrike build
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This release brings native Direct3D 8 support so the D3D8 port gets the same tooling as the OpenGL games.
Freecam, overlay, world grid, wallhack — now on D3D8 too.
Supported games
| Version | API | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.06 | OpenGL | Freecam + overlay | Same + freecam stacking fixed |
| 2.51 | Direct3D 8 | no ImGui freecam | Full D3D8 hooks + freecam + overlay |
| 2.71 | Direct3D 8 | no ImGui freecam | Full D3D8 hooks + freecam + overlay |
v2.51 is no longer second-class.
Highlights
| Area | What landed |
|---|---|
| 🎯 D3D8 backend | Direct3DCreate8 → device vtable (Present, SetTransform, Reset, …) |
| 📷 Freecam on D3D8 | Right-handed math, adopts live game camera (not a hard-coded pose) |
| 🖥 ImGui on D3D8 | Custom Dear ImGui D3D8 renderer (upstream never shipped one) |
| 🔌 One plugin set | Shared lua/ → freecam / wallhack / world grid work on GL and D3D8 |
| 🛠 OpenGL freecam | Modelview reset — no more stacked view matrices |
| ✅ #50 | DX8 tracking issue closed |
How D3D8 freecam works
Direct3DCreate8 (inline hook)
└→ CreateDevice (vtable)
└→ Present → frame + ImGui overlay
SetTransform(VIEW) → freecam / camera path
Reset → recover overlay + re-hook
- Dynamic load (
GetProcAddress) — safe under Wine/Proton load order - Live camera adoption — freecam starts where the plane actually is
- Device reset safe — alt-tab / mode change doesn’t leave hooks dead
What's Changed
- feat(proxy): native Direct3D 8 backend with renderer-neutral plugins by @e-gleba in #71
- fix(ci): MSVC-ABI Direct3D 8 SDK + atomic shared_ptr for clang_windows by @e-gleba in #72
Full Changelog: v1.0.8...v1.0.9
(or ...v1.10.0 if you publish under that tag)
Assets
| Platform | Format | Toolchain |
|---|---|---|
| 🪟 Windows (win32) | .zip |
Clang Windows x86 |
| 🐧 Linux (cross) | .tar.xz |
LLVM-MinGW i686 |
Drop the proxy into the game folder as usual. On v2.51, freecam should now behave like on OpenGL builds.
Related
Educational research / game preservation tooling.
Contributors
e-gleba