Elysian Shadows

Its sort of a shame nobody really seems to value books anymore. It's always good to have a number of desk references. Among my favorites (ones I refer to most) are: "Code Complete" (entire series) - Microsoft Publications really puts out a whole HECK of a lot of really good books. These ed...

Excellent, is that an email address that you're signed up to googlecode with?

Short, you would need to provide me an valid gmail address for me to allow you any read/write access. You have read only as a guest, just check out the SVN via http.

Started a new project, looking for coding types. Look here: http://thechaosrift.com/viewtopic.php?f ... art=999999

I need another pet project to undertake, so I've taken some of the most basic of frameworks that I have laying about and decided to begin a new project. This project will be completely free and open source. Membership will be *almost* unrestricted (you will have to register w/ googlecode and me). Ho...

Create an auxiliary buffer object of an RGBA8 integer format with dimensions matching the window dimensions. When some key is pressed, you need to route the final render target instead of to the back buffer to the new render target. FBO would be best for this. Then you can use a PBO (pixel buffer ob...

Ya got it the other way around. A static cast would be "as close" to what is actually happening. Dynamic casts only deal w/ ptr or reference types, and even there, there's no way for the language to ensure that it's a safe operation. So its up to the programmer on that one. This is the bas...

Not to go into one of those long winded rants, but I'm going to go into one of those long winded rants ;] Listen, if it's not possible to find more than two hours in the week to do something that you want to make a living doing (especially now since you're at the cusp of adulthood), then you need to...

Rename it "AsianKid" and see what kinda times you get ;]

Well, you are actually passing a pointer to a vector. This can also be said to be an "array of vectors", depending on how you want to look at it. So, by passing the address of a vector type, that is similar to saying "an array of 1 vector". Therefore, x[0] yields you the 0'th vec...

They're just mapping sin and cos, which have a [-1, 1] range to something more usable for a texture lookup [0, 1].

More conventionally you'd see it as " * 0.5 + 0.5" (eg: cosr * 0.5 + 0.5) so that -1 maps to 0 and 1 maps to 1. The way they've presented it there works just the same.

Alright, in response to lots of questioning I've posted a video series on our Youtube site which is intended to be a computer graphics math primer and an OpenGL transformation pipeline primer. If you're experienced in this area, you can probably skip it as it's relatively "on the surface"....

I'm in league with capt. jack...well I can't attest to how close in league I am...but I got my start in the industry back in 2000. I can certainly attest to the fact that, at least 10 years ago, there was still this element of "unconventional-ness" to game programming in general. It was no...

I've actually read that one. There's quite a massive number of indirect illumination papers out there. Instant radiosity proves to be the only real efficient method of doing indirect illumination in real time since it's very low frequency. That's actually where this next demo is going, there's actua...

Ahhh, you are starting to seeeee young grasshoppa :] Anytime you pass a coordinate via glVertex you are indeed passing an "object space" position. It is via the MODELVIEW transformation (note the MODEL part) which *DEFINES* these positions in "world space" and then ultimately int...

This one is a quick & dirty demo of a typical fat-gbuffer approach to deferred lighting using OpenGL and GLSL. By deferring the lighting until after the primary geometry passes, we are allowed the headroom to calculate a lambertian lighting equation many hundreds of times in screen space per fra...