November 20, 2008
Towards the start of November you may recall reading something about THQ cutting back on their "core gamer" games and cancelling some of their higher risk unannounced titles. One of said titles was the one I was working on, and as a result I was made redundant [sad]
This came as a massive blow to me…
This came as a massive blow to me…
September 10, 2008
My copy of Real-Time Rendering 3rd Edition arrived today, and from what I've read so far, it is awesome! [smile]
The whole book is printed on glossy paper with colour pictures throughout and I got it at a steal from Amazon UK (pre-ordered it for only GBP35 ...it has since gone up to GBP52!). Even at…
The whole book is printed on glossy paper with colour pictures throughout and I got it at a steal from Amazon UK (pre-ordered it for only GBP35 ...it has since gone up to GBP52!). Even at…
August 11, 2008
One of the most disheartening things I found about working in the games industry is that when I came back from work each day, my desire to fire up Visual Studio and just sit working on stuff through the night, like I used to, had gone. I was assured from speaking to others that the flame of graphic…
March 31, 2008
March 27, 2008
I decided to splash out and get myself a brand new PC [cool]
My digital camera has decided it no longer likes switching on, so I'll have to make do with stock photos [sad]
It is a Shuttle SP35P2 Pro with an Intel Q6600, 4GB RAM, 8800GT 512MB running Vista Ultimate 64-Bit [grin]
I'm aware this isn't qu…
My digital camera has decided it no longer likes switching on, so I'll have to make do with stock photos [sad]
It is a Shuttle SP35P2 Pro with an Intel Q6600, 4GB RAM, 8800GT 512MB running Vista Ultimate 64-Bit [grin]
I'm aware this isn't qu…
January 28, 2008
I just watched My Neighbour Totoro for the first time and it was fantastic!! [smile]
Everyone else in the world has probably already seen it, but if you haven't, you definitely should [grin]
I'll actually start to use this journal for game development stuff again at some point ....maybe :)
Everyone else in the world has probably already seen it, but if you haven't, you definitely should [grin]
I'll actually start to use this journal for game development stuff again at some point ....maybe :)
September 10, 2007
I haven't updated this in ages but it has been for a very good reason. At the end of August I started my first job in the games industry. This is of course a dream come true for me and I am finding it a lot of fun so far. Not entirely sure I will say where I am working just yet, but I did have to p…
July 15, 2007
I've been taking a small break from the physics stuff and returned to ">tightening up the graphics on level 3 (that commercial still makes me laugh even after all this time) [grin]
Basically I've revisited the atmospheric scattering using the excellent sample on FilouGK's Blog to help me out. Swa…
Basically I've revisited the atmospheric scattering using the excellent sample on FilouGK's Blog to help me out. Swa…
July 10, 2007
Progress has been good and I'm again at a stage where I am happy to show what I've been up to [smile]
So far I've implemented boxes, spheres, capsules and heightmaps. Multi-body actors and convex shapes are kind of done but not finished or tested. You may of course be thinking "Since when were you g…
So far I've implemented boxes, spheres, capsules and heightmaps. Multi-body actors and convex shapes are kind of done but not finished or tested. You may of course be thinking "Since when were you g…
June 27, 2007
I said last time I was working on something a bit cool, and here it is [grin]
About a month ago, Tokamak went open source. I had commented in the GDNet news post how nice it would be if somebody ported it so it was completely managed. Well, I decided to be that somebody [wink]
The library is 100% Man…
About a month ago, Tokamak went open source. I had commented in the GDNet news post how nice it would be if somebody ported it so it was completely managed. Well, I decided to be that somebody [wink]
The library is 100% Man…
June 22, 2007
I decided to buy Prince of Persia Classic a couple of days ago, and it is the best 800 Xbox Live Arcade Points I have ever spent [grin]
Gameloft have done an amazing job and the graphics are really nice and the animations flow so well.
The game is also addictive in that you get to see leaderboards of…
Gameloft have done an amazing job and the graphics are really nice and the animations flow so well.
The game is also addictive in that you get to see leaderboards of…
May 20, 2007
A few months back I came across a rather interesting paper on generating radiosity lightmaps (Radiosity on Graphics Hardware). The reason I found it so interesting is because it uses quite clever techniques to do nearly all of the radiosity calculations on the GPU. So, I decided to give it a go [sm…
May 13, 2007
I got a very pleasant surprise today as my folks got me a Wii for my birthday [grin]
The Wii is a really amazing little machine and I was blown away by it having WiFi out of the box (couple of settings changes and it connects to my router no problems). It is kind of funny seeing it sitting beside my…
The Wii is a really amazing little machine and I was blown away by it having WiFi out of the box (couple of settings changes and it connects to my router no problems). It is kind of funny seeing it sitting beside my…
April 05, 2007
I've been tinkering away with some shadows for the past couple of days. I wasn't going to post screenshots until I'd brought them into the terrain renderer, but I think posting often will help keep me motivated [smile]
Essentially a port of Oskari Nyman's PSSM demo from here, the results are quite p…
Essentially a port of Oskari Nyman's PSSM demo from here, the results are quite p…
March 27, 2007
I've been working away at getting atmospheric scattering into my XNA Terrain Renderer and so far the results have been quite pleasing [cool]
It is basically an implementation of Preetham's ATI demo/paper with all shaders rewritten by myself in HLSL. It is by no means finished, but I reckon it is a d…
It is basically an implementation of Preetham's ATI demo/paper with all shaders rewritten by myself in HLSL. It is by no means finished, but I reckon it is a d…
September 16, 2006
I don't know if any of you chaps are following the Stund series on PinkBike, but at the risk of this journal just turning into my URL dumping ground ...
Check out Episode 3! It is Amazing! [grin]
On a slightly more gamedev related note, I am making progress with what I am working on and will put up s…
Check out Episode 3! It is Amazing! [grin]
On a slightly more gamedev related note, I am making progress with what I am working on and will put up s…
September 01, 2006
August 23, 2006
So, I've finally decided to start using this place and after seeing how well Trapper Zoid had transformed his journal into a comic, I figured I'd do a little redecoration myself before settling in [wink]
(has been tested in FF and IE, so in other browsers it may look worse than it already does)
So, m…
(has been tested in FF and IE, so in other browsers it may look worse than it already does)
So, m…
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