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| Developer Journal - 34 minutes, 55 seconds ago Texture coordinate projection - By polyfrag I now have texture coordinates.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/battlecomp%20misc/notex2_zps853dbf91.jpg I use the Half-Life/Valve approach, using 2 planes for the texture coordinat... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 day, 1 hour ago Collapsing geometry - By polyfrag I can now collapse a collection of planes defining a convex hull into triangles.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/battlecomp%20misc/collapse_zps574a7771.jpg Now working on a way to m... |
| Developer Journal - 1 day, 17 hours ago PortasAurora.com Re-Launched - By Navyman June 15th, I re-launched the PortasAurora.com website.The website is going to be the host for the up coming game under the Portas Aurora IP.Portas Aurora is a throwback to the era of Master of Ori... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 day, 23 hours ago Zombies - By polyfrag Due to the popularity of the zombie craze I'm going to switch gears and finish my zombie MMOFPS project.MMO? How will he support that? you may think. I don't know what qualifies as big enough to... |
| Status Update - 2 days, 19 hours ago Servant of the Lord #Qt has a very nice translation system, from what I'm seeing. I'm planning to use it for my #indie #rpg #game project, "Of Stranger Flames". |
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| Developer Journal - 2 days, 20 hours ago Looking at Spring RTS - By polyfrag Looking at this well-known open-source RTS engine from the creators of Total Annihalation, hoping to find something useful.https://github.com/spring/spring/tree/develop/rts/aGui It's amazing how we... |
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| Developer Journal - 3 days, 6 minutes ago Looking for Input on Forum Creation - By Navyman I am gearing up to re-launch the Portas Aurora website. The site will not be for the original Portas Aurora: Arrival, but for a new game using the same IP. However, I want to add a more standard fo... |
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| Status Update - 3 days, 20 hours ago Servant of the Lord #Qt now supports: #Windows, #Linux, #Mac, #Symbian, #Blackberry (via a plugin), and soon #iOS and #Android . This makes me a #happy #coder. |
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| Status Update - 4 days, 2 hours ago Servant of the Lord At least the compiler caught the std::remove_if() on std::map at compile-time - but it took me hours to figure out *why* it was complaining. |
| Developer Journal - 4 days, 17 hours ago Man of Steel, Le Bad Cinema - By frob Just saw Man of Steel.It was a major disappointment for me.Bad plot, bad story, bad writing, bad presentation.To be fair, some of it is just Superman. Declaring patriotism with a flag waving in th... |
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| Status Update - 4 days, 20 hours ago Servant of the Lord #KickStarter #humor at it's finest, courtesy of the #indie #game The Stanley Parable (@HelloCakebread): http://t.co/dIk7cpykvw |
| Developer Journal - 4 days, 20 hours ago Fun with commas - By swiftcoder This thread over at GameDev got me thinking, “can one assign Python-like tuples in C++?”I don’t want to pollute the thread in For Beginners with that discussion, but the answer is yes, even withou... |
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| Developer Journal - 5 days, 23 hours ago A history in art - By polyfrag Some of the art I've accrued over the years that are the inspiration for States and Corporations https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109630018/art/4171_175381600022_1278359_n.jpg https://dl.dropbox... |
| Status Update - 6 days, 6 hours ago Promit "Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity," Mattrick said. "It's called Xbox 360." |
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| Developer Journal - 1 week, 1 day ago On to newer and better things - By polyfrag Working on world editor for Battle Computer, an RTS using convex hull FPS-style physics where you can go inside buildings and up/down stairs, activating garage doors and other gadgets, and shooting... |
| Status Update - 1 week, 1 day ago CartoonistDJ10as Just joined. I feel to have some good input. |
| Status Update - 1 week, 1 day ago Promit Sony just announced that the PS4 will launch at $399, undercutting the Xbox One by a full $100. OUCH. |
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| Status Update - 1 week, 2 days ago Servant of the Lord My recursive folder-crawling func wasn't propagating the filename filter. It would accept any name after the root folder, confusing me. #cpp |
| Developer Journal - 1 week, 3 days ago Skipping Ahead - By TheChubu Hi again! For this entry I'm going to talk about the Midpoint Displacement stage and post more pictures, everybody loves pictures! (Yes, I'm a sellout, shush!) Skipping whatever is left of the ridg... |
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| Status Update - 1 week, 3 days ago Servant of the Lord You know you've been #programming too long when... ...even simple english words start to just not look correct. |
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| Status Update - 1 week, 5 days ago Servant of the Lord For something more #programming related, I'd like to see this proposal make it into the #cpp standard: http://t.co/RSEzA0cdym |
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| Developer Journal - 1 week, 5 days ago Disappointment - By polyfrag Corporation-States is coming out on iphone and ipad on the 14th. A last minute improvement to the job-comparison heuristic lead to a change which screwed up the balance, but whatever.In Corporation... |
| Status Update - 1 week, 6 days ago Josh Vega Got sick on Monday, so I haven't worked on my next article. Hoping I'll get a chance next week. |
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| Status Update - 2 weeks, 1 day ago Servant of the Lord Just started playing #supermariorpg, the old #supernintendo #mario #rpg #game. Really interesting so far. Needs more yoshis though. |
| Status Update - 2 weeks, 2 days ago Promit This Marshall amp has four channels and one shared EQ for ALL of them. Who thought that was a good idea? |