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Full Name Matthew Johnson
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GD Gathering City Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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VRTank 0.3.5 - Multiplayer demo! I'm finally getting around to releasing the long-awaited fourth demo of my Spectre remake. Download here. Manual My Gamedev.net journal The lobby is up 
Posted June 10, 2009 8:41:15 AM
Potential legal issue Okay, so I've been making a Spectre clone for the last few years. Essentially I've been looking at the graphics and the levels and have been trying to replicate the original game for modern hardware. Now while I do not claim to have invented the... 
Posted July 2, 2008 11:37:58 PM
Happy 500000th thread! ...Or should I say 500020th. :) Celebrate! Gamedev.net is a fantastic site with a great community! Here's to another 500000! Discuss and share what Gamedev.net has done for you and your projects! 
Posted July 3, 2008 11:48:19 AM
Fantastic project advice from the creator of Soldat The creator of Soldat made a great blog entry on "How to Never Finish Your Project". If you ask me it's required reading for aspiring programmers here :) Link 
Posted June 5, 2008 1:00:15 PM
Post internet cliches in code form Here's what I just spent class doing: if( System.getYear() == 2021 && war.isBeginning()){ try { ship.shootStuff(); } catch (AttackedException e) { ship.getStatus(WHAT_HAPPEN); } somebody.setUpThemTheBomb(); mainscreen.turnOn()... 
Posted February 25, 2008 2:46:37 PM
SDL problem with Mixer and RWops to put it simply, the following code causes a crash back to the IDE. I've had messages about access violations, and invalid handles. FILE *f=fopen("sound.wav","rb"); SDL_RWops *rw= SDL_RWFromFP(f,0); m_pvc[52]=Mix_LoadWAV_RW(rw,1); //This... 
Posted February 22, 2005 11:55:19 AM
[newbie] Octree occlusion issue I've noticed that it doesn't seem to work if you check if the points in an octree node are within the frustum to determine if a given node should be rendered, if the camera is oriented in such a way that none of the points appear within the frustum. ... 
Posted January 15, 2008 1:47:25 AM
3D curves I'm looking for a way to create 3D curves, kind of like bezier curves, but in 3D space. What's a good way to mathematically represent these? P.S. The closest thing I've found in Blender is the "Path" object. 
Posted January 9, 2008 11:17:10 PM
[noob] http POST and forms. Question, suppose I have a form with a textbox, a hidden value, and two buttons. Suppose if the second button was pressed, I want the hidden value to be something else. Assume I'm using http POST, if that matters. Is there an easier way to do this... 
Posted November 24, 2007 6:54:26 PM
Eclipse JSP plugin? I'm doing a school project, and I'm looking for good, preferably free plugin(s) for Eclipse for writing JSP and Servlets. Any suggestions? 
Posted November 17, 2007 12:51:04 AM
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sorry for post stupid story. this spent me more than 6 hour  
Posted October 31, 2009 2:15:52 AM
A Data-driven Animation Manager Actually this is exactly how Doom (1993) does it, except with function pointers to the actions. Edit: well, not exactly, but it immediately reminded me of that. 
Posted October 24, 2009 12:53:22 AM
Frontline Award Winner Torque 3D gets high-end baked lighting with pureLIGHT My friend made a UT3 map with his cousin who works at pureLight, and the lightmaps were generated with this software. It looks fantastic. [Edited by - matt_j on June 12, 2009 7:29:37 PM] 
Posted June 12, 2009 10:29:20 AM
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land Actually the newest post about VRTank can be found here I hope it's fairly bug-free. You'll need 0.3.5 to be able to see lobby server games though. Thanks for the mention though! :) 
Posted June 6, 2009 12:57:39 AM
The Daily GameDev.Net Haha, it's like that "internet money" episode of South Park. 
Posted April 15, 2009 1:09:14 PM
Is it true that Computer Engineers are better than Computer Scientist in 3D games From my university experience I say both turn out equally bad coders :P 
Posted April 13, 2009 1:23:46 PM
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land I'd also like to to add my game demo again since I've been too busy to update or write anything in my journal, and I'd like more people to give it a try and give me feedback :) 
Posted March 20, 2009 11:02:44 AM
Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land Check my latest journal entry for something even cooler :) Thanks for the mention! 
Posted February 21, 2009 12:35:12 AM
[MMO] An over-ambitious project that needs people Ironically the post itself isn't complete. 
Posted February 7, 2009 11:36:36 AM
Dinosaurs seek coders ' Lost World Returns' This is just about the coolest thing I've seen on this site. 
Posted January 26, 2009 1:09:43 PM
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