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Get to know ViLiO...  GDNet+
Full Name Richard Thomas
Nickname ViLiO 
State/Province, Country Manchester
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Homepage URL http://www.vilio.net/ 
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Job Title Animation Coder 
Job Description My job is ace :) 
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Member Since 10/17/2003 4:34:34 PM
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Some recent topics started on our forums
GPU Gems now readable online GPU Gems now readable onlinePosted by: Richard Thomas at March 27, 2008 8:17:17 PMNvidia have made the first GPU Gems book freely available to read online. More Information Here 
Posted March 27, 2008 3:17:17 PM
Game Programming Gems 7 Picked up a copy of this last week and have just gotten around to sifting through the source CD. However, I can't for the life of me locate Ben Garney's Clipmapping demo (his chapter, 5.6, mentions it a good few times and it even has little "on the c... 
Posted March 16, 2008 11:27:58 AM
Juice Games Open Day Juice Games Open DayPosted by: Richard ViLiO Thomas at March 12, 2008 9:15:49 PMIf you are a student with your sights set on working in the games industry, and you can make it to Warrington (Cheshire, UK) this April, then why not stop by at the... 
Posted March 12, 2008 4:15:49 PM
Atmospheric Scattering I've been toying with this for most of today and I just can't get my sky to look blue [dead] I am basically trying to implement the Preetham method and have ported over his shaders to HLSL but I must have made a mistake some place. All my input va... 
Posted March 22, 2007 9:51:51 PM
[XNA] Game Studio Express April Update Announced XNA Team Blog Quote: * XNA Game Studio Express o Windows Vista is now fully supported o You can now add icons to XNA Game Studio Express Games. o Incrementally deployment of Xbox 360 projects now works for all yo... 
Posted March 8, 2007 2:43:09 PM
Dream Build Play [Warn-Up Announced] The XNA Game Development contest (DreamBuildPlay) site has finally gone live. DreamBuildPlay Not too much info on there that wasn't already known. Details and info on prizes etc. are going to be announced on the 5th February but... 
Posted January 31, 2007 6:10:46 PM
Terragen 2 Technology Preview Available Terragen 2 Technology Preview AvailablePosted by: ViLiO at December 20, 2006 7:28:40 PMTerragen™ 2 Technology Preview is the first public release of Planetside Software’s new, cutting edge landscape visualisation software. The Technology Previe... 
Posted December 20, 2006 1:28:40 PM
Time to equip your avatars of festivity It is nearing that time of year again and already I am starting to see GDNet+ people putting on their Christmas avatars. The list so far (that I've seen) not including myself is ... johnhattan, Gaiiden, dcosborn, visage and I don't think JTi... 
Posted November 27, 2006 6:20:22 PM
Sony Europe forces Lik-Sang to close Sony Europe forces Lik-Sang to closePosted by: ViLiO at October 24, 2006 5:02:30 PMQuote:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - OUT OF BUSINESS NOTICE Hong Kong, October 24th of 2006 - Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced... 
Posted October 24, 2006 12:02:30 PM
Is this the best book ever? I've not read it myself, but this is a very impressive rating [wink] I was actually going to post this in GD:CSI but the problem does lie with my own browser cache, made me laugh though so thought I'd share it [smile] 
Posted September 27, 2006 7:18:53 PM
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[Solved] Loading and using OBJ Hi, Just for a comparison, using my own .obj loader in a Release build C# application takes about 1.3 seconds to load the Sponza mesh, which contains roughly 65000 polygons. The general algorithm is as follows: string line = null; while ((l... 
Posted November 16, 2009 10:01:53 AM
BEWARE of Edge Games! If he is hiring just to port Bobby Bearing to iPhone then it doesn't sound like a great opportunity for a budding game developer. However, if the racers game he claims is in development is actually being put on consoles such as PS3 and 360 (and... 
Posted November 4, 2009 3:34:08 PM
Service to distribute small demo? Assuming it is the demo in your IOTD (which is very nice btw), there is devimg.net which allows you to post a screenshot and also upload your zip (or so I believe as I've never actually used the site I just know it exists [cool]) Also, I hope it g... 
Posted October 23, 2009 6:25:33 PM
AABB for animated model The yellow box in your diagram was indeed what I had said "definitely won't result in one that is too small", so massive fail on my part [grin] So yea, if having ragdoll or hitbox info for your animated mesh isn't something you are going... 
Posted October 22, 2009 5:32:31 PM
DEXSOFT Games: SCI-FI Hoovers model pack Either those are some of the most futuristic vacuum cleaners ever made or you meant "Hover" [smile] All the best, ViLiO 
Posted October 22, 2009 12:29:21 PM
AABB for animated model If you have the AABBs of the keyframes you are interpolating, just min/max those AABBs to create an AABB of the AABBs (won't necessarily result in a perfect AABB but definitely won't result in one that is too small) [smile] Alternatively, (an... 
Posted October 22, 2009 11:42:04 AM
Holy...EA and THQ could be gone!!! Quote:Original post by Talroth Quote:Original post by rian carnarvon EA is 75% developed for platforms other than the 360. EA gets bought out by Microsoft, do you really see them making Wii & PS3 games anymore? This is bad for EA why? They no lo... 
Posted September 24, 2009 11:28:54 AM
Mobigame's Edge pulled because of the word Edge I am going to make a game called "Strumming with The Edge" starring The REAL Edge [cool] Langdell won't stand a chance in the courtroom [grin] 
Posted August 4, 2009 9:05:55 AM
End of probation To potential employers it is going to seem like the problem was on your end, and if you are wanting to continue working in the games industry, taking a few months out of it to lock yourself away and work on personal projects is only go... 
Posted July 24, 2009 3:40:24 PM
The four horsemen have come? It is a well known fact that the end of the world will come about only when Chuck Norris decides. 
Posted June 30, 2009 5:21:19 PM
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