August 29, 2006
and he has no pants on
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August 16, 2006
Source + installer (needs .NET Framework 2.0).
AI is moderately stupid, it will go for an obvious win or block yours but that's about it.
Summary of victory checking, since someone was asking about it:
AI is moderately stupid, it will go for an obvious win or block yours but that's about it.
Summary of victory checking, since someone was asking about it:
For each player 'p':
bool won = false;
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
// Column
if (gameBoard =…
May 10, 2006
Download C# source and ClickOnce installer Needs .NET Framework 2.0
Tidied up a bit, looks a little nicer now. I've set it to open near the mouse, without going off-screen or covering the taskbar, and close on deactivation, so it's more like an overgrown balloon tip than a complete window.
Note: The …
May 01, 2006
Download C# source code and ClickOnce installer - requires .NET Framework 2.0
Designing the Asteroid class
Most of the movement code is the same for the player and the asteroids. The asteroids' movement is somewhat simpler since they have some initial random velocity, but never accelerate, but this c…
April 30, 2006
Download C# source code and ClickOnce installer - requires .NET Framework 2.0
The first step is to get the ship moving around the screen properly. For now, there are no asteroids, and the ship is just a line.
Although the example game is written in C#, the math and logic will be very similar in most …
April 29, 2006
Download C# source and ClickOnce installer Needs .NET Framework 2.0
Double-click to open the fancy world clock/map:
The yellow line is noon, blue is midnight. The bright/dark areas are split at 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM. It's not 100% accurate given the peculiarities of time zones (and of course the sunset…
April 29, 2006
Download C# source and ClickOnce installer Needs .NET Framework 2.0
Double-click to open the fancy world clock/map:
The yellow line is noon, blue is midnight. The bright/dark areas are split at 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM. It's not 100% accurate given the peculiarities of time zones (and of course the sunset…
April 28, 2006
Download C# source and ClickOnce installer Needs .NET Framework 2.0
Quick one* - makes a taskbar notification area (system tray) icon that shows the day of the month. If you hover the mouse cursor over it, it displays the full date.
Every 10 seconds it checks to see if the date has changed - if so, i…
December 16, 2005
Download the RenderMonkey workshop
HDR source image not included, it's too big - you can download several from Paul Debevec's site, then convert them to DDS with the texture tool in the DX SDK
Creating the shader
This sort of effect is easiest to do as a post-process. You only need to do the calculati…
HDR source image not included, it's too big - you can download several from Paul Debevec's site, then convert them to DDS with the texture tool in the DX SDK
Creating the shader
This sort of effect is easiest to do as a post-process. You only need to do the calculati…
July 20, 2005
...it's no longer a greyish blob.
The little blue ball you can barely see at bottom center rolls around the terrain. ODE's heightfield collider seems to work quite well (the trimesh one was hopeless for the terrain).
Edit: The textures can be found here
July 14, 2005
...it works.
Simple filter run on the height values - basically, points higher up than their neighbours come out brighter, and lower-down points have more light blocked. Nice and soft and subtle, as outdoor shadows should be.
Simple filter run on the height values - basically, points higher up than their neighbours come out brighter, and lower-down points have more light blocked. Nice and soft and subtle, as outdoor shadows should be.
July 09, 2005
...so I made a per-vertex one to play with. It works out looking just as nice for a detailed model, and means one less texture - the data can just be stuffed into the vertex colour. Interestingly, this approach would work just fine on a card that doesn't even support multitexturing. Lighting is a w…
June 26, 2005
This one's easy - blur the skybox image for less of a shiny polished metal effect. I tried using multiple samples in the shader, but that's slow and doesn't look all that good. Turns out that just blurring the individual cubemap images works fine. There should be errors around the edges of each im…
June 25, 2005
Lighting using a precalculated cubemap
For every point in the cubemap, the colour is calculated by finding the lighting on a surface whose normal points from the center of the cube to that point. Here it's calculated from a few directional sources (the sun and a reddish planet). It's also possible t…
For every point in the cubemap, the colour is calculated by finding the lighting on a surface whose normal points from the center of the cube to that point. Here it's calculated from a few directional sources (the sun and a reddish planet). It's also possible t…
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