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Normal generation for terrain
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Hi everybody!
I'm playing around with OpenGL and .NET and I've run into some difficulties (being a DirectX kind of guy). Basically what I want to do is render a heightmapped terrain. I generate the terrain as follows:
for (int y = 0; y < pat... |
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Posted March 3, 2010 3:42:25 PM
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So, how does GTA IV do it?
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Hi!
I just played GTA IV on a friend's XBox 360 and I must say that it's great fun (I think I'll get myself a copy of the PC version for xmas).
When I was playing the game, I realized that the lighting is absolutely gorgeous (especially th... |
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Posted December 7, 2008 5:37:41 PM
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Why do these games look so darn pretty
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I'm posting this here because I think it's both an art- and a tech question and I wasn't sure what other forum would be more suitable.
I have written a new engine and unlike my previous engine, it's doing 100% realtime lighting (phong + SSAO + PSS... |
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Posted August 30, 2008 2:48:00 PM
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Feedback wanted + tips for a complete novice
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Hi everybody!
I'm a programmer at heart so I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing in here, but here goes ;-)
So for as long as I can think, I've had these melodies in my head. But I could never do anything with them. I don't play an instrument, I do... |
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Posted July 5, 2008 4:53:36 PM
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EXE compiled on Vista won't run on XP (Visual Studio 2005/Native C++) [SOLVED]
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Hi!
My home PC runs Vista (32 bit business) and so does my notebook (32 bit home premium). When I compile a C++ Project with Visual Studio 2005 SP 1 on Vista, the EXE it produces will run fine on Vista, but it won't start up on XP (Br... |
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Posted June 25, 2008 10:35:27 AM
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Stencil buffer and full screen quads
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Ah, so many questions ;-)
I'm trying to use the stencil buffer to "mask out" pixels when rendering a full screen quad, but it doesn't seem to work.
First, I fill the stencil buffer like this:
m_renderDevice->SetState(STATE_ZENABLE, 1);... |
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Posted June 22, 2008 4:50:53 PM
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Render targets not working (when their size is different from the backbuffer's)
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Hi!
The title says it all: When I'm rendering to a render target in DirectX 9 that has a width and height that is different from that of the back buffer (let's say 1/4 the size), it renders nothing. Actually, it doesn't render nothing, it renders th... |
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Posted June 22, 2008 6:26:53 AM
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What happened to the texture filtering option?
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In the past, most games allowed you to choose between bilinear, trilinear and anisotropic texture filtering. In most modern games however, that option is gone.
I'm wondering what the motives behind that are and how they're dealing with texture filt... |
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Posted June 18, 2008 1:30:04 PM
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Picking with a "weird" coordinate system
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I'm trying to implement picking using the method described in the DXSDK sample, and I'm running into some problems.
I use the 3ds max coordinate system (right handed with z-up) which may be one of the reasons why it's not working. But nothing... |
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Posted June 15, 2008 4:48:15 PM
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Template magic required
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Hi!
I'm battling with the C++ type system, and it looks like I'm losing.
So I have the following struct:
template <typename T, typename U>
struct Accessor
{
void (T::*setter)(const U value);
U (T::*getter)() const;
};
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Posted June 14, 2008 6:37:10 PM
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Normal generation for terrain
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That was exactly it! Thanks a bunch!
Guess I should stick to DirectX ;-) |
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Posted March 3, 2010 4:00:19 PM
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So, how does GTA IV do it?
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Awesome, thanks! I'll look into that... |
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Posted December 8, 2008 2:20:40 PM
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So, how does GTA IV do it?
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Thanks! I half expected you couldn't reveal any details...
I don't really know what to make of "(the) PostFX work (that) was covered on GDC"... I'm assuming GDC is the Game Developers Conference, but I can't find anything from 2008. I tried a... |
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Posted December 8, 2008 2:14:08 PM
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So, how does GTA IV do it?
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Thanks for the answers!
The shadows definitely play an important role in the realism of the game (although I wish they had blurred them a little like they did in Crysis).
What I'm wondering is how they did the ambient lighting. I think that's... |
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Posted December 8, 2008 2:11:18 AM
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Garbage Collection Issue
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Be careful with recycling objects in Java!
Java has a generational garbage collector and there's a different cost associated with collecting each generation. Short-lived objects are very cheap to collect and long-lived objects are collected so inf... |
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Posted November 15, 2008 6:34:01 AM
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Fallout3, Farcry2 renderers
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I've only played FC2 so I can't comment about Fallout 3, but here are my 2 cents:
Far Cry 2 looks worse than Crysis for what I believe to be the following reasons:
1) No ambient occlusion
Since pretty much everything in FC 2 is destruc... |
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Posted November 4, 2008 6:07:27 PM
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a problem im my array a new error with output plz check
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for ( int a = 0 ; a < n ; i++)
output_data(employee+i);
should be
for ( int a = 0 ; a < n ; a++)
output_data(employee+a);
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Posted November 1, 2008 2:49:34 PM
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a problem im my array a new error with output plz check
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Quote:Original post by chetoos
i have a problem with my array the program compiles correctly but when i use it it doesnt work as it is supposed to do
i want to have all employee data entered once and given in the output
*** Source Snippet R... |
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Posted November 1, 2008 6:22:34 AM
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What IDE are YOU using?
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@Home: Visual Studio 2005 for C++
@Work: Eclipse for PHP/javascript/Java/HTML |
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Posted September 15, 2008 1:49:02 PM
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Browser MMO - Can MySQL + PHP support interaction between offline players?
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Having the presentation scripts trigger the simulation scripts is a bad idea imho, because running the simulation logic, even for just a handful of events, can take up enough time to create a noticeable lag in the front-end. It's also much cleaner co... |
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Posted September 8, 2008 8:32:56 AM
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