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Vulcan3D engine
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This is an engine and FPS game which I have been working on as a hobby project since I was 15 (about a year and a half). The engine is now about 12,000 lines of code, plus another 11,000 in the game.
EDIT: I've just re-counted the source cod... |
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Posted October 15, 2006 1:15:42 AM
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Vulcan3D Map Editor
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This is the map editor for a game engine I've been working on for the last few years. It's loosely modeled off of UnrealEd (the only commercial tool that I've had experience with) but has a scene graph and dependency tree on the left i... |
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Posted February 19, 2007 5:32:41 PM
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My new signature
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Take a look at my signature. How does it look? |
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Posted January 8, 2008 12:07:09 AM
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Modeling water droplets
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I'm trying to model a stream of water as particles (e.g. from a garden sprinkler or Super Soaker). The water is fairly turbulent with a lot of air bubbles - refraction is not likely to be an issue. What I'm trying to do is display the droplets as sem... |
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Posted June 21, 2007 5:10:03 PM
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Modeling water droplets
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I'm trying to model a stream of water as particles (e.g. from a garden hose). The water is fairly turbulent with a lot of air bubbles - refraction is not likely to be an issue. What I'm trying to do is display the droplets as semitransparent with a b... |
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Posted June 21, 2007 3:35:52 PM
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MS VC++ 6.0 (a different question)
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I've been using VC++ 6.0 Std Edition since it came out in 1998.
I recently downloaded VC2005 Express to check it out. Should I use the old standard edition (with its extra features) or the new express edition (with a newer compiler)? |
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Posted April 10, 2007 10:35:40 AM
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Strange lighting issue [FIXED]
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I'm having a strange bug with some of my models. Lighting is enabled and a light source is defined, but diffuse lighting is not working. The models turn out pitch black - as in RGB 0,0,0. (BTW, I have no ambient lighting in this scene. When I set the... |
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Posted February 19, 2007 9:38:33 AM
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How to optimize normal-mapping shader
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When I apply this shader to a single object in a simple test map (a two-floor dungeon with four torches around a staircase and no other objects), my framerate drops from 40 to 10. Any ideas on how to optimize this?
Normal-mapped brick stair... |
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Posted December 20, 2006 1:50:31 PM
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How to make xbox games?
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I'm a hobbyist and have done a lot of PC game development, I'm currently writing a first-person shooter game and engine.
I'm interested in possibly making an xbox game, anyone know what's involved? |
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Posted October 26, 2006 11:11:40 AM
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Projective texturing
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Does anyone have any idea as to how I could go about doing projective texturing? I am writing an FPS game and want my tracers to light up their surroundings, but having 10 lights (if two ppl each fire 5 shots) is a little impractical. |
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Posted October 8, 2005 4:02:22 PM
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Variance Shadow Mapping for the X-Engine
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I think the term is "work in progress". |
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Posted April 12, 2008 6:06:52 PM
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Vulcan3D Map Editor
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I'm amazed someone picked this as an IOTD now - it's been over a year since I posted it!
What you see here is version 3 of my editor, which I stopped working on in the summer of 2007. Version 4, a slight "upgrade", was made over the fall. It... |
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Posted April 12, 2008 6:00:24 PM
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Spot light (ie: street lamp)
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Emissive materials are in no way associated with lighting. They do not actually "emit" light - they simply make the object LOOK like it is glowing.
To simulate a glowing object, you need to have two things:
* A light (using diffuse and specular t... |
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Posted March 21, 2008 8:40:34 PM
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My new signature
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Thanks MrEvil - done! |
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Posted January 8, 2008 9:35:47 PM
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My new signature
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OK, it seems that people don't like it. I'll think of something shorter... |
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Posted January 8, 2008 1:17:49 PM
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Favorite Programming Language?
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I love native (unmanaged) C++. It's efficient, portable, and powerful. Very few languages I've seen support multiple inheritance as well as C++.
I use x86 assembler, PHP, and javascript often, but I prefer C++ above all other languages that I... |
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Posted December 11, 2007 5:39:05 PM
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Continuing a function after calling destructor then constructor
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In C++, one copy of each member function is shared between all objects. For example, if you have a class named Box with a function "int GetVolume()", calling MyBox.GetVolume() internally does something like Box::GetVolume(&MyBox). In Visual C++... |
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Posted December 11, 2007 5:33:15 PM
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XML in Games?
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In my game engine, I use XML for map files, settings, and some animation data. I do NOT use XML for scripts - I use a stripped-down form of C++. (XML is a great way of describing hierarchal DATA, but it's not a very good way to describe a procedure.)... |
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Posted December 2, 2007 6:09:25 PM
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Stickman Warfare
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Very nice. I'm 17 too, but I prefer native C++ over Delphi or C#. I'm working on the 4th generation of my game engine now, using OpenGL and OpenAL (none of that DirectX stuff).
One suggestion - try getting more detailed weapon models and more... |
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Posted September 19, 2007 11:17:22 PM
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Question: Bits field
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Bit fields are usually used (along with unions) if you want to pack several data items into a single variable (e.g. to optimize network bandwidth usage).
If, for example, you want to store a signed integer in 5 bits of a byte and an unsigned integ... |
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Posted July 4, 2007 8:36:55 PM
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