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Jun 16, 2006
I'm a fan of the little guy physics engines. Hey, I came very close to being one myself. T...
May 11, 2006
this one wasted a few hours. geez. i just could not figure out why the hell externalinterf...
May 09, 2006
i was very excited (not really) when i came across haxe.org. it allows me to do my stupid ...
Mar 26, 2006
lately i've been pruning things down and putting some magic sugar in. i go back and forth ...
Mar 24, 2006
i think this ref business is going to work out well. it took a bit of going in circles wit...
Mar 17, 2006
i'm very muching liking this concept of the objects in the game 'living' in the filesystem...
Mar 16, 2006
janel is in spring break right now so i have a little bit of time to play around with thin...
Mar 06, 2006
it's kind of a tradition for me; for every id game that comes out, i make a map viewer for...
Mar 06, 2006
http://graphics.sta ford.edu/%7Efedkiw/
Articulated rigid body simulations
...
Mar 05, 2006
Using my classic gamebasis naming convention I call nodes in the scenegraph a GlyphNode. A...
Mar 05, 2006
I don't have much time each day to work on my projects. 4 hours is a best case . Usually I...
Feb 20, 2006
so my depot root looks something like this..
Code: fluorine9
elea...
Feb 17, 2006
only slightly hacked here and there. the very basic windowing is there. i think th...
Feb 17, 2006
the justification for the sealed keyword is so the compiler can do extra optimizations suc...
Feb 07, 2006
whoa..
http: /www.microsoft.com/ roducts/expression/ n/interactive_desig er/id_free...
Jan 17, 2006
i think i already bitched about this, but i am going to bitch about this again.
i w...
Jan 09, 2006
Below is what I think is a minimum xaml app using c++/cli. I am obviously blind because I ...
Jan 07, 2006
this dude wrote a xaml compiler for mono
http:// ono.myrealbox.com/s urce/trunk/mcs...
Jan 06, 2006
i've been watching this stuff for awhile and attempted to use it in october when it was re...
Jan 06, 2006
new collada spec 1.4 is out.
http:// ww.gamedev.net/comm nity/forums/topic.a p?topi...
Jan 03, 2006
uhm.. so they point is to give it away and make it easy so the kids all become programmers...
Dec 17, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/ 005/POLITICS/12/16/ atriot.act/index.ht l
die patriot act. die....
Dec 14, 2005
http://www.microsof .com/downloads/deta ls.aspx?FamilyId=7D 9004E-7A8D-4F0A-B19 -6A740D8F2...
Nov 22, 2005
i thought for sure my full proof plan was going to work.
go to shopko 2 hours befor...
Nov 12, 2005
man.. i really wanted to use code-coop. the reli-soft.com dude is the one that showed me h...
Nov 09, 2005
http://www.microsof .com/downloads/deta ls.aspx?FamilyId=CB 4ED8B-943E-4FC8-916 -9A58FCA54...
Nov 01, 2005
well. maybe i won't have to pay for an upgrad after all.
http://www.m crosoft.com/events...
Oct 31, 2005
so the only other thing I use in wwhiz was the header flip. i found this and modified it.....
Oct 31, 2005
Hey.. Look what I found..
http://ze o-one-zero.com/vs/
It has source too.
If you are...
Oct 30, 2005
http://www.wholetom to.com/purchase/roi html
sells the 'other' plugin for vs that suppor...
Oct 28, 2005
A $549 upgrade huh.. That's a lot more than that crazy $27 upgrade from 2002 to 2003. Oh w...
Oct 23, 2005
Maybe it's hidden somewhere, but..
WHY CAN'T I CHANGE THE FREAK'N COLORS OF THE SOLUTION...
Oct 15, 2005
binary sln files in vs8. wtf!!
worse. the files themselves are mostly text with just a s...
Oct 05, 2005
http://nerddawg.blo spot.com/2005/09/er c-raymond-shows-his ugly-side.html
Oct 03, 2005
http://www.scottber un.com/essays/essay 6.htm
Apparently I don't have a bad attitude at ...
Sep 19, 2005
p4v is not quite baked, but it sure can be useful sometimes. that is especially so for the...
Aug 09, 2005
Jul 29, 2005
looks really hot.
let's just put it this way.. you may see me writing things in dx10 ins...
Jul 19, 2005
i was doing some texturing in GL. more specifically.. writing text output code. code that ...
Jul 16, 2005
if you work at a company that has people working remote.. you are forced to take your own ...
Jul 10, 2005
Here's the programming category.. TODO: Fill out this text with something useful!
Jul 10, 2005
so attached is a working vcproj/sln generator. if you play by a few naming conventions and...
Jul 08, 2005
This post is from May 2003. Considering where I job. hahaha.
http://ww .q12.org/pipermai...
Jul 06, 2005
cross platform builds are a pain in the ass. especially if you want to kick out the native...
Jun 16, 2005
Got a lot of these warnings?
warning LNK4006: __NULL_IMPORT_DESCR PTOR already defined i...
Apr 10, 2005
as much as i think my spirit has been completely crushed wrt physics programming (due to w...
Mar 16, 2005
Damn. It has been forever since I have looked at physics papers.
A very nice thesis...
...
Feb 24, 2005
All the crap on the internet uses _TOTAL. Nobody else wants to look at the individual proc...
Feb 21, 2005
come on microsoft. do you not use your own products? my companies code takes for damn ever...
Jan 19, 2005
i figured out a reason why i don't like my job..
i am constantly getting pissed off and m...
Oct 14, 2004
janel is in this stats class that has some other prereq classes that she has not taken. sh...
Oct 10, 2004
well i am a trooper and 6th time is the charm, i think i have things going in a simple and...
Oct 04, 2004
this weekend i have been playing around with smart pointers in c++. this is at least my 5t...
Sep 01, 2004
the new wheel joint turned out really well. well, not new, just reimplemented and improved...
Aug 26, 2004
so i have property editors for stuff like limits, torques. some things you'll be able to a...
Aug 21, 2004
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what's next..
.100 of course
http://dig talmars.com/d/index html
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Aug 18, 2004
D handles properties in a really clean way. Say you want a read/write property, you can wr...
Aug 16, 2004
i don't make it easy on myself.
gbWheelJo nt.d -- gamebasis side constraint
reWheel oin...
Aug 15, 2004
man. i sure love fiddling with my contact constraint. i have spent an incredible number of...
Aug 14, 2004
Janel just wrote some math on the white board. Turns out, the elite need to pay more than ...
Aug 12, 2004
download 240 meg .exe
extracts a zip to a temp file somewhere, +240 meg
asks you where y...
Aug 12, 2004
i finally can build a car again. i have only had contacts and pins ported over to the new ...
Aug 09, 2004
when i first got my physics up and going i used the classic baraff style.. non-penetrating...
Aug 08, 2004
i don't know if i talked about this before, but my physics is arranged differently than th...
Jul 27, 2004
being able to compile the entire thing into a single .exe is a good idea for a console.
...
Jul 27, 2004
using a magic data only entity will work just fine.
entity
{
"name" "UserInput"
"p...
Jul 27, 2004
first. is this a good idea?
entity
{
"name" "methodTest"
"key ressed"
{
"key...
Jul 27, 2004
have the other language generate your .hpp file. this lets you program directly in c++ and...
Jul 27, 2004
making runtime object inspectors for builders.
seriali ation? maybe raw serialization, b...
Jul 27, 2004
you save the game. you drive around and then get killed. you reload the game. 99% of the g...
Jul 27, 2004
you could set up two databases. one is the resource database and that lives as a named dat...
Jul 27, 2004
example keyvalues in .modDB
gbKeyValue _currentMod="uvt";
gbKeyValue _mods
{
gbKeyVa...
Jul 27, 2004
gbGeom 23432
{
float16 _modelMatrix="1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1";
std::vecto...
Jul 27, 2004
too bad it is not what you want and degrades bad to manually saving out entities. so why n...
Jul 27, 2004
gbGame could be the generic game
everything is just a mod
should the editor be a mod? ...
Jul 27, 2004
for a standalone game:
gbGame game(".games"); finds the current game directory and loads...
Jul 27, 2004
it would be possible to have the deck grab its cached cards globally. the advantage of it ...
Jul 27, 2004
it just won't work for keeping a network image. maybe i should have 2 solutions because it...
Jul 27, 2004
ack. lua was so close. it just won't work for keeping a network image. maybe i should have...
Jul 27, 2004
what is this for? is this for serialization? is this going to make it more difficult
to b...
Jul 27, 2004
ok. what is its real value? what do you want to really use it for?
basically. load and s...
Jul 27, 2004
flat entity structure. bing.
the entity database is saved as a giant table called entity...
Jul 27, 2004
Golfcart=
{
conf gure_golfcart=funct on(ent)
end,
c nfigure_driveStick= unction(ob...
Jul 27, 2004
entdb = entity database
-- entdb [jziotd_data/golfca t.entdb]
driveSti k_overrides=...
Jul 27, 2004
golfcart_00=new.inh rit
{
inherit_pr totype="jziotd/golf art.ent","golfcart"
functi...
Jul 27, 2004
crap. crap. crap.
are groups a good idea? they would work well for modding vehicles, but...
Jul 27, 2004
ahhhhh.
maybe i should be thinking in terms of how to hand an instanced guy hanging by
...
Jul 27, 2004
the universe is what is used by the engine to keep things running. anything in it
updated...
Jul 27, 2004
ai-implant.com
a tiny shark in a fish tank is a good simple ai/animation test
Jul 27, 2004
if you do naming via a tree it is a nice way to point to objects.
menuDeck mainMenu.quit...
Jul 27, 2004
you know. it might be cool to keep everything in a single universe. this is optional of co...
Jul 27, 2004
class gbRectWidget
{
pu lic:
float2 _size;
virtual void setSize(float2 size);
};
...
Jul 27, 2004
is it really that hard to write out a gbEntity, gbGeom, gbJoint, and gbWire?
how do you ...
Jul 27, 2004
lua might work fine for game code as long as all sleeping management is kept in c++. 95% o...
Jul 27, 2004
Jul 27, 2004
these ones are really old. at least 2 years.
//vary up your timeStep to help things from...
Jul 27, 2004
xml is just a file format. lets start with a save.
take the universe..
printT averse(0...
Jul 27, 2004
class gbDotable
{
publi :
virtual gbDotable* dotGet(const char* name)=0;
virtual voi...
Jul 27, 2004
does it really matter if you are using text to wrap everything? yes. how do you pass a rig...
Jul 27, 2004
it can work. it is only needed for return values, but what happens when a dotted function ...
Jul 27, 2004
who owns the objects? does the script? how do you manage things on the fly?
only allowin...
Jul 27, 2004
should entity be a base class for all stuff that goes in the universe? gbGlyphNode complic...
Jul 27, 2004
i think it is c++. any external object access stuff could be added later via gbDotable.
...
Jul 27, 2004
i am thinking yes. this is old school and harder to debug, but who cares. it forces you to...
Jul 27, 2004
this is key because inspection is way easier to implement. it could be replaced later by t...
Jul 27, 2004
you could use inspection for wiring, but that does a lot of allocations. instead you could...
Jul 27, 2004
what about just using wires too?
the button has an onClick pin. you could have that call...
Jul 27, 2004
no no. check this out. you develop with a text format. then you need to write an console e...
Jul 27, 2004
this could just be a very simple glue language to access the objects. there would be no co...
Jul 27, 2004
if you treat the script as pure glue and put all the game code in c++ it could work well. ...
Jul 27, 2004
if you have script access then all you need is a list of member name and type
Jul 27, 2004
first, don't worry about classes or any of that business. functions are fine. also, as lon...
Jul 27, 2004
boxSize;
float3.ne (boxSize);
univers .geoms.box_22.size. et(boxSize);
x;
loat.new(x...
Jul 27, 2004
module jziotd:
a=12;
c ass Monkey
{
};
b=2 ;
function foo()
{
}
c=32;
resu...
Jul 27, 2004
gbScript_Object_tab e* globals=new gbScript_Object_tab e();
gbScript_Fibe * fiber=new gbS...
Jul 27, 2004
module jziotd:
class Monkey
{
foo=12;
function bar(self,num)
{
ocho=num+foo;
...
Jul 27, 2004
monkey=new jziotd.Monkey();
his creates a table called monkey that looks like this..
...
Jul 27, 2004
might as well just do it two pass. take the script and turn it into strings. it
might be ...
Jul 27, 2004
it is just plain easier to do it more correct and have a proper compile stage.
the parse...
Jul 27, 2004
lets ignore classes right now and just do functions. it can be made to have
classes and e...
Jul 27, 2004
so looking around a lot of the language big shots seems to thing that dynamic typing is a ...
Jul 27, 2004
options are c#, wxWindows, or roll your own.
thinlet looks quite nice and it is very sma...
Jul 27, 2004
it should always work without a hierrarchy as the hierrarchy can change. this means some s...
Jul 27, 2004
does separating logic from look actually matter with interpretted code? i don't think so. ...
Jul 27, 2004
should you always go..
level.monkey head
where when level was loaded in it was set to ...
Jul 27, 2004
so they should be called a page because that is easy to understand. they actually are noth...
Jul 27, 2004
stuff like dudes, trucks, microwaves are assets. or should they be called an entity becaus...
Jul 27, 2004
it probably should not even be a gbGeom because it doesn't have to be in the tree. it prob...
Jul 27, 2004
when saving poses should they always be saved in world space? if the tree has been reparen...
Jul 27, 2004
using the gbEntityDatabase will work well for keeping track of what data a client has. whe...
Jul 27, 2004
what the hell is this shit?
"axisX" "1.000000 0.000000 0.000000"
"axisY" "0.000000 1....
Jul 27, 2004
check the positional and velocity error, if they are low don't bother iterating
Jul 27, 2004
you read in a database for each file. that database read in its entirety. as you are readi...
Jul 27, 2004
crap. what happens when you delete things that reference an instance? you have to keep the...
Jul 27, 2004
each time an impulse is applied between a two bodies you add to a counter 1/numberOfContac...
Jul 27, 2004
you could store off the complete rigidbody info with each contact. this is what is used to...
Jul 27, 2004
the workspace is set up similar to msdev with a project view. anything in the project can ...
Jul 27, 2004
grab a random contact and solve it. check both bodies and find the contact with the most e...
Jul 27, 2004
ignoring the small relvel in the contacts when sleeping acts like glue for a wall.
Jul 27, 2004
it might be best to put a third joint in a hinge between the to end points. stuff like the...
Jul 27, 2004
gbListView is a generic list.
* doesn't handle scrolling itself. if you want scrolling, ...
Jul 27, 2004
when someone call the advance step method it no matter what will not return for at least a...
Jul 27, 2004
i am not sure there would be much of an advantage to caching aabb info with a box rather t...
Jul 27, 2004
you could make the temp pin used when dragging crap around not as powerful in the yaxis. t...
Jul 27, 2004
i keep being tempted to make gbEntity a base class. it is a bad idea because it directly t...
Jul 27, 2004
(99%) bake a set of objects together into a single composite object.
(0%) add a tool tha...
Jul 27, 2004
(0%) non-shared rigidbodies
(0%) breakable composite geoms
(100%) raycast into mesh
(10...
Jul 27, 2004
aight. the reason to stay with c++ is that people won't buy and engine that is in some oth...
Jul 27, 2004
the best way of making skinnable guis is by building stuff out of triangles. who cares if ...
Jul 27, 2004
zrtPhysics
Robot Engineer
Space Fight
USAvsTEXAS
AWKEYES
It would be really cool to...
Jul 27, 2004
(100%) sphere raycast
( 20%) fix gbImportASE to load the golfcart correct
( ) delete ...
Jul 27, 2004
you can include a runtime stack trace for nearly free.
you can include a runtime profile ...
Jul 27, 2004
is a good thing because that way the server can keep a complete copy of the clients on the...
Jul 27, 2004
glyphs with the same materials need to be batched, but a material really is more general t...
Jul 26, 2004
try increasing the size of the tensor once the angular velocity gets low
put a virtual an...
Jul 26, 2004
it is built into gbForm and not gbWidget. gbForm is going to be too heavy weight. it
stil...
Jul 26, 2004
The current way is completely idiotic. GlyphNodes going away for anything but gui stuff is...
Jul 26, 2004
it is going to be a huge pain in the ass to change all those geoms. instead how about this...
Jul 26, 2004
so here is where we are at:
class gbGeom
{
public:
float16 _localMatri...
Jul 26, 2004
Jul 26, 2004
the problem with having the list is it makes stuff like a gbBoxGeom feel less like a gbBox...
Jul 26, 2004
should the name of this be changed to filterGroups? probably not because ignore is better ...
Jul 26, 2004
benefits:
* you can make a very nice an professional looking editor more easily.
* with...
Jul 26, 2004
Jul 26, 2004
ack. i really think it should be held off until the game is complete. the xbox just does n...
Jul 24, 2004
//jun27
for active-active
8m grid. throw the geoms into all the cells they overlap.
...
Jul 24, 2004
*** Jun 24 2003
Properties are bullshit. You either go full out with properties where yo...
Jul 24, 2004
so the idea is to make some sort of render compositing concept like in 2d vector packages....
Jul 02, 2004
on the flight to boston i had a whole 23 minutes of sleep the night before so i was too ti...
Jun 19, 2004
got used to it in java.
c++ fights you at every turn.
ahh. D plays nicely.
D is pleasa...
Jun 04, 2004
I spend an amazing amount of time thinking about "business plans". A few years back I fina...
Apr 29, 2004
Over the last couple of years I have followed the development of the D programming languag...
Mar 24, 2004
I say this a lot, but it is true.. The most efficient number of programmers is 0. This goe...
Mar 05, 2004
printf is the most powerful debugger because it is context sensitive and specific.
i wond...
Feb 14, 2004
You can't store off a method pointer to a superclass and call it later. it will always cal...
Jan 10, 2004
I am pretty happy with my little scripting language. I have had it up for about 2 or 3 mon...
Jan 09, 2004
mindview.net/WebLog
He is finally updating again, hopefully it'll last. I really like re...