Apple TnC Changes and Lua
With the beta release of iPhone OS 4.0 Apple has changed the terms and conditions for developers who want to target the iPhone platform (note that includes the iPod Touch and iPad).
There has been a of discussion about changes to clause 3.3.1 most notably by Gruber …
NvStrip and Blender – Stripifying Models for the iPhone/iPad.
What Is Stripification?
Stripification is the process of turning lists of triangles in an arbitrary order into as many lists of triangles that contain adjacent edges. There is a great explanation of a triangle strip of wikipedia.
Why would you stripify?
On most platforms Triangle Strips render more quickly. The …
A Pythonic “Center New” in Blender
Part of my Art pipeline for Tentacles is to import a directory of 3DS files. Each of these files is a map piece and the map pieces are instanced to create a map. That way I can store the geometry for a shack once but instance it across the level …
Implementing glAlphaFunc in OpenGL ES2.0
In OpenGL ES 2.0 glAlphaFunc isn’t available, you have to implement it in a fragment shader. There isn’t a lot of reference out there for this (not that I could find anyway) so I thought I’d write this up.
It’s actually quite simple to implement …
Integrating Bullet Physics
Bullet is an open source collision and physics simulation library written by Erwin Coumans who I believe worked or maybe still does work at SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America). Bullet provides a C++ API to a very robust Collision, Rigid Body and Soft body simulation system. At its core Bullet …
Starting Out On The iPad
Why the iPad?
When the iPad was announced I decided it was time to take the plunge and develop a game for it. Although the iPhone is a powerful piece of hardware I just find the screen too limiting. Every game leaves you wishing you had transparent fingers. The iPad …
Replaying an Apache Logfile with Python
NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in October 2008, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.
In order to test for a memory leak in New Metal Army I needed to replay my apache log …
Python Style Plugins Made Easy
NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in January 2008, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.
Sometimes you need to write code that loads python at runtime. Plugin architectures are a good example of this …
PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Dropping All Tables and Sequences
NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in January 2007, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.
There were a number of insightful comments in the original article that I have not copied across. They ended …
FreeBSD Centralised Logging
NOTE: This is an old article I wrote in January 2007, it’s still relevant today. It was originally posted on luckydonkey.com which I am in the process of retiring.
I wanted to log everything from my servers and router to a singer server to make it easier to …