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 …
Subversion and Apple Filemerge Integrtaion
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.
If you want visual diff’s while developing on OSX using subversion then this page has a good description …