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  After just completing a list of 3D Apps for this site, I just came to a pair of realizations.  First off, the demo is all but a requirement these days.  Second, and this is the point most missed it seems, but these days integration with other suites is perhaps the most important feature. Therefore, […]

  I am currently working on a beginner level tutorial using SFML and just ran into a show stopper that I want to share.  If you are already using SFML 1.6, this is probably old news to you, but it caused me enough pain that I want to share it here.  Maybe someone in the […]

  So I finally got around to moving from 2.56 –> 2.57 and apparently it some API changes seem to have broken the Unity importing.  In my case, once saving the .blend file to my assets directory I get an error message of “Blender could not convert the .blend file to FBX file”. The solution […]

  In putting together content for this site, I find myself working in Visual C++ which presented an unintended consequence, the project folder’s files are big, huge in fact!  Most of the problem boils down to the intermediate files that Visual C++ generates for intellisense and pre-compiled headers.   Therefore each time I wanted to […]

  Yeah, I really took my sweet time on this one, but things are better the longer you wait, no?     In this chapter we get the ball rolling, literally.  Additionally we add collision detection and realistic rebounds.  On the C++ front, we introduce and discuss the various types of casts in C++.   […]

  You may have noticed many times on my blog that I am not the biggest fan of C++.  I hands down believe that it is one of the dumbest languages a user could learn with.  A good majority of programmers should never be exposed to C++ and should be happy if fate affords them […]

    So after running through my earlier Getting Started with PlayN tutorial, I never actually tried running the HTML5 target and today I tried it.     First task, as a non Java developer was figuring out just how the hell to actually run it.  All of the Google examples seem to use ANT […]

  I recently had a user who tried to run Pang on MacOS and there were a few incompatibilities.   So today, I fired up my trust old iMac and created my first ever C++ Application in XCode 4.1 and I have to say, it really wasn’t all that pleasant of an experience!     […]

  In every industry there are definitely trends, and the CG world is no exception.  I remember the days when patch modeling were the “IT” thing, and every package under the sun added some forms of patch or spline modeling feature to its toolbox.  Then came NURBS and Sub-D surfaces, etc…     These days, […]

  Ok, it actually has been live for a couple days and I forgot to post an update here, oops.     In this chapter we add animation to our PlayerPaddle class, including player keyboard input.  We cover off topics such as running at the same speed on multiple machines, dealing with protected member variables […]