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In the previous tutorials we covered configuration, game loop and finally keyboard handling. Today we are going to move on to the basics of graphics programming in SFML. We are going to start with simple geographic primitives, then in the following tutorial we will move on to sprites. You will notice right away that […]
SFML C++ Tutorial–Basic Graphics Read More
The world of game engines is dominated by the two giants mentioned above, Unity and Unreal. Both have huge bank accounts, huge communities and hundreds of ship titles behind them. They are by no means alone, there are a number of other commercial 3D engines such as Havok’s Vision Engine, Gamebryo, CryEngine, Hero Engine, […]
MaxPlay Game Engine. A Viable Unity or Unreal Competitor? Read More
In our prior tutorial we created a simple application that showed the basics of event handling in SFML. In this tutorial we are going to expand upon that concept a bit further and show how to read the keyboard, both using events and direct polling. Although not strictly SFML related (anymore anyways), we are […]
SFML C++ Tutorial – Handling Keyboard Input and Random Numbers Read More
In this part of the SFML we will look at creating our first basic SFML application. At the heart of every SFML application is the RenderWindow which provides both a way to draw things on screen and receive input events from the user. As always, there is an HD video of this tutorial […]
SFML with C++ Tutorial Series–Windows, Game loops and Timers Read More
So I fire up my iPad and notice this strange new icon: What the heck is this? So I fire it up to discover it’s Adobe Graphic. I dont have any such program installed? So I fire it used and low and behold, it’s iDraw. What’s iDraw? Its an extremely affordable and easy to use alternative […]
Why Does Adobe Keep Buying Everything I Like Read More
This text tutorial is a companion to this video tutorial showing how to create and configure a new SFML project using Visual C++ 2013. If you are running Visual Studio 2015 instead, the process should be virtually 100% identical, although you will have to download a different set of files. First you need […]
SFML with C++ Tutorial Series–Configuring Visual Studio 2013 Read More
Welcome to the next section in the ongoing Closer Look at series, a series of guides aimed at helping you decide which game engine is right for you. Each closer look at entry is a cross between a review and a getting started tutorial that should give you a good idea if a game […]
A Closer Look At Wave Engine Read More
Well this one came out of left field. It appears that Microsoft just acquired Havok from Intel. In case you’ve never heard of them, Havok are behind a great many pieces of Middleware that power the gaming industry including Havok Physics, Vision Game Engine and Animation Studio. They also bundled many of their tools together […]
Microsoft acquire Havok from Intel Read More
I just tried out a free plugin for Blender UV-Squares and found it useful enough to share. One of the things about working with texture mapping is textures are rectangular but UVs, well, arent. So you spend a lot of time shaping UVs to fit square textures. UV Squares can help. Just download […]
Easier UVs in Blender with UV Squares Read More
Now that we have covered 3D basics and loading and creating static meshes now it’s time to move on to loading and using animated models. Godot currently supports animation only in COLLADA format, which is supported with varying degrees of success in all popular 3D modelling applications. If you are exporting from Blender, consider […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 16– Using Animated 3D Models Read More
