A while back I wrote SWIG and a Miss, which is a post about several of the problems I’ve encountered with SWIG. At that time I didn’t have a solution for dealing with down casting – the process of casting from a base class to a more derived class.…
Last week we were sitting around the office wondering if it would be possible to place ourselves in a game world with Autodesk’s Project Photofly. How cool would that be? We thought we might be able to scan one of us in a T-pose and then use Mixamo’s…
About a year ago I got tired of trying to keep the mounting supply of PDFs and PowerPoint slides I’ve collected over the years organized. They weren’t searchable, I had to organize them in broad categories in folders, I couldn’t share them between work and home, they…
Back in April I wrote a short post about Activate3D releasing 1.0 of ICM, but unlike the 0.8 alpha version the 1.0 did not ship with a community version. Well today I’m happy to say we’ve released a new 1.1 version with a community…
After beating Minecraft (not really) I thought my addition to these blasted sandbox mining games was satisfied. Sadly, I was wrong. I started playing Terraria a few days ago and its got many more game elements than Minecraft. It’s also wildly addicting if you’ve got a sever case…
Almost a year ago I wrote a couple of posts on Hierarchical Z-Buffer Occlusion Culling (HZB-OC). Hierarchical Z-Buffer Occlusion Culling Hierarchical Z-Buffer Occlusion Culling – Shadows One very glaring issue I left largely untouched was the workflow issue. Artists currently have to author all or a large percentage of the volumes…
The Pitch I don’t want to show you how to add a command button or toolbar to Visual Studio, there are plenty of examples out there for that. I want to provide you with an example showing how writing a Visual Studio extension could benefit your studio’s workflow.…
There are so many pitfalls you’ll encounter after using SWIG for any extended period of time or with a large enough codebase. I thought I would go over some of the more notable ones I’ve encountered creating a C# wrapper that had me sighing and doubling my caffeine…
Preface The first time I stepped in front of a depth camera was almost a year ago now. We had a reference version of a PrimeSense camera that is heavily related to the final hardware that went into Kinect. The first thing I got to do was make a stick…
My new side-side project with DirectX 11 is something that has been bothering me for awhile. Chaining compute shaders with variable length output. Chaining compute shaders that output the same amount of work is trivial, in fact, you’d likely just merge the code into one uber compute shader. One…