flipcode News Archives for 2000
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Saturday, December 30th 2000
Inertia 3D Source Code |
04:34 PM |
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Alex Chalfin sent along the following info about the source code release of the Inertia 3D engine:
"
I'd like to announce that the full source code to my
once shareware 3d engine (Inertia 3D) has been
released. Source code includes Turbo Pascal v6 & v7,
Borland Pascal v7 (16-bit DPMI), 32-bit TMT Pascal,
32-bit Watcom C, and Windows MSVC versions of the
source code. Binaries and source to all of the tools
for Inertia (ASC, 3DS file converters, Normal
computations, shade table generators, and counter
clockwise normal sorting). Binaries and source code to
a bunch of example programs. Programming and reference
documentation is made available as well.
It is available at:
http://www.netmagic.net/~achalfin/Graphics/inertia.htm
"
Saturday, December 30th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Marco Kögler. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Martian Water May Be Ice In Planet's Interior Glimpses Of A Robotic Future Vectored Thrust Chopper
Friday, December 29th 2000
Tech File Update |
11:39 PM |
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Conor Stokes updated his tech file with a bit on what he's been up to recently.
Thursday, December 28th 2000
Driving DirectX Column |
12:50 PM |
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Driving DirectX, an MSDN column by Philip Taylor, was recently updated with a new issue on "The Simplification of DirectX 8.0 Graphics."
Thursday, December 28th 2000
Programmers Interview II |
12:39 PM |
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FragLand.Net posted the second part of their interview series on game programming. This time around they take a look at a few aspects of engine programming, with responses from Dean Sekulic and John Romero.
Thursday, December 28th 2000
CFXWeb Contest Info |
12:32 PM |
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CFXWeb sent along the following chunks of information about the art and coding contests they're currently running:
"
Our freestyle Niki 'MissieFX' HardCode art contest is endind on the 31th. There
is a concept art available for CFXweb babe and the entries are freestyle version
of her. web page: http://www.cfxweb.net/missiecon.shtml
The Second Millennium Jrobots Finals will be over on December 30th, you should
hurry up and submit your Java robots for the contest. Tutorial, SDK and sources
avilable if you want to make a new robot of your own.
web page: http://jrobots.cfxweb.net/
The Java Applets contest will close on 21 Janury 2001. You need to submit any
applet, with source, doing an Image Distortion. web page:
http://www.cfxweb.net/articles/javapps/contest.shtml
"
Thursday, December 28th 2000
New Moppi Demopaja |
12:27 PM |
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Memon sent word that a new version (0.5b) of Moppi Demopaja has been released, a demo authoring tool with an interface similar to 'Adobe After Effects'. The first release of the Demopaja SDK is also available.
Thursday, December 28th 2000
New OpenIL Release |
12:24 PM |
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Version 2.1.0b of OpenIL has been released, "a cross-platform image library utilizing the OpenGL syntax to load, save, convert, manipulate, filter and display a variety of images with ease."
Thursday, December 28th 2000
Doxygen 1.2.4 Release |
12:22 PM |
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Version 1.2.4 of Doxygen has been released, described as a "documentation system for C++, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and KDE-2 DCOP flavors) and C." View the change log to see what's new.
Thursday, December 28th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Manuel Astudillo. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
Tip Of The Day Update - There's a new Tip Of The Day online, Use assert() submitted by bgl. Browse the TOTD Collection here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Boost For Big Bang Theory Tech Group Takes On Net Music Piracy IBM 3D Graphics Workstation Speeds Past Sun CES Attendees To Get First Look At Xbox
Monday, December 25th 2000
Saturday, December 23rd 2000
Fluid Studios Publications |
09:17 PM |
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Paul Nettle of Fluid Studios sent word that he's updated the publications portion of the Fluid web site with a bunch of new developer content, including utilities and source code. There you'll find:
And more. Visit here for the new material, and don't forget to check out Paul's question and answer column right here on flipCode: Ask MidNight.A new collision detection demo, described by Paul as "a pretty complete mini-3D engine, complete with homogenous xforms, 3D clipping, etc", written with the beginning 3D programmer in mind. A font-generation tool (with source code) which makes use of true-type fonts. Updated "all-purpose matrix class" Updated software texture mapping demo (now with w-buffering)
Saturday, December 23rd 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Neil Marshall. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
Friday, December 22nd 2000
Programmers Interview |
05:30 PM |
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Fragland.net posted the first installment of their question and answer feature, with responses to programming questions by professional developers.
Friday, December 22nd 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Ohad Eder Pressman. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!The Year in Science Breakthroughs Best Space Images Of 2000 Exploring Earth's Interior With Virtual Reality Seti: Is Anybody Out There? An Advance Towards Quantum Computers
Thursday, December 21st 2000
Quake3 Source Releases |
08:16 PM |
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Noticed over on Stomped.com, Robert Duffy of id Software updated his .plan file with release details for the Quake3 game and tool source code. For more information, including download links, visit here. You should also be able to download the files through FilePlanet, here and here.
Thursday, December 21st 2000
AURAN Jet Beta 2 |
07:59 PM |
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Beta 2 of the AURAN Jet game authoring system is set to be released at the end of next month. Here's a clip from the press release:
" BRISBANE, Australia - December 21, 2000 - Interactive entertainment company Auran today announced the release date of the Beta 2 version of the AURAN Jet(tm) game authoring system. The Beta 2 will be released on the AURAN Jet Web site at 1pm Australian Eastern Standard time on January 31, 2001. "
For more information about this, slide over to AuranJet.com.Thursday, December 21st 2000
glBMP Image Library |
07:57 PM |
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Jason from DelphiGL sent word that he's released version 1.1 of glBMP, an image loading/saving/manipulation library with support for BMP, PNG, and JPG formats.
Thursday, December 21st 2000
Gems2 Deadline Nears |
07:54 PM |
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Mark DeLoura sent along the following information about the submission deadline for Game Programming Gems volume 2:
" Gem proposals for the second volume of Game Programming Gems are closing on December 25. The original volume is currently in its third printing after just four months! If you'd like to submit a Gem for consideration, or you want more information, please visit the website at http://www.satori.org/gems2. "
Thursday, December 21st 2000
Script Editor And More |
07:52 PM |
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Alexander Herz sent word that he's updated his site (AccessViolation.Net) with a few new items, including an IDE for his script compiler, the binaries for one of his 3D engine projects, and more.
Thursday, December 21st 2000
Terrain Engine Release |
07:42 PM |
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Tim Schröder sent word that he's released his terrain engine over on glVelocity. There you will find screenshots, source code, and an executable version of the release.
Tuesday, December 19th 2000
The Nebula Device |
02:02 PM |
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Radon Labs released an updated version of the Nebula Device, a free, portable, feature-rich 3D engine, complete with source code.
Tuesday, December 19th 2000
New PortaLib Release |
01:42 PM |
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Brett Porter sent word that a new version (0.1.1) of PortaLib3D has been released, a free (LGPL) 3D utility library, "which adds support for skeletal animation of models from Milkshape 3D, and preliminary Dev-C++ project files."
Tuesday, December 19th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Sebastian Sylvan. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
Code Of The Day Update - There's a new Code Of The Day online, Singleton Class submitted by David Pallot. Browse the COTD Collection here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Journey To The Galactic Core Congress Ignites Net Filter Fight Genes Can't Tell Us Everything
Monday, December 18th 2000
Links Section Update |
06:37 PM |
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flipCode's development links section has updated with the following items:
If you have links you would like to add to this collection, please send them hereParticle Systems API Windows Sockets Primer General Polygon Clipper Library TinyPTC Graphics Library Algorithms, Data Structures, And Problems JTGame - 3D Game Engine The Art of Assembly Language The Code Project Damberg.de Game Programming
Monday, December 18th 2000
New VBEngine Release |
06:29 PM |
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Version 1.0.4 of VBEngine was recently released over at Damberg.de, including the full source code. According to the site, "VBEngine is a very simple game engine using DirectX 7, that should help you writing your own engines." For more information about the release, visit here.
Monday, December 18th 2000
New OpenGUI Release |
06:04 PM |
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Version 3.0 beta 5 of the OpenGUI project has been released, described as "a high-Level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 asm graphics kernel."
Monday, December 18th 2000
FMOD 3.3 Release |
11:52 AM |
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Version 3.3 of the FMOD sound system, by Firelight Multimedia, has been released. This release has quite a few new features and improvements, including Linux support, faster MP3 playback, and more. View the feature list here.
Monday, December 18th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Cédric Guillemet. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Researchers To Drill Into Dinosaur Crater IBM Supercomputer Tackles DNA Researchers Probe Newly Discovered, Extra-Fast Lightning Human-Powered Helicopter Flight Test
Sunday, December 17th 2000
Terrain Tutorial Update |
10:12 PM |
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Antonio Ramires Fernandes sent word that he's updated his OpenGL terrain tutorial with a new section that includes information on "normal computation for OpenGL lighting, and how to define colors to simulate lighting by both directional and positional lights." The article includes example source code as well.
Sunday, December 17th 2000
BlackFish Isometric Engine |
01:36 PM |
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BuschnicK sent word that he's launched the web site for the BlackFish game engine project, described as "an open source isometric game engine written in C++ for the MS windows DirectX7 platform. It runs in 800x600x16 graphics mode, either windowed or fullscreen. A custom map editor, called EditFish, is included."
Sunday, December 17th 2000
Changing Games Article |
01:26 PM |
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BigKid.com.au posted a new article entitled Changing Games, a question and answer piece featuring responses from several professional game developers to questions on the ever-changing gaming industry.
Sunday, December 17th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Lauri Koponen. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Jupiter Moon May Have Ocean Streaming Gets Down to Business Rage: Sorry About The Napster Ban
Saturday, December 16th 2000
Gaming Considered Art |
06:25 PM |
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Bemmu Sepponen sent along the following news story:
A finnish game received an award normally only given to more traditional forms of art. The $15000 award was given to the game Galilei 2. Here's the whole story:
http://www.uta.fi/~lomise/english/articles/galilei2.html
Saturday, December 16th 2000
Alias25 Project Updates |
04:47 PM |
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Pierre Renaux sent word that he's updated the Alias25 web site with a new version (1.1.3) of his Game Library, as well as a new 3D engine project.
Saturday, December 16th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Henry Ludemann. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!‘Lost City’ May Shed Light On Earth’s Development Apple Raises Concerns For The New Year Egyptian Cities Mystery May Be Solved Sundance To Roll Film On Web Festival
Friday, December 15th 2000
3dfx Shutting Down |
06:25 PM |
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According to this article on CNN's financial network, 3dfx is shutting down, and most of their assets will be sold to NVidia. Thanks go out to Brandon Fliflet for the link.
In addition, you may want to check out this press release (3dfx), as well as this one (NVidia)
Friday, December 15th 2000
Garage Games Code Section |
02:06 PM |
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Garage Games started a source code resource section on their site. The first entry is a line segment - box intersection routine, written by Tim Gift.
Friday, December 15th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by stil. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
Code Of The Day Update - There's a new Code Of The Day online, INI File Class submitted by Antoine Villepreux. Browse the COTD Collection here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Altered Flies Live Twice As Long Jupiter Displays Rare Aurora Black Holes More Powerful Than Expected, And Still Growing Video Games In The Crosshairs Online Sales More Fulfilling This Year
Thursday, December 14th 2000
Game Technology Conference |
04:34 PM |
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Many thanks to Kim Pallister, who sent along some information about the upcoming Game Technology Conference which will be held this coming January in Hong Kong. For more information, including a list of speakers, visit here.
Thursday, December 14th 2000
SoftImage XSI Review |
04:29 PM |
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3D Gate posted a review of the Softimage XSI 1.5 animation and special effects package, which will be released later this month. Thanks to Francis Boivin for the link.
Thursday, December 14th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Jake Wolf. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!The Next Generation Space Telescope New Report Offers Evidence Of Primitive Life On Mars (Thanks Topaz) Top 20 Selling PC Games (week of 11/26/00) Working Together In "War Rooms" Doubles Teams' Productivity
Wednesday, December 13th 2000
Game Pathfinding Library |
07:14 PM |
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Antonin Hildebrand sent along a link to PathLib, a pathfinding library for games, which performs various tasks such as finding optimal paths through maps, timing objects and their movements through maps, simple collision detection, and more.
Wednesday, December 13th 2000
New Coding Site |
06:59 PM |
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Alex Herz sent word that he's started a new coding site at accessviolation.net. There you will find information about his projects, source code, etc.
Wednesday, December 13th 2000
New SMPEG Release |
02:53 AM |
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Version 0.4.2 of SMPEG was recently released, an open source MPEG playback library by Loki Games. For more information about this release, view the readme file.
Wednesday, December 13th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by ogotay. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
Code Of The Day Update - There's a new Code Of The Day online, Win32 Thread Primitives & Utils submitted by Dave Pallot. Browse the COTD Collection here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Streaming Companies Push Toward TV Quality Palm Building Handier Tool Independent Games Festival Finalists Design For Quantum Computer Proposed
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
NVidia Blending Example |
10:38 PM |
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NVidia updated their developer site with a new demo, described as a "simple example of using the framebuffer alpha channel for DESTALPHA blending." The source code is included as well.
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
Real-Time Terrain Rendering |
09:12 PM |
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Haktan Bulut sent along an announcement that he's released the source code to his terrain rendering implementation, based on the CLOD-algorithm described in the paper "Real-Time Generation of Continuous Levels of Detail for Height Fields", by Röttger, W. Heidrich, Ph. Slusallek, & H.-P. Seidel. For details and downloads (C source code), visit here.
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
Stencil Buffer CSG |
07:16 PM |
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Tom Nuydens posted a new demo on Delphi3D, which illustrates the use of a stencil buffer technique to perform CSG operations. The source code to the demo is included as well.
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
Generating Names Phonetically |
05:59 PM |
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There's a new feature tutorial here on flipcode entitled Generating Names Phonetically, by Jim Adam. In this tutorial, Jim explains how to generate names (for characters, places, etc in your games) using phonetics. In addition, he presents a simple phonetic name generator for you to experiment with. Check it out here!
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
Links Section Update |
05:05 PM |
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flipCode's development links section has updated with the following items:
If you have links you would like to add to this collection, please send them hereAmit's Game Programming Site Hierarchical Occlusion Maps The Physics Encyclopedia Stanford CGL Technical Publications CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository 3D Object File Formats GLUI - User Interface Toolkit Quadra - Open Source Puzzle Game World Foundry GDK
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
The Indrema Console |
04:39 PM |
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Noticed a link over on the Indrema Developer Network to a new article entitled "How the Indrema Game Console Will Work", by Kevin Bonsor. The Indrema L600 is an upcoming Linux-based, open source, game console system.
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
Demos At SIGGRAPH |
09:04 AM |
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Aaron Foo sent word that a new group has been formed, interested in bringing demos (as in the Demo Scene) to SIGGRAPH 2001. For more information about this effort, visit here.
Tuesday, December 12th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Robert Clemens. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!Intel Says Scientific Breakthrough Promises Superfast Chip Top Gamers Clash For Cash Three More Extrasolar Planets Found By Telescope Down Under Genomics Gets A New Code: GEML IBM Unveils World's Most Advanced Chip-Making Technology
Monday, December 11th 2000
New PECompact Release |
11:36 AM |
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Collake Software released version 1.43 of PECompact, a shareware win32 executable compression utility. Visit the site for more information. There you'll also find information on various other Collake releases, including a freeware compression library (JCALG1).
Monday, December 11th 2000
Frustum Culling In OpenGL |
11:30 AM |
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Noticed a link over on OpenGL.org to a tutorial on Frustum Culling in OpenGL, written by Mark Morley. In this tutorial, the author explains what frustum culling is, why bounding volumes are useful, and offers examples of several types of intersection tests.
Monday, December 11th 2000
KDevelop 1.3 Release |
11:09 AM |
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Version 1.3 of KDevelop has been released, a Linux/Unix IDE for C/C++ developers.
Monday, December 11th 2000
Links Section Update |
11:04 AM |
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flipCode's development links section has updated with the following items:
If you have links you would like to add to this collection, please send them hereVisual C++ Developers Journal Citadel Of The Sourcerer Bot Epidemic - News/Resources Linux Assembly Portal QHull - Computing Convex Hulls The Algorithm Archive Strong Pointers & Resource Management The Data Compression Library Miscellaneous Win32 Articles
Monday, December 11th 2000
New CDX Library |
10:30 AM |
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Version 3.0. of the CDX Library has been released, described as a "a free GDK (Game Development Kit) which is comprised of a set of C++ wrapper classes for writing Windows games." Visit the site for details and downloads, including the library source code, documentation, tools, examples, and more.
Monday, December 11th 2000
Java Inner Classes |
09:04 AM |
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There's a new feature tutorial here on flipcode entitled Getting Inside With Inner Classes, by Saad Faisal. In this tutorial, Saad explains what inner classes in Java are, including some of the different types and how they can be used. Check it out here!
Monday, December 11th 2000
Open Scene Graph |
02:49 AM |
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There's a new version of the Open Scene Graph library available, described on its site as "a cross platform C++/OpenGL library for the real-time rendering of large 3D photo-realistic models." Visit the site for more information, screenshots, and downloads.
Monday, December 11th 2000
IRC Channel Move |
02:33 AM |
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#flipcode on IRC, which used to be located on efnet, can now be found on Enter The Game. You can read more about the move here, or more about the channel itself here.
Monday, December 11th 2000
New Discussion Topic |
02:12 AM |
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There's a new discussion topic online, this time about all of those libraries available to game developers. Are they actually being used? The discussion section on flipCode features new game development-related topics periodically, about which you're welcome to share your opinions. Check out the previous discussions, and feel free to join in! If you don't have an account yet, take a few seconds to create one right here.
Monday, December 11th 2000
The Daily Flip |
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Image Of The Day Update - There's a new Image Of The Day online, a screenshot submitted by Jacco Bikker. Browse the IOTD gallery here!
Code Of The Day Update - There's a new Code Of The Day online, Socket Classes submitted by Thierry Tremblay. Browse the COTD Collection here!
tasty links:
If you'd like to discuss programming, gfx, or any of these links, stop by the Message Center!A Mouse That Remembers Fingerprints Four Additional Moons Discovered Orbiting Saturn IBM, Infineon Advance Breakthrough Memory Technology Jellyfish, Inspiration For New Range Of LEDs Jolt, Investigating New Way To Propel Spacecraft
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