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  • Terrain with Geometry Clipmaps

    Terrain with Geometry Clipmaps

    In the last thread about the terrain shit I was doing, Syranide commented telling of his success with geometry clipmaps. So I decided to give it a go. And long story short, I implemented it and it rocks. The old way of doing terrain involves...

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  • Threading

    Threading

    I have learned a lot about threading over the last 6 months. Not from books and reading, that would be too easy. I learn through trial and error. So, say you have 100,000 particles and each one needs to think – to add its velocity...

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  • What is GWEN

    What is GWEN

    I keep getting asked what GWEN is – so here’s an explanation. GWEN is a GUI Widget Toolkit, aimed at video game developers, with the emphasis on being small, simple and easy to integrate. We decided to make our own because the solutions that are...

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  • C++, Templates

    C++, Templates

    Templating rocks. But it seems to be something that’s missed out when people are learning C++. It’s like they learn about syntax, variables, structs, classes, pointers – and then they’re off, and forget to keep learning. This is despite using them all the time without...

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  • Visual Studio Plugins

    Visual Studio Plugins

    People ask me now and then what plugins I have in VS. Because everyone knows that plugins make you a good coder, and the more plugins you have the better coder you are. Well here’s the 3 plugins I have installed. Visual Assist X Visual...

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