Steel Software Blogs

In response to: "v3.01" 936 days old
by paramiliar [Member]

Hi there, I have taken a look at your steel-software site and thought I would give you some advice. First off change the layout, its a off colour layout and its hard to read some of the content. We have plenty of free Website Layouts and more…

In response to: "A Full Description" 950 days old
by Ali [Visitor]

thank you man more…

In response to: "A Full Description" 1254 days old
by Steve [Visitor]

This sounds super cool! HL2 definitly brought new technology to the floor with their wood planks :) But this sounds even better! Especially if you could offload the data crunching to something like an the ageia physx card. (which more and more titles seem to be using)

Keep it up! more…

In response to: "Wrap-Up" 1255 days old
by Mike [Visitor]

sounds very interesting. I'd really like to see it in action but the demo video link doesn't work. more…

In response to: "Wrap-Up" 1255 days old
by Bob [Visitor]

Perhaps you should learn a little bit more about the API before condemning it or making a claim about what it's suited for. At the very least, you should present some data backing up your 20% framerate drop claim. After all, there's a HUGE difference between 2000 -> 1600 FPS and 70 -> 56 FPS . Notice, one is a 400 fps drop, the other a 14 fps dr more…

In response to: "A Vision Of The Future" 1322 days old
by  [Visitor]

woohoo secrets out


x

more…

In response to: "Mesh Mayhem" 1364 days old
by Federico Lois [Visitor]

I though that the email address was stored internally. No problem will add you on MSN.

Greetings
Federico more…

In response to: "Mesh Mayhem" 1366 days old
by sylverfyre [Member]

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in this project, it's nice to see people interested in what I'm doing.

As far as the O'Brien and Hodgins work goes, their meshes have an internal data structure and so when the full physical crack model is applied they can easily split the model.

What I'm after is to be able to imp more…

In response to: "Mesh Mayhem" 1366 days old
by Federico Lois [Visitor]

Hi,

I am pretty interested in your development and have been following it from several weeks already. One thing that I may have overlooked but I would be interested to know is if you are going the complete model cracking idea from: Graphical Modeling and Animation of Brittle Fracture by O'Brien et all.

As it is very inte more…

In response to: "New Year Update" 1396 days old
by kungfu_sheep [Member]

Happy new Year.

Good luck with that exam, mate. Tell us how it goes :) more…

In response to: "Xmas Update" 1421 days old
by kungfu_sheep [Member]

Yes, UV coordinates in Maya go from bottom left(0,0) to top right(1,1). Considering I work with UV coordinates, textures and modelling for games I have no idea the technical reason for this *shrugs*

Still, please to see your progressing with your work. Good luck with the dissertation :)

merry Chrimbo too! more…

In response to: "Xmas Update" 1421 days old
by skip2468 [Member]

Congratulations! A great idea using your blog as a means of extending your very interesting work. Well done. more…

In response to: "v1.9.11 and OpenGL" 1441 days old
by Ashe [Visitor]

Keep on the good work.
wet more…

In response to: "v1.9.11 and OpenGL" 1447 days old
by Phoenix2k [Visitor]

Your work is marvelous!!
more…

In response to: "Week 5 Update" 1461 days old
by Zman [Visitor]

Linked from TheBuffer.com.

Looking forward to seeing this progress. more…

In response to: "Week 5 Update" 1463 days old
by sylverfyre [Member]

I call it a dissertation and a bloody tricky one at that. However, it'll be amazing if I could pull it off so I'm having a go! more…

In response to: "Week 5 Update" 1463 days old
by deleted user [Visitor]

dude, why you would undertake this boggles my mind, but it is strangley impressive. more…

In response to: "Cracking the Algorithm" 1468 days old
by ZMan [Visitor]

The D3DX Lie class can be made to use world coordinates if you use the DrawTransform method. You have to pass in the world/view/projection matrix yourself as a parameter.

I use it to draw the axis the ask zman sample here http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/zman/zmantextures3/default.aspx

Underneath D3DX line draws primit more…

In response to: "Update" 1474 days old
by  [Visitor]

LOST
Like you I have purchased on Ebay the whole first series and am now six months ahead of the TV series.
The thugs in the boat who kidnapped the girl and blew up the raft were "real" people.
If you google "Lost" you can get up to date with the series on ABC.
There are many sites devoted to solving the mysteries.
On more…

In response to: "Week 3 and a website milestone" 1479 days old
by kungfu_sheep [Member]

I'm just dropping in to show my interest. I'm a 3D artist in the Computer games industry. although not totally technically savy We're doing a bunch of stuff for next gen consoles. At the moment I'm running maya and using OpenGL to display realtime lighting/shadows/high quality texture(with mipmaps) along with normal map and specular map display. more…

In response to: "Update 3" 1484 days old
by EatME [Visitor]

the post is good, you can come to see my site
more…

In response to: "DX9 or OpenGL" 1508 days old
by  [Visitor]

I think you will find games do run on Linux,,,,have a look about my friend and you shall find more…

In response to: "The Future of Computers" 1518 days old
by  [Visitor]

you may find some use from this article....

not really relevant to the above posting... however it may give you some ideas for future use in connection with your C++..

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-junit4.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01JUnit4

(yes I know its Java, the language in unimportant) more…

In response to: "DX9 or OpenGL" 1521 days old
by sylverfyre [Member]

Consider a game like Battlefield 2. Technically brilliant game, how they get so much going on at the same time and maintain that framerate is unbelieveable. What I'm going to be developing is a realistic method of smashing 3D objects. Walls, tanks, teapots, you name it. What I'm doing is proof of concept that it can be done, the language that I'm w more…

In response to: "DX9 or OpenGL" 1521 days old
by  [Visitor]

depends on if you want most of the client processing to be done via the CPU or the GPU really..


is ultra fast graphics performance want you want? next gen 64bit MOBOS and Graph Cards will handle it... many PROCS remain stagnent...its a veritable minefield...have fun. also cross platform acceptance is a problem with D( and open more…

In response to: "DX9 or OpenGL" 1527 days old
by sylverfyre [Member]

Your site is great, Some of the articles have re-affirmed my decision to go managed, especiall the 98% speed of C++ for 50% of the code comment!

I'm going to start re-learning C# and my friend at MS tech support is gonna send me a few training cds and books to get me kick started. I'll keep u posted more…

In response to: "DX9 or OpenGL" 1527 days old
by ZMan [Visitor]

Check out http://www.thezbuffer.com for all things managed directx.

If you choose to go that way and you blog about it, let me know and I'll link to your blog. more…

In response to: "Project prioritisaiton" 1531 days old
by  [Visitor]

sorry I did miss-read it... c'est la vie is my excuse.... dont have a realLife debugger...lol

more…

In response to: "Project prioritisaiton" 1531 days old
by sylverfyre [Member]

C++ for the website? no no, you have misread. C++ is for the 3d, i already know php and mysql for the website.

I'll tell you when my head starts to hurt :D more…

In response to: "Project prioritisaiton" 1532 days old
by  [Visitor]

aw man,,, good luck with the 3D stuff, you will have a headache for weeks... think of a 3d drawing in your head, assign some co-ords to each corner (within the 360 of course) then rotate them 170 degrees in your head whilst maintaining the true values of the co-ordinates.... honstly man, head fuck the lot of it....

just a question,,, w more…