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Modlab normal map generator16th February 2018 Found this posted on /r/gamedev today. It can generate normal maps from a flat image basically by magic. |
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Spacial Locality of Reference19th December 2011 Spacial Locality of Reference: an Efficient Access Pattern in any Cache System |
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Recast, Navigation-mesh Construction Toolset for Games19th December 2011 Recast is state of the art navigation mesh construction toolset for games. Recast is accompanied with Detour, path-finding and spatial reasoning toolkit. You can use any navigation mesh with Detour, but of course the data generated with Recast fits perfec*snip* |
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Analysing a BSOD windows minidump23rd November 2011 Skyrim gave me a two BSODs today after updating my graphics driver. I had also updated my firewall, so I didn't know for certain what to blame. I've linked to a pretty good guide to debugging the windows mini dumps, turns out it was the updated audio driv*snip* |
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HTML Purifier28th August 2011 HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP |
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How browsers work17th August 2011 From parsing to CSS selectors to the CSS box model layout and rendering. Fantastic technical low-level article. |
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Synchronous RTS Engines24th July 2011 Ever thought about how RTS multiplayer engines manage to cope with sending data for hundreds of units over the internet? Part 1 Part 2 Further reading |
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London's most mysterious train service24th June 2011 A mysterious train runs between North and South London during the week, direct between two stations that shouldn’t be possible to travel between. Once in the morning, and once in the afternoon – and never at weekends. From Wandsworth Road to Kensingto*snip* |
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A Treatise on Font Rasterisation23rd May 2011 An excellent read |
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Commander Keen... Mods!9th May 2011 Three fan mods of the Galaxy engine used in Commander Keen that continue where Keen 6 left off. Keen 7: The Keys of Krodacia Keen 8: Dead in the Desert Keen 9: Battle of the Brains |
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Sysinternals BgInfo7th January 2011 It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background |
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Let's Code... an MMO!5th January 2011 Not just MMOs... most of this is applicable to lots of game types. Articles still being posted, so I recommend grabbing the RSS |
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Ufraw - camera raw viewer/exporter for linux11th November 2010 I needed to extract some camera raw images (these were cannon .CR2 files). Ufraw seemed to meet the challenge. There is a windows version hidden away, but Linux is the first-class citizen. Here's what I did: [code] cd /path/to/photos/ ufraw-batch * c*snip* |
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Sed script to trim C/C++ comments11th October 2010 I like coding for ansi C. As the lowest-common-denominator, it's portable. And really the later extensions to C don't add anything that I've found important. But sometimes, you need to use somebody else's code for something, e.g. loading images, and they'*snip* |
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netboot.me24th September 2010 Boot directly into your choice of linux distro from a <1mb file that downloads the newest live kernel! |
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TimeThis.exe23rd September 2010 Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tool: Timethis.exe |
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Hahahaha, you're kidding?6th September 2010 You can't make this stuff up... |
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Enough With The Rainbow Tables: What You Need To Know About Secure Password Schemes23rd August 2010 Speed is exactly what you don’t want in a password hash function. |
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why GNU grep is fast23rd August 2010 Also interesting discussion on reddit: www.reddit.com |
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Chrome Web Store preview21st August 2010 Looks interesting... But I'm also really annoyed... It's ''Applications'', not ''Apps''!!! |
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htmlEncode / htmlDecode in Javascript/jQuery5th August 2010 Javascript doesn't come with existing functions to do this; but the solution is really neat! |
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Zero gravity cup!!!12th July 2010 Hell yeah, awesome |
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Precompression Filter11th July 2010 Improve the compressibility of your data by filtering it in this way. [code] For (i = 0 to max) If i = 0 then WriteInt(myValue) Else WriteInt(myValue - myValue[i-1]) // difference Endif Next [/code] Improve compression*snip* |
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JavaScript - ''use strict''9th July 2010 Strict Mode is a new feature in ECMAScript 5 that allows you to place a program, or a function, in a ''strict'' operating context. This strict context prevents certain actions from being taken and throws more exceptions (generally providing the use*snip* |
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Google command line19th June 2010 Ever wanted to do this: google picasa create --title ''My album'' ~/Photos/vacation/*.jpg Well, now you can! |
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