For a little under a year now, I’ve been using Modo to learn how to create 3D models. I’m doing this partly for fun, and partly to help me think about game engine features from the perspective of an artist. Along with the traditional poly-modeling tools, Modo (like many other 3D tools) also has support for subdivision surfaces. A subdivision surface basically allows you to create a low-poly control mesh for your model, and to add detail, you let the application divide each face in your mesh according to a…
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Counting Objects In A List in C# 3.5
While I was reading through some C# 2.0 code that a friend of mine wrote, I noticed that he was finding some objects in a List using a foreach loop. As soon as I saw that, I thought to myself that I would probably have done that using FindAll with an anonymous delegate. That got me thinking about all the different ways you can find things in a List in C#. I’ve recently upgraded to using Visual Studio 2008, so with the advent of C# 3.5 there are even more…
Nothing To Report
Well, there’s not much to report really. I’ve been spreading myself very thin recently, investigating a few different things, so I thought might be nice to post a status update. Variance Shadow Maps Yes, I’m jumping on the variance shadow maps boat. They look nice, they’re easy to implement, and have relatively small overhead over traditional shadow maps. I read the article in GPU Gems 3, which is also available here, and it was pretty easy to implement from there. It probably took me about 2 hours to go from…
Welcome!
I finally took the plunge to set up my own website! I’ve been wanting to do this for a while to be able to share some of the things that have interested me as I spend my spare time writing a small game engine. I hope that someone somewhere finds these things interesting! One other reason that I set up the site is to have central place to store information about a couple of small pieces of software I wrote: DoItNow and MockItNow. DoItNow is a little addin for Visual…