Are there any programmers in the Cardiff, Wales area? Would be great to get to know anybody in the area who is a fellow programmer. Would be good to get a group of programmers together! Comment or e-mail me
After talking with a fellow HoMMII programmer, we talked about the possibility of writing a Heroes of Might and Magic II client in Java, which would open up the possibility of playing it on Android phones and whatnot. I’m going to throw this out there just to see if there’s anybody else out there interested [...]
The other day, I finally delved into iPhone development. I battled with getting to grips with the idiosyncrasies of Mac OS X, XCode alone, and then there’s the very alien approach to programming that Objective C and developing for the iPhone in general brings to the table. I must be honest, the whole process of [...]
This is just a simple modification of the Javascript bookmarklet called “Darken” by Gina Trapani. No idea if it had already been updated or not, but here’s the list of what I changed for anybody interested: Running the bookmarklet multiple times toggles the darken effect on and off! Saves refreshing the page Changed the colour [...]
Things have been a little slow recently. I’ve been generally reading about other aspects of graphics programming as well as generally being busy and now I’ve come down with something. Blocked ear, runny nose, bad headaches, dizziness and more. My best excuse for not getting as much programming done has to be that I’ve given [...]
Finally got around to adding those few lines of code to add textured walls to the ray caster. (Click to Show Full Size) (Click to Show Full Size) A few details: 1) The texture isn’t mine, I merely found it via Google Images with the term “wall texture” and it has the filename “Wall_Texture_by_shadowh3.JPG” 2) [...]
Two updates in one day. This is probably a first on my blog Here’s an image of a single reflective sphere in the middle of three other spheres of various colours with lighting and shadows: Here’s a quick look at all of the spheres featuring reflectivity and how they look when recursively casting off one [...]
Just a little more to add. I have shadows working but there’s a bug or two in there that I can’t seem to shift, but here’s what I’ve got anyway:
Here’s what I have so far: Of course, it’s still very much some ways off the high quality rendering that ray tracing can be known for, but it’s a good learning experience all the same.
Having spent a lot of time on rasterizer based rendering, I’ve wanted to learn more about ray tracing, if only for the sake of curiosity. I also wanted to revisit ray casting, as it had been some time and I took some of the finer details for granted the first time around, so this time, [...]