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About three weeks ago, my employer HAUS Interactive sponsored a weekend-long art hack. During the hack, I helped a fellow colleague create a font from scratch. Initially, the font was designed in Illustrator. Once the basic font-set was laid out, it quickly became apparent that taking font paths and converting it to a TrueType .tff…

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Over the past few days I have been picking up some Ruby. Overall, I enjoy the fully object oriented nature of the language. An interesting aspect of Ruby is its collections and the ability to create a heterogeneous or mixed set of objects. Although there…

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So we will kick off the second installment of Let’s Make a 3D Game with HTML5. This series of tutorials is meant to help one get a better understanding on how to create a slick 3D game with the newest of WebGL technologies. As stated…

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I’ve been coding a lot in Cocoa lately. When looking up how to create a file open dialog with NSOpenPanel, I found out that most of the source code on the web was out of date. With the release of OS X 10.7 a lot…

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Welcome to part 00 of Let’s Make a 3D Game with HTML5, a new tutoiral about building an HTML5 game with three.js. This series will walk you through building a game from the ground up with three.js, covering all the major areas you’ll need to face…

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A while back I was working on a project that had me making an indeterminate amount of clones with the cloner object in Cinema 4d. After a day of working on the project, setting the spacing for each clone was driving me up the wall….

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One reference for this tutorial is from Jeremy Bim’s article Better Shadow Passes. For all of you that have yet to read his book, I highly recommend picking up Digital Lighting & Rendering. A must have for any digital artist! I am a huge fan…

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Let me start off by saying I loooove SDL! It has to be one of the best 2d engines for game development out there. On top of that, I was stoked to hear there was a proper support for the iOS in the upcoming version…

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The Second part of creating a Vector Class. This is where all the magic happens! #ifndef POINT_H #define POINT_H #include <iostream> #include <math.h> #include “Point.h” using namespace std; //—————– //VECTOR CLASS //—————– class Vector : public Point { public: Vector(float fX = 0.0, float fY…

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A rundown on how to construct a basic vector class in c++. First step is to create a point class and then create a vector class that is inherited from it. This part is quite straightforward. In the end, an overloaded operator of the =…

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