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Archive | November, 2010
Tip o’the Day™ 4: Take Advantage of unions
For those that write in C/C++, you might already know that unions are a good way to store data efficiently. Using the power of unions, you can leverage their functionality by accessing data more easily. Here’s a Tip o’the Day to show you how.
Continue reading...Localizing? Here’s an extension for sprintf()
15 November 2010
Here's an extension to sprintf() that will help with localization.
Continue reading...Keelhaul the Scurvy Dogs! 360iDev Session
9 November 2010
Thanks to everyone that attended my session yesterday morning! I appreciate all your questions and feedback! Here are the session slides and support materials for you. Enjoy!
Continue reading...In a 360iDev State of Mind
1 November 2010
Now that our games have been launched, I finally have time to get excited about attending the 360|iDev conference in Austin next week! (That’s not to say I wasn’t before, I was just too busy shipping those games to think about other stuff.) I can’t wait to go! I’m a speaker this year and this will be my first time attending, so I’m pretty excited!
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- Tyler: Thanks for sharing this, it was really helpful when doing my implementation....
- Jessy: If memory reduction is actually a driving force, then using uncompressed textures isn't the right solution. PVRTC doesn't offer a particularly simple...
- Blade: I just ported this over to UDK, got the basics of it working great. Now off to learn the Material system so I can actually build the textures for the ...
- BuffaloJ: Great tip! I've done C++ for 15 years and have used unions only a tiny amount. I can think of 5 places in my engine code that this would be very ele...
- Bob Koon: Thanks for your comment. I was saving discussion of the POW2 problem for the next article. You're right though. The biggest waste that I've seen on...
- Adam: Nice article. It raises some very useful points. It doesn't, however, address the shortcoming of Apple not including the non-POT (Power Of Two) textur...
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