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Starnick
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Since I've mentioned it before -

http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/134/

My university finally posted my thesis on their online collection, linked above. I don't think anyone will be that interested, and to be honest, it's a very boring read but it does correspond to the most complete written explanation of the systems in the engine.

On that topic, I'm in the process of switching gears. I'm moving off of XNA and onto SlimDX. SlimDX is basically a very thin C# wrapper for DirectX, as close as I can get using managed code. I felt I was going in a bit of a different direction than XNA and wanted complete control in regards to the rendering portion of the engine. That means I have to do a lot of grunt work though, but that's going to help in the long run.

I'm initially targeting DirectX10, but I'm redesigning the engine to support an abstract graphics interface. That way I can still target DX9, potentially even OpenGL (which I don't have plans to do so much, but DX9 definately) in the future.

Also, I've finally decided on going with "Tesla" as a new name :p
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Starnick
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I should mention that I finally got my site for Tesla up and running:

www.tesla-engine.net

Smile

Still has a bit to go though.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks very good.. Very Happy

I clicked eagerly to see what was on the website.. all leads to the first page.. will check back, when/as the links go live.

I am always amazed at what you guys do with code... I used to code a lot myself, being responsible for writing full blown Infrastructure Costing programme, Project Management Programme, Stock Control Programme, Joinery Costing and Planning Programme, combined with Material Ordering system add-on.
All that was until I suffered a condition that left me 100% unable to write a single line afterwards. So now I make a nuisance of myself, making models Very Happy
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Starnick
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AWM Mars wrote:
Looks very good.. Very Happy

I clicked eagerly to see what was on the website.. all leads to the first page.. will check back, when/as the links go live.

I am always amazed at what you guys do with code... I used to code a lot myself, being responsible for writing full blown Infrastructure Costing programme, Project Management Programme, Stock Control Programme, Joinery Costing and Planning Programme, combined with Material Ordering system add-on.
All that was until I suffered a condition that left me 100% unable to write a single line afterwards. So now I make a nuisance of myself, making models Very Happy


Yeah, as I said it's really only a blog at the moment (but hey, yesterday it wasn't even that). I haven't yet done much with the links (Half of them will be going off of wordpress anyways).

Don't be too impressed, it's word press and I used a theme as a base. Though I did do quite a bit of custom work in the background, mostly making the theme "my own" and hooking all the plugins to play nice with one another and the main theme's CSS.

If I was a web programmer, probably wouldn't take me nearly as long as it does...but I am getting better at using PHP and CSS. If I had to be a web developer, I don't think I would'nt have gone into computer science. But graphics and tool programming, I downright love.
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Jeroen
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with AWM, this looks very good and promising! Very Happy

Starnick wrote:

If I was a web programmer, probably wouldn't take me nearly as long as it does...but I am getting better at using PHP and CSS. If I had to be a web developer, I don't think I would'nt have gone into computer science.


I felt the same way for a long time but now I'm using C# and Silverlight. It's awesome really. But I wouldn't want to develop the web application we're developing now if I had to use ASP, PHP or the likes. Confused Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Posted some more today. I have a ton of topics, so I'm sure I can roll out some content pretty regularly for a while heh.

Today's two posts kinda remind me of the ongoing conversation over on the general community board.
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