So me and Brad did a bit of talking and we figured out why my TNT2 was running my game so crappily. Because I had so much blending going on at once (apparently it kills oplder cards, and I was using wgl for my font creation *hack hack hack*). So I removed all my text rendering since it was hacked i…

Alright everyone, I need your help. I'm going to ask my parents for some books this Christmas, but I'm just not sure which ones to get. Do any of you have any suggestions? I've heard the Game Programming Gems are a decent series ... just not sure. Any API related books should be OpenGL, as that is …

So I bought my computer desk yesterday. I went with this one:



It's the same desk I had before, only, in black ... I liked it enough to buy it again, and it comes with that cool bookshelf which is cool too, so now I have two of those bookshelves and one desk. My old desk was kung-foo'd by me after it…

First day of work today. Boooo.

I found my old nVidia RIVA TNT2 video card, so I'll stick that in my computer. It should be enough to work on Lazteroids, but not enough to play World of Warcraft (Which, I guess, is a good thing). Now I need to buy a computer desk. The one I want at Wal-Mart is $60. …

Well, starting to get settled down here at home. I won't be doing any development for a while. My computer is still without video card and my room is still without computer desk. I'd buy them, however, I just had to drop $400 to the dentist the other day, so I'm just about as broke as broke can bre…

Well, I'm back home in Texas now. This was the worst trip I've ever had. And saying goodbye to my son was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

So the plan was to leave on Friday. I picked up the U-Haul on Thursday and didn't make it to storage to start loading until about 4:00pm. They close the st…

This is a Public Service Announcement:

To everyone who ripped off my jour... err... liked my journal layout enough to use it themselves *grin*

There was a problem with the original header, that is used to replace the gamedev.net logo. Open up your journal template, and you should have a and some cr…

Not much to share today, just dropping an FYI that I took the code I had and put it into a dialog box, so I can work with controls and whatnot... BEHOLD:


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It looks purdy so far.

Okay a few things. Still nothing done on Lazteroids. I'm trying to read up on perlin noise so I can proceedurally create stars and some crummy looking nebulas, similar to -->

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(That was the title screen for my original lazteroids game). I can't figure out this perlin noise crap for…

Dudes! Check it out!


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IT WORKS SO FAR! Here's the latest .EXE. Controls are still the same. Just click on the first node to close your current polygon.