Pat Wilson's Forum Posts
| Thread | Post | Date Posted |
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| C++ and DirectX |
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02/16/2001 (3:44 pm) |
| ok, I got a general Idea how to get programmers, but... | It *is* always nice to have someone fetch soda, pizza and get the door for you though... (Ducks)... read more | 02/13/2001 (1:22 pm) |
| Starting Out Ambitious? | "Nobody ever got anywhere in life by aiming low, unless you're a sniper in a midget war or something... read more | 02/13/2001 (1:21 pm) |
| Help a new programmer?(please) | OpenGL may be easier to start with, also there is an excellent site on starting programing in OpenGL... read more | 02/10/2001 (2:12 pm) |
| Piracy | I wouldn't exactly call this piracy, this is a breach of the NDA, and is pretty damn lame. As fo... read more | 02/09/2001 (8:15 am) |
| Mike Tysons punchout 2000 | If you hit A-B-B-B-Start-Left you could bite the other guys' ear off.... read more | 02/09/2001 (8:09 am) |
| Help a new programmer?(please) | Well, with DOS you basically have a 2d array of bits that is the screen, and you manually write pixl... read more | 02/09/2001 (8:08 am) |
| How Many Programmers Does it Take to Put in a Light Bulb? | I gotta put in a little plug for CVS as well. If you can set up a CVS repository on a Linux server a... read more | 02/08/2001 (11:20 am) |
| Kind of an odd question... | On the plus side you could get some good sound effects from the training...... read more | 02/07/2001 (4:10 pm) |
| Finger your .plan | High speed!... read more | 02/06/2001 (5:38 pm) |
| Hashing | Ok, the only thing is, it's a template class, and if I use that method, it'll only work if I know al... read more | 02/06/2001 (4:14 pm) |
| Hashing | Thanks Rick =)... read more | 02/06/2001 (1:53 pm) |
| 3d Fighting/Adventure Game | Put an ad in the market place as well.... read more | 02/03/2001 (8:26 am) |
| How is it best to start? | I started with Basic. However I'm not sure if I agree with starting with Basic right now. First of a... read more | 02/02/2001 (2:12 pm) |
| How Many Programmers Does it Take to Put in a Light Bulb? | This is my personal viewpoint on the subject. Programers are made of different stuff then artists. (... read more | 02/02/2001 (8:58 am) |
| Death Match Game Modes | That sounds like a lot like CounterStrike with camping Terrorists. Which, if you've ever had the mis... read more | 01/31/2001 (6:02 pm) |
| Please help anyone | I agree with Chris on his choice of Java as an introductory language. Java is free...100% free, I ca... read more | 01/28/2001 (6:02 pm) |
| IRON CHEF: The Game | If Yan can frag...so can you.... read more | 01/26/2001 (7:32 pm) |
| How much to tell? | I once asked a guy I worked with (I work at a Supermarket when I'm not wielding a development enviro... read more | 01/25/2001 (4:02 pm) |
| Please help anyone | You want to program a game, and yet have no programing experience. Crack open a book on C and start ... read more | 01/24/2001 (4:01 pm) |
| Multithreading | Exelent responce, Rick. Just what I was looking for. Thanks =)... read more | 01/22/2001 (7:05 pm) |
| C programming question | Congradulations, Rick! -Pat... read more | 01/18/2001 (11:10 am) |
| rough timeline for GG 3D engine... | Source Code? Resounding YES! Using other people's code without being able to read it is like using s... read more | 01/16/2001 (9:04 am) |
| Finger Server | Neat! =)... read more | 01/09/2001 (11:33 am) |
| C++ | My advice would be to grab the DirectX SDK, or an OpenGL tutorial (there are a bunch of webpages in ... read more | 01/09/2001 (7:45 am) |
| Where Can I Get A 3D Modeling Program? | [url]http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html[/url] Anim8or is a free 3d modeling program that is p... read more | 12/31/2000 (7:32 am) |
| Sound FX | You can do a lot with roommates, tin cans, coffee cups, long support wires, and movie soundtracks.... read more | 12/29/2000 (8:20 am) |
| reading different variables from a single textfile | I'd like to expand upon this if I may. This is an example that I hope helps. Lets say this is a play... read more | 12/18/2000 (10:57 pm) |
| OpenGL Texture coordinate arrays | I thought this was rather strange, so I went and experamented with this myself, and I found...well, ... read more | 12/14/2000 (9:58 pm) |
| Chat Room | Weekly chats sound like a great idea. IRC room would be easyest I'd think.... read more | 12/12/2000 (9:42 am) |
| really advanced AI | Even better then the AI information is the "You know your game is doomed when..." list. ;-)... read more | 12/10/2000 (11:00 pm) |
| really advanced AI | While I'm not versed on AI at all, I think what you're looking to do would work as a Neural Net. Do ... read more | 12/10/2000 (5:19 pm) |
| College | I'm of the belief you can get anywhere if you try hard enough. For example, Richard Garroit never we... read more | 12/09/2000 (11:01 pm) |
| My idea currently in the infancy of implimentation | Well keep in mind here the goal is not to create the next best selling game. The main goal is to lea... read more | 12/08/2000 (4:09 pm) |
| Polygon Deformation | After re-reading the document I found a few times, and reading your post I think I get a bit more of... read more | 12/05/2000 (9:54 am) |
| Polygon Deformation | Hmm, I took a look at a tutorial (term used loosly) on the Marching Cubes Algorithm that was linked ... read more | 12/03/2000 (8:39 pm) |
| Game Developers Conference 2001 | Would this be a good thing to attend in search of a Co-Op opportunity (required by my school and maj... read more | 12/01/2000 (6:40 pm) |
| Where can I find game engines to license? | This brings up something I have been wondering about. I have a great game idea (Doesn't everyone tho... read more | 12/01/2000 (6:26 pm) |
| Explosions | Explosions are often a mix of different things. Almost always though, particles are animportant aspe... read more | 12/01/2000 (6:17 pm) |
