Spigots
I'm currently working on yet another tool to grease the wheels of the Team UnrealSP content pipeline. The latest problem is texture packages. For...
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Swings & Roundabouts
Sorry you didn't get a journal entry last week, I've been pretty busy recently and struggling to get back in the swing of writing weekly journal...
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If You Can't Join 'em, Beat 'em
This journal entry was written a fortnight ago, but couldn't be posted then due to GameDevs downtime. Not much of interest has happened between then...
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One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back
I spent my free time this week modifying my old Unreal map reader so that it could rebuild the file after parsing it into memory. I then went about...
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Magic Constants
One of Team UnrealSPs mappers came across an interesting problem this weekend. We already knew about UTs zone limit (64, because a zone mask is...
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Like a Hot Knif through Butter
I've finished (the first pass of) my Jpeg2000 loader. I think I'm going to opt to call it Jackknif. That's Jackknife, the only English word I could...
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Graphic Violence
I've broken the back of the Jpeg2000 decoding algorithm. What really rankles is that all the publicly available implementations are at least a...
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Happy New Year
Not really much to talk about what with Christmas and the new year. I've spent a little free time looking further into Jpeg2000 over the last couple...
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Obscure, Incomprehensible and just plain Broken
I was off work this week. Tomorrow could be interesting since I think the code I checked in just before I left might have broken the build. It should...
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Nooks & Crannies
The observant amongst you will have noticed that it's not Sunday. The even more observant amongst you will have noticed that it's not Sunday and I'm...
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Things that go tweet in the night
So, it's been three months already since I started my journal. I had hoped that this would become a fairly regular record of my work for Team...
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The Source Code Challenge
I managed to find a bit of free time to get back to my Jpeg2000 decoder this week. Unfortunately it's so long since I last worked on it I've lost...
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Iterative Ranting
There was another mini SC++L versus do-it-yourself debate in the Beginners forum this week, which got me thinking (again) about the issue of vector...
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De frmenta ging...
Medieval II: Total War was released on Friday. I've spent a fair bit of time today clearing out my hard drive to find the 11GB(!) needed to install...
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The Googles... They Do Nothing!
I've nearly gotten my triangulation code ported. It's been fun ripping out unused variables, re-factoring five-hundred line functions and modifying...
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Compulsive Obsolescense
I was looking into polygon triangulation algorithms at work this week. It didn't take long to find reference to the optimal version, developed by a...
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T t HR h E readi ADI n N g G
Continuing my language-shootout mission I spent what little free time I had this week looking at the issue of threading. This seems to be one area...
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Ready, Aim, Fire!
I got distracted this week by a couple of thread in General Programming. The first was my c++ d c# benchmark, particularly the links to the Language...
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Slow Week
As the title says, this has been a bit of a slow week for me, so I don't have much to talk about. I did manage to embarrass myself at work this week....
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Brevity is Not a Virtue
The ability to explain something quickly and accurately with a minimum of fuss is usually an advantage. There are exceptions however. My continuing...
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