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Tape_Worm
April 05, 2012
Yet more shaders
Here's another bundled effect, the Gaussian Blur shader:
If you see any stuttering, blame Fraps, I was getting over 1000 FPS while it was blurring and running.

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Tape_Worm
April 03, 2012
Gorgon Shaders
So I got custom shaders up and running in Gorgon 2.0. The new version has always had shader ability because it's using Direct3D 11, so it's required to use them. However, up until now the shader code has been hardcoded to use 3 default shaders. But after today, there's an ability to use customiz…
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Tape_Worm
March 12, 2012
Does anyone really want Direct3D 9 video card support?
I am sick as a pig. I hate having a farking cold.
So, I figured out the issue that prompted all of this and it took damn near forever. Apparently feature level 9.x devices can't copy GPU data to resources (e.g. textures) that have a shader binding flag set to CPU accessible resources. And apparently…
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Tape_Worm
March 10, 2012
Stupid drivers
I need some help, I'm having issues when saving a texture and I need to know if it's a driver issue or something in Direct3D 11. I have a post in the forum about it here. If you can help and you have an Nvidia video card, please go read the post and run the test application (Windows 7/Vista SP2 r…
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Tape_Worm
February 29, 2012
You

You


So, I'm moving to a new place tomorrow and work on Gorgon v2 is going to halt for a bit until I get my life back in order. In the meantime, here's a screenshot of the primitives (rectangles, lines, etc...) that have been making me insane (click it to see a larger version):

You can see the line (bar…
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Tape_Worm
February 23, 2012
65536 balls.
So, I've gotten most of the sprite functionality back into Gorgon 2.0. And of course, with the help of my stupid ball demo program I learned something neat... (click the "read the rest of this post...", you know you want to)
If you recall the ball demo in v1.x of Gorgon, it's a stupid bouncing ball…
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Tape_Worm
January 30, 2012
Gorgon the 2nd
Just a quick note to say that I'm still working on the next version of Gorgon. And it's going swimmingly. I got 100,000 textured, alphablended sprites (not animated, just blasting the polygons to the screen, so really, it's 200,000 triangles ) going at about 30 FPS. I'm pretty pleased with that.…
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Tape_Worm
August 29, 2011
Multi-monitor pain.
So, one of the shortcomings of the original Gorgon was that there was no support for multi-monitor. And I see now why I didn't bother... what a pain in the ass.

Anyway, I finally figured it out. See, there are two ways to do multi-mon support in Direct 3D 9:


  • Create 2 devices, one for each adapter. …
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    Tape_Worm
    August 18, 2011
    MSAA (Gorgon v2.x
    So, to prove that I actually do work on stuff, I've uploaded a new video to the youtubes. This one shows off the ability to use MSAA in the new version of Gorgon.



    To get this effect, in v1.x of Gorgon, you'd draw a series of fading sprites (Alpha of 0 from the start position to an Alpha of 255 for …
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    Tape_Worm
    June 27, 2011
    The future.
    I recently played around with my own library (see an earlier post about the sun effect) and I found it... well, lacking. In my day job I do a lot of framework/library code for re-use amongst my co-workers and I've learned a great deal over the last few years of doing that professionally. There's …
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    Tape_Worm
    April 19, 2011
    Issue
    I became aware of an issue with the FromStream method on the Image object a few days after I posted the new installer. It's been corrected and put in the SVN repository.

    Please note that it is not included in the 1.1.4119.34319 installer, and won't be until I release a new version. Sorry about tha…
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    Tape_Worm
    April 13, 2011
    New version of Gorgon
    Yep, finally. I've rolled up all the updates/fixes that were in the subversion repository and put up a new version of Gorgon. Version 1.1.4119.34319 is the latest version and you can get it from here. You can view the change log in this forum post.

    Enjoy.



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    Tape_Worm
    March 19, 2011
    Sun

    Sun



    So, I bet you've been wondering what I've been up to lately... You haven't? You selfish bastard.Anyhow, I've gotten around to playing with this library I wrote for a bit. I do so little programming on my own time these days and honestly, I never much cared for Gorgon (I felt it could have been …
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    Tape_Worm
    January 25, 2010
    Moar User Stuff
    Well we have another user contribution from forum member domq. He's doing a "sort-of" Ultima 6 MMO remake called Britannia On-Line. Frankly it looks awesome, and I can't believe Gorgon can be used for stuff like that. Who knew? I sure didn't.

    Anyway, I've added screenshots of the project to the …
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    Tape_Worm
    January 02, 2010
    User stuff
    So I've been meaning to do this for a while, but laziness and real life gets in the way. Anyway, one of the forum members, Zeraan, has created a nifty little asteroids clone called Asteroids of Beyaan. You can check out the project (which includes a link to the game itself) in the forums. I've a…
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    Tape_Worm
    December 17, 2009
    New version:  Gorgon v1.1.3638.20767
    So I've finally gotten off of my lazy ass and uploaded a new version of Gorgon. This version contains all the bugfixes, and enhancements that have appeared in the Subversion repository over the last few months.

    You can read about the changes here.

    Then you'll probably want to download it.



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    Tape_Worm
    June 01, 2009
    A tutorial?  Now I is professional.
    So ShadowDust702 was kind enough to create a basic getting started tutorial and put it on the wiki. This makes it look like Gorgon actually has some interest. Who knew? Anyway, the tutorial is here. If you would like to contribute to the cause, then by all means do so and let me know on the for…
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    Tape_Worm
    May 24, 2009
    New version tiem!  Gorgon v1.1.3436.39405
    Yes, I know I spelled "time" wrong. Yes, it's on purpose.

    I've uploaded a new version of Gorgon today. That puts the current release at version 1.1.3436.39405. You can read what's changed by heading on over to the forum and reading this announcment. After you've become completely brainwashed by…
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