April 2006 – Thoughts Serializer

Game Development

First there was DOOM 3, then Quake 4 and now Prey

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 24, 2006April 24, 2006

This really starts to get interesting… First there was DOOM 3, then there was Quake 4. You could easily say that Quake 4 was an expansion to DOOM 3. In graphics terms I really couldn’t tell the difference. And I don’t mean technology, it was like they used the same textures. The two games looks […]

Personal

Washing the car after 4 months

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 20, 2006

Of cource you know Murphy’s Laws about washing your car. I tell you they are all true. You see

Running Azureus with 128MB RAM

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 19, 2006

Do you want to do a fun thing? Try running Azureus on a laptop running Debian with 128MB of RAM… JAVA to the people!!! 🙂

Game Development OpenGL Programming

OpenGL render to texture problems

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 18, 2006

The time 1:52 in the morning and I just had those “OpenGL” moments again! It seems that the nightmare will never end. An other problem with RTT came up. As you know Sylphis3D uses the stencil shadow method, and therefore needs a stencil buffer. Now that I am implementing high dynamic range (HDR) rendering, I […]

Personal

Oblivion

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 16, 2006

The last days I have been playing Oblivion… A very good game I must say! And from the 3D engine view of it, the graphics are by far the best thing around! I can easily get carried away into looking at the sun setting! I really don’t like

Open Source Programming

PyPy – Python in Python

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on April 4, 2006April 4, 2006

It is a common thing in programming languages, and a sign of maturity to implement a language in the language itself. This however is not common