Programming – Page 4 – Thoughts Serializer

HDR lighting… possibilities…

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on May 11, 2006May 21, 2006

The sillent blog the last few days is due to the heavy work going on in Sylphis3D… I have almost completed

Open Source Programming

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 […]

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

Game Development Programming Sylphis

Sylphis3D now uses Stackless Python 2.4

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 21, 2006

Yesterday I upgraded the Stackless Python used in Sylphis3D. Until now I was using version 2.2. This was a bit outdated since the latest Stackless Python was 2.3. I was quite happy with 2.2 and had no problems at all, so I wasn’t considering to upgrade. But now that 2.4

Game Development Programming Sylphis

Considering a licensing option for Sylphis3D

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 15, 2006March 15, 2006

If you follow this blog for more that this post, you probably know the 3D game engine Sylphis3D. The engine itself is ranked at the high end engines of the times providing DOOM 3 equivalent capabilities. It was actually providing these capabilities for quite some time before DOOM 3 shipped. Anyway since until now I […]

Game Development Programming Sylphis

Stackless Python presentation

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 11, 2006March 11, 2006

Kristján Jónsson from CCP Games did a presentation about their use of Stackless python in their MMORPG game. The use of Stackless in EVE Online is very close to the use of Stackless in Sylphis so I recomment it as a good reading along with my post about stackless. The presentation can be downloaded

Game Development Programming

Multithreading Game Engines for Multicore Machines

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 16, 2006December 2, 2006

With all the latest developments in the game console systems and the endorsement of multicore processors, I really got into the path of investigating what will it take to make an existing game engine that was written to run on one CPU, to run on a multicore-multicpu system.

Master Thesis Programming

Got it!!!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 8, 2006

The race is over! The exams (oups.. presentation) started at 13:30!! It was over at 15:00… This is one hour and a half! The outcome: Success!!! Finally my headaches are over. Now I have nothing to do, and I have to get used to it 😉 The image in the post is from the reconstructed […]

Open Source Programming

Ruby on Rails : First look

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on December 30, 2005December 31, 2005

Yes, the hype got me! I don’t know if you noticed it, but lately everyone seems to be talking about Ruby on Rails. No matter what web stone you peek up, you find Ruby-on-Rails under it. Until now the only thing I knew about Ruby was that it is a language closely related to Python.