http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de 3D Developement Blog Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:32:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I made plugin for Alienwares AlienFX Device that comes with every Alienware laptop and computer. Currently the following models are supported: Area51 m15x All Powerfull m15x All Powerfull m17x All Powerfull m11x A demonstration of the plugin by Lord_Zath form NBR (www.notebookreview.com) can be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLymX4fLVtc Download: vis_alienfx.zip (257 kb) Please be shure to read the README ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=14 I wanted to hook the WinApi funktion CreateFile, CloseHandle, ReadFile and WriteFile to decode a device protocol. So I searched for a hooking library in the internet. Unfortunately the only good one for c++ was detour from Mircrosoft which was free only for x86 non comercial use. As my laptop ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=13 Some time ago I've created a plugin for pidgin which counts the keystrokes per minute while you are typing a message and displays the value. It also creates a small statistic over it. Source (Linux & Windows) + Binaries (Windows only): keysperminute.zip http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=12 I just finished my AlienFX-Notfication plugin for pidgin. It notifies the user of a new message by using the leds provided by an alienfx device. Currently only the version for the Alienware Mx15x Laptop model is aviable as I lack the information for the other laptops and pc's. Update: I managed to ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=11 As a futher test of the engine I'm currently developing with a friend I wrote this mandelbrot explorer. I've implemented software double support inside the mandelbrot shader to avoid the early percission loss. Unfortunately I had to notice that the percission loss is due to the lack of percission during ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=10 Currently im creating a game Engine together with a friend for learning porpuses and fun. Because I read the article "Write games not engines" I decided to write a small tetris game with our engine to test the mechanics. During this process I found many flaws and bugs in the ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=9 I've read the paper "cascade demo secretes" by Nvidia and wanted to implement a particle system entirely on the gpu myself. So I wrote this small demo. Basicly it works like this: Vertexbuffer1 is rendered. the geometry shader processes the information (recomputes particle positions, speeds, etc.) the result is written into vertexbuffer2 by ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=8 I wrote this small demo in the past year or so, don't really know any more when I started. During this time I developed my OpenGL and C++ Skills and rewrote certain parts of my small framwork countless Times. Finally I want to start on my first game, so I declare this ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=7 Lately disscussed with a friend about penumbra shadows. I found a paper about this theme which used a edge detection filter to achive penumbra shadows, so I wrote a edge-detection filter in rendermonkey. Basically it looks if the difference between 5 pixels, which are ordered in a cross, are to ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=6 If you generate some data with the GPU or CPU, for example with the marching cubes algorithm, you don't have texturecoordinates to texture the generated mesh. To solve this problem I wrote a 3 way mapping shader, which generates texturecoordinates, binormals and tangents only out of the vertex position and ... http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=5