Gaffer on Games

When i did my talk at AGDC this year, instead of using powerpoint i wrote my own presentation layer in OpenGL, then overlaid it on top of my networked physics demo program. ‘How hard could it be?’ i thought before i started. Oh if only i knew…
Crunch time aside, integrating my demo and presentation text […]

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Back in 1995 when i started work on the graphics library which would become PTC, you couldnt rely on a pixel format being supported on all cards. Some cards were only 15 or 16bit hicolor, others did truecolor, but only used 24bits, others had 32bits per pixel. Some displays had pixels in RGB order, while […]

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