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Product Review: NXN's Alienbrain 5 Product Review: NXN's Alienbrain 5

On a day-to-day basis, game developers must deal with many different file types, each of which may appear in a dozen different forms or stages within an art pipeline, and unless the team is well organized and eternally vigilant, keeping track of all this inherent complexity can be an absolute nightmare. Alienbrain attempts to straighten out this dire state of affairs.

Jan 30, 2002

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Pool Hall Lessons: Fast, Accurate Collision Detection Between Circles or Spheres Pool Hall Lessons: Fast, Accurate Collision Detection Between Circles or Spheres

byMiles Jackson

Jan 18, 2002

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Product Review: Perforce Product Review: Perforce

Dec 14, 2001

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Exorcising Satan's Rotoscope: Motion Capture from an Animator's Perspective Exorcising Satan's Rotoscope: Motion Capture from an Animator's Perspective

Nov 19, 2001

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Tiled Terrain Tiled Terrain

Oct 24, 2001

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Exploring Spring Model Exploring Spring Model

byGustavo Oliveira

Oct 5, 2001

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Volumetric Rendering in Realtime

Volumetric Rendering in Realtime

Deep Water Animation and Rendering

Deep Water Animation and Rendering

Terrain Reasoning for 3D Action Games

Terrain Reasoning for 3D Action Games

byWilliam van der Sterren

Bringing Dr. Jones to the Infernal Machine: Dealing with Memory Constraints

Bringing Dr. Jones to the Infernal Machine: Dealing with Memory Constraints

byFlorian Sauer

A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part Two: Rendering Planetary Bodies

A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part Two: Rendering Planetary Bodies

Using Max Script for Building Game Levels

Using Max Script for Building Game Levels

byShailesh Watsa

Three-Axis Animation

Three-Axis Animation

byJean-Michel Ringuet

Porting Games to Mac OS X

Porting Games to Mac OS X

2D Programming in a 3D World

2D Programming in a 3D World

Tool Postmortem: Ubi Soft Entertainment's GL for Playstation 2

Tool Postmortem: Ubi Soft Entertainment's GL for Playstation 2

Gameboy Advance Resource Management

Gameboy Advance Resource Management

byRafael Baptista

Talking Heads: Facial Animation in The Getaway

Talking Heads: Facial Animation in The Getaway

Image Compression with Vector Quantization

Image Compression with Vector Quantization

byIvan-Assen Ivanov

1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond

1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond

London Wasn't Built in a Day: Content Acquisition for Levels in The Getaway

London Wasn't Built in a Day: Content Acquisition for Levels in The Getaway

Toward More Realistic Pathfinding

Toward More Realistic Pathfinding

A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part One: Generating Planetary Bodies

A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part One: Generating Planetary Bodies

BSP Collision Detection As Used In MDK2 and NeverWinter Nights

BSP Collision Detection As Used In MDK2 and NeverWinter Nights

Four Tricks for Fast Blurring in Software and Hardware

Four Tricks for Fast Blurring in Software and Hardware

AI Madness: Using AI to Bring Open-City Racing to Life

AI Madness: Using AI to Bring Open-City Racing to Life

What Your Mother Never Told You About Game Programming

What Your Mother Never Told You About Game Programming

It's Great to be Back! Fast Code, Game Programming, and Other Thoughts from 20 (Minus 2) Years in the Trenches

It's Great to be Back! Fast Code, Game Programming, and Other Thoughts from 20 (Minus 2) Years in the Trenches

byRobert Huebner

Automating the Build Process

Automating the Build Process

Refractive Texture Mapping, Part Two

Refractive Texture Mapping, Part Two

byGustavo Oliveira

Refractive Texture Mapping, Part One

Refractive Texture Mapping, Part One

byGustavo Oliveira

Game AI: The State of the Industry, Part Two

Game AI: The State of the Industry, Part Two

Game AI: The State of the Industry 3

Game AI: The State of the Industry 3

bySteven Woodcock

3D Engines for Games: A Broader Perspective

3D Engines for Games: A Broader Perspective

Postmortem: Sierra Studios' Gabriel Knight 3

Postmortem: Sierra Studios' Gabriel Knight 3

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