Tesla Graphics Engine

                    Monday night document dump! I have uploaded a (brief) introduction to the engine’s content pipeline on googlecode. The document discusses the content manager, types of assets, and gives an overview of ISavable serialization (as well as all the associated interfaces, and dives somewhat into the binary [...]

Just pushed a series of commits to the subversion repository, which bring many enhancements (mostly minor) notably changes to material parsing. I completely redesigned and rewrote the parser to be better organized, more stable, and more efficient. In addition, it supports just about all the items left on my TODO list: 1. Comment parsing is [...]

Thought I’d give the blog a spin for a change, since I’ve moved most of my updates to the twitter feed. Work on Tesla is a bit slow, but steady as I’m currently juggling three different projects. The past week I thought I’d take a break from the drudgery and actually do some cool graphics programming [...]

So half a week ago I began experimenting with rendering Bitmap (or just BM) fonts. Bitmap fonts are nothing more than a texture atlas with all your characters and some file that contains each character’s UV coordinates, spacing values, and kerning pairs (to adjust spacing between specific characters). The engine has been sorely lacking any GUI [...]

Just added a tool to the SVN that I developed several months ago (cleaned it up a bit, added some additional user-friendly settings) to compile the engine’s shader libraries into the binary TEBO files found in the D3D10/XNA default content. As an added bonus, the source code for all the engine shader implementations are included. The tool [...]

Introducing the newly re-skinned and feature improved site! I can admit I don’t have a knack for web site development with php (seems like I waste so much time getting something up that by the time I’m done, I’m already dissatisfied with it!). We’re still running wordpress, but with buddypress plugins. I actually like the [...]