Category Archives: Gaming and virtual environments

Best summary so far of iPhone OS 4.0 license agreement vs Unity3D

2010-04-11 – 06:57

tl:dr no one knows for sure yet but there sure are a lot of … opinions!
Unity3D Answers: is-unity3d-banned-by-new-apple-sdk-licence
It’s unlikely this language is aimed at Unity, but it could easily become collateral damage in this fight.
Edit 12 April 2010: Jean-Louis Gassée gets it, which is kind of cool for me because when I worked at [...]

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QuickTime, Texturing, and OpenGL

2007-02-26 – 18:42

The movies I’ve examined don’t have an alpha channel so I’m using RGB and it works fine.

// Create an off-screen gworld where QT can draw
gworldBuffer = calloc(width * height * 3, 1);
QTNewGWorldFromPtr(&gworld, k24RGBPixelFormat, &movieBox, NULL, NULL, 0,
gworldBuffer, movieBox.right * 3);
gworldPixMap = GetGWorldPixMap(gworld);
LockPixels(gworldPixMap);
gworldPixBase = GetPixBaseAddr(gworldPixMap);

And then later on when I want to render to the texture:

// [...]

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Gamecubing it up

2006-12-08 – 18:25

That Nintendo Wii, it sure looks shiny and new, at least, the ones you see in the stores bolted to their displays look shiny and new. They don’t seem to be nearly as supply-constrained as the XBox 360 when it was released last year. When I saw how much those sold for on Ebay, I [...]

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Second Life and libsecondlife

2006-11-30 – 09:18

Google’s link to libsecondlife says, ‘libsecondlife is an open source project to reverse engineer the Second Life networking protocol.’ How is it ‘your’, i.e. the community of Second Life residents’, protocol if it has to be reverse engineered? A scalable hardware and software infrastructure capable of supporting the Second Life virtual worlds is a very [...]

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