Scene-IT [!]

Mentre sparo QUI il link delle releases del Codex su Pouet [musiche escluse, quelle arrivano poi], volevo scusarmi con la lentezza con la quale ho aggiornato il sito, ma sono mancata per diverso tempo ed ultimamente tendo al fancazzo. Che non è quello che pensa qualcuno di voi.

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Noticed on FlipCode a very interesting Image of The Day regarding tree generation. The control is capable of generating very nice looking procedural 3d trees out of some setup parameters.
Visit Ton van den Heuvel ’s Home page to have more information on this Tree control.
(rIO)

A new issue of the DSP library for the Bass sound system has been released. Find everything you need on this website.
(DiXan)

For those of you who can’t get enough sources of Win32 intros, Farbrausch presents to you the source of the MS2000 invitation intro released at Ambience 2000. Reasons to download this include, but are not limited to:
- Tons of Win32 assembler coding expertise
- A complete software synthesizer featuring everything you might need
- A version of MXMPlay/Win32 with reverb and IIR filters per channel
- Vocoder based speech synthesis including converter tool for your own speech
- Neat edge-based 3D engine and fast MMX antialiased line algos
(DiXan + KB)

Angelo Kenpex Pesce posted an interesting article on CFXWeb about ray triangle intersections methods, as the author says there is no “definitive” solution, it depends on type of application you are developing.
(Civax)

Just got that news from CFXWeb. Cort Stratton written an article about SSE optimizations. here you are some words from the tutorial :
“In this article I’ll be describing the process of optimizing a piece of code to make use of Intel’s SSE instruction set. As an example, I will work with a 4×4 matrix-vector multiplication function (commonly found in most 3D graphics engines). Starting from a naïve C++ implementation, I will progressively apply various optimization techniques, until the function is more than four times faster than its original version.”.
(Civax)

Steve J. Backer finally released another version of his portable game library, also known as PLIB. Some improvements regarding OpenGL effects rendering and performance optimizations. Get more info on PLIB official page.
(rIO)

Pojar.net published a good tutorial on progressive meshes, it includes also a plug-in for Maya describing the method. Visit www.pojar.net for more info.
(rIO)

GameTutorials updated the heigtmap tutorial adding detail textures and volumetric fog. Two new tutorials by DigiBen on GameTutorials.
(rIO)

GameDev posted an interesting article by Ebor Folkestma on managing data in your software using a template singleton class.

(rIO)