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TGC Site Outage
2nd April 2018

Seems to be back up

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Light Map Editor Thing
1st April 2018

Replaced the global directional light with place able point lights:
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In this scene I have created a Cornell Box - which is a good setup for
testing how renders compare with real life.
Yes.. I will get around to changing the colours from re*snip*

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Ordered a new laptop
1st April 2018

Hmm, that's quite a good idea.. I have a 2.5 year old toddler usually causing havok around the house..

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Ordered a new laptop
1st April 2018

Cool! I didn't realise it had a metal chassis.
One other positive... I won't receive it on Wednesday then have to wait 2-3 weeks before I am allowed to use it :D

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Ordered a new laptop
1st April 2018

Yeah, I live in Altrincham and my sister lives in Farnworth so I was *almost* tempted to see if she could pick it up from the shop for me... but I can wait until Wednesday.
Yeah, my must haves were 1060 + CPU. I will probably be doing some unreal 4 and vu*snip*

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Ordered a new laptop
1st April 2018

www.scan.co.uk
Arriving Wednesday!
My Macbook Pro has done well but I am sick of being stuck on Apples world.
Want windows + visual studio? Have bootcamp... but your $1800 laptop will act like a $500 one
Want Vulkan? Sorry, use Metal
Want OpenGL > *snip*

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Light Map Editor Thing
30th March 2018

Added support for axis aligned box primitives:
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Light Map Editor Thing
30th March 2018

With a fair bit of wrangling.. we have shadows:
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In the image above you can see the ''eye'' ray and ''shadow'' ray. This is only diffuse at the moment. So there is no refraction/transmission or reflection (specular)

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Awww Myyy Goddd!!!!!!
20th March 2018

I was doing some bare metal Pi stuff earlier this year (managed to get quite far with context switching processes and everything!)
There is a fork of Qemu with RPi3 support: (Linkage)
Are you using UART + a terminal on your PC? That will act as your moni*snip*

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Lurking? Say Hello!
19th February 2018

ring bolted
shiterz
windmilled

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GfK's Dashcam
30th January 2018

Hah, I ride 6-7 miles to work and home a day - keeps me fit.. and I eat cheese sandwiches for my lunch and vote labour.
Cycling sets me up for a day at work. Haven't got the mega quads yet, but I can do 9 miles in 30 minutes when I smash it :D

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Light Map Editor Thing
11th January 2018

A few more significant things done.
I refactored all of the ray casting code out of the ray tracer and into a collision detection system (which will also drive the physics system.. when I get around to that)
On the visible front:
- Linear fog
- Circle *snip*

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AGAWFrame
11th January 2018

So this was something I did end of last year. If you have questions feel free to ask me.
Yes, Android development is a pain in the arse, google have changed everything (including native library/stl compatibility) between versions of the NDK and SDK.
I r*snip*

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ReadDir for C
7th January 2018

From: (Linkage)
''There is no portable way to list all the files in a specified directory using only the C Standard library.
Functions like readdir are part of POSIX but not part of the C Standard library.
You have to remember that not all operating*snip*

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Light Map Editor Thing
7th January 2018

Got a first render of some spheres with perfect diffuse lighting.
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ReadDir for C
6th January 2018

C++ doesn't have a ’’Dir’’/Folder List function!?
There is Dirent - which is a POSIX thing (so will work on anything not windows) and a Windows compatibility here: Linkage

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Light Map Editor Thing
6th January 2018

So I have made some progress into a slight diversion.. I have started building a ray tracer - which will eventually feedback into the light map generation stuff. Anyway, some screenshots:
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Time to Move?
6th January 2018

I have always had a good time with Webfaction.

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Phoney contracts
25th December 2017

shit son! 500mb limit... what a rip!
On the plus side, she is unlikely to get a huge bill - generally bandwidth is just throttled or the darta is turned off when you run out.

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Toys'r'Us Files for Bankruptcy
19th December 2017

Without the job they'd have no job AND no pension. And the taxpayer will contribute to their unemployment benefit.
They would get another job in no time, our strong economy driven by our strong and stable government is making sure of that. And if ther*snip*

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Toys'r'Us Files for Bankruptcy
19th December 2017

how is that going to actually help anyone? I'm pretty sure that most people would rather have a job now than have no job and no pension.
I am guessing that it's a case of less damage overall. If they went bust having spent all the pensions money,*snip*

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Halfords have great technicians
2nd December 2017

Oh yeah, and while I was waiting I watched one of the technicians drop their torque wrench onto the concrete floor... good way to look after your precision equipment ;)

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No Code
2nd December 2017

I haven't watched terrestrial tv in about 2 years. Pay 7 quid a month to Netflix. That is it.
No adverts
Watch what I want when I want
And to be fair, they are delivering more fresh/new content than I can possibly watch. A lot of it is pretty decent*snip*

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Toys'r'Us Files for Bankruptcy
2nd December 2017

I think T'R'U will always lose when they treat their customers like criminals by default. I remember going to one a decade or so ago, and was told I had to hand my bag in before I was allowed to go inside. So I turned around, walked out and brought*snip*

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Halfords have great technicians
2nd December 2017

So.. my bike has been squeaky recently.. time to pull out and regrease my bottom bracket.
The bottom bracket was replaced in May by a great technician at my local store. Since then, I haven't even had the crank arms off..
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Wonderful, ma*snip*
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