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Buy This DVD: Creative Character Design Techniques
Posted in Graphics on Sep 30, 2010
More accurately titled “Creative Character Design Techniques with Neville Page: Fostering Happy Accidents,” which is a short set of training videos showing one artist’s approach to generating character design ideas quickly and almost effortlessly. For me it was an eye-opening experience. I don’t have any formal artistic training to speak of, and yet after watching [...]
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A Simple, Intra-Process Event Bus in C++, Part I
Posted in Programming on Sep 14, 2010
A previous post introduced a way of assigning a unique ID number to arbitrary C++ types. As already mentioned in that post, my motivation for doing this was to lay the foundation for a simple, intra-process messaging system suitable for use in games (particularly the examples presented in Programming Game AI by Example). This post [...]
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Uniquely Identifying Types in C++ without using RTTI
Posted in Programming on Sep 5, 2010
In which the evils of the C pre-processor macros are exploited for the greater good to produce unique IDs for types in C++.
