May 2006 - Posts

• In defence of Microsoft - Unthinkable?

  In defence of Microsoft - DirectX9, D3DX10 and XNA Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:06 PM by Rich Bryant | 5 Comments

• Well, that was careless

  It seems i did not properly secure the download permissions on the sourcecode for Easel or the UDP networking model. Those have now been downloaded about 8 brazillion times by site visitors and doubtless, all the decent bits have been hijacked into other Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:04 PM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments

• Words from Faith

  The more observant among you will note one extra option on the Menu Bar. I openly invite you to click on the Intro menu and be exposed to the words of advice from one of Faith 's most dangerous individuals, and as a bonus, a glimpse through the eyes of Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:57 PM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments

• Procedural 3D Content Generation

  Been doing a bit of research/fact-finding on this, mostly because building a 3D modelling app is seriously hard work. I think it has a great deal of potential, especially with regard to the sheer amount of content we need to deliver. No clue whether or Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:15 PM by Rich Bryant | 25 Comments Filed under: Technodrivel

• Headin' For Texas

  My tickets just got confirmed. Austin Game Conference , folks. See you there, i hope. Read More... Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 4:53 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments

• PlayNoEvil Rocks.

  I don't know how many reader check the Roller on this site. It's a handy site feature that aggregates RSS2 headlines from varying blogs and online publications which i - as the megalomaniacal site admin - feel are useful, worth reading and generally interesting. Read More... Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 10:45 AM by Rich Bryant | 8 Comments

• Easel Update II

  I've rebuilt and repackaged Easel, and made it available to the Art Team. They can find it here . Now i'm heading back to work some more on Fabricator, my 3D package. Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:22 AM by Rich Bryant | 2 Comments

• La la la, thank god I can't hear you

  Some time ago, Jeff Freeman of SWG/NGE fame/infamy posted a quite impressive set of reasoning about why official forums are bad . I agree with his assessment pretty much 100%, however, i don't think Jeff took it quite far enough. Forums are bad, no doubt Read More... Posted Monday, May 15, 2006 12:33 PM by Rich Bryant | 12 Comments

• Coloured Text - A Rant

  Hi. My name's Richard Bryant, and i am badly colourblind. Really badly. There are very many forms of colour blindness and they each affect those who have the condition in many different ways. My particular source of pain and discomfort is the use of gratuitously Read More... Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 3:10 PM by Rich Bryant | 5 Comments

• WoWCraft - A Trojan for Virtual Thieves

  The Register reports on a new Trojan designed specifically to target WoW players today. Apparently spread by malicious popups and popunders, no doubt, it snaffles login information for World of Warcraft and sends it off to a third party. That third party Read More... Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 1:47 PM by Rich Bryant | 5 Comments

• Easel Update

  Yo. First of several posts today, i think. Been saving a lot of thoughts recently which are relevant to this blog. Here's the first and most useful item. Easel, the Faith 2D graphical tool is now out of code review thanks to Chris , so i spent an hour Read More... Posted Monday, May 08, 2006 1:00 PM by Rich Bryant | 1 Comments

• Jeremy Sent Me Mail Today

  Jeremy is my cousin, the composer. He included a set of tracks which i'd recorded as attachments (ugly, ugly, ugly way to send data around) and well, i'm a little taken aback. I stand by my assessment of them as popular works and i still have no clue Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 5:05 PM by Rich Bryant | 9 Comments Filed under: Life, Miscellany