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Now at this point you may have noticed that we are so close to the end of this series. These are the final three exercises of this gargantuan two part Photoshop CS3 channel to mask series. And you maybe sitting there thinking in sort of this wistful way or kind of thinking about all the stuff that you have learned in this highly entertaining series, and you are thinking to yourself, while your brain has swelled to three times its former size in the last million exercises. Wouldn't it be great, if we could end the whole thing with this terrific happy trails project that brought together the best of displacement maps and lightning effects working together in order to create a true 3-D effect inside Photoshop. And you know what's amazing about that? That's exactly what I have in store for you; we are as one my friend. How exciting is that? All right, so I want you to open this image, it's called, Credit comp.psd and we are going to be creating the classic credit card effect in which letters actually rise out of a background and this will serve as our background here.
And this art is actually the combination of a couple of different artists and you can check out who those artists are by going to the File Info command under the File menu if you like. I have the Layer Comps palette up so that I can just wander through what we are about to see, we just have three layer comps. This is the flat background essentially and this here is the final effect that we are going to create, is that not amazing? And this is totally a function of the displace and lightning effects filters working together. So the embossed effect that you see, all of the lightning, that's thanks to lightning effects of course.
And then I am going to go ahead and zoom in on the letters here so that you can see the way that the background art is wrapping around the contours of the layers and that is totally a function of the displacement map. Just amazing that you can pull this kind of thing off inside Photoshop especially using such ancient features really. And now I would want you to go to the next Layer Comp, which is the NuCard text, this is the Alpha channel information that we are going to be working with. So this is the starting point for this project, go ahead and switch to NuCard text here and then I want you to hide the Layer Comps palette, we are done with that.
Let's go ahead and bring back up the layers palette, we will need that and I am going to suggest for now we would just go ahead and take the elements, the elements are the pieces that produce the credit card effect, that rounded sculptural stuff, we are going to be creating that though ourselves. So go ahead and take the elements group and throw it in the trash, get rid of it. Now we are going to need an Alpha channel in order to do our work here, in order to satisfy the needs of the Lightning Effects filter and ultimately in order to satisfy the needs of the Displace filter as well. So we have got to create an Alpha channel here inside the Channels palette. Right now, we are just seeing Red, Green and Blue channels, all of which admittedly are identical to each other.
So go ahead and make sure that you can see the black layer and the NuCard layer and what's going on by the way, I will go ahead and turn those off so you can see; the black layer is just a layer of black to establish our black background for the letters. The NuCard layer is the letters themselves and these letters could be editable text but they aren't, I have gone ahead and converted the text to outlines because I used a special font that you probably don't have on your system. But you do want white letters against the black background. Then go to the Channels palette and let's turn that into an Alpha channel by grabbing one of the color channels, doesn't matter which one. I will grab Green because it's a good when in doubt channel and let's go ahead and drag it onto the Page icon and drop it and let's go ahead and rename that layer NuCard logo or something along those lines.
All right, and now we are ready to work on this Alpha channel, or you can go back to the Layers palette and you can take NuCard and black, take both of those layers and throw them away by Alt+Clicking on the trash can or Option+clicking on the trash can. All we want left over inside the Layers palette is the flat background art. Now go to the Channels palette once again. Now in order to light the text, I will go ahead and switch over to this Alpha channel. If we were to light the text the way it is now, we would end up with some very harsh transitions, the lighting effects filter would produce very harsh transitions.
We would have some harsh highlights and some shadows and it would basically look terrible. It wouldn't look like sculptural credit card text, that slowly raised credit card text and the Displace filter would really make a mess of things because we would have a radical transition from white to black and if you think about it, think about that way things worked at the outset of this chapter with that white box and that black box and how they just shoved the American flag around and how terrible that looked, that's the effect we would get here as well. So we need to create nice, soft transitions and we are going to do that, of course, using the Gaussian Blur filter. So I want you to take this Alpha channel and I want you to duplicate it by dragging it down on to the little Page icon. And let's go ahead and call this one GBlur4 because we are going to be applying the Gaussian Blur filter with a radius of 4 pixels.
I kind of spoiled the surprise but that's what's coming. I want you to go up to the Filter menu, choose Blur and then choose Gaussian Blur like so. And then let's go ahead and apply a radius of 4 pixels and click OK. And now we have the nice, soft transition at this point so the letters are going to raise gradually. Now I want both the lightning and the displace to wrap very gradually around the interior of the letters, so I am going to apply a second larger application of Gaussian Blur strictly inside the white area, not inside the black area. And here is how that is going to work. Go ahead and make another duplicate of this Alpha channel by dragging the channel down on to the little Page icon and let's call this one GBlur16 because we will be using a radius of 16 pixels. Press Ctrl+Alt+F or Command+Option+F on the Mac and enter a radius value of 16 pixels like so and click OK.
Now if we were to just leave things as it is, there would have been no point in applying a Gaussian Blur of 4 pixels because we just completely overwrote it with this much larger value here. But what we are going to do is we are going to apply that last filter effect just inside the white of the letters and we are going to do that by going up to the Edit menu and choosing Fade Gaussian Blur or pressing Ctrl+Shift+F, Command+Shift+F on the Mac and then change the mode to Multiply because we only want to affect the white letters, we don't want to affect the black. So we are going to multiply the effect into place and you will get this soft lettering effect that you see here on screen.
It's like kind of an old film credit effect, looks pretty cool. Like something you might see at the outset side of Citizen Kane or something. Then go ahead and click OK in order to accept that modification and we now have our Alpha channels in place. We will be able to use this channel in order to light the image with lightning effects and distort the image using the Displace filter. We will visit lightning effects in the very next exercise and in the final exercise of this entire series, we will apply Displace. See you soon.
Download Deke's customized keyboard layouts for Channels and Masks from the Exercise Files tab."
- Distorting and shading with a DMap
- Understanding bits and channels
- Creating paths with the Pen tool
- Using blend modes and the Dodge and Burn feature
- Understanding channel mixing
- Using layer masks, clipping masks, and knockouts
- Applying Smart Filters


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Ten Hard Questions Facing the 'Car Czar'
The auto industry has just ended one of the worst years in its history as per-capita sales slumped to levels unseen since World War II. For Detroit's Big Three -- General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC -- survival could hinge on President Barack Obama's willingness to extend a controversial government bailout and their ability to reinvent themselves. At this year's North American Auto Show in Detroit, normally the industry's biggest show of the year, the mood has been grim, as many auto executives contemplate their prospects for survival. Much will depend on an expected federal "car czar" who would oversee the bailout.
Here are 10 fundamental questions facing the car czar and the industry:
1. How many jobs does the U.S. auto industry account for?
The motor vehicle and parts manufacturing industries employed 703,900 people at the end of November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The sector has shed 116,500 jobs since November 2007, a 14% decline, according to the agency. Auto dealers account for about 1.1 million more jobs.
The Big Three car makers employ about 201,000 workers, according to the Center of Automotive Research, compared with about 113,000 working in the U.S. for foreign auto makers such as Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. The industry as a whole, the research group estimates, indirectly employs between 2.5 million and three million workers, most of whom are employed by suppliers or in services such as warehousing and ports. As a whole, the industry accounts for 13% of U.S. manufacturing jobs.
But such numbers are a big part of the bailout debate. Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who doesn't see a need for bailing out the U.S. companies, says foreign companies who have invested in the U.S. provide work for Americans across the country.
"I'm not sure why it is all that important for them to work for an American-based company. Big companies are becoming global at a very rapid pace," says Mr. Reich. "Our goal should be high-wage jobs in the United States."
But that doesn't mean Washington should stand by and let Detroit collapse, Mr. Reich says. The rapid demise of the auto sector and the three million jobs that it creates would be a disaster, especially for the upper Midwestern states, and should be avoided.
Peter Morici, a business professor at the University of Maryland, says the auto industry drives new innovations, from software to steel. He says that if the U.S. didn't have a domestically owned auto industry, the technological advancements made here would suffer.
"It's hard to have an industrial sector of consequence without an automotive industry," Mr. Morici says. "Would there have been a Microsoft without an IBM?"
—Kate Linebaugh
2. What would happen if one or more of the Detroit auto makers went bankrupt?
Hundreds of suppliers would feel the pinch almost immediately. If a few shut down, the remaining Detroit auto makers might also be forced to halt production at some plants. Foreign auto makers such as Toyota and Honda could be hit, too, since they rely on some of the same parts makers as Detroit.
What They Asked For
Detroit's Plea: Compare how Ford, GM and Chrysler presented their cases to Congress. Plus, photos, quotes.
Still, bankruptcy could have benefits, some argue. It would allow the auto makers to rework outdated labor contracts and shave tens of billions of dollars of debt, the way the steel and airline industries used bankruptcy protection to slash costs and move to a more profitable business model. Advocates say that a bankruptcy filing could be the only avenue by which GM and Chrysler, the two auto makers facing the most immediate cash crunch, can force more competitive terms on the auto workers union. It would also force bondholders to the table for a needed restructuring of the companies' billions of dollars in debt.
The question is whether an auto maker could ever get out of Chapter 11.
GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner thinks a bankruptcy filing would lead to the end of the auto maker. In his view, American consumers would stop buying cars from GM and there would be no hope of turning it around.
"You'd be talking about a Chapter 7 liquidation," Mr. Wagoner told Congress about the ramifications of a bankruptcy filing. The devastation would "ripple across this economy like the tsunami that we haven't seen."
—John D. Stoll
3. What level of sales would help U.S. auto makers recover?
More important than the number of vehicles sold is the profit margin on each vehicle and the mix of cars and trucks that Americans are buying. The Big Three make money on trucks but very little on cars. That's why they were hit so hard when gasoline went to $4 a gallon and truck sales tanked.
If Detroit's auto makers can't figure out how to make money on smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, they may struggle to make money no matter the size of the overall market.
The short answer is at least 12.5 million vehicles. At an analyst conference last week, GM said it could break even in 2010 if U.S. sales that year are between 12.5 million and 13 million.
But as the past few years have proved, the level of car and truck sales alone doesn't determine whether an auto maker is profitable. GM, Ford and Chrysler each lost money in 2007, when U.S. auto sales topped 16 million cars and light trucks.
—Sharon Terlep
4. What do employees of the United Auto Workers cost auto makers in salary and benefits?
About $71 an hour, significantly more than the $49 paid by nonunionized counterparts at Japanese, German and other so-called "transplant" factories in the U.S.
But most of that gap is in how much GM, Chrysler and Ford shell out for workers who long ago clocked out for retirement.
According to documents submitted by Ford to Congress, the auto maker pays its current workers $29 an hour. Wages and other labor costs are generally the same for GM and Chrysler, according to company officials and labor experts.
The equivalent wage on the nonunion side is a bit less at the older foreign-owned auto plants. Toyota pays workers in Kentucky about $26 an hour.
The gap widens because United Auto Workers get more holidays and vacation pay. The Big Three also have to continue paying workers who have been laid off. For that, Detroit's three auto makers pony up an additional $14 an hour, compared with $9 for the transplants.
The big difference comes in the cost of health care and pensions for retired workers. Over the decades, the number of retired Big Three workers has risen into the hundreds of thousands. Their health care and pension costs add $16 to the hourly labor costs the Detroit companies pay.
—Matthew Dolan
5. How much more do U.S. auto makers spend on health care than foreign competitors?
Billions of dollars more. In 2008, GM spent $4.8 billion on health care. That added about $1,500 to the cost of every car and truck it produced. Ford and Chrysler pay less than GM but are in the same range.
It's a different picture at Toyota. The company doesn't say how much it spends on health care, but analysts estimate that its health-care cost amounts to about $200 per vehicle. That's because Toyota provides health-care coverage for far fewer employees in the U.S. than any of the Big Three, and, most important, Toyota has far fewer retirees who depend on the company for health care.
Toyota has 300 retired workers in the U.S. It built its first U.S. plant in 1986, so hardly any of its workers have reached retirement age.
GM is one of the largest providers of health-care coverage in the world. It has 96,000 active U.S. employees plus 497,000 retired workers. Including the dependents of retired workers who are covered by GM, the auto maker provides health care for almost one million people.
The Big Three have been trying to lower their health-care costs, and achieved a breakthrough deal with the United Auto Workers in 2007. It will relieve the auto makers of the burden of retiree health care by putting billions of dollars into trust funds managed by the union.
—Neal Boudette
6. Are foreign cars better made and safer than U.S. cars?
Years ago, the answer was a definitive yes. But quality surveys and statistics show that GM and Ford have dramatically closed the gap with foreign nameplates, and some of their vehicles now outclass Toyota or Lexus models.
Chrysler is a different story. It still lags in the most closely watched quality studies. In a J.D. Power & Associates survey of new owners last year, GM's Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Pontiac and GMC brands, and Ford's Ford, Mercury and Lincoln brands scored higher on overall quality than Acura, Audi, BMW, Honda, Nissan, Scion and Volkswagen.
At the same time, some foreign companies have lost a bit of their quality edge. Last fall, Consumer Reports magazine lowered Toyota's rankings in its annual car-quality surveys, and stopped automatically recommending all Toyota models because of quality declines.
The problem for GM and Ford is what industry insiders refer to as a perception gap. Their quality has improved, but it hasn't yet sunk in with consumers.
—Jeff Bennett
7. Is the SUV dead?
Maybe not dead, but certainly over the hill and, some think, close to retirement.
In 2008, overall auto sales declined 18% to 13.24 million, but sales of new sport-utility vehicles fell off a cliff, tumbling 44%. When gasoline prices spiked to $4 a gallon, Americans scrambled to get into small cars and out of the gas-guzzlers. Last summer dealers couldn't give away SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe and Dodge Durango. The value of used SUVs plunged, too.
Now that gas prices have fallen, SUV sales and resale values have come back a bit, but the romance Americans once had for driving big rigs as family transportation has faded.
A decade ago, the Ford Explorer was among the top five sellers in the U.S. From 1995 through 2003, Ford sold 412,000 Explorers a year on average. A lot of those were driven by people who liked the high seating position and perceived safety of driving a large vehicle.
But by 2003, gas prices were edging up and American tastes were changing. The baby boomers who used SUVs to haul their families around in the '90s were looking to downsize as their kids went off to college. Last year Explorer sales totaled just 78,439.
There are still drivers who need vehicles that can seat three or four kids and haul a boat. So the old-style SUV still has some life in it, says Jack Nerad, executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com.
But for the most part, the SUV is in "advanced middle age, past its prime," he says.
—Matthew Dolan
8. What are the pros and cons of raising gasoline taxes?
Proponents argue that raising taxes is the most effective way of changing consumer behavior. They say Americans won't give up gas-guzzlers and drive more fuel-efficient cars until there is an economic benefit to doing so.
"At $2 gas nobody cares about fuel-efficient vehicles," says Michael J. Jackson, chief executive of AutoNation Inc., the country's largest chain of auto dealerships. He notes that when gas was $4 a gallon last year, sales of small cars and the Toyota Prius hybrid soared. Now that the price of gas has come down, he says, SUVs and truck sales are picking up. "I have fuel-efficient cars as far as the eye can see on my lots and I can't sell any of them."
A few years ago Mr. Jackson went against many in his industry and suggested raising gas taxes 10 cents a year over 10 years as part of a comprehensive energy policy to reduce dependence on foreign oil and to address global-warming concerns.
Opponents worry about the impact of higher gas prices, especially on middle- and lower-income people and small businesses. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm says there are better ways to spark demand for small cars than by raising fuel taxes, which would hit constituents in their wallets.
Tax credits for fuel-efficient vehicles and more government support for innovation to bring technology costs down would also provide incentives for people to drive smaller vehicles, Gov. Granholm says. "Clearly we have to have an energy policy," she said in a recent interview.
—Jeff Bennett and John D. Stoll
9. How close are we really to having electric cars?
For $109,000, you can get a two-seat battery-powered sports car made by Tesla Motors right now. After much anticipation, the Silicon Valley start-up began production of the electric roadster last year, and has already delivered some to customers.
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But if you're looking to pay roughly what you would pay today for a gas-powered auto, you will have to wait at least a few more years.
GM hopes to have a mass-market electric car in its heavily hyped Chevrolet Volt and has promised to launch the vehicle before the end of 2010. The first models will be hard to get, and it is likely they will sell for upward of $40,000, more than most car buyers are willing to pay.
Several other auto makers, including Daimler AG and Chrysler, are rushing to have electric cars on the market around the same time as the Volt.
The big question is how many they are likely to sell. Most car makers think the numbers will be low -- perhaps only a few thousand will hit the road in the U.S. in the next couple of years, they say.
—John D. Stoll
10. How much does it cost to develop an electric car?
The easy answer is billions of dollars, but it depends on what kind of vehicle is being produced -- an existing model refitted to become an electric model and offered in limited numbers, like BMW AG's Mini-E, or a new vehicle built from the ground up to go into high-volume production, like GM's Volt.
The former can be done relatively inexpensively. But the latter involves huge investments in tooling and production facilities.
To develop a standard new gasoline-powered vehicle generally costs auto makers about $1 billion. To develop an electric vehicle, the bill rises by another $1 billion, according to David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research. Moreover, the development costs will continue even after the vehicle is sold, as the technology will require continual refinements in ways that gasoline-engine vehicles don't.
—Kate Linebaugh


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Mountain Bike Your Best, Step by Step Plan
A simple, yet effective strategy to mountain bike your best that I learned from a restaurant manager at a former job. How can this help you as a mountain biker? Well, it is so easy to make excuses to NOT do your best and just cruise through life ….
Cornering Your Mountain Bike, Get Low, Not Forward!
Cornering Your Mountain Bike, Get Low, Not Forward! There is a lot of misleading advice for cornering your mountain bike, often from top racers who aren't actually doing what they say they are doing! Greg Minnaar and I got a kick out of ….
MTB: How are you supposed to get better if you don't know what you are doing wrong?
How are you supposed to get better if you don't know what you are doing wrong? I got an interesting question the other day from a facebook "fan" and I think my answer upset him so much that he deleted the whole thread! The truth hurts! His question went something like this: Hey, thanks for […]
You Aren't Doing What You Know You are Supposed to Do! (on your mtb)
On trail you aren't doing what you know you are supposed to do! Every riding "tip" you have heard or read isn't working because you don't mountain bike with the part of your brain that listens to those tips! I know because I was a frustrated, professional mountain biker racer with 10 years of mtb experience who realized that I was ….
Mountain Bikers, Follow Your Passion!
This is from a Quora (.com) question about whether following your passion is good advice or bad advice. Mountain bikers should follow their passion and see where it takes them.
Passions change, but that doesn't mean you can't be successful both personally and financially following your passion/s. You are not going to be great …


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#4979805 What are the most important things that should make me consider moving to C++?
Posted by laztrezort on 13 September 2012 - 12:48 PM
Going from XNA to DirectX, you will see yet another massive reduction in productivity. This is not meant to discourage, but keep this in mind if your goal is to get a specific project finished, you will need to choose for yourself depending on what your goals are.
#4978470 The "best" OpenGL/.NET wrapper?
Posted by laztrezort on 09 September 2012 - 09:50 PM
I looked briefly at Tao, but it looked a bit too thin of wrapper for what I wanted, and doesn't look updated much anymore.
From the OpenTK homepage they claim it supports the latest versions of OpenGL, though I only used a small subset of OGL, and have so far only built/tested under Windows.
#4972882 Need Help Making a map
Posted by laztrezort on 23 August 2012 - 10:20 PM
I had success years ago using a tile map editor called Mappy http://www.tilemap.co.uk/mappy.php with Allegro - there is even a "playback" library you can download that has a minimal tile engine built in.
Note that this was years ago, so I'm not sure which version of Allegro it works directly with, so YMMV.
#4969740 Debugging (managed) DX11
Posted by laztrezort on 14 August 2012 - 11:28 PM
With the DX debug mode enabled, are you still seeing debug output in the output console? what do the exceptions look like that you're receiving?
The only information it gives it an "HRESULT" value, "DXGI_ERROR_INVALID_CALL: Message Unknown", the rest of the exception data is default or unset. Output also gives no information. I get the stack trace up to the first managed call that produced the exception, of course.
Thanks Mike & JWalsh, I'll try these out and see what I can make work.
#4967206 XNA Standalone executable or installer?
Posted by laztrezort on 07 August 2012 - 06:47 PM
So in other words you need the XNA 4.0 framework to run a program created in XNA?
Yes. Here is a rundown of methods to distribute an XNA application: http://rbwhitaker.wi...-game-tutorials
Using ClickOnce (the fourth tutorial) is probably the easiest way to distribute an XNA game.
Edit: to clarify, using ClickOnce will ensure that the end user has the necessary XNA libs and .NET libs, and downloading them if they do not.
#4966822 NPC dialogues : file or script?
Posted by laztrezort on 06 August 2012 - 03:25 PM
I would like to see an example in which writing a script is required (in lua for example), because I didn't found anything on the web..Most of examples I've read are writable in a simple XML format file! So when is suggested using scripting language? Ok, when the behaviour isn't static like NPC dialogue, but I can't figure that kind of situation!
You could store flags and/or condition keys with the XML file, so that certain dialog node is only produced if the attached flag/condition is true. You can also store "magic" attributes to do hardcoded actions, such as "Open Store" or "Give Key to Dungeon". You can insert special embedded strings into the dialog to control things such as "Pause Here" or "Ask for yes/no".
At some point, however, you will realize that you are basically re-inventing a scripting language, as the list of attributes and magic keys and embedded codes grows. Animations, taking player items, healing the player, etc. You may find that your design has become brittle, in that you now have to go back to the source code to change & add dialog logic, do a full re-compile etc to test.
At his point, it may be worth looking into leveraging full scripting, where all of the dialog logic is isolated into seperate scripts. These scripts can be modified (sometimes during runtime!) during testing & debugging without having to change the main source code.
The tradeoff is the complexity of adding the scripting support, which isn't exactly trivial.
If you haven't already, plan out exactly what the extant of and logic of your dialog will be. From your OP, if that is the extent of your dialog system, then it looks like you can just implement [Condition Flag][Dialog Node] nodes in a data file and call it day.
#4965540 What engine would be good to make 2d games?
Posted by laztrezort on 02 August 2012 - 08:51 AM
However, to clarifty one point, you can definitely make 2d games in Unity - in fact, there is an entire tutorial available on their site for making a 2d platformer. My suggestion is run through that tutorial and see what you think.
#4965534 2d lighting
Posted by laztrezort on 02 August 2012 - 08:41 AM
Here is an article describing one technique: http://www.gamedev.n...t-shadows-r2032
Here's another technique using XNA and shaders: http://www.catalinzi...mic-2d-shadows/
I thought there used to be another good article on 2d lighting on this site, it was a bit older but may have been useful, unfortunately I can't seem to find it.
#4965515 Need help in continuing
Posted by laztrezort on 02 August 2012 - 07:20 AM
1 - Can anyone explain or link, genericaly, how side scrolling works in terms of programing (or more specificaly in XNA)?
Assuming you are using a tile map (or similar), you just have to draw the correct range of tiles at the correct offset according to the current "camera" position. There are various approaches to this, one is to draw the tile map to a rendertarget, but drawing an extra column, then draw that rendertarget to the screen on an offset. The best way to work this out is to draw it out on graph paper first. I don't know of any links offhand, perhaps searching for "smooth scrolling tile map" or similar may net you some good info.
2 - My Tetris game had around 10 classes, (representing the state manager, the generic state, menu state, game state, paused state, and the game classes, block, map, piece (the block is each square) and the current moving piece), all this to a simple tetris. Now, Do a big game really has a huge ammount of classes? Like some for each level? Or am I thinking of it wrong?
You shouldn't expect to get a perfect design at first. That is what refactoring is for. My method is to just plug away at getting something to work, then I factor out base classes & interfaces when it seems applicable. Experience will certainly cut down on the amount of this type of refactoring, but I doubt it can ever eliminate it.
My code often contains many classes, it helps seperate functionality. However, you should look for ways where composition is more useful - for example, I've never made seperate classes for each level of a game, since levels are expressed as data, not polymorphism.
3 - All of the games Ive made untill now had colision or movment based on a grid (the pacman movment was fluid, but could only change direction on intersections), so , being 2D or even 3D, how am I supposed to check for colision between lots of diferent corpses? I know it is easy for spheres, as I can go through each object and check arround the radius, but what about more complex shapes like a sprite with a transparency in 2D or a person model in 3D? Does XNA has anything to help in this situation?
Collision detection covers a wide range of algorithms and methods, but it is well understood and documented. I'll try and throw some search terms out that you can research if you want.
Likely the most common method are bounding boxes, more specifically AABBs (axis aligned bounding boxes). The only thing that XNA provides that might be useful for those is the Rect class.
AABBs are usually good enough (and simple to implement), but if not there are other shapes (such as capsules), and even "pixel perfect" collision detection.
For checking lots of objects, modern hardware can actually handle a lot of checks. However, when it gets to be too much, you need to start optimizing. This is where broad phase and narrow phase checks come into play. Basically this means that you can eliminate many checks right off that bat.
As objects start to move quickly, it gets a bit more complicated ;). Since checks are only done every 60th (or whatever) of a second, fast moving objects can sometimes go through other objects before a collision check is made. I believe this often referred to as "tunneling". There are a whole slew of methods to address this issue, some of them get pretty advanced in terms of maths.
Note that we still haven't said anything about collision response, just in answering the question of whether to objects are colliding (intersecting). They may be touching, or one may be inside another, or (going back to the previous paragraph) we may have determined that they passed through each other in the last frame. How we want to resolve the collision is a different matter. Here is where physics libraries come in handy, which is what I usually fall back on as this stuff is mostly over my head.
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Posted by laztrezort on 01 August 2012 - 07:57 AM
2. Im trying to learn somewhat off terraria's source but its really messy and doesnt use things such as inheritance. Please recommend any well designed games that has its source available to learn off (C# would be nice).
If you are using XNA, I would look through some of these: http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/starterkits/, and poke around for other code examples on that site. There are many examples, they have been designed by some smart people, and they even include comments
#4964950 Accessing the dd surface directly in xna?
Posted by laztrezort on 31 July 2012 - 12:48 PM
I could be wrong, but I would rather not iterate through a nested loop to render each tile as the screen scrolls. I've looked at several xna tile engines that use that sort of algorithm and I can't help but think it's not optimal. I would much rather pre-render the entire map in memory and then blit the window to the screen as it scrolls around.
Unless there are other considerations I don't know of, I can guarantee that such an approach will be fast enough (as long as you are not iterating far beyond the extents of the screen). I can also almost guarantee this approach will be far easier to implement than what you are describing as an alternative. I am also 80% sure that just iterating through and drawing all the tiles will actually be quicker than creating some sort of memcpy routine.
In short, SpriteBatch can throw many, many, many sprites onto the screen without a hiccup, unless you are doing something incorrect. If you haven't already, try out a quick prototype, you may be suprised.
If for some reason you do want to pre-render the entire map, just use a rendertarget to do so (you will need to stay within the limits of the graphics card constraints for texture size, however).
If you really, really want to implement a way to transfer data to a texture (not recommended!), then look at Texture2D.SetData and GetData methods.
Posted by laztrezort on 31 July 2012 - 07:02 AM
something like SDL.NET is far more exciting because nothing is done for you
It's been a long while since I've used SDL (and never the .net wrapper), but I don't remember it being particular "close to the metal" anyway. If you really want to dig into the inner workings of these systems, you will have to interface OpenGL or DirectX.
There are also some thin wrappers around DirectX and OpenGL you could use, some I've heard of (but never used) are SlimDX, SharpDX and OpenTK. I believe there is a book on using C# with OpenGL, but I do not know the name of it offhand.
Also, XNA is just a framework around DirectX, you don't have to use (for example) the provided Game class, or SpriteBatch, or BasicEffect. In fact, I'd wager many developers end up rolling their own versions of these classes specific to their needs anyway.
#4963741 Voxel Based Water
Posted by laztrezort on 27 July 2012 - 01:43 PM
A quick glance over the OP it looks like you are basically using a type of cellular automata, if that is the case then you could read this for some ideas: http://www.gamasutra..._automation.php
For optimizing, you will need to restrict the number of calculations that need to be made, there is really no other choice. This can be done by constraining the simulation to only those areas that need it and/or precalculating as much as possible.
I'm reaching on this one, but it also may be possible to memoize fluid calculations somehow (see here for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife). If even applicable, this could greatly increase simulation speed (at the cost of memory obviously).
For determining feasability, the only way is probably to just bite the bullet and prototype the simulation.
#4963317 Passing this as a ref.
Posted by laztrezort on 26 July 2012 - 08:45 AM
If the the OP is using or extending an API, then possibly it would make sense to me, although a bit odd.
For my part, I am unsure of the OP's famiarity with C#, so my first intuition was that there was some confusion about ref paramters vs. pass by reference. I know coming from C++ this was a point of confusion for me.
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The beautiful decor of the Harbor Court was cold comfort for the miniscule room that we were given. So small that I didn't think anyone would believe it. So I decided to measure the footspace around our queen-sized bed: 10" on one side, 14" on the other, and 36" at the foot of the bed. Adding insult to injury, the room was very dark--with windows facing a blank wall. From the floorplan of the hotel, I figure about one quarter of the rooms actually have a view of the San Francisco Bay. My husband and I were at the Harbor Court because of a business conference, and we were able to hear how other conference participants felt about their experience at the Harbor Court Hotel.
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This hotel was not worth $270 a night. Too small, to dirty, too rude.
Was not real happy with San Francisco as a whole. The whole city could use a good power washing. Sorry.
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Ebuka is one of the seven surviving Houston octuplets. She was delivered vaginally, a week and a half before her five sisters and two brothers came into the world via Caesarean section last Dec. 20.
Odera, the tiniest at 10.3 ounces, died of heart and lung failure a week later. But the youngsters' pediatrician said the others are healthy and developing normally despite being born no larger than 26 ounces. The babies now range between 17 and 22 pounds.
"We thank God, and we thank the doctors for the job they did," said the babies' father, Iyke Louis Udobi.
Nkem Chukwu, who this time last year was suspended almost upside-down in bed to relieve the pressure of her babies' weight, remains a bit awestruck by it all.
"It's a miracle. That's how we think of it, a miracle," said Chukwu, 29.
The seven children - products of fertility treatment - share three of the six bedrooms in their new suburban Houston house, donated earlier this year by the Federal National Home Mortgage Association.
The house, set at the end of a cul-de-sac in a gated community, is a cauldron of activity, filled with laughter and crying from girls Ebuka, Chidi, Echerem, Chima and Gorom and boys Ikem and Jioke. Sometimes a tune by Chukwu, sung in the couple's Nigerian tribal tongue, wafts over the din.
Because of all the babies underfoot, no one is allowed to wear shoes upstairs.
"Things have been remarkably smooth for these babies," said Dr. Patti Savrick, who has looked after the children since their birth. "It's very fair to say they beat the odds."
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - According to the syllabus, the Thursday morning class in Conklin Hall was supposed to focus on Chapter 4, "Ethics in the Marketplace."
Instead, the students spent the time considering material that hasn't yet made it into the textbooks - the collapse of Enron.
"Ethics in the marketplace is clearly going to be a very relevant chapter for the Enron story," professor Robinson Lilienthal told the undergraduates in his business ethics class at Rutgers University's Newark campus.
Professors and students in business schools around the country have seized on the tale of the energy giant's collapse as a compelling, real-life lesson, useful for examining everything from accounting standards to ethics.
"One reason we're using Enron so much is it's one of the few times you can throw out an actual case that everyone here knows about," said Janice Lawrence, an accounting professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. "Every day something new is happening and it lends a certain air of excitement to discuss it."
Enron is the latest in a long line of corporate controversies that have become case studies, including the Equity Funding scandal of the early 1970s, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in the late 1980s and, more recently, the antitrust case against Microsoft.
But the speed and scope with which Enron has inserted itself into the classroom are unusual, professors say. The reason, many say, is that Enron is a vortex for so many of the most compelling and complex issues in business - corporate governance, executive compensation, the roles of auditors, accountants and analysts, financial disclosure, the responsibility of a company to its employees, political contributions by business.
"The thing about the Enron case is that it is so multifaceted," said Bruce Buchanan, a professor of business ethics at New York University's Stern School of Business. "There are aspects of it that are either uniquely gray or uniquely horrible."
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A new way to enjoy fajitas at a cookout. Fajita Kabobs mean no plates required, and you still have a hand free!
One thing Wisconsinites know how to do is tailgate.
Baseball. Football. Heck, even college basketball games, will find people staked out in the nearest parking lot with, at a minimum, a grill and beer.
While brats and burgers are the classic tailgating food up here. Sometimes we do like to mix things up. With the food on a stick craze here in Wisconsin, kebabs are a natural choice.
For these Fajita Kabobs (also spelled 'kebabs'), we marinated classic fajita ingredients (steak, onions, and green peppers) in oil, lime juice, and fajita seasonings. Turns out, that was the easy part.
Confession time: We had to make these kabobs twice. And, I really wish I could tell you that it was because they were so good that we ate them all without taking pictures, or something positive like that.
I think I've mentioned before how Tim does all of the grilling around here. I've been becoming quite an effective helper though, so I thought it was about time to try my hand at the coals.
We had it all planned out. We had somewhere to be later in the evening, so I'd get everything ready and have the kebabs grilling when he got home. Perfectly timed for a quick bite to eat before running out again.
Sadly to say, even with detailed instructions, I managed to kill the coals.
Five minutes after putting the meat on, I went to check on it and the grill was cold. (Don't look at me like that. The coals WERE ashy colored and quite hot before I put the meat on. Thanks.)
Tim looked at the situation and, knowing this was for Sunday Supper, immediately sprang into action to stoke up the coals and remedy the situation. But, the clock was ticking. In the end, we ate turkey sandwiches in the car.
So the first 'making' was really a more of a 'starting'.
The second time around, Tim took the tongs.
- ¾ lb beef or venison steak
- 1 large onion
- 1 large green pepper
- 2-3 flour tortillas, cut into 1" strips (optional)
- 6 (10") kebab skewers
- ¼ c canola oil
- 1 Tbsp lime juice
- ¾ tsp chili powder
- ¾ tsp onion powder
- ¾ tsp oregano, dry
- ½ tsp cumin
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp black pepper
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp cayenne powder (optional)
- Cut steak, onion and green pepper into chunks, roughly 1". Place in a ziplock bag.
- In a small bowl, whisk together marinade ingredients. Pour the marinade in the bag and let the ingredients marinate at least one hour. (Refrigerate if marinating longer than an hour.)
- When you are ready to begin cooking, soak skewers in cool water for 5 min and get your grill going to a medium-high heat.
- Spray tortilla strips with a light coating of cooking spray.
- Skewer meat and veggies, snaking tortilla strips between the items if desired.
- Grill skewers 10 min, flipping once.
- Enjoy alone as easy eats. Dip in salsa, guac, or sour cream. Or, remove items from the skewer and fill up a tortilla to eat them the more traditional way.
In honor of the start of football season, this week the #SundaySupper crew is sharing some creative ideas for this year's tailgating. Thanks to Lane of Supper For A Steal for hosting this week's Tailgate Party!
Warm Ups (Appetizers):
- Bacon and Onion Dip by The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen
- Chicken Fajita Dip and Quesadillas by Chocolate Moosey
- Crab Rangoons by Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks
- Double Cheese Dill Scones by Vintage Kitchen Notes
- Fried Yucca With Pink Sauce by Basic N Delicious
- Grilled Corn Dip by Kudos Kitchen By Renee
- Grilled Gameday Nachos by Supper for a Steal
- Homemade Potato Chips w/ Blue Cheese Sauce by girlichef
- Liptauer Cheese Spread by Magnolia Days
- Mahogany Baked Chicken Wings by The Dinner-Mom
- Mexican Corn Dip by Growing Up Gabel
- Posh Pigs In a Blanket by The Weekend Gourmet
- Pretzel Nuggets by I Run For Wine
- Roasted Garlic & Tomatillo Salsa Verde by Killer Bunnies, Inc
- Savory Baked Pinwheel's by The Not So Cheesy Kitchen
- Sesame Glazed Cauliflower "Wings" by Cupcakes & Kale Chips
- Stuffed Banana Pepper Bites by Daily Dish Recipes
- Sweet Potato Hummus by Alida's Kitchen
- Sweet Potato Skins by A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures
- VJ Catch-erole by My Other City By The Bay
Game Time (Main Dishes and Sides):
- Bacon Burger Sliders by Peanut Butter and Peppers
- Beef on Weck by Healthy. Delicious.
- Carrot Slaw by The Foodie Army Wife
- Cheerwine BBQ Pulled Pork by Nik Snacks
- Chicken, Bacon, Ranch Quesadillas by Cookin' Mimi
- Chicken, Brie and Apple Turnovers by Shockingly Delicious
- Easy Grilled Chicken Caesar Sandwiches by Momma's Meals
- French Onion Chicken Sandwiches by Foxes Love Lemons
- Frito Olé by Home Cooking Memories
- Gomoku Treasure Rice by NinjaBaking.com
- Grilled Fajita Kebabs by CuriousCuisiniere
- Hatch Chile Pimento Cheese Burgers by Juanita's Cocina
- Italian Tuna and Shells Salad by Cindy's Recipes and Writings
- Pressed Brick Sandwich by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
- Pulled Lamb Barbecue Sandwiches by The Texan New Yorker
- Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken Soup by Neighborfood
- Smoky Turkey Burgers by Webicurean
- Snorker and Spicy Slaw Sandwiches by Food Lust People Love
- Tandoori BBQ Chicken by Jane's Adventures in Dinner
- Tortilla Hot Dogs by La Cocina de Leslie
Overtime (Drinks and Desserts):
- Coconut Funfetti Ice Cream Cake by What Smells So Good?
- Funfetti Sugar Cookies by Pies and Plots
- Individual Elvis Pies by Treats & Trinkets
- Portuguese Sangria by Family Foodie
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Sextus Cocceius Anicius Faustus Paulinus[1] (fl. 3rd century AD) was a Roman senator who was appointed suffect consul sometime before AD 260/268.
Probably either the son or nephew of Anicius Faustus Paulinus, suffect consul before AD 230, Faustus Paulinus was a member of the Patrician 3rd century gens Anicia. He was appointed suffect consul sometime before AD 260/268, and was the proconsular governor of Africa, most likely around AD 265/268, but it has been acknowledged that he may have filled the office sometime later, possibly between AD 276 and 285.[2]
It has been speculated that he was possibly the father of Anicius Faustus Paulinus, the consul of AD 298.[3]
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- Martindale, J. R.; Jones, A. H. M, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I AD 260-395, Cambridge University Press (1971)
- Mennen, Inge, Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 (2011)
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Pine Lakes & Grande Dunes Enhance Myrtle Beach's Buffet of Great Courses
Myrtle Beach and its nearby golf-centric communities are, with more than 100 courses, a little like a sumptuous Mexican food buffet. There are so many great options available where a golfer can either gorge his favorite type of course or sample a bit of everything, from the mild to the spicy.
Aerial View of Pine Lakes CC
Using that analogy, two courses in the area - Pine Lakes Country Club and the Resort Course at Grande Dunes - would be placed at the opposite ends of the serving line.
Pine Lakes is a little like beans and rice, a solid staple that when done correctly can make the meal instead of just accentuate it. Grande Dunes' Resort Course is more akin to the flan and the Tres Leches cake brought out after the main course, sweet (but not too much so), soothing and full of flair and different flavors.
It's easy to separate the two courses because of their difference in age and varied challenges. Regardless, both belong on your short list when on the Grand Strand; each has charms that separate them from the pack.
Pine Lakes CC.
Pine Lakes Set the Pace
Built in 1927, Pine Lakes was the first course built in the Myrtle Beach area and is considered the "Granddaddy" that sparked the golf boom along this 60-mile-long stretch of shoreline in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Designed by architect Robert White, the first president of the PGA of America and a co-founder of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, the course was built upon natural dunes less than a half-mile from the Atlantic Ocean's breaking waves and features numerous freshwater lakes and rolling fairways.
Pine Lakes was extensively renovated in the late-2000s by Craig Schreiner, reopening in 2009 with a completely new routing that allowed the course to keep many of the design characteristics from White's original course. The current Pine Lakes plays to a par of 70 and 6,675 yards from its back set of four tees; from there, the course is rated 72.3 and has a 134 Slope.
Schreiner retained just seven of the original holes, adding two new holes in place of the old 17th and 18th (which were eliminated when a new entrance was built). The renovation gave the place a shiny luster and enhanced playability.
Pine Lakes' Stately Clubhouse
Schreiner restored Pine Lakes' putting surfaces to their original size, an average of more than 5,000-square-feet each, considerably larger than before the redo. The fairways now have more movement, a means of defense for a layout dotted by about three dozen bunkers.
The course opens with two short and straight holes purposely designed to breed confidence at the start of the round. What's now the third hole (it used to be the 12th) is perhaps the toughest test at Pine Lakes. Formerly a short par-5, No. 3 is now a 463-yard two-shotter that requires a strong, accurate approach into a green guarded by water on the right and with little bailout space.
The 369-yard par-4 ninth really should be Pine Lakes' finisher. It's a dogleg-left over and around water and features a backdrop of the clubhouse and views of the Myrtle Beach skyline. It's short enough to tempt players to try and drive the green, but the steepness of the fairway's left flank forces many balls into the hazard when golfers are too aggressive.
The new 155-yard No. 11th - the seventh before the renovation - is considered the signature hole. A lake protecting the green was expanded and a false front adds to this shortie's testiness. When the azaleas bloom in the spring, you'll think you are in Augusta instead of South Carolina. This is one of the most scenic holes on the Grand Strand.
No. 14, a 438-yard par-4, is a valley hole with water at the bottom before it climbs steeply to a green with massive, walled bunkers in front and peripherally. It's both daunting and fun.
The 450-yard, par-4 closer has a crescent of water along the right that is near the tee; the hazard then reenters play near the green. This subtle hole is tough off the tee, especially when the wind in swirling.
Pine Lakes was the first Grand Strand layout to install SeaDwarf Seashore Paspalum. Pine Lakes uses the saltwater-tolerant turf for all its surfaces, differentiating tee boxes, fairways, roughs and greens by grass height.
The clubhouse was also remodeled but retains a 1927 feel, now boasting restored wood floors and a new decor. The original white-columned Ocean Forest Hotel and Country Club is reserved for members and includes the Snug Pub. Attached to it and open to all-comers is a brand-new pro shop and the Robert White Pub.
In addition to its place in Myrtle Beach golf history, Pine Lakes is known for its role in the formation of Sports Illustrated. In the early 1950s, a group of 67 executives from Time-Life, Inc., including publisher Henry Booth Luce, came to Myrtle Beach by train to play the course and to plan a sports weekly. SI appeared on newsstands shortly thereafter.
For more information, visit www.pinelakes.com.
No. 3 at Resort Course at Grande Dunes
Grande Dunes' Resort Course Has Multiple Identities
There's a little bit of everything to like about the Roger Rulewich-designed Resort Course at Grande Dunes, one of two tracks that are the centerpieces of a 2,200-acred community alongside the Intracoastal Waterway.
The Resort Course is carded at a knee-buckling 7,578 yards from the tips, where it carries a rating of 77.1 and a Slope of 142; take my advice and don't dare play from here.
Opened in 2001, the course is windswept and rolling, with water abounding at nearly every turn. The golfer is faced with forced carries on eight holes; only three holes don't have water hazards. Seven play along the Intracoastal Waterway, but there are more than 34 acres of freshwater lakes sprinkled around the layout.
To be fair, Rulewich (who designed all the courses on Alabama's popular Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail) also gives the golfer elevated tees to assist with many of the forced carries, as well as wide Bermuda fairways and large bentgrass greens. The real test here is in hitting approaches to places that facilitate scoring.
The 9th at Grande Dunes' Resort Course
Nine of the course's 10 par-4s stretch 420 yards or more from the back tees and just one of the par-3s (the 190-yard 11th, with a series of waste bunkers and trees between the tee box and putting surface) is less than 209 yards.
But sheer yardage doesn't really define the Resort Course. Instead, accuracy is paramount. The 571-yard par-5 seventh is a perfect example: Water on both sides pinches first the landing area and then the lay-up spot; here it's like trying to fit a camel through the eye of a needle.
The topography of Grande Dunes along the western bluffs of the waterway creates valleys and uphill and downhill shots, adding to its testiness. The putting surfaces are sloped, but most are not too severe and putts are makeable if approaches can find the right spots.
The 241-yard par-3 eighth is one of the prettiest and most deadly holes you're likely to play, falling 60 feet downhill to a shallow green fronted by a pond. Wind whips off the waterway, situated 50 yards behind it.
The 14th at Grande Dunes' Resort Course
But even that hole pales when compared to the 14th, a 220-yard one-shotter that starts at a tee box high above the waterway. The golfer must carry a steep ravine to reach a two-tiered green guarded front and right by a large bunker. The putting surface is long and narrow and slopes upward from the ravine.
Upon opening, the Resort Course at Grande Dunes was named a "Top 10 You Can Play" course by Golf Magazine and has since been recognized as the "National Golf Course of the Year" by the National Golf Course Owners Association of America.
Myrtle Beach locals consistently vote the venue as one of the "Best of the Beach," high praise because of the competition from the number of great courses in the area.
For more info, see www.grandedunes.com/golf.
Steve Habel is a freelance writer contributing Cybergolf news stories, features, equipment and book reviews and personality profiles from his base in Central Texas. He also works as a contributing editor for Horns Illustrated magazine, a publication focusing on University of Texas sports, and is a contributing writer for Golfers' Guide and Golf Oklahoma magazine, Texas Links magazines and Golfers Guide. Habel's main blog (www.shotoverthegreen.blogspot.com) features news on golf and the Longhorns, and another (www.checkinginandplayingthrough.blogspot.com) chronicles his many travels, including playing more than 600 golf courses since 2008. Habel is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America and the Texas Golf Writers Association.
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1. a. The nucleus of a cell is the genetic control center of the cell. It contains the DNA that codes for the proteins produced by the cell.
b. The plasma membrane is the outer limiting boundary of the cell. In addition, its protein function is cell identification, cell adhesion, catalyzing enzymatic reactions, carrying molecules through the membrane, and forming membrane channels for ions and water.
c. The Golgi apparatus packages products of cellular metabolism for transport within the cell or for secretion.
d. The mitochondrion converts energy in the form of the chemical bonds of glucose into energy in the chemical bonds of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).