http://www.igda.org/tools/ The place to talk about tools development for games Copyright 2007 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:19:47 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Guess the title says it all, eh? :)... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/game_file_forma.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/game_file_forma.html Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:19:47 -0500 Another poly reduction app comes our way. Does anyone actually use these in production? I know I've been at places that have tried and for the most part, it was always better to do it by hand or resurface the... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/simplygon_revie.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/simplygon_revie.html Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:07:17 -0500 An interesting discussion was happening at ChaosEngine regarding middleware - what general criteria do folks look at when evaluating whether a particular middleware meets their needs or not? Thoughts?... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/what_determines.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/what_determines.html Discussion topic Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:56:59 -0500 This one's been awhile in coming, but it seems to have finally made it out with some interesting features, one of which is Mental Mill, graph node editor for shaders.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/fx_composer_20.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/fx_composer_20.html Article/Link Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:46:24 -0500 This is a demo application that shows how to implement a drag and drop solution that gives you more positioning control. As long as you move an object within its container, there is no need to perform a true drag... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/improved_dragdr.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/improved_dragdr.html Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:49:13 -0500 Lightsprint is a new solution for realtime radiosity and global illumination available for PC and consoles.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/lightsprint.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/07/lightsprint.html Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:28:41 -0500 A handy little util for checking out caps on any gpu.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/gpu_caps_viewer.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/gpu_caps_viewer.html Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:03:35 -0500 Omegame announced Menus Master v2.5, the most complete, flexible and user-friendly solution to create game user interface (UI) for any c++ platform. Menus Master provides all the functionalities artists need to create any kind of sophisticated game user interfaces: 2D... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/omegame_release.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/omegame_release.html Article/Link Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:20:10 -0500 Speech technology solutions and interface provider Fonix Speech has announced that it has joined Nintendo's Tools and Middleware Program for the Wii, giving developers access to Fonix’s VoiceIn Game Edition and Fonix VoiceIn Karaoke Edition voice recognition technologies.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/fonix_middlewar.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/fonix_middlewar.html Article/Link Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:17:54 -0500 Here are a couple of CodeProject articles that are pretty relevant to tools. Binary Search Tree in C# Copy/Delete/Browse Files in C# .NET Random Number Generators and Distributions... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/a_few_good_code.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/06/a_few_good_code.html Article/Link Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:44:38 -0500 Looks like Icarus is ready to release its toolset for creating MMOs. It'd be interesting to get people's takes on the service that they're providing here, from tools to all their various services.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/icarus_studio_r.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/icarus_studio_r.html Article/Link Thu, 24 May 2007 11:17:00 -0500 Cryptic Studios has released their custom rigging solution for bipedal characters for 3DSMax. It's a fairly full-featured solution, supports ik/fk switching, squash and stretch, custom skins and a lot of other goodies.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/crypticar.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/crypticar.html Article/Link Sat, 12 May 2007 03:07:00 -0500 Paul Pedriana at EA Redwood Shores details out EA's modifications to STL, largely in regards to performance of the allocator and additions to the container.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/eastl.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/eastl.html Article/Link Sat, 12 May 2007 02:40:24 -0500 Blade Interactive, creators of HydroEngine unveiled Infinite Worlds, a complete game development suite, including asset management, level editor tools, QA and data managment tools. They claim to do multi-user level editing - I'd love to see this in action.... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/blade_interacti.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/blade_interacti.html Article/Link Sat, 12 May 2007 01:35:53 -0500 From the site: "FileCarver is a program for editing binary data files that follow an arbitrary format that you specify. FileCarver offers a completely new approach to binary file editing, when compared to the traditional use of a hex-editor. When... http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/filecarver.html http://www.igda.org/tools/archives/2007/05/filecarver.html Article/Link Fri, 04 May 2007 04:29:55 -0500