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Mon, 26 Nov 2007

PagedGeometry v1.0 - High speed forest rendering

An add-on to the OGRE Graphics Engine, which provides highly optimized methods for rendering massive amounts of small meshes covering a possibly infinite area. This is especially well suited for dense forests and outdoor scenes, with millions of trees, bushes, grass, rocks, etc., etc.

here

This rocks!



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Sat, 03 Nov 2007

Die roller for the Nokia PDA (or any browser)

I wanted to create a program to roll dice for my PDA. I was looking for useful things to do with it when I run RPG games. I investigated how difficult it would be to develop a native binary for the Nokia and the ARM processor and it occurred to me there was an easier way. A javascript browser would work just fine. That eliminates the need for a specialized development environment.

Javascript was interesting to learn and a lot of fun with the exception of having to put in hacks for just about every different version of browser.

I've finished the die roller application for the browser. It runs as a web page in both Firefox and Internet Exploder so you don't actually have to install anything. You can see it in action with your browser here

You can download the page and all the images here

Unzip, Copy it to your PDA, bookmark it, and you're all set.

The only bug I saw with the nokia's browser was that it wouldn't close the pull down menus after you add or remove dice. If you hit the refresh button it will reset the menus. It stores the dice you choose via a browser cookie.

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