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Your Own Programming Language

Well, I havent updated the site in a while (work work work) but I think you'll like this one:

I've been working on a full scripting language built in Delphi from the ground up. Fully customisable, compact, class-based.. And very fun to mess around with too! (source code included as usual)
It's got dynamically typed variables, a full order of preference, it understands If statements, While statements and 16 different operators.
Try it out with the test bed program included in the source! If you get it to do some neat calculation or something, mail me the script file!

Font Studio 4.1 Released

I've added the final piece to my Font Studio project: Plugins! That�s right, now you can develop your own export plugins to save fonts generated with Font Studio any way you want. There are examples of the Plugin API avaliable for download too, and if you make plugins that you think other people can use, send them in! I'll put them up in the Font Studio project page.

Foundry Texturing Tool

By request, I've uploaded the texturing tool and camera path editor all-in-one utility I created for The Foundry (2002 demo project). You can get the texturing tool on the Foundry information page.

Heightmap Terrain

I've made a quick demo which shows how to load and display a heightmap terrain with normals and a texture. Click below to jump to the project.

Bitmask Tutorial

I've written up a short tutorial on binary flags and bitmasks. Showing how to store multiple boolean values inside a single integer variable, complete with cheezy example�

New Tutorial Added

I've added a simple tutorial on the glVertex command and how the different glBegin modes work to draw triangles, lines and points to the screen.

Font Testbed

I've uploaded an updated version of the the Font Testbed which shows how to load fonts made in Font Studio with your own OpenGL programs.

More updates to Font Studio

I've released another quick patch for Font Studio.

This time it writes proper XML files into both it's own format, and the same format used by XNA studio. I havent been able to test this, but hopefully it'll work. Email me if you are able to see if it's working.

Small Update to Font Studio

I added a small update to Font Studio since people nagged about some lacking features :P 4.01 has better small font handling, better cleartype handling and no texture size constraints.

Font Studio 4.0 is HERE!

It's taken more time than I care to think about, but I've finally finished Font Studio 4.0. It's better in every way, and I'm pretty safe in saying that it's one of the best bitmap-font generators out there.

Want to know the best part? It's avaliable to download here!

Font Studio Update

Well, I'm still busy with it�
And this time I've completed the Drop Shadow and Outline effects, the alpha channel and the preview� It's shaping up nicely!

Normal Mapper Updated

I got an email regarding the Normal Mapper I wrote a while back, and decided to add a preview function to it. The new function shows how to read the normals back out of the the normal map (without converting to tangent space though) and produce a diffuse shaded preview image.

More Font Studio

Well, I've taken a big hit over the last few weeks. It's called real life and it messes with everything you try to do..

At any rate, I've never been busier but I did just manage to get a small update to the Font Studio program working. We now have outlines! And proper antialiasing.

Font Studio Progress

I've been working on an improved version of Font Studio..

This shot shows the custom-drawn font combobox, which looks just like the professional one seen in applications such as MS Word or Photoshop. It also shows the binary space partioning algorithm which packs the characters into the texture, and finally it indirectly shows the multithreaded nature of the program. It uses a separate rendering thread to generate the font texture.

DLL Plugin Demo

I've had this small demo knocking around on my harddrive and I've overlooked it until someone asked how to load DLL files during runtime on the forums...
You can get it below.

More Minor Site Upgrades

Nobody told me how ugly the site looks under Internet Explorer� Yuck! Well, I've fixed most of the glaring bugs, there are a few I just cant work out because of the stupid IE rendering engine, but if you still not happy, tell me and I'll try to fix them. If I cant: get Firefox!! :)