Greetings, fellow
programs!
Hello, my name is Kevin Harris and I welcome you to CodeSampler.com...
home of the simple sample! This website is devoted to 3D
game and graphics programming using
DirectX and
OpenGL. Here you can
find and download source code samples and tutorials written
in
languages such as C++, C#, Python, and Lua, which I think will be very
helpful to anyone wanting to program and design their own
games, games engines, or level editors.
This site also specializes in comparative source code
samples which help demonstrate the differences between
Microsoft's Direct3D API and
OpenGL's API. These special samples are very useful for
programmers who find themselves needing to port their code
from one API to the other since they allow a developer to
leverage his or her knowledge of one API to learn the other much
faster.
11/13/07
Two new and highly useful, user-submitted samples have
come in this week... or should I say last week since I'm so
very lazy! Any way, one demonstrates High
Dynamic Range
Rendering with OpenGL and the other is a
DirectX 9.0 port of the popular Volumetric Lines sample
which I, in turn, ported from an
nVIDIA sample.
08/08/07
Before I forget, here's two new samples which are the
results of my current research. One demonstrates how to use
the new
geometry shaders and the other tackles the confusing
world of
multisample transparency.
07/17/07
Again, I would like thank Christoph for submitting
another fine sample.
This particular little treat comes in two flavors: the
ever desirable, super cool per-pixel version of reflective
environment mapping and a slimmer per-vertex version for
those of us who often have to choose frame-rate over
eye-candy.
06/12/07
I would like to thank Christoph Kabek, a Software
Engineer living in Germany, for submitting a great new
OpenGL/Cg sample covering the topic of
Reflective Bump Mapping.
It doesn’t take much Googling to see that good
beginner-level samples on this topic are hard to come by.
02/27/07
In an effort to test new waters, I've created two new
samples targeting the new XNA Game Studio. The first one is
as simple as you can get and does nothing more than
initialize the framework while the second sample jumps
straight to loading a 3D model for viewing. Both samples are
available below. Try to guess which one is which!
Please note, you'll need to install the latest
DirectX SDK,
Visual C# Express, and the
XNA Game Studio SDK to compile and run these samples.
But I must warn you, with a dial-up connection this will
take you roughly a bazillion years or until the Sun burns
out leaving the Earth a desolate and uninhabitable dirt
ball!
Now, If you don't have that kind of time, you can just
stick with the OpenGL samples and try out this new one from
Tomas Dirvanauskas, which demonstrates how to perform vertex
animation using VBOs.
01/30/07
New C++ template
samples have been added to the
Miscellaneous Source Page and all of the
Python
samples which demonstrate how to extend and embed Python
using C++ have been updated to
Python 2.5 and
Boost 1.33.1.
Also, a Linux friendly version of
Andrea's latest sample has been added for all of you
Linux hackers.
01/08/07
As if
Andreas's first
z-fail shadow sample wasn't good enough, he gives us a new
and improved version with soft edges.
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