Screen Space Decals in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

As I promised, here are the slides I presented at Siggraph 2012. It's about Screen Space Decal technique I developed for Space Marine

Joining Square Enix / Eidos Montreal for....

Today, my ex-student & friend, Friso, asked me why I'm not saying anything about joining Eidos Montreal on my blog. I guess I was just busy dealing with the slowest moving company and finding a new place in Montreal. Now those things are kinda under control, so let me break the old news.

Why Da Hell Am I Inventing the Wheel Again?

My goal of this week: finishing the Screen Space Decal presentation that I'll give out at Siggraph 2012. If it was purely just making a ppt file I think I would have been more inspired to finish it. The problem is that I'm not with Relic any more and I have no access to their codebase or running editor. So, I'm re-implementing all the features again just to have a demo program where I can take enough screen captures.

How To Generate C# Object from XML

Found this from my old work note. Before I forget about it, let me post it here. Maybe someone find it useful.

OpenCL: Getting OUT_OF_RESOURCE or CL_MEM_OBJECT_ALLOCATION_FAILURE?

I recently had a chance to use OpenCL to speed up an app I was developing. It was pretty fun, but certainly debugging OpenCL was not so easy. I wish it had more error messages at least.

Won Best Speaker Award

I won the best speaker award for the presentation I gave out at KGC last year. And this is the proof :)

Unity, I Love You, But Your UV Is Horrible

I love Unity. This is the first engine I felt like I can't make anything better than this. Of course, it's mostly due to its awesome editor. But the other day, I found one thing that annoys me: UV coordinates system.

I'm Presenting at Siggraph 2012

Yay~ My Screen-Space Decal is accepted at Siggraph 2012. And it looks like I'll be presenting on Monday!. From this link, look at the bottom!

Using P4SandBox for 3 Weeks or So

I have been using P4SandBox for 3 weeks or so, and I'm pretty happy with it. The private repo is great: creating new streams(read it as branches) and switching between them are fast. (It internally uses shelving, of course) So streams almost work as branches + automatic shelving.

COM Smart Pointer in DX9/11 Renderer?

Main Article Recently I've been developing a real-time application outside the gaming industry, and I happened to implement a very thin, stateless DX9 renderer, and then ported it to DX11. This piece of software runs on Windows PC, so it was kind of nice to deal with more powerful hardware than current-gen consoles, which I've been married to for the last 6+ years.