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Building a Hand in Rhinoceros

Tutorial on building a hand with trimmed NURBS.
Image and tutorial by Jeremy Birn

Visits: 958

Adding Realistic Rivers to Random Terrain

Discusses a method for adding rivers to randomly generated terrain that adds a realistic touch.
Image and tutorial by David Clyde

Visits: 1590

Box Filtering Height Maps for Smooth Rolling Hills

Explains how to remove the sharp edges in height maps using a simple convolution filter.
Image and tutorial by Graham Wihlidal

Visits: 905

Fast Computation of Terrain Shadow Maps

Covers the lighting and shadowing aspects of terrain rendering.
Image and tutorial by Mircea Marghidanu

Visits: 815

Terrain Geomorphing in the Vertex Shader

This article, excerpted from the upcoming ShaderX2 - Shader Programming Tips and Tricks, discusses the implementation a fast terrain renderer which works optimally with current 3D hardware.
Image and tutorial by Daniel Wagner

Visits: 1529

The Second Life of Brute Force Terrain Mapping

The article describes how advances in 3D hardware have benefitted terrain mapping algorithms. With the current state of technology, the brute force has become, in some situations, a realistic alternative to modern CLOD mapping.
Image and tutorial by Sander Maréchal

Visits: 713

Collision Detection

Covers the bounding rectangles and pixel-perfect approaches to collision detection, including an argument for testing against a single pixel in some cases.
Image and tutorial by John Amato

Visits: 662

Collision Detection Algorithm

TANSTAAFL throws his hat into the ring with a straightforward method using bitmasks.
Image and tutorial by TANSTAAFL

Visits: 318

Creating a PAK File Format

Demonstrates one way of organising all your game related media files in to a single "PAK", or resource, file.
Image and tutorial by Raymond Wilson

Visits: 1999

Loading and displaying .X files without DirectX

Detailed description of the .X file format, including how to load and animate it without DirectX.
Image and tutorial by Paul Coppens

Visits: 1399

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