thanks kyle for telling me about ladytron coming to town! looks like they’ll be playing the showbox october 13th. tickets can be had here for 18$ cheap. i hope they’re awesome live. you ever listen to an album so much at some time that whenever you listen to it again later you remember so clearly [...]
i finally got a 360 to play dead rising and it was totally worth it. i haven’t enjoyed a console game this much since resident evil code veronica on the dreamcast. here are some tips: always grab the katana and submachine gun on your way through the paradise plaza, mix orange juice and pie for [...]
i mentioned to merlucin that i had found a nice website awhile back with the formulas for the photoshop blend modes. this is probably useful to others as well so i’ll post it here. www.pegtop.net/delphi/articles/blendmodes/. here’s a summary so you don’t have to navigate through all the links to collect em all. multiply a * [...]
sorting alpha blended objects back to front gets transparency something like 95% correct in games. that last 5% is a real pain though and happens when you have objects with bounds that overlap so that no matter what order you draw them in you’re going to get errors. sorting the triangles for a transparent object [...]