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by Petr Schreiber 
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Articles

Please welcome to special part of this web, in which I will try to present you some common or even advanced and unusual techniques which might come handy.

Hope you will find following information useful


Post-Mortem
Articles where developers reveal challenges faced while developing game

AirDogs 1942 by Michael Hartlef


Movie FX
Articles describing how to re-implement techniques used in effect based movies

Combining the real and the virtual, part1 [PDF], Script attachement [ZIP], Generated movie [AVI]


Gaming FX
Articles describing how to re-implement techniques used in modern games

Tomb Raider: Anniversary


Useful forum posts
Important TBGL related threads, not necessarily from TBGL website only

Creating crowd scenes

Managing 2.5D graphics for adventure games

Using shaders and extensions using TBGL and OpenGL headers

Rendering to texture using TBGL and OpenGL headers


New articles
General articles describing various graphic techniques

Growing trees


Early articles
All this old articles will be converted to new and shiny versions. They use older TBGL syntax, but you will be able to use it even in latest scripts.

Stereo viewing - use of red blue glasses


Check here at least every month, new article might wait here for you!