Win32, OpenGL and ODE Physics

OpenGL Tutorials

If you are new to the page then have a read of the original news here.

My examples work with Win9x, WinSE, WinME, Win2000 and WinXP, though OpenGL support in Windows is very poor so it is always recommended that you install the latest drivers for your graphics card.

All the programs available from this page were compiled using the free Dev-C++ compiler available here.

I am happy to respond to any questions regarding my programs, whether it is to report problems or if you have a suggestion, but any general programming questions should be posted to the wiki area below. For further help you could also go to #OpenGL on Efnet IRC where you can ask your OpenGL related questions. Though it can get very quiet there due to narrow scope of the subject, unlike other channels like #C++ that deal with a broader range of questions and allow a small amount of off topic conversation.


Merry Christmas All

I hope you all had a great 2009 and got a lot done, like getting out of debt, buying water filtration equipment, planting a heritage seed garden, pulling the plug on the television, talking to your neighbours about the nwo and putting a '911 was an inside job' sticker on your car. As if that isn't enough I also turned 41 this year and have teenagers! Basically what this means is that I am planning to have a nervous breakdown early in the new year and should be coherent sometime in May or early June. Perhaps this occurred while I was working on my cold fusion experiments and I am in denial, who can tell?

This site has had a bit of maintenance done to it but I wont promise that anything new will be added to it soon. If somebody would like tackle the enormous task of cataloguing my failed promises I would be grateful. This may mean I have the right stuff to be a successful politician. Just be sure to give me the Peace Prize within the first few months of office in case things "Change". But seriously, I look forward to adding a lot more to this site and pushing the frontiers of graphics programming but there are so many other important things going on that I must dedicate my time to setting up www.TranquilityLane.com as a resource for truthers everywhere. The first move will be to upload a blog script but I still don't know which direction to take the new site in so for now I will just start posting random snippets of information and let it evolve naturally. If none of this makes any sense to you simply google "building 7" and be amazed, or conned, the choice is yours.

Here comes 2010... all the best!

Alan Baylis [anti-spam]alanb@aussiemail.com.au

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Hi All

Just a small update to release a modding utility for GTAIV. It is called IVTracker and allows you to search for almost any text within the thousands of texture files that come with the game. It should also be useful to modders that want to quickly find a particular building to edit within the hundreds of models (when the model editing utility becomes available) by simply searching for a sign on the building itself. You can get an idea of how time consuming this would be if done manually by looking at the data file here

I was very impressed by the quality and look of the city in GTAIV and believe this game will become one of the most modded games in history. My biggest disappointment with the game was the tone of the billboards and advertising around the city. Far from being amusing as was the case with San Andreas, they are grossly offensive and I believe the game content must have been authored by the accounting department, or worse... see these screenshots from GTAIV on my new website at www.TranquilityLane.com

Download IVTracker Here

I hope IVTracker will speed up the development of many new texture packs but to allow people to easily apply these textures to their game installation we still need another application. I have also been working on creating another utility called IVSwap that will take hundreds of textures and swap them into the image files at the click of a button rather than asking people to download very large image files or import hundreds of textures one at time. It is half completed but I didn't want IVTracker to sit on the shelf while I wrestle with the internals of the texture resources.

Alan Baylis

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FreeWorld Editor
The FreeWorld Editor allows you to create and export world data to be used in your own programs, the data file format is intended to be easy to understand and load, consisting of only polygon and texturing information. The program is still under development and future versions will see an improved interface and many additional features. There is a tutorial included in the download or you can get to it by clicking on the link above.

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Spline_Ed
Built on top of the OpenGL MDI demo, this editor allows you to create and save splines for use in other programs. I have used the spline data for setting camera paths but I'm sure it will be useful in other ways later. I apologize that the source code isn't commented very well and this is a habit of mine that I must correct.

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MD2Views
Yet another MD2 viewer hits the streets. MD2Views uses the freely released model loading and rendering source by Nathan Lucas's OpenGL MD2 Model viewer v.1.04 and I only take credit for extracting the source and making it a little easier to include in any OpenGL programs. About the only things it can do that differ from other MD2 viewers is show the model under different lighting conditions and allow you to select any weapon model to accompany the main model.

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Q2View
Designing a new world editor, data structure format and world renderer can take a bit of time, so for those who have just begun to program graphics using OpenGL/Win32 this program should help to alleviate the desire to have a complete world up and running yesterday. This program has been adapted from Alexey Goloshubin's Poly Engine source code, so full credit for the BSP loading and rendering goes to him and to the ID Software team for being kind enough to release the original source to the programming community. I only take credit for having been able to extract the necessary code from the heavily embedded source of the Poly Engine and making it easier to include it in your own programs.

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