In this post we will talk about Filter Kernels, or Convolution Matrices. Filtering allows us to post process images and apply effects like Gaussian Blur, Sharpening or Edge Detection. Hello readers! I mentioned a while back that we will talk… Continue Reading
Hello again everyone! Image effects that respond to your game world are amazing! Are we in agreement? Good! To do that however, we often have to reconstruct the world position from pixels on our screen. Since this may or may… Continue Reading
When talking about Color Spaces most of us instantly think of the RGB space. Thats nice and all, since RGB is probably the most frequently used color space in programming… errr, don’t take that at face value, I don’t think… Continue Reading
Today‘s end result will be a very basic Depth Blur, similar to a Depth of Field effect in Unity3D. For this purpose we are going to use the Depth Buffer to figure out how far away a pixel is from… Continue Reading
Okay. Let’s talk about something that any CS grad will know but not necessarily like or remember. Many will hate it and forget about it as soon as they can and most will never work with it in their life.… Continue Reading
Hello again dear readers! This time let’s settle for a post in the category of „good to know“. Today we are going to write a pointer class in C#! „But Alexander, that’s absolutely useless, C# classes are always reference types… Continue Reading
Welcome back! Last time we’ve learned the theory about including external libraries and modules into our programs. But the way we did it was very static (no pun intended). Luckily, kernel32.dll can help us out here. Let’s start by loading… Continue Reading
Today we will take a look at using native code (C/C++) within C#. If you really know what you are trying to do and have a good understanding of the theory you can skip most of this post. In this… Continue Reading
Long gone is the time where „chams“ or seeing enemies through walls with wall-hacks was considered playing unfair! Nowadays every second game throws that function at you out of the box! Let’s name some. Assassin’s Creed, Batman, Splinter Cell, heck… Continue Reading
Welcome to Shading Toolbox! The Shading Toolbox (ST) articles will each highlight a single aspect or technique that you can use when writing Shaders. Those are not neccesarily exclusive to the framework or engine I will work in (which will… Continue Reading