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The time has come for me to move on to another pasture. After 4 years as a graphics developer (and more than 8 as a game developer), I have decided to take the plunge and explore something new and different... Yep, starting Dec 3rd, I will be moving from
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Remember that my Main Blog has moved to www.SebbyLive.com ( FSX: What is the Difference Between the Water 2.X Low/Mid/High/Max Settings? ) The purpose of this post is to address a question that was sent to me in regards to water reflections in general.
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What is TrialPay? Paradoxal Press is happy a new service called TrialPay which can allow you to get some of our products for free! TrialPay allows you to purchase products by trying something else. Sign up with any one of our preselected partners and
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Remember, my complete blog is now at: http://www.SebbyLive.com/ ( http://www.sebbylive.com/post/2007/11/Flight-Simulator-X-AccelerationSP2---Water-DX10-vs-DX9.aspx ) About time hunh? I know, acceleration is already out and I was not even finished with
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Remember, my complete blog is now at: http://www.SebbyLive.com/ ( http://www.sebbylive.com/post/2007/11/Neat-Way-to-Generate-Indirect-Software-Sales.aspx ) My Winzip trial expired again, but this time I noticed something interesting. In addition to the
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Remember, my complete blog is now at: http://www.SebbyLive.com/ ( http://www.sebbylive.com/post/2007/10/FSX-AccelerationSP2---DX9-Bloom-Versus-DX10-HDR.aspx ) Yay! Time for another post about some of the upcoming graphical changes in FSX SP2/Acceleration.
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The art of computer programming is about to get easier thanks to Paradoxal Press’ future releases of “Practical Ruby on Rails” and “The Complete Effect and HLSL, DirectX 10 Edition” as well as its just-released second edition “Practical .NET2 and C#2,”
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The second edition of Practical .NET2 and C#2 is finally available for sale on www.ParadoxalPress.com . The official release date is technically on October 15th but it is possible that outside orders (such as on Amazon) be a little delayed. This is due
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Remember, my complete blog is now at: http://www.SebbyLive.com/ ( http://www.sebbylive.com/post/2007/11/FSX---SP2-and-DX10-Performance.aspx ) The first point that is worth mentioning here is that SP2 (and therefore Acceleration) do introduce a new slew
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Apparently, saying "could have been implemented on DX9" in my previous post in regards to VC self-shadowing stired all sorts of drama on some of the user forums. Although the statement is accurate, I did not explain in more details WHY this was not done
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Remember, my complete blog is now at: http://www.SebbyLive.com/ One of the DirectX 10 additions to FSX SP2/Acceleration is the use of self shadowing within the aircraft VCs. For the VC, we use shadowmapping, in a similar way that it is used for the external
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The time has come to finally move away from hosting my blog on MSDN. There are a few reasons for this transition but the two main deciding factors were that posting personal posts on a MSDN blog seemed odd (at least to me) and that I already had my own
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I was planning on making the announcement later this week but Amazon.com bet me to it with their "pre-order" email... I am indeed running a little behind with the advertisement since the release is set for Oct 15th. But I will have an official press release
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Yes, I admit it. I use Gmail for my personal and www.ParadoxalPress.com email (through their Gmail for domain support). Not that I dislike Hotmail, and they have made great strides from the original version of Hotmail. For me it's a matter of freedom
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Popular Meechanics got a sneak peak of Microsoft Research's Surface Computing Technology. This is really cool technology. Not usefull for all applications but I can see a few things for which this would be useful!! :)
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