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general:faqs_users [2010-01-26 19:38] Carsten Removed many obsolete questions. |
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| - | ====== User FAQs ====== | + | ====== User FAQ ====== |
| ===== Why does my Personal Firewall report Cafu.exe? ===== | ===== Why does my Personal Firewall report Cafu.exe? ===== | ||
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| Therefore, please set your firewall to not block Cafu from network access. | Therefore, please set your firewall to not block Cafu from network access. | ||
| If you do not plan to host a Cafu game server or join a Cafu internet game, there is of course no harm in blocking access from and to the internet for ''Cafu.exe'', but for single-player games, basic access to the local network is required. | If you do not plan to host a Cafu game server or join a Cafu internet game, there is of course no harm in blocking access from and to the internet for ''Cafu.exe'', but for single-player games, basic access to the local network is required. | ||
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| - | ===== Where can I learn more about 3D programming or game engines? ===== | ||
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| - | There are many available resources regarding 3D-engines and related their subjects, both online and offline in the form of traditional books and papers. The following is a list of literature that I find interesting. The list is not meant to be complete and does not necessarily cover the latest papers, books or websites. | ||
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| - | * [[http://nehe.gamedev.net|NeHe OpenGL Tutorials]] \\ Excellent OpenGL tutorials for beginners to the advanced. \\ \\ | ||
| - | * http://www.opengl.org \\ The official OpenGL website, and the first place to search for information about OpenGL. \\ \\ | ||
| - | * [[http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~seth/pubs/pubs.html|"Visibility Computations in Densely Occluded Polyhedral Environments" (1992)]] \\ Seth Teller's dissertation about Potentially Visibility Sets (PVS): a common data structure in modern 3D engines that speeds up rendering. \\ \\ | ||
| - | * [[http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/bsptree-faq|BSP-FAQs]] \\ Introductory information about BSP trees. \\ \\ | ||
| - | * "Computer Graphics, Principles and Practice" by Foley, vanDam, Feiner & Hughes. \\ Some say this is the bible of computer graphics - and it's true. It covers nearly everything there is to know. An excellent reference, but have a look into the table of contents before buying it. \\ \\ | ||
| - | * "Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis", Michael F. Cohen and John R. Wallace. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, California. \\ \\ | ||
| - | * "Radiosity. A programmers perspective.", Ian Ashdown. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N.Y. \\ \\ | ||
| - | * "Zen of Graphics Programming, 2nd edition" by Michael Abrash. \\ Much easier to read than "Computer Graphics". Most of this book is about low level DOS graphics programming (outdated now, but good nonetheless). The final chapters are a collection of Abrash's articles that appeared in the "Dr. Dobbs SourceBooks" series. They contain information about BSP trees, span sorting, etc. | ||
| ===== Why do you use OpenGL? I think that DirectX is better. ===== | ===== Why do you use OpenGL? I think that DirectX is better. ===== | ||
| - | Here are some features of OpenGL that made me choose it as the main rendering API: | + | Here are some features of OpenGL that made us choose it as the main rendering API: |
| * very well documented, | * very well documented, | ||
| * portable and available on many platforms, | * portable and available on many platforms, | ||
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