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[Alexhans]

Mibbit is decent as a Browser Based irc client (some servers like freenode are eliminating access from it though).  Although my connection at work is so bad that I can't connect from it.

Another alternative to redirect IO inside the code is:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/freopen/

I have no idea about macs. 

[Siquo]

Mibbit seems to be working fine, I can get on the channel.

[alway]

Hmm... I seem to be having trouble with some directX 9 code; anyone know what the likely cause of the following symptoms are:
1. Rendered sphere stretched out along one axis infinitely (basicly showing up as an infinitely long cylinder)
2. No compile errors, and none of the if(FAIL()) are being set off, which are around pretty much all the shader code
3. .fx HLSL shaders used appear to work fine, as it happens even with a shader file which I used (and works perfectly) in another directx project
A bit of further context, I am using the built in ID3DXMesh class to load and render said sphere, the vertex format being used is a simple position and normals (PN) format. So in summary, something in the code dealing with vertices is exploding, but it isn't due to the shader fx files.

[Siquo]

Division by almost zero?

Perspective of the camera set to almost zero?

[alway]

Division by almost zero?

Perspective of the camera set to almost zero?

Well, that certainly helped... Seems my camera wasn't set up properly, the function setting perspective was never called. Thanks! 
The result:

Spoiler: A phong shaded sphere! (click to show/hide)

Edit: phong sphere updated; seems the mesh from Blender didn't have the proper specular power settings for my code; set to 8 now.

[Siquo]

Yeah, had that same thing in opengl, but with distance. I was able to draw stuff that had a distance of about 0.00001 from the camera, as floats are almost never truly zero. Took me a while to find that out...

I'm getting ridiculously close to finishing my texturegenerator. Awesomeness.

[Alexhans]

texture generator as in procedurally generated texture?  That should be interesting...

[Siquo]

Yeah, almost done, for really optimistic values of "almost"

I'm using a 2D perlin noise generator, adding multiple passes into one texture, calculating color and alpha myself, with entirely different parameters for each layer, before sending it to the hardware as if it were a bitmap.
Check out this page, some examples of textures (I was surprised how good the wood looks!) at the bottom:
http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm

[alway]

Looks like my multiple-materials-in-a-mesh code works!

Spoiler: Everyone's favorite monkey (click to show/hide)

Next up, point lights of various sorts!
Er... Texturing. It seems I will wait until the chapter on blending before playing with multiple light sources.

[Siquo]

Looking good!

Multiple light sources are easy in OpenGL, I don't know how it is in DX. I also read some pretty amazing stuff about deferred lighting, which allows for more than 5 lightsources without killing your fps, and natural reflections.

[alway]

Let me guess, Infinity dev-log? 

[Siquo]

Right you are

Found that while I was looking for procedural terrain generation techniques.

[timmeh]

Found this:  http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/12974/

Some great C++ challenges.  Ought to be able to be adapted to just about any language though, fairly basic concepts.

[alway]

So... does anyone actually talk in the IRC channel, or just log in ocassionally and sit there? 

[Blacken]

If somebody actually says something, I respond.