Two, a tutorial, probably by thepenguin77, about how he made his 3d polygon engine thingy for star fox. That, and/or how such a beast could be translated to Axe.
When you only want solid polygons, polygon 3D engines aren't that hard to make. Mine is almost entirely based on this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection . I would suggest first trying it in an easyer langue than asm, but if you can do signed 8.8 fixed point math in axe (I don't know much abouth axe), then you can also directly write it in axe.
actually i was trying to find a way to do fake texture correction based on the shape of the quad, becouse, with affine texture mapping, a wall looked from an angle looks like this: When you look at this, it looks like it's textured well, but when you look a bit closer, you see that the texels (pixels of the texture) all have the same width, while the height is mapped correctely. This gives the optical illusion that the texels look longer on the right side than on the left side, becouse the texels on the right side are actually further away, thus they should be smaller.
Now look at this picture: this looks more realistic: the texels on the far side are smaller than the texels closer to the 'camera'. I want a way to fake this, becouse for texture correction, a lot of complex fixed-point calculations needs to be done, which would make it very slow. I don't really know if what i said in my first post will have the right effect, but actually, I want to calculate what texel should be drawn at a location so the texture is mapped like in the secound image, but this based on the height of the quad, and it's texture coordinates. I think everybody would agree that the secound image looks a lot more 3D than the first image, while they have exactely the same shape.
I hope i explaned it correctly and that you don't find it annoying that i mainly use images to explain it.
I was already planning to use it to calculate the texture coordinates of points every 5 or 10 pixels or so, depending on the size of the quad, and then calculate the rest of them with linear interpolation. But i still don't really get how i should calculate those reference points. (if they are easyer and/or faster to calculate for triangles, then say so. I only use quads becouse I really messed it up with my routines for affine texture mapped triangles) and if you said that in your post, then could you please explain it a bit more? I didn't understood your post very well and google translate just gave me a bunch of random words.
And yea, the quads will all be planar, so no skew quadrilaterals (I hope google translate has translated this correctely)
Well, I don't think I will participate, because I'm at my grandparents house, and I did not bring my calc... When I'll go back home, It will only remain one week.
one week is more than enough. Look at sirCmpwn's contest entry
I want to calculate the value of a point, based on the position of the point between 4 other points with each an other value. an image to illustrate what I'm trying to say: In this image, there are 4 points with a given value of a and a point between those 4 points which has got an unknown value of a. I now want to know how i can calculate value a of that point, based on the position of that point so that when x=x1 and y=y1, a=a1=1, and when x=x2 and y=y2, a=a2=2, and so on. And when point (x,y) is in the middle of (x1,y1) and (x2,y2), a should be the average of a1 and a2, so a=1.5.
Is there a formula which i can use to interpolate the a value of a point between the a values of the other points?
The prizm community will probably grow a lot in september, when students at some schools have to buy one.
I only have an 84+ becouse my school forced me to buy one. If this wouldn't have happened, i wouldn't be programming z80. I think this is how most of us got started with developping calc programs and games, and to many students the same will happen.
BTW: I think the prizm comunity will grow faster than those of any ti calculator, mainly becouse casio doesn't hate the calculator comunity, unlike TI.
I mean in Europe (from experience on forums in the past few years) typically most people don't care enough about calculators to post on calc forums during vacations, let alone program for calcs then, so as a result, almost our entire european Nspire userbase is gone and TI-BANK is very very quiet.
I'm from Europe and i care enough abouth calcs to keep programming them and posting on calc forums during summer
But I won't be participating becouse i don't have an nspire (I never even saw one IRL, actually)
I am just programming as an hobby, and i don't think i'll ever get a job as a programmer. Right now I'm studying science and technology, so i'm also not in the right school to become a programmer.
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