http://www.ancient-ritual.com/ AncienT RituaL's news. Personal blog of GODlike. en-us Tue, 28 Oct 08 00:00:00 GMT Copyright 2007 AncienT RituaL. All Rights Reserved. webmaster@ancient-ritual.com http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=55 Once again I bought the new STALKER on release. I knew that Clear Sky wouldn't disappoint me and I really appreciate the developer's efforts on bringing such a complex and deep game to us. CS is not STALKER 2 but an improved game carrying the legacy of SoC and improving it drastically. The game ... Tue, 28 Oct 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=55 http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=54 Here are two methods for 3x3 matrix re-orthogonalization of a given matrix M. Method 1: Using a correction matrix. We are going to re-orthogonalize M by computing a correction matrix C. The C is given as: C = ( (3 * I) - (M * T) ) / 2 where 3 and 2 are just scalars, I is the identity 3x3 and T... Fri, 08 Aug 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=54 http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=53 Crysis Warhead is the follow up of the Crytek's great Crysis, a game released in November 2007. Crysis was one of the biggest PC exclusives of the previous year, a major success but with poor sales. It sold one unit for every 20 pirated copies!!! I mean with a number like that I can completely justi... Mon, 07 Jul 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=53 http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=52 Bioware is well known for their quality games and Mass Effect is one of them. The events of the game take place a few hundred years from now. In the distance future, Earth is a united nation and a part of a large alliance between alien races (yes there are aliens). The aliens are inhabitants of the ... Sun, 29 Jun 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=52 http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=51 I've been playing with GLSL for a week now and the first think I've tried to make was a specular shader. OGL's fixed functionality produces very ugly speculars in low geometry so pixel shaders is the only solution. I've searched the net to find a spec shader but nothing was good enough and in terms ... Wed, 25 Jun 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=51 http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=50 Invert square root, or simply invsqrt, is a mathematical function that calculates the "1/square_root(x)" expression of a given number 'x'. The function's origin is uncertain but it believed that 3Dfx invented it many years back. After that, John Carmack used it in quake engine and when the source of... Mon, 16 Jun 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=50 http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=49 What is Valve's Steam? In sort its a digital distribution service. In Steam you can buy and then download PC games, play multiplayer, see your friends, and many more. Its also a must platform for idle developers. Steam helps them to present their work in a wider audience. Among the many advantages t... Sun, 11 May 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=49 http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=48 The idea of migrating from Windows to Linux always appealed to me but sometimes this kind of change is a very difficult task. So, in the past few weeks I was trying to learn if Linux (Ubuntu) was suitable for my personal needs. I'm a PC user with interest especially in programming, web authoring, su... Fri, 09 May 08 00:00:00 GMT http://www.ancient-ritual.com/cmnts_news.php?news_id=48