Chris Webb

So I created my own theme for the Processing IDE, and syntax...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:27:27 -0500

So I created my own theme for the Processing IDE, and syntax highlighting scheme for various IDEs I use ( VS, Mono, XCode, Processing ) which I am actually in love with. Its essentially a dark version of the Visual studio theme, with more pastel colours. I’m surprised at how much better it feels to use a darker environmental, which I guess explains the switch by maya/3ds Max/unity to dark environments.

Photo

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:10:33 -0400

A few screenshots from a game I have been working on over the...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:06:04 -0400

A few screenshots from a game I have been working on over the last 5 or so weeks. Its a stealth/infiltration style game, similar to metal gear solid or deus ex.

Fab 48 hour

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:08:00 -0400

Fab 48 hour:

A great article about the competition I was in recently. I was with the team “Well Placed Cactus”. It was extremely fun. (And as can be read, our ideas were fueled by beer and lack of sleep haha)

A volumetric light shader I was working on a while ago. Ive...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:38:00 -0400

A volumetric light shader I was working on a while ago. Ive improved it in terms of speed and appearance since.

Just a painting of Totoro I made. I wanted to have a Totoro...

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:16:34 -0400

Just a painting of Totoro I made. I wanted to have a Totoro background, and I really loved this water scene that’s on the cover of the movie, but I could not find any decent sized ones, so I repainted it ( stylized a bit )

The Prototype of the user interface/operating system. It loads...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:07:00 -0400

The Prototype of the user interface/operating system. It loads games, and information about them, and displays them in a highly customizable tile array. It can also play a short movie of the selected game. Themes can easily be applied to the UI, and are as simple as dragging a folder in. The UI Handles launching of games, and will continually check the status of launched games, and end them if they become unresponsive at all ( to make sure the arcade machine cant “freeze”. The arcade machine also has a button that can force kill any open game.

Nearly Finished

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:59:00 -0400

Nearly Finished

We have been making some arcade machines at uni. They are...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:12:00 -0400

We have been making some arcade machines at uni. They are turning out awesomely ( Im doing the electronics, and writing a user interface to launch games from )

Testing some shaders in my current project. Attempting to...

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:21:00 -0400

Testing some shaders in my current project. Attempting to achieve a cold and wet feel. ( none of the art is final, im the programmer for this project, not the artist. This is just a code test :) )

Wow, very cool stuff! I looked at your blog! Becoming a Game Designer is my dream! I worked alot on Blender, and sometimes switching between 3Dmax and Maya. I know Python very well, and I'm not bad with C#, still don't have a clue about OOP:(. Do you think that is a good start ? I'm very interested to work on some sort of project, to push myself learn more, Do you have a suggestion ? Thanks!

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:11:28 -0400

Hey, Thanks for your interest! :) One thing I find useful in learning to program, is to use programming to solve small problems I have in other areas, instead of relying on other peoples programs. No matter what language you use, this helps you understand the process of identifying a problem, and coming up with different solutions for it ( or researching how others may have overcome this problem). Apart from that, all I can really say is make something. It doesn’t matter if it turns out bad, or if you never finish it, just make something, and don’t stop making things. A good idea is to remake older games, This will help you understand not only the mechanics of these games, but also the programming techniques used by the designers ( which surprisingly, are often still very useful today ). C# is a pretty fantastic language to learn in, and I highly advise continuing on with it :) but yea, Good luck with everything :)

Just a small Unity level I put together over a few hours. The...

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:53:32 -0400

Just a small Unity level I put together over a few hours. The task was to program 3 different player interactions.

Just a bit of playing around really. You can create atoms, and...

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:40:05 -0400

Just a bit of playing around really. You can create atoms, and they dance to the music ( this is carbon )

Energy Ball Visualizer. Some more progress.

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:55:40 -0400

Energy Ball Visualizer. Some more progress.

Several improvements.

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:32:19 -0400

Several improvements.

So I have been doing some work on my forward renderer ( Just...

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:56:00 -0400

So I have been doing some work on my forward renderer ( Just playing around really ), and I have made this rather nice shader from my old crepuscular ray shader. Im planning to make some kind of music visualizer with it :) ( If I get the time )

A Photo I took today in the city. I really loved the lighting.

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:28:19 -0400

A Photo I took today in the city. I really loved the lighting.

Now with ambient occlusion, and various other improvements.

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:53:07 -0400

Now with ambient occlusion, and various other improvements.

Over the past few weeks I have been working on a deferred...

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:43:00 -0400

Over the past few weeks I have been working on a deferred renderer for my new engine. It has support for many different light types, soft shadows, several different materials, and a nice chained post-process system ( things like bloom, crepuscular rays, depth of field and soon SSAO/ambient occlusion). I also completely re-wrote the old model importing pipeline, making it much easier to import models, and their textures.

Part of a frame of one of the final scenes in the animation. I...

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:06:00 -0400

Part of a frame of one of the final scenes in the animation. I spent quite a long time getting the smoke how i wanted it. The entire thing took just over 3 weeks to render ( 24/7 ).