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Read how the Render Tree in Autodesk* Softimage* allows you to create dynamic property assignments by connecting shader nodes, and then bundle them into presets and shader compounds. Your ability to develop complex worlds efficiently increases exponentially with this nifty tool.
Dust off your acting skills and learn to make your animated character believable by manipulating its face and body to convey emotions and expressions.
See what game developers have to say about their Core™ i7 Extreme powered game demos experience at Game Developers Conference 2010. Optimized titles like Napoleon Total War*, RUSE* and others were demonstrated running on the newly announced Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition.
R.U.S.E, the innovative new strategy game from the makers of ‘Act of War’ features a cutting edge touch-screen and gesture operated interface. Intel was pivotal in helping deliver this exciting new technology and the Core i7 Extreme Edition will surely be the platform choice for all living-room generals.
Read this technical look at Intel's new game technology demo and source code. Created to illustrate a simple and effective way to simulate 3D particle behavior when encountering air resistance and wind, the Ticker Tape source code is free to use. Download links included.
Gamers can experience the beauty and danger of Pandora two years before the events of the film, including new adventures and new heroes. Will you play for Team Na'Vi or Team RDA? Either way, the PC version of this video game takes advantage of S3D technology and rocks on multi-core processors.
Today’s online communities form a rich tapestry of collaboration, where people gather to support each other’s interests. Depending on the focus, online communities can be formed in many ways. In the visual computing world, one of the best ways is via competition. Read how Intel is merging competition and community to find technical talent.
Pulling from the depth and breadth of history, the latest release of the Total War series stays true to its historical strategy game genre. Multi-threaded to the hilt, Napoleon: Total War gives PC gamers a new level of visual immersion and historical accuracy.
Starcraft II*: Wings of Liberty is one of the most anticipated PC game sequels of all time. Picking up the story four years later, this breakthrough RTS stays true to its roots and simultaneously pushes the envelope with new 3D graphics and in-game cinematics that come to life on the latest PCs.
Clouds play an important role in creating outdoor scenery. However, due to the computational intensity of volumetric cloud techniques, it’s a challenge to create them in realistic 3D and in real time. This article presents a technique for rendering dynamic volumetric clouds in games running on multi-core platforms.
Social media sites like Twitter* and Facebook* present a big market expansion for video game developers looking to broaden their audience base. Leveraging social media sites from within your game can connect you to existing users, and help them introduce your game to their friends. Get the code snippet to send Tweets through your game, plus other useful resources.
Justin Lassen is living the dream. As a pioneering digital musician, Lassen is well-connected and in high demand. He’s also demanding of himself and his PCs, because creating high-end audio requires tons of raw – and smart – compute power. Recently, Lassen upgraded to the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition. Read why he was blown away.
The Intel® Laptop Gaming TDK provides a set of APIs to help developers extend their games to the laptop. With platform-aware features and dynamic functionalities, developers can maximize gameplay on laptops and easily integrate network games into ad hoc networks. Get the overview, then download the TDK for free.
Golf games for the PC are about to experience a revolution: Online-only gameplay. EA Sport’s new game, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Online, will be playable strictly through a browser. So the question: Will great gameplay be accessible on desktop, laptop, and MID platforms? The short answer is yes. With the help of Intel software engineers [PDF | 2.4 MB]
Although only a select group of individuals in the United States become astronauts, NASA is opening up space exploration to anyone with a PC. A NASA collective called Project Astronaut is developing an MMO game. The mission: explore the final frontier and find out what's possible - or might be.
Game developers want to deliver the best – and fairest – experience for each player. But in a multi-player situation, this poses a dilemma: How can gameplay be consistent across all computer platforms to ensure players on high-end systems don’t have an advantage? This article demonstrates one way to do it, using a free demo called Horsepower.
As a number of high-profile game developers are discovering, Intel® SATA Solid-State Drives move data swiftly, delivering massive volumes of input and output operations per second. The result: huge productivity boosts for programmers and blazingly fast load times for gamers.
For digital artists, the hardware has finally caught up with the software, saving time and increasing the creative touches that make it into films and video games. Intel’s new Artist & Animator community lets artists collaborate on creating compelling digital art. Hosted by Steve Pitzel, former animation guru for RFX and Mattel.
Lighting, whether for a computer or a film set, is about controlling and shaping light and shadows, reflections, refractions, and color. And this control is both art and science -- pulling from the life and experiences of the CG artist.
GSC Game World optimized the post-apocalyptic environment of "The Zone" and the Chernobyl Nuclear Station in S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat by first uncovering performance bottlenecks with Intel® GPA. Read about the specific methods and features they used.
The simulation of real-world phenomena in video games allows game developers to create immersive virtual worlds. But until recently, most simulation has been limited to rigid bodies rather than fluid ones. In this article, Dr. Michael J. Gourlay continues a multi-part series that explains fluid dynamics and its simulation techniques.
Maintaining performance between hardware and software is a challenge. But Intel® Threading Building Blocks can make it easier, particularly for non-uniform memory access (NUMA) platforms, including the Intel® Nehalem platform. Learn the challenges and performance gains of NUMA platforms over symmetric multiprocessor platforms.
Parallel programming has a reputation for being difficult because, well … it is. Multiple execution threads must be run in parallel, and every thread has to have an effect on at least one other thread. What could possibly go wrong? This article examines where threading defects lurk, how to find them, and – better yet – how to avoid them.
