October Update! Exciting News!!!
I’ve had a rough few months, and have finally started to recover! In the middle of last year I ended up burning from stress and trying to juggle a million things at once, and I’m finally starting to feel like I’ve recovered. I’ve spent the better part of the day cleaning up the blog layout and the content of several of my popular blog posts just to make it easier to read.
I’ll be writing up a few new tutorials soon! As a sneak peak the upcoming tutorials cover: windows RAW input, how to write a 3D free look camera, an introduction to pathfinding and a tutorial on an efficient implementation of A*.
In other news I’ve had a bit of a career change, I’ll be lecturing the final year and honors level graphics courses, 3D graphics is one of my key interests second only to AI, and this gives me the opportunity to focus on it full time! This also mean that in setting up the course content for next year, a few more DX10 tutorials will pop up 
And I’ll finally get the time to do and show some more advanced techniques like bump-mapping, anti-aliasing and maybe even occlusion culling. I’m pretty damn excited!!!
Also in the pipeline is a complete upgrade for my slightly less monstrous machine, once the upgrade is complete it will be back in the realm of monstrous 
I cant wait!! I’ll post photos of the work-log and everything once I get all the parts in, I cant believe that I’m forced to import components due to lack of local suppliers or if there is a supplier with stock then I have to deal with absolutely insane prices.
I don’t know how much free time I’ll have in the next few days since I have one last deadline to complete at my current work, but once that is done I’ll write that camera tutorial!
In other news my master’s thesis is going well, I’ve completed my literature survey and have developed a very basic pathfinding framework to test various algorithms with, but the actual writing of the thesis is whats killing me. Writing has never been a strong point of mine, I know what I want to say but I struggle to put it into words and ironically I have a pretty large vocabulary so even that isn’t an issue. I’m never really happy with anything I write, but i guess that’s the nature of being a little bit of a perfectionist.
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Bobby Anguelov
I started this blog mainly as a distraction from my work and studies and also as a place where i can put up easy to read, simple tutorials on subjects which are often made to seem more complicated than necessary. I hope to get a chance to blog about all aspects of my work and interests over time…Donate To Bobby
Yay! Glad you’re back! Your DX10 tutorials were really great and helpful
It’s hard to come by any good DX10 resources, the Internet seems to agree that 9 is still all the rage :/
yeh, tell me about it, its a bummer when i was looking for some DX10 info and all I could find was my own tutorials
Seeing as I’ve gotten permission to teach DX10 for the graphics course next year, I should be able to do several more tutorials, in the next couple of months.
And I’ve discovered the wordpress code markup tool which really makes life easier!