Inside niven: Dynamic class loading

Posted on 10.1.2006 by Anteru (Updated on 3.11.2010)

Today, we take a look at niven’s class loader, which is responsible for dynamic instancing of classes from plugins and packages, and is likely to become a core component of the serialization system.

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Collada 1.4 is out!

Posted on 6.1.2006 by Anteru (Updated on 3.11.2010)

The Collada 1.4 spec is out, grab it from the Khronos Group. The Collada DOM (a C++ API for import/export of Collada files) has not yet been released, though.

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Inside niven Part. I

Posted on 2.1.2006 by Anteru (Updated on 3.11.2010)

This is the first of a series of articles that describe the inner workings of niven. In the first article, I’m gonna tell you something about niven’s RTTI system, object handling and other core stuff. Continue reading →

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DirectX 10 – The beginning of the end?

Posted on 20.12.2005 by Anteru (Updated on 3.11.2010)

Microsoft released the DirectX December 2005 SDK lately, which contains pre-release DirectX10 information. Looking closer at DirectX10, it might be in my opinion the best reason to switch over to OpenGL now, and support that API on a broader base.

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