Posted by Craig on the official blog. Juicy details on 3D and drivers can be found in DJW’s blog here.
Posts Tagged ‘3D’
TINCS Community Multiplayer FPS
February 1, 2009
Butterman has started an interesting project. He wants to create a first-person shooter with the game design and art made by the community and he’ll code it. He plans for the game to be somewhat similar to Counter Strike, but not identical; which lead to the name ‘TINCS Is Not Counter Stike’. He has a small demo with collision detection, animation, and two models, you can see the video after the break. If you have any ideas, or would like to help with artwork, be sure to post in the thread (source link)
Official Blog update – more Sneak-peeks
January 28, 2009Hi!
Did you come here for your daily basis of pictures?
Well, yep, I’ve got some more.
This time, I’ve got two more sneak preview renderings (in HiRes!). Still not finished (real life work is still a lot at the moment), however, looking better each day.
“What’s not finished in this render?” you may ask. Well, the keyboard layout is not yet the finished one, we’re working on it and it will be included as soon as we’re finished with it. The same goes for the printings on the case (SD 1, SD 2, etc. We might use icons for the functions).
Apart from that, it should look very close to the finished model.
While mentioning the finished model: As I told you yesterday, Michael got the FDM case and put together a first test unit. Everything fits! He didn’t have much time so he taped the case and didn’t put a working board inside, however, that will follow soon. Then we can actually show pictures of a working board inside that FDM case! Time to go for a real CNC case!
Small blog update from EvilDragon
January 23, 2009I also got the mesh of the case today and started to work on them in 3dsmax. Unfortunately real life work got into my way, so I couldn’t finish any photorealistic renderings today, though I’m halfway through, so expect them soon.
Also, I want to take videos of cpasjustes emulators soon, let’s hope I’ll find some time, as I’m pretty busy with my regular work at the moment…
Michael Weston mentioned the FDM case might arrive at his place about Monday, so he can post pictures of the final Pandora case (well, still FDM, not the shiny CNC’ed case, but that will be ordered when everything fits into the FDM case).
That’s it for updates for today, see you soon
Source – EvilDragon was talking about the 3D renders shown below on the blog.
EvilDragon making photorealistic renders
January 22, 2009EvilDragon has confirmed that he’s making more renders for the Pandora, this time, photorealistic.
I’m working on more renderings (photorealistic), give me some time though
3D and DSP drivers now available.
January 20, 2009Could the G3D Engine be coming to Pandora?
January 15, 2009A lead developer for the open-source 3D engine “G3D” has today posted on the forums, expressing enthusiasm at the Pandora project and wishing to have a dev-board for testing.
Hello…
My name is Casey O’Donnell, I am one of the primary developers of G3D, an OpenSource game tech/engine. One of our users recently brought the Pandora handheld to our attention and needless to say, we were pretty impressed by the devices capabilities. So impressed that I decided to try and pester you this way!
That user also mentioned that, “developers of ‘notable’ software projects already received prototype boards of the machine.” I recognize that the site says no additional machines are available, but I am particularly interested in bringing G3D to this device. Is there any way for developers to get ahold of one of the devices? That would allow me to asses the kind of resources it would take to port our engine to Pandora.
Three of the main developers on the project (myself included) are faculty at different schools and have research assistants that we would love to sic some of our students on. This kind of device is also the kind of thing that would be great in a university setting as an alternative to making our students sign NDAs to use commercial consoles.
We are currently working on an iPhone port, which has started us down the path of OpenGL ES. This device would actually be a better platform for that transition we feel.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to try help make this happen.
Thanks and best.
Could we see graphics like this on the Pandora one day?
More unofficial Pandora Renders
January 7, 2009Forum users are doing good things with the unofficial Pandora renders. Here’s nikkopt’s attempt.
3D Driver in action (on the beagleboard)
January 7, 2009Here’s a video of the new 3D drivers running on the Beagleboard – something with very similar specs to the Pandora. The user who posted this on youtube notes that:
The crappy quality is caused by the iSight, not the DLP
Unofficial Render Source Released!
January 2, 2009
Clean3d has released the .blend file for his renders. Download it here (zipped).
Just a few conditions to make note of:
1. Renders/models created from this file cannot be portrayed as official or from the OpenPandora team.
2. Don’t pretend that you created the original model provided in this file.
3. Attribution is nice, but not required.
4. I (Clean3d) cannot/will not be held liable if this file becomes the source of damages or dispute.
5. The OpenPandora logo and other associated intellectual property is under the ownership of the OpenPandora team. Please respect their rules and regulations concerning the use of their work.
Fan-made Renders
December 31, 2008
Happy New Year to those of you on my side of the date line! Clean3d shared a few very good looking renders that he made.
Click below for the rest.
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