I made a little video showing the result of my work. What you can see in the video is a photon mapping system running entirely on the GPU at about 25FPS. It can handle complex dynamic scenes with spotlights and sunlight (directional light). Diffuse and specular materials are implemented in the prototype, while transmissive materials are possible but not completely implemented yet.

Except for features provided by Direct3D 11 and OptiX, everything is coded by me.

Real-Time Global Illumination for In- and Outdoor Scenes from John McLaughlin on Vimeo.

You can also download and read my thesis as [PDF].
If you are interested in the source code just leave a comment or send me a message and I’ll get back to you.

Sky System: Realistic Atmospheric Rendering and Integration into an Interactive Real-Time Environment from John McLaughlin on Vimeo.

You can read the thesis here.

After reading these two articles, I realized that my current resume was utter crap. So I redid everything and uploaded the new and improved version. It’s only one page now (why in hell did I need two pages?) and should be focused on the important information.

I’m still not 100% satisfied with it, but when are you ever with something? So I’ll keep improving and uploading the new version.
Also: I uploaded my bachelor-level thesis, in case anyone is interested in reading about realistic real-time sky and atmosphere rendering and integration into an interactive environment.

cheers,
John

I just updated my resume and made a new resume overview in the style of your typical description on the back of game packages.

I’ll update the projects page soon, got a few new projects to upload.

cheers,
John

It was created by 3 Coders, 3 Artists and 1 Game Designer / Project Manager, who proved to be the awesomest team ever.
We laughed hard, almost all the time, If the game that came out of this is only half as much fun as we had making it, it will be the game of the century!

you can download the game and test it on the site http://www.themonkeyspace.de .
There’s even a release with source and it’s all for free!
Even though we had only 48hours, we did voice acting, intro video, cutscenes, awesome glow, and 2 levels!
Creating this has made me remember what game development is all about and why I enjoy it so much.

Anyway, we thought the result was so excellent we decided to keep working on it, so we’ll hopefully meet on Saturday and plan that.
So check back for updates!

There is no game.

There is just The Monkey Space!

And humans can’t survive in monkey space.
Deception is the key. Find the donkey and it will set you free.

Just using Flock on my new MBP to post a blog entry, which is really comfortable. Something I cannot say about my current location.
Yesterday We (me and my Integrated Product Development team) came to Lille to present our project to decathlon. All it took was a 8 hour-drive.
I can’t bore you with the details of the project, even if I wanted to, but our ‘clients’ seemed really happy about the end result we presented. Who knows, it might even hit the market in three years.

As I said the hotel we’re staying in is not that nice, at least the beds weren’t too short, but the walls have mold, yuk! I hope I haven’t got infected by the evil mold spores. And, as I was the first to get up, the water in the shower was ice-cold and decided to stay that way until I was done. Nothing to get you awake like an ice-cold shower.

Everyone else is still asleep, but they returned just about an hour ago. I turned in early ’cause I would have fallen asleep on the street, had I stayed and partyed with them. I also don’t like alcohol very much, i.e. not at all.
So I had a decent nights sleep, can’t say for the others yet. I just hope the car will not reek of the alcohol fumes too much.

Let’s see what passes for Breakfast around here.

cheers,
John

P.S.: The Food yesterday evening was most excellent, by the way. I even got Menthé Verte. (peppermint syrup, tastes a bit like toothpaste, I love it!)

Bubbles – movie

p.s. still have to get the Release mode running on the CubeWorld prototype… I’ll keep you posted.

Here’s a little preview of what I’M working on, I’ll post the source and executable later today.

Here’s a little Prototype for the User Interface Engineering course I’m currently attending.
Our project consists of creating games which should help the user to get used to interacting with a multitouch tabletop interface.
This particular prototype should taje the fear of touching the tabletop and teaching simple interactions such as single touch and touch and hold.

You can test the prototype with your mouse:
Left click: let a bubble explode,
right click (hold): blow up a bubble (but don’t let it get to big )

Download [.7z]
The Prototype was programmed in four hours using XNA.

If something should not work or you find any bugs, please let me know!

greets,
John