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Announcement: Site Status

BBB · 2007-02-18T07:45:02

Great news! A highly skilled and motivated team has been formed to manage and further develop NeHe. Our first mission is to replace the old lessons (which will still be available for download) with new and improved versions that provide more in-depth explanations, cover material which may have previously been skimmed over or left out in more detail, and demonstrate good programming practices. New lessons will also be written, but for now the focus is on creating a solid foundation to build upon in the earlier lessons. We will intend to continue the tradition of focusing on OpenGL but will also cover related areas where appropriate. Finally, we will make sure our new lessons are as cross-platform and build-system-independent as possible to make it easier for those who may be using different tools. Achieving this should be much easier thanks to improved basecodes being written for the lessons. We are currently writing the first lessons and deciding important aspects like coding standards, as well as updating the back-end code of the website to make future updates a more streamlined process. If you have any more questions and/or suggestions feel free to ask on the forums or contact me directly. Cheers // BBB, PR-guy for NeHe.

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Started by BBB July 06, 2006 03:09 PM

55 comments, last by DrakeThe 17 years, 4 months ago

Clancy

124

November 08, 2006 02:55 PM

Quote: Original post by lc_overlord
um... hang in there.

But at the mean time i like to hear your ideas and suggestions for new lessons.
And please note that we have close to 80 different lessons in the planning stage ranging from super easy to ZOMGWTFPONIES hard (far from all definitely decided on), so don't expect your ideas to become a lesson, because they might all ready be (not that i will tell you right now).

New lessons? A Rag Dolls tutorial would be nice.
A tutorial dealing with multi-cores programming with openGL would be interesting.

Anonymous

November 10, 2006 09:41 PM

Yeah. . i see you guys have chosen to rewrite the new basecode for the initial lessons. I'd consider this a complete overhaul of Nehe's legacy,

and I like it.

lc_overlord

436

November 10, 2006 10:05 PM

Yea, we figured that since so long time has passed since the original ones where made and some of the lessons where sort of not the way you would normally do things today, the best thing to do is to just rewrite it all.
Though in the beginning you will definitely recognize some items from the original lessons, like the cube rendering code from lesson 6, it's pretty much just copypasted into a few of the first lessons. :)

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Anonymous

November 14, 2006 10:22 PM

Hows things progressing? Any word on some release date?

Anonymous

November 16, 2006 04:35 PM

hello wanted to congratulate you and former admin(jeff) for this awesome resource of information you are sharing ,,,anyways i have a question for you ...recently i downloaded the old tutorials(the pdf book) and begin to print it ...wanted to know if you could make available the devc++ source codes in one pack i mean a zip file or similar ..otherwise you could email it to me pls you could do me a favor : here is my mail cor_sibu@yahoo.it thanks and keep up the good work :)

lc_overlord

436

November 16, 2006 06:17 PM

No not now, I (or anyone on the dev team, besides the GD.net staff) don't have any direct special access to the old content, only the new stuff.
So it would be faster if you downloaded it directly yourself.

Later on when we have the new site(and some content) could perhaps see if we can provide separate code packs and new pdf books of most things on the site (old and new).

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Shuger

146

December 08, 2006 03:57 PM

ekhm.. i don't know do you realize this but 5 months has passed since the announcement.. one more month and it will be half a year, areyou still working on it? if yes can you from time to time post, what progress are you making? Even something like "we have 4 tutorials made we will release them soon"? It's just sad that i check NeHe twice a week and i don't see anything happening for such a long time. You don't have to publish everything at once, you can even show us 1st tutorial and everyone will be glad that something is going on...

edit:
not everyone are searching for whole set of tutorials, they might be looking just for one specific topic so tutorials are realy usefull even if not in bulk

Catweazle_1

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December 14, 2006 10:46 AM

Quote: Original post by lc_overlord
um... hang in there.

But at the mean time i like to hear your ideas and suggestions for new lessons.

Hi there!

Just registered this cool site full with info that I needed :)
This week I did some tryouts from the (old ?) lessons but I had to look elsewhere for info that I could not find there.
Maybe a tip for the new lessons ?

It is about loading and using a png file in stead of a bmp to use transparancy.
The other thing was simple clipping with clipping planes, also not found in the lessons.
But now I know :) but as I said, maybe a tip to show to other beginners.

Cheers.

lc_overlord

436

December 14, 2006 05:13 PM

Quote: Original post by Catweazle_1
It is about loading and using a png file in stead of a bmp to use transparancy.
The other thing was simple clipping with clipping planes, also not found in the lessons.
But now I know :) but as I said, maybe a tip to show to other beginners.

Cheers.

We use TGA files instead of BMP so we can use transparancy right from the beginning, in theory we could use libpng, but TGA files are simple to load and gives some hints on how to write file loaders.

simple clipping is actually taught in the original lessons, just take a closer look at lesson 26.

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Anonymous

December 15, 2006 07:20 AM

I shall come out of my long time NeHe lurking to say something. I've been visiting here for quite some time. It's changed to be certain, For good? I have my doubts but I have faith in the staff as they seem to be skilled and suited for the task.

For the love of all things merciful and OGL-ful. Post an announcement :) .

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