The deadline for Web3D 2013 is now approaching (Feb 15th). It will be in Spain this year in June, which should be very pleasant.
Author archives: Anthony
EVE Online 3000 player battle
There a few interesting stories about a recent 3000 player battle that took part in Eve Online. PC Gamer give a broad overview about what happened, which seems to stem from a mis-click by a player (UI lessons to be learned here I expect!). They have a very impressive video of part of the battle. Loses on …
Net Games 2012
The program for Net Games 2012 is up.
Web3D 2012
The annual ACM Web3D Conference is one of the main venues for new networked graphics research each year. Its focus is on more integrative web technologies rather than low-level protocols, but still there is always good work on system architecture to look at. Some of the ones that piqued our interest are (links to ACM DL coming): …
3D Repo
One of the EngD students in our group has a very interesting project related to networked graphics: 3D Repo. 3D Repo is an online repository for storing, retrieving and versioning large 3D models. Although its not for real-time scene edits (at the moment), it is very suitable for storing world models for collaborative virtual environments, or …
FPS Players
Has the record for number of players in a first-person game been broken? The team behind Just Cause 2 Multiplayer an unofficial mod of Just Cause 2 have been beta testing their server. It recently peaked at 1300 players online. Just Cause 2 is in a more open world than many FPSs, but the numbers of players supported are …
RakNet Open Source
Very good news: RakNet is now Open Source (modified BSD license). RakNet has a very broad spectrum of facilities that you need to build your networked graphics system. We used RakNet in the examples in the book (though they need minor updates which we will try to do in the next couple of weeks). Unfortunately we had had to stop …
Chinese Translation
Our book was translated into Chinese by Tsinghua University Press. Amazon CN listing here.
Internet Visualisations
A couple of Internet infographics have been sent my way. They are good material for introductory talks for the area! Evolution of the Web visualises changing web technology. Its useful for tracking various standards that are coming our way. From Jen Rhee, a visualisation of the traffic in a day on the Internet
GDC 2012
Another slew of networking papers from this year’s GDC, see GDC Vault. The first of these is particularly interesting: a study of the networking required for the Gears of Wars 3 launch: Dedicated Servers in Gears of War 3 Scaling to Millions of Players, Michael Weilbacher. Development Manager, Microsoft Studios this is a good presentation on some of …