Galfar's Homepage

Some News

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:21:48 +0200

Vampyre Imaging Library 0.26.0 was finally released few days ago. There are many canvas enhancements and support for 3Dc compressed formats. More info and downloads at project's homepage: http://imaginglib.sourceforge.net

I'm planning revamping this whole site. Maybe creating some sort of simple CMS myself or just some better way to handle projects. I don't enjoy coding in PHP but there's not much choice. I hope to get it done during September.

Imaging 0.24.2 Released

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:13:19 +0100

New version of my Imaging library was released today. Check out the project homepage: http://imaginglib.sf.net

An Update

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:49:26 +0100

There has been no news for quite some time. This will change! Or maybe not.

Imaging 0.24.2 patch will hopefully be released soon (waiting for Lazarus 0.9.24 since there is LCL change that breaks Imaging's LCL support for older Lazaruses). More about new Imaging can be found at its homepage. I also plan to release OpenJPEG (JPEG 2000 library) for Pascal independent on Imaging for those who just want JPEG 2000 for their programs.

I will (have to) start working on my Master's thesis in very near future so you may expect some demos soon (terrain rendering stuff again).

Imaging 0.24.0 Released!

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:41:33 +0200

Version 0.24.0 of Imaging has been released!

Main news/changes in 0.24.0:

New image file format support: GIF (native), TIFF (libtiff), PSD (native).
New image data format: BTC (block truncation coding).
File format compatibility fixes (for BMP, JPEG, and DDS) and platform/compiler support fixes (Win64, UNIX, FPC, ...).
Bug fixes and some enhancements (buffered file IO, ...).

Vampyre Imaging Library Homepage with news and downloads
Imaging Forum with more news
Imaging Info here in Projects section

Earth Under Fire Slighty Updated

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:56:56 +0200

There is a new beta of Earth Under Fire. Several bugs were fixed, libraries used by the game were updated to current versions, and the game now supports multisample antialiasing.

Find more on Earth Under Fire page in Projects section.

Chaos Unleashed

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:05:59 +0200

I've just created page in Projects section about my entry for PGD 2007 Compo named Domains Of Chaos.

Check it out here: Domains Of Chaos Page.

UFO: Extraterrestrials Released

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Tue, 08 May 2007 02:08:10 +0200

The game I have been working on for Chaos Concept was finally released. If you liked old XCOM games you may like this one as well. It has geoscape mode with base building, research, ufo interceptions etc. and turn based tactical missions just like XCOM.

UFO: Extraterrestrials homepage: http://www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/
UFO at Gamers Gate (digital download for EU and rest of the globe except North America): Gamers Gate UFO page
UFO at Matrix Games (digital download for North America): Matrix Games UFO page
Boxed version will be available in few weeks.

Now working on first patch ...

Libs And Units

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:14:30 +0100

I have added new page to Projects section called My Libs And Units. I will be putting various small libraries and units I write and use here. There is only DirectMusic MIDI player now but I am going to refactor/update/clean some other stuff that can be posted here.

There is a new competition on Pascal Game Development and I am in. Last year I won third place with Earth Under Fire but this year looks tough. I'll be posting info about my entry here.

Imaging 0.22.0 Released

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:14:48 +0100

End of January is here and as I wrote in the last post - Imaging 0.22 is ready. I wrote about new stuff earlier so I just put some links here:

Vampyre Imaging Library Homepage with news and downloads
Imaging Forum with more news
Imaging Info here in Projects section

2 0 0 7

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:52:30 +0100

Again, the Year variable has incremented. Current value is 2007. I'm going to release Imaging 0.22 with Extras package in late January or early February. There are only few finishing touches needed but I don't have much time now (many exams at uni). Later I plan to devote some time to update Earth Under Fire, maybe even create 1.0 version and close it. Next I want to brush up on Python (but with my Delphi module containing Imaging and other stuff) and create simple Chaos remake with multiplayer over the Internet. More info on this later.

There is also a commercial app in Delphi we are starting with friend. And Ufo: Extraterrestrials game is about to be released soon (I hope) so I expect subsequent patches, patches, and maybe even some patches. And I should pick up some theme for my Master's thesis soon and do some stuff for it. Well, looks like a busy year, [sigh].

And now for something completely different:

This is something you don't see every day. I met this herd of polar ostriches few days ago. Scary bunch.

Imaging Extras Package - Work In Progress

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:09:00 +0100

I am working on package with extra content for Vampyre Imaging Library. That means additional image file formats, new extensions, demos, and other stuff.

File formats in extras will also include JPEG2000. Reason why it won't be in the core library is this: there is no native Pascal library for loading/saving JPEG2000 images (at least I haven't found one) so Imaging will link to C library compiled to object files (openjpeg most probably). Therefore it won't work on all platforms supported by Imaging (and thus cannot be included in core library).

There is also PCX loader, there will be PNM (for PBM, PGM, PPM, and PAM) loader/saver, and maybe even GIF support (if there will be enough time to implement it). I have converted my old Daggerfall image/texture loaders to Imaging too and added Redguard and BattleSpire support.

First version of extras package will be released around the end of 2006. New Imaging release will be made too because stuff in extras depends on some changes made in core library since 0.20 release. Current working version of Imaging and extras package is in project's SubVersion repository.

Visit Vampyre Imaging Library homepage

Imaging 0.20.0 Released

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:15:51 +0100

New version of my Vampyre Imaging Library is out. New features are in and many bugs found in v0.18 has been fixed. There is also new Imaging Forum available.

Main news/changes in 0.20.0:

New TImagingCanvas class with methods for drawing objects and applying effects was added (although there is not much functionality yet).
New image data formats based on 16bit half-float (FP16) type has been added and OpenGL and Direct3D extensions can now create textures in these formats too.
Imaging now compiles and works on 64bit CPUs (Linux on AMD64).
High level interface classes were extended and updated as well as VCL/CLX/LCL support and low level interface.
Some old demos were removed, new added, and rest was updated.

You can learn more about Imaging at its homepage.

Earth Is Under Fire Again

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:51:17 +0200

I uploaded new version of Earth Under Fire shooter yesterday. Since May when older version won 3rd place in PGD Big Boss Competition 2006 the game has been extended in several areas. There are new missions, new ships, new weapons, and other things.

See more details, screenshots, and download info at game's page in Projects category: Earth Under Fire page.

Site officially online

nospam@example.com (Galfar) — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:48:00 +0200

I have finally finished setting up this site so its now "officially" online. It is a place for my various projects (keywords: programming, ObjectPascal, computer graphics, and similar).

Any useful content is now only in Projects section.