TBGL

ThinBASIC offers the continuously developed TBGL library since year 2005. It is module focusing on providing way to draw graphics hardware accelerated way, but only with features which are widely adopted. That means, only "safe" functionality is added, so programmer can sleep peacefuly, because his scripts will run on any PC with properly installed GPU drivers.

But in real world, there are situations, when you simply need to use even the cutting edge features or features not commonly implemented by all hardware vendors. One of such a features is offscreen rendering, and this article will tell you for what it can be useful, what are the basic principles and it finally gives you sample implementation and script examples.
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TBGL provides the programmer with entity system, which allows definition of multiple kinds of types of entities. Sometimes we need to work with just group of entities and cast on them context specific action.

As the scene in TBGL can be composed of completely heterogeneous elements, this can become quite complicated task. We will take advantage of the fact any entity in TBGL can hold its custom user data, defined by programmer. By marking the user data with custom signature, we can easily determine which entities have something in common.

This article explains what data signature is, how to specify it and how to use it for comfortable handling of objects in the scene.

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When looking at recent state of CG effects in movies and TV series, one of the most attractive topics is combining real world footage with some ...