Visual Studio 2008 Professional doesn't come with the built-in profiler (that's a feature reserved for the Team Suite edition). But that doesn't mean you can't profile your applications! Microsoft actually provides a stand-alone verson of the profiler, w… more »

One of the benefits of the way I've implemented the entity logic in Elium is that the skybox now gets it's parameters from an XML file, rather than having them set by a script. This has greatly simplified the skybox code (because it's not a "pull" model… more »

One of the features we'd like to add to Elium is shadows. My understanding is that the Nebula 2 engine, which the game is currently using, supports shadow volumes, but we'd prefer to use shadow maps, which would be better suited to large outdoor environm… more »