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Not optimized, but it is a basic particle effect.

If you’re planning on using hundreds of thousands of rectangles in your Qt application, you might be surprised that it might not perform at optimal speeds. Here’s how I speed up my Qt applications… (more…)

Oh, it only took years of research and learning… but here it be, the fruits of my labor… (more…)

Let me explain the bare minimum concepts behind getting your first 2D game engine up and running in Nokia’s Qt envirnoment. (more…)

What I believe a game engine built on Qt/c++ needs in order for it to be accessible and successful. (more…)

In most cases, the idea of programming is all the same. What makes it difficult is learning a particular language with all its different syntax, commands, etc. Like real-world cultures, people speak different languages, but everyone needs to eat and poop, except the words for those might differ from culture to culture. Even if there were no language differences, I’m sure one could still gesture, if considered obscene but still get the point across. If you could pick up those cues, then you’ll see that most cultures are the same. So let’s take a look at similarities between c++ and vb.net… (more…)