Sebastien St-Laurent's (AKA Sebby) WebLog
ShaderX4 - Call for Authors.
With the great success of the ShaderX series, Charles River Media is actively seeking new authors...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 01/24/2005
ShaderX #4
Happy to announce that i have been selected as the section editor for the "Rendering Techniques"...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 01/12/2005
Vacation, Rest, Boogers and Snot!
First of all, I apologize for the lack of posts over the past 2-3 weeks. As I had mentioned before,...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 01/12/2005
Vacation Time
The holidays are here! And my and my wife are going to see my family in Quebec for a whole week....
Author: sebby1234 Date: 12/21/2004
Review - Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks
If you recall my post from about one week ago, i had a chance to meet up with Minh T. Nguyen, the...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 12/21/2004
Print-On-Demand VS Offset Printing - Cost Analysis
I have been considering changing my book printing plans from POD to offset. Although i do believe...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 12/20/2004
Advice to prospective book author
Scott Meyers, the author of several technical titles such as "Effective C++" has posted an article...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 12/17/2004
Lunch with Minh T. Nguyen...
Yesterday for lunch i had the chance to meet up with Minh T. Nguyen, author of "Visual Studio .NET...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 12/16/2004
New Amazon.com ranking system.
Over the past few months, Amazon.com has changed the way their sales rank has been calculated,...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 12/08/2004
Computer Graphics? Where?
Some of you may wonder why i have not posted anything significant to computer graphics recently. I...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 12/06/2004
Self-Publishing. Update (11/23/04)
Thought it was time for a little update. There isn't that much going on but there are a few points I...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 11/23/2004
Self-Publishing. Update (11/17/04)
Since it has been a little while since my last self-publishing post, i thought it would be a good...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 11/17/2004
Halo 2
Ha!!! Made you look! :D
Author: sebby1234 Date: 11/10/2004
Converting RenderMonkey files to .FX (part 2)...
I had a recent inquiry by a reader of "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists". The reader was...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 11/08/2004
My new Gmail account.
I am currently on vacation, well visiting friends and family back in California. It was a fun...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 11/02/2004
Self-Publishing. The start of a new journey...
For those of you who are subscribed to my blog, you may have seen a few of my posts about my will to...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/29/2004
Flight Simulator... Behind The Scenes...
The Channel 9 team has finally posted the video they have taken of our group a few weeks back. Take...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/25/2004
No Posts? No i'm not dead...
Well not totally dead at least. Been struggling with the flu over the past week. Guess this means i...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/25/2004
Author Interview: "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"
I've recently had the chance to be interviewed by The Compulsive Creative in regards to my latest...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/15/2004
Book: "Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists"
Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists By Sebastien St-Laurent ISBN: 1-59200-092-4May 2004 (512...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/11/2004
Other Authors Venture Into Self-Publishing...
A few interesting posts I've found on authors self-publishing... The first interesting tidbit is...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/11/2004
Channel 9 Visits The Flight Sim Team!
Yesterday, Robert Scoble from the Channel 9 team came to visit the team - Robert and Steve Lacey...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/11/2004
Flight Simulator 2004 Update Is Now Up!!
All the information and the download itself is over here.
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/11/2004
Amazon Sales Ranking Mysteries.
I've never really put too much attention into the Amazon sales rank of a book until my first book...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/07/2004
My Next Book... Self-Published???
Here I am at it again, I've started writing my second book a little over one month ago. Now...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 10/06/2004
Misc Computer Graphics / Video Game / Tech News (09/30/04)
R500 for Xbox2 to be ready at end of Q1 2005 According to reports, the next generation Xbox chip...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/30/2004
Book Talk: Beginning Game Programming
Here is a book which may be of interest to people wanted to get into the field of game programming....
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/25/2004
C# Member Properties Recursion?!?!?
I was working on some C# tool today when i came along this piece of code i just wrote. public...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/23/2004
Xtreme Game Developers Xpo
XGDX will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, October 9-10, 2004....
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/23/2004
Misc Computer Graphics / Video Game / Tech News (09/22/04)
Here my news blurbs for this week :) First AMD-64 optimized game arrives! Atari has announced the...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/22/2004
Press-Release : Learn Real-Time Computer Graphics the Easy Way With “Shaders for Game Programmers and Artists” by Sebastien St-Laurent.
In my continued effort to self-promote my book (can't count on the publisher for this ;) ). I've...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/21/2004
Book Piracy... Ridiculous pricing?
From a story on TechDirt.com: "Upset that students might actually try to learn something without...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/20/2004
Misc Computer Graphics News (09/16/04)
I have decided to keep track of interesting news going on in the computer graphics world and make a...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/16/2004
Shader for Game Programmers and Artists Errata (Wrong D3DRS_CULLMODE Render State in Chapter 5)
Just got my first correction for my book (Shaders for Game Programmer and Artists). I'v decided to...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/09/2004
Contest Reminder: Mini Website Design
This post is to serve as a reminder that the mini web design contest for my homepage is still going...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/09/2004
Answer to Question: Converting rendermonkey to fx
I received a post from Brandon Furtwangler asking a few general questions about RenderMonkey and...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/02/2004
Water reflections and clip planes...
I am currently meddling with some water reflection code. It is all implemented but it was missing a...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 09/01/2004
Mini Website Design Contest
As some of you may have noticed, my home page (www.sebbybooks.com) is pretty bland. I myself do not...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/30/2004
New Avalon GUI System to be released on XP/Server 2003
This was announced today by Microsoft. As a video game developer i think this is really good as it...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/27/2004
Dental Work... Part Deux!
Well i haven't posted in the last few days, and mostly for a few reasons. First of all, I've been...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/27/2004
Request for topics...
Of course i don't always want to just rant about misc things in my blog. So i thought i would post a...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/24/2004
To publish or to self-publish... There is the question...
Now at this point in time i am between the release of my first book "Shaders for Game Programmers...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/23/2004
Google IPO on its way... My thoughts...
I am by no means a financial analyser or anything like this. But am i the only one out there who...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/19/2004
Flight Simulator...
Since i have started blogging, a little over one week ago, I have already received a few questions...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/18/2004
Why is dental work so expensive?
I know this has nothing to do with computer graphics or computers in general but for my post today i...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/17/2004
ATI's RenderMonkey Version 1.5 Released!
Seems that with Siggraph 2004 coming and going, ATI has finally released the 1.5 version of...
Author: sebby1234 Date: 08/16/2004