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Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 6: Environment Maps - Reflection & Refraction

http://www.youtube.com/v/_gSZ8CA2t70 http://www.youtube.com/v/_gSZ8CA2t70 Having played about with the NVIDIA Glass shader and my own (old) attempts at glass I have come up with this post Refraction Refraction is the light passing through an object but...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Tue, Jan 6 2009

Filed under: Generic XNA, SkySphere, HLSL, XNA 3.0, Lighting, Glass

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 5: Environment Maps - NVIDIA Glass

http://www.youtube.com/v/WK6pDZz1xBk http://www.youtube.com/v/WK6pDZz1xBk OK, as you can see this may well not be all that basic, but if you have already used my sky box sample then you have already used an Environment map (as a result of this have found...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Sun, Jan 4 2009

Merry Xmas

Well, it's that time of year again and with the normal festive madness I have not had time to post any more on my HLSL series, but there is more to come in that range and once the festivities have died down and I sober up I'll start posting again...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Mon, Dec 22 2008

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 4: How to apply Episode 3 shader to another model

In this post I am going to show how you can apply the effects from Episode 3 to another model. In this case the LandShark model that also ships with the DirectX SDX. It's not really a HLSL post, but related. The model comes with a diffuse texture...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Wed, Dec 3 2008

Filed under: Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, XBox 360, HLSL, XNA 3.0

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 3: Colour, Glow, Bump and Reflective Texture Maps

http://www.youtube.com/v/XOujFp7ZccA http://www.youtube.com/v/XOujFp7ZccA I guess the next natural step is texturing a model. In this episode I am going to cover basic texturing, then go onto what I call glow maps, then bump mapping and then reflective...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Mon, Nov 24 2008

Filed under: Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, Tutorial, HLSL, XNA 3.0, Lighting

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 2: Coloured, Specular & Multiple Lights

http://www.youtube.com/v/Dj6V7hwVcPg http://www.youtube.com/v/Dj6V7hwVcPg Coloured Light So the last shader we did had both ambient and diffuse lighting in it. But what if your light is coloured and has a varying brightness? All we have to do is add two...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Wed, Nov 12 2008

Filed under: Generic XNA, XBox 360, HLSL, XNA 3.0, Lighting

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 1: Ambient and Diffuse

http://www.youtube.com/v/2n7_hXgoQdE http://www.youtube.com/v/2n7_hXgoQdE All my HLSL and lighting knowledge has come pretty much from one book Programming Vertex and Pixel Shaders by Wolfgang Engel , which I insist you should buy if you are getting into...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Tue, Nov 11 2008

Filed under: Generic XNA, HLSL, XNA 3.0, Lighting

RandomChaos 3D Engine in XNA 3.0

If you have subscribed to my YouTube Channel (some of you have), then you will know I have started to re-create my 3D engine. I have a most of my blog items in there now ported over to 3.0, but still have a way to go. I am finding, as I integrate my blog...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Fri, Oct 31 2008

Filed under: Randomchaos 3D Engine, XNA 3.0

XNA 3.0 Released!

You can grab a nice shiny new copy of XNA 3.0 here .... Guess I should get a full creators club membership now then...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Thu, Oct 30 2008

Filed under: XNA 3.0

C++ hmmmm.....

Not that many of you will be interested in ANY C++ code, BUT, I have started to play with some C++ and DirectX9. At first so I can get a better understanding of what is going on under the XNA layer and it has made me appreciate just how much XNA does...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Mon, Oct 27 2008

Filed under: C++

XNA-UK UG Meet - October 17th

This post is for those of you who have not subscribed to the main RSS feed (and why not?!) I strongly recommend you go to this as the guys from Beatnik games are showing off (and asking you to play to destruction) there first commercial XNA game Plain...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Wed, Oct 8 2008

Filed under: Generic XNA, XNA-UK UG Meeting

Show & Tell Special: Plain Sight, Sumo Squash, Big Screen Multi Player Fun

We're having another show & tell session, since the last one was so much fun. This time with 2 special guests, the Beatnik folks will be showing off their game Plain Sight and our own Herriman winners will be showing their lovely looking, DBP...

Posted to XNA UK News by leaf on Sat, Oct 4 2008

Filed under: events

Volumetric Clouds - Source

Now, I said I wanted to get the editor written up before I posted the basic system, but I have had so many requests for it I thought I may as well get the base up and I can build on it as the system evolves. Before I get into the code, I'll explain...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Thu, Oct 2 2008

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, Particle System, Clouds, XBox 360, XNA 2.0, HLSL

ReMix 08 - Demo Source Code

Some of you that have come to this blog after going to the ReMix 08 conference are probably wondering, "Where is that source code Paul said would be here!?" Well, most of it is here, it's just smashed across a lot of posts. But, it's...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Mon, Sep 29 2008

Filed under: Terrain, Generic XNA, Source, Particle System, Post Processing, Bounds, Collision Detection, SkySphere, Clouds, XBox 360, XNA 2.0, Game State Manager, Games, HLSL, Physics, Threading, Conferences

Sora World - A Dream Build Play Entry for 2008

Before I start this post here is a description of what we intend Sora to be: Ideally a two player networked game where you choose to be either a Pilot or a Navigator. The game will be story driven but have a complex progress tree and so resulting in different...

Posted to RandomChaos by Nemo Krad on Wed, Sep 24 2008

Filed under: Clouds, Games, Dream Build Play 2008

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