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A Quick Note On Binary Serialization

So was playing about with Binary serialization, and think I have a nice base class you might want to use if you ever want serialize your classes. This is the base class using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text;...

Published Thu, Jan 26 2012 11:18 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Serialization, C#
WP7 game/app talking to WCF Web Services

This post is taken from the discussion we had on the forum here . So, the OP was asking about WCF web services and I replied with my 2 peneth and said I would write a blog post about it, and this is where I will start. Stuff You Will Need (Other than...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2012 11:45 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Source, XNA 4.0, WP7, WCF Web Services, Silverlight
Reason for Recent Radio Silence…

Hello to anyone still following this blog. I just thought I should explain my (more than usual) silence over the last few months. In November we found out that my Mother is terminally ill with cancer. This has made it difficult for me to get into writing...

Published Thu, Jan 12 2012 2:25 PM by Charles Humphrey
XNA a Kinect Component

So, I have been playing about with the Kinect Beta , having finally got a power supply for my Kinect sensor (I got a Slim XBox). I am not doing a great deal with this post, just thought if you have a sensor you might want to start playing with it in XNA...

Published Wed, Oct 19 2011 9:54 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: XNA 4.0, Kinect
SSAO, a start

http://www.youtube.com/v/7mshXJNzI-o http://www.youtube.com/v/7mshXJNzI-o So, have now been playing with SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion) after finding this great article on GameDev.net http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/reference/programming...

Published Tue, Sep 27 2011 9:56 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Post Processing, HLSL, Deferred Render, XNA 4.0, SSAO
Crepuscular (God) Rays and Web UI Sample

http://www.youtube.com/v/toS1n_VHLRI http://www.youtube.com/v/toS1n_VHLRI OK, this is two samples rolled into one, the first part of this sample will cover the post processing effect of Crepuscular rays I have created in XNA based on the GPU Gems 3 article...

Published Thu, Sep 15 2011 8:12 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Source, Post Processing, HLSL, Lighting, Sun, XNA 4.0, UI, Crepuscular Rays, God Rays
Crepuscular Rays Post Process

http://www.youtube.com/v/1hpdLHsU_Zs http://www.youtube.com/v/1hpdLHsU_Zs So, I have been meaning to do god rays for ages and while doing the ST Excalibur post processing framework in SlimDX, thought I would give them a go. This clip is of my XNA engine...

Published Tue, Aug 30 2011 12:06 AM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Post Processing, XNA 4.0, Crepuscular Rays, God Rays
September 2011 Talk Preview

OK, so the next XNA UK meeting will be on the 7th of September and I will be giving a short talk on using Web UI's in XNA, I thought I would put up a quick post with a picture to show the sort of thing you will be able to do. See you in September...

Published Fri, Aug 19 2011 12:49 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Talk, UI
XNA UK UG April 2011 Talk

I have finally got the source and ppt up for the talk I gave on the 6th of April. It was just covering the UI I created for the talk the month before, have expanded on it slightly so that you can skin it. You can find the down load here .

Published Wed, Aug 10 2011 1:03 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Source, Events, Talk, XNA 4.0
And now for something completely different….

Now, some of you, especially the XNAUK-UG admins will have noticed I have been a bit quieter than normal here, well that’s because, as well as working on Ghostscape for the WP7, and giving the odd talk or two for the user group meetings , I am now...

Published Thu, Jun 16 2011 8:45 PM by Charles Humphrey
Bit More Terrain

http://www.youtube.com/v/szgHZ0IL6To http://www.youtube.com/v/szgHZ0IL6To Well I say Geo Clip Map, but it's my take on the GPU Gems 2 Articles on terrain. So, since the last clip I have added some lighting to the shader, I did a GPU terrain render...

Published Sat, Jun 4 2011 12:34 AM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Terrain, XNA 4.0, Geo Clip Mapping
Terrain: Geo Clip Mapping

http://www.youtube.com/v/u95cln5yYIY http://www.youtube.com/v/u95cln5yYIY So I decided to have a play with Geo Clip Mapping. I always wanted a decent terrain render and I think this could be a good start. Not much of a render I know, but that will come...

Published Wed, Jun 1 2011 10:28 AM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Terrain, XNA 4.0, Geo Clip Mapping
Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part III

<< Prev | Next >> OK, so still not much in the way of XNA, I guess I should have just called this set of posts Blender 2.57b, but all this stuff I am using form my own XNA projects, so I guess if you are using XNA and want to use Blender,...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 8:33 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Blender 2.57b, Normal Mapping
Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part II

<< Pev | Next >> In the previous post I covered how and where to get Blender, briefly described the windows we start with, covered a little bit about the 3D View window and how we can then export the cube mesh and add it to our XNA project...

Published Thu, May 26 2011 12:10 AM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Blender 2.57b, UV Mapping
Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part I

Next >> I have been playing about with blender, I know Ed is a big fan of the XSI Soft Image tool, but I never really got on with it, mostly due to me not spending any quality with it. So, why Blender? Well, first off, it’s free! There are also...

Published Mon, May 23 2011 11:50 PM by Charles Humphrey

Filed under: Blender 2.57b

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A Quick Note On Binary Serialization

WP7 game/app talking to WCF Web Services

Reason for Recent Radio Silence…

XNA a Kinect Component

SSAO, a start

Crepuscular (God) Rays and Web UI Sample

Crepuscular Rays Post Process

September 2011 Talk Preview

XNA UK UG April 2011 Talk

And now for something completely different….

Bit More Terrain

Terrain: Geo Clip Mapping

Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part III

Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part II

Blender 2.57b & XNA 4.0 Part I