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2D Particle Tutorial V

http://www.youtube.com/v/0_qMAyr7RJY http://www.youtube.com/v/0_qMAyr7RJY In this tutorial I am going to bind the emitter to a game agent, now you will have to forgive me as I have been very lazy, I have taken textures from the Creators Club particle...

Published Fri, Mar 28 2008 10:05 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Source, Particle System, XNA 2.0, Tutorial
2D Particle Tutorial IV

We have our classes so all I am going to do is now apply some pixel shader effects to both the particle system and the background image. I am going to describe how the pixel shader is applied to the particle emitter as the technique is the same for the...

Published Fri, Mar 28 2008 4:40 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Source, Particle System, XNA 2.0, 2D Pixel Shaders, HLSL
2D Particle Tutorial III

http://www.youtube.com/v/fMPHW7tKUTI http://www.youtube.com/v/fMPHW7tKUTI Well now onto something I know even less about, 2D particles. As you may or may not have seen I have had a play with these in my GSM Library where I have put a star field in as...

Published Fri, Mar 28 2008 12:39 PM by Nemo Krad
3D PointSprite Particle Tutorial II

Now we have a simple particle and emitter we can have a look at other blending modes, in the previous tutorial we did what is called and additive blend, this type of blending is called Frame Buffer Alpha Blending and a full description of this can be...

Published Wed, Mar 26 2008 8:48 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Particle System, XNA 2.0, Tutorial
3D PointSprite Particle Tutorial I

http://www.youtube.com/v/AjsQiYaZ-po http://www.youtube.com/v/AjsQiYaZ-po Was browsing the boards as I do and came across a thread on Ziggyware where a member was looking for a Particle Engine tutorial, at first I did not quite get what he wanted, so...

Published Wed, Mar 26 2008 10:56 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Particle System, XNA 2.0, Tutorial, HLSL
3D Clouds in XNA - Update

http://www.youtube.com/v/DNz_VdqHG_E http://www.youtube.com/v/DNz_VdqHG_E Just posting a new clip of the cloud system I am playing with. As you can see using billboards gives a better effect when close to the clouds and/or passing through them. Need to...

Published Thu, Mar 20 2008 11:23 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, SkyBox, Particle System, Bounds, Clouds, XNA 2.0
3D Clouds in XNA

Well, I was asked by a member of our comunity (Jonathan Tan) to comment my skysphere cloud shader a little better, and he also mentioned to me a system written for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight by Niniane Wang , so I took a look...

Published Sun, Mar 16 2008 9:50 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Particle System, Bounds, Clouds, XNA 2.0
Software License

I have had a few people ask me now, "what license is your source released under?" and I always answer "eh?". So I have decided to take a look at a license for my downloads and have come across this one thanks to Amnesiasoft who posted...

Published Mon, Mar 10 2008 8:01 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source
Geographic Grid Registration - An alternative to Quadtrees and Octrees

I guess you know what Octrees and Quadtrees are so wont go into too much detail on them here, but they are basically a great way to hold static (none moving) game objects in groups for the use of culling and the like. As stated this is great for game...

Published Sun, Mar 9 2008 10:08 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, Bounds, Collision Detection, XNA 1.0, XBox 360, XNA Refresh 1.0, XNA 2.0, Geographic Grid Registration, Octree, Quadtree
RandomChaos GSM Beta

http://www.youtube.com/v/tG7BnVpc7TI http://www.youtube.com/v/tG7BnVpc7TI Well I have gone movie maker mad eh!! Have added a fair few items into this release, as you will see in the video (keep calling them that, how old does that make me look!!) One...

Published Sun, Mar 2 2008 12:07 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Particle System, XNA 2.0, Game State Manager

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2D Particle Tutorial V

2D Particle Tutorial IV

2D Particle Tutorial III

3D PointSprite Particle Tutorial II

3D PointSprite Particle Tutorial I

3D Clouds in XNA - Update

3D Clouds in XNA

Software License

Geographic Grid Registration - An alternative to Quadtrees and Octrees

RandomChaos GSM Beta