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BoundingBox’s in XNA 4.0

As you may have seen a post on how to generate bounding box data in 4.0 was required as some of the old tutorials just don’t seem to be cutting it any more. The pipeline code in this sample will also work in 3.1 as I took it from my 3.1 instancing...

Published Mon, Aug 9 2010 2:21 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, Bounds, Collision Detection, Tutorial, XNA 4.0

Light Cycles, Ribbons and Windows Phone 7

I put a clip up the other day of the ribbon emitter I was playing with, so here is the code and blog post as promised. The idea behind the ribbon emitter was to be able to lay down a length of connected particles, normally when we use a regular particle...

Published Fri, Aug 6 2010 3:55 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, Particle System, Tutorial, Multi-touch, Mulittouch, XNA 4.0, WP7

Brute Force 2D Shadows…well sort of…

http://www.youtube.com/v/VGeC5HYN0k0 http://www.youtube.com/v/VGeC5HYN0k0 A friend of mine was asking how to do some sort of 2D shadows for a game he is working on. We took a look at some images Catalin Zima put up on an implementation he is working on...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 4:08 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, 2D Pixel Shaders, HLSL, Lighting, 2D

Have your say....

So, with me switching off the comments and ping backs on the blog, it makes it a bit harder to find out what sort of stuff you want to see on the blog. My current plan is to wait for XNA 4.0 full release before posting code I then need to then upgrade...

Published Sun, Jun 6 2010 10:07 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA

Bit Flags in XNA

OK, this might be a bit off the beat and track of my normal posts, but I ad forgotten all about these little fellows and remembered them while playing with some old Win32 API’s. So, what are Bit Flags, well for want of a better description, it’s a way...

Published Wed, Mar 24 2010 1:25 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, XNA 3.1, Logical Bitwise Operators

XNA and Windows 7 Multi-touch

I am pretty sure, that like me you are more than capable of scanning the web for snippets of info on how to do this, well I thought, to save you the time and effort I’ll put up a simple how-to here. As ever I am standing on the shoulder of giants, the...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2010 8:35 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, Tutorial, 2D, XNA 3.1, Mulittouch

Programming in C# with XNA – Object Orientated Basics

We now have some of the basics under our belt, we can create variables, we can assign values to them and make conditional decisions on our code. We are now going to look at the Object Orientated side of Programming ( OOP ). What is OOP? In as simple terms...

Published Mon, Feb 1 2010 8:51 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Tutorial

Blacksun Water As A Post Process

http://www.youtube.com/v/9EJ_Q8VTbm0 http://www.youtube.com/v/9EJ_Q8VTbm0 OK, my mate Dave found an awesome article on gamedev.net, it was describing how to render water without any geom by doing it as a post process. Here is my attempt at it so far....

Published Wed, Dec 23 2009 8:31 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Terrain, Water, Generic XNA, Post Processing, 2D Pixel Shaders, Lighting, XNA 3.1, Blacksun, Deferred Render, Directional Lights

Blacksun Terrain Systems

http://www.youtube.com/v/VZGz8U89kOg http://www.youtube.com/v/VZGz8U89kOg I have started to move some old and new stuff into the engine, in this clip you can see the start of my new terrain system. It's based on GeoClip mapping, but at the moment...

Published Fri, Dec 18 2009 2:23 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Terrain, Generic XNA, Lighting, XNA 3.1, Instancing, Blacksun, Deferred Render, Directional Lights

Programming in C# with XNA – Programming Basics

It’s been far too long since my last post on this set, but hope this will help make up for it. In this post we are going to cover some programming basics as I see them in this context. I am going break the concepts or areas up into three sections, “What...

Published Tue, Dec 8 2009 2:42 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Tutorial

XBLIG-UK December 2009

Well what a great day that was! I gave my first public talk on XNA at the XBLIG-UK event, not sure if I put too much in, left too much out, but I enjoyed it none the less. It was organized by Edward Powel (our VeraShackle ) over at the NxtGen UK UG We...

Published Tue, Dec 8 2009 1:44 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, A.I, HLSL, Physics, Dark Omen Games, Talk, Event, XBLIG-UK

Programming in C# with XNA – Visual Studio

You should now have all the elements you need to start writing your first game. What we will now do is launch Visual Studio. Once launched you should have a screen that looks a bit like this:- Now my version of Visual Studio may look a little different...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2009 10:29 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Tutorial

XBlig-UK - XNA Games Development Conference, Birmingham - Saturday 5 December, 2009

The NxtGenUG are setting up an XNA event in Birmingham (England for those of you who may think in Alabama) on the 5th of December. This has been organized by our very own VeraShackle , who has also posted this in the Events section here . I am going to...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 10:33 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, HLSL, Events

Programming in C# with XNA - Getting Started

I am going to assume you don’t even have the required tools on your machine to start coding. So what do you need to get going? You will need to install DirectX9, the latest XNA Game Studio and a C# compiler. You can find all these things in once handy...

Published Fri, Aug 14 2009 8:10 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Tutorial

Programming in C# with XNA - Preamble

What I am going to try and do with this run of posts is to try and give guidance to those coming to XNA with absolutely no experience of programming. My intent is to give very high level posts on how to program in the context of XNA, from the very basics...

Published Mon, Jul 20 2009 12:38 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Tutorial, XNA 3.1

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BoundingBox’s in XNA 4.0

Light Cycles, Ribbons and Windows Phone 7

Brute Force 2D Shadows…well sort of…

Have your say....

Bit Flags in XNA

XNA and Windows 7 Multi-touch

Programming in C# with XNA – Object Orientated Basics

Blacksun Water As A Post Process

Blacksun Terrain Systems

Programming in C# with XNA – Programming Basics

XBLIG-UK December 2009

Programming in C# with XNA – Visual Studio

XBlig-UK - XNA Games Development Conference, Birmingham - Saturday 5 December, 2009

Programming in C# with XNA - Getting Started

Programming in C# with XNA - Preamble