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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

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

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

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

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

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques Episode 8: Planet Shader…

http://www.youtube.com/v/WdwJ2WvjY_A http://www.youtube.com/v/WdwJ2WvjY_A In this post I am going to show you how to do multiple passes, how to make your handy HLSL function calls available to more than one shader at a time, how to pass variables to pixel...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 8:28 PM by Nemo Krad

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

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 7: Simple Animation

http://www.youtube.com/v/Igt5R9Eigvw http://www.youtube.com/v/Igt5R9Eigvw Now this is very simple animation, no bones are used at all here. The point of this post is to show you how you can manipulate vertices in the shader. What I intend to do with this...

Published Wed, Jan 21 2009 8:00 PM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, Animation, Tutorial, HLSL, XNA 3.0, Lighting

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...

Published Mon, Nov 24 2008 1:49 PM by Nemo Krad

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

3D Billboard Particles Tutorial VI

http://www.youtube.com/v/tnsSfwGfM3U http://www.youtube.com/v/tnsSfwGfM3U So, we have seen PointSprite particles in 3D, but what about billboarding?? You may be asking at this point, what is billboarding and why would I want to use it when I already have...

Published Tue, Apr 1 2008 11:17 AM by Nemo Krad

Filed under: Generic XNA, Particle System, XNA 2.0, Tutorial, HLSL

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

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

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BoundingBox’s in XNA 4.0

Light Cycles, Ribbons and Windows Phone 7

XNA and Windows 7 Multi-touch

Programming in C# with XNA – Object Orientated Basics

Programming in C# with XNA – Programming Basics

Programming in C# with XNA – Visual Studio

Programming in C# with XNA - Getting Started

Programming in C# with XNA - Preamble

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques Episode 8: Planet Shader…

Basic HLSL Lighting Techniques - Episode 7: Simple Animation

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

3D Billboard Particles Tutorial VI

2D Particle Tutorial V

3D PointSprite Particle Tutorial II

3D PointSprite Particle Tutorial I