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• 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... Posted Mar 09 2008, 10:08 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 12 comment(s) 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

• Rolling Shader Fog

  http://www.youtube.com/v/1ajrL-iORZk http://www.youtube.com/v/1ajrL-iORZk Well here is my rolling fog. The sample download has two projects, one for XNA 1.0 Refresh and the other for XNA 2.0. I got it up and running on my 360, but for some reason on there... Posted Jan 03 2008, 09:47 AM by Nemo Krad with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Fog, Generic XNA, Source, XNA Refresh 1.0, XNA 2.0

• 3D Scaled PointSprite Particles

  http://www.youtube.com/v/_sx0KDO-ZbA http://www.youtube.com/v/_sx0KDO-ZbA Well as mentioned in my previous post, here is the 3D particle system again only this time the particles are scaled. Now I didn't think that you could scale pointsprites, but... Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:34 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, Particle System, XBox 360, XNA Refresh 1.0, XNA 2.0

• Sky Sphere Clouds Source

  http://www.youtube.com/v/1WAP0em8Zzk http://www.youtube.com/v/1WAP0em8Zzk I have altered the shader a bit since my last post. I now only use a single cloud texture, sample that three times and rotate each sample over the other and add the result to the... Posted Nov 26 2007, 08:18 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Generic XNA, Source, SkySphere, Clouds, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Dynamic Sky Sphere With Clouds

  OK, have a major project on at work, but still finding time to play with this :P Just so you don't go reading the whole post and then find there is no source link at the bottom, there is no source with this post..... Right, so I wanted to add clouds... Posted Nov 23 2007, 09:49 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Generic XNA, SkyBox, SkySphere, Clouds, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Terrain with Roads

  Well this is the source post for my terrain and road map stuff. I will briefly describe what I have added and then onto where the source download is. So all I have done is add another Vector4 to the vertex element that holds the weight of the given road... Posted Nov 18 2007, 07:58 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Terrain, Generic XNA, Source, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Terrain With Road Map

  I know, how many times can a guy extend a terrain class!!!!? Lots I guess, this extension to the class and shader adds another map image that I call a road map. As you can guess this image holds a map of where I want to draw roads on my terrain. It is... Posted Nov 15 2007, 10:02 PM by Nemo Krad with | with no comments Filed under: Terrain, Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Dynamic Sky Sphere So Far...

  I am posting the source to this now as I have a project at work that is going to take up my time over Christmas and into the new year and also have to start studying if I am going to get anywhere with my Microsoft Certification :( I am not going to have... Posted Nov 07 2007, 09:01 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Terrain, Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, SkyBox, SkySphere, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Dynamic Sky Sphere

  I guess this started out as a bit of a toy. Using my old skybox code, I thought it would be a good idea to have the shader manage the lighting of the sky, you know have like a nice sun rise/set, have the color of the sky slowly change over time. But as... Posted Nov 04 2007, 08:08 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, SkyBox, SkySphere, XNA Refresh 1.0

• OOBB Collision Detection

  Well thanks to Ultrahead and his blog he gave me, I have been able to put this example up of a OOBB (Object Orienated Bounding Box). Using the same code from the last project I have added the source from Minh at Channel 9 . Took me a while to get it integrated... Posted Nov 01 2007, 08:14 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, Bounds, Collision Detection, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Bounding Box and Collision Detection

  http://www.youtube.com/v/mqVB8BmVTYc http://www.youtube.com/v/mqVB8BmVTYc The idea for this post came from a thread I spotted on the XNA Creators Club Forum . I read in the thread that you can't have your bounding box's rotate, now when I debug... Posted Oct 31 2007, 02:01 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, Bounds, Collision Detection, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Simple Bumped Terrain and Water with Fog

  http://www.youtube.com/v/z8C509TYnPA http://www.youtube.com/v/z8C509TYnPA Well here is the same skybox, terrain and ocean objects, only this time I have added the fogging effect to the shader. Naturally the class' have had to be modified to pass the... Posted Oct 25 2007, 08:47 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Fog, Terrain, Water, Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, Source, SkyBox, Terrain Picking, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Simple Bumped Terrain with Water

  http://www.youtube.com/v/a5rfeWmJo8w http://www.youtube.com/v/a5rfeWmJo8w Right, decided to move this component from the engine and into my Generic XNA section, I know what you are thinking, "I have gone through all your bump mapped terrain stuff... Posted Oct 21 2007, 10:39 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Terrain, Water, Bump/Normal Mapping, Generic XNA, SkyBox, Terrain Picking, XNA Refresh 1.0

• A.I Finite State Machine

  I have a great book Programming Game AI By Example by Mat Buckland . The first chapter was an eye opener for me as it is a Maths and Physics Primer which is just what I needed, I have not used either of those parts of my Brain since 1988 and they are... Posted Oct 15 2007, 10:30 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Generic XNA, Finite State Machines, A.I, XNA Refresh 1.0

• Ocean Shader

  http://www.youtube.com/v/ZZ5aSqhbyb4 http://www.youtube.com/v/ZZ5aSqhbyb4 I have moved this shader and it's associated class over to a generic XNA class. This should make it easier to bolt into your own projects should you not want to use the Randomchaos3DEngine... Posted Oct 15 2007, 10:27 PM by Nemo Krad with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Water, Generic XNA, XNA Refresh 1.0