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Some of you that have come to this blog after going to the ReMix 08 conference are probably wondering, "Where is that source code Paul said would be here!?" Well, most of it is here, it's just smashed across a lot of posts. But, it's not all under one project ready for you to run and...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNz_VdqHG_E[/youtube] 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 sharpen up the shader now and get some nice lighting in there...

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 and was totaly blown away by it. So decided to try...

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 objects that don't move, terrain, buildings and...

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 as he is creating the roataiton from a vector...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqVB8BmVTYc[/youtube] 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 my collision stuff I tend to draw my bounding box's so I...