Ziggyware hosts a new Article and Tutorial contest, with an exciting prize: an Xbox 360 Elite, and two 1 year Creator's Club Subscriptions. All you have to do is write a cool tutorial, and submit it before November 30'th 2008. … Continue reading
Hi, everyone. Don't worry, I'm still here. The last month was a busy one. After working hard to catch the Dream Build Play deadline, I needed to take a few days of vacation from coding and prepare for moving my … Continue reading
I just found out about the new Zune update going online from Mykre and went ahead and installed it. An interesting thing after updating is the presence of two prepacked games in this update. These are Hexic and Texas Hold'Em. … Continue reading
I'm going to go on vacation soon, so I'm putting the July sample online. It's not much, since I've been busy writing the Fur Rendering Tutorial, but I think it's a nice effect. The sample is dedicated to Rim Lighting, … Continue reading
My fur rendering article just went online on Ziggyware. It is an entry for the Summer Ziggyware XNA Article Contest, so if you like it, vote for it when voting begins, in a few days. The article explains how to … Continue reading
I introduce to you my new best friend. I made him yesterday and today, and he's my first organic creature modeled. I still have some work to do on him, mostly texturing and tweaking (and maybe sometime in the far … Continue reading
Fake Rim Lighting, for use in cute games (inspired by Super Mario Galaxy screenshots) Fur Continue reading
For this month's sample, I worked hard to try and render some heightmap terrain on Zune, using voxel rendering, but wasn't very successful. Voxel technology was used to render terrains in some older games, like Delta Force, Commanche series, and … Continue reading
This semester at the university, we had a Graphics Processing Systems class. While old fixed-function OpenGl was used in courses and laboratory works, for the project, I chose to use my favorite graphics API in the whole world. Yup, you … Continue reading
I'm releasing a small library for shadow mapping in XNA. This is the beginning of a library that will allow using shadow maps in XNA without writing a new shader, or setting up your models. Just using some calls to … Continue reading