RenderTarget and DepthStencilBuffer Helper

published 3 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 3 days, 23 hours ago

ziggyware.com — Ziggyware has an article that has a nice and simple RenderTarget and DepthStencilBuffer Helper. It was created to help in the creation and use of Render Targets and Depth Stencil Buffers in XNA. This article comes with a working sample for you to check out, made in XNA Game Studio 2.0 read more...

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New XNA Content Available!

published 3 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 3 days, 23 hours ago

creators.xna.com — The XNA Team announces a new set of educational content for XNA Game Studio: Artificial Intelligence: Flocking - Learn how to enable complex, emergent behavior in groups by using simple logic. Shadow Series 1: Basic Shadow Mapping - Learn how to cast basic shadows on a scene, with a movable camera and self-shadowing. Shader Series 5: Multipass Lighting - Learn how to utilize multipass rendering to illuminate objects with many lights at once read more...

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Customizing IntermediateSerializer, part 1

published 9 days, 13 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 9 days, 13 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — Shawn has posted a nice article on how to use serialization helper properties to output different data to the xml. One of his examples takes an int, and when it goes through his serialization helper object, it is outputted in hex. read more...

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Air Legends gets ROCKETS and significant gameplay improvements.

published 13 days, 23 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 14 days, 3 hours ago

sharky.bluecog.co.nz — here’s what’s new in Sharky's Air Legends (if you haven't tried it, now is one of the best times to give it a try!)… ROCKETS!!!, Improved survivability / reduced frustration, and Bullet visibility improved. darker, slightly bigger and longer. read more...

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Introducing the New Community Manager

published 18 days, 13 hours ago, submitted by Mykre 20 days, 2 hours ago

virtualrealm.com.au — For years now we have had the privilege of having the support of David Weller as our Community Manager for all things Managed DirectX and then XNA, but as David had to leave us to pursue other ventures we have been left without a conduit into the Microsoft World. Today the XNA Blog has Introduced the New Community Manager for the XNA Systems. read more...

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Threading for Windows & XBox 360

published 21 days, 6 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 21 days, 11 hours ago

xna-uk.net — Nemo Krad went back to his old threading code to port it to the 360 so he could start playing about with processor affinity (as promised). He found the compact framework for the 360 was a bit thin on the ground for parameterized threading, so he has rewritten the whole thing and it will now play on both the PC and the 360 and also included processor affinity for your 360 projects and there is very little interface change so if you were using the code for your Windows games you can just replace the threading code with this and you wont have to alter any of your calls to it. read more...

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Shawn Hargreaves Blog : Teaching a man to fish

published 22 days, 10 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 22 days, 11 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — Variants of the following question come up somewhat regularly on the XNA forums: I want to import game data from an XML file, I plan to do this using the Content Pipeline IntermediateSerializer, I have my custom data type all ready to go, But I don't know how I should format the XML for it! You already have the tools to answer this yourself, and Shawn shows you how! read more...

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Summer Ziggyware Contest Voting.

ziggyware.com — Ziggy is looking for judges to vote on the articles in his Summer Ziggyware Contest. The vote count has just been reset, since Ziggy forgot to add 3 entries to the voting list, so you have until August 8 to vote for your favorites. read more...

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