Pengu Update 1

and so, with the other problems off the course. It finally begins, like this:

And update! So it continues!

Interesting, I might decide to keep updating this one post as this will be what I'll be working on for the coming weeks!

Aqualibrium

Finally finished my exam entry for integration, a windows phone 7 game.
The game itself will go into heavy post production however during the summer.

Here's a trailer, dutch version however. I'll update with the english version in a little bit.

W00t ! 3D for games Exam!

Here's.. basically what i've been working on this semester!

First of all, we had to recreate london in 2111. (in UDK)

After a flood and what not!

Here's a screen, more to come!

 

Next up, Myself.. In 3D :D

Hurrah :D

There we go!

(As usual, Click to enlarge!)

Drop a line if you like it :D

Jack, Signing out!

Glowgo

Owkaay, so it's not really a post,
but it's a shoutout for someone who is really special in my life!

she's working on an awesome safety project to create self illuminating jackets, as opposed to standard fluorescent materials.

here's her world changer! http://www.facebook.com/glowgoforkids go check it out and like it!
they need your support!

cheers!

XNA Minitut!

In order to make a dual texture effect in XNA, but retain the functionalities of the basic effect (in case you can't write your own shaders, E.g. on the phone), I figured out a workaround.

here's a piece of code, I'll explain it afterwards

private Texture2D BaseTexture, SecondTexture, FinalRenderTex, ;

private RenderTarget2D ProcessTexTarget;

graphics.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(ProcessTexTarget);

Spritebatch.Begin();

Spritebatch.Draw(BaseTexture, new Rectangle(0, 0, 1024, 1024), new Rectangle(0, 0, 1024, 1024), Color.White);

Spritebatch.Draw(SecondTexture, new Rectangle(0, 0, 1024, 1024), Rect, Color.White);

Spritebatch.End();

graphics.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(null);
FinalRenderTex = ProcessTexTarget as Texture2D;

I've gone ahead and colourcoded it for clarity.

first we make the necessary textures and  a rendertarget, that is the Blue section of code.

BaseTexture and SecondTexture are the ones we will be mixing, FinalRenderTex will be the Texture we will write to.

ProcessTexTarget, finally, is the render target we will use to do that.

usually, the rendertarget used is the backbuffer, which is then drawn onto the screen though the XNA content pipeline.

In the Yellow line, rendertargets really get interesting. There, we change the render target drawn to.

The Red block of code, the XNA spritebatch is used to draw Images onto the screen, like a 2D game, nothing special.

The second texture however is a transparent texture, and in my case I used a custom rect that is constantly redefined in the update function, that way, I'm able tho scroll through a spritesheet and animate stuff like caustics and so forth

In the Green and final block of code, the backbuffer is restored by setting the render target back to null and the the rendertarget is written to the texture. the order of the statements is important because you can't write  rendertarget to a texture while it's still enabled as the active target.

Finally, here's a final result, the way I used it!

It's not great, and it still needs a lot of work, but i'll upadte it lators. haha :D

cheers!

 

Stepping it up!

we got our self assignment for 3D!
we will be lowpoly modeling, texturing and rigging ourselves!
it's gonna be fun!


also, on the topic of XNA, I'll be doing a mini tutorial on how to archieve a DualTexture effect with rendertargets, so you can still plug it into a basic effect and use multiple lights and stuff. but that's just incase you can't use shaders! (like on the windows phone..)

anywhoo,
here's what I got so far for 3D!
click to enlarge, ofc.

Up and Running!

I proudly present our team blog once more!

TEAM DYSANIA

Enjoy!