Wednesday, April 04, 2007

CLASSIC-GAMES' THEMES ORCHESTRATED

Turn the volume of your speakers up and enjoy!

TUTORIAL: SIMPLE PARTICLE SYSTEM

John Sedlak has published a nice 3-page tutorial about setting a basic particle system in XNA, with source code included.

From John's tuto: "... This tutorial describes a simple way to render particles using simple rendering techniques, and a custom vertex format in a 3D world ...".

Read on!

APRIL'S DIRECTX SDK AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

In a recent post, Dave has informed that the April's DirectX SDK has been released for public download.

The new features include:

  • Improvements to the XACT UI,
  • Improvements to PIX,
  • Shader compiler update, and
  • an effect-pools sample.

Please read Dave's post for full details. To download the SDK just follow this link.

Cheers!