I think I have posted a great bunch of news, some from this last weekend, some from today, but still news.
I gotta rest now, and watch for my daily activities (I need to "live", you know? I mean, out from the XNA ring).
Hope you have found the news' posts useful.
'till tomorrow.It does, doesn't it? But, have you ever wonder why you had to use this visual technique? If you don't know the answer yet and still wonder why, just browse to Shawn's blog to find out.
From Shawn's post: "... Pretty much every movie ever made and every fashion shot ever photographed have depended on this lighting rig. There are many variations:
But the underlying principle is always the same. Things simply look better when lit this way ...".
Read on!GarageGames has released the long awaited "Constructor" for the Torque Game Engine (TGE) and Torque Game Engine Advanced (TGEA), for free.
To read the full list of features go here, and to download it, here.
[Now that TorqueX is out, maybe integration of this level editor to XNA is on the roadmap ...]This guy has posted an interesting project based on the third version of the .NET Framework, which implements a ray tracer by using some of the new features of this framework, like LINQ and lambdas.
From LukeH's post: "... Although we often demo C#3.0 using databases and XML to show off LINQ - it turns out that the new language features really are also great for applications which have little to do with querying. Ray tracing, for example, is certainly not one of the prototypical scenario for query and transformation of data. Nonetheless, I found quite a few places in the code where C#3.0 and LINQ to Objects really improved the code - making it easier to express what the program was doing ...".
Not related to XNA, I admit, but nice screenshot, uh?!
[Again, imagine XNA, XAML, DX10 and .NET Framewor 3.5 ...]The second release is out and includes:
Worth testing, don't you think?
[Now, I'd like to see the same with XAML. Can you picture that? XNA, XAML and DX10 ...]From the article: "... You know what I miss about the pre .Net days? Script! I liked creating a little script file to do little tasks for me, or to test a small piece of code without having to create a new project or solution. I like having one nice little file to deal with and clean up after, not a solution folder, a project folder and the resulting bin and obj folders. I long for those days, which is why I created Dot Net Script ...".
Pros and cons? Of course, but still worth reading since it uses C# as the scripting language.Interested? The reply to the original post.
Bye.From Eli's post: "... The other day I was working on my GSE game, and I had a class with an Update method. The Update returned a boolean indicating whether or not the class was finished updating. The idea was when the object was finished updating, I could stop worrying about it, and I could remove it from whatever collection was keeping track of it ...".
To get to the "Problem solved" part, just go and read Eli's full post.From Francesco's post: "... The "example content" folder inside the ZIP contains a sample GUI texture (which contains GUI elements) and a sample ElemDef XML, which tells the GUIManager where inside the texture he can find the elements. Both these must be included in your project. In the same folder you will also find a template with which your should be able to write a valid XML to pass to the PopulateFromXML method ...".
Later.Among the above-mention resources, you will find:
From the post: "... DotNetSlackers is proud to present its authors with the chance to win 1 of 3 Xbox 360 Core Systems (worth 299$). Simply write an article for DotNetSlackers, following our Submission Guidelines, and you’ll automatically have a chance to win 1 of 3 XBoxs. It couldn’t be simpler!
Every month, for three months, registered DotNetSlackers users will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite DotNetSlackers article and the winning author gets a brand new Xbox 360! ...".
Hurry up!From Rick's post: "... Early on, I decided I wanted to blur the line between realism and style for this title. Obviously, any game featuring ghosts and river spirits doesn't really necessitate rigid adherence to the laws of physical light, but for the lamps I wanted something both neat-looking and recognizable. I began my research by looking at about 200-300 pictures of Toro Nagashi festivals, and hanging Chochin (paper lanterns). This process took about 2 or 3 hours to find enough subject matter, at which point I brought out the graph paper and started to sketch down notes ...".
Read on ...Two things:
From Ziggy's post: "... James will be graduating from college soon and is looking for a job around the up-state New York area ..."
Good luck, buddy! ... but with a game like "Dishwasher" I guess you won't need it ... ;)You may wonder: "ok, but how can one input text to the 360 fast and easy?". The answer is straight ahead by just looking at the following picture:
Please follow this link for a full description of all the new features available within the Spring Update.
Now, if only I had a 360 ...You can watch a video preview of the game, here.
Enjoy!
The issue includes a first look to the XBO 360 Elite plus previews of "Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA 4)" and "Fable 2", and more, much more.
After a short week-end off with my family the pimping nightmare is back ... sorry, folks ... :)
I'll be mainly catching up with all the news related to XNA today so please be patient while I publish all the posts since you know I like to publish one post per news item what takes a lot of time (and Mykres Space does a great job with the summary-styled news report).
So, enough talk and let's get started!
