Tuesday, May 15, 2007

RESOURCEMANAGER COMPONENT

Wizzie has released a component for handling resources, and thus the name: "ResourceManagement Component".

From the post: "... This is a very useful component since it allows for managing all of your resources in one object that is available anywhere in your engine via XNA Game Services. The code was written with the 360 in mind so there are work arounds in place for the .NET Compact Framework ...".

Nice!

BLADE3D BUILD 1817 IS OUT

Yes, the latest release of Blade3D beta1 (build 1817) is now available for donwload.

Hereunder is the list of changes:

  • New SimpleTerrain Height and Raycast Operators,
  • New audio system, with import, and preview,
  • New TriggerVolume, GraphTrigger, SoundTrigger and AnimationTrigger,
  • Opacity property now working on many MaterialsPlay Sound Operator,
  • Ability to modify bitmap fonts from gallery,
  • New Bounding Box ActionsBuilt-in support for Idle Animations,
  • Random sound containers,
  • New water normal texture,
  • RenderColorTarget Semantic Now Evaluated Per-Pass,
  • New Scene Level Bools For Enable/Disable Display Bounds, and
  • Fixed some floor plane draw issues.

Happy coding!

USERCONTROL FOR RUNNING YOUR XNA GAME WITHIN A WINDOWS FORM

... or as Nuclex has posted: "XNA Windows.Forms UserControl".

The preview: "... as can be seen in one of my recent news posts, I did just that while developing a world editor for my upcoming game Island War. Because of the great demand for such a component, I decided to release my XNA GameControl class to the public ...".

The screenshot:

And the link to it.

Handy, very handy ...