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Iowa Code Camp - XNA Session

This weekend, I'm speaking at the Iowa Code Camp on "What's This XNA Thing I Keep Hearing About?" I'm covering some basic XNA 2.0 concepts and a couple demos. I'm doing the Spinning Bouncing Ball demo in C# and the Chase Camera demo in VB.NET. I was going to show off the Race...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 05-03-2008
Bresenham's Line Algorithm - VB XNA style

1: Imports Microsoft.Xna.Framework 2: Imports System.Math 3: 4: Public Class Utils 5: ''' <summary> 6: ''' This function uses Bresenham's Line Algorithm to find the 7: ''' most direct path between two points on a 2D grid and stores 8: ''' all...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 04-15-2008
Enemy AI

After December's marathon, I'm taking a short break from converting the Creators Club samples to VB so I can work on something else of interest. I'm working on an AI techniques presentation for my XNA user group. I'm doing it all in VB (because I can) and hopefully will turn it into an...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 01-14-2008
Heightmap Collision Sample posted

This one was a real pain, but it's the second sample I've done with a custom ContentProcessor. Grab the vb.net code here . Heightmap Collision This sample demonstrates how to move objects along a heightmap. It is based on the Generated Geometry sample, which creates a landscape from a bitmap...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 12-28-2007
VB.NET XNA Heightmap Collision Sample

Heightmap Collision This sample demonstrates how to move objects along a heightmap. It is based on the Generated Geometry sample, which creates a landscape from a bitmap. We build upon that sample, showing how to quickly calculate the height of any point on that heightmap.

Posted to VB XNA Samples (FileGallery) by admin on 12-28-2007
nothing like vacation time to really get some work done.

The last few days have been incredibly productive for me, in terms of cranking out conversions. Not only did I post several new conversions, but I also managed to wrap up two that had been giving me trouble since day one. The Bloom PostProcess sample and the Billboard sample have both been a real pain...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 12-27-2007
Billboard Sample posted

This is the vb.net version of the Billboard sample as seen on Creators.XNA.com. Grab the source code here . This was another one of the more difficult samples to get working. I spent a few weeks on this one, scratching my head trying to figure out why it didnt work. I was initially worried that custom...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 12-27-2007
VB.NET XNA Billboard Sample

Billboard Sample This sample shows how to efficiently render large numbers of billboard sprites, using a vertex shader to perform the billboard computations entirely on the GPU.

Posted to VB XNA Samples (FileGallery) by admin on 12-27-2007
VB.NET XNA Bloom PostProcess Sample

BloomPostprocess Sample This sample shows how to use bloom post-processing filters to add a glow effect over the top of an existing scene.

Posted to VB XNA Samples (FileGallery) by admin on 12-24-2007
Bloom PostProcess Sample posted

This one took me a while to convert. There were a few hard to track down issues, but I eventually got it working. Grab the code here . BloomPostprocess Sample This sample shows how to use bloom post-processing filters to add a glow effect over the top of an existing scene. Sample Overview Bloom post...

Posted to The VB.NET XNA Project (Weblog) by admin on 12-24-2007

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