Posts Tagged Engine

May 29, 2009

XNA Game Engine Tutorial #12 – Introduction to HLSL and Improved Terrain

In this episode of the Game Engine Tutorial (we’ll return to the editor next week) we are going to build a better terrain, but the emphasis is more on implementing some simple HLSL effects.
We will cover:
- Better terrain construction
- Texture mapping
- Multiple texture mapping
- Directional lighting
- Fog
Better Terrain Construction
Our first shot at terrain was pretty [...]

February 24, 2009

Editor Design

Before I get into the code behind the game editor, I wanted to post some information about how it works. I want to do this both to keep the actual tutorial shorter (because it’s looonnnnggggg right now), and to help you better understand what we are doing when we write the code itself.
The editor is [...]