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Nick Gravelyns Tile Engine Tutorials

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:11:23 +0000

Nick Gravelyn has uploaded his Tile Engine tutorials to YouTube as a playlist (in his own words: A bunch of older video tutorials I did for creating a tile engine using XNA Game Studio.) to YouTube.

The playlist can be found here.

Crash Course in HLSL

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:43:27 +0000

What does HLSL stand for? Why was it created? How does an HLSL effect file look like? What can you do with HLSL? Catalin Zima answers these questions and more in a brilliant article introducing HLSL over at her site. Check it out here

Grid Based Isometric Render Tutorial

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:14:04 +0000

Yet another great Article over at Sgt. Conker, this time by Martin Actor. Detailing the development of an Isometric grid based environment. This one has some relevance to the ORE engine so its a personal eye keeper oner as so to speak. For a greater insight, check out the following:

A lot of people have asked about isometric rendering, with specific attention to sorting so that things overlap properly. This tutorial will show you a method that is both fast and accurate. The approach is specifically engineered for isometric view, grid-based games. It is not well-suited to adaptation to non-grid-based movement or gameplay. With that in mind, let’s cover a few core concepts

Check it out here.

Lens Flare Occlusion using Texture Masking and XNA

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:58:09 +0000

Dave Charlile has posted a great new article over at SGT. CONKER detailing the implementation of a lens flares that cater for obstruction. For a better worded explanation check out the following:

One thing every planet generator needs is a nice bright sun and ubiquitous lens flares. While the concept of lens flares is fairly simple, one thing that isn’t quite so simple is how to deal with occluding geometry. For example, if you’re walking around in your world and a hill or mountain comes between you and the sun the lens flares and glowing effects need to be reduced or eliminated depending on how much the light source is occluded by the intervening geometry.

Hello world!

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:30:46 +0000

Well tomorrow is the beginning of a new year and what better way to celebrate than with a new website. OpticRust aims to be a one stop location for keeping track of all the great XNA development out there.

Additionally this site will also feature the on going development of the Optic Rust Engine (ORE). With this in mind I aim to publish a few articles detailing ORE implementation so that you too can create an equivalent engine if you wish.

For more information on ORE and its creator check out the about page.