Monthly Archives: October 2006

The goings on as of late

I’ve found a little time here and there for more XNA coding. I cleaned up a lot of the UI code, there are a number of nice usable components now, Menu, ListBox and Tweaker. Menus can be added to the … Continue reading

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XNA BMFont Renderer, Logo and Some Screens

I’ll start this post with some XNA dev screenshots: When I was very young I did some coding in logo on an apple II. It has a very simple syntax and was fun to experiment with, a little turtle moved … Continue reading

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XNA RenderTargets Sample

I’ve been pretty much computer-less at home for the past week but in the bits of time here and there I put together a small sample framework that uses render targets to do a blur effect. Now this is not … Continue reading

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uNF Dell uNF

Still waiting for my laptop to come back from Dell. If you ever have to go through ‘out of warranty’ service you’ll know the pain I’m in. I had to pay almost $600 for a diagnostic, new motherboard and other … Continue reading

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3DS Model Loader Sample Updated

I updated the sample for the 3DS Loader. It now includes all the project files you need and a sample shader that can handle the basic materials in the sample model. You can build the application and it will show … Continue reading

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XNA 3DS Model Loader

Took me some time to get around to posting this but I thought it would be nice to get this to anyone who needs it. The content pipeline will remove the need to use this as you can use the … Continue reading

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Finally Got My Old Domain Back

I finally bit the bullet and reregistered my old domain. I really had to get the bad taste out of my mouth from past experiences with online hosting, content management etc but blogger was such a pile that it finally … Continue reading

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