Randomchaos 3D Engine

BaseCamera Class

2008-10-30T21:48:00.001+00:00

As I have said before, this is identical to my XNA camera. I know, not the best camera in the world, but this is the base of other cameras I will be producing later. So, as before we have a header file and cpp file. The header looks like this: #include <d3d9.h> #include <d3dx9.h> #include "RandomChaos3DUtility.h"#pragma onceclass BaseCamera{public: BaseCamera(void);

Device Creation (and other bits) in C++

2008-10-29T21:07:00.002+00:00

OK, this is not as strait forward as it is in XNA :P What I have done to help me out is create a utility class. This class holds a few methods at the moment and at the time of posting, the header file looks like this: class RC3DUtility{public: RC3DUtility(void); ~RC3DUtility(void); LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 InitializeDevice(HWND hwnd,UINT width,UINT height); HWND CreateNewWindow(LPCTSTR

Nice Terrain in C++

2008-10-28T21:45:00.004+00:00

And now I have my XNA terrain shader in my C++ terrain implementation. Again, no source yet, just wanted to post my progress so far. My next post I will start to put some code up. I am going to miss out the window creation code as this can be found in Riemers C++ tutorial, my method for creating the graphics device how ever is a little different and so I will post that. It is not much different

The Adventure Begins

2008-10-27T21:25:00.005+00:00

Sorry, but no code in this post, I want to clean it up a bit and get my ful lterrain shader into the mix first.What you can see in this clip though is my camera class and a basic terrain object. These classes are pretty much the same as the ones I have written in XNA just ported to C++, the shader is a simple blinn-phong shader.So, this is what it looks like at the moment:

Not been here for a while....

2008-10-16T10:15:00.003+00:00

Well, it's been a while since I last posted here. As I am sure you know ALL my XNA blogging now occurs over at the XNA-UK User GroupI love XNA, in fact I am totally addicted to it and it has become something of an obsession so much so I decided this week to have a break and look at something else. So I have taken a look at using C++ with DirectX9....I know, not much different is it..So what I

Update

2008-01-04T16:48:00.000+00:00

Yet more updates on the new blog, if you have not taken a look yet please do, you can find it hereAlso Dark Omen Games now has a new site as well as it's first XNA game release BreakThrough available for both the PC and the XBox 360.

New Post on XNA UK

2007-10-23T21:54:00.000+00:00

Find the new post here.

Moving the Blog - New URL

2007-10-12T23:29:00.000+00:00

For those that would like to follow my XNA babbling further, the new blog will be here http://xna-uk.net/blogs/randomchaos

Moving the blog

2007-10-12T20:44:00.000+00:00

Well it looks like I have taken the plunge over at the XNA UK User Group!Leaf offered to host my blog there a while back when my FTP issues started, and has also been gracious enough to host my FTP files. I think what they are trying to do there is a great idea, I think having a good XNA community in the UK is important to home brew development here and I am only too glad to be involved.There are

FTP - Fixed

2007-10-05T12:15:00.001+00:00

We have the FTP issue resolved now, so by all means download what you want.I do hope this is the last of my FTP troubles. Sorry for the hastle to all those that got the zips and found they had been corrupted, and thanks for your interest.

Generic XNA - A.I Finite State Machine

2007-10-04T21:22:00.000+00:00

I have a great book Programming Game AI By Example by Mat Buckland. The first chapter was an eye opener for me as it is a Maths and Physics Primer which is just what I needed, I have not used either of those parts of my Brain since 1988 and they are a bit whithered :PAnyway I digress. The next chapter is on Finite State Machines (FSM), I have a little experience of these having played with

FTP Woes...

2007-10-03T09:27:00.000+00:00

Looks like there is an issue with the FTP at XNA UK, some of you are getting corrupted zip files, I have not had the issue my self but they are looking at it now.

Generic XNA - Ocean Shader

2007-10-02T13:57:00.000+00:00

I have moved this shader and it's associated class over to a generic XNA class. This should make it easier to bolt into your own projects should you not want to use the Randomchaos3DEngine as your base.See this post for reference: Source Example 5 - OceanGenericXNAOceanExample.zip

Generic XNA - Under Water Post Process Effect

2007-10-02T10:32:00.000+00:00

I guess the idea for this came from Bioshock, a few weeks a go a friend of mine asked if it was possible for my to create an underwater post process effect for him (thanks for the idea Dave). I already had a shader from Microsoft (can't remember where I got it) that I used for a nice ripple effect on 2D images, so I thought I should be able to adapt that to do this effect. And that is exactly

Generic XNA - Content Pipeline Mod

2007-10-01T20:54:00.001+00:00

I have a few examples using custom pipeline code on here, now an issue I get a lot, mainly because I have next to no modeling skills, is when I try to use a new model that has been UV'd I get compile errors because the UV texture that is embedded in the model file is not present or in the right place. So I have to find the texture file reference in the model file and remove it, but some times the

FTP - Sorted

2007-10-01T14:01:00.000+00:00

All my source is now hosted on the XNA UK User Group. I have updated the content pipline for the engine so that tangents are now calculated correctly, there is also now no references to disabled/removed classes.You can access the lot here, and I am now in the process of altering the links to the source on this blog.Hope you find it useful.

FTP Update

2007-09-29T22:55:00.000+00:00

For those that care, I have finally sorted out an FTP server to host my downloads.I would like to thank both Leaf and Chr0n1x for there support :)I hope to get the files up to my new FTP server by the end of the week. The links, as they stand at the time of writing, are still dead and will time out.

Generic XNA - Bump/Normal Mapping

2007-09-19T13:18:00.000+00:00

Now I have had a hell of a game with this in the past and have now come across a few people who have had the same or similar issues that I have had. So I have decided to put up and example of how to do this. The example given on the Creators Club is great, but relies on you embedding your textures in the mesh you intend to bump. This is all fine, but if you have one model and you want to apply

FTP Server Down!

2007-09-15T18:42:00.000+00:00

It looks like my FTP server is down so you can't download the source at the moment, sorry about this for those of you that have tried, once it is back up and running I will let you know.

Generic XNA - SM3 Fog

2007-08-17T21:20:00.000+00:00

So here is the SM3 (Shader Model 3) HLSL fog. Now this is taken pretty much 99% from Leaf's example, but thought I would comment on how easy this technique is to put into your existing shaders.I also found that adding this to a shader pushes the operation count up a fair bit

Generic XNA - How to get images from a cube map

2007-08-16T07:36:00.000+00:00

OK, may be a bit of an odd post, but I thought I would put it up any way. I have 2 methods for creating a skybox now, either by using 6 textured quads and positioning them around the camera at set distance and scale or using an inverted cube mesh and then applying a particle system

Generic XNA - SkyBox

2007-07-26T19:59:00.001+00:00

So a sky box, having done the Hazy Mind tutorial and had a play with Riemers tutorials I decided to create my own skybox. I like the way both tutorials do there sky box's but I kind of like cube maps, it means I keep 6 textures in one place, have only one texture variable and so makes my life a little easier when passing textures to my skybox. So my version of a skybox uses a box mesh (the same

Generic XNA

2007-07-26T13:02:00.000+00:00

Posts titled "Generic XNA" will have code methods and elements that can be bolted into mostly any XNA project. This will include classes that inherit from GameComponent, DrawableGamesComponent so they can just be

Source Example 6 - Fog SM 1.1 to 2

2007-07-24T11:57:00.001+00:00

This example shows the use of shader model 1.1 - 2 methodology for fog by using the render states.ControlsMouse to rotate camera.Arrow Keys to translate camera.F1 Switch Fog On.F2 Switch Fog Off.RC3DEFogSample1.zip