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XNA Tutorial using C# and HLSL Series 4 – Overview |
-- This second part of this series is brand new, so if you encounter any mistake/error, be so kind to report it in the forum. Thanks, riemer --
Welcome to this 4th instalment of my XNA Tutorials for C#. In the first series, we’ve seen how to create a terrain. This Series we’ll go over that again – only this time using a totally different approach. Since we’ve learned (a bit beyond) the basics of HLSL in Series 3, let’s put that knowledge to good use.
How excellent your latest idea for a new game might be, you’ll hardly impress anyone if you can only move some self-drawn crosses or dots over a 2D board. In this Series, we’ll be creating a terrain that you can use immediately as a start for your game. As this series relies heavily on HLSL, you will like to go through Series 3 before you start reading on this one.
Because a terrain looks a lot nicer fullscreen that it does in a window, you can have a look at this fullscreenshot or at this one. And yes, the water moves and the clouds change shape ;)
So, in a nutshell, what will be covered in this series?
First-person mouse camera
Multitexturing with high resolution textures close to the camera
Realistic, moving water with reflections-refractions
Bump mapping
Specular reflections
Perlin noise
Shape-changing clouds
HLSL cylindrical billboarding
Region growing
During this series you will need to download the following resources:
Starting code: Series4Effects.fx
Starting code: heightmap.bmp
Textured terrain: grass.dds
Multitexturing: sand.dds
Multitexturing: rocks.dds
Multitexturing: snow.dds
Skydome: dome.x
Skydome: cloudMap.jpg
Ripples: waterbump.dds
Billboarding: bbEffect.fx
Billboarding: tree.dds
Region growing: treeMap.jpg
Before you move on to the first chapter, you can find a few more screenshots below.
- Website design & XNA + DirectX code : Riemer Grootjans -
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