I’m starting to get to grips with XNA, but it’s by no means a walk in the park.\u00a0 3D-wise, I’ve only really used Ogre and Blitz3D, and only mildly dabbled in shaders in Ogre.\u00a0 XNA is lower-level than Ogre in most ways, but then again C Sharp is higher level than C++, this means less stress with pointers and free garbage collection, but I have to learn shaders from the ground up, and re-write a lot of Ogre’s functionality.<\/p>\n
The good thing is that shaders use the industry standard .x format, none of Ogre’s proprietary stuff to deal with, and I can test things out in RenderMonkey without having to re-code them.\u00a0 Also, luckily, most of the stuff I want to do has been done already in XNA, shadows and cel-shading in particular, although skeletal animation support is non-existent out of the box and there seems to be little online knowledge about it (although I’m looking into XNAnimation…)<\/p>\n
I’ve got the first model by my artist, Lord P.Duncan, and boy is it a beauty (you can see him in the background of the website image.\u00a0 We call him The Bully.)\u00a0 I’ve plugged him into the cel-shader and shadow system and he’s looking fine, fine, fine.\u00a0 The time is not right to post him yet though…<\/p>\n
I have the odd cabinet projection working too (think Final Fight perspective), that wasn’t a bit of a headache because I had to re-learn about projection matricies.<\/p>\n
The next step is to get skeletal animation up and running, and the overlaying of shadows back onto a 2D image (should be one line in the shader with any luck.)<\/p>\n
I’ve also written what may end up being the main musical theme, it’s orchestral, kinda Zelda-ish but dark and foreboding, with only a thread of hope in it.\u00a0 Look forward to playing it to you guys many moons from now!<\/p>\n
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