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I came across this Video this morning that goes through the process of creating a Game Set or Scene using Blender 3D . Looking at the Scene created, this could be a good example and method to creating the base scenes for you XNA Games. The author of the...
In this simple Video Tutorial the author goes through the simple process of creating a low poly Characters body using the [Blender] Tools. This is a really good example of what you can get done quickly inside the Blender 3D Environment. For those using...
One of the simple systems that you need for almost all of the XNA Applications is the ability to display a nice clean background; I know that not everyone likes the cornflower blue background for the default application. With one of my projects I needed...
I am not a big one for Google Sketchup but I have seen a lot of people asking how they would export their work so that they can use it in their XNA Games. Here is a link to a site that talks about a x file exporter that can be used with Sketchup to export...
For those of us who like the Game Stare Sample that you can Download from the Creators Site, RandomChaos has made some adjustments and developed his own. At the moment the source is not available but there is a cool video showing what the system can do...
For those of you who know how to use Blender or those just starting out, I have found the perfect ebook for you. This ebook will help you to get some real details into your Models and make your XNA Game Stand out. "The Precision Modelling Guide to...
For those of you like me who whee not able to attend this years Gamefest, the presentations are now all online (Well most of them). With the information contained you will be able to start getting yourself ready for the release of XNA 2.0. Included in...
This is not really a tutorial, but more of a response to a forum question, I used a process simular to this in my Xillian Project. When modelling the Models that will become sprites I try to make sure that I have the lighting effects the same for each...
Over the past few years I have been playing around with different forms of 2d shooters and have tried to get several projects off the ground. But last week I had some sort of flash and decided to get something done.... and here it is. Xillian is an XNA...
I had a quiet day yesterday and decided to do some more work on my Xillian Project (Oneday I will finish it, and for those who are interested the project is for a 2D shooter using the XNA System). With the project I have mainly been working with some...
For those using Blender for your XNA Modeling you will pleased to know that in the next Release of Blender (2.45) the FBX Exporter will now support Animations . Included in the last release there was a small release of the exporter. "Blender 2.45...
I was going to get together some small articles on how to install and run the new SoftImage XSI Mod Tool with XNA and Game Studio Express but Inverse has come across the line first. In the short future I will be putting some articles together and publishing...
Over the last few days I have started to play some more with the Mod Tool , the first thing that I needed to do was install it. One my NOtebook I am currently running Windows XP, and on the Desktop I am running Windows Vista. This gave me the perfect...
Installing Blender The first thing that you need to do is install the Blender system and get it running, to download the latest version of Blender go to www.blender.org and go to the main downloads page. At the time of this article the current version...
Looking for that Life like texture for your next game model or background, have a look at this site . "Browse and search our photo gallery of over 7.000 royalty free, high resolution stock photos, templates and logos to use in your personal and educational...
Loaded up the new Blender System and with a little bit of a surprise I have found that Blender 2.44 now has FBX Export Support. At this moment I have not yet had a good chance to look at it yet, but I will do over the next few days. If anyone else does...
I came across this site today and I thought that you all might like it. www.vecteezy.com "Welcome to Vecteezy! Our goal is to be a the best resource for Free Vectors available for download on the internet. Feel free to browse around and tell us what...
I know this is an old one, but someone in the IRC Channel (Channel #xna on the Efnet Server) was asking about them today and where they could find them. Well here it is. A while ago a use Sinnix put together some images for us of all of the controller...