The Adventures of Felix Fox » XNA http://felixfox.com ~Kitasia Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:20:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Let the Games Begin http://felixfox.com/2010/02/06/let-the-games-begin/ http://felixfox.com/2010/02/06/let-the-games-begin/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:27:55 +0000 Anti http://felixfox.com/?p=207 As of today, I’ve officially begun programming. I was suppose to start earlier but I got really caught up in the book I purchased in preparation of the project.  During preparation I was looking at the idea of a physics engine again. In the end, I thought I might try my own sort of cheap physics engine to avoid the hassle of dealing with libraries, waiting for fixes, and commercial licenses. I would’ve liked to try something like PhysX, unfortunately XNA does not make use of it and I believe you would need to be licensed for it. This doesn’t feel like a new project but rather a major revamping.

]]> http://felixfox.com/2010/02/06/let-the-games-begin/feed/ 0 Grass much Greener http://felixfox.com/2010/01/19/grass-much-greener/ http://felixfox.com/2010/01/19/grass-much-greener/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:42:11 +0000 Anti http://felixfox.com/?p=150 My first attempt on the graphics improvement, is the grass. I hated placing grass down manually  and how rough edged it looked depending on the camera. The image below isn’t from something I made, it’s actually just a sample I looked over, but no doubt you can expect the same effect.

The characters will also be getting linear textures along with grass, to give them more of a smooth look. I had my reasons for avoiding this but the system’s changed so much since then I don’t have to. Everything should look very smooth in the end.

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