分类目录归档：XNA

2009
02-17

XNA Series – Modular AI – Waypoints

So in our last AI lesson we talked about 3 methods, TurnTowards, MoveForward and Seek. Where TurnTowards turned our rotation towards a point by an maximum amount, Move Forward moved us at a certain di.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – Modular AI

In our last installment, we created a very specific AI interaction. We moved toward another object and then as we approached, we slowed down. In today's post we will look at breaking that out into mor.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – Basic AI

For today's post I want to take our first step towards 'AI'. Now please understand this and the following posts are not truly AI, but at least get us .... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – Animation Part 2

In our last installment we created a sprite based animation and today I want to extend that a little. We are going to add a velocity to our character and scale his animation based on it. This is actua.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – Animation Part 1

Now, we may not always be using static images as our characters in our games, and sometimes we may want to have an animation, like when our character .... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA – Simulating Gravity

Now that we have talked a little about vectors and acceleration and such, lets put together a simple 'game' that takes a few of these things together. We will create a Game Object like we have been do.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Sidebar – SmoothStep and Lerp

Here is another bit of information for you when you are coding. There is a small class called MathHelper that you should become familiar with. It is i.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Sidebar – Trigonometry

One area that you may find yourself lacking is in the area of math. Especially when it comes to trig. In this post I want to talk a little about trig .... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Sidebar – Intro To Vector Math

I am not a math wiz, but I know enough to get around. I wrote my Sidebar article on Trigonometry to explain a few concepts that people might want to k.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Sidebar – Converting a single index into multiple

I was playing around with some coding ideas and thought about this. Say you have a 5x5 grid defined in a multidimensional array int[5,5] and then you .... Read More >