Friday 27 April 2007

XNAGPUParticles 1.1

I got bored of revision for my final exam so i decided to play around with my XNAGPUParticles abit more and came up with this thing.



Basically it takes a texture and picks out pixel colours from the texture and maps it onto a large vertex buffer which then is used as the input to my Vetex Texture particle system.

I have made a few adjustments to the way the vertex texture system works, now each particle has its own centre of gravity that it revolves about.

You can grab the new binary: http://www.mikecann.co.uk/Work/XNAGPUParticles_v1-1.zip

As per last time if you wish to see the source please dont hestitate to email me.

Monday 23 April 2007

ChainReaction (Part2) - Video Tutorials

Okay i have now completed a couple of video tutorials for ChainReaction. They should also give a little more info on what ChainReaction is!

Tutorial1:
 

Tutorial2:
 

Chain Reaction Tutorial 2 from mike cann on Vimeo.

Saturday 21 April 2007

New Camera, oooooo!

So i have bought a new camera in preparation for my trip to America and have been busy taking pictures of everything that moves.. also stuff that doesnt move.

Its all been uploaded to picassa for viewing.

Some highlights:



Tuesday 17 April 2007

ChainReaction (part1) - Effects Preview

Okay its project presenting time again. This time its a biggie, its my final year main module, 60 credits of year-long projectness (not a word i know).

Sunday 1 April 2007

Particles Video

This is the video of the XNAGPUParticles project i have uploaded for those peeps who doent have the requirements to run it but want to check it out anyways.