XNA Tutorials

Popular highlights include: Working with Real-time Shaders; Setting up Models and Skinned Models; Using XSI FX Shader Presets; Using SAS Bindings; Writing Vertex and Pixel Shaders; Constant and Texture Shading; Lambertian Diffuse Shading Model; Blinn-Phong Shading Model; Using Normal Maps; Render to Texture; Drawing with Sprite Batch; Using Pixel Shaders for Post Effects; Problem-solving Approaches; Shader Analysis; Working with Textures and Clusters; Publishing XNA Models from XSI; Consolidation Techniques; Creating Animation Clips; Fine-tuning looping animation; Gaussian Blur; Shadow Projection; Programming and Choosing Techniques; Edit/Delete Message.

Popular highlights include: XNA Development Overview; Interfacing with Keyboard and Gamepad; Building Controller Systems; Controller Vibration; Exporting and Loading Static Meshes from Maya; Exporting Animated Characters from Maya; Moving and Turning a Character; Object-oriented Programming with Bullets and Targets; Baking Textures in Maya; Deriving Bounding Boxes from Maya; Collision Detection with Bounding boxes; Collision Detection with Rays; Building a Custom Animation Player; Switching and Blending Between Animations; Chase Cameras; Camera Shakes; Drawing Text.

Popular highlights include: XNA Overview; Overview of Real-Time Shaders; Loading FBX Content Pipeline Files; Using Basic Effects; Writing Vertex and Pixel Shaders; Coding Effects and Techniques; Setting World, View and Projection Matrices; Altering View Matrix to Create Turntable; Using Skinned Model Processor; Constant and Texture Shading; Lambertian Diffuse Lighting Model; Blinn-Phong Shading Model; Faking Reflections with Cubemaps; Using Normal Maps; Specularity / Reflections using Normal Maps; Setting up Multiple Techniques; Computing Flat Shadows; Shadow Shaders; Working with the Stencil Buffer; Render to Texture; Drawing with Sprite Batch; Using Pixel Shaders for Post Effects.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Learning how to modify color information in a pixel shader; Create filters based on matrices values; Achieving quick and easy color filter effects. To learn more about XNA check out Real-Time Shaders with XNA, an in-depth guide to building real-time shaders.

Topics covered in this tutorial:< Using DX FX Nodes in the render tree; Changing your display mode; Alternating methods of assigning FX Shaders.

Topics covered in this tutorial: Editing shader code; Banding diffuse; Toon render based on normal maps. To learn more about the presets to creating a toon render with XNA and XSI, check out Introduction to Animation Mixer in XSI, an introductory guide to non-linear animation in XSI.