ProphetXNA

[Prey]

Hi yall. Had a lot of free time recently and so have been improving my XNA skills by remaking my bsp viewer in it. I got detail maps working the other day too so it looks pretty nice now, woo!..



Horrible frame rate though, hello culling tutorials!..

I'll release it here when I stop working on it if you guys want.

[XZodia]

Looks most awesome. I've wanted to do this for a long time...You should have told me you were doing this =P
What are your plans for this? Are you doing models (weap, vehi etc) and scnr placements?

[Prey]

Well it just started as something small, I didn't know if I was really going to move that far with it at the time: take a look at the picture of it's first build-





I want to have a correct skybox, alpha sorting from viewpoint, decal.. and also spawns. With things like the warthog I'll look into normal maps too.

[XZodia]

lol, sounds good, normal maps shouldn't be difficult you just need a shader which I think you should be able to get from the creators website.

[Prey]

Welll not exactly, but the hlsl code isn't what I struggle with; it's more todo with where the dynamic lights are coming from. Originally I thought it just combined with the lightmap, but only recently I now understand that you couldn't really combine the two what with lightmaps being a static light source and normal maps being a real time lighting calculation. Now I think it must be the light from your visor, but I've yet to code it so we'll see I guess..