Asteroid’s VR needs a triplanar shader for its asteroids so we’re going to make one. Specifically we’re going to look at how to handle the projection onto a mesh without using UV’s.
Introducing Data Cube, the spiritual successor to Data Sphere. A data visualization project. Data Cube is going to use an Arduino and four meters of LED’s to create a 3D visualization of online social interactions.
We have a relatively complete Binary Clock app running in UWP. Let’s take advantage of Xamarin to start working on bringing this app to other platforms.
Visual Studio is now 20 years old and the next generation of C# has also recently been released. We’re going to explore two of the features I’ve been most excited about in C# 7: Tuples and Pattern Matching!
We’re finally there! Time to add the marching squares algorithm to our voxel terrain. Unlike our previous implementation marching squares is going to look at the four nearest points in our quadtree and treat them as vertices.
In this video we’re going to be implementing a Generic Object Pool. Object Pooling is a design pattern focused on removing expensive operations such as instantiation or deletion of objects and instead relying upon a constant “pool” of objects which can be activated or deactivated as needed without needing to actually create new ones.
Time for our asteroids to get physical! In this video we’re going to be moving beyond the simple instanced rendering methods we’ve been using previously and start actually creating real physical asteroids when we get close.
Let’s align our planet shader a bit more with the style of our game. We’re aiming for a low poly style, the fairly common style of indie game devs lately.
We’re going to continue work on our World of Zero Arcade project. More controller work specifically. In this video we’ll be looking into adding markers to our globe so you can select where you are in the world.
There are two ways to accomplish a low poly, flat style in 3D graphics. The first is to modify the smoothing on the mesh so that normal’s aren’t smoothed out.
We were in an interesting spot after the last video. Things hadn’t gone exactly according to plan. We’re going to fix that in this video and also start work on texturing our low poly shader.
Today we’re going to try something a little different! Lets explore building 3D models using the included tools in the Windows 10 Creators Update and see how useful these tools are for our game development needs.