May, 2007

Transitions, much like bent spoons in martial arts sci-fi movies, are a figment of your imagination. Or at least they ought to be. Sometimes people program their games like this: Fade in menu screen (2 seconds) Wait for input selection...

For the ultimate in crazy transition effects, render-to-texture is your friend. Setting this up is pretty easy. First you need to add a custom rendertarget field to the top of your Game class: public RenderTarget2D renderTarget; Second, initialize...

Remember the original Star Wars films? (not the more recent episodes: I refuse to talk about those :-) Remember how they transition from one scene to another, using a circular swipe where one image gradually zooms up over the top of another? That style...

In my previous post I talked about how you can control complex transitions by animating a single control value at a constant speed from 0 to 1, and then applying various curves to derive more complex transition behaviors from that single source value...

Now that the Game State Management sample is released, I'm going to rewind time and follow through on my promise to talk about transition effects . In the sample, the GameScreen base class keeps track of the transition position as a float ranging from...