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October 2007 - Posts

Friday, October 26, 2007 4:45 PM

Bitfield renderstates

To manage renderstates in the MotoGP engine , I used the "every man for himself" approach described in my previous post . To make this fast, I had the following goals: Drawing methods should be able to specify exactly what states they want, using a compact,
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:39 PM

Graphics state management

Once upon a time there lived a young graphics coder named Johnny. One day Johnny wrote a program that displayed a 3D model. As is frequently the case with people his age, Johnny was somewhat careless and did not bother to set all the renderstates which
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 5 Comments
Friday, October 19, 2007 2:43 PM

C# Express r0x0rs!

I occasionally read about people being put off trying the XNA Framework because they don't want to install C# Express, worrying this might somehow interfere with their main Visual Studio installation. This is madness! C# Express just like totally rocks,
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 8 Comments
Friday, October 12, 2007 1:32 PM

Monitoring the garbage collector

We heard rumors that SpriteBatch.DrawString was generating garbage on Xbox, so this morning I set out to investigate and fix the issue. Trouble is, the Xbox Remote Performance Monitor tool isn't working with my interim build of the framework. How can
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 4 Comments
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:07 AM

Content Pipeline types

A couple of people recently pointed out that our documentation isn't very clear on what data types are available in the Content Pipeline, and the relationships between the Content DOM object model produced by the importers, the converted types output
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 10 Comments
Monday, October 01, 2007 9:02 PM

Editing curves

I like curves . One of the guys on the framework team wrote a curve editor that makes it trivially easy to create and tweak the settings for Curve objects. I highly recommend both this utility and the accompanying doc. A few well chosen curves can do
Posted by ShawnHargreaves | 1 Comments
 
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