News from nuclex.org
Here's a couple of news from nuclex.org.
A new tutorial for Synapse Gaming's SunBurn engine demonstrating how SunBurn (and XNA) can be used in a dependency injection environment, a programming technique in which components are wired up to each automatically based on predefined bindings. Read more.
Cygon explains why he has chosen to reimplement XNA's GameComponent/DrawableGameComponent classes himself and how he's improved his design to cover environments where the game renders into a scene graph instead of directly using the graphics device. Read more.
Cygon is talking about a redesign of the event-based input handling system used by the GUI in his Nuclex Framework. Read more.
Enjoy!
sgMotion v1.0.0 Released
Tom Looman released his sgMotion library to CodePlex. Says Tom:
sgMotion is an animation library (based on XNAnimation by Bruno Evangelista) and provides full integration with both the Sunburn Engine and the Sunburn Framework.
More at the source.
SunBurn 1.3.1 Released
A new version of the Sunburn Engine, namely 1.3.1 was released a few days ago, containing some new stuff including a sweet looking Avatar Lighting and Shadows sample.
SunBurn Framework available Now!
The guys at Synapse Gaming just announced opening up the SunBurn Framework to hobbyists, student and educators.
The SunBurn Framework contains a subset of the great SunBurn Engine, and you can use it to learn, improve your XNA games, or evaluate the API to see if the Engine would suit your needs. You can get started now by downloading it here.
Other SunBurn goodies:
- Ultrahead's SunBurn tutorials: Part 1 and Part 2
- Nick Gravelyn's introduction to SunBurn: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Adding Physics, Using split-screen.
- Matt Bettcher's 3D Primitives with LOD
- Tom's Game State Management with SunBurn
Split Screen in Sunburn
Nick "I do too much, but still can't stop" Gravelyn continues his series about using Sunburn with a new tutorial, where he shows us how to enable Split Screen when using the Sunburn rendering engine. Go take a look at it and grab the source here.
He's also asking about future stuff to do with Sunburn, so if you want to see anything in particular, let him know!