Minecraft and XNA

Over the last few weekend I’ve spent my free time, working on a Minecraft Map Viewer. It’s not meant to replace Minecraft but to give a better view of worlds that are created.

Preview of our Minecraft Server in the Minecraft Viewer :

Current Functionality

Deferred Shader with Transparencies Super Imposed
Depth of Field
Bloom
Chunks loaded with Multi-Threaded support
Most blocks have been added, but some are missing
Cinematic Camera (meant for touring the map)

There are still plenty of bugs but it’s a decent start.

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Jul
28
2010

Game Development // Modeling // Maya // XNA

3D Dog Model

A 3D model of a Doberman that I created about a year ago. Skinned Animation working within XNA. Still needs a proper UV map.

~1500 Faces / 3000 Tris

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Mar
1
2010

C# // Game Development // Rough Edges // XNA

File Sharing Presentation

Today I had a presentation to give on Case Studies for File Sharing incidents. To make the presentation interesting I thought I’d try out my Rough Edges Editor and see how well it performed in a real world scenario.

Overall it went pretty well but there are big things I wish I would have done and/or not done in the engine. It taught me a lot of things to look for and to change the next time I take a stab at a 3D engine.

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Oct
31
2009

C# // XNA // Game Development

Jack n’ George

Just finished my xna7day competition entry.

That Jack, he keeps on running off and George has to keep on catching him!

Jack n' George Download

Music: Kevin MacLeod

An article by Garrett Hoofman

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Jul
29
2009

C# // Game Development // Rough Edges // XNA

Rough Edges Editor Scripting

Script Used

if (tracking.Selected)
{
        REAnimModel model = tracking as REAnimModel;
        if (model != null && model.Track != "Walk")
             model.Track = "Walk";
             model.Translation = new Vector3(model.Translation.X + 0.05f, model.Translation.Y, model.Translation.Z);
} else {
         REAnimModel model = tracking as REAnimModel;
         if (model != null && model.Track != "Loiter")
             model.Track = "Loiter";
}

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Jul
28
2009

C# // Rough Edges // XNA // Game Development

Rough Edges

Code Needed :

Initialize

MoveableCamera cam = new MoveableCamera();
cam.CollideWithTerrain = true;
cam.LockToTerrain = true;
cam.HeightAboveGround = 4.5F;

string rootDir = Directory.GetParent(Application.ExecutablePath).Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.FullName + "\\Resources\\";
XmlTextReader doc = new XmlTextReader(@"C:\Rough Edges\AnimatedModelTest2.rel");
AssetManager assetManager = new AssetManager(Services, rootDir);
Helper.LoadContent(assetManager, rootDir);

scene = REScene.ReadXML(doc, assetManager, GraphicsDevice);
scene.Camera = cam;