Coatl Studios

i was playing with the settings of the XNA BasicEffect and it ended up in a nice little scene..  its not exactly amazing.. but well lets say its just nice hehe

here it is :

the earth is actually rotating which gives a nice effect ,but that cant be seen in just a screenshot

Cheers!

my space reached 2000 views!, twice as fast as what it took to reach 1000 views, so it means the amount of visits to my space are increasing everyday, here is a pic:

thanks for the encouraging amount of visits yay!

and stay tune for more updates on my projects :o)

firefox 3 has been released just a couple of hours ago with lots of nice improvements, and they are trying to break a guinness record for software with most downloads in 24 hours

if you want to join the madness go here http://www.spreadfirefox.com/

Cheers!

Lately ive been working on CoatlGDK and the progress is good, a bit slow but good.

for the moment i have a couple base clases and components

i just finished a free camera and a target camera is almost done, i also want to do a chase / third person camera after this

here is a pic:

here is the free camera in companion with my model class, i made a gizmo mesh and oriented it correctly to give me an idea of which side is up , right you know.

stay tune for more updates, soon i will start working on some bigger stuff

Cheers and have fun!

after the announcement of the Dream Build Play contest, i have been preparing myself to start developing my game that will be sent as an entry to the dbp contest that will use the earliest versions of CoatlGDK as a base.

i hope i will be able to finish something decent by september 23 which is the dbp contest final date to send your entries

wish me luck!!

after a brief break, im going to continue with the development of CoatlgGDK and see if i can release something usable in a decent timeframe

currently CoatlGDK will be open source and will be hosted on codeplex currently theres nothing in there yet , but the url is :

http://www.codeplex.com/coatlgdk  - CoatlGDK Project Page on CodePlex

it will have the new BSD License or maybe the MIT license, because the ordinary open source licenses like the GPL or LGPL just doesnt seem right for my taste at this moment.

the project just started a couple of weeks ago , but was put on hold to take care of some other business , but now im going to continue developing it ,but dont expect any release soon

also i have updated the CoatlGDK logo with this :

Cheers! and have fun!

Thats right, today the details of the dream build play contest has ben published.

now focusing on xbox360 game development, they are also giving free 12 month trial membership to the xna creators clubs to people who registers for the contest to allow you to develop in your xbox360 even if you are not premium member, sadly people without an xbox360 console will not be able to participate..

there will be 75,000 dollars in prices!!

the contest ends september 23 2008 , so go and start developing you cool games

go to the Dream Build Play 2008 contest official website

a very nice animation library for xna has ben released by bruno evangelista on codeplex for skinned models and works with windows and xbox, go and check it out for yourself

XNAnimation Library on CodePlex

Surfing around i found out that microsoft released a very cool app, which gives you access to all the telescope imagery and space cartography from various famous telescope like the hubble, chandra and others.

you can pan and zoom in the space imagery and explore stars,nebulas and galaxies, this definately is a software that is up to the scale of google earths awesomeness!!

go here to get it, its Free and awesome!!

World Wide Telescope official homepage

i have noticed that if you open a previously created XNA 2.0 project in visual C# 2008 with xna gs 3 ctp installed, it will work just fine.

it will build and deploy succesfully in windows and xbox360 just fine, it will just reference xna 2 assemblies and the content pipeline correctly and allow the deployment to xbox360.

the downsides are that the xna 2 project templates are not visible in visual C# 2008 so it still will not have full xna 2 functionality but almost

i just tried to deploy the benjamin nitchke's xna racer to the xbox 360 and it all went just ok , so if you want to give it a try go ahead

Cheers and have fun!