Coatl Studios

Now i have achieved to get transparency both on models and modelmeshes , so if the model has transparent meshes in it they are also rendered transparent.

so you can have transparency on separated objects and parts of objects

it still has some problems when multiple transparent objects get overlapped, but its something

Cheers and have fun

i managed to achieve very nice transparency with XNA on a couple of basic objects

take a look:

the blue ball is inside of the big transparent ball and the other objects are behind

cheers and have fun!

i have been messing with the lighting that comes with the basic effect and with the appropriate settings you can get very interesting results, look at this screens:

these 3 images are using only the included lighting of the XNA 2 BasicEffect with different settings in direction, intensity, diffuse and specular colors

Cheers and have fun!

if you are in the Dream Build Play 2008 contest you can win a free 4 month membership to the XNA Creators Club just by submitting your final game to the contest within the contest valid time period, which ends September 23 i think.

this is a very nice incentive for everybody to continue developing its dbp game.

Cheers and have fun!!

Finally!!.. the details of the royalties and the way commercial games will work on Xbox Live community games this year holidays

This is the official announcement:

Make Money with Xbox Live Community Games

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!!