XNA GameEngine Development Series

XNA GameEngine Development Series

Review of articles in this series.

1. Base Engine
   1. Part 1, Engine Base Classes, Helpers and EngineManager
   2. Part 2, FpsCounter:GameComponent
   3. Part 3, Test Driven Development (TDD)
   4. Part 4, ShaderManager:GameComponent, Effect Code Generator
   5. Part 5, TextureManager:GameComponent
   6. Part 6, Input:GameComponent
   7. Part 7, ScreenManager:GameComponent and GameScreens
   8. Part 8, Multi-Threading GameComponents
   9. Part 11, Static Meshes
   10. Part 19, Hardware Instancing PC Only  **NEW**
2. Scene Management
   1. Part 9, Scene management, Scene Objects, and SceneGraphManager
3. Cameras and Culling
   1. Part 10, Cameras, Camera Management and First Person Movement.
   2. Part 12, Culling and Chase Camera
   3. Part 13, Occlusion Culling and Frustum Culling
4. Physics
   1. Part 14, Adding Physics
5. World Builder
   1. Part 15, Adding WinForm Support, Step 1 World Builder
6. Sky
   1. Part 16, Skydome
   2. Part 17, Hoffman Atmosphere Light Scattering
7. Terrain
   1. Part 18, Brute Force Terrain (with Physics).

Preview of upcoming articles in this series. 

(I am taking suggestions for future articles as well.)  This series will continue beyond what is seen here, as long as I have new ideas.  Your feedback is very important.

• Part 19, GeoMipMapped terrain with simple texturing.
• Part 20, Terrain with texture splatting and Hoffman light scattering.
• Part 21, Terrain normals.
• Part 22, Shadow Mapping
• Part 23, Parallel Split Shadow Mapping (PSSM)
• Part 24, Deferred Rendering/Shading
• Part 25, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)