This is the first time I made a static multidimensional array, moreso, one with 3 dimensions. I'm still experimenting to find out how efficient this is, but so far it is proving to be extremely efficient as its structured so indexing it uses enum's that correspond

Initial testing Model by Kyle Bardiau GHOST_URL/falloutstuff/Hoverboard.mp4 VLC sometimes does not play this right so use something like Windows Media Player 11. <_ <; Also, I totally had my Windows Media Player 11 on a shuffle of "Top 100 Songs of the 80s", and

So, I started work on my Final for my class Material and Lighting. The assignment is to create a Traditional Japanese Interior. Yeah. The textures I've used here are temporary just to get a concept in my head visualized, and will be overhauled and stuff. I'm

...is an incredibly fun co-op game. I've been playing it with Kevin over the past few days over hamachi... sure a lot of the time its pretty bullshit but its definitely fun. However, I played it soo much that my skill in AA3 has plummeted and I can&

So, once Rick told me about AA3 coming out, which was a few days after it was download-able on Steam, I started playing it like mad and now am one of the highest ranking players in terms of honor. Throughout my time playing so far, there have been numerous threads

Okay... so... yeah there is lots of stuff I can fix with it; but I am really content with it as is and I believe it is well more than enough for the midterm for Material and Lighting. So if you haven't read my previous post, I used

So I was surfing the internet looking for some free render farm action so I can get my midterm for Material and Lighting rendered in godly quality without making my computer unusable for 15+ hours. I came across http://www.renderrocket.com and when you sign up, you get 20

If anyone would like me to post a specific tutorial about something related to programming, XNA, 3DS Max, or, well, anything that I know, let me know and I'll try to write up something for you. Also, Boe said I should have pictures in all my posts, so

A year and 3 months ago I bought an RX-700 power supply from Newegg. Newegg has never done me wrong with my plethora of PSU purchases along with other hardware, and I've never had a problem. I've tried all kinds of power supplies, ranging from starting

Assignment: Make 3 props. I came, I built, I rendered. Click image for enlarged version](http://allarsblog.com/TextureRender1.jpg)

For my midterm, I'm going to put my props on like a kitchen counter... And what kitchen counter is complete without a sink/faucets? Yay for 35k incomplete faucet handles! <_< I know thats way too many polys for this object.. but I'ma go with

So I've learned some more about Class Attributes, before I was just using [Serialization()] but in order to customize the way the WinForm PropertyGrid control works, there are some nifty attributes you can tie your code to. Can now change how the texture previews are rendered through the

Found lots of video tutorials on how to do Crysis stuff by the people at Crymod. http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/publisher:crymodportal Some good stuff.

Over the past month or so I haven't really had time to update my blog due to lots of stuff that went down that I had to deal with and that I haven't had time to develop anything regarding Forecourse... but now I'm back.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REMEMBER TO COMPILE WITH x86 AS YOUR PLATFORM TARGET. I forgot about this and wasted an hour of debugging. Right click your project -> Properties -> Build -> Platform Target -> x86

I now have a "Project Forecourse" page at the top right of my blog that will detail Project Forecourse along with provide accompanying resources as soon as they become available.

I will post all the info I can about Project Forecourse as soon as this is done. Currently I am in the process of refactoring my Project Forecourse's code so that, well, a bunch of things could happen. The first and main reason is so that all my

I decided to post some video tutorials I made at the request of others for 3DS Max, check out my 3DS Max Tutorials page at the very top of the site.

Welcome to Allar's XNA Blog! The home of my documented experiments and failures in regards to my programming work with XNA and other languages. The main focus of this site is to document, inform, and advertise my XNA mini-framework/engine dubbed Forecourse. A project designed to make the