Real-Time Shaders with XNA
An in-depth guide to building real-time shaders.

$59.99

Software: XNA Game Studio 2.0
Run Time: 4 hrs. 8 min., 2 discs
Availability: Ships next business day


Learn the fundamentals of real-time shaders and a time-saving workflow to creating real-time shaders with XNA. Contains over 4 hours of project-based training for technical artists learning the methods of real-time shading using XNA.

Popular highlights include:

    * XNA Overview
    * Overview of Real-Time Shaders
    * Loading FBX Content Pipeline Files
    * Using Basic Effects
    * Writing Vertex and Pixel Shaders
    * Coding Effects and Techniques
    * Setting World, View and Projection Matrices
    * Altering View Matrix to Create Turntable
    * Using Skinned Model Processor
    * Constant and Texture Shading
    * Lambertian Diffuse Lighting Model
    * Blinn-Phong Shading Model
    * Faking Reflections with Cubemaps
    * Using Normal Maps
    * Specularity / Reflections using Normal Maps
    * Setting up Multiple Techniques
    * Computing Flat Shadows
    * Shadow Shaders
    * Working with the Stencil Buffer
    * Render to Texture
    * Drawing with Sprite Batch
    * Using Pixel Shaders for Post Effects

Lesson Outline:
 
1. Creating our project 4:57
2. Loading and drawing our assets 9:15
3. Building a World Matrix 4:55
4. Calculating a View and Projection Matrix 6:18
5. Rendering with basic effects 5:06
6. Getting Skinned Animations (part 1) 5:21
7. Getting Skinned Animations (part 2) 6:50
8. Getting Skinned Animations (part 3) 4:30
9. Building our first shader (part 1) 7:19
10. Building our first shader (part 2) 7:53
11. Shading with textures 6:34
12. Calculating diffuse lighting 7:42
13. Adding lights, techniques and colors 5:18
14. Loading normal maps 6:01
15. Assigning normal maps to effects 9:00
16. Calculating diffuse with normal maps 9:01
17. Fixing bump results 4:20
18. Orbiting the camera with the View Matrix 5:00
19. Coding the specular technique 5:30
20. Calculating the Half Vector 9:11
21. Combining specular highlights 3:51
22. Adding highlights to normal-mapped objects 7:25
23. Calculating Half Vectors in Tangent Space 3:20
24. Adding reflections with cubemaps 7:48
25. Reflections on diffuse and normal-mapped objects 5:14
26. Shortening our reflection code 6:36
27. Assigning different techniques to specific areas 5:22
28. Setting different values on shader parameters 6:46
29. Utilizing specular maps 6:08
30. Drawing shadows with a Shadow Matrix (part 1) 6:25
31. Drawing shadows with a Shadow Matrix (part 2) 5:34
32. Using the Stencil Buffer for shadows (part 1) 6:01
33. Using the Stencil Buffer for shadows (part 2) 4:31
34. Semi-transparent shadows 3:15
35. Rendering our glow pass 9:10
36. Render to texture and drawing it onscreen 8:44
37. Building a new Pixel Shader to combine passes 8:13
38. Calculating a simple blur 5:23
39. Adding colors and flicker to the glow 8:45
Total Run Time: 4:08:32

Specifications
Item #: XNT-1041
Software Requirement: XNA Game Studio 2.0
System Requirement: Graphics Card supporting Shader Model 2.0
Run Time: 4 hrs. 8 min., 2 discs
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Mac / PC
Availability: Ships next business day
Weight: 0.30 lbs
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