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From time to time while developing my 3D First Person Shooter game I create stuff that I think might be worth sharing with others. This site is where I post it. I hope that some of this is useful to you.

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Another way to find your XNA Garbage

Like most people developing using XNA for the Xbox 360 eventually I encountered the frustrating situation where every minute or so my game froze for a few moments. Then the term Garbage Collection came to my attention!

XNA Triangle Intersections to Ray and Sphere

I have converted examples of Ray to Triangle and BoundingSphere to Triangle intersections available on the Internet in to a XNA C# triangle class. It also includes a few other triangle related methods.

XNA Moving Shadow Sample

I have added shadows to a moving skinned model. I could not find a similar example of this already having been done that showed how, so I have posted my code here. The latest version uses Parallel Split Shadow Maps.

Dude for Blender

This is not XNA code but is related. I have converted the Dude from the Microsoft XNA Skinning Sample in to Blender format so that I could add my own animations.

Using Blender to create models for use with XNA

I've written some rough notes and created a couple of scripts to aid the creation and export of FBX models using Blender. Blender is a completely free open source 3D modelling and animation package.

Notepad++ for HLSL syntax highlighting

I was not happy with the versions I found on the internet so I created one to my preferences. It has as many keywords as I could find and I'll add more if I find any.