Shader Series – Screen Space Reflections
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: Screen Space Reflections are used in every engine these days. Games from The Witcher 3 to Fortnite all employ this eff...
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Shader Series – Emissive Materials
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: Selective Bloom, Emissive Glow, Fake HDR, there’s a number of ways to call this, but with Metric Racer being a scifi r...
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Sharing Screenshots to Social Media in C# and Xamarin
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: Keeping up with the theme of my last post, I’m here today sharing another single class solution to a common stack over...
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Handling Mobile Ads in C# and Xamarin
Recently I put out two games, The Chaotic Workshop and Space Esc8bit, which both have with a free ad supported version. There’s lots of support and examples for...
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Vertices Engine Optimizations – Camera Frustum Culling
As Metric has progressed, I started running into frame rate drops while debugging. Naturally the game is going to run slower when Visual Studio is debugging it...
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Shader Porting to Linux MonoGame
One of the things which I wanted to implement in the Vertices Engine were Crepuscular Rays, more commonly known as God Rays. These have become ubiquitous in gam...
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Vertices Engine Porting : Success
After a weekend of coding, porting, and compiling, I manged to get a large portion of the shaders ported over too MonoGame. It was really nice to finally see Go...
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Virtex Edge Dev Blog: So What Works Out of the Box.
Firing up Xaramin and adding each of my *.cs files into the new project. I found there were actually very few issues building the actual C# code. The issues sho...
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Setting Up MonoGame
I played around with Monogame for a long time, but had a lot of trouble getting shaders working as well as figuring out all the nuances of content. It’s finally...
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