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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Extensible Game Localisation
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: There’s lots of text in a game, but there’s also a lot of languages in the world. Google Play and Apple both allow you...
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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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3C Version 1.0 Release!
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: I’m excited to bring out our first app 3C – Crop Capture Create! 3C is a chrome extension which can take a screen shot...
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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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Never liked gravity much anyways…
Since moving to Montreal, I”ve been pretty busy, but things have managed to slow down a little so I decided to tackle building a Quadcopter, something I’ve want...
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Laser Scanner…It’s Alive…sort of
I managed to finish the code last week for the laser scanner. The way it works is it takes in the image from the camera, rotates it 90 degrees (because the came...
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DIY Laser Scanner on the Cheap
I do a lot of 3d modelling, at work as well back in school. One of the biggest pains is having to do complex shapes or to have to model parts that have already...
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