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Hello SunBurn Community! Today we dive into some awesome details about the coming SunBurn Game Engine 2.1 Early Adopter! And I thought the best place to start is with the exciting new support for DirectX 11.x, which brings new devices (Microsoft Surface...

Get ready for Oculus Rift ready titles powered by SunBurn The wait is nearly over and dev kits are shipping this week! Lot's of excitement is all over the web as people want to develop and experience new 3D games within the Oculus Rift. I'll be...

Hello SunBurn Community! The countdown begins! That's right, the new SunBurn Game Engine 2.1 Early Adopter is about to launch - and we're counting-down the next few weeks with blogs about all of the new features, tools, and supported platforms...

Hi everyone, I updated my ShaderLib plug-in with a new effect, VelocityBuffer Motion blur and fixed a few bugs too. I also put together a video tutorial on how to use the ShaderLib, you can look at it here: https://www.vicogamestudio.com/projects/shader...

Hello SunBurn community! We're back from the holiday break and hope everyone had an excellent time! It's exciting to be back, the holiday break is our favorite R&D period and we already have a ton of new toys lined up for 2013 (including SunBurn...

First of all Merry Christmas to everyone here in the community especially the guys at Synapse Gaming. I have been working on a new implementation for a proper Motion Blur, one that accounts for object movement and not just camera movement (already in...

In this chapter, I introduce HLSL Shaders in SunBurn, the basic framework of the shader and how to get in and start modifying the pixel shader function: http://dsebj.evolvingsoftware.com/2012/11/20/sunburn-hlsl-shaders/ Cheers, Sebastian

Continuing on in the BEPU Physics Plugin Tutorials, I've written up the following tutorial which introduces the BEPU Character Control, link it up to a controller and use an FPS perspective camera: http://dsebj.evolvingsoftware.com/2012/11/12/bepu...

Hello SunBurn community! Over the past year we've quietly worked on several awesome new advancements to the SunBurn Game Engine - and now, at long last, we're ready to start announcing the details! Platform Independent Starting with the upcoming...

Finally got the time to finish implementing FXAA into my ShaderLib, got a few requests for this one. Here's a little comparison of no FXAA and with FXAA: Performance is very good, adds only 1ms to the rendering at 720p on the Xbox 360. Please post...

I've written up a tutorial, to walk through the process of swapping out the in built physics implementation and replacing it with CJ Bailey's Plugin Implementation. http://dsebj.evolvingsoftware.com/2012/10/14/cj-baileys-of-greedy-goblin-software...

Greetings fellow SunBurners! Some of you may be aware of my BEPU Physics Plugin which I released just before SunBurn was updated to incorporate improved physics. I had considered scrapping it to be honest, since the updated SunBurn physics made it largely...

It’s been a long time since I had the opportunity or reason to post a new entry in this blog mainly because my son and current daily job don’t let me enought spare time to move on my side projects. Still, today, I received an email from Jeff...

Hello SunBurn community! Today we posted two new updates! The first is to the community site, which makes it even easier to browse the examples, plugins, and more you're looking for. The other is to SunBurn 2.0 (version 2.0.18.F) - it includes a number...

Hello everybody. I was a speaker at the event TDC BRAZIL 2012, where I talk a little about how to develop games for Windows Phone with SunBurn. Below I leave some photos of the event. Thank you. More informations: http://futurongame.com Persio Flexa showing...