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GameFest 2010 - Wrap Up

We’re back from GameFest, and man it was an awesome conference for us. In two short days we were able to meet up with a number of SunBurn developers, announce the new SunBurn Editor, and showoff the SunBurn Avatar Club demo. We also learned that...

Published 02-15-2010 7:46 AM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

GameFest Day 1 - Awesome SunBurn Demo!

This year for GameFest we put together an awesome demo showing the latest SunBurn Engine 1.3 features including; Xbox LIVE avatar integration, avatar lighting and shadows, and several upcoming unannounced features. While the details are juicy, I'll...

Published 02-10-2010 6:47 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

GameFest Day 1 - More setup

We woke up bright and early this morning to do a little last-minute work on the Synapse Gaming booth. While yesterday was technically setup-day, we arrived late in Seattle due to massive snow storms on the east coast (again!) and only had a few hours...

Published 02-10-2010 3:01 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

GameFest 2010 - Follow us live!

GameFest 2010 is finally here and the Synapse Gaming crew is on the GameFest expo-floor pimping SunBurn, Xbox development, and all things XNA! If you're attending GameFest swing by the booth to see the latest SunBurn development, tools, and demos...

Published 02-10-2010 1:44 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

Avatar Lighting, Shadows, and SunBurn 1.3

Last night we launched SunBurn Engine 1.3.1 , the first release of SunBurn’s updated API. While this release focuses on opening up more of the SunBurn API, and making the system even more modular and customizable, there are also a couple of great...

Published 01-26-2010 12:46 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

SunBurn 1.2 Developer Hub

Today we launched the latest SunBurn update, version 1.2.6, which includes a number of API enhancements, greater control over SunBurn’s internal rendering, and the new SunBurn Developer Hub … SunBurn Developer Hub If you’re following...

Published 12-06-2009 6:23 AM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

SunBurn 1.2 and Xbox Deferred

We’re very excited to announce that SunBurn 1.2.5 launched on Friday. This release is absolutely packed full of new features, improvements, and a number of enhancements requested by the SunBurn community. But by far the biggest new feature is Xbox...

Published 11-02-2009 12:54 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

Latest Updates, Examples, and More

Over the past couple of weeks we've released awesome new SunBurn updates, including performance enhancements, an updated instancing example, tutorials on ambient occlusion mapping, and sneak-peeks at some of the future examples we're working on...

Published 10-19-2009 9:24 PM by JohnK (WorkingOnTheSite)

New SunBurn Updates and Examples

Today we launched two new updates to SunBurn featuring a number of new features including: enhanced WinForms support, render target helper for quickly and easily generating reflection, refraction, and render-to-texture maps, model mesh optimizer, and...

Published 08-14-2009 3:07 AM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

Community Blogs, Instancing Example, and More

This week we rolled out a ton of new community features, documentation, and the new SunBurn Instancing example . Community Updates We've had requests for a more general forum to hang out in, talk about projects, and more. This is an excellent idea...

Published 07-27-2009 2:12 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

New Releases and XNA 3.1

Today we launched two exciting new releases of SunBurn (versions 1.1.6 and 1.2.2), which include an even smoother editor workflow, new options when importing materials from your modeling application, a more compact release package, support for XNA 3.1...

Published 07-11-2009 2:15 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

Filed under: XNA 3.0, XNA 3.1

Community Resources and API Documentation

Over the past few weeks we've introduced some awesome new sections to the SunBurn online documentation to make finding and sharing game development information easy. Community Resources Certainly one of the most exciting additions is our new Community...

Published 06-22-2009 11:14 PM by JohnK "bobthecbuilder"

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