Modern art using the GPU

Today I had the "Rendering the ocean" workshop with 6 students from Hamar, Norway.

We started the session with making the waves, and then moved one with detaild waves, reflection and refraction.

 

The discussed algorithm was also implemented into their game engine. We got most of it in today, and they got enough knowledge on how to implement the rest. All in all, todays session was great and we all learned a lot.

 

I will add todays session in my Tutorial TODO list, but it will take some time before we are getting there as I have to prioritize other tutorials.

 

If you and your team want to learn anything specific, don’t hesitate to contact anyone i game camp and we will see what we can do!

A polish version of my XNA Shader Tutorial 1 can be found on the following URL:

 

The author have, with permission from me, translated my tutorial into polish. So, if your polish, you should check out http://xna.com.pl/ for information about XNA on polish!

I’m having a Workshop on "How to implement the ocean" for a few students who are creating a XNA game for Dream-Build-Play 2009. In this workshop I will talk about reflection, refraction, cube mapping and how to model/generate waves using a vertex/pixel shader, including foam generating on top of big waves!
 

The students who are attending to todays workshop are acctually traveling from OPIM, Hamar, almost 200km, to learn what they want. This is really cool! 🙂

I will also try and write a tutorial about this session later, so you who cannot come to the workshop can get something from it.
 
There are many students who have used the opportunity to use me as their mentor during their projects, and asking me for help and workshops.
If you and your team want to learn anything specific, please send me an e-mail and I will gladly try to set up a workshop either physical or over a live meeting/web cast.