The CameraComponent class is designed to work specifically with the Game class. Try using the Camera class instead. The CameraComponent class internally uses the Camera class. Also note that the Camera class does not provide keyboard and/or mouse support like the CameraComponent class does. Instead you will need to call the LookAt(), Move(), and ...

I've just finished converting all of the existing XNA 2.0 demos on the dhpoware website to XNA 3.0. You can download them all from here.

Ok I think I've solved this one. Changing the SasBindAddress for the directional light annotations to: float4 lightDir < string SasBindAddress = "SAS.DIRECTIONALLIGHTS[0].DIRECTION"; >; float4 lightColor < string SasBindAddress = "SAS.DIRECTIONALLIGHTS[0].COLOR"; >; Seems to fix ...

My effect shader contains this SAS binding for the directional light: float4 lightDir < string SasBindAddress = "SAS.DIRECTIONALLIGHT[0].DIRECTION"; >; float4 lightColor < string SasBindAddress = "SAS.DIRECTIONALLIGHT[0].COLOR"; >; I'm setting up the directional light in my code like ...

The screenshots are looking good so far. Don't suppose we'll be able to pilot these robots from a cockpit/first person view, eh?

I found a recent whitepaper on the NVIDIA Japan site - the article is in English - that describes how to use SAS in FX Composer. However the article seems to be more about the older SAS 0.86 version rather than the newer 1.0 version. Click here for a direct link to the PDF article.

According to this reply from Kevin Bjorke (NVIDIA) sounds like FX Composer 2 only supports DXSAS 0.85. A shame since XSI Mod Tools supports DXSAS 1.0.

I know that the Chase Camera Demo is already available on the the Creators website but here's another implementation of a third person camera that I've written. My implementation is quaternion based and uses a critically damped spring system. It is based on the algorithms described in the Game Programming Gems 4 article ''Third-Person Camera ...

The XNA 2.0 version is now available. Get it here. This update also contains improvements to the camera movement.

Hi All, We've finished updating all the existing XNA demos to XNA 2.0. Get them all here. Enjoy.