Blog

The latest version of the DigitalRune Engine adds support for Windows Store (WinRT) and Windows Phone 8.

…

Here is summary of changes and new features in the latest release of the DigitalRune Engine.

…

Here is summary of improvements in the latest release of DigitalRune Graphics.

…

First, thank you to all users who have provided feedback via our forum or directly via email!

This post highlights the changes in the current release. The most important change is the addition of particle rendering and lens flares.





...

The DigitalRune team wishes all of you a Happy and Successful New Year!

By popular request, we added a new forum post outlining our plans for the DigitalRune Engine:

DigitalRune Engine Roadmap

If you have any special wishes, questions or feature requests for this year, then head over to the forum and let us know.

The next release of the DigitalRune Engine is scheduled for next week and will add billboard rendering, particle rendering, and lens flares.

Rendercode Games has released the new Xbox LIVE Indie game Racedrome City:

The latest chapter in the Racedrome saga raises the bar with improved handling, physics, and visuals. Enjoy high-speed urban racing against strong AI, or challenge up to 8 players online. Also included is local multiplayer, global scoreboards, rewind function, and more!

Here is the trailer:

Racedrome City uses DigitalRune Physics to simulate the vehicles. More specifically, …

A while ago we have blogged about our car physics implementation (see Car Physics for 3D Games). Today we release an alternative implementation:

A Constraint-Based Ray-Cast Car

…

We originally considered to include the famous Sponza model (CRYTEK’s version) in the deferred lighting example. But this would have doubled the download size.

For those who want to play around with the model: Here is the FBX version with model description and material definition files for DigitalRune Graphics. The materials include diffuse, specular, normal and opacity maps. Opacity maps are stored in the alpha channel of the diffuse textures.

Download Sponza Model

This is a guest post by Kairat Aitpayev.

Augmented Reality (AR) technology allows adding virtual object to the real world using special markers. By merging it with Microsoft Kinect I have created new approach which allows users to use their own body as a collision object in the 3D world and interact with augmented objects.

Video

Here the presentation of the demo application which by itself is a part of bigger project related with online sport education:

(Full video of entire project: See https://vimeo.com/41136278)

The project was created in the MultiMedia Lab of Kazakh-British Technical University (Kazakhstan) in collaboration with University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard (France).

DigitalRune libraries are used to improve the interaction between the real and the virtual world.

Our last post about real-time motion capture using Kinect seems to be pretty popular. And for the small amount of time (only a few hours) that we put into this example, the results are satisfying – but we can do better! We have updated the project and included a brand new sample. The new sample uses skeleton mapping to animate 3D models using Kinect. The code is much simpler, and exchanging the 3D model is a lot easier. We have also updated the example application to use Kinect SDK v1.0 instead of Kinect SDK beta2. You can download the sample project (including the source code) at the end of this post.

Video

Here are the results of the new sample application:

…