When I started, I began to hear a lot of new words like anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, occlusion testing, z-buffer, alpha testing, shader language, bump mapping, etc. Maybe if you are a gamer, ...

Back in the day, Riemer Grootjans had one of the best XNA tutorial sites available (along with some C++ and other series), featuring a great balance of beginner, intermediate and advanced content.

An excellent foundation for understanding 3D graphics concepts Immediate results without complex shader programming Cross-platform compatibility with minimal dependencies A gentle learning curve for ...

I was disappointed when I found out that fire, smoke, some lighting and other stunning effects that you see in 3D games are made by particles and that particles are in essence planes with textures ...