T0481 - Digital Tutors - Real-Time Shaders with XNA

Learn the fundamentals of real-time shaders and a time-saving workflow to creating real-time shaders with XNA. Contains over 4 hours of project-based training for technical artists learning the methods of real-time shading using XNA.Popular highlights include:

• XNA Overview


• Overview of Real-Time Shaders


• Loading FBX Content Pipeline Files


• Using Basic Effects


• Writing Vertex and Pixel Shaders


• Coding Effects and Techniques


• Setting World, View and Projection Matrices


• Altering View Matrix to Create Turntable


• Using Skinned Model Processor


• Constant and Texture Shading


• Lambertian Diffuse Lighting Model


• Blinn-Phong Shading Model


• Faking Reflections with Cubemaps


• Using Normal Maps


• Specularity / Reflections using Normal Maps


• Setting up Multiple Techniques


• Computing Flat Shadows


• Shadow Shaders


• Working with the Stencil Buffer


• Render to Texture


• Drawing with Sprite Batch


• Using Pixel Shaders for Post Effects

Lesson Outline:

1.	Creating our project	4:57
2.	Loading and drawing our assets	9:15
3.	Building a World Matrix	4:55
4.	Calculating a View and Projection Matrix	6:18
5.	Rendering with basic effects	5:06
6.	Getting Skinned Animations (part 1)	5:21
7.	Getting Skinned Animations (part 2)	6:50
8.	Getting Skinned Animations (part 3)	4:30
9.	Building our first shader (part 1)	7:19
10.	Building our first shader (part 2)	7:53
11.	Shading with textures	6:34
12.	Calculating diffuse lighting	7:42
13.	Adding lights, techniques and colors	5:18
14.	Loading normal maps	6:01
15.	Assigning normal maps to effects	9:00
16.	Calculating diffuse with normal maps	9:01
17.	Fixing bump results	4:20
18.	Orbiting the camera with the View Matrix	5:00
19.	Coding the specular technique	5:30
20.	Calculating the Half Vector	9:11
21.	Combining specular highlights	3:51
22.	Adding highlights to normal-mapped objects	7:25
23.	Calculating Half Vectors in Tangent Space	3:20
24.	Adding reflections with cubemaps	7:48
25.	Reflections on diffuse and normal-mapped objects	5:14
26.	Shortening our reflection code	6:36
27.	Assigning different techniques to specific areas	5:22
28.	Setting different values on shader parameters	6:46
29.	Utilizing specular maps	6:08
30.	Drawing shadows with a Shadow Matrix (part 1)	6:25
31.	Drawing shadows with a Shadow Matrix (part 2)	5:34
32.	Using the Stencil Buffer for shadows (part 1)	6:01
33.	Using the Stencil Buffer for shadows (part 2)	4:31
34.	Semi-transparent shadows	3:15
35.	Rendering our glow pass	9:10
36.	Render to texture and drawing it onscreen	8:44
37.	Building a new Pixel Shader to combine passes	8:13
38.	Calculating a simple blur	5:23
39.	Adding colors and flicker to the glow	8:45
	Total Run Time:	4:08:32