MS announces "XNA"

[Dave Glue]

See this interview with Lester and Allard: http://xbox.ign.com/articles/501/501373p1.html?fromint=1.

MS's XNA site: http://www.microsoft.com/xna/

I'll chime in later, and apologies if this is the wrong forum for this.

Thoughts?

 

[nAo]

the presentation was cool..next generation ATI hw (r420?) run quite fast. MS shown some very impressive demos.
Anyway..they seemed much more focused on sw (the XNA thing) than hw.

ciao,
Marco

 

[Joe DeFuria]

the presentation was cool..next generation ATI hw (r420?) run quite fast. MS shown some very impressive demos.
Anyway..they seemed much more focused on sw (the XNA thing) than hw.

ciao,
Marco

Do you know for sure that the demos were being run in real-time on hardware, or if they were off-line rendered and played back?

 

[nAo]

Do you know for sure that the demos were being run in real-time on hardware, or if they were off-line rendered and played back?

All the 3 demos were realtime..they changed parameters and camera angles all the time

 

[Paul]

Do you know for sure that the demos were being run in real-time on hardware, or if they were off-line rendered and played back?

The car one had to be real time, I saw aliasing on more than one occasion.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

Do you know for sure that the demos were being run in real-time on hardware, or if they were off-line rendered and played back?

All the 3 demos were realtime..they changed parameters and camera angles all the time

Cool. 8)

 

[digitalwanderer]

What demos?

 

[Dave Glue]

What demos?

Go to the second link I provided - MS has them on their XNA site.

 

[991060]

What demos?

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/e/2/be234683-5686-476d-a1c2-8ad7abe5d8a4/xna_demo_crash.zip
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-4056-9183-3590c5e98b4d/xna_demo_filmnoir.zip
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...4937-8b28-c97744a436ae/xna_demo_xenomorph.zip

edit: just some video captures, not .exe

 

[Dave Baumann]

The car one had to be real time, I saw aliasing on more than one occasion.

That probably won't be an issue on real Xbox hardware...

 

[digitalwanderer]

Thanks for the demo links all, I was still trying to digest the first five page link when I asked that.

 

[991060]

Wow, the crash demo is simply awesome, I love its physics.

 

[Mendel]

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/e/2/be234683-5686-476d-a1c2-8ad7abe5d8a4/xna_demo_crash.zip
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-4056-9183-3590c5e98b4d/xna_demo_filmnoir.zip
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...4937-8b28-c97744a436ae/xna_demo_xenomorph.zip

Bah, those are videos...

Now where can I get the actual demo's?

 

[epicstruggle]

damn Im actually salivating as i wait for the videos to download.

later,
epic

 

[arhra]

Bah, those are videos...

Now where can I get the actual demo's?

Probably the same place you can get the hardware they were running on

 

[991060]

Bah, those are videos...

Now where can I get the actual demo's?

If you had the proper hardware to run the demo

 

[Paul]

That probably won't be an issue on real Xbox hardware...

Not saying it will be, just saying, it's a great way of proving something is real time. Unless it's some shitty FMV, though I have never seen FMV with jaggies.

 

[Thunderbird]

Microsoft XNA is the catalyst for a new ecosystem of interchangeable, interoperable software tools and technologies from Microsoft, middleware and game development companies.

 

[Dave Glue]

Microsoft XNA is the catalyst for a new ecosystem of interchangeable, interoperable software tools and technologies from Microsoft, middleware and game development companies.

Note the car in the crash demo has an Ontario license plate as well.

 

[Tahir2]

Is XNA more akin to middleware for developers like Renderware?