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hr0nix — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:45:37 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

Feb 20, 2008
I'm very sorry, but development of RomantiqueX XNA Engine is currently stopped by me. If some want source code to continue development or just for educational purposes, please email me to boris.jangel|at|gmail.com or hr0nix|at|fds-net.ru

Jan 3, 2008
It looks like release is delayed because of some possible bugs found in 2.0 framework. But not for long, don't worry =)

Dec 25, 2007
v0.4 is pretty ready. Now profiling a lot. And some good news: I'm going to buy Xbox360 this week, so engine will be ported to Xbox soon (I hope it will be very easy now with XNA GS 2.0 ).

Nov 15, 2007
Version 0.4 is coming. It will be released with XNA GS 2.0 (so, it will be fully supported). Some demos based on RomantiqueX engine will be available too, all with source code.
New version will have some major changes in rendering pipeline (much more flexibility, portal rendering and improved speed).

Aug 21, 2007
Version v0.2.1 is there. New in this release:

Visual effects are now rendered using virtual batches instead of calling Render explicitly. It solves a bug when particle system was behind the transparent glass, but was rendered after it.
Some optimizations (especially for shadows).
Some bugfixes.

Aug 09, 2007
New tutorial about engine rendering pipeline is available now!
Does anybody know why I can't translate news from blogspot.com or wordpress.com RSS, but the same thing works well for msdn blogs, for example. Some kind of magic?

Aug 08, 2007
Engine distribution uploaded yesterday was missing shader library. Get new correct distribution now.
Another good news: first engine tutorial is available at the Tutorials page.

Aug 07, 2007
Little problems with rss translation, but: new engine version is available. Look at the updated Features page, download new engine and demo. We will put a pack of engine tutorials from basic to advanced level on this site soon. We hope you like it!
Update1: engine documentation is available now.
Update2: engine demo is available now too.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

hr0nix — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:43:06 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

Feb 20, 2008
I'm very sorry, but development of RomantiqueX XNA Engine is currently stopped by me. If some want source code to continue development or just for educational purposes, please email me to boris.jangelatgmail.com or hr0nixatfds-net.ru

Jan 3, 2008
It looks like release is delayed because of some possible bugs found in 2.0 framework. But not for long, don't worry =)

Dec 25, 2007
v0.4 is pretty ready. Now profiling a lot. And some good news: I'm going to buy Xbox360 this week, so engine will be ported to Xbox soon (I hope it will be very easy now with XNA GS 2.0 ).

Nov 15, 2007
Version 0.4 is coming. It will be released with XNA GS 2.0 (so, it will be fully supported). Some demos based on RomantiqueX engine will be available too, all with source code.
New version will have some major changes in rendering pipeline (much more flexibility, portal rendering and improved speed).

Aug 21, 2007
Version v0.2.1 is there. New in this release:

Visual effects are now rendered using virtual batches instead of calling Render explicitly. It solves a bug when particle system was behind the transparent glass, but was rendered after it.
Some optimizations (especially for shadows).
Some bugfixes.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

hr0nix — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:17:44 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

Jan 3, 2008
It looks like release is delayed because of some possible bugs found in 2.0 framework. But not for long, don't worry =)

Dec 25, 2007
v0.4 is pretty ready. Now profiling a lot. And some good news: I'm going to buy Xbox360 this week, so engine will be ported to Xbox soon (I hope it will be very easy now with XNA GS 2.0 ).

Nov 15, 2007
Version 0.4 is coming. It will be released with XNA GS 2.0 (so, it will be fully supported). Some demos based on RomantiqueX engine will be available too, all with source code.
New version will have some major changes in rendering pipeline (much more flexibility, portal rendering and improved speed).

Aug 21, 2007
Version v0.2.1 is there. New in this release:

Visual effects are now rendered using virtual batches instead of calling Render explicitly. It solves a bug when particle system was behind the transparent glass, but was rendered after it.
Some optimizations (especially for shadows).
Some bugfixes.

UPDATED WIKI: Roadmap

hr0nix — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:17:37 GMT

RomantiqueX development roadmap.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

To v0.4:

Correct portal system.
Based on XNA GS 2.0.
Basic physics (currently using NewtonDynamics engine).
Reflection system.
New postprocessing system and some amazing effects.

To v0.5:

Animation system.

To next versions:

Landscapes.
Water.

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshots

hr0nix — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:14:58 GMT

RomantiqueX screenshots.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Screenshots old 0.2 release:

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hr0nix — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:03:58 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

Dec 25, 2007
v0.4 is pretty ready. Now profiling a lot. And some good news: I'm going to buy Xbox360 this week, so engine will be ported to Xbox soon (I hope it will be very easy now with XNA GS 2.0 ).

Nov 15, 2007
Version 0.4 is coming. It will be released with XNA GS 2.0 (so, it will be fully supported). Some demos based on RomantiqueX engine will be available too, all with source code.
New version will have some major changes in rendering pipeline (much more flexibility, portal rendering and improved speed).

Aug 21, 2007
Version v0.2.1 is there. New in this release:

Visual effects are now rendered using virtual batches instead of calling Render explicitly. It solves a bug when particle system was behind the transparent glass, but was rendered after it.
Some optimizations (especially for shadows).
Some bugfixes.

UPDATED WIKI: Roadmap

hr0nix — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:55:08 GMT

RomantiqueX development roadmap.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

To v0.4:

Portal system.
Support for XNA GS 2.0

To v0.5:

Animation system.
Physics.
Reflections/refractions (probably).

To next versions:

Landscapes.
Water.

UPDATED WIKI: Roadmap

hr0nix — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:55:00 GMT

RomantiqueX development roadmap.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

To v0.4:

Portal system.
Support for XNA GSE 2.0

To v0.5:

Animation system.
Physics.
Reflections/refractions (probably).

To next versions:

Landscapes.
Water.

UPDATED WIKI: Roadmap

hr0nix — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:45:27 GMT

RomantiqueX development roadmap.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

To v0.4:

Portal system.
Support for XNA GSE 2.0

To v0.5:

Animation system.
Physics.

To next versions:

Landscapes.
Water.
Physics.
Reflections/refractions.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

hr0nix — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:44:01 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

Aug 21, 2007
Version 0.4 is coming. It will be released with XNA GS 2.0 (so, it will be fully supported). Some demos based on RomantiqueX engine will be available too, all with source code.
New version will have some major changes in rendering pipeline (much more flexibility, portal rendering and improved speed).

Aug 21, 2007
Version v0.2.1 is there. New in this release:

Visual effects are now rendered using virtual batches instead of calling Render explicitly. It solves a bug when particle system was behind the transparent glass, but was rendered after it.
Some optimizations (especially for shadows).
Some bugfixes.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

hr0nix — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:03:55 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

Aug 21, 2007
Version v0.2.1 is there. New in this release:

Visual effects are now rendered using virtual batches instead of calling Render explicitly. It solves a bug when particle system was behind the transparent glass, but was rendered after it.
Some optimizations (especially for shadows).
Some bugfixes.

UPDATED WIKI: Roadmap

hr0nix — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:43:11 GMT

RomantiqueX development roadmap.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

To v0.3:

Animation system.
More postprocessing filters.

To v0.4:

GUI.

To next versions:

Landscapes.
Water.
Physics.
Reflections/refractions.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

hr0nix — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:45:24 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

UPDATED WIKI: Tutorials

hr0nix — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:43:19 GMT

Tutorials

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Every tutorial is zipped archive which contains tutorial project and text describing it.

Tutorial 1 : Engine basics - Tutorial1.zip
Tutorial 2 : Rendering pipeline - Tutorial2.zip

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshots

hr0nix — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:46:46 GMT

RomantiqueX screenshots.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Screenshots from upcoming v0.2 release:

UPDATED WIKI: Roadmap

hr0nix — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:46:04 GMT

RomantiqueX development roadmap.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

To v0.2.1:

Fix bug with incorrect sorting between visual effects and transparent batches.
Implement render target stack restoration for render targets representing cubemap face.

To v0.3:

Animation system.
More postprocessing filters.

To v0.4:

GUI.

To next versions:

Landscapes.
Water.
Physics.
Reflections/refractions.

UPDATED WIKI: Tutorials

hr0nix — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:45:47 GMT

Tutorials

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Every tutorial is zipped archive which contains tutorial project and text describing it.

Tutorial 1 : Engine basics - Tutorial1.zip

UPDATED WIKI: Features

hr0nix — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:44:02 GMT

RomantiqueX features.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Currently RomantiqueX includes following features:

Fully extensible rendering pipeline.

Abstraction of render pass and render path.
Support for custom and predefined batch sorting (so, transparent batches are supported).

World management system.

Octrees.
Support for more than one spatial manager for single sector (you can use quadtree for landscapes and BSP for static geometry in one sector at the same time!).
Powerful debug output that will help to solve any world management related problems.

Lighting.

Spot, point and directional lights.
Ambient lighting.
Soft shadows for all light types.

Visual effects.

Light shafts.
Particle systems.

Powerful and extensible postprocessing framework with some predefined postprocess filters.

Color to grayscale filter.
Radial blur filter.
Gaussian blur filter.
Bloom filter.

A lot of utilitary classes and functions.

FPS counter.
Abstraction for viewers: you can transparently render your scene from 3D camera or in orthographic view.
InputManager, which provides a way to handle different input events.
A lot of math functions that aren't available in XNA framework itself.

UPDATED WIKI: Tutorials

hr0nix — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:41:32 GMT

Tutorials

Every tutorial is zipped archive which contains tutorial project and text describing it.

Tutorial 1 : Engine basics

UPDATED WIKI: Home

hr0nix — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:37:22 GMT

RomantiqueX XNA Engine.

Pages: Home Features Roadmap Screenshots Tutorials

Description

RomantiqueX is a real-time rendering engine based on XNA Framework. It supports a variety of features including dynamic lighting and shadows, postprocessing, world management and so on.

News

Aug 08, 2007
Engine distribution uploaded yesterday was missing shader library. Get new correct distribution now.
Another good news: first engine tutorial is available at the Tutorials page.

Aug 07, 2007 Little problems with rss translation, but: new engine version is available. Look at the updated Features page, download new engine and demo. We will put a pack of engine tutorials from basic to advanced level on this site soon. We hope you like it!
Update1: engine documentation is available now.
Update2: engine demo is available now too.