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Creating physics in xna

I am creating a racing game using visual studio 2010 and xna 4.0. I'm trying to create some simple physics so my car sticks to the heightmap I have created within my game world and the model adjusts ...
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How to get the height at a position in a triangle

I have a heightmap, and I store the heights in a giant array. However, when I move, it's quite choppy on the Y-axis, so I need a way to get the height at a certain point in a triangle. I currently ...
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Generating and rendering large 2D topographical map with contours

I am looking for an engine / library / technic to implement a large scale 2D topographical map that will be used in an RTS game. The closest I've been able to find is: ...
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Does anybody know of any resources to achieve this particular “2.5D” isometric engine effect?

I understand this is a little vague, but I was hoping somebody might be able to describe a high-level workflow or link to a resource to be able to achieve a specific isometric "2.5D" tile engine ...
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3D Collision help

I'm having difficulties with my project. I'm quite new in XNA. Anyway, I'm trying to make 3D game and I'm already stuck on one basic thing. I have terrain made from a heightmap, and an avatar model. I ...
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Calculating vertex normals on the GPU

I have some height-map sampled on a regular grid stored in an array. Now, I want to use the normals on the sampled vertices for some smoothing algorithm. The way I'm currently doing it is as follows: ...
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Drawing a depth map properly

I want to render a depth map by importing it from a file, then creating an array of vertices and indices, and then displaying it using a basic shader (just apply the view and projection matrices on it ...
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How would I go about implementing a globe-like “ballish” map?

I am new to 3D development and I have this idea of having the game world like our globe is - a ball. So, there would be no corners in the map and the game is top-down RTS game. I would like the camera ...
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XNA Seeing through heightmap problem

I've recently started learning how to program in 3D with XNA and I've been trying to implement a Terrain3D class(a very simple height map). I've managed to draw a simple terrain, but I'm getting a ...