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Arbitrary Rotation about a Sphere
I'm coding a mechanic which allows a user to move around the surface of a sphere. The position on the sphere is currently stored as theta and phi, where theta is the angle between the z-axis and the ...
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Generating spherical world from heightmapped terrain
I am using a standard heightmapped procedural terrain in my project. However, I want the terrain to appear spherical when the user zooms out. This is an attempt to simulate the appearance of a ...
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How do I align the matrix used in SpriteBatch and the matrix used in BasicEffect?
I'm writing a Windows tool that uses XNA and allows the user to place textures on the screen.
I'm using a 'camera' for the SpriteBatch used to draw the textures, e.g:
Matrix matrixForSpriteBatch = ...
