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This website is your ultimate community resource for tutorials, artworks and models, code snippets and tools for Stonetrip's ShiVa. In order to edit pages you need to create an account and login.

The WIKI is made possible by a handful of devoted users who share their tutorials and development experiences regularly with the community. Without them, this page would not exist. Why not join them and contribute yourself?
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Quick Links

Stonetrip
STDN (Developer Network)
API Reference
ShiVa Firefox Search Extension
ShiVa@DevMaster

Advanced Programming Tutorials

For those who have outgrown the boundaries of the ShiVa editor, and those who want to add extraordinary functions to their applications. Throw away the training wheels and dive right into this stream of tutorials! ShVa Plugin Development Pure c++ development GameScorpion's Hooks and Callbacks - iOS Edition Reverse Hooks and Callbacks for iOS GameScorpion's Hooks and Callbacks - Android Edition Hooks and Callbacks II - mailing screenshots Android Intents, Notifications and External Applications

Optimization

• Scene Optimization
• Performance: Batching
• Performance: Combiner
• Auto Find and Batch
• OpenGLES Performance
• Bones and Skinning
• Precompiling Shaders
• Using Scenes
• Static Colliders
• Texture Atlases

FAQ

• When's Shiva 2.0 coming?
• Using c++ instead of LUA
• ShiVa Crash - Editor empty!
• https support

• Sharp HUDs
• fps-independent movement
• more 3d file formats!
• 2D Games with ShiVa

• StepByStep to iOS
• StepByStep to Android
• StepByStep to WebOS
• StepByStep to BlackBerry

• FaceBook Status Update

User Websites and Further Links

Archimmersion - Berdal's French Blog - Dave Young - GameplayProgrammer - Modern Alchemists - Reverb'Air AR plugin - SubSpaceGames Tutorials - SynapticBytes plugins - trisymphony tutorials

Even more excellent User Tutorials

Animating Basic Objects Using Shiva AnimClips Animation with Blend Layers Animated Sprites on HUDs Animated Sprites from Sprite Sheets Intro to the ShiVa Animation System Animated Trees and other Vegetation Tricks Animated Texture Atlas universal AIModel	manual LOD Occlusion Culling Sharp and resolution/viewport independent HUDs Create a Path with Tiles using the Navigation API Flexible Keyboard/Joystick Input Architecture Keyboard Handlers - Rotating a Cube Zorder versus Material Priority
Creating a Fountain in ShiVa Underwater Texture Distortion Glow without lights Importing and Modifying a Font Terrain Tips and Tricks	Sculptris>Blender 2.5>ShiVa Modo to ShiVa with UU3D Skyboxes with Vue 3D Objects from Pictures via SVG

Chat

ShiVa Skype User Group

With users & developers!

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ShiVa IRC

The chat for ShiVa users!