I want to make a mmo card game, and I already have a server, and I want my program running on xbox360 connect my server on a pc server running windows.
Can I use standard tcp/ip
Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
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- Diffuse HLSL for Skinned Mesh The version in the SDK (the one I have) doesnt do any lighting in vs/ps, it appears to be done in the ff pipeline. I have managed to create a pixel shader and vertex shader that animates perfectly, but the example that I used only uses a light direction for the diffuse, I need to use a light at an x,y,z and then calculate the diffuse with that. Is there an easy calculation for working out a direction from the vertex position (x,y,z) and the light position (x,y,z). Sorry is this is b@ll@cks , I am new to this .... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Saving out Vector3's Thanks, that's just what I need. However, I'm still having a bit of trouble getting the loop right as the CLR debugger is saying 'Cannot evaluate expression because the code of the current method is optimized.' when I attempt to look into most of the fields. Could you show me an example loop to get from NodeContent input through to the index and vertex position lists for each mesh Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Problems with SurfaceFormat.Bgra1010102 on the XBOX360 Standard 800x600 (alas, no HD for me...yet). I don't even set it explicitely, I just let the GraphicsDeviceManager do it for me. The only things I set on it are minimum shader versions (from when I was still targeting this at PC) and the preferred depth/stencil format to Depth24Stencil8 (since I'll be using the stencil at some point) though the random example I posted above has same the problem with or without those lines. It's odd because it's basically behaving as though it's treating the 1010102 data as 8888, or maybe it's secretly writing 8888 and then thinking it's 1010102 - one of the two, I really don't know which and don't care...it should work or there should be an error telling me what I'm doing wrong...right Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Where are the Creators Club? Hi, Where can i buy the creators club subscription Cant find it on XBOX life anyware... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Shooting to make something shoot would this work: Vector2 bullet Vector2 player Bullet = Player; if(GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Button.A == ButtonState.Pressed) Bullet.X += 5; if not could you post some code taht would Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- how do i learn to write games 4 mobile oh! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- How do you canncel your XNA Creators Club subscription? Well, it says "Note that your subscription will automatically renew to a 4-month subscription at the then current price, unless you change your renewal or cancel before your subscription ends. For pricing details and information about changing or canceling your subscription, go to http://msdn.com/xna/creators". I went to http://msdn.com/xna/creators and can't find where to cancel at. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Anyone else rolling their own numerics? Well it's not quite the same thing, but I felt a need to create my own Rectangle struct that uses floating point numbers instead of ints. It made it easier to interpolate values when smoothly scrolling and moving sprites. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Calculating normals for large mesh with no vertex to triangle info I've used the same technique you're describing to calculate smooth normals for arbitrary meshes and it works fine : 1. Iterate through all faces 2. Compute face normal using a cross product 3. Sum that normal to the normal of each vertex of the face (initialy set to 0) 4. When iteration ends, normalize all normals. I'm was not using the triangle size weighting stuff, but it seems to be an interesting idea. Anyway, did you try to remove this coefficient to see if it looks better Also I've checked terrainNormals.JPG file using an image tool to see what the normals were looking like. I've noticed that there were nearly no red component where I think there should be. To me it means, if normals rendering shader's correct, that you're normal computation algorithm does not output one of the component. Even if the color output is a very usefull thing for per pixel debugging, another way to debug this is to draw normals at each points using small lines (it avoid shader/rendering mistakes). I'm wondering if Pix is not able to do that by itself. If not it could... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- How can I directly stop drawing a pixel? My main intention was avoiding the write of the the z-depth locally when ZWRITEENABLE=TRUE for the pass. (I could ask too: can the ZWRITEENABLE variable be set to false inside the pixel shader in some way ). Thanks to the answers of my previous question i can do that just modifying locally the z-depth and setting the pixel depth far enought to avoid pixel render and z-depth modification, but i was looking for a faster solution. If I set the alpha value to 0 so the pixel is "not rendered", I don't avoid writing the z-depth even if alphablend is enabled, do I Thanks again ^^ Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Starting work on my GUI system Can I suggest that high on the list of priorities for a UI would be that it is skinnable. I think it is really important that the UI match the style of the game and it also means that all our XNA games don't look the same Andy Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Camera woes Thanks for the reply. I changed those two lines and now it seems like everything is upside down - instead of hills, I have valley's and all of that is above the camera, which is upside down too. BTW, I'm pretty much using the camera class from Frank Luna's "Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0." I was able to get the camera to work flawlessly in DX9, but I think switching over to RH coordinates is what is confusing me. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Where is the PositionColoredNormal Vertex type in XNA? Thats strange... While i love the structure of the XNA framework over the old MDX one, being a beginner I find there are some very strange and simple things missing from it that were in MDX (like meshes) Creating a lit non-textured coloured cube or a sphere at run time in mdx was incredibly easy. Now with both meshes gone AND ColoredNormal vertex types gone in XNA I'm completely clueless as to what to do. The general message is that u can create your own mesh class or vertex type and that it is easy to implement, but if it is so easy to implement why not just include it anyway Does anyone know where i can find some code that implements the Mesh classes and vertex types from MDX in XNA Or a simple explanation on how to do it Can i just lift the vertex type from MDX straight into XNA Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Rotation help I think I understand what your after but not quite sure, I distilled my tranformations into one class for the sake of clarity, I havent had the time to optimise it yet and not even fully sure if its without problems, however I think it does what you need it to do, I am just going to paste the entire class so you can have a look at how I am dealing with Quaternion based rotations, I am by no means an expert and any advice on this is much appreciated. At the bottom of the class you will see the 3 methods that deal with applying pitch, yaw and roll to the tranformation. public class Transform { private Vector3 _Rotation; Matrix _World; private bool _Dirty; public bool Dirty { get { return _Dirty; } set { _Dirty = value; } } private Matrix _MatScale; private Quaternion _Orientation; private Quaternion _OrientationDelta; private Matrix _MatRotation; private Matrix _MatTranslation; private Vector3 _Left = Vector3.Left; private Vector3 _Up = Vector3.Up; private Vector3 _Forward = Vector3.Forward; public Transform() { _Scale = Vector3.One; _Position = Vector3.Zero; _Rotation = Vector3.Zero; _Orientation = Quaternion.Identity; _Dirty = true ; } public Matrix World { get { if (_Dirty) { Matrix.CreateScale( ref _Scale, out _MatScale); Matrix.CreateFromQuaternion( ref _Orientation, out _MatRotation); Matrix.CreateTranslation( ref _Position, out _MatTranslation); _World = _MatScale * _MatRotation * _MatTranslation; _Dirty = false ; } return _World; } } #region Position private Vector3 _Position; /// <summary> /// Set the position /// </summary> /// <param name= "x" > </param> /// <param name= "y" > </param> /// <param name= "z" > </param> /// <returns> </returns> public void SetPosition( float x, float y, float z) { _Position.X = x; _Position.Y = y; _Position.Z = z; _Dirty = true ; } public void SetPosition(Vector3 position) { _Position = position; _Dirty = true ; } public void SetPosition( ref Vector3 position) { _Position.X = position.X; _Position.Y = position.Y; _Position.Z = position.Z; _Dirty = true ; } /// <summary> /// Get the position /// </summary> public Vector3 Position { get { return _Position; } } /// <summary> /// Set the X component of position /// </summary> public float PositionX { get { return _Position.X; } set { _Position.X = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Y component of position /// </summary> public float PositionY { get { return _Position.Y; } set { _Position.Y = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Z component of position /// </summary> public float PositionZ { get { return _Position.Z; } set { _Position.Z = value; _Dirty = true ; } } #endregion #region Scale private Vector3 _Scale; /// <summary> /// Set the Scale /// </summary> /// <param name= "x" > </param> /// <param name= "y" > </param> /// <param name= "z" > </param> /// <returns> </returns> public void SetScale( float x, float y, float z) { _Scale.X = x; _Scale.Y = y; _Scale.Z = z; _Dirty = true ; } /// <summary> /// Get the Scale /// </summary> public Vector3 Scale { get { return _Scale; } } /// <summary> /// Set the X component of Scale /// </summary> public float ScaleX { get { return _Scale.X; } set { _Scale.X = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Y component of Scale /// </summary> public float ScaleY { get { return _Scale.Y; } set { _Scale.Y = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Z component of Scale /// </summary> public float ScaleZ { get { return _Scale.Z; } set { _Scale.Z = value; _Dirty = true ; } } #endregion public void AddPitch( float pitch) { Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle( ref _Left, pitch, out _OrientationDelta); _Orientation *= _OrientationDelta; _Dirty = true ; } public void AddYaw( float yaw) { Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle( ref _Up, yaw, out _OrientationDelta); _Orientation *= _OrientationDelta; _Dirty = true ; } public void AddRoll( float roll) { Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle( ref _Forward, roll, out _OrientationDelta); _Orientation *= _OrientationDelta; _Dirty = true ; } } Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- equivalent to progressive mesh any good resources you can recommend Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- XACT with XNA A very important point about XACT is that you should always use the tool version that matches the run-time version. So, if you are using GSE, you need to use the version of the XACT GUI tool that came with GSE. -Brian Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- ResourceManagementMode & LoadGraphicsContent Except explicitly stated as manual, all others can be thought as automatic. Normally everything from ContentManager are automatic. Manual things are only low level objects which you deal with directly, such as render targets, dynamic vertex buffers, dynamic textures, state blocks. Higher level objects are automatic as we expect. E.g. Model is built on top of automatic resources. Effect is handled by XNA to behave like automatic. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Rotating a 2d sprite thanks Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Private Network Functionality with XNA Maybe I should have been more specific, I meant for the Xbox 360. My understanding is the system.net will not work on the 360. --Matt Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Multiuser games? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that networking code wasn't in XNA at this point, so multiplayer games are not presently possible... Maybe I'm thinking of something else, though, so don't quote me on it ( : -SysErr Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Sprite Blitting question - Wondering if this is still a problem Can you be a little more specific when you say 'weird outlines' What kind of texture were you using for the player sprite Did it have an alpha channel If so, did the opaque areas of the player sprite touch the edges of the texture Also, was either of the dimensions of the texture a non-power-of-2 number Any of these have an effect on the filtering of the texture data, which comes into play when the rasterizer has to come up with a pixel value for a fragment that isn't necessarily aligned to the pixel that resides in (this is referred to as sub-pixel filtering or accuracy). Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- 2d resets with nuclex fonts? thanks... i missed that one for some reason(i was looking at their forums as we spoke). ill read into the TextManager Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Could C# be the future of gaming? With the ability to use unsafe code in C#, I expect performance to not be an issue in any game other than cutting edge stuff. There will probably always be those that will prefer C++ over anything else, but I can see a move by smaller companies to C#, for the increased speed of development if nothing else. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- XNA Quake bin release 2 You will learn tons more if you port it yourself. ;) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- RocketCommanderXNA Mouse Issue Well, the "click" logic is handled inside the RenderButton methods of the RocketCommanderGame class. // Play click sound if button was just clicked bool ret = (Input.MouseLeftButtonJustPressed || Input.GamePadAJustPressed) && this.IsActive && highlight; [...] if (ret == true) Sound.Play(Sound.Sounds.Click); // Return true if button was pressed, false otherwise return ret; I would put a breakpoint here and try to debug why MouseLeftButtonJustPressed is not getting true if you click a button. Maybe for some reason IsActive is not true and for that reason clicking does not work Could be that I added the code to prevent clicking in windowed mode when the window is not active and somewhere in the background .. dunno anymore ^^ But RocketCommanderXNA should work with mouse+keyboard or gamepad input on the PC (and gamepad only on the xbox360 since there is no mouse support in XNA on the Xbox 360, keyboard input works too on the xbox360, just plug in any usb keyboard ^^). Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Static properties for nonstatic member variables? Ah, that makes sense. So in a sense those fields become shared, right Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Building XACT project has failed error when building Spacewar output: Content\Audio\SpaceWar.xap : error : Building XACT project has failed. Content\Audio\SpaceWar.xap : error : Done building project "MySpacewarWin1.csproj" -- FAILED. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- multistream rendering problem im trying to get multi stream rendering working in dx10, i'm just hacking around with the multistream sample ATM. (what ive got in comments is what was there origonally) /* const D3D10_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC vertlayout_singleindex[] = { { "POSITION", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 0, 0, D3D10_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 }, { "NORMAL", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 1, 0, D3D10_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 }, { "TEXCOORD", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32_FLOAT, 2, 0, D3D10_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 }, }; */ D3D10_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC vertlayout_singleindex[] = { { "POSITION", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 0, 0, D3D10_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 }, { "COLOR", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32A32_FLOAT, 1, 0, D3D10_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 }, { "TEXCOORD0", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32_FLOAT, 2, 0, D3D10_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 }, }; UINT iNumElements = sizeof(vertlayout_singleindex)/sizeof(D3D10_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC); D3D10_PASS_DESC PassDesc; g_pRenderScene_SI->GetPassByIndex( 0 )->GetDesc( &PassDesc ); V_RETURN( pd3dDevice->CreateInputLayout( vertlayout_singleindex, iNumElements, PassDesc.pIAInputSignature, PassDesc.IAInputSignatureSize, &g_pVertexLayout_SI ) ); and in the shader: (was just Normal, which i changed to colour) struct VS_INPUT_SI { float4 Position : POSITION; // vertex position //float3 Normal : NORMAL; // this normal comes in per-vertex float4 colour : COLOR; float2 TextureUV : TEXCOORD0; // vertex texture coords }; then CreateInputLayout either crashes or returns hr = invalid args (0x80070057) so fails. am i doing something noticably wrong Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- ID3D10Effect::Get**() - what happens when handle isn't found?? Thanks Ralf I saw the IsValid() functions but the SDK documentation made out that it validates the HLSL code and it read more like it wasn't to do with validating *existence*. Me being in a hurry and unclear documentation I suppose - but ::IsValid() solves my problems. Cheers, Jack Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Video/Animation Playback Creating textures for each frame isn't probably the most efficient way, for two reasons: Creating and destroying GPU resources is pretty slow. This is the kind of thing you really want to be doing just once in an initialize function, rather than inside your rendering loop. Loading textures using FromFile means you aren't going to be getting much in the way of data compression. This may be fine if your animation is very low resolution, but for decent quality video, uncompressed format is going to take so much space, the hard drive may well not be able to keep up with the transfer rate this is requiring! To fix the first problem, a typical approach would be to create probably three textures using the Dynamic usage flag in your initialize function. Then you cycle between them. Each time you want to render a frame, pick the next texture from your list of three, call SetData on it to fill it with a new frame of image data, then use it to render, and rotate the list so you get a different texture on the next frame. The reason to have three textures rather than just one is that the GPU renders asynchronously with the CPU, so if you called SetData immediately the next frame on the same texture you just used, the CPU would have to stall until the GPU was finished rendering out of that texture. Using three in rotation gives the GPU time to have finished rendering the previous frames before the CPU tries to stuff new data into each texture. To reduce the amount of bandwidth you are using (assuming this turns out to be a problem), you will need to do some kind of video compression. That's not an area I know much about though! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Surface.GetGraphics() in WindowsMobile.DirectX.Direct3D always throw an exception 9 This is in the mobile version os MDX - I'm not sure they have the same level of debugging as we have. As I have posted in other mobile threads - there really is no know how on mobile DX in this forum and I have yet to find a place where there is expertise. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Should I use Object Oriented programming for games? You should really go with OO. When your building a game you call the update and draw methods on each frame, but you should not be destroying or creating items until they are needed or need to be destroyed. On the update method you will most likely be just telling sprites and such that they are now at a different position or something to this effect. The draw method you are now drawing these sprites to the device. So the idea is that you do not really do any real creation or destruction in these methods. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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Re: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
andyfraser
Hi,
I am afraid that at present, MS is restricting access to the network layer in the XBox for security reasons. This may change to some extent over time but it is still not clear how much access MS will allow.
Andy
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
Jon Watte
Xbox XNA has no networking at all in version 1.0.
Assuming 360 is like regular X-box: Even when it has networking, the "TCP" protocol they use is actually overloaded on top of UDP, to make NAT punch-through easier, and to work well with X-box Live voice communication. Last, the entire X-box Live network is a little bit like a VPN that tunnels through the regular Internet, and ends up in Microsoft data centers. If you want to run a server for an X-box title, I believe you need to partner with Microsoft to get into that domain.
Xbox XNA has no networking at all in version 1.0.
Assuming 360 is like regular X-box: Even when it has networking, the "TCP" protocol they use is actually overloaded on top of UDP, to make NAT punch-through easier, and to work well with X-box Live voice communication. Last, the entire X-box Live network is a little bit like a VPN that tunnels through the regular Internet, and ends up in Microsoft data centers. If you want to run a server for an X-box title, I believe you need to partner with Microsoft to get into that domain.
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
Spike1907
Hmmm. I was considering trying to write a raytracer to take advantage of the power of the 360. Now I think it may not be very practical as I would have no way of getting any image that was rendered by the raytracer back to my PC is that correct
Hmmm. I was considering trying to write a raytracer to take advantage of the power of the 360. Now I think it may not be very practical as I would have no way of getting any image that was rendered by the raytracer back to my PC is that correct
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
waruwaru
Spike1907 wrote:
Hmmm. I was considering trying to write a raytracer to take advantage of the power of the 360. Now I think it may not be very practical as I would have no way of getting any image that was rendered by the raytracer back to my PC is that correct
If you don't need the data in real time, you can access to the memroy unit on XBox
See these classes: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.xna.framework.storage.aspx
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
AndyL
Hmmm. I was considering trying to write a raytracer to take advantage of the power of the 360. Now I think it may not be very practical as I would have no way of getting any image that was rendered by the raytracer back to my PC is that correct
If you are doing this project as a CPU based tracer, I'd be really interested to see you publish some comparative results of the XBox 360 vs your PC, as I'd love to see just how much slower the XBox is for something like this - especially as this should multi-thread like a dream.
Andy.
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
Jon Watte
You can get data back through the debug console. It's note super fast, though.
You can get data back through the debug console. It's note super fast, though.