multiple DSP in XACT

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    - help please Rendertarget on xbox360 I did try the code, which doesn't work because it contains a bug. When I fixed the bug, it worked fine on Xbox. You can draw to many rendertargets. What you cannot do is assume that when you first start drawing to a rendertarget, it will contain the same thing it did the previous time you drew to it, during the last frame. To fix this particular program you need to change it so that rather than just swapping the two targets each frame (which makes the second target from the previous frame become the first target of the next frame, but doesn't work because the RT contents have been lost by this point), it draws the texture from the second rendertarget over the contents of the first (and then doesn't actually swap the RT pointers). Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - I want to use a simple fx shader on a simple loaded model Looks like you've got it sorted out. I put together a really simple demo that should compile and run out of the box in case anything is still unclear: http://www.georgemcbay.com/xna/SimpleEffectDemo.zip It only loads one model and displays it. The shader is very simple, it just does basic fullbright texture mapping with no lighting or anything else. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 1946 part 1 "no missions" Hi, could you upload it again It seems the links are down Thanks. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - beginners tutorials hah... it is! and I actually was wondering why he didn't include it in his post either. Easy to overlook the sig. btw... I saw you on channel9 today george. Your a star =) Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Z-Order in XNA Hello, I was wondering if there is any information on Z-Order in drawing sprites to the screen. I basically need a good way to draw a game with layared sprites. Thanks Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - help regarding a game The forums aren't really the place for him to start. This would be a better starting point. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Is there any way to tell if a sampler has a texture attached in shaders? If you mean accessing sampler information from the effect, then that's a reasonable suggestion. You can send your feature request to directx@microsoft.com . Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Anyone know a good tutorial that teaches you XNA and how to make games? Any good one Please, lol I really really really really really really REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want to learn how to make games. Thanks Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Refreshing the graphics Ok, I'll try to explain what I want to do in another way, because I have been asking this for one week, and nobody seems to understand. I'm making my very own RPG. As you know, this type of game spawns objects (like monsters, items, whatever) during the game. Lets just say I want to spawn a monster in the middle of the game (when the game has already been ran), how can I do that Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Build for Xbox 360 and Windows in one project Simple - wait for the Pro version. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - RenderTarget2D rendered with garbage all over it or buggy drivers Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - silly question I just want to make I understand everything about XNA and directX so here is my noob question.... all the numbers have f after them X=2.3f what does the f stand for Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - SpaceWar with a PC controller? What about the GamePad class din't test it so i don't know if it works, but its there for sure. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Generating MipMaps Hi, When I create a texture using the code below the mip maps always come out as a solid color, how can i generate proper mip maps from the texture TextureImage = new Texture (device, ii.Width, ii.Height, 5 , Usage .None, format, Pool .Managed); SurfaceLoader .FromSurface(TextureImage.GetSurfaceLevel(0), textureTexture.GetSurfaceLevel(0), Filter .None, 0); TextureImage.GenerateMipSubLevels(); Thanks for any help, -Dave Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Interfaces What an interface actually consists of is a full class definition, minus any of the method bodies (ie. Just the method prototypes and member definitions). Each class that inherits from the interface has to provide it's own implementation for the methods in the interface. The key difference here between general class inheritance and implementing an interface is that the interface doesn't provide an implementation, which in some cases makes the most sense. Every class that implements an interface is required to provide a body for the functions in the interface whereas in general class inheritance, over-riding methods is optional. Referring to my earlier example where an interface might be used to specify a physics engine interface which could be used as a game service, it wouldn't make much sense if instead a base class was used instead of an interface because the base class in this case wouldn't have any code, nor could it guarantee that any class that derives from it actually fulfills the intended functionality. Part of what you need to understand when implementing an interface is that the interface should be designed so the implementation of the functionality intended to be provided is independant of the interface. It isn't necesary to 'place the specification directly into the classes so you can change something' because nothing is preventing you from using as many supporting methods as you'd like in addition to the methods that were implemented from the interface. The interface stays the same to guarantee interopability between code that uses any class that implements that interface. Hope this helps. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Second series (13 parts) of 3D XNA tutorials finished +flightsim Hi -- That part of code is explained in more detail in Series 3, which focusses on HLSL. However, since they are much more important in XNA as they were in MDX, I have extended my explanation on vertex formats in XNA a bit. It's become quite a lengthy page, but I think it contains all details so everybody can understand vertex formats, and create their own. If you feel some info is missing, make sure you let me know! Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Starting Well, I got XNA yesterday and i have been trying to figure out how to use it all day. I have used the help but i am still completely lost. Can anyone help me start out Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Poor XNA performance or my poor code... or normal? The ModelMesh.Draw() function is a convenience function. If you are writing an application where optimal performance is a goal. You shouldn't be using this method to perform your drawing. The Draw function implementation looks something like this: while ( enumerator2 . MoveNext ()) { ModelMeshPart part1 = enumerator2 . Current ; Effect effect1 = part1 . Effect ; if ( effect1 == null ) { throw new InvalidOperationException ( Resources . ModelHasNoEffect ); } effect1 . Begin ( saveStateMode ); try { using ( IEnumerator < EffectPass > enumerator1 = effect1 . CurrentTechnique . Passes . GetEnumerator ()) { while ( enumerator1 . MoveNext ()) { EffectPass pass1 = enumerator1 . Current ; pass1 . Begin (); part1 . Draw (); pass1 . End (); } continue ; } continue ; } finally { effect1 . End (); } } Now aside from the above mentioned Effect state changes that can be moved outside of the inner loop, the above Effect calls colored in red only need to be called once each in order to render all 1000 of your meshes, but since you're calling the draw method 1000 times, each of these methods is called 1000 times. That is almost certainly where the majority of your slowdown is coming from. You know you're models only have 1 effect, so begin the effect and pass outside of the inner loop, call the ModelMeshPart.Draw() method 1000 times (it's just a simple efficient call to the underlying Graphics object), then end the effect pass and end the effect. Furthermore, if you want really efficient performance drawing identical models on windows, you need to use something called "Instancing" which is covered in direct3d tutorials, but I hear it doesn't improve performance much on Xbox360. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - loading large image using DirectX Hi all. First of all, I'm new to DirectX. I'm trying to load an image into a PictureBox component (C#) using DirectX. The problem is that I'm working with large pictures (for ex. 4021x3123) and can't use the Windows GDI, because the picture takes a lot of memory and it flickers when I move the scrollbars. That's why I was thinking of using DirectX. I've linked the DirectX Device with the PictureBox: Device device = new Device(0, DeviceType.Hardware, pictureBox1, CreateFlags.SoftwareVertexProcessing, presentParams); The problem is that I don't know how to load the image as a backgroud image using DirectX (i need to do some drawing on it after it loads). Is there a way to load it and prevent the flickering when i move the PictureBox's scrollbars Thanks. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Short tech demo my guess would be that you have some sort of controller (possibly a PC) intercepting the wiimote commands, and then that is sending the appropriate 360 controller command at least i hope that's what it is ... because i need a programmatic way to send controller commands from a PC :) can't wait to see! Thanks, casey Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Making an entire viewport transparent dczraptor wrote: nick5454 wrote: I cant find any examples on drawing to that Render2D object. do you know of any links nvm, ill just ask another // set up a render target RenderTarget2D rt = new RenderTarget2D (graphics.GraphicsDevice, width, height, 1, graphics.GraphicsDevice.DisplayMode.Format); RenderTarget2D backBuffer = ( RenderTarget2D )graphics.GraphicsDevice.GetRenderTarget(0); graphics.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(0, rt); graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear( Color .CornflowerBlue); // draw model.Draw(gameTime); // reset the render target graphics.GraphicsDevice.ResolveRenderTarget(0); Texture2D renderedTexture = rt.GetTexture(); rt.Dispose(); graphics.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(0, backBuffer); I don't understand. The backbnuffer is null, because target 0 doesnt exist yet. And what am I supposed to with the texture I'm just confused. Nick Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Material vs Shader EDIT2: I was thinking some time, where is difference between surface and material... I found: Example - glass...it have a surface and some translucent calculations. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Nvidia Vista Drivers Hello, I'm seeing a problem with the latest NVidia drivers on Vista (version 97.46 realeased on 5th Jan 2007), and I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing similar problems. The display card is an NVidia GeForce 6800 LE, but I don't think its specific to that display card. The problem I'm seeing is that DrawIndexedPrimitive() doesn't seem to draw anything if the BaseVertexIndex argument in DIP is larger the MaxVertexIndex caps value. The return value from DIP is OK, but it doesn't draw anything. I'm drawing representations of oil reservoirs made up of a large number of quads. The whole reservoir goes in a single vertex buffer which can often exceed 100MB in size. I am using an index buffer containing around 3000 indices. The contents of the index buffer are kept the same and the vertex buffer is drawn by increasing the the value of BaseVertexIndex at each DIP call. If further clarification is needed I can provide a code snippet. I've also written a very short test program to investigate this and I'm seeing the same effect. This approach of offsetting BaseVertexIndex to draw large vertex buffers has been working for us with no problems for several years now on XP on a range of cards, and we've had no problems drawing vertex buffers up to 200MB in size. I know this problem should best be addressed to NVidia but it seems to a little difficult to get technical answers of this kind answered directly by NVidia. On a related note, we'd like to use the newer cards with 512MB of memory to draw vertex buffers up to 512MB in size, but the maximum vertex buffer you can allocate seems to be around 256MB. Does anyone have any experience of this Thanks for any help, Robert Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Game AI Hi, i am currently working on a simple first person shooter game and this is the first time i am at it. I am actually working on the AI part where the enemies must find the correct player and attack, I have seen some shortest path algorithms like A* and it's variants I want to know in which manner or format the MAP must be stored and conveyed to the CPU players so it is efficient.I want to know this because in a complex map there may be a lot of crucial points and terrains.. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - read pixel of speficic face of cubemap in hlsl Hi, I would like to use gpu to convert the cubemap pixels and need to use the cubemap faces one by one as texture to do my shader. Does anyone know if i can read pixels from specific face of cubemap in shader Since I can't change the texture head in pc to set cubemap surface as texture. and in texCube(s,uvw) the uvw is the reflective vector. Is there easy way to do it except lock the cubemap surface and copy data to a texture Thanks. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Line Colours Hi All, In our application we would like to draw thousands of objects each consisting of two LineStrips and one LineList primitive. Each object should be drawn using one colour and so we are using PositionOnly vertices rather than PositionColored. How can we set the colour of an object without using PositionColored vertices Also what is the easiest way of drawing some objects as dashed or dotted We're using DX9 on this. Many Thanks for any help you can give Simon Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - please help I'de put a pictuer up of the insidint but i can't. When i try to debug it will say, "Couldn't connect (ALOT of stuff) please rebuild project, or place in the right location." i put the right location and i started all over but it's like not working for me soneone please help me!! Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 2D Lines Not sure what you are using the lines for, but there was an wonderful article posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/manders/archive/2007/01/07/lines-2d-thick-rounded-line-segments-for-xna-programs.aspx on creating vector graphic style lines. The benefit of drawing lines in a similar fashion to this over the built in DX line drawing class, is that the lines will look good on TV and all resolutions. Just thought you might be interested in the article. Plus Mike has some other great XNA articles worth checking out. - Bill Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - [c#] Mesh.ComputeTangentFrame throws InvalidDataException I would suggest that if you have 3dsmax going to look at Pandasoft's converters, they work extremely well and regularly get updated. PandaSoft's DirectX Exporter I hope this helps. Take care. Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Can't find how to launch XNA Game Framework after having installed it-please help I uninstalled and re-installed both,but nothing seem to help . I still have no game-templates when I click on "New Project". Sorry,I don't know what's a " CE Express Edition". I installed the version that is free to download from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/ . Should I download XNA game-maker templates manually or they should appear after installation of GSE Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Gamestate and GarbageCollection - basic question Hi, Sorry to be a pain, but would you be able to post an example of your level loading Or if others have seen any tutorials that cover this kind of thing, please let me know. I am a bit obsessed with 'how things are done' and don't like to be too sloppy implemting this stuff, so any input/examples/do's/don't greatfully recieved to help get me up to speed. Cheers :) Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Deployment and XML Content SoulDragoon, thanks a lot for the reply! Sounds like a lot of manual work! The official MS tut for deployment at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb197292.aspx is not clear on that matter. There has to be an easy way to do this... Tag: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

TheSonny

i have problem with DSP effects in XACT:

how create more DSP then one and change them in run time

i have one man that plays cue inside cave, and second playing the same cue out side, first cue should use "Cave DSP", and second should be played normaly.

im looking for something like EAX and sources in openal.

Re: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT

Joel Martinez

Hmm, I'm not seeing anything in the API that would suggest this is possible. My thought on how to accomplish this would be to assign the same wave to two different sounds and attach those sounds to the appropriate DSP effect. That way, you can programmatically choose which effect to use just by calling the appropriate cue.

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TheSonny

you can have only one DSP :(

Re: Game Technologies: Audio / XACT multiple DSP in XACT

Scott Morgan

It's not as nice as using several Reverb objects, but you can automate parameters in real time.

When you create a DSP, a global RPC is automatically created as well. You can create curves for each parameter you want to adjust and move through the settings by adjusting the variable tied to the curves. It doesn't work well for different sounds with different reverb settings at the same time, but at least you can change the global reverb over time.

So from the programmer's perspective, he is just tweaking a variable value.