Installing DXUT?

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    - Linker problem calling DirectX functions... Please assist... I fully uninstalled: MicrosoftR DirectXR SDK MicrosoftR Platform SDK MicrosoftR Visual StudioR .NET 2005 Professional Re-Installed: MicrosoftR DirectXR SDK MicrosoftR Platform SDK MicrosoftR Visual StudioR .NET 2005 Professional Changed: Tools | Options > Projects and Solutions > VC++ Directories from C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (February 2007) to $(DXSDK_DIR)Include and $(DXSDK_DIR)Lib\x86 and they are running fine. Don't know 100% why exactly but complete. Thanks for everyone who tried to help. Ghost Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Please Help That could be happening if you're clearing the depth buffer but you haven't created one when setting the presentation parameters. So you can set a depth buffer like: presentParams->Windowed = true; presentParams->SwapEffect = SwapEffect::Discard; presentParams->EnableAutoDepthStencil = true; presentParams->AutoDepthStencilFormat = DepthFormat::D16; ... device->Clear(ClearFlags::Target | ClearFlags::ZBuffer, System::Drawing::Color::Blue, 1.0f, 0); or don't set the depth buffer and clear like: device->Clear(ClearFlags::Target, System::Drawing::Color::Blue, 1.0f, 0); Here's an example of the code I played with, which worked for me but you will need the platform SDK installed to use: // Graphics3D.h #include "Windows.h" using namespace System::Windows::Forms; using namespace System::Data; using namespace System::Drawing; using namespace Microsoft::DirectX; using namespace Microsoft::DirectX::Direct3D; using namespace Microsoft::DirectX::Diagnostics; public ref class Graphics3D { public: Graphics3D() { } ~Graphics3D() { if(device) delete device; } bool Init(System::Windows::Forms::Form^ frm) { try { PresentParameters^ presentParams = gcnew PresentParameters(); presentParams->Windowed = true; presentParams->SwapEffect = SwapEffect::Discard; presentParams->EnableAutoDepthStencil = true; presentParams->AutoDepthStencilFormat = DepthFormat::D16; device = gcnew Device(0, DeviceType::Hardware, frm, CreateFlags::SoftwareVertexProcessing, presentParams); // Create vertices float width = (float)frm->Width; float height = (float)frm->Height; vertices = gcnew array<CustomVertex::TransformedColored, 1>(3); vertices[0].Position = Vector4(width / 2.0f, 50.0f, 0.5f, 1.0f); vertices[0].Color = System::Drawing::Color::Aqua.ToArgb(); vertices[1].Position = Vector4(width - width / 5.0f, height - height / 5.0f, 0.5f, 1.0f); vertices[1].Color = System::Drawing::Color::Black.ToArgb(); vertices[2].Position = Vector4(width / 5.0f, height - height / 5.0f, 0.5f, 1.0f); vertices[2].Color = System::Drawing::Color::Purple.ToArgb(); return true; } catch(DirectXException^) { return false; } } bool Render() { if(!device) return false; //Clear the backbuffer to a blue color device->Clear(ClearFlags::Target | ClearFlags::ZBuffer, System::Drawing::Color::Blue, 1.0f, 0); //Begin the scene device->BeginScene(); // Rendering of scene objects can happen here device->VertexFormat = CustomVertex::TransformedColored::Format; device->DrawUserPrimitives(PrimitiveType::TriangleList, 1, vertices); //End the scene device->EndScene(); device->Present(); return true; } void OnApplicationIdle(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e) { MSG m; while(!PeekMessage(&m, NULL, 0, 0, 0)) { if(!Render()) return; } } private: Microsoft::DirectX::Direct3D::Device^ device; array<CustomVertex::TransformedColored, 1>^ vertices; }; // TestApp.cpp #include "stdafx.h" #include "Form1.h" #include "Graphics3D.h" using namespace TestDrawUserPrimitives; [STAThreadAttribute] int main(array<System::String ^> ^args) { // Enabling Windows XP visual effects before any controls are created Application::EnableVisualStyles(); Application::SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false); Form1^ form = gcnew Form1(); Graphics3D^ graphics = gcnew Graphics3D(); form->Show(); if(!graphics->Init(form)) { MessageBox::Show("Error creating device"); return 1; } Application::Idle += gcnew System::EventHandler(graphics, &Graphics3D::OnApplicationIdle); // Create the main window and run it Application::Run(form); return 0; } Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA GSE - Vista installation Hello all, I'm running the latest Vista Ultimate (MSDN) version on my machine. For some reason I can't get GSE to install. At the end of the setup, Microsoft Visual C# Express crashes and the setup is rolled back. Always when it states "Registering project templates". Like the Visual C# Express site suggests, I've tried uninstalling the product, and re-install it as an Administrator user. But that doens't work either. Afterwards I receive the same behavior. I've also ran the GSE setup as an Administrator, but still no luck. Thanks for all suggestions and help! Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 360 Boat game with source This game rules! I think the water effect takes it to that next level though, nice job. The only thing that pissed me off was some of the collission detection. Sometimes if you nick a wall, instead of bouncing off and still move forwards, it would bounce you totally backwards. I'd like to see some more stuff from you. Are you entering the dream build play contest Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - DirectX8 and Vista Compatibility Check this out http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx postid=1231805 Its looking like the DirectX activeX control is not on vista by default as it was in XP. We are currently trying to work out if DX9 is supposed to install this or not but either way its not there in Vista and since tis part of the DX redist you are not technically supposed to install it yourself. The reports claim that the DX8 redist isn't installing it either. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Create my own Device Hi , I am trying to setup my own parameters to create my own graphics device. I want to make it a REF device and set a custom adapter number. This is for a program called NVPerfHUD. Is there a way to customize the device creation Can I destroy the old device and create one my own Or is this not possible in XNA Thanks for any answers Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Device inside a content processor? If I had a class that contained a VertexBufferContent instance and a IndexCollection, and I wanted to supply a draw method for it that handled drawing those with the graphcis device, how would I do that Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Launcher icon? Howdy, Is there a way to display an icon to the left of the game title on the XNA Launcher screen on the 360 It looks like there's room for one and I recall seeing them in some of the demo vids, but I couldn't find any info here or in the GSE documentation. Thanks, Brian Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Dream Build Play today? rusty_bone wrote: The longer that website takes to come out, the better. Not if the deadline remains static, although there's a lot that we can do even without all the rules. rusty_bone wrote: I hope they give us till at least April to get it finished. If they're looking for a holiday 07 release I would think at least until April. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Game Distribution I got clickonce to start to work. In Publish/Application File you need to change any that say Data Files(Auto) to Include. You want to go here anyways as it tends to include both the source art and the final art. However even fixing these the programs still only run on machines with XNA Game Studio installed. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - A problem with my graphics card? When I compile and run the default windows game project, I get the following error: Could not find a Direct3D device that has a Direct3D9-level driver and supports pixel shader 1.1 or greater. Could this be a problem with my graphics card (I reckon this is quite likely), or is it a problem with my XNA installation Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Music? Well this seems to be the one part of XNA that is severely lacking (except perhaps for 3D animation). While Managed DX was around, I used to simply use codecs for MP3 or OGG Vorbis to play music with AudioVideoPlayback. The problem now is that XACT only supports WAV/RIF, and only uncompressed WAV (not even MP3 encoded!). There are some libraries that use the old DirectSound DLLs to play MP3s or even OGG, but that's all being deprecated. So... what's the alternative using XNA to play music I'm sure you XNA developers must have thought about this during development. It's simply not feasible to have a 50~100MB WAV file for each song/music track in your game, and reducing the sampling rate really isn't a good alternative for high-quality music. Thanks for any advice. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Alpha Tech Demo for 360 - Download "TankBuster TNG" Are Torque starter kits compatable with XNA Torque X is an engine built from XNA, so yes it is. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Help please: GraphicsDevice in a form take look at this tread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1059538&SiteID=1 you can download a sample it do not use the game.dll to use the content manager Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Multiuser games? @jackline Yes, lots of people have created C# multiuser environments. Just look up client/server projects over at The Code Project, example (http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/mdxsnake.asp). Easy, and good for a small number of players. That said... I've seen some MMOG C# projects, but honestly they don't get far off the ground. Mostly because it's hard to get the kind of support you need to make an efficient MMOG system. But also because an MMOG server should never be written in anything other than C/C++ simply because of the amount of data you need to move and info you need to process. One should never say never...but you do lose 15-20% performance moving to C/C++ to C#, possibly more depending on your code, and memory consumption is going to be a lot comparatively speaking. There are few situations where performance must be maxed out, but an MMOG server is most definitely one of them. At least for now, until server hardware becomes so wicked sick that it just doesn't matter. (but don't hold your breath) But don't let me stop you, go for it. Because at the very least you will have learned a great deal about MMOG server design. For reading, I highly recommend these two books. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584502436 tag=hardcodedgame-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1584502436&adid=09H2VPH0YSVXGARZ43NY& http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584503904 tag=hardcodedgame-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1584503904&adid=15R6GYP3DEK9TCTXGXDH& Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - camera movement prob Cameron if you look at the XNA class library reference you will see that the correct method names are CreateRotationX and CreateRotationY, although I suspect that code will still need to be modified to get the desired result. Before you begin attempting to write a game, you need to have a good understanding of C# and how to find the relevant classes, properties, and methods that are available in the library reference in the help files or on http://msdn2.microsoft.com . After that, you probably need to read a book on game programming. There are some books available now that talk about XNA specifically. Here are a few: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp WRD=XNA&z=y&cds2Pid=9481 Beyond this, the best way to learn in my opinion is to look at a lot of code samples and dissect them to figure out how they work. A place to start is with the XNA tutorials: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203897.aspx Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Assign to Vector2? Initially you have to create it, otherwise you'll get an error. If you're talking about updating it after that you could use a method to the Player object that takes two floats. If the position is something that's going to be updated constantly you could keep a Vector2 member of the Player that is used to update the position and just change that: Vector2 _position; Vector2 _move; //say this has X=5/Y=2 public void UpdatePosition() { _position += _move; } public void ModifyMovement(float x, float y) { _move.X = x; _move.Y = y; } Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Ray intersection with an octtree scene manager? I'm developing an Octtree Scene Manager for XNA Game Studio Express, which is almost ready to release once I have a codeplex project for it. I have a question for the people on this forum about a feature. Should I add Ray or LineSegment intersection testing (which I think would be must faster than some other methods) or should that be left to some other collision testing components An octree (in this case a "loose" octree) is very fast at finding ray intersections with areas (cube), but I'm trying to decide if it is the responsiblity of an octree to do this or should it just worry about display issues. What do you think Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - What components really make up DX 10 ? Hello. Does new DirectX 10 include only Direct3D 10 and the rest components from DirectX 9 E.g.: DX10=D3D10+DirectInput+DirectSound+... or DX10=D3D10+XInput+DirectSound+... Please explain Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Xbox 360 Guides in XNA That's not a bad component, but indeed, its not the all masterful much loved build in keyboard. ;) Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Express edition in a machine that already has vs 2005 Hello and thanks for your time. I am trying to install game studio express on a machine that has visual studio 2005 installed. However, It asks me to install visual C# 2005 express edition. Is there a way I can make it work with vs2005. If not, would installing visual C# 2005 express edition in a machine that has vs 2005 cause any problems (I am concerned cause this is our development machine for other projects and I want to make sure that the express edition does not alter anything) Thanks MS Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Games OUT OF THE BOX?? Ok so I DID have a weird Beta version(when I downloaded it, it said 1.0) but anyway, I've reinstalled GSE and checked if everything was up-to-date, recompiled using the new dlls from the last GSE Build, published, sent over to my laptop, double-checked all requirements there, but I still get the same error. I`m puzzled now, and the only thing I can think of is that maybe it's an OS thing. I'm using different versions : XP Professional(English) and XP Home(Portuguese-BR). Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - SpriteBatch.Draw methods not overridable? The ZMan wrote: Bill Reiss wrote: You can override them, I did it in my Dr. Popper game, the syntax is just a little different... The method declarations will look like this: new public void Draw( Texture2D texture, Rectangle destinationRectangle, Color color) Bill That is the 'shadowing' that he mentioned in the original post. There are some OO reasons why its not always good but off the top of my head I can't remember the issues. Well... in my case, the problem with shadowing is that if I pass my derived version of SpriteBatch to a routine that wants a SpriteBatch... Font.Draw(SpriteBatch renderer, String text, Color color) , for example ...the base SpriteBatch.Draw methods will be used instead of my overriden Draw methods. The problem with my containment solution is that I lose all the advantages of polymorphism and I can't use my object wherever a SpriteBatch is called for. It's a bummer, but I guess I'll just have to go this way. I don't want to write my own SpriteBatch from scratch. Anyways, thanks for the replies. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - tiled background texture Hello there, I'm wondering if it's possible to draw the 2D background of my game with a texture that repeats. If this isn't clear think of the background of Arknoid where the background is simply a rectangular texture that's repeated over and over to cover the background. Thanks, Barranger Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Recommendations for terrainmesh collision and physics Glad I could help, I really hope it gives you all you need! Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Processing Keyframe Animation Data Hey all, I'm trying to write a Processor to extract the relevant keyframe animation data from the NodeContent data imported from the .x files, and am having trouble figuring out exactly what data i am given. Since i iterate through all the meshes to draw the model i was looking to store the keyframes as the corresponding Absolute transformations for each mesh, hence when animating i can just pick the appropriate keyframe transformation and set that as the World transformation matrix for the effect. Each NodeContent object has a dictionary of AnimationContents which in turn have a dictionary of AnimationChannels which in turn contain a list of KeyFrames, each containing the time index for the frame and a matrix transformation. Can anyone explain to me what coord systems this matrix transformation maps from and to (basically what does this transformation do) Also what is the deal with the Channels (like for instance why isn't the keyframe data stored at the AnimationContents level ) Thanks, its gotten me pretty confused (as you can probably tell) any help would be appreciated. That skinning animation example hasn't come out yet has it Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 2D Arcade Space Shooter, Bullet firing I'm fairly new to C#, OOP, XNA, you name it. I am however trying to take some initiative and go ahead and make an actual game (I made a Tic-Tac-Toe game before to try out XNA). So far my ideas for this game are to have a : Player Class: Moves the player's ship, creates bullets and tells them where to go. Enemy Class: Controls the Enemy's AI and handles collision with bullets. EnemyManager Class: Controls spawning enemies, checking their state and then updating them. (I need help with this, I originally wanted to hold an array of about 20 enemies, so I can keep recycling the objects but I'm finding this difficult if anyone has any advice on this or references for me to look at.) Bullet Class : Moves bullets, controls collision with enemies and players eventually. Bullet Manager: Same deal as EnemyManager, hold them in an array of about 10 and recycle them. I really need help with these manager classes, if anyone has any references please post them here. I'll post again with some code and more specific issues tomorrow. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Help needed with Spacewar Disaster Might I suggest splitting up your code such that you can test individual parts independently This can be especially helpful for beginners. For example, first set up your camera code and make sure it's always in the right place by making it view models for which you know the positions. The first error I spotted was that you are scaling the camera's position in every frame by the TotalRealTime. This the time since the game began - you meant to use ElapsedGameTime instead, which is the time since the last call to update. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Building XACT project has failed error when building Spacewar windows xp pro sp2, dx sdk december 2006 I dont know where to take XACT samples/tutorials -_- in directx sdk directory there are only c++ samples and no managed code XACT samples Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The Unofficial "Hooray I'm Done With my DBP Game" Thread Well, I've just finished uploading Space Fortress - a remake of Space Zap! from the early 80's. I've still got a list of things I wanted to add, but that I ran out of time for. The quote about adding people to a late project will make it later is very true. I'd started with a team size of three - Me, my wife, and my 3.5 year old playtester, Katrina. Feb 27th we added a new team member - Naomi. I'm just happy my wife is so supportive of my attempts to get a game built. Cheers to all, and the best of luck to one and all. Dan Lingman nogotogames.com Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Vertex Shader, Vertex Textures, & tex2Dlod If you use the content pipeline (by adding your .fx file to GSE) the errors will appear in the VS error window when you build. If you are compiling them yourself in code, error information is included in the CompiledEffect structure. Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Graphic Card Questions Interestingly, even if you are doing 2D games, you may very well end up using shaders. It may make sense to actually create the games as 2.5D games, using 3D graphics in an orthographic view to look like 2D, or using Pixel Shaders with SpriteBatch to do effects on your 2D elements. I have a game that I wrote originally as a straight 2D game but now I'm working on moving it to Xbox and as part of that I'm replacing some of my 2D game pieces with 3D animated models with shaders. The 2.0 Shader effects (even 1.1 or 1.4 in some cases) would probably be good enough for most of what you would need for a 2D or 2.5D game on Xbox but you never know... Tag: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

Askold

I've created my own application using DXUT. That's a water simulation that uses shaders 2.0.

But I've encountered next problem. How to launch a project that uses DXUT on another PC without installing DirectX SDK Currently it doesn't work, even though runtime DirectX is up to date and same for video drivers.

When program starts an initialization error "0x0150002" occurs.

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Re: Game Technologies: Graphics Installing DXUT?

Glenn Wilson

What Language are you using...

The DXUt are just a set of classes that compile into your application... there is no need to install it on the client as your application includes it, but If you are using the GUI Controls inside you will need to make sure that you package up the .fx and texture files that the Framework needs, as well as changing the paths inside your program. From default the paths look for the textures inside the SDK Paths.

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