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    - Select a mesh im trying to create a scene editor like app for my engine. In my mesh class, i have a boolean variable called "Selected". It determines if the mesh is selected. So does anybody know how to determine the coordinates of the mouse. And , Determine a bounding rectangle on the part of a mesh viewable. If you dont understand that, just think of how i can click on and select/deselect a mesh. Thanks in advance Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Bounding Box Not Rotating Correctly Just another quick question I'm hoping someone can help me with =o) I'm trying to change my game to use bounding spheres instead of bounding boxes but it's a bit hard without knowing what the bounding sphere covers. Does anyone know of a way to draw a primitive sphere in XNA that I could use to represent my bounding sphere Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - General strategy question about XNA I've been wondering about this as well, and I think you're probably right that it's about generating GS Pro developers. I don't think that the X360 part of GDE is ever going to take off with the current terms, it's too expensive and cumbersome in relation to the quality of the games you'll be able to play - but it's a great lure to know that you can make your own X360 games. However, GSE will produce a large number of game programmers that a) wouldn't have become game programmers without it and the X360 promise, and b) will be very familiar with MS tools and will tend to stick to them when they get to professional levels. With enough tools and components to make things easy, it can also draw more people into game creation that are not primarily focused on technology, which might lead to more unconventional content. In the coming years of console warfare, this group may become a huge asset for MS. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Scaling Sprites?(XNA) Hi, I was wondering how I could scale textures, as the textures are too big than what I need for certain parts of the game, I think its in the SpriteBatch.draw method, but its hard to manuever through all of their intellisense arguments.... For XNA Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Physical Memory Question Also (I asked another questio about framerate earlier) what is the norm for the amount of physical memory a 2D usaully takes. Mine, according to the Ctrl-Alt-Delete performance counter, takes up about 220 MegaBytes of physical memory. I don't really think that most games take that much. So my question is, What is the normal amount of physical memory for a game to take Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Connecting XNA to Xbox 360 Ok thanks for that. I don't have much experience in networking. I'll check out a store for one of those routers within the next couple days Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Codec and DirectX Hi, i'm developping an application in C# including videos. I play them with DirectX. The videos are encoded with Xvid. I would like people who use my application not to have to install the codec first. Is it possible to use just the file xvid.dll and dllImport to make the application work without the codec being installed If anybody has an idea, Thanks Laura. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Screen or Video Capture? I know the full xbox devkit has screen capture and video capture built into the toolkit. Is there any such feature in GSE If there isn't, does anyone have any recommendation that does not include a vcr Thanks. -Nick Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Templates Nevermind, I got it finally. Thanks for the help! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - frame buffer and render to texture okay i've got render to texture working, im wonderng is it possible to render to use the frame/back buffer as a render to texture so, if i want to do post effects should i: 1) some how do a frame capture or use the frame buffer as a render texture 2) do all rendering to render textures including post effects etc.. then render the final result to the frame/back buffer suggestions Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - problem in loading screen saver Hi, I'm a beginner in game developing. i made a simple 2d game recently. i found that, when my game window is in foreground and when i'm doing nothing with it, screen saver of the system is not executing even though the idle time is reached. what could be the possible reason for this condition why system's screen saver is not executed Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Hi there, i found in the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX Assembly. A quik review to the sdk i made a simple 3D application for a Windows Mobile 2005 pda. I can test this with the emulator of the Visual Studio .NET 2005 IDE, but on my Windows Mobile 2003 SE with installed .NET 2.0 i get an exception by the DirectX Assembly. Where in hell i can get a Pocket PC, PDA or Smartphone where i can test Mobile DirectX I found the chips NVidia GForce 5500, Gforce 4800 and a Intel 2700G with 3d capabalities. Does thouse chip run with Mobile DirectX And who manufactor produce a device with that chips Thanks, Dodo502b Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Files on Xbox360 Since Autodesk aquired Alias it now owns FBX. The newest FBX plug-in for MAX is working reliably fer me ( Animation, lights, materials, meshes and more.. in Maya import/export to MAX ) As Microsoft has partnered with Autodesk on the FBX intergration, I imagine if not yet, then hopefully soon for full scene pipeline import Have you downloaded FBX yet http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index siteID=123112&id=6839916 Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - GSE RTM on Vista RTM (unsupported) Dave, great to hear from you and that it is working on your system! so it's probably just a deployment issue. will troubleshoot this evening, and watch what happens on this thread : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1007412&SiteID=1 would assume its ping-able because the 360 has been used as a media center extender for the Vista PC i tried to deploy from. BTW the router i'm using is a Netgear RangeMax NEXT - Gigabit, and both 360 and PC are connected using NetGear HDXB101 powerline over ethernet adapters. this setup has been pretty reliable from media extender sessions. Thanks, casey Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Splash Screen Processing Bill Reiss wrote: The current size of the library is 36k, I can't tell you how much memory overhead it adds, I haven't profiled it yet. If memory or performance becomes an issue I'll address it at that point. I'm currently working on adding support for global scaling so that you can code everything to a preferred size (let's say 800x600) and have everything automatically scale to the actual size of the window. Bill wow, sounds like u r puttin alot of work into this, will finally be headin back home tonight so will download and play, i'm sure that it;ll do everything that i need tho, many thanks Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Managed DirectX vs Native DirectX performance Jim Perry wrote: Jack Hoxley wrote: I originally started writing DirectX code using VB6 and unofficial type-libraries (before moving on to the official ones - the precursors to MDX) Those were the good old days, weren't they Patrice Scribe was my hero! Yeah, plenty of good memories from those days! I wonder what Patrice Scribe's upto these days - I found a few of the old VB Gaming scene were still active a while back. Cheers, Jack Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - xna with managed directinput yes, that is, thank you very much. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Puting texture on a 3D model with code Hi. I have a 3D model that i have made in Blender. When i put a texture on the model in blender and export it to .x, the texture does not show in my XNA game :S. Is there a way to put texture on a plain (no texture) 3D model with code Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - "Chaos" 3d FPS Game Engine (WiP) How would I go about creating two screens / viewports, IE, for multiplayer on a 360 You just need to create two viewports and set the active one during rendering. I did this a bit ago. Here's how I created the two (one on top, one on bottom): p1View = new Viewport(); p1View.X = 0; p1View.Y = 0; p1View.Width = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width; p1View.Height = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height / 2; p1View.MinDepth = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.MinDepth; p1View.MaxDepth = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.MaxDepth; p2View = new Viewport(); p2View.X = 0; p2View.Y = p1View.Height; p2View.Width = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width; p2View.Height = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height / 2; p2View.MinDepth = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.MinDepth; p2View.MaxDepth = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.MaxDepth; And then I pull all rendering code into a separate function that the Game::Draw method so my draw method looks like this: //set the viewport graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport = p1View; //reverse the view matrix viewPosition.Z *= -1; viewTarget.Z *= -1; viewMatrix = Matrix.CreateLookAt( viewPosition, viewTarget, Vector3.Up ); //render the scene RenderScene(gameTime); //set the viewport for player 2 graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport = p2View; //reverse the view matrix viewPosition.Z *= -1; viewTarget.Z *= -1; viewMatrix = Matrix.CreateLookAt( viewPosition, viewTarget, Vector3.Up ); //render the scene RenderScene(gameTime); base.Draw(gameTime); Hope that helps with that one. As far as the rendering, you can create shaders using HLSL that will do normal maps and all sorts of other tricks. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - error loading model in xna framework You may need to play around with some of the options in the Panda exporter. I had trouble exporting UV coordinates incorrectly on models with bones. The only way I managed to fix it was to export the model twice, once with the 'Bones' checkbox unticked, and once with it ticked. Then, using a text editor, I manually copied the MeshTextureCoords section of the boneless .x file over to the one with bones. I've also had trouble with Panda not exporting UV coordinates if they're baked onto mesh, but it worked fine when I had a UVW modifier in the Modifier List. Another thing that may cause this is if Panda is exporting any dummy objects from your scene, seeing as they wouldn't contain mapping coordinates. And, although it sounds like one of those 'have you made sure it's plugged in' suggestions, you'll also want to make sure you have the 'Mapping coordinates' checkbox ticked. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - JIT register allocation and bounds checking Jon Watte wrote: Really Have you tried it If unsafe code is fine, then you can pretty easily(*) take over the box, as it allegedly runs in supervisor ("kernel" or "ring 0") mode. I was under the impression that unsafe code would not be allowed to be deployed/loaded through XNA onto the Xbox. (*) for some value of "easily" Yes Jon, of course I have tried it - the VM is sandboxed in some other way, the exact details of which haven't been disclosed. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Can I write 3D games in XNA? Richard Kain wrote: It's no lark in the daisies...but yes, its entirely possible. When you go 3D, the complexity of the game you're producing automatically ramps up. 3D collision detection is much more complex than 2D. 3D movement and animation is more complex than 2D. etc... If you want to produce a 3D game, it will be quite a bit more challenging. However, XNA does offer all the tools that you would need to make it happen. It supports the native loading of 3D models and animations. (a big plus) It has the structures necessary for storing 3D related information easily. (learn to love Vector3, it's your new best friend) If you're serious about producing a 3D title, everything is here. Just roll up your sleeves. What's a lark Anyways, I don't really think it's that much harder to make 3d games. As long as you don't try to dive into physics and AI (which tend to suck to program) right away, 3d games are not ridiculously hard. XNA definitely makes them much easier to program. Hopefully the community will grow and more 3d tutorials will appear. I agree about Vector3 though. I was lost in the dark before I learned how vectors were used. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Refreshing the graphics Althake wrote: But I need it working this way: game.Run(); Sprite sprite = new Sprite(game, @"Contents/Character", new Rectangle(134, 126, 32, 48), Color.White); I need to be able to draw a sprite WHILE the game is running. Don't worry, I have a reason to do this. That won't even create the sprite until the game has finished running... it certainly won't draw it while the game is running. Game.Run() doesn't return until your game has ended. As George said, you can use the Visible property to control exactly when the component does and does not draw itself. Maybe if you explain exactly what it is you want to do, we can help you figure out how to do it. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Help Please, kinda alot of questions in here Actually, I would probably start with a Mario Clone, THEN a Tetris clone. Mario style games are some of the most absolutely easiest games to write, as all it is essentially, is just basic user inputs bounding box collisions, and counters to increment scores on contact/collect. Tetris clones can be handled in a similair fashion considering that the play objects would most probably be ( in lots of four ) ie a collection of sprites, but the fact that the shapings can be quite different, and the fact you might have to think ( SHOCK !) might make this one a little bit harder to fathom. Oh well, thats just MY opinion :) Daniel. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - My shadow maps work on Windows, not Xbox 360 Hi George The problem I'm having isn't to do with the DepthStencil buffer, but with the actual render target, for some reason it seems to be treating the render target as SurfaceFormat.Color instead of SurfaceFormat.Single, which explains why I get values back that make no sense wherever I've written to the surface, I've built a cutdown version of my current source without the audio files in which is a lot smaller than the original, you can download it from (it's 1.3MBytes): http://www.dudleysoft.org/HDL_Test.zip There's lots of odd code that's commented out that I was using to test various solutions in the code, I've moved the shadow target code out of GameMode and into Game1, I've tried rendering my models the same way you're doing it, and it still refuses to work, there's commented out code in the IntroPage, TitlePage and Mission classes that will draw the current shadow map to the screen. You can check out how it should appear on the PC and then see how it actually appears on the 360. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Selecting objects in 3D space K. but isn't there a Vector3.Unproject that can help me. I'm only 13 years old, and I didn't understood matrices very well..... it's not for my math level so I'm trying not to use them very frequently cuz most of the time I get stuck in a bug . Anyway..... Vector3.Unproject doesn't transform the 2D coordinates into 3D ( 2 vectors => a ray). The thing that I don't understand is the ClosestHit parameter in the rayintersectmesh mesh method... It's the only thing I'm missing to start working seriously on a program (Verter)..... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Question from XNA Tutorial 1 Ok, so, I see this going on in many people's 3D examples, so there must be something to it. In XNA tutorial 1, in the Draw loop, they set every property of every effect every time through the loop. Why It would seem to me that, since they always want default lighting, the best place to set that is in LoadGraphicsContent, right after the model is loaded. Same for the aspect ratio. They don't support it changing, so why bother setting it 60 times per second As far as the view and world matrix, obviously those theoretically need to change. But why is this not done in Update That way, the transformations are skipped (and frame rate goes up), if the player is not pushing on the controller to move the camera, or if the object did not need to move within the world at that point. Again, everyone seems to do it this way, but never explains why. Is this just one of those things that we have decided, "Hmm, seems to work, let's run with it.", or is it mesurably better in some fashion Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - What does creators club include right now? Whose going to pay the developers Microsoft of course - thats who they work for :) If you *bothered* to read my previous post you would see that I did not say everything should be free and I said that I do not object to the Creators Club not being free - I just found it odd that all the other components of XNA are free (ie the main tools) and yet the creators club isn't - particularly when there is not much incentive to pay for the creators club yet. Microsoft would be far wiser to make the creators club free now and instead charge developers small amounts for downloadable content for XNA - just like they charge for downloadable content for games. As it stands in its current form there is zero incentive for me to join the creators club. Lets see - I want to try my program out on the XBOX - hmm that'll be $99 please! I don't think so. Of course there is a tonne of content "out there" - but it's not part of the creators club and I can already get that for free (or pay for it) - but based on the description of what the Creators club is supposed to be - its worded like there will be additional or new content available when clearly there isn't at this time. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - mesh loading error hi i just started coding a simple dx powered engine 'n when i tried to implement mesh loading into i got this error: this is the constructor of my mesh class: CBaseMesh::CBaseMesh( char * szFileName, IDirect3DDevice9* _pD3DDev) { if (FAILED(D3DXLoadMeshFromX(szFileName, D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM, _pD3DDev, NULL, &pD3DMaterials, NULL, &dwNumMaterials, &pD3DMesh))) MB( "error loading mesh" ); } when the program reaches this function it crashes with a message: Unhandled exception at 0x004b57f8 in Engine.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x5ec68b63. the debugger shows that something is terribly wrong with d3dx9.dll. i tried to do everything with the passed d3ddevice argument, but it just don't work... i call this constructor like this: void CScene::Add( char * szFileName) { CObject* mesh = new CBaseMesh(szFileName, pD3DDev); objects.push_back(mesh); } i pass the d3ddevice argument from my base app's class by the CScene constructor any ideas thanx Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - DirectX and Visual Studio 8 Help I am trying to learn DirectX for 2D programming and have been running into some brick walls while doing so. I am currently learning from Sams Teach Yourself Game Programming With DirectX. This book uses DirectX8 but I have had problems with DirectX8 working with VS8 so i started using the April Dev kit and all seemed to be just fine until i ran into this code. Code Snippet ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // SurfaceApp ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #include <windows.h> #include <d3d8.h> #include <d3dx8tex.h> #include <dxerr8.h> // Function prototypes. LRESULT WINAPI WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam); void RegisterWindowClass(HINSTANCE hInstance); void CreateAppWindow(HINSTANCE hInstance); WPARAM StartMessageLoop(); HRESULT InitFullScreenDirect3D(); void Render(); void CleanUpDirect3D(); // Global variables. HWND g_hWnd; IDirect3D8* g_pDirect3D = NULL; IDirect3DDevice8* g_pDirect3DDevice = NULL; IDirect3DSurface8* g_pBitmapSurface = NULL; HRESULT g_hResult = D3D_OK; char g_szErrorMsg[256]; ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // WinMain() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// INT WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, INT) { RegisterWindowClass(hInstance); CreateAppWindow(hInstance); ShowWindow(g_hWnd, SW_SHOWDEFAULT); UpdateWindow(g_hWnd); HRESULT hResult = InitFullScreenDirect3D(); if (SUCCEEDED(hResult)) WPARAM result = StartMessageLoop(); CleanUpDirect3D(); CloseWindow(g_hWnd); if (g_hResult != D3D_OK) DXTRACE_ERR(g_szErrorMsg, g_hResult); return 0; } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // WndProc() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// LRESULT WINAPI WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { switch(msg) { case WM_CREATE: return 0; case WM_DESTROY: PostQuitMessage( 0 ); return 0; case WM_PAINT: ValidateRect(g_hWnd, NULL); return 0; case WM_KEYDOWN: switch(wParam) { case VK_ESCAPE: PostQuitMessage(WM_QUIT); break; } } return DefWindowProc(hWnd, msg, wParam, lParam); } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // RegisterWindowClass() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// void RegisterWindowClass(HINSTANCE hInstance) { WNDCLASSEX wc; wc.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX); wc.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW | CS_OWNDC; wc.lpfnWndProc = WndProc; wc.cbClsExtra = 0; wc.cbWndExtra = 0; wc.hInstance = hInstance; wc.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION); wc.hCursor = (HCURSOR)LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH); wc.lpszMenuName = NULL; wc.lpszClassName = "SurfaceApp"; wc.hIconSm = NULL; RegisterClassEx(&wc); } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // CreateAppWindow() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// void CreateAppWindow(HINSTANCE hInstance) { g_hWnd = CreateWindowEx( NULL, "SurfaceApp", "Direct3D Surface Application", WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, 100, 100, 648, 514, GetDesktopWindow(), NULL, hInstance, NULL); } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // StartMessageLoop() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// WPARAM StartMessageLoop() { MSG msg; while(1) { if (PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE)) { if (msg.message == WM_QUIT) break; TranslateMessage(&msg); DispatchMessage(&msg); } else { // Use idle time here. Render(); } } return msg.wParam; } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // InitFullScreenDirect3D() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// HRESULT InitFullScreenDirect3D() { g_pDirect3D = Direct3DCreate8(D3D_SDK_VERSION); if (g_pDirect3D == NULL) { MessageBox(g_hWnd, "Couldn��t create DirectX object.", "DirectX Error", MB_OK); return E_FAIL; } HRESULT hResult = g_pDirect3D->CheckDeviceType(D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8, D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8, FALSE); if (hResult != D3D_OK) { MessageBox(g_hWnd, "Sorry. This program won��t\nrun on your system.", "DirectX Error", MB_OK); return E_FAIL; } D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS D3DPresentParams; ZeroMemory(&D3DPresentParams, sizeof(D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS)); D3DPresentParams.Windowed = FALSE; D3DPresentParams.BackBufferCount = 1; D3DPresentParams.BackBufferWidth = 640; D3DPresentParams.BackBufferHeight = 480; D3DPresentParams.BackBufferFormat = D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8; D3DPresentParams.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_DISCARD; D3DPresentParams.hDeviceWindow = g_hWnd; hResult = g_pDirect3D->CreateDevice(D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, g_hWnd, D3DCREATE_SOFTWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING, &D3DPresentParams, &g_pDirect3DDevice); if (FAILED(hResult)) { MessageBox(g_hWnd, "Failed to create Direct3D device.", "DirectX Error", MB_OK); return E_FAIL; } g_hResult = g_pDirect3DDevice->CreateImageSurface(640, 480, D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8, &g_pBitmapSurface); if (FAILED(g_hResult)) { strcpy(g_szErrorMsg, "Error creating bitmap surface."); PostQuitMessage(WM_QUIT); } g_hResult = D3DXLoadSurfaceFromFile(g_pBitmapSurface, NULL, NULL, "image.bmp", NULL, D3DX_DEFAULT, 0, NULL); if (FAILED(g_hResult)) { strcpy(g_szErrorMsg, "Couldn��t load bitmap file."); PostQuitMessage(WM_QUIT); } return D3D_OK; } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // CleanUpDirect3D() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// void CleanUpDirect3D() { if (g_pBitmapSurface) g_pBitmapSurface->Release(); if (g_pDirect3DDevice) g_pDirect3DDevice->Release(); if (g_pDirect3D) g_pDirect3D->Release(); } ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Render() ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// void Render() { IDirect3DSurface8* pBackBuffer = NULL; g_hResult = g_pDirect3DDevice->GetBackBuffer(0, D3DBACKBUFFER_TYPE_MONO, &pBackBuffer); if (FAILED(g_hResult)) { strcpy(g_szErrorMsg, "Error getting back buffer."); PostQuitMessage(WM_QUIT); } g_hResult = g_pDirect3DDevice->CopyRects(g_pBitmapSurface, NULL,0,pBackBuffer,NULL); if (FAILED(g_hResult)) { strcpy(g_szErrorMsg, "Error copying image buffer."); PostQuitMessage(WM_QUIT); } g_pDirect3DDevice->Present(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (pBackBuffer) pBackBuffer->Release(); } Sorry if its to much but as you can see it cant find d3dx8tex.h I have tried changing it to d3dx9tex.h but i get a ton of errors in d3dx9math.h, core.h, and mesh.h, so what should I do Thanks for your help!! 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    - 3D model is incorrect after adding a Sprite in 2D I took the example of drawing a 3D model(tutorial 1 and 2(spaceship)) and then pasted the code from the tutorial of the "Drawing a Sprite" When It renders the ship doesn't have volume. In that I can see right through it. Does anyone know what is wrong. Is there some thickness setting for the graphic devicer that I need to set The complete code is pasted here: #region Using Statements using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Storage; #endregion namespace Tut1 { /// <summary> /// This is the main type for your game /// </summary> public class Game1 : Microsoft.Xna.Framework. Game { GraphicsDeviceManager graphics; ContentManager content; public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager ( this ); content = new ContentManager (Services); } /// <summary> /// Allows the game to perform any initialization it needs to before starting to run. /// This is where it can query for any required services and load any non-graphic /// related content. Calling base.Initialize will enumerate through any components /// and initialize them as well. /// </summary> protected override void Initialize() { // TODO: Add your initialization logic here base .Initialize(); } // 3d model to display Model myModel; private Texture2D SpriteTexture; private SpriteBatch ForegroundBatch; /// <summary> /// Load your graphics content. If loadAllContent is true, you should /// load content from both ResourceManagementMode pools. Otherwise, just /// load ResourceManagementMode.Manual content. /// </summary> /// <param name="loadAllContent"> Which type of content to load. </param> protected override void LoadGraphicsContent( bool loadAllContent) { if (loadAllContent) { myModel = content.Load< Model >( "Content\\Models\\p1_wedge" ); ForegroundBatch = new SpriteBatch (graphics.GraphicsDevice); SpriteTexture = content.Load< Texture2D >( "Content\\Textures\\Sprite" ); } // TODO: Load any ResourceManagementMode.Manual content } /// <summary> /// Unload your graphics content. If unloadAllContent is true, you should /// unload content from both ResourceManagementMode pools. Otherwise, just /// unload ResourceManagementMode.Manual content. Manual content will get /// Disposed by the GraphicsDevice during a Reset. /// </summary> /// <param name="unloadAllContent"> Which type of content to unload. </param> protected override void UnloadGraphicsContent( bool unloadAllContent) { if (unloadAllContent == true ) { content.Unload(); } } //Velocity of the model, applied each frame to the model's position Vector3 modelVelocity = Vector3 .Zero; /// <summary> /// Allows the game to run logic such as updating the world, /// checking for collisions, gathering input and playing audio. /// </summary> /// <param name="gameTime"> Provides a snapshot of timing values. </param> protected override void Update( GameTime gameTime) { if ( GamePad .GetState( PlayerIndex .One).Buttons.Back == ButtonState .Pressed) this .Exit(); //Get some input UpdateInput(); //add velocity to current position modelPosition += modelVelocity; //bleed off velocity over time modelVelocity *= 0.95f; base .Update(gameTime); } //Position of the model in world space, and rotation Vector3 modelPosition = Vector3 .Zero; float modelRotation = 0.0f; //Position of the Camera in world space, for our view matrix Vector3 cameraPosition = new Vector3 (0.0f, 50.0f, 5000.0f); //Aspect ratio to use for the projection matrix float aspectRatio = 640.0f / 480.0f; /// <summary> /// This is called when the game should draw itself. /// </summary> /// <param name="gameTime"> Provides a snapshot of timing values. </param> protected override void Draw( GameTime gameTime) { graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear( Color .CornflowerBlue); //Copy any parent transforms Matrix [] transforms = new Matrix [myModel.Bones.Count]; myModel.CopyAbsoluteBoneTransformsTo(transforms); // TODO: Add your drawing code here ForegroundBatch.Begin(); Rectangle titlesafe = GetTitleSafeArea(1.0f); Vector2 pos = new Vector2 (titlesafe.Left, titlesafe.Top); ForegroundBatch.Draw(SpriteTexture, titlesafe, titlesafe, Color .White, 1.0f, pos, SpriteEffects .None, 1.0f); ForegroundBatch.End(); //Draw the model, a model can have multiple meshes, so loop foreach ( ModelMesh mesh in myModel.Meshes) { //This is where the mesh orientation is set, as well as our camera and projection foreach ( BasicEffect effect in mesh.Effects) { effect.EnableDefaultLighting(); effect.World = transforms[mesh.ParentBone.Index] * Matrix .CreateRotationY(modelRotation) * Matrix .CreateTranslation(modelPosition); effect.View = Matrix .CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, Vector3 .Zero, Vector3 .Up); effect.Projection = Matrix .CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView( MathHelper .ToRadians(45.0f), aspectRatio, 1.0f, 10000.0f); } //Draw the mesh, will use the effects set above. mesh.Draw(); } base .Draw(gameTime); } protected void UpdateInput() { //get the gamepad state GamePadState currentState = GamePad .GetState( PlayerIndex .One); if (currentState.IsConnected) { //rotate the model using the left thumbstick, scale it down modelRotation -= currentState.ThumbSticks.Left.X * 0.10f; //create some velocity if the right trigger is down Vector3 modelVelocityAdd = Vector3 .Zero; //find out what direction we should be thrusting, using rotation modelVelocityAdd.X = -( float ) Math .Sin(modelRotation); modelVelocityAdd.Z = -( float ) Math .Cos(modelRotation); //now scale our direction by how hard the trigger is down modelVelocityAdd *= currentState.Triggers.Right; //finally, add this vector to our velocity. modelVelocity += modelVelocityAdd; GamePad .SetVibration( PlayerIndex .One, currentState.Triggers.Right, currentState.Triggers.Right); //in case you get lost, press A to warp back to the center if (currentState.Buttons.A == ButtonState .Pressed) { modelPosition = Vector3 .Zero; modelVelocity = Vector3 .Zero; modelRotation = 0.0f; } } } protected Rectangle GetTitleSafeArea( float percent) { Rectangle retval = new Rectangle (graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.X, graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Y, graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width, graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height); return retval; } } } Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA with VertexBuffers only? (No loading content) This error message means that you have not set an effect before drawing your vertex buffer and index buffer, or that the effect that is set does not contain a valid vertex shader or pixel shader. You could set BasicEffect, or use one of the simple effect files described in the documentation. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

KIWIDOGGIE

I need code straight code for XNAGSE 1.0 becuase i am working on xwing flight and i need sone stuff like,

Anti-Alising x6 not x2

Motion Blur

A tutorial on Lens effect

if you can help please reply and NO I AM NOT A N00B

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Re: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff

BlogusMaximus

Here's some stuff on Lens Effect: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1112676&SiteID=1

Motion blur:
http://chronos.x10hosting.com/article/20/motion-blur-sample-hlsl

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Re: XNA Game Studio Express Need Help With A load of stuff

KIWIDOGGIE

nevermind i got it to work without crashing

but now how do i activate the blur because it looks the same

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