First-Person Shooter Game

XNA Game Studio Express

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    - Resource management Ok. Does it cause any problems to dispose a ResourceManagementMode.Automatic object Also, regarding events, what I meant was will objects like VertexBuffer do things like hook GraphicsDevice events automatically What made the MDX bug I referred to so tricky is that VertexBuffers and other objects hook Device events unless a Device flag is turned off, so this was happening in a way that was not very intuitive and not documented anywhere that I could find except in the topic for the flag itself, which I had no idea was of any relevance until I read a blog comment by Tom Miller suggesting that it should be turned off. So, in a nutshell, if I do this: vb=new VertexBuffer(args...,ResourceManagementMode.Automatic); vb=null; will vb be garbage collected eventually If not, then if I were to Dispose() it before nullifying the referenec, would it be garbage collected eventually EDIT: I can't seem to get VertexBuffers garbage collected at all, as it turns out: TestClass t=new TestClass(); t=null; VertexBuffer vb=new VertexBuffer(graphics.GraphicsDevice, 100, ResourceUsage.None, ResourceManagementMode.Manual); vb.Dispose(); vb=null; System.GC.Collect(); //According to ANTS profiler, vb is live but t is not. EDIT 2: The CLR Profiler shows why the VB is not being disposed: The device just has a reference to the most recently created resource. I know it's a little weird to poke around like this, I just wanted to make sure because I had big problems with it in the past :P So, there's one question left: Do I have to worry about loadGraphicsContent(true) being called more than once Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Future of DirectX Esenthel wrote: I'm starting to get worried about DirectX, because mostly it becomes deprecated, first there was DirectPlay, and now it is the same thing for DirectInput and DirectSound, I've recently read that they are becoming deprecated in favor of XACT and XInput. Could you tell me why is this happening What will become of DirectX in the future Will be there only Direct3D, or will it disappear either Other than what is in DX10 there really is nothing public about the future of DirectX. In general though remember that DirectX is an API for professional game developers. The indie guys and the hobby guys have to live with whatever we get - do we always like it No. So DirectMusic, DirectShow, DirectDraw, DirectPlay... well there are no big companies using those so they are either deprecated, or they are just supported without any new features. Esenthel wrote: I'd like to give you my opinion that deprecating good API's like DirectInput and DirectSound is a bad idea. Take a look at XInput- it allows only xbox controllers, and what about mice, keyboards, or other joypads I'm not sure that either of those are considered deprecated. Yes XInput looks like a replacement in the making but DirectInput is still there and works just fine. Esenthel wrote: And mostly I'm concerned about DirectSound, In Vista there is no hardware support for it, does that mean I have to stop working with DirectSound and go to XACT Why are you cutting DirectSound to something that isn't finished yet Have you noticed any sound issues on the xbox 360 Guess what there is no hardware sound on there either. Fact is that multi core CPUs are more than capable of handling the things that hardware sound used to cover. I believe the 3d sound stuff is still an issue so there may well be a valid point there (sorry I am not up to speed enugh on that aspect to really comment) Esenthel wrote: I mean XACT doesn't have the main feature that most of programmers use - Custom sound buffers, with the ability to lock, read and write your own data to it. It's just like you were forcing us, to abandon "c++" and move to some kind of "visual basic". I don't like it, XACT allows only wav and adpcm files, which is not enough. Buffer locking is needed for many aplications, like the ones using their own compression formats, or voice synthesizers, or the ones that generate sound out of mathematical functions. How do I do that in XACT I can't! So I'm asking why are you deprecating the API's that can do it Which is probably why DirectSound is still a part of the SDK. Please leave DirectX alone, don't deprecate it, don't replace it, don't kill it. DirectX gives you very big control of the programming aspects. If DirectSound is too old for Vista, then either update DirectSound, or deprecate it to something that has the key features like DirectSound. In reality its pretty cool how backward compatible DirectX and windows is - its surprising how many 8 year old games will install and run just fine considering how games are the apps that almost always push the envelope. Everything comes and goes in cycles... and there are always some people that don't agree with the decisions. Not everything in these forums gets read by Microsoft so you should pass your opinions on to directx@microsoft.com to be sure they are heard. However "I am developing a 30 million dollar title and need feature X" will get heard much more than "i don't like this and you shouldn't change it" Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - PIX, DX10 and Render to Texture when i do a single frame capture, it only record up un till the first render to texture has been unbound. If i do a full stream capture (ie multiple frames) it recordes everthing, but this stream is so large its unusable :-/ Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Ortho-picking Thanks! Well I'm doing something like this, but when some transformations are applied, the picking is not accurate in Orthogonal projection. However, the PerspectiveFOV is perfect. That's Exactly what I'm doing: D3DD.GetViewport(VP); D3DD.GetTransform(D3DTS_PROJECTION, PM); D3DD.GetTransform(D3DTS_VIEW, VM); D3DXVec3Unproject(VOut1, D3DXVector3(X, Y, 0.0), VP, PM, VM, WorldMatrix); D3DXVec3Unproject(VOut2, D3DXVector3(X, Y, 1.0), VP, PM, VM, WorldMatrix); //WorldMatrix is the world transformation matrix for the tested mesh //The same is if it is got like this: D3DD.GetTransform(D3DTS_WORLD, VM); //I test with the IntersectTriangle function as it is in the Picking demo from the DXSDK. D3DXIntersect function does the same result. IntersectTriangle(VOut1, VOut2, v0, v1, v2, fDist, fBary1, fBary2) Sorry for reviving this thread, but there seems to be immeasurably difficult to find a woking piece of code for ortho-picking. I found people that had the exactly same problem, but found no answer :/ I still need this, and I think it would be nice and very helpful to have a practically working solution here. Well has anyone some working code Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Collision Detection With Bezier Curves I think this method might be too slow, and how would the MoveAway() method know which direction to move and how much One way could be to calculate a unit vector pointing away from the terrain and then work out how much the player would need to be moved along that vector to get out of the terrain. If you looped through adding or subtracting until it isn't colliding, that would leave how fast you would get the player out of the terrain up to chance. I don't think I can do that since the "if the two lines are intersecting" statement is inside 4 nested for loops . Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to publish for Computers without XNA? Currently your friends will have to install Game Studio Express and you'll have to send them the project in order for them to try it. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA project hard freezes XBOX360 This is odd as you should still be able to hit the XBox button in the center of the controller to regain control and cause the machine to go back to dashboard. Does this happen in any of your retail games Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Tiling textures I have a .x mesh exported from 3ds (3D studio max). In 3ds, the texture for my floor is tiled, and looks nice and detailed. However, when I load this mesh into my DirectX application, the texture is tiled, but is stretched to the size of the face... so now it looks like gravel instead of carpet! Can DirectX control how textures are tiled I cant seem to find anything. So far I have turned on Anisotropic texture filter which has made a slight improvement... but the tiles are still streched! Any ideas Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Tell us about your website or game! By website....does it matter if it's an actual site or forum Does it matter what the site's subject is Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - PC project -> 360 (including Game Library) Maybe someone else will be able to give you an answer, but without seeing exactly what you're doing it's hard to make a suggestion. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - membership? important!! darknemesis25 wrote: uhm, when u get a membership for 4 months on xbox , can u still play games when the membership runs out,, cuz if not, this whole thing is a waste and money. The membership allows you to deploy and debug games. Once they're on your 360, you can play them forever AFAIK. darknemesis25 wrote: when ur creating for the 360, can u preview or liek .. play.. ur games on windows b4 sending it over newb question , but i havent tried XNA yet Not for a 360 game, you'd have to create a Windows game and link the code from the 360 game. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - I need help displaying text in an XNA game Darn. I thought that in that Channel 9 video covering the launch party, they said the font object was available now. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Multithreading in XNA Don't forget to also set the thread affinity or it will run on the same processor as your main process. Joel's post below is correct of course. The thread affinity is ignored on a PC due to windows deciding which thread runs on which processor. This is logical because windows may have one or more programs and processes running and each one runs in it's own thread. The 360 runs the kernel and your games and that's it so it uses a couple of threads for itself and leaves 4 free for games to use. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game 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 First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - how to delete the threats? Yes, he needs to be more specific! dczraptor: why shouldn't you multi-thread your XNA application how elso would you get to use the power of the 4 available hardware threads on teh xbox (2 are reserved, we only have 4 available) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Architectu "push" vs. "pull" model Reason 1) Console games use only pull mode while many PC games use push mode. XBox is a console. Reason 2) The push model on PC depends on Windows message queue while there's no such thing on XBox. Reason 3) You can use key events from Controls if you are using WinForms. Reason 4) A push system can be really simple or very complex depending on your need. Consider character translation, key repeat, IME, etc. Some of those features are not supported on XBox. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Clipping Layered Sprites (UI Related) Okay, when i use this in conjunction with spritebatch, spritebatch goes crazy, and i set it to immediate sort. But my alpha blending becomes all screwed up, things don't appear in the right order, lots of bad ***. Is it because I'm not providing a depth Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to get XNA Game Studio for VS2005 Team Suite Edition???? If you want to develope XNA games/apps for Windows, you can install XGSE to get the XNA stuff onto your system. You can then add the XNA as references in your own C# projects. You can uninstall XGSE afterwards and continue to dev XNA games for Windows. If you want to develope XNA games/apps for Xbox, you *have* to use XGSE. If you want MS to support using XNA Game Studio with other versions of Visual Studio 2005, please cast your vote here: https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=190037&SiteID=226 Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Thanks. I have added 2 new videos. And added how to add new units. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Shader states, etc? (HLSL effects not working right) Unfortunately that didn't work :( I was thinking it might be some divide by zero error, as I noticed that a lot of weird things happen when the video card executes stuff like that and gets NaN's, but I couldn't figure out where it would be coming from (and my pixel shader assembly skills aren't good enough to debug through the PIX disassembly). Yeah, I wrote a .tri loader and a .blue loader - my hope is to get it converting the .blue shaders in to HLSL. It's nice because I can just add a .blue to my project and the content pipeline spits out a Model, an Effect, and a bunch of embedded Textures :) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 3rd Series of 3D XNA Tutorials finished: HLSL intro creating your own vertex format was a nice one, thanks for that :) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The Unofficial "Hooray I'm Done With my DBP Game" Thread Catalin, I can't wait to see your game, you do great work. I was up until 3 last night, and then I didn't sleep well. My game is called "Spacewar: Mission Pegasus" and is a 2.5D scroller. Bill Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - What does creators club include right now? Yes but lets be honest here. During the first year I doubt there is going to be very much content released by developers on the 360 as they will still be getting used to XNA. Also, the content promised should have been available from day one. By the time there is stuff available its likely to be well towards the end of the year. So whilst I don't totally object to Microsoft charging for the creators club - I don't think its worth it right now unless you are desperate to try code on the 360. In fact there is no point joinging the creators club unless as a developer you manage to complete a working game on the PC, *then* by all means join the club and try it on the 360. To be honest though regardless of whether the creators club is worth it or not - I think the reason people keep questioning the price is that considering that Visual c# express and xna game studio express are free - why charge people just so that they can share their code on the xbox It does smack of being a bit of a rip off. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Show off your website and/or game! DarthCoder wrote: What about a script engine designed for xna We have a proper website/forums set up and the product goes on sale soon. Link Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Intermittent Audio Problem I had the same problem. Thanks for figuring it out since it would have took me a while. lol Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Someone Please Help Me!!! In the way of 3d modeling you have several options, I have some of them listed on my beginners page here ... In the way of auido editors I use Goldwave as it can handle most formats, but there is a small cost to the software. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Problems with creating a PNG texture from a resourcefile After a little looking around I'm starting to think that anything but a bmp is a special case. There is some code on the page below that isn't loading the image in DirectX but I suspect that it could be modified to work using directX. (It maybe that the resouce is of a binary type so it needs to be handled differently.) Not sure when I will get a chance to try this out though. http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/load_jpeg__gif_resource.asp Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - I want to use a simple fx shader on a simple loaded model Thanks a lot. It works perfect. Regards Michael Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA on Windows XP Embedded Is there any plans for a new embedded operating system, such as Vista Embedded, that will support xna Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Transforming from view-coordinates to world I'm currently rewriting the ModelViewerCamera slightly to control it in a different way than possible as it is. One of the things I'm trying to do is to change how the camera is moved with the mouse, I want to be able to move the centre of the arcball so that when the mouse is used to rotate the camera/model the rotation will be performed around the lookAt-point (this does not happen if you use the keyboard to move the camera). My problem is that while I can get the screen X and Y movement of the mouse I can not translate this into movement in the world, I always move in the wrong coordinate system. What I want it so that if the user moves the mouse to the left then the object centre will move right (or is it left), in other words I want to move right in camera-coordinates. Any pointers will be welcome. -- Erik Wikstrom Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - dx/dx.h library Hello all, Does anyone have the dx/dx.h library if u do please tell me, and i would appreciate if u could as well tell me what is it specifically for Thank you all Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Source Control and "community" Remember that if you do have suggestions, or know of some bugs in the system that you should also post them on the http://connect.microsoft.om site so that the teams can track them. I do feel that it is a good idea to pout a post here as it gives the community a point to discuss the option, but we do need to post th suggestions in the official way. One suggestion would be to log the initial suggestion or bug and then link it to a post here making sure that in both posts you have a link to the other so that it can be tracked. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

IWanna Be The Greatest Gamemaker

I have three question.

How do I make a first-person shooter camera.

How to make bullet particle effects.

How to make the person throw the grenade.

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Re: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game

Jim Perry

I recommend you start at the beginning. Head over to XNAResources.com and check out the samples and links to tutorial sites. You should also start posting over at the Creators Club Online forums with XNA questions as these forums will be shut down at some point in the future.

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Re: XNA Game Studio Express First-Person Shooter Game

Michael Ziggy Morton

Check out these samples:

3D Collision System and Releif Mapping in XNA

XNA First Person Camera Demo

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