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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
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- XNA Starter Kits Was wondering if anyone knows if there are any free Starter Kits out there for XNA, besides the ones from TorqueX Beta and XNA Creators Club Tag: XNA Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Post-Processing Woes Post processing as used here just means rendering something that results in a change to the whole screen. There is no difference between rendering a post process effect, rendering a 3D model or rendering some 2D sprites - they all go through the same graphics pipeline (which you can read about here ) with vertex processing, pixel processing, blending, fog, etc. The Hazy Mind tutorial doesn't use a vertex shader because it is using SpriteBatch and SpriteBatch uses it's own vertex shader, the tutorial just replaces the SpriteBatch pixel shader with whatever pixel shader is in the custom effect. There is no difference to rendering your own rectangle (2 triangles) on the screen and supplying your own vertex shader and pixel shader (this is what SpriteBatch is doing internally) but using a SpriteBatch saves writing the code for that. If you want to use the fx file you posted with the same setup as the Hazy Mind tutorial then you could start with removing the lines that set the VertexShader state in each pass so that you don't replace the SpriteBatch vertex shader. Cheers, Leaf. Tag: XNA Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- 56k download Do you know why download managers won't seem to work with the DirectX SDK Is this the download, or probably the manager Thanks, BmB Tag: XNA Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Who is using XACT? My team is currently porting the game Grogg to the Xact-platform. Grogg was previously a mod to HL2. www.grogg-thegame.com As an audiodesigner my focus is on the editor. I am also currently writing my master thesis on tools for implementing audio into games, so I will probably have a few questions along the way. Tag: XNA Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Model scaling without effecting the real coords Ah yeah, thank you very much, now if I think about that its more then logical Tag: XNA Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- size in the 3D space i have 2 question 1.iam confuse how to correctly match the size of image (ex: *.tga 256x256) to the 3D space when we using CustomVertex.PositionTextured, how can we render the actual size of image in the 3D space 2. ex: void OnCreateBuffer(object sender, EventArgs e) { VertexBuffer buffer = (VertexBuffer)sender; positionTex = new CustomVertex.PositionTextured[4]; positionTex[0].Position = new Vector3(-1.0f, 1.0f, 0); positionTex[0].Tu = 0; positionTex[0].Tv = 0; positionTex[1].Position = new Vector3(1.0f, 1.0f, 0); positionTex[1].Tu = 1.0f; positionTex[1].Tv = 0; positionTex[2].Position = new Vector3(-1.0f, -1.0f, 0); positionTex[2].Tu = 0.0f; positionTex[2].Tv = 1.0f; positionTex[3].Position = new Vector3(1.0f, -1.0f, 0); positionTex[3].Tu = 1.0f; positionTex[3].Tv = 1.0f; buffer.SetData(positionTex, 0, LockFlags.None); } this buffer will create polygon wiht the width =2 n height =2; so what the meaning is 2 in width n height, 2 pixel or 2 inch or.. Tag: XNA Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- First-Person Shooter Game Check out these samples: 3D Collision System and Releif Mapping in XNA XNA First Person Camera Demo Tag: XNA Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! 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 Framework membership? important!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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darknemesis25
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.
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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
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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
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robinjam
This has nothing to do with Visual Basic.
In fact, part 1 of your question has nothing to do with MSDN.
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Jim Perry
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.
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.
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Dodger_
Actually, you cannot do anything with XNA Game Launcher on the 360 when your profile does not have an XNA Creators Club membership. Right after you launch and it starts up, it immediately kicks you out with "One of the currently signed-in profiles does not have an XNA Creators Club membership. To continue, exit XNA Game Launcher, purchase a membership from Xbox Live Marketplace and restart XNA Game Launcher."
The membership allows you to deploy and debug games. Once they're on your 360, you can play them forever AFAIK.