New XNA wargame : StrikeZone

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    - Ortho-picking How is picking in an orthogonal projection supposed to be done The pick example from the sdk works only in PerspectiveFov projection, but not in Ortho projection. It seems to be all in the calculation of the pick-ray vector, but I can't find out how to set it :/ Tnx! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Collision Detection With Bezier Curves My old test code(new is in creation process) if (inputs.LeftState > 0) { if (maps[0].CollisionMap[(int)mapAllocator.X - 4, (int)mapAllocator.Y] != 0) { testModelPosition.X -= 3; mapAllocator.X -= 4; } else { testModelPosition.X += 0; mapAllocator.X += 0; } } if (inputs.RightState > 0) { if (maps[0].CollisionMap[(int)mapAllocator.X + 4, (int)mapAllocator.Y] != 0) { testModelPosition.X += 3; mapAllocator.X += 4; } else { testModelPosition.X -= 0; mapAllocator.X -= 0; } } of course it's not too much similar to your bezier... That is absolutly simple...and it works. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to publish for Computers without XNA? Hi, I've written a short tut on how to make a windows installer with InnoSetup: http://creators.xna.com/forums/thread/3915.aspx It will download and install .NET 2.0 if needed, updates to DX9 (but not DX9 itself) and the XNA framework. I've tested it on a couple of XP machines and so far it has worked just fine -Pelle Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA project hard freezes XBOX360 Entirely single threaded, and not doing anything more complicated than drawing sprites (not many, certainly less than 100). Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone 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 New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Tell us about your website or game! Just a small question. Is this for XNA projects only or also DX9 or DX10 projectects Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - PC project -> 360 (including Game Library) You almost have it, but you should split your processor into a separate project. Getting it set up the right way is complicated the first time. We didn't really document how to do this (an oversight), but you can expect to see a blog post about it at some point. To make it less confusing, let me explain what you should do to use a custom processor with any Xbox 360 game project (or Xbox 360 library project). You want to have 2 projects in your solution: An Xbox 360 Game project which has your game code and assets. A Windows Game Library project which has your custom processor. The custom processor is going to execute as part of the build, which occurs on your Windows machine. You don't implement that in an Xbox 360 project because you'll never build any content on your console. Now, since your Xbox 360 Game project has content in it which you want to process with the processor in the second project, you need to make sure the Windows project builds first. You do that with project dependencies ( not project references). More specifically, Right-click on the Xbox 360 Game project node in the Solution Explorer, and select "Project Dependencies..." Check the box next to the Windows Game Library project. Click OK. What this does is ensure that the processor project will build before the Xbox 360 game project. You don't want to add a project-to-project reference from the game to the processor because the processor is not actually used by the game code, it is used by the build. The next thing to do is to make sure you can use the processor in the game project. You do this by adding the processor project output assembly to the list of Content Pipeline assemblies for the Xbox 360 game project: Build the processor project at least once. Double-click the Xbox 360 project's Properties node in the Solution Explorer. Click on the "Content Pipeline" tab. Click "Add..." Browse to the custom processor assembly and click OK. Close the Project Properties designer. There, now you're pretty much set up. Whenever you build your Xbox 360 game, the environment will check to see if the content project needs to be built first. If it does, it will build, and then the Xbox 360 game project will build and the custom processor will be available. As for working with both platforms, well, you set it up the exact same way with a Windows game project instead of the Xbox 360 project. If you want to use the same custom processor in two solutions, just add the existing project to a new solution (or just add the already-built processor assembly to the Content Pipeline Assemblies list). There are a few more things to set up in order to handle switching configurations (Debug/Release) and platforms (x86/Xbox 360/Mixed Platforms). I won't explain that here. Instead, expect to see a blog post about it eventually. Thanks to Joe Nalewabau (XNA Shaman) for describing these steps to me. He is going to make us simplify this a great deal in the future. ;-) --Stephen Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - membership? important!! 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. and.. 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 Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - I need help displaying text in an XNA game I need help displaying text in my game I have everything in the game (sprite movements, game rules, and other stuff like that). I just don't know how to go about displaying text I tried looking for tutorials, but they were kind of confusing. Thanks in advance. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Multithreading in XNA Is there any way to implememt multi-threaded programming into a XNA based game As multi-core processors become more prevalent, the ability to take advantage of that would be rather useful. Does XNA implement multi-threaded design behind the scenes, a.k.a. in the fundamental way the Game class works I was thinking that for my program, I have multiple GameComponent classes for which the update functions could be run in parrallel. Is there anyway to specify that I've looked up information on righting multi-threaded applications in C#, but I'm not sure if those approaches are compatible with the XNA game loop design (in fact I imagine they would not be). Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone 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: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - how to delete the threats? That's true, but how many of us are writing the next Gears of War Unless you have some really clunky code or if you're networking, a lot(obviously there will be people who require the full power of the processor and GPU) of the people who use XNA will be fine with just a single thread. Correct me if I'm wrong here, I'd like to know more. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Architectu "push" vs. "pull" model > console games almost never use any keyboard input. That was just an example about event-driven (push-model) architecture. People here are seeing the elephant's trunk and ears only, not the elephant as a whole. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - First-Person Shooter Game 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. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Clipping Layered Sprites (UI Related) But the Begin/End has several problems when it comes to needing to nest controls, like what would happen in a UI system. Which is what I'm concerned about. Don't tell me I'll have to create a new sprite batch for every control... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to get XNA Game Studio for VS2005 Team Suite Edition???? waruwaru wrote: ProfEclipse wrote: 1. Why XGSE currently only supports C# Express. ... 3. That the GSPro version will work with non-Express studios. Well, the "official" reasoning behind one is that they ran out of time, and they would want us to be able to dev on xbox asap. That is fine and I understand perfectly. Now if they say, MS don't want to support VS2005 Pro with XGSExpress because they want us to buy XGS Pro. To me, that is approaching bait-n-switch since: 1. there is no official feature list for XGSE 2. Pro at this point is vapor-ware, and lots of things were "promised"/hinted before Pro came into the picture "promised" Where and when were things "promised" Features are routinely dropped from games and applications due to time constaints. I don't understand the reasoning here. GSE was never, AFAIK, promised to work with VS. GSE and GSPro are targeted at two totally different audiences. GSPro will contain functionality that indies and hobbyists won't have access to (Live features) since they're not registered developers so why should they pay for something they can't use GSPro isn't vaporware. Check wikipedia for the defintion. Duke Nukem Forever is vaporware. waruwaru wrote: I don't know about you, but I would be miffed if I have to pay more money to use a tool (VS2005Pro) that I already paid for. The thing is, you don't have to pay more money to use XNA with VS. Things like the IDE content pipeline functionality and game templates are not part of XNA, they're part of GSE. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Shader states, etc? (HLSL effects not working right) Thanks for the answers - that bad Transpose would have messed me up :) Unfortunately, I'm still having the same problem. With that view matrix issue fixed, things should be nearly identical between the two applications, so I'm still at a loss as to why they are producing different results. Is XNA doing something under the hood that is setting weird device states If I load the same model, with the same textures and effects, shouldn't the results in an XNA application be the same as in a normal D3D9 app Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 3rd Series of 3D XNA Tutorials finished: HLSL intro Riemer, I've also found your tutorials very helpful. But I'm having trouble applying them to a similar program for the XBox 360. In particular, I can't get the "ship" to point its nose down or up correctly. The nose sorta oscillates between up and down constantly. If I substitute different trig functions, I can get it to go down or up in a somewhat more decisive but still incorrect fashion. Also, I can't solve the 'flying backwards' problem. You mention that quaternions would be a better way to go. Can you point to some sample code that implements this suggestion Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone 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: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - What does creators club include right now? The reason they don't charge for XNA on Windows is because that platform already has numerous ways to make games for it that are free being Visual Studio Express and many others. They can't charge. However, for all the work they've done moving the Compact framework over to Xbox 360 and creating a way to simultaneously program for Windows and Xbox 360, they are going to need to somehow get revenue from this service to pay the programmers. Until now, you couldn't play your own games on an Xbox 360. Now you can, you just have to pay a small licensing fee. It's way better than shelling out for an official dev-kit. As you said, you can very well just work on a game for Windows first and get the Creator's Club when you have it finished. Many people I'm sure will do this. But I personally don't think it's worth my time to work so hard on just Windows. You will inevitably make your game too PC-centric thus making it not work as well on Xbox 360. I guess it all depends on your primary target audience. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Show off your website and/or game! So when is a link to current work going to be posted so we can check out current xna projects from others. Thanks, Nick Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Intermittent Audio Problem Hi, I've been developping a game recently and I'm having major trouble sith sound. I am pretty much using the code from the XNA Framework audio sample. So I can't imagine what's wrong with that code. The problem is that I'm getting intermittent clips being played. Some don't even play at all when I call the Sound.Play method, some play but stop before the end on the clip, sometimes they play fully. This does not happen rarely, I'd say this is about 50% of the time and more often on longer clips. The only one sound I've got that seems to play correctly is a clip that I am looping (alarm sound), which is of lower quality 8KHz vs 44.1KHz for the other ones. So that's basically it, I'm using XACT V2.0. I tried following the instructions as well as I could. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Nic Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Someone Please Help Me!!! im new to xna development, im just starting, and i was wondering what some good 3d modelers were, if they're easy, and a good sound editor thats free and easy to use. If anyone could help i would appreciate it Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Problems with creating a PNG texture from a resourcefile Hello guys and girls. I'm having a problem with the Direct3D function "D3DXCreateTextureFromResource". First I want to say, I'm new to DirectX and also to C++. I'm using the newest DirectX SDK, DirectX 9 on Windows XP and my IDE is Microsoft Visual Studio. I'm using this little piece of code to load a texture: HRESULT hr = D3DXCreateTextureFromResource(device, NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_IMAGES1), &texture); if (FAILED(hr)) MessageBox(NULL, DXGetErrorString(hr), L "Error" , MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION); When IDR_IMAGES1 is a bitmap, then it works just fine, then I don't get an error. But when it's a a PNG graphic, then I always get the error 'D3DXERR_INVALIDDATA'. I'm adding the pictures, by going to the Resource View of MSVS, right clicking and choosing "Add Resource", there I'm clicking on Import, selecting my PNG file and clicking Open. Then I have to enter a Resource Type where I usually enter "Images". Another thing is, when I try adding a JPG file the way like I wrote up there, MSVS shows me the error: "Filename is not a valid ��img file.". Well, Filename is of course the filename, and the squares aren't filled in. Can someone help me with my problem No One Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - I want to use a simple fx shader on a simple loaded model Looks like you've got it sorted out. I put together a really simple demo that should compile and run out of the box in case anything is still unclear: http://www.georgemcbay.com/xna/SimpleEffectDemo.zip It only loads one model and displays it. The shader is very simple, it just does basic fullbright texture mapping with no lighting or anything else. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA on Windows XP Embedded Is XNA supported on XP embedded If not will it be in the near future Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone 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 New XNA wargame : StrikeZone 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 New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Source Control and "community" Well I'm not suggesting they create anything, just allow it, or even allow it a bit... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Direct3D Flickering Issue The functionality he's implementing is a "render-on-demand". That is, only when the mouse moves, which means there's no FPS in the first place. I'd double check that the control is not drawing anything behind my back because that's the only reason I can think of that would produce such a flicker. To find out if this is true or not, you can replace the call to Refresh() in your mouse move handler by a direct call to tabPage16_Paint(), which will skip all default paint behavior that Refresh() would do. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - DirectX 10 release date Hi. When is the DirectX 10 technology coming out Will it be a good idea to get it as soon as it's released or should I wait until any problems in the system are found I'm basically delaying buying a laptop until I can get it with DirectX 10 & Windows Vista, which I know will be released at the end of January 2007. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Texture not displaying on 3D model Hi, i have a .x model with a single texture skin and using the basic code to display it in xna shows only the model with no texture applied. I can load and see the model properly in blitz3D which was the package i was using before xna. The spacewar models work fine and I can't see anything obviously wrong, especially as it works in both dxviewer and blitz3d. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong Thanks. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express New XNA wargame : StrikeZone Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

pitil

Hello

I am doing a wargame engine.
You can see video here :
http://pitil.blog.mongenie.com/

The engine will be open for every one !

Thank you

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Jim Perry

Good job. Keep us updated.

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pitil

Thanks.

I have added 2 new videos. And added how to add new units.

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bryanedds

Cool mate! Let us know about the progress :)

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Jim Perry

Nice progress!

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MattDavey

Nice to see Mercury being put to good use! :)

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pitil

Yes Mercury help me a lot :)

why make what is already made :D

If you want my change just ask me, it is for the scrolling background and depth problem :)

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MattDavey

pitil wrote:
Yes Mercury help me a lot :)
why make what is already made :D

If you want my change just ask me, it is for the scrolling background and depth problem :)

Yes! I'd be really interested to see your modifications :) Your game is looking fantastic by the way - i'm also interested in doing an RTS game in the future :)

My email address is in my profile <<

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linuxva

Hi,
Nice game ...maybe U make some tutorials ......!!!!

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pitil

I will try but time is not enought :)

Today (for now because it is only 9h pm :)) I have added Pause menu and capacities to stop

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pitil

Added Pause menu and colision per pixel detection
I am working in Saving game and starting IA

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pitil

I must go, i come back in 7 days...

I have added other video.
You can see it :
http://pitil.blog.mongenie.com/

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ShAdeVampirE

Could U tell me, how U use your Font It's some kind of bitmap- font, or other technique