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    - 3DS to X (or FBX) Model Conversion Software As for conversions to FBX with free software (Like Blender which has full Collada support), the best option seems to be to export to Collada and then use the FBX SDK to convert Collada to FBX. Just a thought Darkside Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - DirectX8 and Vista Compatibility Check this out http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx postid=1231805 Its looking like the DirectX activeX control is not on vista by default as it was in XP. We are currently trying to work out if DX9 is supposed to install this or not but either way its not there in Vista and since tis part of the DX redist you are not technically supposed to install it yourself. The reports claim that the DX8 redist isn't installing it either. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Entities: Think, Update, Create, Collide, Render -- Stumped! Well I can only give advice on the many articles and books I have read, I have only implemented an octree but I have been reading about both for a year or so! If an object straddles any of the dividing planes of a node you can insert it into multiple child nodes, or just insert it right there in the current node. If inserting into multiple nodes, when it comes to render, you would need some sort of flag so you dont render it twice. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Milkshape Model Errors I exported to .x format in Milkshape and got the error. Noticed all vertices weren't assigned to a bone. Fixed it, and then errors were gone. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Change the color of a mesh? I'm currently using a simple mesh created in 3ds. I changed the color and exported several times until I had a rainbow of colored objects. This seems silly to me, but it got me moving along at the time. I would like to progress beyond this and be able to be able to change the color in code. I realize the answer to this might involve textures and/or lighting, so if the answer is not straightforward, could you at least tell me where to begin Do I need to create multiple textures and swap between them Thanks! Greg Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - "The Method Call was invalid" error when drawing primitives A problem I've run into a couple of times now which I've not been able to resolve and starting to wonder if it's my machine. in several tutorial's and/or sample code, when I run the code it stops on a DrawPrimitives call stating a "Method Call was invalid error" Happens in QuadTree XNA-GS DrawableGameComponent - http://www.codeplex.com/quadtreeload - when it tries to draw line primitives (comment out line it's fine drawing alll other primitives) and Patch Terrain - http://www.codeplex.com/patchterrain - when trying to draw indexed primitives. Most MS samples seem to work but I'd like to know if it's just me or a simple fix. Damn strange. Darkside Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Using VertexBuffer with Z-Buffer I have a primative which I am rendering from a vertex buffer (positioned, colored, textured), among some meshes. All of the meshes seem to work fine with the Z buffer, texutre transparency works fine... except for when I make my primative transparent, you can only see the cleared background, and none of the meshes behind it. Just to give you an idea, here's some code! (obviously not all in the same method). frontVertices = new VertexBuffer ( typeof ( CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured ), 4, Device, Usage .WriteOnly, CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured .Format, Pool .Default); CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured [] vertices = frontVertices.Lock(0, LockFlags .None) as CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured []; vertices[0] = new CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured (0, 0, 1, colour, 0, 0); vertices[1] = new CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured (50, 0, 1, colour, 1, 0); vertices[2] = new CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured (0, 50, 1, colour, 0, 1); vertices[3] = new CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured (50, 50, 1, colour, 1, 1); frontVertices.Unlock(); ---------------------------------------- int alpha = 180; Device.RenderState.TextureFactor = Color .FromArgb(alpha, 255, 255, 255).ToArgb(); Device.TextureState[0].AlphaOperation = TextureOperation .Modulate; Device.TextureState[0].AlphaArgument1 = TextureArgument .TextureColor; Device.TextureState[0].AlphaArgument2 = TextureArgument .TFactor; Device.RenderState.AlphaBlendEnable = true ; Device.RenderState.SourceBlend = Blend .SourceAlpha; Device.RenderState.DestinationBlend = Blend .InvSourceAlpha; Device.SetTexture(0, mainTexture); Device.SetStreamSource(0, frontVertices, 0); Device.VertexFormat = CustomVertex . PositionColoredTextured .Format; Device.DrawPrimitives( PrimitiveType .TriangleStrip, 0, 2); Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - GameComponents In Depth With V1 So I've been trying to read all I can about the features of XNA and one that I'm just starting to discover is the GameComponent system. I have a small knowledge of what's going on, but I can't seem to find much on how it works in V1.0. I Googled and found a video (http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2006/08/31/734204.aspx) but that covers back during beta 1, which was the same for most other sites. Does anyone have any links to sites that talk about GameComponents and how they work Or does anyone have a few minutes to go through them I'm looking for as in depth as possible so I can really see what I can do with them. Thanks in advance. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Port asm to HLSL help please Your asm ps shader represents a very common lightning model, nothing more. Here it is: extern float3 cAmbient : AMBIENT; extern float3 cDiffuse : DIFFUSE; extern float3 cSpecular: SPECULAR; struct PSIn { float4 color : COLOR; // Color after vertex shader has executed float3 normal : TEXCOORD0; // Vertex normal after vertex shader float3 lightVec : TEXCOORD1; // The vector from the vertex // in world space to the light source float3 halfwayVec : TEXCOORD2;// The vector halfway between the "lightVec" // and the vector from the vertex in world space to the eye }; struct PSOut { float4 color : COLOR; }; SuperPixelShader (PSin psIn) { float3 diffuse, specular; PSOut psOut = (PSOut)0; psIn.normal = normalize(psIn.normal); psIn.lightVec = normalize(psIn.lightVec); psIn.halfwayVec = normalize(psIn.halfwayVec); specular = pow(max(dot(psIn.normal, psIn.halfwayVec), 0), 2) * cSpecular; diffuse = max(dot(psIn.normal, psIn.lightVec), 0) * cDiffuse; psOut.color.rgb = (diffuse * psIn.color.rgb) + (specular * psIn.color.rgb) + (cAmbient * psIn.color.rgb); return psOut; } technique SuperlLighting { pass P0 { // Set render states and declare vertex shader here PixelShader = compile ps_2_0 SuperPixelShader; // Use pixel shader 2.0 -> v1.1 does not support max op } } IMHO no one is writing vertex and pixel shaders in different languages (am I wrong here ) to avoid some nasty conjugation problem. I wonder what does the vertex shader look like Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Application development MDX is not part of the .NET Framework (what makes you say that ). MDX 1.0 and MDX 1.1 are still supported technologies as part of the DirectX SDK, AFAIK, but development of MDX 2.0 was cancelled. It was in beta for a while, and then was abandoned as we moved ahead with the XNA Framework. Tom Miller, who was effectively the only developer working on MDX, joined the XNA team and there is no one working on MDX anymore. Albert wrote a bit about it a while back, seeing as the MDX2 beta expired before we shipped XNA GSE and the accompanying XNA Framework. http://blogs.msdn.com/al_msft/archive/2006/03/20/555065.aspx I don't know when (or whether) we will address application developers. That isn't really our team's goal. Other products may be better suited to application development, like WPF. For the comments regarding DirectInput, please enter or vote for your feature requests at the Connect site. Those suggestions help us prioritize new feature development. --Stephen Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - My second render isnt showing Ok so my question now is. I first draw the main game screen. it works great. Then I execute the code below to draw a rectangle on top. But, it never shows up. When I take out the render code it draws fine to the screen. So I think I'm only missing one statement to add the the texture to the main screen. Can anyone spot the problem ( I'm trying to draw rt to the screen ) Thanks, Nick // I draw main screen here RenderTarget2D rt = new RenderTarget2D (graphics.GraphicsDevice, 200, 200, 1, graphics.GraphicsDevice.DisplayMode.Format); //object o = graphics.GraphicsDevice.GetRenderTarget(0); RenderTarget2D backBuffer = ( RenderTarget2D )graphics.GraphicsDevice.GetRenderTarget(0); graphics.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(0, rt); graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear( Color .CornflowerBlue); // draw ScannerForegroundBatch.Begin( SpriteBlendMode .None, SpriteSortMode .Texture, SaveStateMode .SaveState); ScannerForegroundBatch.Draw(SpriteTextureBlank, new Rectangle (player.X * (rt.Width / map.Width), player.Y * (rt.Height / map.Height), 6, 8), Color .White); ScannerForegroundBatch.End(); //// reset the render target graphics.GraphicsDevice.ResolveRenderTarget(0); Texture2D renderedTexture = rt.GetTexture(); graphics.GraphicsDevice.SetRenderTarget(0, null ); base .Draw(gameTime); rt.Dispose(); Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Issue with XNA Tutorial and scrolling backgrounds I just tried it and got the same thing. The problem is that the SpriteBatch class is changing the render state of the device. I worked around it by placing the following line right after my SpriteBatch.Begin call: [code] StateBlock state = new StateBlock ( graphics.GraphicsDevice ); [/code] and then the following line right after my SpriteBatch.End call: [code] state.Apply(); [/code] Once I figure out what its setting (it has to be one of the alpha parameters), I'll let you know. It wasn't my first guess... but there are only a few that it could be and generating a StateBlock every frame this way might not really be a good idea. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Strange DX9 vertex glitch Ok, didn��t get that. Maybe it��s not just a single problem what it��s causing this error: If it��s not somethind "machine-related", it��s in your software. It can be two kind of things: 1.- There��s a very basic problem: related to video drivers, DX version or incompatibilities in every machine you tested, what I find very unprobable, or, 2.- There��s somethind wrong in your software. This kind of distortions can be due to: 1.- If using fixed function pipeline: the projection matrix 2.- If using programmable shaders: the vertex shader or the projection matrix. 3.- If using post processing: obviously your post-processing system. Try deactivating features, to isolate the problem (switch to fixed function pipeline and deactivate post-processing, for example). If it still happens, monitor your projection matrix to see if it changes at any moment. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Could C# be the future of gaming? Hi Jeff, As some one who is a partner in a company (and lead developer) that produces enterprise high performance security applications, many of them in C#, I think you will be very surprised what you can do with C#. I develop in C++, C++/CLI (.net C++) and C#. C# is my favorite by far. While it certainly takes a lot of care and research to get the "barn burning" speed you can truly get out of C#. Once you know what to avoid and how to write performance critical apps in C#, you will only go back when you have to... Enjoy learning C#, and be sure to grab the "CLR in C#" books by MS press. It will "show you the light" as far as the inner workings of the CLR and how to make your managed code nearly as fast (and in some cases faster) then it's unmanaged counter parts. It certainly helped my apps go from pretty fast to very fast... You already mentioned the "time to market" benefits of the .Net platform so I will simply agree with you and leave it at that. God Bless, Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to do a screen fade? I was working on something like this this weekend. I'm only writing a 2D game, but if you're using a 2D HUD over the top of your 3D stuff, it should still be useful. I created a "Transition" class that contains an alpha colour, a target alpha colour, a transition speed and a title. I then create a new transition for each sprite that I wish to use a fade effect on, and give it a title (ie "titlescreen"), and an initial colour and a speed. I then add that transition to a collection. When I wish to begin the fade, I simply find the transition by title, and set the target colour to either full alpha or no alpha, depending on which way I want it to fade. The update code handles increasing or decreasing the alpha colour by the speed to fade it in or out. Then, when I draw the sprite I'm transitioning, I find the transititon by title once again and use the transition.colour as the sprite's colour. I've packaged up my project as it currently stands , let me know if anyone finds it useful :) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Saving backups, refactoring, & other newb questions Thanks for all your comments, and for the references to version-control tools. It's particularly useful to read your different perspectives on developing an overall design. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - problems creating a triangle strip for a terrain section Well you can create the degenerate triangle in the vertex buffer, by duplicating the needed vertices. In that way you wouldn��t need the index buffer. If discarding the index buffer is not good for you, you can fill it up following the TriangleStrip shape: Vertex buffer: 0 - 1 - 2 | / | / | 3 - 4 - 5 | / | / | 6 - 7 - 8 Index buffer: face 0: 0, 3, 1, face 1: 1, 3, 4, face 2: 1, 4, 2 face 3: 2, 4, 5 I guess your magical degenearte would come here... to allow continuing cheers ! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Primitive design and OOD This question did not get any attention when I posted it with other questions so I'll try it again by itself. Primitive Design I have built a rudimentary 3D engine using good OOD where the primitives (points, polygons, lines, etc.) provide methods for their management and transformations. If I have a model with 100,000 points, each point carries the overhead of the virtual function table and whatever else the compiler does to the class. Is it more prudent to restrict the primitive class design to data only and provide a different set of methods outside of the class to manage their transformations, say, in a math lib for example When using .NET, my ref class Point3D Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - loading textures on array Do it this way and all will be fine. Fields: balls [] pBalls; Init: pBalls = new balls [] { new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls (), new balls ()}; Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Create Flash Light or Car Headlight effect... Thanks for the clarification Shawn. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Model Position Problem Well you can make your 3D object move in the XY plane in a way that is relative to the mouse XY position in the game window, but the 3D object won't necessarily track directly under the mouse cursor. What you could do is subtract half of the game window height from the mouse Y value and subtract half of the game window width from the mouse X value. This will give you a value of (0,0) when the mouse is in the center of the game window. Then you will need to cast the modified mouse coordinates to float variables (since they are integers initially) and multiply them by a scaling factor such as 0.01 to determine the actual X and Y coordinates for the 3D object. The scaling factor you choose will depend on how far away the camera is along the Z axis. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Build for Xbox 360 and Windows in one project Simple - wait for the Pro version. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - mesh files directx hi i have created a 3d mesh model with directx. the problem is we cant pick the tris in the model. how to write the code to pick the tris. pls help me Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Release of Xbox 360 Wireless Controller for Windows? I checked the Amazon page and somebody had posted this review: As some has said already Microsoft release this way too early and with no support, Gaming forums are alight with this product right now because its incompatible with any type of logitech wireless mouse or keyboard plugged into the same computer, there is no fix other than don't use it. When i installed the drivers for this on my windows XP machine my Logitech mouse stopped responding, only way to fix this is unplug the Xbox wireless receiver and reboot.. I have wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse. Is this true what the reviewer says that the Xbox 360 reciever and wireless Logitech products won't work together Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - A tool to help with Sprite Animations: Sprite Strip Composer I have fixed this issue Duck... I will post a newer version later tonight. Thanks Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Plane constructor values question Hello all. When creating a new plane object (for collision detection) I am curious as to the values used for the Plane(x,y,z,d) constructor. If for instance I wanted a plane located at 0,0,0 and is pointing straight up (+Y ), what would the correct values be for the constructor The d component I ASSUME(probably wrong) is the distance from world 0,0,0. If say the plane is rotated 90 degrees on the Z axis so that it runs up and down the world Y axis, what does that constructor look like I'm just not sure what the values should be specified in. World units, radians, degrees There isn't much of an explanation in the documentation and I'm sure this is probably trivial knowledge to most of you but I could use a little nudge in the right direction. Thanks so much for your time. Dan Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Install XNA on VS2005 Std? this is true, but you dont get the xbox tools for free anyway, you need to pay $100 per year to be able to use them, so, there is no real need for them to be there. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Best Draw method for game level (Quake 1 in XNA) may i have a release beta of your game. I can see if it will run on my POWERHOUSE pc Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Private Network Functionality with XNA So just do it for the PC, that's what I'm doing. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Game-install question? im starting to write a simple game.A tetris-like game.But i have a problem.My game will be about 1 or 2 MB.And written in C#.But if the users dont have .NET framework 2.0,wont they be able to play my game Or what should i do except making them installing Framework 2.0 Because it is huge and 20 mb . i need your advises,dear programer friends! Thanks a lot... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Chuckie X - YouTube footage I played Miner 2049er on my TI 99/4a, was a great game at the time. I know I'm dating myself... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution 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 Game Distribution Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

moo360

Am I alone in thinking that as much as I'd love to get feedback on my Xbox360 XNA game, theres no chance in hell I'm going to release it if I can't release a compiled version which users can then deploy to their 360s Why do I have to release my source code when all I want is feedback from games players

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Re: XNA Game Studio Express Game Distribution

Malmer

From what I've heard there will be a way to distribute your games later over live. Wonder how they will do it though, since there could be potentially thousands of games and weird demos.

The best would be if they could allow you to link a game to your profile and then simply people can download games from you that way. Makes it easier for people to find your game given a website. On the website you can just say who has the game. Now for games made by many people it would be cool if they then allowed you to link a game to many people and list them as the creators of a game. That would be kinda nice. The ability to write who did what would also be kinda nice...like "Artist" and "Programmer".

Now it would also be nice if people (like me) who don't have a 360 could release games aswell. Simply just compiled for xbox and let people do the testing (yikes!). It could work...

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