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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 Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Multiuser games? Just curious... but has anyone used XNA/C# to develop MOG's or even MMOG's Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - how to delete the threats? please tell me that how to delete my threads (formerly threats) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Architectu "push" vs. "pull" model Xna.Input.Keyboard has no events OnKeyUp and OnKeyDown, so I can't subscribe any object on this events using delegates. Is any reasons - why I know that I can do this by myself (examine the keyboard state every Update and call those events), but it's an ideological/archetectural question: I don't want to "pull" keyboard every time, I need my objects to be "pushed" on a keyboard event. In general, "push" model improves scalability and maintainance of a system since It's syncronous - each object reacts the event immediatly when event call occur. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Clipping Layered Sprites (UI Related) You know how in a panel if a child button runs off the side of the panel, it gets clipped. Does anyone know how one might go about doing that with XNA Or how they do it in OpenGL/DirectX Are they doing something with the stencil buffer Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to get XNA Game Studio for VS2005 Team Suite Edition???? Where to download it Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - New XNA wargame : StrikeZone 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 Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Shader states, etc? (HLSL effects not working right) I'd like to call upon all the shader gurus here for some help :) I've been experimenting with writing some of my own effects, meaning I'm a HLSL newbie, and have been using NVIDIA's FX Composer to do my work. After producing a cool (albeit simple) effect, I decided to try using it in my little model viewer. The problem is that the way it shows up through XNA is different than the way it shows up in FX Composer, and I can't figure out why. You can find the code to my effect here: http://www.hiranipra.com/data/help_attach/gb1_shader.txt - it's just fairly simple environment mapping-ish stuff. A screenshot of what it looks like in FX Composer: http://www.hiranipra.com/data/help_attach/FxComposer1.jpg - it's hard to tell, but the model has a nice shine to it, and as it rotates the shine changes. Looks like metal. And the problem, a screenshot of what it looks like through my viewer: http://www.hiranipra.com/data/help_attach/Xna1.jpg - note the sharp edges on the shine areas. So obviously I'm applying the effect right (as the model shows and such), and the textures are all there (when they aren't there is nothing displayed), but it's just not working. The shader takes in two parameters - the worldViewProj matrix and the viewInverse matrix. Both of these are set each frame in my code: effect.Parameters[ "worldViewProj" ].SetValue( _transformMatrix * transforms[ mesh.ParentBone.Index ] * _view * _projection ); effect.Parameters[ "viewInverse" ].SetValue( Matrix .Invert( _view ) ); This seems right, I think. In an attempt to get more debugging information, I set the pixel shader to return the color of the cubemap. This gave the predicted results in FX Composer: http://www.hiranipra.com/data/help_attach/FxComposer2.jpg - but look at what it did in XNA: http://www.hiranipra.com/data/help_attach/Xna2.jpg - completely wrong! Finally, I recorded a run of FX Composer with PIX and looked through the results - I don't see FX Composer doing anything different when it comes time to render my model (sets the texture states as I have them in the effect, and draws the vertices). So then my question is, what else do I need to set to get things looking right Is this an issue with FX Composer setting states I don't know about, or something in XNA setting defaults that are different than normal, or my shader code doing something stupid (maybe all of the above :) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 3rd Series of 3D XNA Tutorials finished: HLSL intro Hi all- This 3rd series of XNA Tutorials was already online this weekend, I checked once more to make sure all code on the site compiles without errors. This 3rd series was written to be a introduction to HLSL, starting from zero, and consists of 18 chapters. The first chapter actually shows no code, it only positions HLSL in the big picture. For this series, I've chosen to create a scene shadowed by the Shadow Map algorithm to introduce the various concepts of HLSL. As you can see in the outline of this series, we start with basic chapters, which increase in difficulty throughout the series: Creating your own vertex format Creating a first vertex shader and pixel shader, and playing around with the the pixel shader Adding texture coordinates to the vertex format and displaying textures using HLSL World transformation in the vertex shader, special attention to the normals Per-pixel lighting Projective texturing 2D screen processing Preshaders Next to those HLSL-specific chapters, the 3rd series also introduces a more 'general' XNA concept: the triangle strip . Also, concepts that were seen in the previous chapters, such as texture mirroring, are expanded upon. Next to the series, I have started another section: the ShortTuts. This section will contain some general usefulness. Currently online: Checking for shader v2.0 support and switching to Reference mode accordingly Displaying a MessageBox in XNA Since the 3 series have been completely ported to XNA, I have created a new layout for my site, and XNA finally is the primary contents of my site. Also, the forum is pretty healthy, with around 20 posts per day. These are of course mostly about beginners problems, but I pass the difficult problems on to this forum ;) As always, comments are welcome. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The Unofficial "Hooray I'm Done With my DBP Game" Thread When you get done with you game and sumbit it, crow about it here. A little over 24 hours left until the deadline and I'm so amazed I'm done, so much better than college Thanks to ZMan for his help, good luck all. I'll post the source code for my submission once the deadline hits. Bill Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - What does creators club include right now? I'm a little puzzled about what the creators club actually includes, I've checked the FAQs and can't really find an answer. I have however managed to find the following: "The XNA Creators Club is available on Xbox LiveR Marketplace for $49 (U.S.) for a four-month subscription, or $99 (U.S.) for an annual subscription. Both subscriptions provide aspiring game developers with access to thousands of game assets from Microsoft and key partners such as Turbo Squid Inc., as well as white papers, specialized starter kits, samples and technical product support to help turn Your World, Your Game into a reality." I signed up for a year because it sounds like quite a good package, however there seems to be no information provided on how to access these assets, the white papers, the starter kits, the product support and samples. Is it just that this content isn't available yet If so, it seems rather a rip off currently - the XNA launcher software is free, so essentially it's Ўк65 a year just to be given permission to able to compile direct to the 360 Perhaps I'm the one in the wrong here and I've missed something obvious and if that's the case I'd be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction! Hope someone can help clear this up for me. Thanks in advance! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Show off your website and/or game! As part of our effort to reach out to the XNA community, we would like to create a special community page on the XNA Developer Center that links to YOUR site, game, or blog. Here's what you need to do, send me (David Weller) an email (click on my name link to the left of this post for the email address) telling me: 1) Your name 2) Your contact email 3) Your website or game (or blog) 4) (Optionally) If you send me a link to your game, please let us know if you give Microsoft permission to use your game as part of any press-related activities we might do (i.e., incorporate a screenshot/video of your game, etc.). Please don't reply to this post with links to your site/game, I need the information emailed to me. Thanks! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 ЎцЎцЎцimg 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - I want to use a simple fx shader on a simple loaded model What I want to do seems very simple to me. I want to do this - Load a 3D model using ContentManager.Load<Model>(...) Load a shader Effect from a .fx file using ContentManager.Load<Effect>(...) Render the 3D model using the shader from .fx file. Can anyone give an example of this that is as straigh forward as humanly possible It does not seem like this should be a difficult thing to do, but I have no idea since I've never used shaders. Also, if anyone has a simple .fx file I can use to test my code, that would be great! I'd love to give my Buttermilk game / GUI engine the power of shaders! Thank you for reading! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Source Control and "community" I have a current non xna project on codeplex, which is a great resource for sharing code and 'community' building. This seems to be one of the goals of xna in the non pro versions, and these fourms show is working. But! One of the things we are really missing to get fully there is source control. It becomes much harder for groups of dispersed people to work together on a project without it. I understand the logic of having 'pro' features in the 'pro' tool, however I think there really needs to be some access to source control for community type things. No probelm if there was a non-commercial limitation, or even codeplex access only (and maybe give a similar deal to non-MS people hosting free xna code projects). Or something... As an example, it would be great to have projects that evolved game harnesses - shell xna projects for 2d, 3d, and the various genres of games. Interested people could tweak things, add components etc. So it would be great to have a project like that somewhere like codeplex. However it would be essentially downloading zips and patching, or maybe stiching things together in VS2005 in the current version of C# express (unless I'm missing something). So some form of limited source control that allowed this kind of thing would be most welcome. I know Christmas is over, but maybe next version Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Direct3D Flickering Issue Hi there, I am having some problems with my screen flickering when I redraw my scene. Below is my code ... private void tabPage16_Paint( object sender, PaintEventArgs e) { //clear the direct3d device this .mDevice.Clear( ClearFlags .Target, Color .DimGray, 1.0f, 0); //send the scene info this .mDevice.BeginScene(); this .mDevice.VertexFormat = CustomVertex . PositionColored .Format; this .mDevice.DrawUserPrimitives( PrimitiveType .TriangleList, this.mVerts.Length / 3, this.mVerts); this .mDevice.EndScene(); //paint the scene info this .mDevice.Present(); } private void tabPage16_MouseMove( object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { int xDelta, yDelta; xDelta = Cursor .Position.X - ( this .Width / 2); yDelta = Cursor .Position.Y - ( this .Height / 2); if ((xDelta == 0) && (yDelta == 0)) return ; // // camera orient code // Cursor .Position = new Point ( this .Width / 2, this .Height / 2); this .tabPage16.Refresh(); } } So, I am using Direct3D in a C# app. I am using .Net 2.0. I got the latest (Oct 2006) DirectX 9 SDK. My problem comes from the moseMove event issuing the refresh command. Any time I move the mouse, I get serious flickering in my Direct3D device. I am familiar with the concept of doublebuffering, but I am relatively new to C# and Direct3D. I have my form set to be doublebuffered. If I understand correctly, the Direct3D calls of clear, beingScene, endScene, and present will ensure that my Direct3D device is doublebuffered also. My assumption is that the mouseMove event is flooding the form with paint events. I therefore used a tick timer to ensure that the paint event would only be processed at most 60 times a second, this didn't fix anything. I even commented out the calls to beginScene, drawUserPrimatives, and endScene; this didn't fix anything either. I am dumbfounded as to what my problem is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! 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 Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How do I build an install program for my application Hi, I would like to build an install for my application. My application uses DirectX, C++, Managed C++ and Windows Forms, all written with VS 2005 Standard Edition. Does anyone know where can I find a good example or tutorial on how to build an installer that will install all those components as well as my application I have started to look around and have seen InstallShield, Wise Installer and MSI, but I am having trouble finding examples showing me how to achieve the above. Any pointers appreciated. Cheers James Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Has anyone thought of making XNA screen savers? Now I know XNA is supposed to be for game development, but its ease of use should also allow for very simple screen saver programming. In only a few hours I've got a completely working version of the Windows Starfield screen saver up and running, and I'm sure other people here could come up with stuff that's a ton more creative than that. What would be hard about turning these into completely working screen savers Well, let's look at what goes on with a screen saver: 1) The program gets sent one of 3 switches: /c - which should bring up the Options menu, /p - to bring up the preview window, and /s to actually run the screen saver. These are easy to handle. 2) The program closes itself upon mouse movement or a key press. This is just as easy. With that being said, has anyone else thought about the possibility of making XNA screen savers I think the ease-of-use could help a lot of really neat screen savers get off the ground. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNAConsole (Beta) Hiya guys ive just released a beta version of my XNAConsole component at www.PlasmaFlux.com ---- Overview The XNAConsole component is a console a lot like youd find in computers games like half-life or quake. The component is totally self contained, all its graphics are held within the library and it deals with its own font and input. The component allows you to alter public properties during runtime, run custom written commands and view real time information on your game. ---- i've noticed a few people asking for a console component. :) I am aware of a few bugs and the documentation and website aint the biz but its somthing to be going on with Phantom www.PlasmaFlux.com edit: once its cleaed up and i get round to doing a proper release ill also let u get your hands on the src Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Errors with "glew32.dll" and I have no idea what it is First off, what is it I get the error after trying to run a few of my apps. "This application has failed to start because glew32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem" I've gone to glew.sf.net, but I have no idea what to do with the installed files. Any help Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Shooting What code could u use for something to shoot. would this event work: if(GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.one).Buttons.A == ButtonState.pressed) shoot = true; if(Shoot = True) { bullet.X = Player.X; bullet.Y = Player.Y; buller.Y += bulletSpeed; shoot = false; } Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Trying to draw a pixel Hi guys. I'm working in a little experiment with colours. I created an array of colours, with 800x600 dimensions. I was able to paint the colors using spriteBatch and texture2D of 1 pixel, but the yield is terrible. There is noway to draw a Point or a Vector2D not using SpriteBatch or textures Primitive ways to draw in screen I see something in the example project inside XNA, RetroAsteroids, but It draw with VertexPositionColor, and it isn't what i'm searching thanks a lot (sorry for my english, i know) PD: I hope the solution won't be a Matrix of Proyection... =S Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - lens flares i have read something about lens flares. the position of the lens flare are calculated by the vector which goes from the sun until (0, 0, 0). but in many games i see the following effect: when i look into the sun and turn left or right the lens flares are turend left or right to. do they calculate the angle between the camera direction vector and the lens flare vector and turn the lens flare vector by this angle Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!! Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

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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

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Re: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!!

Arek Bal

Oh gosh, Google rules:
http://www.google.pl/search hl=pl&q=free+3d+modeller&btnG=Szukaj+w+Google&lr=
http://www.google.pl/search hl=pl&q=free+audio+editor&btnG=Szukaj+w+Google&lr=

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Re: XNA Game Studio Express Someone Please Help Me!!!

Glenn Wilson

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.

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