C# directinput Forcefeedback error

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    - Could C# be the future of gaming? For now, at least, no; C# as well as Managed DirectX still have a hurdles to get over (IMO). The language is still relatively new, developers are still learning the ins and outs and how to push applications developed in C# to the limit. In my opinion, although I love C# and swear by it, the professional community is and will be very reluctant to drop C++ for a newcomer such as C#, especially considering its lack of cross platform abilities. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Quake bin release 2 It just launches an exception when I try to run the .exe Perhaps you're missing a few files, or redistributables And frankly, I'm not too interested in Quake XNA if we don't have access to the source code. I mean, I come here to learn, and usually through example. I'm not interested in merely playing a game :\ And jah congrats on porting Quake over to XNA :) Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - RocketCommanderXNA Mouse Issue I also found this, the reason is that there is no mouse "Click" logic on the main menu screen. "\GameScreens\MainMenu.cs" As a save there are hot-key's set up for the menu "// Hotkeys, M=Mission, H=Highscores, C=Credits, Esc=Quit" You can code the mouse click yourself as the hover logic is there, just add OR logic to the hot key's code. Rgds Darkside Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Static properties for nonstatic member variables? the way static properties work in .net is that they belong to the one global/static instance of that type. if you don't specify that the class is a "static class", then you can also create instances of that class ... all of which can access that static property. If one of those instances changes the static property, they all see the same changed value. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Building XACT project has failed error when building Spacewar Tutorial in documentation got some bug...maybe there's a problem: when loading settings, wave bank, and save bank...that's not really true that you should give same name as project and different extension. From my experience...(hour to solve this one). project will build into and create names it have in properties(default for audioEngine is sound, not your project's name) To make it clear - do everything as in tutorial, do not change anything in properties in Xact:...and change...this one: audioEngine = new AudioEngine("Content\\Audio\\MyGameAudio.xgs"); waveBank = new WaveBank(audioEngine, "Content\\Audio\\Wave Bank.xwb"); soundBank = new SoundBank(audioEngine, "Content\\Audio\\Sound Bank.xsb"); to this one: audioEngine = new AudioEngine("Content\\Audio\\sound.xgs"); waveBank = new WaveBank(audioEngine, "Content\\Audio\\Wave Bank.xwb"); soundBank = new SoundBank(audioEngine, "Content\\Audio\\Sound Bank.xsb"); EDIT: OH...my gosh...I wrote all this...but you were talking about Spacewar starter kit...sh.t. EDIT2: What you got in Output window Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - multistream rendering problem solved, had to change "TEXCOORD0", to "TEXCOORD", Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - ID3D10Effect::Get**() - what happens when handle isn't found?? In the D3D10 the effect framework every get method will always return a valid pointer and never NULL. But you have already recognized this. When I say valid pointer this means only that you can call methods without getting access violations or other exceptions. The object behind the pointer could still be invalid. Therefore you need to check this with a call to the IsValid method that every interface contains. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Video/Animation Playback Moved to XNA Framework forum Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Surface.GetGraphics() in WindowsMobile.DirectX.Direct3D always throw an exception 9 Enable unmanaged debugging, and crank up the D3D debug level slider in the DirectX control panel. Then run your app under the debugger, you should see an error message from D3D9 saying why it is considering the call invalid. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Should I use Object Oriented programming for games? Trust me, go with OOP. The reason is that you want to optimize on higher level rather than lower level. Like Optimization on sorting, on the archtecture of the game engine, and so on. Object construction and destruction is really quick IMO. And you are not going to construct everything in one frame, they should be constructed dynatimcally and desctruct dymanically, even better, use data streaming to make loading screen a thing of the past. Using OOP, you can concerntrate things like those, not those tiny bit of lower level performance that doesn't effect the overall experience. It is always the best to optimize things that take the most performance hit, like physics calculation and pixel shaders (especially the particle effects), not those tiny 0.1% of low level optimization. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Free Roam Camera Problems To rotate the camera in this way (by rotating the target around the camera), you need to transform a vector that is relative to the camera as the origin. You example camera setup quickly bears out that the above would not work - no matter how much you rotate 0,0,0 around the y axis, it will still be 0,0,0. Instead, you need to convert the target into an offset from the camera location, transform it, then calculate a new target location from the transformed offset, something like: Vector3 vLook = Target - Eye; vLook.TransformCoordinate(tMatrix); Target = Eye + vLook; Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Will the HDMI output on the revised 360 require any code changes No changes required. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - ContentManager questions about device resets The content manager does cache resources. It does load the resources using the thread you call it from. If you're careful and smart about it, you may be able to do this from a seperate thread, but doing so is risky seeing as how many of the resources need to make calls to the graphics device while buidling themselves. The content manager does not deal with device resets. Device resets are handled by the graphics device. It recreates any resource that is assigned to the automatic pool. I believe that the reason you can't move a resource from one monitor to another is that the device is associated with an adapter and monitor. You would have create a new device on the new monitor and reload the content. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The values used in the attempt to create the GraphicsDevice were invalid. What type of card do you have We should be giving a better exception message than that (i.e. we check for lots of things and throw better exceptions but that one must have slipped through.) Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Loading Content After Device Reset So my problem I've determined that the content being loaded with opposite windings for vertices (or opposite normals, though I believe the two are the same). I'm not sure how this is happening, but it seems to depend on the content being loaded. Currently I have four graphical objects being loaded and drawn. I have a simple generated grid that is created properly every time. My bullets (which used to flip when the device was recreated) are now correct no matter what. I have a textured model (.fbx file) loaded in that is correct both times (though it is simply a plane). My problem is my other model. It is also an .fbx file (non-textured), but when loaded the first time the normals appear reversed. When I minimize the window and pull it up again, the normals are reloaded correctly. Any ideas why Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Music? Media playback is something that's on the list of things we're investigating for a future release. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Glow and blur effects? My first intuition would be to create sprites using textured quads. From there you could easily render with an effect and achieve the results you want. Not sure if you could do this with just 2D sprites, haven't tried. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Reading embedded files I think you can do this using Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetFile(), but am not 100% sure about that. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Problem with running XNA-Applications Could you be more specific "Can't start XNA-applications" is a bit vague. Do you get an error If so, what error do you get Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Starting work on my GUI system I've started doing the same thing as the games I have planned need dialogs at the very least. I'd be happy to contribute so we all could benefit. Let me know what you need and I'll see what I can do. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Spare 360 power supply to help with XNA development I've heard you can call up tech support and get a new one for $90 USD Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The Quest to understand BasicEffect continues... You will need to pass camera info to each different BasicEffect that you use. They are completely independent of one another. You can, and will, use multiple BasicEffects, one for every model that you have. You can change the parameters for each one to get the results you want, and the results will not carry over into the other models' BasicEffects. Normally, there will be a different .fx file for each type of object that needs rendering. For example, there might be a standard .fx file for normal game objects, another one for terrain, another one for 2d effects, etc. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - App You cannot prevent the Windows Task Manager from terminating your application. Virus writers and hackers would love to have such a feature. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Which graphics cards will work with XNA GameStudio Express? Any graphics card that has at least pixel shader and vertex shader 1.1 will work with XNA. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 3-D Object Creator? Check this thread. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=988812&SiteID=1 I have used 3D Canvas . It is decent and exports to many different formats including .X. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - What tools do I need to write sprite-based games? With XNA you will have all you need to create 2D games. Having Visual C#, Game Studio Express and toss in the latest DirectX runtime and you'll be good to go. If you're new to programming in C# you'll want to check out this thread for a great collection of resources (books, video tutorials and online resources) for developing with C#. Once you're comfortable with C#, then I'd recommend checking out the tutorials provided by Microsoft found in the help section of XNA Game Studio Express. They're a great place to get started. Also, there are a variety of community sites providing wonderful tutorials and samples. I'd recommend starting with these three and then moving through the link section provided on each of these sites to discover even more XNA community content. XNATutorial XNAResources LearnXNA There is also a nice collection of links and resources being put together over here at Virtual Realm as well that I'd recommend checking out. Most of all, I'd just like to say welcome to the community, start with the basics and work your way through slowly, don't be afraid to search these forums for your answers and when you don't find them, pose your own questions. Good luck and hope that helps get you on your way! Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - game time Hi, The way i do this is as follows: public class Game1 : Microsoft.Xna.Framework. Game { float elapsed = 0; } protected override void Update( GameTime gameTime) { elapsed += ( float )gameTime.ElapsedRealTime.TotalSeconds; Console .WriteLine(elapsed); } hope this helps Codata Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - ElapsedGameTime vs ElapsedRealTime Usually you want your game runs smoothly on all types of computers so the best choise is to call game logic at stabilized frequency. It's your design-time task to organize all other game components to provide the rendering time less then the rated logic loop time on the lowest class of graphic cards your game is supported. There is some techniques to do it, f.e. tweening. But in the non-XNA game you have to arrange it yourself meaning initialization, loading, updating rendering and some other auxiliary tasks. The XNA makes a big job for us setting up the game loop automatically with implemented update and logic methods. So it gives us the ElapsedGameTime - an elapsed time since the last Update method call and the ElapsedRealTime - an elapsed time since the last Draw method. The ElapsedGameTime must be the same at every frame for smooth moving. If your calculations exceed TargetElapsedTime the property IsRunningSlowly is set to true. In this case you have to simplify calculations (f.e. use approximated algos or generate less particles and so on). The ElapsedRealTime varies from 0 (if your measurement unit is millisec) up to ElapsedGameTime and more if a videocard does not support your game as you decide at the design-time. The inverted ElapsedRealTime is the fps in common sense. All the XNA timings are derivatives from the C# TimeSpan class. A minimal time piece is the tick = .0000001 sec. The system counter just add the ticks continiously forming integer types for milliseconds etc. But the variables like TotalMiliseconds, TotalDays etc. contain a huge amount of ticks to be stored in the integer types so they have floating point types. Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - New Farseer Physics Engine Release First, Let me say HI. Then thanks and lastly this is cool!!!!! I am learning and trying to work my way through not only codeing but game design as a hobbiest. I am just wondering how to use your work. I am trying to create a pong game ( Hockey themed) I am Canadian.LOL.. so far i have a bouncing orbe ( Ball ) bouncing of my edges of the playing surface. Thanks again and your work is awesome!!!! Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Select a mesh Here's a very good tutorial that should help: http://www.mdxinfo.com/tutorials/picking.php Julian Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Rants on XNA 1.0 Nice rant. Do you think that it's a good replacement for MDX at this point, aside from some of the missing utility functions I'd like to be able to play with this without having to instal VC express. Any word on when that might happen Cheers Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - No text input in WinForm controls This seems like a really novel approach. I certainly hadn't thought of it before. It would be great if you can get this to work but I don't know if you will be able to or not. One thing that looks like a potential deal-breaker is that the docs for the Form.FromHandle() method say that it returns the control associated with the specified handle , and I haven't seen anything in the docs to indicate that the Game class inherits from the Control class. However, you say that you got it to work with buttons. By that do you mean that you got the buttons to show up, or did you actually get the buttons working such that you were able to successfully fire an event handler from their click events When you click on the text box does it appear to receive focus (a blinking cursor shows up) Tag: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

HenkeB

Hi.
I have just bought the new logitech G25 wheel.
Im download the aug2006 direct SDK for my VS2005.

When I start the C# example FFconst it's not working.
I get the error message "No force feedback device is found".

The C++ sample works fine.

Will this problem in C# be fixed to the next release

Best regards
Henrik

Re: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error

David Weller - MSFT

No. Managed DirectX is in sustained engineering mode, just like DirectInput. No additional modifications will be made to the APIs.

Re: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error

HenkeB

Is there any way around this problem in C#
I would really like to use the forcefeedback function in my C# program.

Must I write C++ function calls to handle the force feedback

Best regard
Henrik

Re: Game Technologies: General C# directinput Forcefeedback error

Inaki Ayucar

Hi there,

that problem is due to a bug in the Microsoft DirectInput Samples.

I posted an entry in my blog on how to workaround it. You can check it out here:

http://graphicdna.blogspot.com/2007/01/managed-directinput-samples-bugs.html

Hope it helps.