Multiple sprite batches?

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    - Generating an assembly error with the mscorlib when building sln Bulid succeeded! Thank you! J. Rizzo Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Reading the buttons of Joystick Saitek x52 What exactly is the mode button doing on that joystick - is it something special Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - C# - Managed DirectX - Secondary Monitor NumberKruncher wrote: Somehow I need to get my program to run fullscreen, whilst allowing the user to interact with Windows on the primary monitor. The code supplied (within #if DEBUG) will do exactly that. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Getting adapter format BEFORE device creation? How about this: DisplayModeCollection dmc; bool wideScreenSupported; public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this); content = new ContentManager(Services); dmc = GraphicsAdapter.DefaultAdapter.SupportedDisplayModes; wideScreenSupported = false; foreach (DisplayMode dm in dmc) { if (dm.Width > 1024) { wideScreenSupported = true; break; } } if (wideScreenSupported) { graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 1280; graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 720; } else { graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 1024; graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 640; } } Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XML usage on 360 Well, I did some quick experimentation and came up with something that works. Check out my blog entry here . Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - loading textures "in game" You can call content.Load<>() anytime, and anywhere, in your code. Say you want to load a texture after the player has passed a certain position: if(player.Position.Y > 1000) content.Load<Texture2d>("JustAnotherWall"); You aren't required to load all your assets inside LoadGraphicsContent; it's just good design/habit. There are two types of loading resources - automatic and manual. Automatic is through content.Load<>(), and whenever you call content.Unload(), it will dispose of everything properly for you. Manual texture loading is a bit more complicated, but still nothing fancy: Texture tex = Texture2D.FromFile(); However, when you are done using the texture, make sure you call tex.Dispose(); Otherwise, the GC might not come and dispose of that memory, and you'd have a memory leak problem. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Managed DirectX vs Native DirectX performance Jack Hoxley wrote: I originally started writing DirectX code using VB6 and unofficial type-libraries (before moving on to the official ones - the precursors to MDX) Those were the good old days, weren't they Patrice Scribe was my hero! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Export Games You might want to check out NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page You can make your own painless installer that includes the necessary files and bundles all your assets into one convenient package. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Which measurement system? As long as you're consistent with your units it shouldn't matter. I do think it's helpful to decide on your units up front and base them on what makes sense for your world. For example, in my air hockey game, 1 unit equals one inch, but in a tank fighter game 1 unit would probably be something bigger, like a meter, foot, or yard. It's probably best to make all of your models to the same scale so that you don't have to scale everything to the proper size, but if you don't have control over the scale of your models you can always scale them in the game code. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - best way to do 2d parallax floor sprite Is there a reason you aren't using SpriteBatch Doing layers/scaling/scrolling isn't difficult (scrolling is the only thing you'd need to "code"). Don't over complicate things, try the simplest approach first. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - HLSL's tex2Dlod (Vertex Shader texture fetch) difference between PC and XBOX360? For textures, Xbox supports pretty much every format there is, including 128 bit Vector4 textures (I say "pretty much" because I can't be bothered to go through the entire huge list in the native docs checking them all off right now, but I've never met one it doesn't support). For rendertargets, the support is more limited: you have Color, 10.10.10.2, Rg32, Rgba64, HalfVector2, HalfVector4, Single, and Vector2. Notably you cannot render to Vector4 surfaces. You cannot alpha blend when using a floating point rendertarget, and cannot do filtering when sampling from floating point textures, so make sure you select point sampling when using such data. I'm guessing this is the problem the original poster is running into: if you use anything other than point sampling on a floating point texture, it will probably just try to do linear interpolation as if the bit values were integers, which gives garbage results for float data. We're working on getting the HLSL docs updated to cover the Xbox shader model in more detail. Addendum: I found this table in the native XDK docs, listing Windows texture formats that are not supported on Xbox. Probably quicker than listing all the ones that are: // The following are not supported on Xbox 360: // // D3DFMT_A8R3G3B2 // D3DFMT_R3G3B2 // D3DFMT_S1D15 // D3DFMT_S8D24 // D3DFMT_X8D24 // D3DFMT_X4S4D24 // D3DFMT_A8P8 // D3DFMT_P8 // D3DFMT_A4L4 // D3DFMT_R8G8B8 // D3DFMT_D16_LOCKABLE // D3DFMT_D15S1 // D3DFMT_D24X4S4 // D3DFMT_D32F_LOCKABLE // D3DFMT_LIN_D32 // D3DFMT_D32 Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Managed DirectX Sprites: Is it possible to light them? I haven’t tried but I guess that won’t work. Take a look at the sprite helper function. I’ll do that tomorrow but I guess it’s using an unlit vertex format. You can use the System.Drawing.Color passed as an argument to the Sprite.Draw2D function to simulate lighting, but that would require to calculate the light color at the point. You can also do something similar using Point Sprites, some kind of 3d positioned sprites, but they have some constraints. You cand also do a billboarding manager class, as I do. There was an example of how to do that in a DX SDK sample some versions ago. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Debug a XB360 project on PC? Is the question whether you can debug a game, or to debug locally on your PC so that you don't need to deploy every time We currently don't have support for doing cross-platform builds in the same project, but if you search through this forum, you'll find threads discussing how to use the same source code for both an Xbox 360 game and a Windows game project. On the other hand, I do not expect most single-line code changes to take very long to deploy (maybe a few seconds) since only the changed files are deployed each time you edit. Is this really the part that is bothering you Jim - The Xbox 360 remote debugger does not support Edit and Continue. It would be nice, but don't expect it in the near future. --Stephen Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Drawing order of primitives No I mean "fading" out the color based upon distance from the viewer (z) in a vertex shader. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - File Data structure design codetale wrote: as my example before which are my idea <file_heaher><file_version> <resources_list> <resource_binary> <file_footer> for the reouces_list, it should record file_name, start_byte, file_size so that i can read the correct binary from correct position and correct length, am i right actually how the ".zip" store the each file information i cant find any document on that You got it. So if you keep track of the binary file size, then you know how much to read. For example, if your file looks something like a big array of resources: <file_heaher><file_version> <file_name><start_byte><file_size> <resource_binary> <file_footer> <file_heaher><file_version> <file_name><start_byte><file_size> <resource_binary> <file_footer> <file_heaher><file_version> <file_name><start_byte><file_size> <resource_binary> <file_footer> ... You know how many bytes to read as file_header, and how many bytes to read as file_version, you should be able to read resource_list (file_name either fixed size, or terminated by null. constant size for start_byte, constant size for file_size). Now if you read in number of bytes stored in file_size, you got your resource binary, and your file pointer will be pointing at file_footer. After you read in file_footer, your file pointer will point to the next resource element. The problem with the approach is that you have to parse through the whole file before figuring out how many resources you have and where each resources are located. You can find some info on the pkware zip file format here . There are alot of compression related data. But the basic idea is to keep a table of content structure that is easy to fine (at the end/beginning of file). So your program would read this structure first, and be able to quickly figure out the number of resources available, and offset where each of the resource is located. Which means you don't have to go through the entire file to figure out where resources are located within the file (as you have to do with the array of resource approach). Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Applying Texture to Mesh I am trying to apply a texture to a mesh that has no texture. All that's happening is that only a single color from the texture file is being applied to the mesh, but the entire texture is not displaying. Here's the rendering code: Dim mat As Material = New Material mat.Ambient = Color.White mat.Diffuse = Color.White device.SetTexture(0, Nothing ) device.SetTexture(0, texture) device.Material = mat Dim matFirst As Matrix = Matrix.Multiply(Matrix.RotationYawPitchRoll(25, 20, 0), Matrix.Scaling( New Vector3(0.6F, 1.0F, 1.0F))) device.Transform.World = Matrix.Multiply(matFirst, Matrix.Translation(Vec3(iii))) Me .meshes(iii).DrawSubset(0) Here's the code I use to load the mesh and texture. texture = TextureLoader.FromFile(device, "texture.bmp") For iii = 0 To index Me .meshes(iii) = mesh.FromFile("mesh.x", MeshFlags.SystemMemory, device, mats) Me .meshes(iii).ComputeNormals() Next iii I would like to get it to apply the entire texture, not just a single color. What am I doing wrong I am using the October 2006 version of DirectX, and Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Tiling a texture? Thanks. I've tried looking at your shader example code, I believe I now tile a texture twice over my terrain. How would I go about tiling multiple times, i.e. dynamically pass a terrain height and width into the shader, and a tile size and then tile according to the calculated tile size over the entire terrain (with an image the same size as the tile) Is this even possible, or must I do it in the code I've had a look at Reimers tutorials, who seems to demonstrate mirroring textures. If I were to do this in the terrain code, do I have to group primitives and divide them down into subsets to tile over I'm a little lost on how it would work in the code if I couldn't do what i wanted in the Shader. Thanks Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Bug Report i have three disks one of them is removable others arent. i have installed Directx Sdk 101 to my removable disk(Smartdisk).i have opened the Empty project from Sample Browser and installed in my local disc. when i run my project i got errors about DirectX device cannot be created.I exited this project and installed a new Empty Project in my removable disc where directx was installed. it worked perfectly. . I think you can work in where u installed Directx SDK 101. any comments about this bug Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Mouse wheel not responding My game is reading changes in the mouse wheel through the MouseState class. It seems to work OK but I have a menu bar on the window and after I select an option from it I no longer seem to get mouse wheel updates. I'm assuming it's some kind of focusing problem but I'm not sure how to get the focus back to my Game/Window. I've tried the following but it doesn't seem to work: Form f = ( Form ) Form .FromHandle(window.Handle); f.Focus(); Any suggestions Cheers, Dave J Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Unable to connect to Xbox 360 console using Connection Keys? ArchAngel214 wrote: ... the panel that opens requiring those two fields, immediately closes without allowing me to press the "Okay" button, therefore not allowing me to create a direct connection with my console. I don't quite understand this. You didn't press Enter on this dialog, you were just typing and it closed Did you not complete entering the name and key Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA : Absolute Beginner You might want to have a look at the Zmans article on Coding4fun, Tiny Tennis using XNA . Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA in Internet Explorer? We are investigating what it will take to enable this scenario, and appreciate your input. But you're welcome to discuss with the IE team about the security issues. I believe they will differ with your opinion However, I've said it was a "significant" security issue, not an "impossible" one :) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Loading a Model from a List<> problem? When you're working with descriptors of the same object like the name of the Model, it's PositionX and it's PositionY, what you want to do is not have seperate Lists for each of those. You want to create a class describing all the properties of your object. So, you're going to want to make a ModelClass or something similar. In that class, have a string for storing the name, a float, integer, vector2, whatever for storing your positions and more properties for whatever other related data you have about your model objects. Then you'll make a List of that class. So if you called your class, myModels, your list is going to be List<myModels>. Then you'll have those objects stored in your dictionary object and each object will have it's own properties for it's name and postion. That way you're not making a ton of dictionary objects for each property of your models and having them be so loosely disconnected. I hope that helps explain it a little for you. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Got a Feature Suggestion for the Next Version of the XNA Framework? Would it be possible to have the XNA doc files separately without installing the whole package. I'd like to read them at the office but not install C# express etc because I don't want my boss to ask me why I have all this XNA stuff on my work computer ;) (even if I work as a game coder). thanks. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - SpriteEffects.FlipHorizontally Thanks, that would be greatly appreciated, I have re-posted the topic here: https://creators.xna.com/forums/thread/810.aspx KinetiX Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - General strategy question about XNA Fair enough Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Only one simultaneous render target on XBox 360? So, is that exposed through the XNA interfaces in any way, or is multi-pass rendering the only way I'm not too concerned about Window compatibility. As for tutorials, any that cover deferred shading should include multiple render-targets. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Methods to check 2D rectangle collision? I just need something like this... Rectangle r1 = new Rectangle(0,0,50,50); Rectangle r2 = new Rectangle(10, 0, 50, 50); if (r1.Intersects(r2)) { ... } I believe I remember System.Drawing.Rectangle having a similar method but it is not part of GSE exclusively - in fact, it has its own Rectangle structure. Maybe i should just include the System.Drawing reference and do something like using Drawing = System.Drawing; just to avoid name collision. It'd be nice if XNA had something like this though because BoundingBox was meant for 3D purposes last time I looked at the documentation. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Newbie build error with Spacewar? Yeah strange one that... You can see some info on the FPU here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 Not sure if there are options within the OS to adjust the FPU precsion Might help if you flashed upgraded your system board bios to the latest version (if not already done) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Moving my camera around....need help with rotation I think what you might want to do is set the actual rotation speed everytime you press a key. Instead of setting rotationSpeeds to 1 /10f, try just increasing or decreasing this with a button press. Then, when updating your frames, add the rotation speed to your rotation angles regardless of whether or not the button was pressed in that frame. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - CreateVertexBuffer returns D3DMERR_INVALIDCALL In fact, only the dll (something like d3dmd.dll) might be a debug version so that choosing from debug to release runtime could be done at execution time. Anyway, if there's nothing in the docs... The returned error tells that some of you're arguments aren't valid. Did you check for uninitialized parameters Did you try some other settings I'm afraid I don't know what could be the error without more debug informations... Maybe someone else could... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Texture constructor PROBLEM! This line is crashing the program: Texture texture = new Texture(device, bmp.Width, bmp.Height, 1, Usage.Dynamic, Format.R8G8B8, Pool.Managed); Please help! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

Zoulz

Is it a good idea to use multiple SpriteBatch objects to render different batches of sprites (GUI elements, additive particles, animated sprites etc), or can I just pass around one instance of a SpriteBatch and Begin/End for each different batch

Re: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches?

Bill Reiss

It's better, if possible to use one sprite batch. The amount of sprite batch start and end calls will be one of the biggest performance impacts in your 2D game. The next big performance tip is to use as few Texture2Ds as possible, and if you have multiple sprites coming from the same Texture2D, draw all those sprites in sequence then move on to your next texture since each time you switch the texture you are drawing from there is significant overhead. Ideally you would have all of your sprite graphics in a single texture, but at least limit it if possible.

Bill

Re: XNA Game Studio Express Multiple sprite batches?

Bill Reiss

Oh and I forgot to mention...limit your textures to a maximum size of 2048x2048. Anything larger than this will not work on some graphics adapters.