Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D

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    - Trouble with XNA Game Launcher And never mind...evidently it was a maintenance issue because it is working now. Thanks, and you can delete this entire thread if you would like. Daniel Gary Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Using ContentManager without Xna.FrameWork.Game Ok, now I have implemented my own GraphicsDeviceService that I add to the GameServiceContainer but I still get "File not found". Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Video/Animation Playback I'd certainly be interested. What format do you use for loading the animations Is it proprietary or a regular format like mpeg, or wmv Cheers Neil Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - need help with D3DXMatrixLookAtLH, i have this function and Camera(); is executed in the Render Loop , g_fZDistance is a float and when 'd' is pressed on keyboard the float is =+ 2.0f , now why wont the camera move in on my device window void Camera() { // Initialise our vectors D3DXVECTOR3 vEyePt( 0.0f,0.0f, g_fZDistance ); D3DXVECTOR3 vLookatPt( 0.0f, 0.0f,0.0f); D3DXVECTOR3 vUpVec( 0.0f, 1.0f , 0.0f ); // Get D3DX to fill in the matrix values D3DXMATRIX matView; D3DXMatrixLookAtLH( &matView, &vEyePt, &vLookatPt, &vUpVec ); g_pDirect3DDevice->SetTransform( D3DTS_VIEW, &matView ); } Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - TitleLocation writeable on the 360? The StorageContainer basically just takes care of mounting the appropriate filesystem (using the Xbox savegame API internally) and then gives you back a path to it. From that point on you have full access to the regular .NET file API, but sandboxed so you can only refer to files within the directories mounted for your title (no altering your Halo savegames to give yourself an infinite score, sorry :-) I don't know about the original quota question, sorry! Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Select a mesh im trying to create a scene editor like app for my engine. In my mesh class, i have a boolean variable called "Selected". It determines if the mesh is selected. So does anybody know how to determine the coordinates of the mouse. And , Determine a bounding rectangle on the part of a mesh viewable. If you dont understand that, just think of how i can click on and select/deselect a mesh. Thanks in advance Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Bounding Box Not Rotating Correctly Check out sharky's source code. He draws circles like the one in this post: http://sharky.bluecog.co.nz/ p=121 Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - General strategy question about XNA I think MS wants to make this so that making a game in the future for any/all of their platform would be straightforward and fairly simple. I also think that in the future, hardware will get to a point where using XNA for most games (except for the Halos/Gears/etc that push boundaries) is standard due to rising development costs and time. What MS is doing now is probably just laying the foundation for the future. It is an exciting time, thats for sure. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Scaling Sprites?(XNA) Hi, I was wondering how I could scale textures, as the textures are too big than what I need for certain parts of the game, I think its in the SpriteBatch.draw method, but its hard to manuever through all of their intellisense arguments.... For XNA Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Physical Memory Question Also (I asked another questio about framerate earlier) what is the norm for the amount of physical memory a 2D usaully takes. Mine, according to the Ctrl-Alt-Delete performance counter, takes up about 220 MegaBytes of physical memory. I don't really think that most games take that much. So my question is, What is the normal amount of physical memory for a game to take Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Connecting XNA to Xbox 360 I'm trying to connect my xbox to my PC so I can test some of the games I have made with XNA and I've been having a bit of trouble. Everytime I connect it says "Your console didn't obtain an IP address from your DHCP server" no matter what I do with the network settings. Can somebody tell me what I should do to get this working please Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D 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: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Screen or Video Capture? I know the full xbox devkit has screen capture and video capture built into the toolkit. Is there any such feature in GSE If there isn't, does anyone have any recommendation that does not include a vcr Thanks. -Nick Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Templates I have installed XNA on Windows Vista Ultimate and the templates aren't showing up in Visual C#. I know that they are installed because I've located them in the XNA Directory however they aren't showing up. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - frame buffer and render to texture okay i've got render to texture working, im wonderng is it possible to render to use the frame/back buffer as a render to texture so, if i want to do post effects should i: 1) some how do a frame capture or use the frame buffer as a render texture 2) do all rendering to render textures including post effects etc.. then render the final result to the frame/back buffer suggestions Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - problem in loading screen saver Hi, I'm a beginner in game developing. i made a simple 2d game recently. i found that, when my game window is in foreground and when i'm doing nothing with it, screen saver of the system is not executing even though the idle time is reached. what could be the possible reason for this condition why system's screen saver is not executed Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Files on Xbox360 You might want take a look at Derek's project on threesixbox.com http://www.threesixbox.com/project/ id=6c3eea10eb Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - GSE RTM on Vista RTM (unsupported) Well, the good news is that the Media Center Extension works -- that's the best "first" thing to test, since it verifies that your Xbox and PC are talking to each other. You might want to also try regenerating a key on the 360, then create a new connection from the PC. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Splash Screen Processing Well if it doesn't do everything you need, let me know, and if it looks like something that would be a good addition to the library I'll add it. Let me know if you need a code sample of doing what you're trying to do since my samples are a bit sparse right now. Bill Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Managed DirectX vs Native DirectX performance I checked his site and it's somewhat up to date as far as what's going on in the industry so he's still doing something. There's no news about what he's specifically working on that I saw. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Need Help With A load of stuff I need code straight code for XNAGSE 1.0 becuase i am working on xwing flight and i need sone stuff like, Anti-Alising x6 not x2 Motion Blur A tutorial on Lens effect if you can help please reply and NO I AM NOT A N00B Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - xna with managed directinput i'm making a game using the xna framework, the input class in the xna framework is good but i want to support old gamepad and joystick and i 'm using the directinput from the managed directx 9.0c, but when i use this line of code game_control.SetCooperativeLevel(this, CooperativeLevelFlags.NonExclusive | CooperativeLevelFlags.Background); the compiler gave me this two error codes: a) The best overloaded method match for Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput.Device.SetCooperativeLevel(System.Windows.Forms.Control, Microsoft.DirectX.DirectInput.CooperativeLevelFlags)' has some invalid arguments b) Argument '1': cannot convert from 'prueba22.Game1' to 'System.Windows.Forms.Control' i have tried the code for the gamepad in visual c# express without using the xna framework and there is no error codes. my question here is if the xna framework can not work if i use the directinput from directx 9 or there is another way to do that, i need to use old style gamepad because the xna framework only support the xbox 360 gamepad controller and most users over the world already have one gamepad. if somebody can help me i really thank you in advance. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Puting texture on a 3D model with code Hi. I have a 3D model that i have made in Blender. When i put a texture on the model in blender and export it to .x, the texture does not show in my XNA game :S. Is there a way to put texture on a plain (no texture) 3D model with code Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - "Chaos" 3d FPS Game Engine (WiP) Thank you. I just started with the XNA (and C# for that matter) about a week ago, so how would I create the shaders in 3ds max (9) Would I export them as DirectX FX shaders From looking at Spacewar, that's what it looks like. And from there, how would I apply them to the model Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - error loading model in xna framework i'm tired, i have tried a xxxx number of options, configurations, checked and unchecked option and allways is the same, if the model show in the game the only thing that i can see if a big square and the other option is the maps coordinates error, to go easy with this "issue" i have a new question, What is the best software for making the models to the xna framework i 'm talking about the compatibility thing. i have tried maya 8.5 but i can't see any directx .x file exporter plugins for maya, these is a really mess, a lot of 3d software but i don't see the exporters around here, all the exporters are for the old version. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - JIT register allocation and bounds checking Interesting. Thanks for the data point! Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Can I write 3D games in XNA? "What's a lark " - a merry, carefree adventure Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Refreshing the graphics Ok, I'll try to explain what I want to do in another way, because I have been asking this for one week, and nobody seems to understand. I'm making my very own RPG. As you know, this type of game spawns objects (like monsters, items, whatever) during the game. Lets just say I want to spawn a monster in the middle of the game (when the game has already been ran), how can I do that Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Help Please, kinda alot of questions in here yeah i know i need to start off small but you guys can teach me : ) main thing im stuck with right now it i cant get more than 1 model to display... heres my code so far. (pretty much all from the thrid person camera in help) using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Audio; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Storage; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content; class Game1 : Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game { ContentManager content; GraphicsDeviceManager graphics; Matrix view; Matrix proj; Model ground; Model box; Texture2D boxTexture; Texture2D avatarTexture; Vector3 avatarPosition = new Vector3(0, 0, -20); Vector3 groundposition = new Vector3(0, 0, 30); Vector3 avatarHeadOffset = new Vector3(0, 10, 0); float avatarYaw = 0; float groundYaw = 0; Vector3 cameraReference = new Vector3(1000, 1000, 100); Vector3 thirdPersonReference = new Vector3(0, 50, -800); float rotationSpeed = 1f / 60f; float forwardSpeed = 1000f / 60f; static float viewAngle = MathHelper.PiOver4; static float nearClip = 1.0f; static float farClip = 30000.0f; int cameraState = 2; bool cameraStateKeyDown = false; public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this); content = new ContentManager(Services); } protected override void Initialize() { base.Initialize(); } protected override void LoadGraphicsContent(bool loadAllContent) { if (loadAllContent) { ground = content.Load<Model>("Ground"); box = content.Load<Model>("Alien_Ship"); boxTexture = content.Load<Texture2D>("Title_button_overlay"); avatarTexture = content.Load<Texture2D>("Alien_Ship_tex"); } } protected override void UnloadGraphicsContent(bool unloadAllContent) { if (unloadAllContent) { content.Unload(); } } protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime) { if (GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Buttons.Back == ButtonState.Pressed) this.Exit(); GetCurrentCamera(); UpdateAvatarPosition(); base.Update(gameTime); } protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime) { graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear(Color.CornflowerBlue); switch (cameraState) { default: case 0: UpdateCamera(); break; case 1: UpdateCameraFirstPerson(); break; case 2: UpdateCameraThirdPerson(); break; } DrawBoxes(); Matrix World2 = Matrix.CreateRotationY(groundYaw) * Matrix.CreateTranslation(groundposition); Matrix World = Matrix.CreateRotationY(avatarYaw) * Matrix.CreateTranslation(avatarPosition); if (cameraState == 2) { DrawModel(World, avatarTexture); } base.Draw(gameTime); } void UpdateAvatarPosition() { KeyboardState keyboardState = Keyboard.GetState(); GamePadState currentState = GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One); if (keyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Left) || (currentState.DPad.Left == ButtonState.Pressed)) { avatarYaw += rotationSpeed; } if (keyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Right) || (currentState.DPad.Right == ButtonState.Pressed)) { avatarYaw -= rotationSpeed; } if (keyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Up) || (currentState.DPad.Up == ButtonState.Pressed)) { Matrix forwardMovement = Matrix.CreateRotationY(avatarYaw); Vector3 v = new Vector3(0, 0, forwardSpeed); v = Vector3.Transform(v, forwardMovement); avatarPosition.Z += v.Z; avatarPosition.X += v.X; } if (keyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Down) || (currentState.DPad.Down == ButtonState.Pressed)) { Matrix forwardMovement = Matrix.CreateRotationY(avatarYaw); Vector3 v = new Vector3(0, 0, -forwardSpeed); v = Vector3.Transform(v, forwardMovement); avatarPosition.Z += v.Z; avatarPosition.X += v.X; } } void GetCurrentCamera() { KeyboardState keyboardState = Keyboard.GetState(); GamePadState currentState = GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One); if (keyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Tab) || (currentState.Buttons.LeftShoulder == ButtonState.Pressed)) { cameraStateKeyDown = true; } else if (cameraStateKeyDown == true) { cameraStateKeyDown = false; cameraState += 1; cameraState %= 3; } } void UpdateCamera() { Vector3 cameraPosition = avatarPosition; Matrix rotationMatrix = Matrix.CreateRotationY(avatarYaw); Vector3 transformedReference = Vector3.Transform(cameraReference, rotationMatrix); Vector3 cameraLookat = cameraPosition + transformedReference; view = Matrix.CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, cameraLookat, new Vector3(0.0f, -1000.0f, 0.0f)); Viewport viewport = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport; float aspectRatio = (float)viewport.Width / (float)viewport.Height; proj = Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(viewAngle, aspectRatio, nearClip, farClip); } void UpdateCameraFirstPerson() { Matrix rotationMatrix = Matrix.CreateRotationY(avatarYaw); Vector3 headOffset = Vector3.Transform(avatarHeadOffset, rotationMatrix); Vector3 cameraPosition = avatarPosition + headOffset; Vector3 transformedReference = Vector3.Transform(cameraReference, rotationMatrix); Vector3 cameraLookat = transformedReference + cameraPosition; view = Matrix.CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, cameraLookat, new Vector3(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f)); Viewport viewport = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport; float aspectRatio = (float)viewport.Width / (float)viewport.Height; proj = Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(viewAngle, aspectRatio, nearClip, farClip); } void UpdateCameraThirdPerson() { Matrix rotationMatrix = Matrix.CreateRotationY(avatarYaw); Vector3 transformedReference = Vector3.Transform(thirdPersonReference, rotationMatrix); Vector3 cameraPosition = transformedReference + avatarPosition; // Set up view matrix and projection matrix view = Matrix.CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, avatarPosition, new Vector3(0.0f, 100.0f, 0.0f)); Viewport viewport = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport; float aspectRatio = (float)viewport.Width / (float)viewport.Height; proj = Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(viewAngle, aspectRatio, nearClip, farClip); } void DrawBoxes() { for (int z = 0; z < 9; z++) { for (int x = 0; x < 9; x++) { DrawModel(Matrix.CreateTranslation(x*6,0,z*6) ,boxTexture); } } } void DrawModel( Matrix world, Texture2D texture) { foreach (ModelMesh mesh in box.Meshes) { foreach (BasicEffect be in mesh.Effects) { be.Projection = proj; be.View = view; be.World = world; be.Texture = texture; be.TextureEnabled = true; } mesh.Draw(); } } void DrawModel2( Matrix world2, Texture2D texture) { foreach (ModelMesh mesh in ground.Meshes) { foreach (BasicEffect be in mesh.Effects) { be.Projection = proj; be.View = view; be.World = world; be.Texture = texture; be.TextureEnabled = true; } mesh.Draw(); } } } Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - My shadow maps work on Windows, not Xbox 360 A lot of people are reporting problems with various backbuffer or render target formats other than Color. As far as I can tell, the Xbox runtime currently just assumes everything is Color, and you can't use anything else. You'll have to file a bug on Connect about it. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Selecting objects in 3D space Yes UnProject does the 'division' or rather multiplies by the inverse of the matrix. Sadly there is no way you can avoid understanding matrices if you want to write 3d games. Vector3.Unproject does not turn 2d into 3d. It takes a vector in one set of coordinates and turns it into the same vector in a different set of coordinates. In rayintersectmesh - closesthit returns information about shich triangel within the mesh was hit. It gives you index to the triangle and barycentric coordiantes for WHERE on the triangle the ray hit. If you only need to know if your mesh was hit or not you can ignore this and use the overload that doesn't use that parameter ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms886089.aspx ). 13 is a great age to learn about matrices.... and what better reason to imporve your math skills that programming graphics. Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Question from XNA Tutorial 1 Ok, so, I see this going on in many people's 3D examples, so there must be something to it. In XNA tutorial 1, in the Draw loop, they set every property of every effect every time through the loop. Why It would seem to me that, since they always want default lighting, the best place to set that is in LoadGraphicsContent, right after the model is loaded. Same for the aspect ratio. They don't support it changing, so why bother setting it 60 times per second As far as the view and world matrix, obviously those theoretically need to change. But why is this not done in Update That way, the transformations are skipped (and frame rate goes up), if the player is not pushing on the controller to move the camera, or if the object did not need to move within the world at that point. Again, everyone seems to do it this way, but never explains why. Is this just one of those things that we have decided, "Hmm, seems to work, let's run with it.", or is it mesurably better in some fashion Tag: Game Technologies: General Need a PDA or Hendheld with hardware support for Mobile Direct3D Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

dodo502b

Hi there,

i found in the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 the Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX Assembly. A quik review to the sdk i made a simple 3D application for a Windows Mobile 2005 pda. I can test this with the emulator of the Visual Studio .NET 2005 IDE, but on my Windows Mobile 2003 SE with installed .NET 2.0 i get an exception by the DirectX Assembly.

Where in hell i can get a Pocket PC, PDA or Smartphone where i can test Mobile DirectX I found the chips NVidia GForce 5500, Gforce 4800 and a Intel 2700G with 3d capabalities. Does thouse chip run with Mobile DirectX And who manufactor produce a device with that chips

Thanks, Dodo502b

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Mateusz www.Kierepka.pl

I think that you should read this article:

http://www.mperfect.net/cfMDX/ (Mobile DirectX with the Compact Framework)

It is old ut still valid.

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dodo502b

Thanks for this link, but this information about current devices is to old. Whats about the new NVidia GForce 4500 and 5500 When i try to call NVIDIA nobody hangup the phone. It is so frustating to get no answere on a simple question at NVIDIA.

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Alexey Barkovoy

NVIDIA lists GoForce powered phones here: http://www.nvidia.com/page/goforce_design_wins.html

PDA that for sure uses 5500 is "O2 XDA Flame" but probably it's still not available.