DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick

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    - General Audio Disfunction my code for audio is pretty straight forward. My general routine for calling sound FX is; 1) call 'cue stop' in case the effect is still playing 2) call 'get cue' to retrieve the sound again 3) call play I do this in most cases where I only want one instance of the effect occuring at a time and there is a chance the sound will not have finished playing before it needs to be played again like in the case of a rapid fire weapon. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - general use of XNA vertex types? I've decided reflection is not the way to go. I thought about the interface method also, may use that. This seems like an issue that others have or will encounter. It's hard to imagine only using one vertex type in a graphics engine. Thanks again for the imput! Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Several directX performance issues All the issues are performance related. First of all, I have a graphics card with two screens support. When I run my program on my secondary screen I get different FPS then on the primary one. It doesnt have to do with the different refresh rates of the monitors. I would like to know if there are tools to check performance of the graphic card in your software I have tried to use PIX on my program, it created a data base of all the frames, but it said it has no event or information on all the frames. So it didnt work well. What I am trying to do is a space combat game. I have a shader with normal map, phong lighting and reflection. I also have envirionment map as background of the space game. The same map is used for reflection. The problem is that when I use both the reflection and the environment map as background, I get an FPS drop. If I remove the background environment map, and stay with the reflection I get refresh rate FPS. My graphic card is NVIDIA GEFORCE 6200 LE. What should I do Thank you. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Only C# Express? If you want MS to support XGSE in other version of VS2005, cast your vote at: https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=190037&SiteID=226 Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Error Loading Pipeline assembly DirectInputSupport.dll!! Error Loading Pipeline assembly "c:\......XNA Game Studio Expres\v1.0\referemces\windows\x86\DirectInputSupport.dll" XNA dont compile :( Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Can .FX files have multiple RenderTargets specified? Hi all, I've taken a shader from nvidia's website called "post_bloom.fx". I am finding shaders are a bit of a black art and find it difficult to work out what parameters need to be set or not by looking at the .fx file. I get the whole post-processing, screen-aligned quad thing and have a simple example with 2 parameters working (turns the output to black and white) but I'm trying to understand a more complex scenario. One thing I am unsure of with this particular shader is that it seems to require multiple render target parameters setting... texture SceneMap : RENDERCOLORTARGET texture DepthMap : RENDERDEPTHSTENCILTARGET texture DownsampleMap : RENDERCOLORTARGET texture HBlurMap : RENDERCOLORTARGET texture FinalBlurMap : RENDERCOLORTARGET ...does this imply that I need to create several render targets and set each of these parameters to the corresponding one, or do I set each parameter to my same single render target If I set all the same (excluding the DepthMap) I do get a sort of bloom effect but I cannot tell easily if it is as espected. If I try and set each one to a different render target then XNA complains that I need to resolve a target before I try and do a GetTexture() on it. How do I do that Do I need to set it as a render target on the GraphicsDevice first as this is the only place I see that I can do a resolve. Finally, and a much less important issue - am I correct in thinking I will need to change the way the shader uses the DepthMap, because in XNA you cannot pass in the current DepthStencil buffer as a shader parameter. Thanks for any help you guys can provide, much appreciated. Kind Regards, James Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Spacewar Starter Kit - health In Spacewar Starter Kit, how do I increase the health At the Player.cs , I`ve tried to change the private int health = 500; But didn`t workout. Plz help Ronan Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Layering and Draw call order Ok, I am really new to programming and I am working off a tutorial and then modifying it. I have a Game component for drawing maps and i am having trouble layering them correctly. Thus far i have theorized that my problem is that the program automatically does Draw calls and does the one in Game1 first, then it does the draw calls of the component. I want it to go Component 1 Main then Component 2. Is there anyway to change the order easily If i have not explained this clearly please tell me and i will try to clarify, also if you want to see code for any reason i would be more than happy to send it to you. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - DXGI_USAGE_BACK_BUFFER <-> DXGI_USAGE_RENDER_TARGET_OUTPUT Currently I specify in D3D10CreateDeviceAndSwapChain() in the buffer usage the DXGI_USAGE_RENDER_TARGET_OUTPUT flag. If I specify the DXGI_USAGE_BACK_BUFFER flag I get an error message. What is the difference between those two flags Isn't a back buffer not a render target ... I can't think of anything that makes a back buffer so special to give it its own flag :-) Enlighten me please, - Wolfgang Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Meshes, Shaders, Animations...OH MY!!! Hi Everybody. So far I've been really impressed with XNA and seeing stuff I create play on the X-360. I've had success creating a game in 2D and am now moving into the 3D realm...which consequently has led me to a few questions. First, for reasons unexplained ( $$$ ) I've found myself with copies of MilkShape 3D and Ultimate Unwrap 3D, and have managed to create a mesh that has an animated walk cycle, and then successfully imported and viewed it in a 360 project ( animation less of course ). So, now I'm at a crossroads, and due to my lack of experience I'm coming to you guys for direction to keep my expectations in check and find what reasonably I could and should do. Just a little background on myself, I've been doing C# business applications for the last 5 years, and playing video games my whole life. 1. I've created a mesh with a walking cycle animation in Milkshape. I have plans for this model to have multiple animations such as attacking, running, and etc. With no experience with multiple animations, how do I go about preparing the mesh contain multiple animations Do I need another program or is Milkshape capable of this 2. From what I've read, it is in my best interest to harness the power of shaders in order to move processing power over to the GPU so i can free up the CPU. Is it reasonable for me to take on the task of learning how to program shaders or should I look around for existing libraries and keep my knowledge of shaders to a black box. Keep in mind I'm doing everything myself except for artwork so I have to be reasonable. Does basic effect use built in shaders 3. Do I need to do special things Milkshape to get a polished looking model such as the spaceship model in the spacewar starter kit, or do shaders perform some kind of magic voodoo to make average models look better 4. Currently, I've come across information about community created animation modules. Would it be good to pursue that route or wait for the xna team to implement an animation module Any word from the MSFT guys about a future animation module timeline I know some of these questions may sound quite noobish, but that I am. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated and hopefully others could benefit from it also. I surely understand in a perfect world I would become superman at each area, but what area should I spend the most of my time 'mastering' to get the best cost/benefit outcome in a shorter period of time For example, I don't want to spend 20 hours learning shaders when I should have just learned how to add something to my model that basic effect could exploit. And with that I'm out of breath. Much thanks in advance, Matt Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - .. I did it Part2 Loading FBX file Vb.net TRIDEX ..... I did not write my reply to discourage anyone from trying anything. You specifically asked why the XNA team is so resistant to helping anyone figure out how to do this on their own. But what help did he ask for He didn't ask anything, except why don't we support it "if it's so easy to hack" Maybe you read George's post as discouraging George is not on the XNA team and does not work for Microsoft. He's a very visible and valued member of our community, but he does not speak for XNA or Microsoft. In this forum, I don't speak for Microsoft, either, but I am part of the XNA team and I can provide commentary on what we've done and why it was done that way. We did not ship everything needed to support VB and left it "turned off". There are some fundamental bits missing. Could you, as a third-party, implement a project that provides integrated XNA development support in VB and VS 2005 Yes, probably, if you have enough knowledge of the VS SDK, you could. But you would be building a product to compete with ours, and you'd have to use parts of XNA Game Studio Express in order to get it to work. So will I tell you how to do that No, of course not. We have heard from a lot of users that they want to use VB to develop XNA games. It's a very popular request, and we are trying to figure out when we can do the work to support it. We aren't against supporting VB, we just don't have the resources to deliver it and everything else we want to do all at once. --Stephen Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Volume textures, HLSL and re-creating rendermonkey effects Hi Thomas, to clarify, I didn't find a workaround for the lack of volume texture importer, rather I just slightly changed the pixel shader so that it didn't require a volume texture to perform the 'noise'. I misunderstood what the pixel shader was actually doing before I posted, afterwards I realised the volume texture isn't strictly necessary. It's probably too generous to call it a solution, it's more of a hack. It achieves the refraction of the original shader, and also the 'distortion' that looks like refraction of a rippling water surface, but the look is slightly different. It's practically identical, I switch textures (so using a 2D texture rather than the volume texture), switch around the noiseCoord values, so that noise is being added to the x coord, rather than z: noiseCoord.x = texCoord.z + 0.2 * time_0_X + noisy; noiseCoord.y = texCoord.y * 2; noiseCoord.z = 0.1 * time_0_X; and then tweak a few values to get rid of the 'striation'. Trying to recreate the rendermonkey shaders has been invaluable. Simplest is the vertex lighting shader in the Illumination category. Then I tried per-pixel. Then some of the other single-pass shaders, fabric, glitter etc. The water refraction was the latest I've tried - it doubles nicely as a glass/ice shader if you strip out the time-based noise, too... Once you figure out rendermonkey, recreating in XNA is pretty simple. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Starting work on my GUI system I checked the website you linked to. It's structured somewhat similar to my last GUI system. Probably the most contraversial thing about my GUI system is that it will only use the GameComponent framework in a minimal way. The GUIManager (to which only one GuiScreen can be set at a time) will be an actual GameComponent, but the actual GuiComponents and GuiScreens won't touch the GameComponent interfaces or classes. I have my own way of doing these things at that level. So if you can dig that, you may still want to help me out with my GUI stuff :) As I said, I'll give you an e-mail :) Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Geometry Shader Performance did anyone of you tryied the shader workshop in my case the geometry shader volume shadows just do not work the adjacent vertices are just wrong Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Is there any way to tell if a sampler has a texture attached in shaders? If you mean accessing sampler information from the effect, then that's a reasonable suggestion. You can send your feature request to directx@microsoft.com . Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Need some basic information - i.e. help. :-) We are looking at performing some work for the Army using this XNA technology. Before we jump in with both feet, we were wondering if someone could answers some questions: 1) Can we perform complex motion such as a person walking 1a) Can it be automated such as bi-ped motion 2) Can math equations be used such as wheel rotation matching the ground distance 2a) Can this be automated Any other help / links would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - IXACTEngine::GetGlobalVariable crushed application I have code: // ... IXACTEngine* m_pXACTEngine // ... create m_pXACEngine and so on XACT_RUNTIME_PARAMETERS xactParams; ZeroMemory(&xactParams, sizeof(xactParams)); /* fill xactParams exclude XACT_RUNTIME_PARAMETERS ::globalSettingsBufferSize; // == 0 XACT_RUNTIME_PARAMETERS ::globalSettingsFlags; // == 0 XACT_RUNTIME_PARAMETERS ::globalSettingsAllocAttributes; // == 0 */ hr = m_pXACTEngine->Initialize(&xactParams); if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { XACTVARIABLEINDEX xactSpeedOfSoundID = m_pXACTEngine->GetGlobalVariableInde("SpeedOfSound"); // now xactSpeedOfSoundID == XACTVARIABLEINDEX_INVALID XACTVARIABLEVALUE nSpeedOfSound = 0; hr = m_pXACTEngine->GetGlobalVariable(xactSpeedOfSoundID, &nSpeedOfSound); //... but m_pXACTEngine->GetGlobalVariable crushed with access violation Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Future of DirectX well lets be honest da Z-man is right... direct X is not for indies never meant to be (tell me about an SDK out there whose tutorials or samples would compile out of the box Not dirext X you bet) no it was never meant for indies, yes it might be a big mistake but not yet. look at the first support that vb had in direct X (i still use the com direct X for visual basic to use v b well) Games are getting easier to create and frankly speaking the only reason direct X could survive to DX10 is cos games run on MS technologies. once tools like tourque increase in use and popularity what indie would use DX why is Jave popular with games on mobiles cos its easier to learn hell no! look at it this way i have installed the feb DX sdk tried samples from the book managed direct X kick start by sams (i love VB..beautiful language), spent a fourtune on VS2005. tried coding (lost a monitor.. :) spent three hours trying not to use C# instead of VB ended up craking my LCD) i was begining to think games was just not my thing well i have read a book on tourque and Killa Jave for games.... all i can say is stuff DX for indies. use something else (even truevision 3d works beautifully- mind you their dev team is less than .25 of the DX team.) so does Microsoft give a damn about us .....NAAAAA or u could use, whats it called XNA learn C# its pretty good too. MS forgets how volatile the Dev society is always leave options open, you have the resources get the job done cos when a substitute pops up from no where, i don't want to be the one calling MS and saying told u so big Daddy... Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - animating textures The correct and most efficient method for animating a texture is to compile the frames of animation into a larger 2D texture, and modify the texture matrix depending on the frame of animation you would like to display. Attempting copy texture data using Texture2D.Getdata() and Texture2D.SetData() is horrendously inefficient because of the huge amount of memory that it would require to copy to video memory each time the frame of animation changes. Furthermore, with the problem would become compounded when dealing with more than 1 object sharing the animated texture with a different current frame in it's animation. As far as getting blending to 'do something' goes, the texture doesn't necessarily need an alpha channel for certain kinds of blending, but for others, you will. See this post to learn a little about how blending works: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1068970&SiteID=1 Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Duplicating Content Manager Resources Hi, I am currently porting my managed DX9 engine to XNA, and need to duplicated a model for writing vertex data to. In the old engine I just load the model twice to get 2 identical meshes, each with their own separate vertex buffer. With the content manager in XNA this appears to be 'optimized' into not working, as it appears to return the same vertex buffers for each model. This of course means if I change one vertex buffer the changes are reflected in both models, which is not the desired behavior. So my question is, is there a way to force the content manager to load to a new buffer and not just return to me already loaded pointers. If not, any information as to how to create a new Model and fill it with a loaded models data would be greatly appreciated. (Seems most of the Model properties, like Meshes are read only) - Note, I do have access to the vertex data via a custom content processor. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Problems with SurfaceFormat.Bgra1010102 on the XBOX360 Simplest repro case there is: Create a blank XBOX 360 project. In the Draw call, change the clear color to Color.Green . Run it. Note the color. Change the Game1 constructor to read as follows: graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager( this ); graphics . PreferredBackBufferFormat = SurfaceFormat . Bgra1010102; content = new ContentManager( Services ); Run that and note the color again - it's different. Press the XBOX guide button and note how the shade changes. If you want it to be really obvious then try rendering a model as well. Almost any model will do - I copied p2_rocket.x in from the Space Wars sample and copy-pasted in the code from "How To: Render a Model" in the XNA documentation (minus the position/rotation thing - I was too lazy and only kept the bone matrix part of the world transform). According to the debugger my device's PresentationParameters have BackBufferFormat set to Bgra1010102 , BackBufferWidth set to 800 and BackBufferHeight set to 600. These values are correctly reflected by the size values in both the DepthStencilBuffer and the Viewport . It's not really a big deal at this point since I've already changed my code to render into a separate 1010102 buffer and then render from that buffer into the actual (now Bgr32 ) back buffer with a pixel shader that does some other cool stuff...I just wonder why this doesn't work out of the box or at least throw an exception or something. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Animation sample An AnimationChannel contains a set of keyframes for a given bone. The name of the bone to which the channel corresponds is stored as the key for that channel in the AnimationContent.Channels property. A keyframe in the channel stores the non-absolute transform for the bone at a given time. If you want to get the absolute transform of the bone at that time, one way to do it is to set all the Transform matrices on the Model.Bones collection to your keyframe transforms, and then call the CopyAbsoluteTransformsTo method and have them copied to an array. But that just gives the absolute transforms and you still need to do more work to make your model display in a skinned aimation. The next step is to make an effect that uses (usually) a matrix palette to display the vertices properly for a skinned model. Then, you need to find out how the bone indices in the vertex buffer will map to the indices on the model. I'm not exactly sure how the default mapping works, but I think it is one of two possibilities (the first is that it is mapped directly to the indices in the bones of the model and the second is that it is mapped in the order that the bones containing skin weights appear in the hierarchy). I just overrode the default implementation and manually mapped them. Once you have resolved this, you can make your matrix array that will be passed to your shader as a matrix palette. Finally, vertices in the model are stored in the bind pose. In other words, if you were to just render all the vertices of a skinned model on a screen and not transform them by any bone matrices, the model would appear as it did when it was initially rigged in the modeling program. So, because of this, just passing the absolute bone transforms to the shader will not display the model properly. For the final step, you will need the matrix that transforms the vertices from the bind pose bone space to the local space of the bone. This can be found by multiplying the absolute mesh transform by the inverse absolute transform of the bone (when the model is originally loaded). This transform has been called a large number of different names by many different people (its "official" name is perhaps the inverse bind pose transform), but I just call it the skin transform. Finally, you can get the transform that you want to pass to the shader by multiplying the "skin transform" by the absolute bone transform for that frame. Edit: The one thing I forgot to mention is that the keyframes are not interpolated, so if you don't keyframe your animation to 60 fps in your modeling program, you probably also want to do that in the processor. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA Framework runs fine in Visual Studio 2005 Standard Oh well, it doesn't matter anymore. Overall, I'm just stating XNA can run with Standard without having to use GSE. I'm sure there's downfalls and benefits, but that's for everyone to decide with what works in their project. I decided to stay in the native world, but it's cool knowing XNA is there for another crowd. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Options for older laptop w/ no shader suppport? Besides my desktop, I have an older Vaio K35 laptop w/ Radeon IGP 345M integrated graphics. I can install DX9, XNA and Game Studio Express, and I can edit/build XNA projects. However, the integrated graphics dont support the minimum shader version so I get an exception whenever I try to build/debug. I looked for newer drivers, but so far it's a no go. Is there a way I can force GSE to use the directx reference renderer I don't really care about performance, I just want to see that thinkg look visually okay. Even 1fps is fine. I just want to have a way to work on my XNA projects while on the road. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - If DirectPlay is OUT ... what's IN? Ok! Ok! Ok! If DirectPlay is deprecated, what's the replacement technology I'm working in C# .NET managed code space. I do NOT need 40 billion simultaneous users. Maybe 4-5 users all playing the same game. Many games going on simultaneously. I do have a central IIS server that could be used to "connect" players .... so what technology do I use Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - ContentLoadException and Game Library project types I'm getting an unusual problem whenever I encounter a ContentLoadException. If I encounter this exception I am unable to build any of my Game Library projects until I have closed and reopened GSE. I can still build my Window's Games, however. I don't know if this is due to something I am doing, or if others are having this problem as well. This really isn't that big of a deal, except that with my game solution steadily growing in size reopening GSE is taking longer and longer every time. Am I the only one who encounters this problem, or has someone else encountered this Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Strangest 'Bug' I've Found Yet Alpha: from what I gather, using foreach will create a bunch of objects that will sit in yet-to-be-collected land, which will slow down the GC when it activates, and also cause it to activate more often (because it will get filled more often). I wouldn't use foreach on methods that run every frame or fairly often, but if it's for initialization or once in a while it should be ok. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Dynamic Vertexbuffer I wasn't sure from his original message if he was changing the data each frame or only occassionally. If only occassionally, wouldn't a vertex buffer reduce the amount of data being sent to the card each frame Of course, that's moot if the scene isn't complicated. After all, why do the extra work of a vertex buffer if it simply isn't needed Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Seperating 2D objects that have collided. Hey all, Does anyone know how you would go about separating 2D objects that have collided I'm trying to get the objects to separate by the absolute minimum distance required. I'm using bounding boxes with no Z specified. I thought it'd be easy like: -Velocity * (Size / 2 / Distance between 2 collided objects) But that fails horribly on objects of non-square size (64x32 for example) or on objects with low penetration (if distance is exceptionally large, it fails). I can't just revert back to the last position because I need the player to be standing on the floor, not above it... or beside the wall, not 4 pixels away. Anyone know how it's done Thanks. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Crazy Hiccups No, RPM should not require SP1. To launch your game from RPM, you'll need to enter the "title" of the game in the Application box, not the path to the built assembly. The title is the friendly name that shows up in the My XNA Games screen (its default is the name of your project). From the errors you got, I suspect the installation might not have succeeded, but I'm really not sure. --Stephen Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to create a level editor So, I was thinking than, is there any way to make multiple views. For example, (top, front, left, and perspective) I think that it would make it a lot easier to move things around. I just don't know how I can seperate the screen in four to make the views. I guess I can make a command that changes the views one by one, but that would be harder to see what is going on. Thanks for any help. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Anitaliasing when rendering to sprite Kyle_W wrote: What exception were you getting when you tried specifying the multisampling options in the RenderTarget2D constructor, and what values did you attempt to set I'm almost positive this is the issue right here. I've watched my graphics Devices through the entire application, PreferMultisample is always true, multisampling is always enabled and the quality and type is always set on the device. The one problem is these properties are never set on the RenderTarget2D, only the graphics device. When I watch my postProcesser I can see that the properties are not being set on the RenderTarget2D. I cannot set the properties directly, and if I try something like this this .renderTarget = new RenderTarget2D (myDevice, myDevice.Viewport.Width, myDevice.Viewport.Height, 1, myDevice.DisplayMode.Format, MultiSampleType .EightSamples, 4); I get a InvalidOperationException here's the detail: System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled Message="The method call is invalid." Source="Microsoft.Xna.Framework" StackTrace: at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.RenderTarget..ctor(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 numberLevels, SurfaceFormat format, MultiSampleType multiSampleType, Int32 multiSampleQuality, Boolean isTexture2D) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.RenderTarget2D..ctor(GraphicsDevice graphicsDevice, Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 numberLevels, SurfaceFormat format, MultiSampleType multiSampleType, Int32 multiSampleQuality) at AOEAEngine.AOEAPostProcessor.LoadGraphicsContent(GraphicsDevice myDevice, ContentManager myLoader) in C:\Users\mike\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Technology\AOEAEngine\AOEAPostProcessor.cs:line 25 at AOEAEngine.AOEAGame.LoadGraphicsContent(Boolean loadAllContent) in C:\Users\mike\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Technology\AOEAEngine\AOEAGame.cs:line 95 at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Initialize() at AOEAEngine.AOEAGame.Initialize() in C:\Users\mike\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Technology\AOEAEngine\AOEAGame.cs:line 108 at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run() at AOEADemo.AOEADemo.Main() in C:\Users\mike\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Technology\AOEAGame\AOEAGame\AOEADemo.cs:line 26 Thanks for any help you can give. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

jpimentel

How to create a DirectInput device connected to parallel port
The parallel port uses the interface lpt-switch.
thanks

Re: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick

windozer_

jpimentel,

There is a complete sample in the SDK. The most recent version for this can be found here. If you download the SDK for Feb2007 there is also a solution in the (SDK root)\Samples\C++\DirectInput\Joystick directory. Thanks.

Cale

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Re: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 DirectInput with Parallel Port Joystick

The ZMan

This would really be up to the DirectInput driver. The driver needs to make the device appear to DirectInput.

If this is an exisiting device then contact the manufacturer if its something you have built yourself then start here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms789837.aspx

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