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    - 2D Pixel Perfect Collision Thanks, I'll check them out. Also, I didn't consider the implications of trying to collide sprites from the same texture sheet so I'll have to factor this in as well. Another thing I just realized is that the origin will have to be considered as it determines the draw offset when SpriteBatch.Draw is called. So that means Rotation, Scale, Origin and Offset(tilesheet location) Thanks for the help. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The Unofficial "Hooray I'm Done With my DBP Game" Thread Catalin, I can't wait to see your game, you do great work. I was up until 3 last night, and then I didn't sleep well. My game is called "Spacewar: Mission Pegasus" and is a 2.5D scroller. Bill Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Error in SpriteBatch.Draw() call with SpriteSortMode enum This code is intended to demonstrate sprite sorting. if the depth value has specified the same error is appearing as well, it doesn't concern to the sort direction but just to the deferring mode. In the immediate mode it seems working fine, but the deferred one can't manage forward-to-back sorting. Strange enough. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Getting my application to run on someone elses computer I have direct X 9.0c(4.09.0000.0904) installed and the SDK i'm using is the June 2006 edition. I could upgrade both using the Febuary 2007 release of the direct X SDK and distribute the runtime you get with the SDK to the others i want to use the application If you think that would fix the problem They both have direct X 9.0c Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Pixel Shader 1.1 not available Bubbla wrote: ...I want to do game programming but this problem does not allow me to do so. I think you mean you can't use GSE, but that doesn't mean you can't do game programming. There's other options available if you can't upgrade your video. Granted, they're not as nice as XNA, but they're out there. .NET and GDI are just fine for small 2D games and will allow you to get your feet wet at least. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Problem using effect in XNA My array was too large for the sm / hardware. float4x4 Worlds[200]; when reduced to: float4x4 Worlds[10] everything worked. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 360: better to Dispose() or let garbage collector clean up? So would I be correct in assuming that if I were to dispose of objects I don't need anymore (before the GC finds them and cleans them up) I could reduce collection times by giving the GC less to do Or would that not convey an advantage (Long collection times are annoying so I'd rather free objects over time than have the GC free them all at once.) Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA with VertexBuffers only? (No loading content) P.S. For simplicity, you might wanna read something on BasicEffect In the XNA Documentation, in XNA Game Studio Express -> Programming Guide -> Graphics -> 3D Graphics-> How To :Use Basic Effect. I believe they do a better job explaining it than I did, Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Why does my displayed mesh dim when rotating on an LCD TV? What resolution is your game running at What resolution is your Xbox display output set to What is the native resolution of your TV Depending on the above answers, there could be all kinds of different video scaling going on, perhaps inside the Xbox or maybe also inside the TV. Depending on the details, this could easily cause the results you are seeing. The Xbox video scaler is very high quality, but I doubt it can be relied on to exactly preserve the brightness of a single-pixel thick line (that's not really a common case for video signals, so probably not what they tweaked it for) and if the TV is doing any scaling internally, things are all over the shop in terms of how good different TVs are at that. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Porting ScummVM to XNA You've clearly mis-understood my post. I will be releasing the source because it is based on GPL code and because there is no other way to distribute it. As far as content goes, I'm taking a leaf out of the TorqueX book and will be supplying a tool to generate a 360 project. When you generate this project, you point to the Scumm games (which you own of course), that you want to package into the project. The resulting project will include the ScummVM source and the binaries. You then compile and deploy the project, and presto your executable and binaries are on the XBox360. As far as Microsoft goes in the matter, they won't be worried, as there are no official channels for distribution for XNA projects at the moment from them. I will be provinding the source code on a websit that I host. As far as I'm concerned, there is no grey area, nothing stops people packing copyright infringing material in with their projects and distributing them at the moment. I'm doing this for all the people that OWN ScummVM games out there. I certainly will no be supplying any binaries, just source code and a tool. Until then! Tommy. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Problems with: Detecting if a user clicked on a 3D object Ok, doing better but still not there. I settled out the updating and got the ray to be created but now it simply doesn't seem to intersect anything no matter how large I make this bondingBox. Here's the code... the Ray is being created according to the debugger and I can see all it's data just fine... Ray.Intersects() is simply coming up null all the time. Any ideas Thanks, Scott *************************************************** #region Using Statements using System; using System . Collections . Generic; using Microsoft . Xna . Framework; using Microsoft . Xna . Framework . Audio; using Microsoft . Xna . Framework . Content; using Microsoft . Xna . Framework . Graphics; using Microsoft . Xna . Framework . Input; using Microsoft . Xna . Framework . Storage; using Microsoft . DirectX . Direct3D; #endregion namespace MySW { public class Game1 : Microsoft . Xna . Framework . Game { #region Variables GraphicsDeviceManager graphics; ContentManager content; // Model to render Model myModel; //Position of the Model in world spce, and rotation Vector3 modelPosition = Vector3 . Zero; BoundingBox newBB = new BoundingBox ( Vector3 . Zero, new Vector3 (1000.0f, 1000.0f, 1000.0f)); float modelRotation = 0.0f; float rotX = MathHelper . ToRadians(90.0f); // Aspect ratio to use for the projection matrix float aspectRatio = 640.0f / 480.0f; // Position of the camera in world space for hte view matrix Vector3 cameraPosition = new Vector3 (0.0f, - 0.0f, - 2500.0f); // Matricies for use with Ray Matrix view; Matrix proj; #endregion Variables public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager ( this ); content = new ContentManager (Services); //mouse is not visible by default IsMouseVisible = true ; } #region Init /// <summary> /// Allows the game to perform any initialization it needs to before starting to run. /// This is where it can query for any required services and load any non-graphic /// related content. Calling base.Initialize will enumerate through any components /// and initialize them as well. /// </summary> protected override void Initialize() { // TODO: Add your initialization logic here base . Initialize(); } #endregion Init #region Load Graphics /// <summary> /// Load your graphics content. If loadAllContent is true, you should /// load content from both ResourceManagementMode pools. Otherwise, just /// load ResourceManagementMode.Manual content. /// </summary> /// <param name="loadAllContent"> Which type of content to load. </param> protected override void LoadGraphicsContent( bool loadAllContent) { if (loadAllContent) { myModel = content . Load < Model > ( "Content\\Models\\chips01" ); } // TODO: Load any ResourceManagementMode.Manual content } #endregion Load Graphics #region Unload Graphics /// <summary> /// Unload your graphics content. If unloadAllContent is true, you should /// unload content from both ResourceManagementMode pools. Otherwise, just /// unload ResourceManagementMode.Manual content. Manual content will get /// Disposed by the GraphicsDevice during a Reset. /// </summary> /// <param name="unloadAllContent"> Which type of content to unload. </param> protected override void UnloadGraphicsContent( bool unloadAllContent) { if (unloadAllContent == true ) { content . Unload(); } } #endregion Unload Graphics #region Update logic /// <summary> /// Allows the game to run logic such as updating the world, /// checking for collisions, gathering input and playing audio. /// </summary> /// <param name="gameTime"> Provides a snapshot of timing values. </param> protected override void Update( GameTime gameTime) { // Allows the default game to exit on Xbox 360 and Windows if ( GamePad . GetState( PlayerIndex . One) . Buttons . Back == ButtonState . Pressed) this . Exit(); // Rotate the model modelRotation += ( float )gameTime . ElapsedGameTime . TotalMilliseconds * MathHelper . ToRadians(0.1f); // modelPosition.Y += 1; checkMouseClick(); base . Update(gameTime); } #endregion Update logic #region Draw /// <summary> /// This is called when the game should draw itself. /// </summary> /// <param name="gameTime"> Provides a snapshot of timing values. </param> protected override void Draw( GameTime gameTime) { graphics . GraphicsDevice . Clear( Color . Teal); // Copy any parent transforms Matrix [] transforms = new Matrix [myModel . Bones . Count]; myModel . CopyAbsoluteBoneTransformsTo(transforms); // Draw the model, a model can have multiple meshes, so loop foreach ( ModelMesh mesh in myModel . Meshes) { // This is where the mesh oritnetation is set, as well as our camera and projection foreach ( BasicEffect effect in mesh . Effects) { effect . EnableDefaultLighting(); effect . World = transforms[mesh . ParentBone . Index] * Matrix . CreateRotationX(rotX) * Matrix . CreateTranslation(modelPosition); effect . View = Matrix . CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, Vector3 . Zero, Vector3 . Up); effect . Projection = Matrix . CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView( MathHelper . ToRadians(45.0f), aspectRatio, 5.0f, 10000.0f); // Set up view matrix and projection matrix. view = Matrix . CreateLookAt(cameraPosition, modelPosition, Vector3 . Up); proj = effect . Projection; } // Draw the mesh using the effects set above mesh . Draw(); } } #endregion Draw #region checkMouseClick void checkMouseClick() { MouseState mouseState = Mouse . GetState(); if (mouseState . LeftButton == ButtonState . Pressed) { Ray pickRay = GetPickRay(); Nullable < float > result = pickRay . Intersects(newBB); // ****Always returns NULL ****** if (result . HasValue == true ) { //intersects the triangle // Add code to interact with the selected object. rotX += MathHelper . ToRadians(1.0f); } } } #endregion checkMouseClick #region GetPickRay() Ray GetPickRay() { MouseState mouseState = Mouse . GetState(); int mouseX = mouseState . X; int mouseY = mouseState . Y; Vector3 nearsource = new Vector3 (( float )mouseX, ( float )mouseY, - 5000f); Vector3 farsource = new Vector3 (( float )mouseX, ( float )mouseY, 10000f); Matrix world = Matrix . CreateTranslation(0, 0, 0); Vector3 nearPoint = graphics . GraphicsDevice . Viewport . Unproject(nearsource, proj, view, world); Vector3 farPoint = graphics . GraphicsDevice . Viewport . Unproject(farsource, proj, view, world); // Create a ray from the near clip plane to the far clip plane. Vector3 direction = farPoint - nearPoint; direction . Normalize(); Ray pickRay = new Ray (nearPoint, direction); return pickRay; } #endregion GetPickRay() } } Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - ... VB.net 3D Level editor for XNA .. Tridex .... Beta 1 Hi Luhar, Note that respects to all the coders who have helped me understand 3d and to Microsoft for Windows which some may mock, but this keeps me in work and being inventive (All it takes is a little curiousity and BANG!!!) Thnaks for the support, I will be upload the Leveler 3D editor and Engine by Thursday, If You want the code, Maths Class (I have an old version on my site: http://www.tridexconsultants.co.uk/pages/DirectxClasses.htm )I have been collecting over the last 2 years then drop me an email, And I will bundle it down to you via email tonight (London time) I have just been cleaing up the code ready to get some other vb.net guys on board so we can start realeasing so games, I am just waiting for the animation tyool microsoft is due to trealease in order to fionish the game ideas I have, There is one allreday out at code plex, which I will try to covert thsis weekend........ so lots of code for vb.net guys to get on the bandwagon (Cheer XNA TEAM) VB.NET for ever!!!!!!! ... Tridex@yahoo.com ..... Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - shader 1.1 or higher? its a Nvidia GeForce4 Go Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Video/Animation Playback Creating textures for each frame isn't probably the most efficient way, for two reasons: Creating and destroying GPU resources is pretty slow. This is the kind of thing you really want to be doing just once in an initialize function, rather than inside your rendering loop. Loading textures using FromFile means you aren't going to be getting much in the way of data compression. This may be fine if your animation is very low resolution, but for decent quality video, uncompressed format is going to take so much space, the hard drive may well not be able to keep up with the transfer rate this is requiring! To fix the first problem, a typical approach would be to create probably three textures using the Dynamic usage flag in your initialize function. Then you cycle between them. Each time you want to render a frame, pick the next texture from your list of three, call SetData on it to fill it with a new frame of image data, then use it to render, and rotate the list so you get a different texture on the next frame. The reason to have three textures rather than just one is that the GPU renders asynchronously with the CPU, so if you called SetData immediately the next frame on the same texture you just used, the CPU would have to stall until the GPU was finished rendering out of that texture. Using three in rotation gives the GPU time to have finished rendering the previous frames before the CPU tries to stuff new data into each texture. To reduce the amount of bandwidth you are using (assuming this turns out to be a problem), you will need to do some kind of video compression. That's not an area I know much about though! Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA for VB.NET ? ...it will just take some time... Can we expect this next year (beginning or end of the year 2007) Thanks. simon Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - how to build a 2D map ok, thanks i know this tutorial... then i will do it in this way. thanks greg Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - metronome using directSound or directMusic thanks for your reply ! the reason I connected my question about timing with directSound / directMusic is because of the directMusic functions concerning timing issues such as e.g. IDirectMusic8::GetMasterClock or IDirectMusicPerformance8::AdjustTime, which left me wondering if there were functions provided by directX that I could use for solving my problem stated above. i do need more than 1ms of precision (at least 1/10.000 sec) due to the fact that when converting beats per minute (BPM) to time length, millisconds are not sufficient and result in incorrect tempo values. for example a 120 bpm track has a one-quarter length of 125 ms, so a milli-second resolution would be fine. a 129 bpm track, however, has a one-quarter length of 116,279... ms. killing and restarting the timer is not an option since it would quite severly interrupt the flow of the track currently being played. thanks for any suggestions, best wishes, b. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Ortho-picking Thanks! Well I'm doing something like this, but when some transformations are applied, the picking is not accurate in Orthogonal projection. However, the PerspectiveFOV is perfect. That's Exactly what I'm doing: D3DD.GetViewport(VP); D3DD.GetTransform(D3DTS_PROJECTION, PM); D3DD.GetTransform(D3DTS_VIEW, VM); D3DXVec3Unproject(VOut1, D3DXVector3(X, Y, 0.0), VP, PM, VM, WorldMatrix); D3DXVec3Unproject(VOut2, D3DXVector3(X, Y, 1.0), VP, PM, VM, WorldMatrix); //WorldMatrix is the world transformation matrix for the tested mesh //The same is if it is got like this: D3DD.GetTransform(D3DTS_WORLD, VM); //I test with the IntersectTriangle function as it is in the Picking demo from the DXSDK. D3DXIntersect function does the same result. IntersectTriangle(VOut1, VOut2, v0, v1, v2, fDist, fBary1, fBary2) Sorry for reviving this thread, but there seems to be immeasurably difficult to find a woking piece of code for ortho-picking. I found people that had the exactly same problem, but found no answer :/ I still need this, and I think it would be nice and very helpful to have a practically working solution here. Well has anyone some working code Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Help What do I need to download so I can connect to my 360 for XNA? I dont know why its not connecting to my computer Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Moving raw data through the content pipeline... "Put your converted data" is a little bit abstract, because you actually want the data to live in the source directories (because of source control, the ability to nuke the output and re-build, etc). I can think of two ways of doing this: 1) Use a custom build rule that just does "copy" on the asset. Hmm -- I know how to do this in VS Pro; I haven't verified that that's there in VCE. 2) Write a very simple object importer that puts data in the content DOM, and just streams it through as a byte array. Which would you suggest Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Using textures with a custom pixelshader SpriteBatch Thanks! You're great! Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How to Add object to Array? thanks alot! Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Creating a GUI builder in visual studio Well although Microsoft does appear to be planning to create a GUI control offering, I don't believe anyone has stated whether this offering will include a visual designer for Visual Studio. It may simply be a set of classes to enable creation of controls through code, similar to what some in the community have already done: http://jsedlak.org/xna5d http://www.nuclex.org/news/2007/01/14/ceguisharp Whether it's a worthwhile pursuit in light of other activity on this front is of course up to you, but if you decide to pursue it, perhaps this link will help: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700819.aspx Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XNA deploy in Vista Yes, I use both my laptop (XP) and my dektop (Vista) and it works very well, only problem is that I cannot have both working @ the same time (need to generate a new key each time as well). I'd recommend you try a new key and I think that the o's are only zeros (haven't came across an o, yet). Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Rotation help I think I understand what your after but not quite sure, I distilled my tranformations into one class for the sake of clarity, I havent had the time to optimise it yet and not even fully sure if its without problems, however I think it does what you need it to do, I am just going to paste the entire class so you can have a look at how I am dealing with Quaternion based rotations, I am by no means an expert and any advice on this is much appreciated. At the bottom of the class you will see the 3 methods that deal with applying pitch, yaw and roll to the tranformation. public class Transform { private Vector3 _Rotation; Matrix _World; private bool _Dirty; public bool Dirty { get { return _Dirty; } set { _Dirty = value; } } private Matrix _MatScale; private Quaternion _Orientation; private Quaternion _OrientationDelta; private Matrix _MatRotation; private Matrix _MatTranslation; private Vector3 _Left = Vector3.Left; private Vector3 _Up = Vector3.Up; private Vector3 _Forward = Vector3.Forward; public Transform() { _Scale = Vector3.One; _Position = Vector3.Zero; _Rotation = Vector3.Zero; _Orientation = Quaternion.Identity; _Dirty = true ; } public Matrix World { get { if (_Dirty) { Matrix.CreateScale( ref _Scale, out _MatScale); Matrix.CreateFromQuaternion( ref _Orientation, out _MatRotation); Matrix.CreateTranslation( ref _Position, out _MatTranslation); _World = _MatScale * _MatRotation * _MatTranslation; _Dirty = false ; } return _World; } } #region Position private Vector3 _Position; /// <summary> /// Set the position /// </summary> /// <param name= "x" > </param> /// <param name= "y" > </param> /// <param name= "z" > </param> /// <returns> </returns> public void SetPosition( float x, float y, float z) { _Position.X = x; _Position.Y = y; _Position.Z = z; _Dirty = true ; } public void SetPosition(Vector3 position) { _Position = position; _Dirty = true ; } public void SetPosition( ref Vector3 position) { _Position.X = position.X; _Position.Y = position.Y; _Position.Z = position.Z; _Dirty = true ; } /// <summary> /// Get the position /// </summary> public Vector3 Position { get { return _Position; } } /// <summary> /// Set the X component of position /// </summary> public float PositionX { get { return _Position.X; } set { _Position.X = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Y component of position /// </summary> public float PositionY { get { return _Position.Y; } set { _Position.Y = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Z component of position /// </summary> public float PositionZ { get { return _Position.Z; } set { _Position.Z = value; _Dirty = true ; } } #endregion #region Scale private Vector3 _Scale; /// <summary> /// Set the Scale /// </summary> /// <param name= "x" > </param> /// <param name= "y" > </param> /// <param name= "z" > </param> /// <returns> </returns> public void SetScale( float x, float y, float z) { _Scale.X = x; _Scale.Y = y; _Scale.Z = z; _Dirty = true ; } /// <summary> /// Get the Scale /// </summary> public Vector3 Scale { get { return _Scale; } } /// <summary> /// Set the X component of Scale /// </summary> public float ScaleX { get { return _Scale.X; } set { _Scale.X = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Y component of Scale /// </summary> public float ScaleY { get { return _Scale.Y; } set { _Scale.Y = value; _Dirty = true ; } } /// <summary> /// Set the Z component of Scale /// </summary> public float ScaleZ { get { return _Scale.Z; } set { _Scale.Z = value; _Dirty = true ; } } #endregion public void AddPitch( float pitch) { Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle( ref _Left, pitch, out _OrientationDelta); _Orientation *= _OrientationDelta; _Dirty = true ; } public void AddYaw( float yaw) { Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle( ref _Up, yaw, out _OrientationDelta); _Orientation *= _OrientationDelta; _Dirty = true ; } public void AddRoll( float roll) { Quaternion.CreateFromAxisAngle( ref _Forward, roll, out _OrientationDelta); _Orientation *= _OrientationDelta; _Dirty = true ; } } Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Gravy time from the XNA team! :) Looks like the Cat is Out :) Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Threaded code shows no speedup on XBox 360: More to it than Threading namespace? The first thing you call in your new thread has to be Thread.SetProcessorAffinity , otherwise the new thread will be scheduled on the same hardware thread as the thread that spawned it. Check out the XNA documentation for more info. Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Putting a Window on top of a DirectX fullscreen window? When an app has full screen it own the whole screen - windows can't draw over the top which is why it minimizes when other apps get focus. The only way to draw on top is to intercept the DirectX API calls and insert your own. I suspect this is is what Xfire, Pix and Fraps all do to draw on top of the screen Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Texture format (Surface format) incomprehension... > What width and height are you specifying 64 x 64 px > What exactly is the error you get In case of SurfaceFormat.Color on NVidia GF5600 and 5900 - "The method call is invalid."; although on GF6800 this works fine; In case of SurfaceFormat.Rgba32 on NVidia GF6800 and 7800 - "The device does not support creating a texture of the given format with the given ResourceUsage.\r\nParameter name: format"; Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Build speed with many projects Thanks for the response! There are two problems, I guess. The first is that projects have a lengthy MSBuild invoke even if nothing changed, and the second is that projects that are configured to not be built still have get MSBuild invoked on them. Simple illustration of the first problem (I'd consider it bad behavior more than a bug :) - this is the 5th build of the Client project in a row - I just hit build project on it several times in a row: ------ Build started: Project: Hiranipra.Utilities.X360, Configuration: Debug Xbox 360 ------ Hiranipra.Utilities.X360 -> C:\Cache\Dev\Hiranipra\trunk\Hiranipra.Utilities.X360\bin\Xbox 360\Debug\Hiranipra.Utilities.X360.dll <....snip several other projects...> ------ Build started: Project: Hiranipra.Client.X360, Configuration: Debug Xbox 360 ------ Hiranipra.Client.X360 -> C:\Cache\Dev\Hiranipra\trunk\Hiranipra.Client.X360\bin\Xbox 360\Debug\Hiranipra.Client.X360.exe ========== Build: 9 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ========== Each one of those steps takes about 4-5 seconds to figure out nothing changed. Why I'm thinking this is all just useless overhead is because one of the projects doesn't have a single file in it, yet it still takes ages. The second issue, upon inspection, may be a bug, as I haven't been able to replicate the behavior on my laptop. I'll try reinstalling VC# in the morning. Thanks again for the response! Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - The Unofficial "Hooray I'm Done With my DBP Game" Thread Catalin, I can't wait to see your game, you do great work. I was up until 3 last night, and then I didn't sleep well. My game is called "Spacewar: Mission Pegasus" and is a 2.5D scroller. Bill Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - DirectX8 and Vista Compatibility Have you ever had to install this file on a clean windows installation before I'm wondering how the file normally gets onto peoples machines. Since its a DirectX 8 file its not something that DirectX 9.0 will install and it seems unlikely that it would come with the OS since DirectX 8 totally predates windows XP . (Let me correct myself there since DirectX 8.1 shipped with Windows XP) Tag: XNA Framework SQL Database Access Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

RAGolko123

Is it possible to use an SQL database as a backend to an XNA game

The idea is to have an sql database on a server that can be accessed through connection code in the game to retreive and save data.

Is it possible with windows-only games

Is it possible with xbox games

Is there sample code somewhere

How does io work in XNA

Re: XNA Framework SQL Database Access

Glenn Wilson

Yes it can be done, but only for windows games. I have actually been doing this for a while but with MDX Games and soon to be with XNA Windows Games. If you do want to use some sort of database system on the Xbox you would need to use XML or write a custom solution.

Re: XNA Framework SQL Database Access

Jon Watte

X-box Live! is not exposed to the XNA libraries, and the System.Net namespace (and similar) are not available on the X-box, so you cannot do anything networked on that platform right now.

For a Windows game, you can use system sockets, TCPClients, and other networking from the .NET 2.0 framework, by just adding the reference and using the API. In that sense, writing a networked XNA game is no different from writing a networked Managed DirectX game.

Re: XNA Framework SQL Database Access

RAGolko123

Thanks for your replies. So for Windows games I'm all set the way XNA works now; that's what I really want to do anyway. I've done plenty of database access via web sites, winforms projects, etc. using ado.net butI haven't used Windows sockets before but here goes!