hello all..
is it possible to group units (drawing a rectancle) while holding down the mouse button with XNA
i am planning to do a 2D game where i would need this..
if yes, please give me a hint how to do it...
thanks in advance
greg
Grouping units like in a RTS game
XNA Game Studio Express
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- ODD Bumpmap issue I have bought a book on shaders and have been going through the tutorials with some success. However I now have a rather odd issue with my bumpmap shaders... I have three shaders, a bumpmap shader, a parallax bumpmap shader and a self shadowing bumpmap shader. My issue is that when I run my engine with the bumpmap shaders I get a rather odd effect happening, but (after many days of trying to sort this out) I found that if I run FX Composer prior to running my engine, this oddity seems to go away. This leads me to think that FX Composer is setting some render states that I am not aware of and need to set for my bumpmap shaders. Is anyone able to let me know what render states I need to set or even if this is what is causing this odd behavior My shaders before running FX Composer http://www.randomchaos.co.uk/XNA/Examples/before.jpg My shaders as FX Composer is running http://www.randomchaos.co.uk/XNA/Examples/during.jpg My shaders after FX Composer has ran http://www.randomchaos.co.uk/XNA/Examples/after.jpg Here are the shaders: Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Let's go 3d engine sorry about my typos i am word blind , but the math thing is in place Hello i like to share some info width you mabye you have seen crytek 2 engine and my is how do we make a aaa 3d engine here is a link to a paper about the crytek 2 engine http://ati.amd.com/developer/siggraph06/Wenzel-Real-time_Atmospheric_Effects_in_Games.pdf well the 3d evolution game engine(my engine) is based on the paper and alot of other info found on the net and i will soon realease the full source code the engine + a 3d fps game here is a video shot (big file) of the engine it runs in xna beta 1 so it a bit old video http://www.3devolution.net/Portals/0/Gameshot.wmv more video is comming before realease date so you can play head to head on xbox360 so lets go a download the engine this xmax and build your own game with full control over the source code spreed the word the best game engine is comming to town and it is a xna thing. Licens to the engine is under Microsoft Mit Licens merry xmax to all at the xna forum and the xna api folks if you have any post some in the forum Michael Hansen http://www.3devolution.net Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
BlogusMaximus
Shouldn't be a problem, it's just a question of implementation.
XNA can certainly handle cursor location, mouse clicks and dragging. It's up to you to draw the box and figure out what objects are within in. Then its just a matter of assigning orders to those units. (I assume this is for a RTS game )
Shouldn't be a problem, it's just a question of implementation.
XNA can certainly handle cursor location, mouse clicks and dragging. It's up to you to draw the box and figure out what objects are within in. Then its just a matter of assigning orders to those units. (I assume this is for a RTS game )
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
GMS0012
yes it is.. as said in the topic :)
i dont know how to draw a simple rectangle with xna.. didnt find a great help in this forum
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
Calvin Bell
Here is an idea for you. Since I haven't actually done it yet, I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about this.
Take the point where the user clicked and started dragging, and draw a line that starts at the click point and goes on the Y to wherever the mouse currently is (keep x at 0). Draw another line that does the same but reversed (draw on X, keep y at 0). Also, draw a line from the current mouse position up to the x that you started at and on the y to where you started at. That will give you a rectangle on your screen that will move when you move the mouse. When you detect that the mouse button has been lifted, change those 4 lines into a box(rectangle ), and loop through every unit on your screen to see if its in that box. I hope thats close because I wouldn't want to mislead someone.
Here is an idea for you. Since I haven't actually done it yet, I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about this.
Take the point where the user clicked and started dragging, and draw a line that starts at the click point and goes on the Y to wherever the mouse currently is (keep x at 0). Draw another line that does the same but reversed (draw on X, keep y at 0). Also, draw a line from the current mouse position up to the x that you started at and on the y to where you started at. That will give you a rectangle on your screen that will move when you move the mouse. When you detect that the mouse button has been lifted, change those 4 lines into a box(rectangle ), and loop through every unit on your screen to see if its in that box. I hope thats close because I wouldn't want to mislead someone.
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
BlogusMaximus
oops, sorry. missed that.
GMS0012 wrote:
oops, sorry. missed that.
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
Nick Gravelyn
Calvin: That's pretty much how I would do it. You could also use XNA's BoundingBox class to help with determining which units are in the box (which you could make from a BoundingBox).
As far as grouping them, you could use subclass a System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<>. Then put the units into that. That would be my recommendation. Just create one and all all the intersecting units into it. Then you could make methods for your class like SetTarget() which would in turn set the target for all your units to a place. It would be an easy way to distribute methods to all the units.
Calvin: That's pretty much how I would do it. You could also use XNA's BoundingBox class to help with determining which units are in the box (which you could make from a BoundingBox).
As far as grouping them, you could use subclass a System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<>. Then put the units into that. That would be my recommendation. Just create one and all all the intersecting units into it. Then you could make methods for your class like SetTarget() which would in turn set the target for all your units to a place. It would be an easy way to distribute methods to all the units.
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
GMS0012
@Calvin Bell
this is an idea... line by line...
or i put a transparent rectangle tile above it..
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
MShanahan
I would've gone with a nice trig function which would calculate the triangle and display just the outside lines....your way is much easier! :)
I would've gone with a nice trig function which would calculate the triangle and display just the outside lines....your way is much easier! :)
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
Calvin Bell
Nick, I'm surprised we can agree when I graduated from SVSU in Saginaw and I see you are from Grand Valley. :-P (BTW, I wasn't sure if you could make a bounding box out of that rectangle that you draw but since you can that makes things much easier!)
Nick, I'm surprised we can agree when I graduated from SVSU in Saginaw and I see you are from Grand Valley. :-P (BTW, I wasn't sure if you could make a bounding box out of that rectangle that you draw but since you can that makes things much easier!)
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
Calvin Bell
The bounding box idea sounds the best. It would be making a bounding box with the rectangle and then calling Intersects() for the box against all the units. If intersects equals true then add it to the group!
The bounding box idea sounds the best. It would be making a bounding box with the rectangle and then calling Intersects() for the box against all the units. If intersects equals true then add it to the group!
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
GMS0012
thanks for the ideas..
i will think about this :)
greg
Re: XNA Game Studio Express Grouping units like in a RTS game
GMS0012
what would you recommend for the client server model
tcp sockets/udp sockets
greg