Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

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  • Use of professional 3d Game Engines with XNA - Port
    by C.Etter
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    Last post by JLarkin
      • hi there, I got some questions about the compatibility of the XNA Framework with 3d or game Engines. By now where are a Team of  7 Student of the Games Academy in Berlin producing our game with the trinigy Vision Engine and the Standard Visual Studio 03. -> www.project-barcode.com My main questions is if its possible to combine the trinigy vision engine and the XNA Fram
  • chopping up a texture?
    by denna69
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    Last post by denna69
      • Hiya, I'm currently building a class for card games, and part of that class involves drawing the actual card. It's based around the functions included in cards.dll, basically, the texture is setup the way it would be in cards.dll, e.g. As,Ah,Ad,Ac,2s,2h,2d /..../ 3c,4s 4h,4d,4c /...... 7d,7c,8s /...... 10c,Js,Jh,Jd /... So imagine the cards in the texture are set as 13 columns *
  • 2-D game making HELP???!??!?!?
    by GameHalf1243
    2 Replies
    Last post by SysErr
      • So I downloaded XNA Game Studio Express for Windows, and I just wanted to make a 2-D game ....and I thought it was just drag and drop not all these codes and stuff....I am using the wrong software or something.....HELP ! ! ! ! !
  • rotated text
    by Fiddel
    3 Replies
    Last post by Robert Dunlop
      • Hi all, I'm trying to rotate a text by certain degrees. I tried doing it by using 'Mesh.TextFromFont' method. Before calling 'Mesh.DrawSubset' method i changed the world matrix. The problem I'm having is that I have to scale the mesh to the size I want it to be, but when I do that the text looks really bad, really really bad (depands on the amount of scaling, ofcourse). How can i solve
  • XNA getting started
    by Gnagy84
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    Last post by Darkside
      • I'm having trouble getting started. I downloaded all the req files and I'm going over a stater audio tutorial from http://learnxna.com/files/folders/vi...s/default.aspx . Each time I try to bring up a template called Windows Xna game its not there. just PC game. Simple difference it could be a big one. Can anyone help me I know I must be missing somthing.
  • DirectX8 and Vista Compatibility
    by HighTower
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    Last post by David Weller - MSFT
      • (split from http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1221168  to make a new question) It is interesting that you say that because I am testing a VB6 app that was working fine on XP and below but now fails on Vista when it tries to create a DirectX8 object, specifically Set oDX = new DirectX8 throws Error 429, ActiveX failed to create component. Running in XP SP2
  • Deploying my own game assets
    by Nick Winters
    14 Replies
    Last post by Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT
      • I've chosen not to use the content pipeline provided with GSE. How do I deploy my game assets to the 360 HD Is there a command line utility so that I can build it into my tools Thanks. -Nick
  • Render Target For Effects.
    by SouLDragooN
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    Last post by SouLDragooN
      • I am having a problem here. In PC development I love the availablity of StretchRect. You can render an entire scene at a high resolution then stretch it to a low res map to create all sort of fun effects. The problem is XNA does not support stretch rect ... so then is the only option to: A. Render the whole scene to a render target and use it to create lower render targets for use in ef
  • Can I use standard tcp/ip protocol on XBOX360?
    by Frank.gogo
    6 Replies
    Last post by Jon Watte
      • I want to make a mmo card game, and I already have a server, and I want my program running on xbox360 connect my server on a pc server running windows. Can I use standard tcp/ip
  • VertexBuffer and IndexBuffer For Height Map
    by Nick Gravelyn
    6 Replies
    Last post by Mitch Walker - MSFT
      • I'm trying to create a heightmap from an image using a VertexBuffer and IndexBuffer but it isn't working. When I run my program, I just see a blank screen. Any ideas using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework; using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics; namespace HeightmapDemo { public class Heightmap { public static float HeightScale = 50
  • Direct3D
    by Duke Nukem
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    Last post by The ZMan
      • Whether it is possible to use DirectX on the panel
  • XNA in Internet Explorer?
    by John Lieurance
    14 Replies
    Last post by Jim Perry
      • I was surprised to find out that XNA doesn't work in Internet Explorer as a WinForm Control. I know I must be smoking crack, but somewhere a long the line I got the impression that XNA would enable a 3D environment in Internet Explorer. If we can put Ink on the Web, http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx quickid=0512062 , then I think we should be able to put a 3D environment on the web as well
  • Draw called before Initialize
    by inezdias
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    Last post by inezdias
      • I think it's neat to have DrawableGameComponents add themselves to the Game's Components collection in their own constructor - however it looks like that leads to Draw being called before Initialize on the Component. What's the intended architecture Adding Components in BeginRun works but should I still create them in LoadGraphicsContent That's an ugly splitting of things. Or do it all in Begin
  • Directx SDK Turtorial1 Device Error DeviceExeption
    by GrindingItOut
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    Last post by GrindingItOut
      • I am having an issue with the new Device statement as follows: device = new Device (0, DeviceType .Hardware, this , CreateFlags .SoftwareVertexProcessing, presentParams); I get the following error in the catch ( DirectXException ) Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.InvalidCallException was caught Message="Error in the application." Source="Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D"
  • Animation question
    by Ludovico
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    Last post by Jon Watte
      • I read all around in this forum that animation is not yet implemented in XNA (huge lack). Anyway, I read also that content loader load animation poses while loading .X file! I tried to load tiny.x, and noticed that this is model is composed by only 1 mesh and 49 bones. I suppose that these are the bones that compose the body hierarchy of tiny! But I think that these bones are all referencing fram
  • Viz rebuilding unnecessarily?
    by Flecko1
    9 Replies
    Last post by waruwaru
      • Ever since I moved to C# express 2005 for XNA, every project in my solution gets rebuilt every time I build, even if nothing has changed. If I build and then immediately build again without changing anything, it still rebuilds the entire project. Why is this happening, and how do I stop it If it's of any significance, this project was migrated from Visual Studio 2003. Before the conversion it was
  • incrementing a value over time?
    by zeke3d
    3 Replies
    Last post by dczraptor
      • do you know how I can create a function that runs every second or know of one that runs every second so that I can use it as a means of incrementing a value over time, is their a way to do this, also code would be a big bonus.
  • Geometry Shaders - Multiple Streams
    by Lars Andreas Ek
    4 Replies
    Last post by Larsvin
      • Hi, I have two questions regarding geometry shaders: 1) Can a geometry shader write to a Stream Out while passing the data down the pipeline at the same time I've read such indications, but I can't seem to find it documented anywhere. I.e. a dynamic particle system where particles are added to a point stream out AND rendered in one pass. 2) Can a geometry shader have multiple output streams
  • Quaternion Tutorial
    by Wil Burton
    14 Replies
    Last post by Grotius
      • Could someone school me in using Quaternions in XNA I'd love to have a tutorial specfically for XNA. I read a tutorial that helped me to understand them a bit better, but still not sure how to plug it into the game. If you can believe it, the documentation doesn't explain it to well.
  • Where in content pipeline does volume textures fail?
    by Malmer
    14 Replies
    Last post by Malmer
      • Currently volume textures aren't supported in the Content Pipeline. So if I have a mesh that references a volume texture it will fail compiling. So, is it just a matter of writing a custom importer for volume dds files or is it all the way through the pipeline Will ContentManager.Load<Texture3d>(...) work if I just write the importer Say it is so...it is Christmas after all :-)
  • Scaling a mesh or primitives object
    by BJohansson
    4 Replies
    Last post by BJohansson
      • Hello, I have a cylinder (standard Primitives) made in 3dmax exported as a *.fbx file. My question is that I would like to scale or resize the height or radius of the *.fbx (mesh) in realtime later. Sometimes i would only want to adjust the radius and sometimes only the height. For every update a variable that is holding the value for the height would be read and feed into the height o
  • Aquatica engine
    by Chetrusca Vladic
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    Last post by Chetrusca Vladic
      • Aquatica engine may be used to simplify the implementation of photorealistic water surfaces in applications with DirectX9 graphics. Key features of the engine: - Water surface approximation using heightmaps. - Heightmaps can be generated in realtime using FFT or Perlin noise. - Generation of normalmaps - Generation of geometry: simple grid, geomipmap grid, radial grid - Water rendering options in
  • How to render target to multiple texture with different resolution?
    by moonwhite108
    2 Replies
    Last post by Jenova Chen
      • I'm trying to use a low-res version rendertarget to help blurring the bloom texture. Here's how I tried to do it: // I have two textures one big one small to add on top of each other // I have set up a global shader that will export a bloomed color through  COLOR1 channel.         distortedTarget2D = new RenderTarget2D(graphics.GraphicsDevice,
  • Games within a IE brower
    by RichBar
    14 Replies
    Last post by Stephen Styrchak - MSFT
      • Not real sure if this is a new thread or not, but is it possible to create a game (actually more of a simulation) using the XNA game studio that would run in a browser window Does not necessarily have to actually run from a online web server, just be browser based. Thanks
  • Gaming groups or websites
    by &amp;#42;Jinx
    6 Replies
    Last post by atlStylez
      • I'm looking for a good 2D gaming development group or website. For example, DeviantArt is where artists go to share their work with other artists. Is there a game dev equivalent I'm a 2D, RPG developer typically. If you know of any other great communitys out there (apart from this one, of course), please let me know. Thanx! *jinx