Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

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  • Shooting
    by Ion101
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    Last post by Richard Kain
      • to make something shoot would this work: Vector2 bullet Vector2 player Bullet = Player; if(GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Button.A == ButtonState.Pressed) Bullet.X += 5; if not could you post some code taht would
  • how do i learn to write games 4 mobile
    by Sumit_Dagar_8eba6d
    2 Replies
    Last post by dagarsd
      • a basic question on how yo start writing codes 4 mobile games
  • How do you canncel your XNA Creators Club subscription?
    by Gary200
    7 Replies
    Last post by Tokunbo Opanubi
      • Just want to know step by step of where to go so I won't get change other $50 after my 4 months are up. I can't find how to do it on the site. Thanks!
  • Anyone else rolling their own numerics?
    by Jesse Towner
    2 Replies
    Last post by Bill Reiss
      • Just wondering how many other people out there are finding that XNA numerical classes/structures fall a little short of their needs and therefore are writing their own For us, we needed to give our scene graph objects a coordinate frame where the rotation, scale, and translation transformation components are kept separate from one another; this is something similar to what is described in the boo
  • Calculating normals for large mesh with no vertex to triangle info
    by Thomas Greenleaf
    14 Replies
    Last post by bcristian
      • I have a mesh of 100.000 triangles where I need to calculate the normals for the vertices. The datastructure, I am using, does not point from vertices to triangles, but only the other way arround. I therefore defined my vertex normals as the sum of the triangles using them, weighted by the triangles size. I simply set all vertex normals to zero and then run through my triangles (when running
  • How can I directly stop drawing a pixel?
    by Imanol
    10 Replies
    Last post by Imanol
      • Maybe it's a very essential question but... Which is the statement in the pixel shader to stop drawing a pixel Stopping it that way would have any negative effect Thanks
  • Starting work on my GUI system
    by bryanedds
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    Last post by bryanedds
      • Well, I've hit a wall with my game's development, and since there was no GUI with XNA 1.0, I've decided to go ahead and make my own GUI system. I implemented a lot of mechanics for my game, but I need greater interaction to proceed development in a sane manner. So far I've just implemented the text drawing stuff from scratch. It uses only monospace fonts generated with BMFontGenerator without u
  • Camera woes
    by TWild
    14 Replies
    Last post by Kaisor
      • Hi all. I'm having trouble with my camera class. All is well (walking, elevating, strafing) until I pitch up a bit and start yawing. What happens is, as I'm yawing, the camera seems to be rolling in the direction of the yaw on its own. This only happens when I have my camera type set to FPS, where I'm trying to limit to yawing on the world Y axis. The FREE type works as intended and yaws on it's o
  • Where is the PositionColoredNormal Vertex type in XNA?
    by Ceres629
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    Last post by Ceres629
      • I'm migrating from mdx to xna but I can't seem to find the xna  equivalent of the mdx vertex type 'PositionColoredNormal' how do i get this vertex type in XNA I just want a texture-less colored cube with lighting, it seems strange that there is a more complex VertexPositionNormalTexture type, but no VertexPositionNormalColor type... Am I missing something here
  • Rotation help
    by peekb
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    Last post by peekb
      • I think I'm being dense today, but I can't figure this out for the life of me. I have a model that I want to rotate across the X and Y axis. My issue is that when I rotate across the Y axis, I always want the rotation to occur as if the axis was vertical in terms of world space. If I multiply by my X rotation first, obviously the Y axis moves with it, so rotating about the Y axis will rotate it ab
  • equivalent to progressive mesh
    by Martin Schmidt
    3 Replies
    Last post by Jon Watte
      • is there something like a progressive mesh supported in xna
  • XACT with XNA
    by AerosolBeard
    2 Replies
    Last post by Brian MS
      • Hi I recently attempted to use XACT for a 2d game using C++, and i got an error when loading the global settings file, which i never managed to debug and so used a different audio API instead. Now i am coding audio for a 3D game using XNA and C#, the same thing happens when i attempt to load the xgs file. However it throws a much more helpful sounding Exception: "XACT could not load the data
  • 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
  • ResourceManagementMode & LoadGraphicsContent
    by TheSonny
    2 Replies
    Last post by qrli
      • Hi. i have question about: void LoadGraphicsContent(bool loadAllContent); what belongs to what group (ResourceManagementMode) i see that Texture have parameter that control it, but where is Effect, Model... is there any list what is automatic and what is manual
  • Rotating a 2d sprite
    by Ggcourtois
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    Last post by Ggcourtois
      • Hey all, I would like to know if it is possible to rotate a 2d sprite at a given angle If so, how thanks alot, ggcourtois
  • Private Network Functionality with XNA
    by AtomicCreations
    5 Replies
    Last post by Jim Perry
      • Hey guys, Does anyone know if there will be any networking API included with future released of XNA Im not looking for developing for Live! but for a custom client/server structure. Any insight would greatly be appreciated.
  • Multiuser games?
    by jackline
    14 Replies
    Last post by Dodger_
      • Just curious... but has anyone used XNA/C# to develop MOG's or even MMOG's
  • Sprite Blitting question - Wondering if this is still a problem
    by Ecrofirt
    14 Replies
    Last post by LeeC22
      • Hi all, When Beta 1 was out I dove right in and started working on a simple demo that moved a sprite with some alpha transparancy around the screen. The way I had it set up was something like this: -I had a class set up for the sprite that I called Player -The Player had a Vector2 for his screen position. -If the user was pushing the left thumbstick in any direction, the Player class's move functi
  • 2d resets with nuclex fonts?
    by sugrhigh
    9 Replies
    Last post by sugrhigh
      • I've done the resets from Shawn Hargreaves blog and it's worked in the past, but since i moved over to the nucles font engine these dont work(even in a minimalistic demo setup). The model(s) are still skewed.... anyone have a workaround
  • Could C# be the future of gaming?
    by QuantumMischief
    14 Replies
    Last post by DEBRO
      • Since XNA is using C#, and is is a more intuitive language than C++, is it possible that in the future that C# will dominate, espessially in AAA titles. Could XNA be ushering a new way of programming in the main stream
  • XNA Quake bin release 2
    by PerPixel
    3 Replies
    Last post by PerPixel
      • New release of my Quake port to XNA. This one as a lot of new features like player walk, weapons (axe and rl), teleports and items. I still don't have help on this so things move slow. http://perpixel.dyndns.org/~guillaume/xna_quake_release_0.02.zip Enjoy!
  • RocketCommanderXNA Mouse Issue
    by Rizzen
    5 Replies
    Last post by Drakhain
      • I've successfully compiled the RocketCommanderXNA. However, when I run it I cannot click on any menu items. My mouse is moving around the screen but nothing I do allows it to work. I've looked at the source and it looks as if there are hot keys, but those do not work either. Also, whenever I attempt to debug and step through the code, it pukes on a renderTarget line and I can't debug in that fashi
  • Static properties for nonstatic member variables?
    by BeguiledFoil
    3 Replies
    Last post by Joel Martinez
      • The example space wars game does this, could anyone explain to me (or point me towards a resouce that explains) how this works Do classes that use static property fields for nonstatic member variables only work when there's one instance Thanks, sorry if this is a stupid question...
  • Building XACT project has failed error when building Spacewar
    by BAZOOKAMEGATRON
    10 Replies
    Last post by David Weller - MSFT
      • Building XACT project has failed error when building Spacewar Starter Kit i have latest version XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework, DirectX SDK any tips thanks =)
  • multistream rendering problem
    by supagu
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    Last post by supagu
      • im trying to get multi stream rendering working in dx10, i'm just hacking around with the multistream sample ATM. (what ive got in comments is what was there origonally) /* const D3D10_INPUT_ELEMENT_DESC vertlayout_singleindex[] = { { "POSITION", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 0, 0, D3D10_INPUT_PER_VERTEX_DATA, 0 }, { "NORMAL", 0, DXGI_FORMAT_R32G32B32_FLOAT, 1, 0,