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XNA spritebatch.Draw: Which part gets colored by the color parameter?

Which part gets colored and how can I control it? I have a rounded block and my goal is to have the center filled with a certain color chosen by that parameter. Here's the picture: ...
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Raytracer texture mapping (to triangle mesh) leaving artifacts

So I am trying to get OBJ loading working in my raytracer. Loading OBJs works fine, but I am having some trouble with getting the texture mapping working. Here is an image of my result. It is ...
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Syncing texture animations which can be created at any given time

I have a texture animator that will advance animation frames based on the time that has elapsed since it was instantiated. timeElapsed += (float)gameTime.ElapsedGameTime.TotalSeconds; ...
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Creating rectangles from the inner part of a texture2D

Ok, this may be hard to understand, but I'll do my best. You will see that the first image is a normal mario, and the other is the result I am looking for. I'm trying to find a way to extract ...
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Using OpenGL3.3 and GLSL, texturing is not working [closed]

I am having troubles getting texturing working in my OpenTK/OpenGL 3.3 code. I am sure it is something simple that I am missing, but I just can't seem to get a texture on the square I am rendering. ...
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Mobile game textures sizes

I am developing a Windows Phone 7 game using XNA 4.0 which I plan to later port to iOS and android using Monotouch and Monodroid. My question is how to determine what texture size should I include? ...
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Better quality texture when zooming

Is there any way to have better quality textures ? I thought that creating huge textures will improve their quality in game, that's why I draw textures with 0.25f or 0.5f scale. I understand that ...
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Animation: mid-state

At the moment I have a simple static texture. Now I want to animate my sprite. The texture is a simple human. When the user press the enter button, the human gets into state2. This is the standart ...
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Why use textures that are Power of Two? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why are textures always square powers of two? What if they aren’t? I am using C# and XNA (also MonoGame for other platforms than Windows) to create a game in 2D. ...
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XNA Textures with background color

I am fairly new to XNA and I have questions in regards to textures. Most of my of textures have a background color along with the overall image (white, black, or whatever). This is quite ugly as the ...
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MultiTexturing by neighbouring points textures

Visual example: I've been trying to understand multitexturing for a while now, I've created a terrain generator but have no need for height just yet and I still want one texture to blend over to ...
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How do I get a Model to add a name to it's Texture(s) in the XNA Content Pipeline

I know that a texture's name is not preserved when it's loaded in. I also know that you can give it a name. For example: Texture2D texture = content.Load<Texture2D>("MyTexture"); texture.Name ...
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XNA running slow when making a texture

I'm using XNA to test an image analysis algorithm for a robot. I made a simple 3D world that has a grass, a robot, and white lines (that are represent the course). The image analysis algorithm is a ...
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Blending textures together, texture fade over / fade in

What is the best way to render a texture overlapping effect? Like in this example: I want either the grass to fade in to the snow texture, or the other way around. No rough edges. Somehow make ...
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XNA shield effect with a Primative sphere problem

I'm having issue with a shield effect i'm trying to develop. I want to do a shield effect that surrounds part of a model like this: http://i.imgur.com/jPvrf.png I currently got this: ...
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Spritebatch drawing sprite with jagged borders

Alright, I've been on the making of a sprite class and a sprite sheet manager, but have come across this problem. Pretty much, the project is acting like so; for example: Let's take this .png ...
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How to Draw texture between 2 Vector3

My scenario: RTS combat style, 1 unit fires beam on another unit My problem is i want to draw a flat texture between 2 Vector3 points. I have looked at various Billboarding styles but that doesn't ...
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how to create texture for modelmesh?

Is there a possibiltiy to create a texture from a meshpart in xna. By getting a flat version of the mesh. So I can create a texture for it and edit that texture(via rendertarget)? I need to get the ...
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Texturing voxel faces separately

I am creating a 3D level editor which should be used to generate the very basic layout (level geometry) and a few basic game-logic entities of maps used in my game. So far, I decided to use voxels (i ...
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3D Texture Mapping (Atlas)

This is a pretty simple question. If I was to use multiple images in a single texture for a 3D cube, how would I go about re-using each vertex (having 8 total vs 24)? With a single buffer of 8 ...
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How do I draw a single Triangle with XNA and fill it with a Texture?

I'm trying to wrap my head around: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb196409.aspx I'm trying to create a method in XNA that renders a single Triangle, then later make a method that takes a ...
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Why doesn't my texture display with this GLSL shader?

I am trying to display a DXT1 compressed texture on a quad using a VBO and shaders, but I have been unable to get it working. All I get is a black square. I know my texture is uploaded properly ...
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How can I get the texture color data from GLEED2D's level file?

I've hit a little snag in my game. It's a 2D platform game and I need to check for collisions against the level. I'm using GLEED2D to create the map. I'd like to do per-pixel collision checking, but ...
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Is it possible to animate the texture of a model?

Below is how far I've got. I just made a simple block with user primitives to test it. But I haven't found a way to crop the spritesheet. textureLava = frames[activeFrame]; This line is how I want ...
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Can't change the textures of a .FBX or an .X exported from 3dsmax

I created a model (real simple) in 3DSMax 2010, exported it to FBX format and loaded it in an XNA 4.0 content project. I also tried with .X files using kW X-port and it has the same behavior. I can ...
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How to deal with arbitrarily large images in 2D games?

Question When you have a 2D game that uses really large images (larger than your hardware can support), what do you do? Maybe there's some interesting solution to this problem that never occured to ...
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How to create a XNA texture from a GDI Image with source rectangle?

A Texture2D in XNA can only hold so much. Depending on which profile I use that limit is either 2048 or 4096 pixels wide. As far as I could tell from my research (someone correct me if I'm wrong) GDI ...
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XNA model texture from file

Is there any way to have the texture of a model loaded from a Png ? I have a simple prism to test it on, but i just want to be able to edit an image and have the model's texture change. Thanks!
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tiled map - changing textures? (XNA HLSL)

I have successfully created a tiled map of various textures. Right now, i had a Vector4 in my own custom Vertex declaration deciding what texture each of the tiles should be. This is working ...
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Problem while loading an image for a texture

I have built a slideshow in slimDX and is scrolling a text at the bottom of the images. But I am running through a problem that when my new image is loaded in by the help of Texture.FromFile() ...
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XNA - Use Mouse To Rotate & Arrow Keys To Scroll A Linearly Wrapped Texture:

Using XNA I'm working on my first, relatively simple, videogame for the PC. At the moment my game window is 1024 X 768 and I have a 'Starfield' linearly wrapped background texture 1280 X 1280 in ...
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Suggestions for implementing a dynamic 2D level

I am working on a game that needs a level that is completely generated. Currently my approach is to draw textures for the levels pixel by pixel during the game (in XNA with SpriteBatch). This is too ...
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Rendering multiple textures on a terrain in XNA / C#

I am working on a terrain in XNA/C#. My intention is to be able to render multiple textures on the ground across the terrain. However, all tutorials like this are only capable of doing it with about ...