C# is a multiparadigm, managed, garbage-collected, object-oriented programming language created by Microsoft in conjunction with the .NET platform.
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How can I fade something to clear instead of white?
I've got an XNA game which essentially has "floating combat text": short-lived messages that display for a fraction of a second and then disappear.
I've recently added a gradual "fade-away" effect, ...
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Isometric Collision Detection
I am having some issues with trying to detect collision of two isometric tile.
I have tried plotting the lines between each point on the tile and then checking for line intercepts however that didn't ...
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What should I use (controls, methods) to make a 2D tile based map editor?
I'm making a 2d game where each tile is a square and it's viewed at straight angle, no skewing, no rotation, it's pretty simple.
Two weeks ago I tried using DataGridView, but as the number of rows ...
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How do I communicate with an IronPython component in a C#/XNA game?
My XNA game is component-oriented, and has various components for position, physics representation, rendering, etc, all of which extend a base Component class. The player and enemies also have ...
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Managing game state / 'what to update' within an XNA game 'screen'
I'm trying to figure out how best to manage state within my game screens - please bare with me though! At the moment I'm using a heavily modified version of the fantastic game state management example ...
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Free physics library?
What are some good recommendations? I have a vertex buffer and indices and I want to be able to detect collision between it and a bounding box or another object.
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How to stop a tap event from propagating in a XNA / Silverlight game
I have a game with Silverlight / XNA game where text and buttons are created in Silverlight while 3d is done in XNA.
The Silverlight controls are drawn ontop of the 3D and I dont want a click on a ...
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Mixing XNA and Silverlight gives wierd graphics
I making a small 3dgame which is made as a Silverlight and XNA app, but when I draw the sprites the graphics becomes all wierd.
All my primitive types are rendered correctly, but my 3d models are ...
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How to handle circle penetration
I've been working on cirlce to circle collision and have gotten the intersection method working correctly, but I'm having problems using the returned values to actually seperate the circles from one ...
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How to chain actions/animations together and delay their execution?
I'm trying to build a simple game with a number of screens - 'TitleScreen', 'LoadingScreen', 'PlayScreen', 'HighScoreScreen' - each of which has it's own draw & update logic methods, sprites, ...
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Problems using easing equations in C# XNA
I'm having some trouble using the easing equations suggested by Robert Penner for ActionScript (http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/, and a Flash demo here) in my C# XNA game. Firstly, what is the ...
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XNA - Error while rendering a texture to a 2D render target via SpriteBatch
I've got this simple code that uses SpriteBatch to draw a texture onto a RenderTarget2D:
private void drawScene(GameTime g)
{
GraphicsDevice.Clear(skyColor);
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Error X3650 when compiling shader in XNA
I'm attempting to convert the XBDEV.NET Mosaic Shader for use in my XNA project and having trouble. The compiler errors out because of the half globals.
At first I tried replacing the globals and ...
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Calculate random points (pixel) within a circle (image)
I have an image that contains a circles at a specific location, and of a specific diameter. What I need to do is to be able to calculate random points within the circle, and then manipulate the pixels ...
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What is the most efficient way to convert to binary and back in C#?
I'm trying to write a general purpose socket server for a game I'm working on. I know I could very well use already built servers like SmartFox and Photon, but I wan't to go through the pain of ...
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Xna Equivalent of Viewport.Unproject in a draw call as a matrix transformation
I am making a 2D sidescroller and I would like to draw my sprite to world space instead of client space so I do not have to lock it to the center of the screen and when the camera stops the sprite ...
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How to make a ball fall faster on a ramp?
So, I'm making a ball game. Where you pick up the ball, drop it on a ramp, and it flies off in to blocks. The only problem right now is it falls at a normal speed, then lightly falls off, not nearly ...
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Using XNA's XML content pipeline to read arrays of objects with different subtypes
Using XNA's XML content importer, is it possible to read in an array of objects with different subtypes?
For instance, assume these are my class definitions:
public abstract class MyBaseClass
{
...
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AABB > AABB collision response?
I'm really confused about how to fix this in 3d? I want it so that I can slide along cubes but without getting caught if there's 2 adjacent cubes. I've gotten it so that I can do x collision, with ...
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E_FAIL: An undetermined error occurred (-2147467259) when loading a cube texture
I'm trying to implement a skybox into my engine, and I'm having some trouble loading the image as a cube map. Everything works (but it doesn't look right) if I don't load using an ...
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Getting a sphere to roll down a .FBX object Unity3D/C#
I'm working on a little ramp and ball game in Unity, I modeled the ramp outside Unity and exported it to a .FBX file, then I imported the ramp in to Unity. I set up the ball and ramp, both have ...
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Circle to Circle collision, checking each circle against all others
I'm currently coding a little circle to circle collision demo but I've got a little stuck. I think I currently have the code to detect collision but I'm not sure how to loop through my list of circles ...
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Xna Loading Screens
I'm making a 2D XNA game. I'd like to implement loading screens when stuff has to load for a while. Like when I login to an account, connect to the server, and generate worlds. I'm pretty sure it ...
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2D Camera Acceleration/Lag
I have a nice camera set up for my 2D xna game. Im wondering how I should make the camera have 'acceleration' or 'lag' so it smoothly follows the player, instead of 'exactly' like mine does now. Im ...
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Finding furthermost point in game world
I am attempting to find the furthermost point in my game world given the player's current location and a normalized direction vector in screen space. My current algorithm is:
convert player world ...
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How to pause and resume a game in XNA using the same key?
I'm attempting to implement a really simple game state system, this is my first game - trying to make a Tetris clone. I'd consider myself a novice programmer at best. I've been testing it out by ...
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Where can I find a free SDK for C#? [closed]
I need a free and recent SDK for use with C#. I will work first in 2D games with visual effects. Thanks for now. Can anyone help me?
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Problem with Update(GameTime) Methods and Pause implementation
I have the pause function implemented and it works correctly in that it dims the player screen and stops updating the gameplay.
The problem is that GameTime continues to increase while it is paused, ...
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Questions about XNA
I've read tons of different threads about XNA, but I still have some questions.
First of all: I have 2 years of experience programming and C# is my main language, so XNA would fit perfectly for me, ...
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When should I be implementing XML documents
I often struggle with the question of when to use XML docs. Does anyone have a good rule of thumb when it comes to deciding to use them or deciding not to use them.
At the moment I am working on a ...
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Minecraft style XNA game collision?
I've been trying to get this working for ages now, I can detect if there's a solid block at any place on the map and I can check how far something is inside of it, but I don't understand how to fix ...
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Per-vertex position/normal and per-index texture coordinate
In my game, I have a mesh with a vertex buffer and index buffer up and running. The vertex buffer stores a Vector3 for the position and a Vector2 for the UV coordinate for each vertex. The index ...
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Skeletal Animation - Automatically apply skeleton to model
Looking at websites such as mixamo.com or some game's development systems such as the animation editor for Overgrowth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RpqbC5-Z0E), i see that the skeleton in these ...
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Passing an objects rotation down through its children
In my topdown 2d game you have a player with a sword, like an old Zelda game.
The sword is a seperate entity, and its collision box "rotates" around the player like an orbit, but always follows the ...
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Screen space to world space
I am writing a 2D game where my game world has x axis running left to right, y axis running top to bottom, and z axis out of the screen:
Whilst my game world is top-down, the game is rendered on a ...
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XNA 4.0 Point Vertex Rendering
I have a buffer of about 134 million particles and a very powerful computer to render them smoothly, but I am getting an error when trying to render them as primitive lines. It says that I cannot ...
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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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Switching songs - MediaPlayer lags the game
When the player encounters a boss in the game I'm working on, I want to have the music change. It seems simple enough with the MediaPlayer class to fade out the current song, switch to another, and ...
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Loading SpriteFont through a different class than Game.cs
I am trying to load up a single SpriteFont to print some debug information.
In our current game, we load up both Textures and Music through a ResourceManager. They are both loaded with a filestream, ...
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Creating natural environments that can run on lower end computers in Unity3D/C#
So, I'm starting work on a project soon that will require me to create realistic environments that can preferably run on PC's besides high quality ones. The goal is to get as real an environment as ...
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Accessing managers from game entities/components
I'm designing an entity-component engine in C# right now, and all components need to have access to the global event manager, which sends off inter-entity events (every entity also has a local event ...
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C# Collision test of a ship and asteriod, angle confusion
We are trying to to do a collision detection for the ship and asteroid. If success than it should detect the collision before N turns. However it is confused between angle 350 and 15 and it is not ...
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How to create a 3D world with 2D sprites similar to Ragnorak online?
As far as I know Ragnorak Online is a 3D game world with 2D sprites overlayed. I would like to use this style in a game I am making in Unity, so I would like the player to be able to select little ...
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Making entire scene fade to grayscale
When the player loses all of their lives, I want the entire game screen to go grayscale, but not stop updating immediately. I'd also prefer it fade to grayscale instead of suddenly lose all color. ...
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Parent variable inheritance methods Unity3D/C#
I'm creating a system where there is a base "Hero" class and each hero inherits from that with their own stats and abilities. What I'm wondering is, how could I call a variable from one of the child ...
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Breakout collision using 2D Rectangles?
Here is my code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
namespace BreakOut
{
class Field
{
public static ...
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XNA 4.0 and Lidgren Library, How do I create a server/client hybrid?
My use of terminology may be off a little bit. I have been playing around with the Lidgren XNA sample for how the library works, and it is simple to implement it looks like.
I am curious on the logic ...
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Should I call the garbage collector during loading screen?
SO, I read a bit on Garbage Collection lately, out of curiosity, and there is something that is repeated quite often: garbage collection can lead to sudden slow down of the program, depending of the ...
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Need some advice regarding collision detection with the sprite changing its width and height
So I'm messing around with collision detection in my tile-based game and everything works fine and dandy using this method. However, now I am trying to implement sprite sheets so my character can have ...
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XNA spritebatch drawing to the centre of screen
I have bit of a silly problem.
Is is possible to use SpriteBatch.Draw() method to draw to the centre of screen using coords from the beginning of window (So resolution 800x600 would use 400;300) ...
