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Damage indicator screen overlay

I want to make something already done by a lot of games , which is when I am taking so much hits from enemy red screen drawn like the following , using XNA 4.0: after it's drawn and I am still alive ...
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How can I load 2D texture data without a GraphicsDevice instance?

We have a client/server architecture for our game with the client being the XNA Game, and the game server is separate and only references XNA. They both use a shared DLL for networking. The game ...
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Tile Draw Order

I started working on a tile engine recently and have been trying to get this depth sorting for the tiles right. I am using XNA and the SpriteSortMode.Deferred to get the tiles to sort correctly in the ...
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How to draw a large number of model (identical) with vertex buffer in XNA?

I am facing a problem that many developers as have probably found a solution. I have a small project with a floor designed with small cubes (100X100). If I exceed this limit, my game suffered major ...
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Is 2 lines of push/pop code for each pre-draw-state too many?

I'm trying to simplify vector graphics management in XNA; currently by incorporating state preservation. 2X lines of push/pop code for X states feels like too many, and it just feels wrong to have 2 ...
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Map 3D space to 2D screen space?

Could some one help me to understand this code and explain it? It's about converting from 3D space to 2D position, so that I can use it in another Effects (.fx) files, but I am a bit confused. float ...
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How do I read the an environment map CPU side? (Similar to texCube function on GPU)

I need to extract the one pixel from a environment mapping (I already have the 6 textures) using the normal vector. How can I achieve this ? I want something very similar to what texCUBE(link) does ...
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How can I make this style of 2D “glowing” graphics?

I'm comfortable with the basics of building a 2d sprite based game in XNA, where all my objects are simply .png images that I move around. What things do I need to learn next to be able to develop a ...
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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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Are there any issues with not drawing to all render targets when using MRT?

Lets say I set 2 render targets: device.SetRenderTargets(color, depth); And then half my draw code only outputs color and not depth. This works fine on the PC and produces the expected results ...
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How would I go about implementing a globe-like “ballish” map?

I am new to 3D development and I have this idea of having the game world like our globe is - a ball. So, there would be no corners in the map and the game is top-down RTS game. I would like the camera ...
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2D graphics - why use spritesheets?

I have seen many examples of how to render sprites from a spritesheet but I havent grasped why it is the most common way of dealing with sprites in 2d games. I have started out with 2d sprite ...