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XNA effect lighting like basic effect lighting

Is it possible to make lighting in a normal effect work like the lighting in the basic effect? With a basic effect it's really easy: BasicEffect effect; effect.EnableDefaultLighting();
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Performance of pixel shaders vs. SpriteBatch: XNA

Precondition: I read this question/answer about using shaders, or spritebatch, to render and mark a sprite. I need to do something like that. I also have a 2D lighting PoC which I need to write. The ...
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2D Point Light XNA , Why my point light radius is Oval?

I friend of mine , taught me how to make a simple 2d point light with shader, so i follow his steps and finally done it ! but something happend , the light shape is like an oval and not like a ...
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2D XNA Tile Based Lighting. Ideas and Methods

I am currently working on developing a 2D tile based game, similar to the game 'Terraria'. We have the base tile and chunk engine working and are now looking to implement lighting. Instead of the tile ...
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Getting a black scene with XNA, what am I doing wrong?

I'm new to XNA (ver 4) and I'm obviously doing something wrong but I don't know what. So far I have managed to model my scene (quite simple, just a bunch of squares which are calculated--there are no ...