Implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4 APIS for Android, iOS, MacOS and Linux.
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Can't show an object in a tapped coordinate
So hi, I have a problem. I want to show an object (Texture2D) in an area tapped by user. This is my fields :
List<Texture2D> list = new List<Texture2D>();
List<Vector2> list2 = new ...
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How do I convert my XNA game to Android without using MonoGame?
I want to convert my XNA Game to Android, but I don't want to use MonoGame or ExEn. How can I do this?
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ContentTypeReader isn't being found by in PSM Port
I'm in the process of porting over my XNA project to the Vita but when it comes to trying to read my custom xnb Monogame fails to find the ContentTypeReader.
This is the line used to read the map ...
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MonoGame Cross-Platform Conditional Compilation Symbols
What are the possible compiler directives for MonoGame?
For example, XNA contained directives for WINDOWS, XBOX/XBOX360, and WINDOWS_PHONE.
I've also seen DIRECTX and OPENGL, but when would you need ...
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Error instantiating Texture2D in MonoGame for Windows 8 Metro Apps
I have an game which builds for WindowsGL and Windows8. The WindowsGL works fine, but the Windows8 build throws an error when trying to instantiate a new Texture2D.
The Code:
var texture = new ...
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Where to put input detector?
So below is the usual XNA Game Component override method. If I want to add a touch input detector (lets say, I want to draw a rectangle under touched screen area), where do I put it and how? Googled ...
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What problems could occur if you make use of both the Monogame API and the underlying graphics API?
What kinds of problems could one run into if they were making a game with Monogame and started making calls to the underlying graphics API as well?
For example, if I wanted to do something in a ...
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1answer
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Why spritebatch.Draw shows blank output? [closed]
In my code below, I think it's correctly done. But idk, the image called by _bg is does not shown up. The screen only show White. Weirdly, there is 0 error message when I run it.
(The RenderTarget2D ...
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XNA/MonoGame and Game Studio/MonoDevelop [closed]
First off, I have a bit of programming experience in Java and have always programmed using ViM (even though I recently moved to Sublime Text 2) and I'm trying to learn C# and the MonoGame framework. ...
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MonoGame iOS and Game Performance [closed]
My friends and I are developing a game for Ipad/Iphone using the monogame Framework.
We are at the final stage of the development and we are having some issues concerning the deploy of the game.
This ...
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Unexpected viewport location using monogame
I'm having an issue with viewports not appearing where they should. Two viewports appear a good 10 pixels below where they should be. I created a very simple test project that does nothing more than ...
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Getting a uint color array from a portion of a Texture2D
I'm currently using the Farseer tools to create a body from a Texture2D. However, my texture is a spritesheet and I need to get the uint array containing the colors from a portion of the full ...
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Level editors compatible with MonoGame? [closed]
I'm thinking about a future project using MonoGame and it seems there are no level editors that outright support it, though obviously there are those for XNA that may possibly be compatible. So I ...
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Compiling a Monogame Game into a single .exe
Is it possible to compile a monogame game into a single .exe? I know if you go in the debug or release bin, there is in fact a .exe your game, except you move this .exe's file location or try to run ...
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HLSL Triplanar texturing and multi texturing performance
I'm stuck for my terrain rendering shader code for DX9. I'm looking to implement triplanar texturing, a texture atlas, and blending between different textures. Right now it's working. The problem is ...
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What is an efficient/safe way to broker head to head communication for a mobile game
I have a mobile game written in XNA/MonoGame with a wcf server and I am currently designing the head to head competition mode. Previously I have created a game that used UDP to set up communication ...
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Shaders Working in XNA but not Monogame Win8
Hey so I'm bringing a shader over from XNA to Win8. To test things I'm using josack's tutorial on pixel shaders:
http://blog.josack.com/2011/07/xna-2d-dynamic-lighting.html
I've got it running in my ...
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1answer
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Using IGameComponent and related interfaces in MonoGame
I am trying to port a XNA project to MonoGame which involves a DLL game library that I created. This library uses the IGameComponent, IUpdateable and IDrawable interfaces to load one of my library ...
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1answer
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How can I create a 2D camera with upscaling and translation?
I've computed a Viewport that is fair in size (a proper aspect ratio to the given device) and then I calculate my ScaleMatrix like so:
scaleMatrix = Matrix.CreateScale(
(float) ...
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Loading custom shader in Monogame
I have been trying to load this custom FX file into a Monogame project, and everything I try fails. (code taken from http://www.david-gouveia.com/scrolling-textures-with-zoom-and-rotation/)
sampler ...
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Installing and Configuring MonoGame on OS X
I have Xamarin Studio 4 as well as the Mono SDK, but the instructions basically implode once I get to actually setting up and using MonoDevelop. I'm left in the dark without a match here. How do I set ...
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Problem Loading sound effects on monogame with monodroid [closed]
I am having difficulty loading a soundeffect The path is correct, the .xnb is set to androidassets in the project.
My Root is set to content and the folder structure looks like
Assets
Content
...
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Platform independent replacement for LuaInterface
I'm currently working on a project in C#/XNA, however I'm planning to migrate this to MonoGame so that it can go onto more platforms. The problem is that I am currently using a lot of Lua, and for ...
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1answer
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How can I solve this animation [duplicate]
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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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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1answer
128 views
Smooth rotation [duplicate]
I would like to rotate my Player very smooth. At the moment the player stops rotating when I release the button. Also the rotation should get faster, if the player rotates longer. I use XNA and have ...
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Deploying MonoGame without OpenAL or Installer
I just shipped my first working MonoGame in-development game to one of my friends. He got some OpenAL DLL crashes, until he installed OpenAL.
Is there a way to include the OpenAL dependencies somehow ...
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8 directional movement - Maintain vertical position
I have a top-down game that has 8 directions of movement (top/down/left/right/topright/topleft/bottomright/bottomleft). There are sprites for each direction of movement. This is just an example ...
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MonoGame performance better then XNA?
I am currently thinking about porting a XNA game to other platforms using MonoGame. Do I understand this correctly that I can expect the game to render faster even under Windows 7 due to the use of ...
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1answer
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Portable sound and music for XNA / MonoGame?
What is the best (recommended) way to integrate audio (both sound effect and music) in a game project (using C#/XNA) targeting multiple desktop platforms (W7, W8 Metro, Linux, OSX, ...) via MonoGame. ...
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Portable buffered keyboard input for XNA / MonoGame?
As a preliminary solution, I am currently using the Nuclex framework in an C#/XNA game project for buffered keyboard input. Sadly, nuclex relies on SlimDX.Directinput.dll and therefore to my knowledge ...
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Listing Files Under MonoDroid
I've gotten my MonoGame/Android game to the point where I can preload a bunch of audios before-hand (this avoids weird behaviour where the sound is not ready at the instant of need). I do this by ...
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Playing Video In MonoGame
I'm trying to play a video in a monogame project. I've done this in XNA in the past by including the Framework.Video directory and it's very simple. This cannot be done in monogame as Visual Studio ...
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What is a good way to load more than a million images for a collectible card game?
I'm using C# with MonoGame and I'm wondering what would be an efficient way to load more than a million card images for a collectible card game. More cards would be continuously added in future ...
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1answer
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When to Dispose Textures
I recently realized Texture2D implements IDisposable, and now (while trying to track down a memory leak) wonder about where and when I should dipose this.
My current architecture is that I have a ...
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Disappearring instances of VertexPositionColor using MonoGame
I am a complete beginner in graphics developing with XNA/Monogame. Started my own project using Monogame 3.0 for WinRT. I have this unexplainable issue that some of the vertices disappear while doing ...
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Strange rendering issue with monogame/WinGL with HD7670M
I'm having some strange rendering issues with latest monogame/winGL code as seen below;
As you can see the xna and tomspilmans WinDX port seems just okay.
I'm having this problem on my laptop ...
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1answer
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Has anyone got the Krypton Lighting Engine working in MonoGame for Windows 8?
I've converted the core of the Krypton Lighting Engine so that it's compatible with Windows 8.
The trouble I'm having when actually using it is that it can't load the KryptonEffect.xnb file. I'm ...
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MonoGame and normal windowed desktop application
I am trying to move all my XNA projects to Monogame. But in project templates I found only XAML and horrible metro application template. Is MonoGame support creating application in good old windowed ...
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2answers
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Does Monogame on Windows Desktop use OpenGL or DirectX by default?
if i use monogame 3.0 beta on windows desktop, does it use the directx renderer (sharpdx) or the opengl renderer by default?
if it uses directx is there away to make sharpdx call directly? thanks!
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How to generate Spritefonts for monogame
I just want to render some text to the screen using:
monogame 3.0
MS Visual Studio 2010 C# Express
In XNA, you were able to add fonts to the content pipeline quite easily. But this doesn't seem to ...
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1answer
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Multiply mode in SpriteBatch
I have a "lighting" texture (black background with white or colours for lights) that I want to draw as a multiplcation operation. SpriteBatch.Begin can specify BlendState.Additive, but there's no ...
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Where i must put .xnb files in mono game project using VS2010?
Hello there my problem was describe below In the "The Content Pipeline" paragraph
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Sprites rendering blurry with velocity
After adding velocity to my game, I feel like my textures are twitching. I thought it was just my eyes, until I finally captured it in a screenshot:
The one on the left is what renders in my game; ...
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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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1answer
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Sound not playing on Windows XP - SoundEffect or Song: Monogame
*Solution:* I have a RealTek ALC888. I solved this (OpenAL) by disabling hardware acceleration on my sound (Control Panel > Sound > Advanced, disable acceleration).
I'm trying to integrate sound into ...
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Alpha From PNGs Butchered
I have a pretty vanilla Monogame game. I'm using PNG for all my sprites (made in Photoshop). I noticed that XNA is butchering the aliasing; no matter what I do, my graphics appear jaggedy.
Below is a ...
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The right way to add images to Monogame/Windows
I'm starting out with MonoGame. For now, I'm only targeting Windows (desktop -- not Windows 8 specifically).
I've used a couple of XNA products in the past (raw XNA, FlatRedBall, SilverSprite), so I ...
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Does XNA/MonoGame have a text caching mechanism, or has an open source one been implemented?
I'm playing around with MonoGame, and I've noticed the SpriteFont class draws static text very inefficiently. Each time the text is drawn the spacing is recalculated. This isn't a big deal on my quad ...
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Need help transforming DirectX 9 skybox hlsl shader to DirectX 11
I am in the middle of implementing a skybox to my game. I have been following this tutorial http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/skyboxes-2. I am using MonoGame as a framework and in order to support both ...
