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How to gradually decrease opacity of model?
I have been searching for this matter for a long time and slowly I begin to think that this option is not available in XNA for Windows Phone.
I am trying to get a 3D-Model to be drawn at 50% ...
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Isometric Map Rendering Incorrectly [closed]
I've currently been trying my hand at Isometric map rendering via the tutorial over at XNA resources; http://www.xnaresources.com/default.asp?page=Tutorial:TileEngineSeries:4
However, unfortuanely ...
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SpriteBatch memory leak
I have a strange problem with XNA 4. I'm constructing a SpriteBatch using this.spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch( GraphicsDevice );.
This leads to a memory leak up to 600 MB memory consumption.
This ...
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Model disappears when drawn twice?
I have a game character I load once for the original model variable.
But when I link that asset (the model file) to an other model variable
during runtime (and load it during runtime), the original ...
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The program '[756] TaskHost.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0) [closed]
What is the cause of this error? I've commented part of my code, and after it application exits without any errors or warnings. I've commented part of Draw Method in one of my Menus Option in game. It ...
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Farseer: Character jumps weird [closed]
I have a little problem with jumping. For example, the character(Mario) jumps from the top of a tile. The character is now in the air and not touching a tile. After that, he touches the right or left ...
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1answer
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How do I make a tile passable in one direction only?
I want that my character can jump through some of the tiles, like Mario does in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIPYzbNrNhc
In this video, Mario jumps up through orange platforms, but ...
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How do I move a sprite to the mouse position?
So, I'm trying to make my sprite walk to the X-coordinate of my mouse click.
This is my code:
currentMouseState = Mouse.GetState();
MouseState mouseState = Mouse.GetState();
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Farseer: Difficulties with polygons [closed]
I want to create a polygon but I get many error messages. I don't know what to change.
What is wrong?
The size of my texture(polygonTexture) is 350x150 pixel. ...
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Farseer: are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?
I want to create a polygon in Farseer. I found an example in the documentation but it's not working because I get this error message:
The type or namespace name 'Vertices' could not be found (are you ...
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Farseer: Ball is not getting slower
The ball is not getting slower when it rolls over a straight platform. I added friction but that changed nothing, the ball still gets not slower. I want that the ball gets slower and slower and stops ...
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Farseer: Ball is not bouncing realistically
I created a ball that is rolling over platforms. When it falls from one platform to another, it should bounce just like in real life, but the ball keeps bouncing constantly and I don't know how to ...
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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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How to access translations of a model?
I have an animated Model, which I process with the SkinnedEffectProcessor.
I am generally asking, how I can access translations of a model, during animation.
All in all it's always a BoneTransform I ...
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1answer
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Does XNA have a built-in GUI library?
Does such a thing exist or do I have to code one?
My project needs textboxes, buttons, input capture, timings for "press and hold keys" and so on. These are quite standard for a GUI library but hard ...
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Farseer physics engine: The name 'ConvertUnits' does not exist in the current context [duplicate]
http://digitalerr0r.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/farseer-physics-in-xna-4-0-for-windows-phone-1/
I tried this Farseer tutorial but I always get that error message in the following lines:
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C# XNA AABB vs AABB collision resolution, AABBs ghost through each other
I've been learning a bit of collision resolution through a tutorial here and I can't seem to get the AABBvsAABB resolution working, I have CirclevsCircle and AABBvsCircle resolution working with the ...
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How to use a physics engine for collision detection? [closed]
I want to use Box2D.XNA or Farseer for collision detection in my 2D game, but I don't know how to start. I added Box2D.XNA to my solution, but I don't know how to create rectangles, circles or ...
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XNA Collision is quircky/wobbly, how to improve?
I am sorry if this was already answered but I couldn't find the answer.
So I am doing a tile based platformer and when I was making collision I had quiet a struggle I looked here and googled for ...
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Winform + XNA (Microsoft Example) - Issues with Drawing Texture2D
Before I get started I would just like to say that I have been using the Microsoft Winform + Xna examples found here:
WinForms Series 1: Graphics Device
I think I somewhat understand how its working ...
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1answer
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On occasion game fails to catch end of screen transitions [closed]
When the player hits the edge of a screen the old screen slides down, and the new screen slides in with them landing on the opposite side from where the transition started. On occasion the bottom of ...
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How to preload a vast amount of models?
This is more a theoretical question,
during runtime, my game runs smooth without any hickups. But as standard game-objects, my game contains collectibles such as coins (which are rotating Models).
...
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1answer
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How to add a timer - Visual Studio, XNA (C#)
I'm wanting to add a timer in an XNA game using C#. The ultimate goal is to increment a score in a game every second by 10 points. As of now the score stays at zero. Watching YouTube videos is proving ...
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1answer
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Refactoring an XNA map redraw [closed]
In the draw step I have different content loading depending on which side of the screen the player exits from. I'm trying to refactor this into a single method for handling the updated content, but I ...
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1answer
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Rectangle collision is not working correctly [closed]
I have difficulties with the rectangle collision. My character can go through the right side and through the bottom of each platform rectangle. I guess their is a mathematical problem with the ...
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1answer
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Why is my model flickering when translating
I have several models here. When they stand still during gameTime, there's no flickering.
But as soon as I move them across the x-axis, they flicker on some places.
protected override void ...
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How can I draw an Xbox Avatar?
I want to replace the main character of my 2D game by an Xbox avatar. How can I do that?
How can I add an avatar to my project?
How can I draw an avatar?
For example, I draw my main character like ...
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1answer
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Program closes without Exception
I'm using XNA 3.1 ( .NET 3.5 ) and my program closes without any warning, errors, or code instructing it to do so. I looked in the output, and there aren't any obscure messages outside of telling me ...
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1answer
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Managing Background Sprites
I tried asking in Chat and no one answered, so the question goes here.
Anyone have advice for loading background Sprite maps? I'm trying to do it as efficiently as possible for a grid of 25 ...
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XNA crash when publish
I've made a 2D game, it runs fine when debugging but when I publish and install the game prompts an error and fails to run.
I have three text files in my game which store various game data - ...
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1answer
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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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Splitting tileset into individual tiles
I'm trying to split a tileset (from here) into individual tiles.
For debugging purposes I wrote some code to split the tileset into individual tiles and display them on screen, but some aren't being ...
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Loading specific parts of arrays in XNA
I'm working on a 2D "engine" of sorts in XNA and am now adding larger levels, but to do this I need to be able to only load some of an array into RAM for a chunking system.
At the moment I've got a ...
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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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Sprites failing to Update [closed]
I have a simple 2D top down survival game where the player simply has to 'run away'/ not collide with the enemies on screen for 30 seconds each round.
After every increment in level the number of ...
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Legality, implementation, and viability of using the BSP map format in a procedurally generated XNA game?
First off, this is not a "which technology should I use" type of question, but rather a question about the viability (And legality, and how to implement) BSP maps into an XNA game.
The legality part ...
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1answer
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Recommended collision response needed [closed]
In my game, I have
Player class
Enemy class
Wall class
GameComponents class ( Which is the base class for Player, Enemy and Wall)
The rules are
Enemy chase Player, if collided with Walls, ...
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How do i create a Xna 4.0 Creating BoundyBox [closed]
I understand what other people have done and when creating it myself it just seems to go wrong or the version is different so doesn't work in first place. Any easy code for this?
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C# XNA: How do i create simple 2d TileEngine [closed]
i want to create a simple tileengine for a small rpg-ish game.
I have a picture with 7 different tiles each at a width and height of 48px.
What i want to do is to split the image into those seven ...
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1answer
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XACT support outside of XNA?
I was building a new game in Monogame when I realized that it didn't have XACT support like XNA did. I was wondering if anyone knew another framework that could be used with or instead of MonoGame ...
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1answer
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graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear strange result (XNA)
I have such Execution:
graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear(new Color(255, 0, 0, 0));
Alpha is 0. So why it draws me Red color?
graphics.GraphicsDevice.Clear(new Color(255, 0, 0, 255));
Also draws the ...
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2answers
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Loading a texture2D in a separate class using c# and xna [closed]
I have been adding a bunch of textures to my game in xna so i decided to make a separate class to load and draw the textures.
this is what i have so far
using System.Text;
using ...
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Resolving 2D Collision with Rectangles
For about a week I've been trying to grasp the basics of collision, but I've been driven to the point of wanting to just give up on everything when it comes to collision. I just don't understand it. ...
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How can I efficiently store Vertex data in C#/XNA?
I am creating a terrain system using voxels in a somewhat minecraft-like style and I was wondering if there was anything I could do to increase the number of vertices I am able to store (and therefore ...
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Putting a 2d camera into a gamestatemanagement sample [closed]
Hello everyone i am new to xna and i am trying to implement a simple 2d camera that follows my sprite around the level i am using a gamestatemanagement so i have the basic platformer with screen ...
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Creating an update “Tick” on tiles for simulating growth of plants
In my 2D tile based platformer I have added plants to be able to farm such as the simplest, grass, to other things like corn. Now each of these speacial tiles must be updated to show how much it has ...
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camera2d class will not work [closed]
using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;
using ...
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3answers
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Can I use a list to spawn enemies? [closed]
I need to have about 10 enemies in my game, can I use a list to spawn them all in?
This is what I was working on but it only spawns 1 enemy in the coordinates of the last added to the list.
Here are ...
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1answer
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What is the point of the XNA.Input.Button enum?
I am trying to make an InputManager class that will let me basically bridge XNA's various input methods and do a corresponding action in my game. Part of this is designing different keybindings.
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