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Which should I learn: DirectX or XNA? [closed]
I've worked with the Microsoft Foundation Classes(MFC) and now I want to enter the world of game development.But should I start with directX or XNA? I'm hesitant towards DirectX because I feel it ...
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My 2d Shader in XNA falls apart the second I put it into Farseer [closed]
I wrote a simple light shader that I tested in a simple 2d spaceship shooter and it worked fine. Once I imported it into my friend's farseer project with rotatable shapes, it doesn't seem to work ...
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What are the rest of the blending functions used for?
In general, I know of five ways to make use of blending functions (these are for OpenGL, but replace glBlendFunc() with SetRenderState(D3DRS_SRCBLEND) and SetRenderState(D3DRS_DESTBLEND) for DirectX):
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Curious Transparent Holes Render Artifact
So I'm trying to implement "smooth" terrain in my block engine by giving each surface block a heightmap.
Basically, what I do to generate these "heightmaps" for each block is I generate the heights ...
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At this point in time, avoid XNA? [closed]
XNA seemed like a valid option a few years ago, but XNA was never a real success, and now it seems like a footnote, even Microsoft seems to treat it that way.
Should I just go the DirectX route ...
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Why are some objects not rendering properly?
Here's a button I exported from Blender into a .x format:
Now here it is in the game with BasicEffect applied to everything:
And now with my custom shader:
And there's the problem. While the ...
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Game development for multiple Microsoft platforms
I intend to develop games for Microsoft's Windows Store, however, I'm confused between their platforms, so please clarify those questions:
Is there any technology (XNA, DirectX), so a game can be ...
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Drawing of a huge model - How to regain performance?
I have a huge model I want to draw in my XNA application but because of its size I am experiencing a tremendous loss of performance.
The model has about ~50 000 000 edges and has a size on disk of ...
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Consistency of DirectX models
Is there a way to check the consistency of a DirectX model (.x) ?
Whilst compiling .x files with XNA GameStudio 3.1 compilation is aborted with the following error message:
Error 2 Could not read ...
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Depth is disabled - How to turn on?
In XNA 3.1 is there any other way to disable depth in 3D Worlds using DirectX models other than
GraphicsDevice.RenderState.DepthBufferEnable = false;
?
The reason for my question is I have quite a ...
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How do I switch from XNA to C++? [closed]
So, I heard somewhere that Microsoft intends to phase out XNA in favour of using the DirectX method. I've always wanted to learn, but all I ever did in XNA was simple 2D games. I was wondering if ...
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Best practice for setting Effect parameters in XNA
I want to ask if there is a best practice for setting Effect parameters in XNA. Or in other words, what exactly happens when I call pass.Apply(). I can imagine multiple scenarios:
Each time Apply is ...
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Information about rendering, batches, the graphical card, performance etc. + XNA?
I know the title is a bit vague but it's hard to describe what I'm really looking for, but here goes.
When it comes to CPU rendering, performance is mostly easy to estimate and straightforward, but ...
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Visual Studio 2012 and Game Development
Alright, I think it's a simple question, but I got difficulties to find some answers around.
I already read that XNA wouldn't be in Visual Studio 2012. I recently learned to use XNA, but since I ...
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Highlight edge on 3d cube in directx
I want to make a 3d editor in DX9/XNA for a project I'm working on. I'm just thinking through how I would go about certain tasks and I'm stuck on one particular thing, which is crucial to making the ...
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XNA Multisampling only for 3D
I am working on a game which consists of 3D elements and a 2D GUI. I have it working properly, but I want to enable multisampling for only the 3D parts, and not the 2D Textures. Otherwise, the GUI ...
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Pixel-perfect rendering to a rendertarget with a fullscreen quad
I have some trouble rendering a bunch of values to a rendertarget. The values never end up in the exact range I want them to. Basically I use a fullscreen quad and a pixel shader to render to my ...
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Rotating a vector by a quaternion
I am trying to rotate a direction vector (0,0,1,0) by a rotation quaternion in DirectX.
From what understanding, to rotate the vector you must do
NewVector = rotQuaternion * Vector * ...
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3answers
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Publishing a game — any way to target both WP7 and Win8 Store?
I'm at a dilemma which seems should soon become an important issue for a lot of developers.
If I build a game in XNA, I won't be able to publish it on the Windows 8 Store, as it would be a classic ...
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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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Is using SharpDX or SlimDX easier than using DirectX directly from C++? [closed]
I decided to learn to program in DirectX yesterday, and, not being a huge C++ fanatic, went looking for a .Net wrapper. After reading about SlimDX and SharpDX, I decided I liked what the SharpDX ...
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C#: What graphics library would be best to use? [closed]
I am making my first game with 3D graphics, and I wanted to decide on a graphics library before I do any graphics work. I am using C# VS Express 2010. I have seen suggestions for XNA, Tao, and just ...
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A comparison of graphics libraries and their respective programming languages [closed]
A comparison of graphics libraries and their respective programming languages. A.K.A. "Which do I pick? With a twist."
I'm a long time professional programmer who never gave up on programming as a ...
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XNA - Drawing 2D Primitives (Boxes) and Understanding Matrices in Computer Graphics
I have two issues which I wish to solve by creating 2D primitives in XNA.
In my game, I wish to have a "debug mode" which will draw a red box around all hitboxes in the game (Red outline, ...
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Graphics capabilities differences between mobile and desktop/console platforms?
I would like to better understand the difference in capabilities between mobile and desktop/console graphics? What exactly are the limitations of a mobile device? What kind of operations can a ...
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Render only some of graphics?
In XNA I am building my own textbox, and listbox.
For the textbox, I want it to render all text it can, and then cut off at the end of the textbox. But I don't want it to cut whole letters. I want it ...
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Best pathfinding algorithm for a tower-defense game? [duplicate]
What do you suggest would be the best algorithm for a tower-defense game? It's a 2D based tile game, where there is walls and towers blocking the way, between spawnpoints and their destination points.
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Does it make sense to include an index for linelists?
Does it make sense to include an index by using DrawIndexedPrimitives, when using linelists performance wise? I could imagine it would be easy for the GPU to generate such indexes anyway.
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Instancing with empty data, or varying vertex counts?
I am new to game development, having only developed a few games before, in 2D space, but with 3D rendering.
I have implemented instancing before, but this is only my 2nd time doing it. I have a ...
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2answers
595 views
Compatibility between DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 shaders
I am a beginner to game development and as I am used to programming in C# I decided to go for XNA. I've been playing around with it for a while and now I am learning the basics of HLSL shaders, I have ...
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The practical cost of swapping effects
I use XNA for my projects and on those forums I sometimes see references to the fact that swapping an effect for a mesh has a relatively high cost, which surprises me as I thought to swap an effect ...
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How to create a mini-game?
I am wondering how to creat a mini-game like "Diner Dash" or like "Big Fish Games". I want my game to be 2d, but it looks like 3d: see this image. ...
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How do I plot individual pixels using the XNA APIs?
If I wanted to fill my game screen with individually coloured pixels, how would I do this?
For example, if I wanted to write a 'game of life'-type game where each pixel was a cell, how would I ...
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Developing 3D card game. Is C# good enough?
I was thinking of developing several rather simple card games in DirectX (3D), but I'm not sure if C# and XNA are powerfull enough for this.
Perhaps the most appropriate question is: can you choose ...
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3D game special effects, fire, lightning, water, and ice
I'm working on a 3d game using OpenGL and would like to take it in a fantasy direction. Specifically I'm thinking of having magic with effects for fire, water, ice, and lightning. My problem is I ...
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Looking for an example of glass with XNA or DirectX 9
Any good pointers on how to get the refractive look of glass? I'm looking to create a think piece of glass type of look, sort of the type that you'd have on bathroom shower doors.
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XBOX + Xna != DirectX?
I'm a bit confused. The question is: when I'm developing a XNA game for Xbox (or Windows), is it possible to use DirectX (to make use of the GPU)? Or is everything getting calculated by the CPU?
A ...
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XNA or SlimDX (DirectX 10) for multitouch rhythm game simulator
I'm looking to develop a multitouch rhythm game in C#. It is aimed to be a simulator for an existing arcade game, similar to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAiNNpA3wwg So far, I've decided on ...
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Good example of a multi-pass effect?
In XNA (and Direct3D in general AFAIK), rather than creating individual vertex and fragment shaders, you bundle potentially many related shaders into 'Effects'. When you come to use an effect you ...
