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Farseer: Difficulties with ContactListener

How can I register the ContactListener in XNA? In the box2d manual is written: 9.4 Contact Listener ... At run-time you can create an instance of the listener and register it with ...
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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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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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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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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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Fixture position

I want to apply force in center of specific fixture (engine of ship build from more fixtures), but I can't find any position property. I looked at samples and I found this: World.QueryAABB(fixture ...
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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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Texturing 2D vectorial terrain (or simply masking texture)

I have a procedurally generated terrain, as follows: It is generated and then built using Farseer Physics, however I haven't found a way to create and apply a mask to texture it properly, I have ...
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Farseer Physics: How to create shape from Verticies?

As you can understand from the title, I'm pretty new to game development. I'm doing this for fun. Anyway here's my question. I have this Farseer Physics samples and I've been studying them for a few ...
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360+ degree rotation skips back to 0 degrees when using Math.Atan2(y, x)

I'm new to XNA and this is my first actual project, so forgive my noobness. I'm using jointAngle = System.Math.Atan2(RightStick.Y, RightStick.X); in order to set an angle of a joint (farseer) so ...
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Farseer circle hangs where it's spawned

I'm currently trying to simply spawn a circle in Farseer. However, it's stuck wherever I spawn it! The game is updating fine, as I can see the circle spinning in place when I spawn it because of how I ...
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XNA C# Platformer - physics engine or tile based?

I would like to get some opinions on whether i should develop my game using a physics engine (farseer physics seems to be the best option) or follow the traditional tile-based method. Quick ...
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Farseer Physics Samples and Krypton how to reference game

I'm sure this is totally simple and yes I am new at this. I am trying to set up Krypton inside farseer. 1. create a new Krypton engine in my sub screen aka AdvancedDemo1 : PhysicsGameScreen, ...
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farseer physics xbox samples not working

I have downloaded a few of the sample projects from the official farseer physics website and i just cant get them to run on my xbox. -My connection to the xbox is fine, other xbox projects debug ...
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Is there any quick and easy way to make all bodies visible with Farseer physics engine for XNA?

I just want to be able to see all my bodies on the screen for debugging purposes and i cant think of an easy way, for example i have make some edge fixtures with curved arcs attached and i just want ...
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How do I draw a texture to a MSTerrain object?

I'm using Farseer to make a game in XNA and I can't seem to figure this out. I've decided to use MSTerrain for making my game's terrain because I wanted destructible terrain and MSTerrain seemed like ...
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2D Physics Engine to Handle Shapes Composed of Multiple Densities XNA

The game I'm working on involves shapes that might be composed of multiple materials in a variety of ways. Let's just take for example a wooden rod with and sizable tip of iron or say a block composed ...
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Implementing a wheeled character controller

I'm trying to implement Boxycraft's character controller in XNA (with Farseer), as Bryan Dysmas did (minus the jumping part, yet). My current implementation seems to sometimes glitch in between two ...
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Correct way to use Farseer Physics in XNA

I am using Farseer Physics for my 2D sidescroller game and I'm not sure how to proceed with it. I currently have a Sprite class (handles nothing but graphics), a GameObject class (contains specific ...
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Farseer Physics: Ways to create a Body?

I want to create something similar to this using farsser and Kinect: https://vimeo.com/33500649 This is my implementation until now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlIvJRhco4U I have the outline ...
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Farseer non-colliding bodies affect eachother

I'm trying to use Farseer to make a tile engine, but bodies that are not colliding with a sprite are still having an effect on it. In this image there is a single sprite(the green box) and a single ...
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Building a shape out of two rectangles

I would like to build a body with Farseer out of two rectangles so it looks like this: I am a real beginner, so please describe it carefully. Thanks in advance!
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Farseer: Only allow the collision one time with the object

I have there serveral platforms. I would like to allow the player to collide only one time with the object! Hope you can help me
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Multiplayer Game Data Serialization Problems

I want to create a simple game that can be played with one to two player. I plan on using TCP sockets, Farseer Physics, XNA, a BinaryFormater and a Memorystream. as far as i know i can't do the ...
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How do I determine which side of the player has collided with an object?

I have some static bodies (platforms) and a dynamic body (the player) in my world. The collision between them works great, but I would like to know which side of the player (rectangle) collides with ...
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Fix my Farseer collision detection code

The collision is not working correctly! The collision is in the "open-word" and not when it collides! Here my code: Platform code(static): body = BodyFactory.CreateRectangle(world, ...
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Farseer: ApplyForce problem

I just tried Farseer and everything is working great. My problem is, that on touch the player should get an force up. Although the touch event works well, the player did not get an force! Here my ...
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Odd offset bug in Farseer/XNA/C#

So I'm using Farseer to create an immovable object: [...] private Body body; public Immovable(World world, ContentManager c, String s, int posx, int posy, int w, int h, String user_data) { ...
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Farseer physics not working

I have just started to port a load of projects from FPE2.x to FPE 3.3.1 and i am having some problems with all my physics. This is a sample of what i am doing which demonstrates my problem ...
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Farseer Physics EndContact events don't fire for all registered delegates

Here's my situation: I have several objects that contain a body and a fixture. They are set to sensor = true; atmosphere = BodyFactory.CreateCircle(world, atmosphereRadius / Level.METER_IN_PIXELS, ...
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InvalidCastException in Farseer's raycasting when trying to use the built-in explosion class?

I'm trying to create an explosion at the point that two entities collide, but whenever explosion.Activate() is called, it causes an InvalidCastException to be thrown in Raycast(), on the line that ...
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Farseer Physics collision detection vs intersection detection with sensors

I'm trying to make a game that uses Farseer physics engine as its main collision detection engine. I have a 2d circle body object that has a matching fixture (I used the CreatCircle method. I did not ...
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Unusual Farseer Behaviour?

My basic implementation of a Farseer world has been behaving very strangely. It seems as though there is a very low maximum velocity, and collisions result in the small spheres involved clipping ...
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Making a multi-pieced rectangular breakable body with Farseer

Using Farseer 3.3.1 I want to create a rectangular BreakableBody with many pieces. Right now here is my code: Vertices polygon = PolygonTools.CreateRectangle( 2.5f , 1.25f ); List<Vertices> ...
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How to create a very specific kind of joint in Farseer?

Edit Problem solved (see Drackir's answer). Here's a demo of what I was trying to achieve with this joint. More info about the scenario on this other question. Problem I'm trying to create a ...
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How do you change a Body's origin in Farseer?

In Farseer 3.3.1 for XNA, how do I change the origin of a Body? For example, when I create a Circle Body, instead of it rotating around its center, I want it to rotate around another specified point. ...
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How do you do AI path following within a 2d physics engine like farseer/box2d?

I'm in the process of moving a 2d top down game I've been working on into a proper rigid body physics engine like Farseer. Up until now, I had just hacked together my own physics code where needed. ...
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What should I do to prevent my monsters from walking off platforms?

I have a question that is driving me crazy because I think it should be fairly easy to find a tutorial on it. I'm currently using XNA and Farseer to create a simple platformer game. I'm about to be ...
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Box2d/Farseer how to use the World object?

this question is primarily about farseer but as it is a wrapper around box2d i think it's relevant for both libraries. I'm in the beginning of developing a simple platform game, and I'm stuck as to ...
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Tiling Physics using Farseer

I'm having a problem with the Farseer Physics Engine, where in a tiled environment, my object will at times interact with corners of others objects, even if they align perfectly. You can try it ...
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Create a body of an irregular 2D sprite in Farseer

I'm trying to create a body of a irregular 2D sprite Farseer 3.3.1. The regular shapes that BodyFactory provides are not that I want. Is there a way that one can create irregular objects? Could it be ...
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Detect Open Space in Farseer [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I detect ledges? I'm working on a 2D platformer using XNA and Farseer. I would like the player's character to be able to grab and climb up ledges. Detecting a ...
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Inverted textures

I'm trying to draw textures aligned with this physics body whose coordinate system's origin is at the center of the screen. (XNA)Spritebatch has its default origin set to top-left corner. I got the ...
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Farseer - Apply Impulse

I'm new to Farseer and have a simple question. The demos I went through didn't seem to demonstrate what I want. I would like to apply an impulse (not force) to an object at a specific position on that ...
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Farseer: what are its performance on xbox360?

Are there any performance issue related with lots of "new" calls and things like that? Did anyone test it? Something to take care of? Thanks
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Why does Farseer 2.x store temporaries as members and not on the stack? (.NET)

UPDATE: This question refers to Farseer 2.x. The newer 3.x doesn't seem to do this. I'm using Farseer Physics Engine quite extensively at the moment, and I've noticed that it seems to store a lot of ...