XNA Game Studio 4.0 is a programming environment that allows you to use Visual Studio to create games for Windows Phone, the Xbox 360 console, and Windows-based computers.
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Monogame sample virtual dpad not responding to touch in android device?
I am studying monogame. I tried the monogame sample virtual joystick. the problem though is that my device doest recognize the touch even in emulator?
here is my code
GraphicsDeviceManager ...
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What is the status of Monogame now that XNA has been discontinued?
XNA has officially been discontinued, with support no longer being offered by Microsoft. Does this mean that Monogame has died also? I see that the site still says it is based upon XNA 4. What is the ...
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XNA scaling texture causing lag
When scaling a texture too big it causes lag. Is it possible to don't draw pixels outside the view (I'm using a matrix)?
EDIT: The scaling isn't the problem, I just want to know if it's possible to ...
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access array elements [closed]
I have made an application which moves a model in 5 sub moves.. for this i made an array of size [100,5] each row stores 5 sub moves i.e a[0,0]=move1, a[0,1]=move2.....a[0,4]=move5
i declare ...
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Issues with touch buttons in XNA (Release state to be precise)
I am trying to make touch buttons in WP8 with all the states (Pressed, Released, Moved), but the TouchLocationState.Released is not working.
Here's my code:
Class variables:
bool touching = false;
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Do I need to rewrite my HLSL shaders when porting from XNA to MonoGame?
I'm looking at porting an XNA project I have to monogame, but I have a fair number of HLSL shaders. It seems that Monogame for PC uses OpenGL as the rendering backend, and I'd rather not have to ...
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XNA PC vs Monogame Online Multiplayer [closed]
I've got a mostly working PC game in XNA 4, and am looking to make it networked. From the documentation it seems that I can use XNA Networking through GFWL to do LAN sessions, but not online sessions ...
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How to calculate the Screen Position of a bounding sphere/box?
Synopsis: What I have is an object rendered on the screen. I need to calculate the top-left / bottom-right of it's location on the screen in Screen Coordinates.
Explanation: The object is ...
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XNA 4.0 thick triangle strip to fix aliasing issues upon rotation
My triangle strip based lines are disappearing intermittently when I rotate my camera around the X axis.
I was advised that this is due to aliasing issues and that "At a certain angle when its edge ...
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XNA to Unity porting [closed]
I'm planning to move to Unity3D from XNA.
I came to know while searching through net, XNA uses .Net 4.0 and Unity does 2.0 of .Net
Can some one faced any problem while making similar change ?
Any ...
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How to create / draw clickable object (such as Button in WinForm) in XNA WP8?
I am developing a 2D (No 3D in every aspect) Windows Phone 8 turn based tactical games for my college project. I use Monogame.
I want to draw an object similar to Button in windows form, that if the ...
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Collision avoidance (AI)
Now my 3D model has complete AI behaviours, but my model has no collision avoidance while he is moving towards the player! Because of this, he gets stuck in front of 3D blocks sometimes.
I think the ...
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Sharing the effect
my problem is :
If I load 2 models ( the same model zombie ) and give them the same effect I got the following error :
for(int i =0 ; i<2 ; i++)
{
dwarfModel[i].model ...
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Draw 2dline Using XNA 4.0 [closed]
how to draw line using XNA 4.0 from Touch gestures
public void DrawLine(SpriteBatch sb, Vector2 start, Vector2 end, Texture2D texture)
{
Vector2 NStart=new Vector2(20, 20);
Vector2 NEnd = ...
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center point of a text?
i'm drawing a text using a spritefont and the draw.string function of the spritebatch object. in some point, i need to augment the size of the text, so i use a variable to scale it. all this is ...
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SpriteFont Exception, no such character?
I have such spriteFont:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
This file contains an xml description of a font, and will be read by the XNA
Framework Content Pipeline. Follow the ...
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International Font in XNA?
I'd like to know are there some international fonts?
I mean a font for all European languages including Russia.
The question is about XNA fonts.
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Damage indicator screen overlay
I want to make something already done by a lot of games , which is when I am taking so much hits from enemy red screen drawn like the following , using XNA 4.0:
after it's drawn and I am still alive ...
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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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My Sprite Rectangle moves, but my sprite doesn't
Here's the issue, When I build, everything loads fine, everything works, but then, when you enter the game, the sprite is there. However, The sprite does not move, the sprite RECTANGLE does. Meaning ...
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Trying to get enemy sprites to move on C#
In my XNA game, I'm have the enemy sprites loaded and in the game screen. However, I put in the code to update their position in the Update method of the main class. The objective is to get the ...
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Collision between the player , stairs, ramps etc [closed]
i am making a game 2D in XNA 4.0. I have already made gravity , animations and the jump. Now i need the collision between my character and the objects (obstacles , stairs etc.) How can i do that? ...
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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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XNA Scale and Render Targets
I'm working on a top down Strategy/RPG/Tower Defense XNA Game for Windows, and I'm running into an issue while scaling.
My display mode is 1680 X 1050, and that is what I'm setting the ...
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Include a custom font when publishing in Visual Studio XNA
I have a custom font called "Gold Box Games" that I want to use in a game I'm making. I have the font installed on my computer and it works just fine in the program when I run it in test. However, ...
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Transparent RednerTarget2D afrer blending
How to get transparent bacground in RenderTarget2D after alpha blending?
I use Color.Transparent to clear the render target, but I get black color after blending where alpha is 255 even that there is ...
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What's involved in resetting the graphics device?
I'm playing with XNA 4.0, VS2010. I've created a window (not maximized) and drawn some sprites. All is good until I resize the window, after which the sprites stop displaying or only partially ...
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XNA - 2D Rotation of an object to a selected direction
I'm trying to figure out the best way of rotating an object towards the directional input of the user. I'm attempting to mimic making turns on ice skates.
For instance, if the player is moving right ...
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How to prevent the player from clicking too fast [closed]
I'm having trouble with some bullets in my game, the M1911, which is supposed to be semi-auto is only capable of shooting one projectile per mouse click (trying to learn how to do multiple ones at ...
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Trying to reduce health by a certain value once XNA [closed]
I've got a bullet and collision data for the bullet, when the bullet collides, it's supposed to cut an integer off of the max health for the object.
Basically heres what I want:
Object is shot, ...
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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 Camera Positioning All Wrong
I've been working in 3DSMax for years now and decided to give XNA 4.0 a try. I've got the majority of it working, however the camera is being a pain to me and I can't discern what's gone wrong. I ...
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Issues upscaling pixel art with SampleState.PointClamp
I'm developing a 2D game, and I'm striving to create a nice blocky low-res appearance for the game, yet allow it to be played at variable resolutions. So, I've researched resolution independency and ...
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Are there any guidelines/articles/tutorials for creating a network protocol for games? [closed]
I am currently developing a little 2D sandbox game with multiplayer functionality in XNA 4.0 and the latest lidgren-lib for networking.
I found myself quickly at a point where sending a players ...
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XNA rendertarget sprite batch problem [closed]
When using this code:
public static Texture2D ShowHealthBar(SpriteBatch spriteBatch,Texture2D empty, Texture2D full, float health)
{
spriteBatch.Begin();
RenderTarget2D ...
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Animation from bones?
I have a model loaded into my XNA project, it has bones that were created in 3DS Max and I am wondering can I animate my model using code?
All I will be doing is basic movements such as an arm swing.
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XNA texture overlay with offset
Is it possible to overlay one texture over another and make them into a new texture? It should also work with an offset.
Here's an example:
This texture
and this texture
should make this ...
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Texture not carrying over to game correctly?
I have created my map for my game using 3DS Max. I have then applied textures to the map within 3DS Max, where the textures all show correctly. I export the map as a .fbx file to use within an XNA ...
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XNA texture GetData exception
When using this code:
public static Texture2D MakeTexRed(Texture2D tex)
{
Texture2D drawTex = new Texture2D(Game1.graphics.GraphicsDevice, tex.Width, tex.Height);
Color[] data = ...
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XNA 4 VertexPositionTexture triangleStrip sporadically disappearing [closed]
I am drawing a traingleStrip using VertexPositionTexture and BasicEffect that extends from the first person perspective of the screen out a certain distance on the Z axis. In a loop I pass start and ...
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XNA model texture maps [closed]
Is it possible to make a texture maps for XNA .fbx models? Just one texture file for the whole model.
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XNA change a specific color of a model to another
Is it possible to change a specific color of a model to another?
Example:
Everything that's blue should be red or something like that.
And is it possible to do this without the use of effects? I ...
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Reading text files XNA 4.0 on Xbox 360
I'm working on porting a game from PC to Xbox 360.
When I want to create a level I read a .txt file that I store in my content
I read the whole file as a string using this method
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Is there any physics engine for XNA? [closed]
I am an XNA game developer. I am now starting to develop physics games on XNA but the problem is that I don't know about any physics engine desinged for XNA. Please if you know about it kindly help ...
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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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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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Pixel Shader - apply a mask (XNA)
I'd like to apply a simple few masks to few images.
The first mask I'd like to implement is mask like:
XXXOOO
I mean, that on the right everything is masked (to black), and on the left everything ...
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Distorted edges in model rendering xna
The edges of my model are not rendered smooth in xna. See here. What can i do for this, as when designer renders the same model in maya, edges are smooth. And is it possible to render models in xna ...
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Why would rotating the camera effect my pick ray?
So i'm trying to get terrain picking going.
I set up my ray, and I can pick out models, or sprites, whatever I want, no problem.
But when I try and get my 3D coords based off terrain collision it ...
