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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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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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Dealing with 2D pixel shaders and SpriteBatches in XNA 4.0 component-object game engine?

I've got a bit of experience with shaders in general, having implemented a couple, very simple, 3D fragment and vertex shaders in OpenGL/WebGL in the past. Currently, I'm working on a 2D game engine ...
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Error X3650 when compiling shader in XNA

I'm attempting to convert the XBDEV.NET Mosaic Shader for use in my XNA project and having trouble. The compiler errors out because of the half globals. At first I tried replacing the globals and ...
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2D Point Light XNA , Why my point light radius is Oval?

I friend of mine , taught me how to make a simple 2d point light with shader, so i follow his steps and finally done it ! but something happend , the light shape is like an oval and not like a ...
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Projective texture and deferred lighting

In my previous question, I asked whether it is possible to do projective texturing with deferred lighting. Now (more than half a year later) I have a problem with my implementation of the same thing. ...
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Some help understanding and modifying a 2D shader

I have a similar question as the one posed here, except that I don't wish to use a 1D Color Palette. I simply wish to have it display 1 color of my choosing (red, for example). I plan to use this ...
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XNA 4 Deferred Rendering deforms the model

I have a problem when rendering a model of my World - when rendered using BasicEffect, it looks just peachy. Problem is when I render it using deferred rendering. See for yourselves: what it looks ...
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Using a shader messes up my alpha in XNA

I'm making a 2D game that ends up being too dark on some laptops, so I figured I'd use a shader so people could brighten it up if need be. Unfortunately, once I got it in there nothing would fade in ...
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Porting an HLSL 3.0 shader to 2.0?

I have a couple of .fx files from a Shader-Based 2D Shadows example. I want to utilize the same kind of technique with XNA 4.0's Reach profile, which if I understand correctly needs to have HLSL 2.0 ...