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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How to make a 3d beam effect with XNA 4.0?
Do you know any demo or tutorial to learn to make a 3D Beam effect?
I have learn to make a 2D laser by simply using a texture and moving it thru screen.
But I am a little bit lost while trying to do ...
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XNA 4.0 storage framework not being recognized
This may be a silly question but, im unable to do any save game data because for some reason, this following namespace is unrecognizable:
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Storage;
All the normal XNA ...
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Client Server Multiplayer Project
I have reviewed the relevant WinForms/XNA samples here and here.
However, my requirements are slightly different.
Given the following:
I am developing a multiplayer (Client - Server) game
There ...
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Change opacity of a texture in XNA 4.0
I have created a terrain using VertexPositionNormalTexture in XNA 4.0, but now I would like to allow the user changing the opacity of the terrain (from 0%, totally opaque, to 100%, totally ...
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XNA skinned model animation snapping and sped up
I'm exporting .fbx files from Blender 2.6, and followed the skinned model sample to get them to work in game. They do render and animate, but wrongly; they're sped up, and animations seem to reset ...
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How to load a custom SpriteFont?
Is there any possible option where you can open a custom SpriteFont? Because I need to add to my game a font that is not in Windows already. I saw this page Custom Sprite Fonts and it's like I want ...
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How to get an affect for balloon bursting in XNA?
I am a noob in XNA. I want to create an effect which shows a balloon bursting?
Any pointers would be highly appreciated.
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Sketchup model renders wrong in XNA
My XNA model renders wrong.
It should render like that:
But it renders like that:
The background doesn't matter. It's just the model that renders wrong.
Here is the drawing code:
protected ...
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Outline sprites
I'm currently working on a 2D game, and my current task is to outline selected object.
I basically use a blur shader to do it fully runtime.
I first draw my sprite using a vertical gaussian blur ...
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Xna custom mouse not allowing me to move its sprite past certain bounds
I have written a Custom mouse, with a Custom sprite, using MouseState, and getting the X and Y variables. However i also have a camera that i wrote, and this allows me to leave the initial box. One ...
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Making The Player Stop Bouncing And Stop Sinking In The Ground In A Platformer XNA
Heres a problem i've been having. I have a platformer, and whenever my player hits the ground he keeps bounding. Here's the falling code
iceBoy.moveY++;
iceBoy.position.Y += moveY;
Now heres the ...
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Textures loading too large on smaller monitors
I have an XNA game, and when i run the game the textures load all good on my computer and on my tv and they're all bring drawn in the right position. But on my laptop, which screen is smaller then ...
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Why does my sprite animation sometimes runs faster? [closed]
I don't know why each time I call the Update_Animation function, my sprite animation runs faster. Is it caused by gameTime? How to fix it?
Here's the relevant code:
class Character
{
// ...
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How to finish a sprite animation before going back to default animation?
I want to run a animation until it has gone through all the frames, even when the activation key is no longer held. After the animation is completely finished, it goes back to walking state. I also ...
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How to force playing attack animation until the end?
I rework the code to make it more easier to manage. How can I force the player cannot change the sprite animation by pressing any keys until the attack animation completely ends?
class Player
{
...
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Saving model image
How can I get a top-down,side view of the model imported into XNA and then save that view as an image, that can be used later in the program?
Thank you for your time
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XNA .fbx model imported sideways
Using Blender 2.6. My model has its location and rotation zeroed out, scale set at 1.0, and generally conforms to every guideline detailed on this site and misc google results. When exporting it, I ...
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flicker when drawing 4 models for the first time
i have some models that i only draw at a certain moment in the game (after some seconds since the game has started). The problem is that in that first second when i start to draw the models, i see a ...
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Creating A Bounding Box around each item in a list XNA 4.0
I have asked a similar question before except i am more experienced and have more understanding of XNA. I have bullets that shoot whenever you press RightTrigger. I am having trouble though creating ...
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XNA Game Timer Help
How do I set a game timer in XNA?
I need it to keep the game in sync no matter the lag or frame rate to prevent one moment to be normal but the next everything is sped up.
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Custom Content Pipeline with Automatic Serialization Load Error
I'm running into this error:
Error loading "desert". Cannot find type TiledLib.MapContent,
TiledLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null.
at
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CPU Usage on the UI thread Warning - XNA WP7.1
When I run the Store Test Kit's profiler against my game, I get a warning that says something along the likes of "Very high CPU usage on the UI thread for operations other than frame drawing."
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Extending ModelProcessor
How can one extend a model processor inside Windows Forms. In a normal XNA game you would simply create a new class like so(I think...):
[ContentProcessor]
public class ExtendedModelProcessor : ...
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XNA project won't target .NET 4.0
I am trying to reference the System.Threading.Task assembly. If I am not mistaken, it should be part of mscorlib. But no matter what I do, my project always defaults to the .net 2.0 runtime. Even if I ...
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How can I normalize a vector if I am handling movment of each axis seperatley?
I am writing a 2D tile based game engine in XNA, and I've recently fine-tuned my collision detection using the answers provided here and more specifically here.
The tile based collision detection now ...
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Error on new XNA 4.0 game project - No suitable graphics card found
Any ideas on how to fix this? According to what I remember about XNA 3 was that when running the application from scratch, I would get a blue colored windows with nothing rendered.
Any suggestions?
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Selecting and moving vertices
How can I identify the correct vertecis and move them in XNA using VertexBuffer? Let's say I have a simple cuboid in my project and want to move one face of it. How would I loop thru vertices, get ...
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3D game demo in XNA [closed]
Does anyone know of a decent 3D game tutorial with source code?
I'm really new with 3D development for XNA and have found that the best way to figure out how to code for something is to look at ...
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Problem with drawing mesh
So I made this simple model in blender. Its made up of one mesh, and one armature that contains three bones. This is the parent-child relationship that I made in blender:
For the sake of simplicity ...
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How to make AABB collisions work? [closed]
I am unable to make efficient AABB collision in XNA 4. I am making a platformer, with tile based map.
Here is what I do in my tile class :
public virtual void Update(GameTime gameTime, ...
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Optimizing an XNA 2D game
Does it make sense to implement the logic to skip rendering objects outside the viewport or should I not care about it and let the Framework do it?
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Exported FBX Blender Model not showing up in XNA
I really do apologise if this question has been asked before, but I recently created a model in Blender 2.63, exported it to an FBX file, and tried to display it in XNA (using 4.0 Refresh), but all ...
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Run XNA game without graphics
Wondering if there is anyway to run an XNA game with out displaying anything.
I have a working game that runs in a client server setup where one player is the host and other people can connect to ...
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XML serialization error on XBOX 360
When try to save game on an xbox with xml serialization i get a code 4 error. I made sure t oadd all the xml referances and there is no errors until i run the game. Any suggestions?
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xna game development editors [closed]
Developing a big xna game needs lots of work that to for individual developer.
Can someone suggest me good free and paid development editors which will quickly help designing levels, game etc.
I ...
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How can i scale up a bounding box in Xna?
In Xna a spritebatch can be passed a value for scale. I have A bounding
box Rectangle that i have a border drawn around my sprite using the bounding box rect.
Now my question Scale can make the ...
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Portable sound and music for XNA / MonoGame?
What is the best (recommended) way to integrate audio (both sound effect and music) in a game project (using C#/XNA) targeting multiple desktop platforms (W7, W8 Metro, Linux, OSX, ...) via MonoGame. ...
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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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Make bones in blender work corectly in XNA
So, I am trying to connect bones with vertex groups in blender, but I keep failing. if I move a bone in XNA, it doesnt also move those vertecis that are connected to this bone(vertex groups). What I ...
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Message box not appearing on Xbox
I want to make a message box appear in my XNA xbox game, and here is the code for the message box.
Guide.BeginShowMessageBox("Stop", "Are you sure you want to quit?",
new ...
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Create a variety a sprites from a single image in XNA?
I want to be able to take a single image and cut them up into a lot of images to make the sprites. How would I do that in XNA since I only know how to load the texture then use it without changing it?
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Collision detection against specific sprite shape using XNA with Farseer Physics?
I am making a 2D XNA Game, using Farseer Physics for collisions.
I need collisions to be resolved against the actual shape of the sprite image, ignoring transparent pixels, rather than against the ...
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How can I draw a texture line by line
I wish to draw a texture to the screen line by line (horizontal lines).
Can I do this in xna?
At first I wish to just start at the top of the texture, draw one single horizontal line of pixels and x ...
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Help finding a good XNA physics library? [closed]
I'm looking for a good physics library for XNA. Can anyone help me find something good, simple and easy to learn for XNA?
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Vector3 vs. Vector2 - performance, usage?
I'm currently playing around with XNA, and creating a simple 2D platformer. I was thinking of adding multiple layers to make it a little bit of challenge.
In stead of having a Vector2 for my ...
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Sidescroller variable terrain heightmap for walking/collision
I've been fooling around with moving on sloped tiles in XNA and it is semi-working but not completely satisfactory. I also have been thinking that having sets of predetermined slopes might not give me ...
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Tile collision, can't get correct behaviour [closed]
I define a tile with a rectangle. This is displayed below.
public class Tile : Sprite
{
Rectangle rectangle;
public Rectangle GetRectangle
{
get
{
return ...
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Complex Scaling
I've been trying to figure this thing out for weeks now, but with no luck.So, I am creating this program in WindowsForms and Xna, that allows users to create a 3D room. By draging and customizing ...
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Alternate Collision Detection in XNA 4.0
Is there a better more efficent way for collision detection in XNA 4.0 besides Bounding boxes or circles? Like a way that would automatically wrap around the texture regardless of the textures shape.
