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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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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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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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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Portable buffered keyboard input for XNA / MonoGame?
As a preliminary solution, I am currently using the Nuclex framework in an C#/XNA game project for buffered keyboard input. Sadly, nuclex relies on SlimDX.Directinput.dll and therefore to my knowledge ...
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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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3d to 2d Collision
I have a 3d model which rotates around my screen, it's always on the Z axis = 0 where everything of my 2d images are. My 2d images fly out of the center and get bigger to give the view as getting ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Great tutorial for 3D XNA [closed]
I have finished learning 2D XNA and created a few simple games.
I want to learn the stuff below. Please recommend tutorials, books etc.
3D programming with concepts.
Game planning, Stages planning, ...
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Drawing background is very costly/slow [closed]
I'm creating a "simple" Tetris style game for a beginner project. My problem is when I added the background (tiled look consisting of a bunch of squares), the game got very slow. It has to have ...
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How do I achieve one touch one shot for WP7 game?
I want to be able to have a sprite shoot in a game for WP7.
What I have at the moment is that as long as the shoot button is held down the sprite constantly shoots.
How do I sort it that only one ...
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How to implement in-game purchase?
I am currently developing an indie game using XNA/C#. I would like to give players the opportunity to try a free (but somewhat limited) demo version of the game. Nevertheless, the player should be ...
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Drawing sprites messes up my model in XNA4
I have a model which draws correctly in XNA4.
However if I try to add a background image (or any sprite), the rendering of my model is messed up. There are two problems with the rendering
model is ...
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How do I detect when the Xbox home button is pressed XNA?
How do I detect when the big Xbox button in the middle of the gamepad is pressed in XNA?
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Xna connection key not working
My XNA game connection is not working i keep getting this error
Initiated search on the local subnet for your Xbox 360 using the connection key you typed.
No response from your Xbox 360 (Xbox ...
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Background blur in 2D game?
In an XNA 2D game, I am thinking about blurring the background slightly to increase the feeling of depth? I am already using parallax scrolling which works pretty well in terms of enhancing depth ...
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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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Making A Sprite Rotate To A Specific Angle XNA 4.0
I have a game that the character spins when you press either of the triggers on the xbox remote. Here's the code.
if (gamepadState.IsButtonDown(Buttons.RightTrigger))
RotationAngle += ...
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Protecting XNA Assets
With so many XNA asset viewers out there, how do I distribute my XNA game for PC without having my assets open for persons to steal or manipulate? I know i can create custom asset importer/processor, ...
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XNA - moving the 3rd person camera
I'm having following problem:
Can't set my camera to follow object from behind and rotate when I use left/right arrow. I've tried different tutorial and examples but it still doesn't work for me. ...
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3D models and hit detection
I'm currently trying to create a game that involves the inside of a cube, which i will make in Maya. My question is what is the best way to create a model with hit detection in mind?
For example my ...
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What size window should i use for making an Xbox 360 game in XNA
I have a basic understanding of XNA 4.0 and i want to create an xbox game. What size window should i use? should i use the 16:9 aspect ratio then put it in full screen?
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Repeatedly Shooting Bullets
I'm making an XNA shooter game. How do I have my sprite repeatedly shoot bullets instead of waiting for one bullet to go off the screen. Do I do this with and array?
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HLSL shader optimization [closed]
The following HLSL shader (without preprocessing) results in 65 arithmetic operations (see below). Can the same effect achieved with <=64 operations?
// Center of "light"
float x;
float y;
// ...
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Flip sprite vertically AND horizontally?
In Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteEffects there is the possibility to flip a texture horizontally or vertically before rendering. But can one do both at the same time?
When I use: ...
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Collision shape and Model problem
I used BEPUphysics for my XNA 4.0 game , the problem is that I load my model.fbx from into the game then add it to the space of physics engine , but when I change the scaling matrix of my Model then ...
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Sound effects in separate thread?
Does it make sense to carry out all audio (music, sound effects, etc.) in a separate thread?
In your experience, how large would you expect the performance impact of playing some MP3 music and 10-30 ...
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Separating Axis Theorem fails at certain angles
I'm currently attempting to add an overlap tester for an axis aligned and orientated bounding box but the solution only seems to work accurately when the OBB's angle is between -10 and +10. As the ...
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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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Per color collision is really expensive - can my approach be improved?
I've been working on adding a color based collision component which takes a list of colors and checks to see if an object is colliding with any of them. However, the operation seems to be extremely ...
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Creating Rectangle-based buttons with OnClick events
As the title implies, I want a Button class with an OnClick event handler. It should fire off connected events when it is clicked.
This is as far as I've made it:
public class Button {
public ...
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XNA 4.0 / C# Collision Response
Okay, this is really starting to annoy me.
First of all, detecting collisions is nice and easy. I have a list of tiles,
and a player. The player and each tile have their own rectangles. (The tiles ...
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MonoGame and normal windowed desktop application
I am trying to move all my XNA projects to Monogame. But in project templates I found only XAML and horrible metro application template. Is MonoGame support creating application in good old windowed ...
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Can't add rectangles into rectangle list [closed]
When i run this code, it gives me "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
here
clickableArea.Add(temp);
here is the entire class
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
...
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XNA - How to move skinned model and merge animations
After you helped me to resolve my loadContent problem I've wrote some code and made 3D model with animation. Because XNA 4.0 doesn't support .fbx with multiple animations I've generated 3 models with ...
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Which game - or Gamekit - makes it easy for me to see my own creations in a ready-made world appear? [closed]
I saw Slender and "Dream of the Blood Moon". I like to create things with Sculptris and animate them with Kinect. Which game - or Gamekit - makes it easy for me to see my own creations in a ready-made ...
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Scripted Motion Paths (?) (XNA)
Ok, so the title isn't the greatest because this is a lot more general.
Say I want to have the player be able to hit A and have their ship model roll to the right, and shift to the right of the ...
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Relative positions of player and enemy are different In XNA 3D game
I am having a problem in my 3D jet fighter game using XNA. I have a player jet and a few enemy drones built from a separate class. The problem is that when I set player position and a drone's position ...
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Speed up content loading
I am using WinForms Sample downloaded from microsoft website. The problem is, that the model loading time is quite long, using:
contentBuilder.Add(ModelPath, ModelName, null, "ModelProcessor");
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Scaling Skeletal values to be able to reach objects on the screen
I have created a game using Kinect + XNA and the game runs on full screen mode.. However when i try to touch or reach a certain area on the screen using hand.. I cant reach it.. I will already be ...
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forward motion car physics - gradual slow
Im having trouble creating realistic car movements in xna 4.
Right now i have a car going forward and hitting a terminal velocity which is fine but when i release the up key i need to the car to slow ...
