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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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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Implementing water effects (splashes) into XNA 4.0 game
I am creating a 2D XNA game and came across a tutorial on adding water effects (splashes) to an XNA game but after implementing it into my game I can't get it to scale down. Currently it takes up the ...
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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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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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Fog Of War - XNA
I'm creating my own top down 2D RTS game for personal educational purposes. Currently I really just copying Starcraft's design/ideas. I've decided I should probably implement Fog Of War too.
Let me ...
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XNA 4.0 Plane size
Possibly a dumb question, but do planes stretch on to infinity? I can't define a spanning area for it, and would have to do some sort of check for collisions like if(x intersects BoundingBox and ...
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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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Complex Models using bounding boxes in xna 4
I'm new to XNA, and have just started looking into collision detection.
I've managed to get a bounding sphere around my first person camera object and i want to check the collision between that and ...
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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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Stencil mask with AlphaTestEffect
I am trying to pull off the following effect in XNA 4.0:
http://eng.utah.edu/~brendanw/question.jpg
The purple area has 50% opacity. I have gotten pretty close with the following code:
public ...
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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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XNA Transparency depending on drawing order?
I am drawing two 3D objects, both of them can fade from opaque to transparent independently, and they can intersect between them (so you cannot say when one of them is before the other one). Look at ...
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Losing sides of a rectangle after movement C# [closed]
I am making a top down shooter, so far everything's great, until I decided to put a car into the game. Currently the collision works fine when the player does not enter the car, and attempts to walk ...
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Creating rectangles from the inner part of a texture2D
Ok, this may be hard to understand, but I'll do my best.
You will see that the first image is a normal mario, and the other is the result I am looking for. I'm trying to find a way to extract ...
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Deferred rendering with VSM - Scaling light depth loses moments
I'm calculating my shadow term using a VSM method. This works correctly when using forward rendered lights but fails with deferred lights.
// Shadow term (1 = no shadow)
float shadow = 1;
// [Light ...
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XNA: Rotating Bones
XNA 4.0
I am trying to learn how to rotate bones on a very simple tank model I made in Cinema 4D.
It is rigged by 3 bones, Root -> Main -> Turret -> Barrel
I have binded all of the objects to the ...
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Using orientation to calculate position on Windows Phone 7
I'm using the motion API and I'm trying to figure out a control scheme for the game I'm currently developing.
What I'm trying to achive is for a orienation of the device to correlate directly to a ...
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XNA 4 Content Pipeline dependency
I tried to create something to parse XML with, which needs the inclusion of the Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.Pipeline; reference. This was fine and all, but as soon as I tried to debug, I got the ...
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Incorrect colour blending when using a pixel shader with XNA
I'm using XNA 4.0 to create a 2D game and while implementing a layer tinting pixel shader I noticed that when the texture's alpha value is anything between 1 or 0 the end result is different than ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Compiling a Monogame Game into a single .exe
Is it possible to compile a monogame game into a single .exe? I know if you go in the debug or release bin, there is in fact a .exe your game, except you move this .exe's file location or try to run ...
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Problems loading Hilva tutorials
I'm a newcomer to XNA, and I'm evaluating some libraries. The Hilva Graphics Engine looks interesting, and I'm trying to run their tutorials. However, all of them give me errors.
For example, if I ...
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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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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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XNA Skinned Model - Keyframe.Bone out of range exception
I'm getting an IndexOutOfRangeException on this line of AnimationPlayer.cs:
boneTransforms[keyframe.Bone] = keyframe.Transform;
I don't get what it's really referring to. The error happens when ...
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How to create Button/Switch-Like Tile where you can step on it and change its value?
If the player steps on a Button-Tile when its true, it becomes false. If the player steps on a Button-Tile when it is false, it becomes true.
The problem is, when the player stands on (intersects) ...
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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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How to move a bullet from the player to the cursor? XNA [closed]
I have a bullet that currently works in my game, but with some odd issues.
I'm making a top down shooter and I want the bullet to move from a point on the players location (from the guns muzzle ...
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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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xna 2d tank game [closed]
I need help. I am making game with terrain. I have 2 questions :
I don't have any idea to make that 2d tank.. Should I use some
animated sprite or what? I want to make my tank animated ...
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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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Why are my game snapshots sometimes all black? [closed]
I want to take snapshot of the game when the user right-clicks. This code works, but sometimes the snapshot is nothing but an image with all black pixels.
snapshot = new ...
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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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Set a 2d camera's position so that a building is under the players feet
My issue is this: i am making a scrolling game in XNA, and the camera updates based on the players velocity, but the player never actually moves, he is always in the center of the screen. When he hits ...
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Applying Angular Acceleration in a Basic Physics Model
I'm attempting to use a basic physics system to create an arcade flight model. So far I have managed to get the aircraft moving forward, apply gravity, etc. However, after trying to implement torque 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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Drawn elements are disappearing [closed]
I have such issue:
I'm writing a snake game. This error comes, when food is disappearing. When it happens, and snake is trying to eat it, parts of my snake between the neck and tail are disappearing. ...
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Strange Per-Pixel Collision in XNA [closed]
I'm having a very strange problem where the bounding box for one of my objects in my game isn't exactly over the texture, this results in the collision being reported somewhere else. Its not really ...
