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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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How can I load 2D texture data without a GraphicsDevice instance?

We have a client/server architecture for our game with the client being the XNA Game, and the game server is separate and only references XNA. They both use a shared DLL for networking. The game ...
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ResourceContentManager with folders

I am attempting to do something like the following: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2007/06/12/embedding-content-as-resources.aspx (Access the content via a DLL) However, I need to maintain ...
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How do I get a Model to add a name to it's Texture(s) in the XNA Content Pipeline

I know that a texture's name is not preserved when it's loaded in. I also know that you can give it a name. For example: Texture2D texture = content.Load<Texture2D>("MyTexture"); texture.Name ...
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Can't load model using ContentTypeReader

I'm writing a game where I want to use ContentTypeReader. While loading my model like this: terrain = Content.Load<Model>("Text/terrain"); I get following error: Error loading ...
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Load SpriteFont in XNA

I'm planning on my game using multiple backgrounds so I'm trying to use spritefonts to draw the text. Every time I load my spritefont I get a error. Line1 = content.Load<SpriteFont>("Courier ...
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XNA Deferred Shading, Replace BasicEffect

I have implemented deferred shading in my XNA 4.0 project, meaning that I need all objects to start out with the same shader "RenderGBuffer.fx". How can I use a custom Content Processor to: Not load ...
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Content loading, Content processing and add processed file to a DataContainer?

I'm trying to create some kind of editor in Windows Forms for XNA and I was wondering if there's anyway to do this: Load content (known types, like Model/SpriteFont/Effect/Texture) through ...
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How to I create a resource manager?

Currently I'm using XNA's ContentManager to load my content. For the unfamiliar the ContentManager deserializes classes from disk and keeps a reference for future requests. I'm currently facing a ...
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XNA ContentManager.Load causes string allocation

I was running the Visual Studio memory profiler on a project and noticed that an enormous amount of strings were being instantiated. It turns out that ContentManager.Load appears to create a new ...
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Using XNA's XML content pipeline to read arrays of objects with different subtypes

Using XNA's XML content importer, is it possible to read in an array of objects with different subtypes? For instance, assume these are my class definitions: public abstract class MyBaseClass { ...
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Loading SpriteFont through a different class than Game.cs

I am trying to load up a single SpriteFont to print some debug information. In our current game, we load up both Textures and Music through a ResourceManager. They are both loaded with a filestream, ...
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Some advice for settling on a map format for a tile game?

I am using XNA 4.0 and am currently working on a simple tile game to pass the time. Basically, I'm using the tried and true method of having numbers refer to tile types, where in 0 would be an empty ...
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SpriteBatch Draw Using Floats with the Destination Rectangle

So I created a nice little isometric tile engine and I have it so that when you scroll with the mouse it changes a variable called scale. Scale is a float and gets passed through the ...
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How to go from Texture2DContent to Texture2D in a content processor?

I'm using reflection to create a manifest of all assets, strongly typed. It's working fine for my own types: I get the type of the asset, if a processor is ran on it I get the output type. Then I ...
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Does ContentManager.Load<T>() re-read an asset if I have loaded it before?

Or is it smart enough to know I have asked for it before and return an in memory copy created from the first call? For example if I have a projectile's texture: Texture2D projectile; If then I ...
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How should I handle shared classes between the Game project and the Content Extension Library?

I've been using XNA for a while but recently I've needed to write a content extension library which I haven't done before. I need to import a TextureAtlas class from a file that is exported by a tool ...
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Load XNA Content Type from File

I'm writing my own level editor and recently got the exporter working so now I'm working on the importer. My save file structure looks essentially like this: [ObjectType] Property=Value ...