Questions tagged [monogame]
Open-source implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS, among others.
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How does Monogame achieve a target FPS?
So in monogame, in your Game1 class you can write something like this:
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How to correctly position a set of cuboids based on a direction property in MonoGame
I am trying to create a map for my game using a list of cuboid sections that are defined like this:
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Is there a simple way to find where our code is keeping references to disposed/pooled objects?
In our c# game we use object pools to store sprites once the Dispose() method gets called.Then when the Sprite.Create method gets called if a sprite is in the pool it gets depooled, cleared and ...
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How to make 3D particles in Monogame?
I have made a 2D game and right now I am converting it to a 3D game. All fine so far, only for the particles I had used the particles library from monogame extended but this library only supports 2D ...
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Drawing Sprites and Primitives with layers in MonoGame
I'm writing my own 2D engine using MonoGame and I want to be able to draw 2D primitives (using DrawPrimitives) along with sprites using SpriteBatch.
But when I draw them, the primitives are always ...
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Problems with rotating Child Objects
I'm writing a Transform script for a Monogame project and I'm trying for a few days now to fix the Rotate method of this script, but without success.
Currently, the Parent transform only rotates ...
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D3D11 ERROR ("invalid arguments") from HLSL shader
I am using MonoGame 3.8.1.303 with Windows/DirectX.
I am just rendering a TriangleList using DrawIndexedPrimitives, but I am ...
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correct matrix to draw mesh as flat object
I need to draw a tilemap for a 2d game. For that I created vertices with their relative positions already hard baked. The coordinates start top-left with (0f, 0f) and z is always 0.
I rendered them to ...
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Monogame - When to reuse buffers?
So - how do these work exactly?
Right now I am making a buffer and setting the data every frame for my object, but I heard you can reuse the buffer, too. If the object is not changing in any way ...
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How to modify single-scene ECS setup to support multiple local players in different scenes?
I'm currently developing a game in Monogame / C#. I have the underlying game engine set up in the following way:
Entity/Component/System architecture
A Scene includes a map, cameras, and a list of ...
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Apply bloom effect to RenderTarget without affecting UI
I'm currently rendering my whole game to a RenderTarget in order to stretch the scene to any resolution. I also have a bloom effect rendered with the scene. I'm now ...
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Drawing Textured Quads
I've been starting to write some XNA / Monogame code lately, and wanted to draw a quad with a Texture2D attached to it.
After searching the internet for a while, I've come up with this render code:
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Rotate and Zoom a group of tiles
I'm working on a tile-based game and I'm trying to rotate my tiles as a group around the center of the screen and want to have the ability to zoom in and out. Here my code:
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Best way to implement a weapon/tool swing
In some games like Keplerth or Archvale, a weapon basically points towards the mouse and stays around the player sprite. But when you attack the weapon swings. I don't believe this is done with a ...
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Remove gaps between 2D trail that is based on particle engine
Hi I'm using a particle engine suggested from this answer
I'm trying to create a seamless particle trail effect every similar to this (same) question
However, when the vehicle is travelling too fast ...
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Combining palette-swaps and smooth scaling in a pixel-art shader
I am creating a pixel-art game in MonoGame, and have written a shader to perform various effects on a sprite when rendering it, such as performing palette swaps, highlighting outlines, etc.. Most of ...
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Best way to draw a tile (a floor) all over the screen?
I wanted a tip, a guidance perhaps to know the best way to draw a tile all over the screen. This tile is a 16x16 tile that should be the floor in my top-down map. I set my resolution to 1280x720 and i ...
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Meshes seem to get distorted when I use rotate or zoom transforms (XNA/Monogame)
Whenever I seem to create a rotation matrix or try to zoom, the meshes that I draw to the screen get stretched and distorted.
I've tried to make a simple rotation matrix like this:
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Proper way to build sensible object graphs?
The Context
I'm currently working on a game and its engine using C# and MonoGame. The engine is data-driven and I want people to be able to mod the game or make their own using my engine. All the ...
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How to handle octave & frequency in the Perlin noise algorithm?
I would like to implement a Perlin noise algorithm into my MonoGame project in order to procedurally generate 2D terrain. I've been using engines in the past (Godot, mostly) where there was an API to ...
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How can I get correct coordinates from a diamond isometric map created in Tiled?
I am rendering a diamond isometric map created in Tiled using Monogame.Extended.Tiled package.
Here is where I'm trying to spawn a player with an object at ...
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Monogame - SpriteFont build error
I am quite new to Monogame. When I try importing a .spritefont file using the Monogame Pipeline GUI Tool and then build it, it gives me an error: "System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL '...
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Floats vs. Ints for position and collision
So I’m writing a player class and using floats to store the positon and velocity (Vector2) as well as using it when drawing. When it comes to collision I get the player bounds using this code:
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Decouple shared data from consumers
I am a former Unity user, and after a big pause in game dev decided to try out Monogame (I'm a software engineer IRL so I'd figure this is the best way to go).
In Unity I was using scriptable objects ...
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How to mask 2D tile sprites
I want to use masking technique to be able to reuse tiles. Basically I have the base texture and an array of masking textures for different corners and positions and want to combine the two to get a ...
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Something goes wrong when using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start to open a Monogame project
I am trying to develop a menu application for a homemade arcade. However, when I use Process.Start(path) to open my monogame projects' ...
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How do I play multiple animations at once with an MonoGame skinned mesh?
I am working with the SkinnedMesh from this tutorial.
I am at the point where I want to let my character run (which already works), but when I press the punch key on my keyboard, I only want the upper ...
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How do I create an infinite tower
So I had this idea of creating a 2D game where the player would just climb a tower the furthest he could.
I do already have a camera and a scene class somewhat ready, but I'm not sure how I would add ...
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Will a game made with .Net Desktop Development, be able to run on Windows' desktops?
I am new to making games (I have experience only with pygame), and I want to start creating with C#. I've found out that Monogame is a very good engine. On my way of setting up, in the part where I ...
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How to do topdown collisions properly?
I'm trying to achieve grid/tile based collisions like "a link to the past"; here is an article showing it off (sliding off the corners and such). I'm currently using this type of collision ...
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How can I find the direction a sprite is moving?
I'm trying to get the direction a sprite is moving (up, down, left, right). My current approach is to get the x and y coordinates of the target and the sprite (the sprite is the thing that I'm trying ...
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Exported FBX to Monogame doesn't translate all meshes
I'm taking a crack at a minecraft clone in Monogame, and I am trying to get my model to render as it's shown in Blender 2.9.1. When I look at the model in Blender, it looks great. When displaying in ...
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How to select a sprite with the mouse in c# XNA?
I'm attempting to create a chess game, for the movement I need to be able to click on a piece with the mouse, and then the square I'd like to move it to. Each piece on the board is a sprite, and I'm ...
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How do I show only the level in monogame? [closed]
How do I remove the blue background shown here
So that only the level is visible without making the sprites/map larger or the window smaller?
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Advices on multiplayer implementation
I am developing a top down shooter and my singleplayer is pratically finished so now I want to move on to develop multiplayer but I have some questions and I am seeking for some advices.
In my game a ...
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Matrix transforming with translation/rotation/scale at center of screen
I'm trying to create a camera using matrix transforms, the gist is as follows:
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how to order entities by their distance from 0 on the x axis
I'm creating an infinite runner game in which you control several characters at once. Right now when you press the spacebar, they all jump at once but, I want them to jump at separately, one after ...
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Complex mesh (created in Blender) is not overlapping when rendered in Monogame (XNA)
community. Just started playing with Monogame and stuck with a quite simple, but still unanswered issue, at least I couldn't find any answer.
The model rendered in Monogame (XNA) is not overlapping ...
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How can I stop the ball from bouncing forever without changing the gravity?
I am using Monogame in Visual Studio 2019 and I need to find a method to make the ball that I fired with the cannon stop after bouncing from the ground, and while doing this, I have to not change the ...
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How to detect Tilemap collisions with monogame extended?
So,I kind of figured out how to detect the collisions when the chracter hits a certain tilelayer(such as a wall).Right now it just just the tiles which should have collision and prints out "...
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How to change the player character size in monogame?
So I made a new project,
Loaded up the player sprite(16x16)
but the player is too small(as compared to the level)
How should I fix this?
Here the code which loads the sprites and the levels(I am using ...
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Monogame pipeline is throws exceptions when trying to build .tmx files
I have correct referenced the monogame extended pipeline dll file to the monogame pipeline
the importers and processors of the .tmx file are not missing/unknown
but when I try to build the it it ...
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Publish to folder equivalent for a desktop GL project with visual studio Mac 2019
I'm not home so the only computer I have access to is a Macbook, and now I would like to see how I could pack up projects to export for various platforms. But when I build my project it only produce a ...
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Per pixel collision depth
I need to modify the code below to get the penetration depth from the per pixel collision and return it as a Vector2 to later apply it to the character position.
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Spritebatch drawing the other way
I am drawing a rectangle using a emptytexture (1x1) and I use the following:
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Getting Rendered Sprite Size
I need the rendered dimensions of a sprite, I'm calling Draw in the class below:
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Frame-rate drops when drawing 2D map tiles
Update: I figured out it has nothing to do with the camera but instead framerate drops when drawing my map tiles onto the screen.
Here’s a link to a video showcasing the bug in action (For further ...
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Game() parametters Content and Window are not pre initialized
I've been experiencing a really Strange problem since recently, Every variables of XNA Framework Game class seems not to be initialized before my extending Game1 class. Variables does not seem to be ...
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Playing Video for Splash screens etc using Monogame
I've been searching around on internet a way to display a video using XNA/Monogame. But everything tend to go in the direction of the class Microsoft.XNA.Framework.Media.Video. Unfortunatly, my xna ...
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Room Detection on a Tilemap
I am working on a 2D top-down game inspired by Prison Architect.
What I just can't wrap my head around is recognizing rooms built by the player.
The game is built on a tilemap, meaning the map is ...
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