Questions tagged [monogame]
Open-source implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS, among others.
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Use 2 values of a mask
Let's say one has a black/gray/white mask and wants to draw picture A over the white/gray values and picture B over the black/gray values (the blacker the more B picture). The best I come up with ...
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Switch screens with MonoGame.Extended - ScreenGameComponent
I'm trying to piece together a very simple game foundation based on MonoGame.Extended from the documentation and tutorials I can find on the internet.
For starters, I wanted to setup the different ...
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How to make a Blend-Effect like yomawari did?
I would like to know, how to make that effect, I have seen in the game named Yomawari. The little girl has a lamp and its cone revals the dark spirits around her. But only if they are in the light. I ...
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HLSL Manual Alpha Blending
I'm trying to do alpha blending manually because I only want to apply alpha blending on certain pixels. Underlying is the texture I'm writing to. This is what I got so far, but it doesn't give the ...
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Creating a letterbox screen for Android devices
I want that the screen looks the same on every Android device without distorting the sprites.
One player should not see more of the map than another player just because they have a bigger screen or ...
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Most efficient way to remove a Rectangle ? Monogame/XNA
I have a project in which I'm trying to remove the "collision box" (Rectangle class) of one of my enemy.
My game logic basically is:
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Element's texture is null - Monogame/XNA, C#
I have a ArgumentNullException everytime I try to call the Draw() method of my Projectile class in the Game1.Draw() method.
In Game1.cs Initialize() method:
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How to implement ECS architecture in C#?
As C# is a strongly-typed language, I'm having great difficulties associating all my data types together so that I can have a clean, if not performant, game loop.
Example #1: Keeping Components ...
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Need help on monogame screen resolution and intersection
Currently in my game i want trying to move my object towards both x axis and y axis.As I also wanted to put it into center ,I have put a camera.Here is my Camera code-
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2D Lighting Shader Multiple Lights
For a 2D platformer, I have a 2D lighting shader with two passes, the first one draws a shadow from the closest light to the sprite and the rest of the lights will reduce the visibility of the shadow ...
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Double buffer in Monogame
Does MonoGame has feature of creating 2 BackBuffers that can be swapped, emulating double-buffering?
My suggestion was to do some tricks with RenderTargets, but looks like that targets live till ...
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Add tiles to both sides of TileMap List in MonoGame
This is what my tile map looks like (red highlighting added for clarity):
My code:
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How should I be loading a player's content and its bullets content later in the game
I'm trying out Monogame because my course has a simple game programming class in it which is just going over basics. The final project will be using Monogame so I've been getting ahead and making my ...
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Using multiple textures in Monogame HLSL Effect shader?
My Monogame HLSL shaders only successfully sample one texture (besides the screen). Any additional textures I try to sample end up with the same texture data as the screen.
I've found people with ...
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MonoGame tick cannot go lower than 16ms
I'm trying to build play with MonoGame and I'm trying basing this regarding the GameTime steps.
In my main Game class that is being run in the main entrypoint of my project, I'm doing something like ...
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Figuring out if two objects overlap on screen
I want to figure out if 2 3D models overlap on screen. My general idea is:
Compute the bounding box of each model
Transform the bounding box to the View Volume using the ViewProjection matrix
Check ...
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How to raycast in MonoGame 2D?
Currently I am using a Ray class that I built myself. The following is for brevity.
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MonoGame / XNA Texture2D.SetData results in black texture
I use the following method to draw a box onto the screen:
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How can I store in-game money so that nobody can manipulate the amount?
People get coins for completed tasks(for example completing a level) in my game. In addition, they can purchase coins(they need to pay for that with real money) in the app store. With these coins, ...
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Performance in pathfinding/road calculation
I have a question about the most effective way to detect road connection in a tile based world. Some time ago I already asked for "How to improve performance for expensive functions in 2d city builder"...
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MonoGame Extended - Tiled - Spritebatch Layering Depth vs TiledMap Layer Renderer Depth
I'm drawing each of my Tiled Map Layers separately so as to create the illusion of depth. I'd like my character sprite to be between the background tiles but in front of the building tiles. I'm using "...
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Camera that follows a target with sub-pixel movement
As the title says, I have a character that moves at sub pixel movement (no, I can't change this, because this sub pixel movement happens when I normalize the vector during diagonal movements, ...
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How to use Monogame (nez) pipeline extensions / importers on linux
I use Monogame together with the NEZ framework. NEZ proviedes some custom Content Processors. However I do not manage to get them working on Linux (works perfectly on Windows) as it seems like the ...
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Monogame Per Pixel Collision scale texture
I have a problem: I am learning the Per Pixel Collision, because I am very new to Monogame. Everything works thine, but my texture (image) is too big, so I scaled it down to 0.5f. Now it doesn't work ...
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Why do I have to set the rendertarget to null explicitly in MonoGame?
I'm using shaders in MonoGame. I have the following code, which works fine. It fills a scene with ambient light, and applies a 2-pass gaussian smoothing to the lightmask. I have one thing that bothers ...
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MonoGame Save Game Location Example
I am building a game using Monogame 3.6 and Visual Studio Community 2017. Up until this point I have been serializing the data using BinarySerialization and created a custom ...
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Camera zoom to point in Monogame
I'm currently working on a 2d isometric tile-based game with a camera and the functionality to zoom in and out. So far I'll take the center of the screen as "zoom point" using the following lines of ...
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2D Per Pixel Collision Detection using Animated Sprite
I am using MonoGame 3.6 and Visual Studio 2017.
I have been trying to find a solution online to do per pixel collision detection using an animated sprite that I am drawing from a sprite sheet.
Using ...
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Built in windows font wont load correctly in MonoGame
I am currently attempting to load this font in the MonoGame pipeline:
I set the .spriteFont file to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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How can I take ingame images and videos?
I’m using MonoGame and Visual Studio Community on my Mac to develop a game for iOS. I want to take ingame images and videos of the gameplay while the game is running on an iPhone/iPad. Afterwards, I ...
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C# Fastest way to iterate over certain tiles overlapping multiple chunks?
What's the fastest way of iterating over certain tiles overlapping multiple chunks in C#.
Ideally without having to iterate over everything, just a specific set of coordinates? (green cubes example ...
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Effective way of transferring data to HLSL shader in MonoGame and storing it
I'm toying around with HLSL shaders in monogame. Lets say I want to use a structure in my shader which is like this:
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Monogame - change splash screen on IOS project
I know this seems like an obvious question, but I didn't manage to find any adequate answers for it in the net.
My problem: When the game is run on my iPhone 7, there are black borders around the ...
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Viewport not matching Window size when fullscreen
I am using:
GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Bounds
to determine the size of the canvas / stage for my window. This works well if I am in Windowed mode, but if I launched ...
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TouchPanel.GetState() Returns wrong touch locations XNA
I am trying to make my Desktop game playable on IOS. I have a Button.cs class, which has this code in it:
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How to incorporate delta time into movement?
I want to use delta time in my movement code for my player, and I'm not sure how to do it. At the moment, I have this:
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Issue importing TileMaps/TileSets in Monogame.Extended 1.0
I've just started coding my first ever videogame using Monogame/Xna. I've reached a point where I would like to start editing maps and importing them into my game using the program Tiled. After ...
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Draw order of Texture2D vs UserPrimitive
I'm trying to use Texture2D objects and VertexPositionColor objects with DrawUserPrimitives ...
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MonoGame minimises when I click on second game window
I've problem with my MonoGame project. I have one full-screen game window and one window form with some info (part of the game too). And the problem lies in when I click on the window form, the main ...
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Difficulty with Texture Alphas - HLSL
UPDATE 3:
I have fixed the issue by reordering my effects (see my answer for details.) Anyone who wants to post more information based on that answer (either in an answer or in the comments) would be ...
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Monogame - All effects in one file?
I am successfully drawing all of my geometry with an AlphaTestEffect and would like to apply shaders. I've built a shader Effect from a tutorial and can't seem to find anything on the web that answers ...
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Should tiles be referenced statically when making a map or some other way?
I'm trying to think of a way to manage tiles in my game, so far I have a Tile class that has characteristics about the tile in question, a ...
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Merging Textures outside of Draw() [duplicate]
Is there a way to premanipulate multiple textures into one Texture2D to avoid multiple .Draw()s? Like is it possible to create the complete texture inside the corresponding class. CheckBox for example ...
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Collision with a rotated rectangle
I bassically have a sword that is rotating around my white character and an enemy that I have to kill with the sword. However, making a collision with a rotated rectangle is harder than it seems. I ...
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Conversion from lat-long to Cartesian coordinates 's result is different with real location
I'm trying to put building from real lat-long in my Monogame app (4 buildings in my school, please check the image with the blue circles)
But after some convert method, it went terribly wrong (please ...
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Circular Particle Effect in Monogame
I'm new to C# and Monogame, and I'm trying to create an effect of a 'psychic' ability, the user will press a key and a circular aura blast will emit from their position. I'm just trying to get the ...
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Destroying a ship removes both the ship and the bullets it has fired
So I'm making a game where you fire bullets at enemy ships which are flying past you. The enemy ships are also firing at a straight line in front of them. The bullets are made into a list of another ...
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Made a quad manually, Polygons have opposite facings?
NOTE: I'm in XNA/Monogame
So I have a generalized Quad-Builder for textures that looks like this:
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Tile slopes and jittery movement
I'm trying to handle slopes in a tiles based world. I'm using basic linear interpolation to find the Y coordinate of the character based on his X position. But i have a problem, when the character ...
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MonoGame window is huge although it should be small
I'm using Monogame to create a simple game.
In my Game1 class initializer I set this:
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