Questions tagged [monogame]
Open-source implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS, among others.
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My position is “changing” when handling animation
I'm trying to learn Monogames(Old XNA) and how to develop a 2d game.
I'm in the process of animating my sprites. It works but there are somethings that are weird to me.
For some reason when ...
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How can I do a Metroid like transition between two tilemaps with Monogame Extended?
I want to do a transition like those in the Metroid games. Here is an example of what i mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJ3MAi0ZI0.
You enter the door, the screen fades to black and the camera ...
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How to check if a custom Control is focused?
So I am building custom UI for my MonoGame project. I've gotten pretty far already, having created Controls such as:
Button
Panel
TextBox
Form
ComboBox
CheckBox
etc.
All of these controls obviously ...
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How to fix Corner Collision with SAT algorithm?
I am making a platformer game, my way of handling collision works most of the times, but when I jump on a platform's corner I get pushed away, it probably happens because my function returns right or ...
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How can I debug my game on mobile device?
I've been creating this game on my computer for months and everything works fine. But when I built the project and installed it into my android device, it doesn't run as smoothly. I don't wanna use ...
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How can I create online leaderboards for iOS and Android?
I'm developing a racing game for iOS and Android phones/tablets and I want to implement online leaderboards. My game has a singleplayer mode(no multiplayer features) but I want to implement online ...
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MonoGame - correct overloads for SpriteBatch.Draw flipping horizontally
I want to flip my sprite horizontally while drawing and I can't figure out how to use the correct parameters without either an error or a warning about the method being obsolete.
This is what I ...
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Transform Vector3 into Vector2 with PerspectiveFieldOfView Matrix
If I understand correctly, Matrix.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView(…) creates a Matrix that projects a ...
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Why does my sprite shifts position on specific animationframe?
I have created a spritesheet to create animation. Everything is working fine untill I come to a specific frame in one animation.
I have currently 3 animations loops
Idle Animation
Moving Animation
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Draw a texture2D at specific coordinates on another Texture2D
I have a ShipTexture and a Sail Texture. I need to draw the sail texture at a specific location on the shipTexture (call it the sailMountPoint) regardless of the location vector associated with the ...
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MonoGame game does not work on other pc, when installed by WiX
I made a simple tetris game. I wanted to give it to my friend, so that he could test it. I made very fast WiX project and setted up every file from bin/Debug. On my ...
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Load/generate new resources on start up in MonoGame
I've a question about loading resources at the beginning of my game written in MonoGame. I've several spritesheets which I'm loading at the beginning of the game. This take about 5-10 seconds on my ...
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Spine + MonoGame > viewMatrix / camera offset
we switched from frame by frame animations to Spine (this animation software).
The issue I am facing now, that it am unable to fit it in our coordinate system. (simple 2D game) I guess there is an ...
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Vertices in index buffer not rendered
I'm beginning with the 3D rendering in Monogame and i'm facing not a real issue because i already find a way to bypass it but more of a question.
I'm rendering a simple cube with 8 vertices like that:...
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How should I go about handling nonuniformed sprite sheet with JSON data?
This might be a lenghty question so bare with me.
I'm developing a 2D game i Monogame framework and I'm stuck with it comes to handle large sprite sheets with different frame width, height and ...
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Reflection shader (orginated from XNA 10 years ago) doesn't work - Model is just black?
can anyone help me with this one.
I'm creating a 3D game. For my game, i have created a lot of 3D objects. Im everything works as intended so far, but I'm trying to implement a "Chrome Reflection" ...
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Simplify Matrix math code- Sun billboarding
If was trying to set the correct position of my sun billboard in my 3d game. I tried long until it worked correctly, but I wonder why this code must be so complicated:
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Is there an advantage to creating a tileset instead of multiple content items?
I'm using MonoGame to build my first game (yes, I'm new to game development). I'm trying to start by creating a 2D platformer so I want to have different "tiles" for the ground, walls, ceiling, etc.
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Split tiles into Chunks [2D]
I'm trying to make a Chunk class for my Tile class creating Chunks of 25 Tiles each, But for some reason it doesn't work correctly
Tile.cs extends Sprite.cs
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Object coming from far away effect in 2D
I have a path made using segments of sine wave interpolation put together that is drawn flat on the screen. And I would like to give the path the effect of coming towards the player. I tried to draw ...
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XNA 4.0 How to combine triangles vertices 3D
Preview for the problem:
I'm making a similar game to Minecraft (a game that it's world is made by cubes), but the fps of the game is getting low only by rendering a little amount of cubes in the ...
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Trying to get Vertexshader to work Monogame 2D
If I don't use the vertex shader, it gives me white textures which is what the default color is. Once I add the vertex shader, the screen is black.
I figure it is something wrong with the Matrices I ...
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What are the semantics of these quaternion functions in XNA/Monogame?
I am having trouble understanding the semantics of some members of the XNA/Monogame Quaternion class. The docs are not helpful, and tutorials trying to explain ...
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Cannot deploy MonoGame project to BlueStack (ADB0000: closed)
I'm using MonoGame 3.6 with Visual Studio 2017 Community and I'm trying to deploy to BlueStack as Android emulator. VS can see Bluestack and permit me to launch deploy but ends with this error:
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Smoothing runtime generated shapes edges with Monogame
I'm working on a game with the Monogame engine and I can't find a proper way to generate basic shapes with smooth edges, even after trying to dug all the Internet...
Currently, I'm generating all my ...
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Orthographic Viewport whose bounds are equal to screen Window bounds?
Ive been rattling my head trying to figure out how to do this. I am not working on a 3D application so I did not expect to need to understand transforms, projections, or viewports.
Essentially what I ...
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Changing Hitbox from a single spritesheet
I have different animation in a single spritesheet. I wonder how do you guys assigning these hitboxes?
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Tiled tmx format into 3d Texture
I am thinking of making 3d games with 2d pixels feel. So far, i have been playing around in tiled and monogames. I learned some xml and managed to import and render tmx into my game. This is maybe a ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
