Questions tagged [xna-content-pipeline]
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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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XNA games C# application executable work on one win7 not the other one
Our company wrote a game in XNA studio 4 almost ten years ago. we try to reinstall it in win7 with only the executable. Both installed XNA Game Studio 4.0. Below is the environments parameter I can ...
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Monogame pipeline couldn't load Xamarin.Mac
I Try to use my ContentProcessor, which I wrote on a Linux machine, on a Mac but it crashes with an unexpected failure.
The Pipeline Tool gives me the following
It seems to be a problem with the ...
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How do you write Texture2DContent and read it as Texture2D in the XNA content pipeline?
I'm trying to create a custom Monogame content pipeline extension that packs a bunch of individual sprites into a single sprite. I need help figuring out how to write and read the texture in the ...
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How to add a animation to myPlayer
I'm currently making a shoot em up in monogame.
I want to add just one animation to my object. No commands or transitions between animations for different actions: just an object swapping between ...
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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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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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Why are .xnb files used rather than source files?
XNA and Monogame are built using a content pipeline, which takes source files (images, sound effects, 3D models, etc.) and converts them to proprietary .xnb files. What's the benefit of doing this as ...
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How to convert Texture2DContent to Texture2D in custom ContentTypeReader
I'm trying to implement a custom ContentPipeline extension that writes a Surface object with a Texture2D member.
My input file is an xml with fields for all of my Surfaces and their members. In the ...
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monogame - how do I distribute a lib / package with content?
I wrote a UI lib for a monogame hobby project I'm working on, and I want to distribute the UI code / lib as open source for others to enjoy.
My question is - what do I do with all the content that ...
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Error loading "SpriteFont1". File not found
I have an issue while trying to load a font file with the extension ".xnb" and I am receiving following error:
Error loading "SpriteFont1". File not found.
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Render ModelContent directly
Say I have a set of .fbx files which contain all my bones, meshes and animations. I want to make use of these in the finished application i.e. rather than ...
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MonoGame Pipeline
I've been having some problems with the pipeline in MonoGame. I'm using Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 with MonoGame 3.4. I used the installer rather than NuGet if that helps with the problem. ...
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Error on MonoGame Content Pipeline: Texture Importer Error
I just encountered this kind of error when using the MonoGame Content Pipeline and it's my first time to use it to convert png to xnb files (I use a stand alone app for converting files to xnb in the ...
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3D Object not drawing in Monogame
I'm quite new to working with 3D objects. I'm currently trying to get one to load in Monogame. The object itself was imported into Blender and exported as an fbx file (which was the only file type I ...
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XNA maximum VertexBuffer size exception
I am trying to build content(a text file contains list of triangles vertices) for an XNA application through a custom pipeline importer. It works ok. But when number of triangles gets near 1m(in this ...
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Read custom content in MONO-GAME in a cross-platform way
using Mono-Game,
i have some custom content files in some binary format (not .xnb)
in run-time i need to read the content of those files.
i prefer to get a stream, but if something will give me a ...
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XNA 4.0 - Using premade .xnb font files
Basically, for our college project, we need to use a font in xna. The only problem is that we are not allowed to install it due to admin rights.
Is it possible to use and load the .xnb file that gets ...
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XNA game publishing help with incompatibilities via content built at runtime
MY XNA game is finally complete, but I'm having difficulty getting it to run on other Windows computers. I've read similar other stackexchange topics here, here, and here, but I'm still gonna need ...
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Loading Texture2d content in Monogame [closed]
I am using Monogame and following this tutorial series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agt9-J9RPZ0
I am trying to load a Texture2d into the window and despite not getting any error messages the ...
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How to pass content through the project's structure efficiently?
so following situation. I have a project which is structured something like this.
Game1 -> GameManager -> Module (multiple instances)
During runtime units are being spawned in each instance of the ...
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How can I make sure custom XNA content processors find included files with relative paths?
MSDN has an example of a custom HLSL effect importer and processor. Here is the importer's code:
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Is there a way to use the ContentManager with full directory paths
So i want to figure out a way to use the ContentManager.Load method with full directory paths, so lets say
Content.Load<T>(@"Images\SomeImage");
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Loading content into an Winforms/XNA Editor's content project
So i am bulding a game editor/engine basically for teh lulz but i have encountered a problem i cannot seem to fix, i cannot load any new content through the Winforms UI during runtime.
I tried using ...
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Export into several files with custom XNA content pipeline?
In order to implement a basic Ubershader (a shader which is compiled numerous times with different directives (defines)) I wrote a custom shader processor in XNA. My processor outputs a dictionarry ...
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Is Spine's XNA runtime missing an importer? [closed]
I'm writing an XNA 4.0 game and use Spine for animation. Until now, I've been making spritesheets with Spine and using them with a custom animation class. I recently discovered there is an official ...
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SpriteFont not found in Nuclex Framework
I am using MonoGame to port my XNA Windows Phone app to iPhone. All is well, except that my fonts look distorted/smudged on the iPhone.
Turns out this is due to the way that MonoGame builds the ...
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XNA speed up content compile with multiple content projects: what to do when two assets reference the same sader file?
Right now our content is being compiled over the course of 10 minutes. Given that we literary have no content yet, it is a huge timebomb waiting to explode once we start ading it. As we build the game ...
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ContentManager in XNA cant find any XML
Im making a game in XNA 4 and this is the first time I'm using the Content loader to initialize a simple class with a XML file, but no matter how many guide I follow, or how simple or complicated is ...
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XNA: Auto-populate content within the content project based on current folder/file structure and content management for large games
1) Is it possible to implement a system where I can simply drop a new image into my content project's folder and VS will automatically see that and bring it into the project for compiling?
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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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XNA- Add a content reference to a library?
Making a Game library with XNA, and I'd like to bundle it with some stock effects, if possible. But I'm having no luck attaching a Content project to the Library, so is it possible to use the Content ...
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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 ...
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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...):
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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:
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(Access the content via a DLL)
However, I need to maintain the folder structure of the fonts and images. I have attempted to add the folders to ...
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XNA partially extending the content pipeline using a ModelContent
I am trying to extend XNA's content pipeline in order to import a model in .obj format (a very simple and text-based format, see here for details). Writing a full extension library seems like an ...
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How to use images/text/etc. in XNA without Content Pipeline?
I'm currently writing a program in C# with the XNA framework. It is absolutely necessary for the game's images and text assets to be visible by the end user in the form of PNG files, so I can't use ...
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Protecting XNA Assets
With so many XNA asset viewers out there, how do I distribute my XNA game for PC without having my assets open for persons to steal or manipulate? I know i can create custom asset importer/processor, ...
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Has anyone got the Krypton Lighting Engine working in MonoGame for Windows 8?
I've converted the core of the Krypton Lighting Engine so that it's compatible with Windows 8.
The trouble I'm having when actually using it is that it can't load the ...
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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:
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XNA When to call LoadContent
I have an enum in my game that denotes the game state ie MainMenu, InGame, GameOver, Exit
and I was wondering if it would be advisable to add a new one in for PrepGame - in which the game creates ...
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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 ...
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How do I stop XNA/Visual Studio from rebuilding my content project every time I build?
My group and I are working on a game in XNA 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010/2012. The main solution has 6 projects: 2 XNA game projects (1 executable/ 1 class library), 1 WPF executable for the level ...
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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.
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How do I use Content.Load() with raw XML files?
I'm using the Content.Load() mechanism to load core game definitions from XML files. It works fine, though some definitions should be editable/moddable by the players. Since the content pipeline ...
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XNA 4.0: Problem with loading XML content files
I'm new to XNA so hopefully my question isn't too silly. I'm trying to load content data from XML.
My XML file is placed in my Content project (the new XNA 4 thing), called "Event1.xml":
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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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How to get tilemap transparency color working with TiledLib's Demo implementation?
So the problem I'm having is that when using Nick Gravelyn's tiledlib pipeline for reading and drawing tmx maps in XNA, the transparency color I set in Tiled's editor will work in the editor, but when ...
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Custom Content Pipeline with Automatic Serialization Load Error
I'm running into this error:
Error loading "desert". Cannot find type TiledLib.MapContent,
TiledLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null.
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Microsoft.Xna.Framework....
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