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I have a multiplayer game written in C# and we've recently been creating a lot of content but have been looking for a way to give our entities customization logic that the designers can hook into. I t …

My UI designer has made a lovely photoshop PSD of the UI and everything pretty. The biggest problem I'm having is converting some of the more elegant fonts used into something renderable in-game. Is t …

I have many entities on the client side that are simulated (their velocities are added to their positions on a per frame basis) and I let them dead reckon themselves. They send updates about where the …

I have a multiplayer server made by a small team of developers and we have bugs that crop up on our live server occasionally that we simply can't reproduce while playing with our small team on a live …

I'm using path finding in my game to lead a mob to another player (to pursue them). This works to get them overtop of the player, but I want them to stop slightly before their destination (so picking …

You really just need a 2D camera and I'm sure you will want it locked onto a sprite on your screen, which is what you mean by smooth scrolling. If you just want a working implementation, you can find …

I'm working on an undo and redo system map editor and have come across a major issue. If I place a tile down, move right a tile, and then move back to that tile I previously placed everything works fi …

I'm working with a few developers on a hobby project and we have a lot of different APIs. What are some popular methods of creating documentation on the potential requests, and what can be expected to …

How do I approach multiplayer games for debugging? When debugging locally - how can you prevent yourself from disconnecting? The debugger halts network activity.

You can use Awesomeium in XNA which has a built in flash player - simply creating a local page with the player and then playing it will be enough. You can then render this texture to the screen.

I've computed a Viewport that is fair in size (a proper aspect ratio to the given device) and then I calculate my ScaleMatrix like so: scaleMatrix = Matrix.CreateScale( (float) GraphicsDevi …

This is fine if you use a multi-process setup that involves a gateway daemon and an actual world server daemon (which can be further split into other sub daemons for processing of data in the world; b …

If you're using some kind of State Management this will just happen automatically. You'd have two states or screens in the case of the Microsoft XNA sample. GameplayScreen We can call this your game …

Set a RenderTarget on your application; this will set the scene for saving and loading that texture data later in the application life cycle. You're going to want to render your model and scene exact …

I was doing a quick Google Search and came across this question - I just figured I'd drop my code here. Hopefully this will be useful someone else wandering by: using System; using Microsoft.Xna.Fram …