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    - Overlaying text onto screen of directx game? OK Fantastic news... I tried the solution provided in the link above... It works.. Basically the solution is to Create a DLL. The dll is called d3d8.dll or d3d9.dll depending on the dx version you are using. This is the same as the MS dll that sits in the c:\windows\system32 directory. Normally when the game runs it loads the DX dll , using the standard search path.. So if you make your d3d8.dll and put it in the same directory as the game, the game should try and open this first. Thats part one of getting it working.. Try that first. Secondly: When the game runs and calls your dll, your dll will then call the real dll. hence they call it a "Proxy". So when the game creates a dx surface, it calls your dll to create it. you know have the handle to the dx surface and screen. in the example code there is a section into which you can add your own drawing code. the example shows a yellow rectangle. you should be able to create a dll in VB to do what you require... Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Coordinate system and matrix inconsitencies Jon Watte wrote: Shawn Hargreaves - MSFT wrote: Really this is one of those areas where it just isn't possible to be compatible with everyone, because everyone does things in different ways, so we just had to pick one and at least try to make everything consistent inside our own framework. But you didn't really end up being consistent, because you multiply quaternion rotations in a different order than you multiply matrix rotations. I remember that quaternions are multiplied in the same order as matrices, though the "Getting Started" section in DX doc tells in the math order. For the reason of using row-major matrix, I remember it is because of speed benefit and the same associativitye with scaler * operator. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - TextureImporter returning a Zero'd texture I have the same problem as you describe. I am rendering through a fx. file which contains my v and p shaders. From some reason, with having correctly sat al the uniform variables and input streams, I get a black model, obviously my tex2d()function on my bump map fails (have not debugged it but I now it from experimenting with color outputs from pixel shader, which were fine, I also dont get anny compile shader errors). So the technique settings are bad see the technique 4 your self, it is simple, no variations I found works: technique textureTechnique { pass p0 { // Set up texture stage 0 // Use the texture parameter defined above Texture[0] = <tex0>; ColorOp[0] = Modulate;// also used Dot3 as well here ColorArg1[0] = Texture; ColorArg2[0] = Diffuse; AlphaOp[0] = Modulate; AlphaArg1[0] = Texture; AlphaArg2[0] = Diffuse; MinFilter[0] = Linear; MagFilter[0] = Linear; MipFilter[0] = Linear; // Disable texture stage 1 ColorOp[1] = Disable; AlphaOp[1] = Disable; VertexShader = compile vs_2_0 mainV(); PixelShader = compile ps_2_0 mainP(); } } ................ hm, I also declare the texture in front of my vertex shader uniforms "texture tex0;" and I set it successfully with my effet pointer (I hope) in my exe source so why tex2D(tex, Tex) ; with correct coordinates (I have them) and a texture resource (.bmp biased normal map) fails Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Question about subscription to creators club I'm not certain this will help, but you should try downloading the Xbox 360 Dashboard item first. If you haven't updated your flash/dashboard in a while (mid-December ), you may need to before you can get the new stuff. For one, the XNA Game Launcher is placed in a location that wasn't there until a particular dashboard update. Cheers, --Stephen Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Sample FromFile well.. I'm a newbie so don't know much about what 'Method Instead' or 'Content Pipeline' is. Could you give me an example, perhaps i can understand it easily. Thanks Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Labels don't work after porting to Vista and VS 2005 After porting my app from VS 2003 under WindowsXP to VS 2005 under Vista I find that the numerical and text labels on screen objects are now just white rectangles. These worked correctly before a no changes to the code have been made. Also, D3dx9c was used before and after the port. Has anyone else experienced this Thanks, E-Jo Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Realistic turning tank based on steering angle... I believe the answer to this question can be found here... https://creators.xna.com/forums/thread/1738.aspx I have not tried it yet, but the thread has a flash demo that shows the logic in operation and basically does what I was talking about. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Windowed Resolution don't work I see, so in my case the ViewPort don't works in this way because only change the resolution in full screen mode, but in Windowed mode not works. This is a Bug do you need the project where this is happen Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Hosting an XNA Game in a WPF Application hehe, I think the consensus is ... don't do it :-P Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Starship Alpha - My first 3D game Hi, My first 3D Game is finaly available for download. The game is not completed but you can try it out anyway. It's developed in C++ using Directx 9. Please, download it, try it and tell me what you think about it!! Download it from www.limanima.com/alpha thx Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Content Pipeline Problem Me and my team are making a simple 3d game engine on top of Xna. Up to now, we have been pleasantly supprised by what is has to offer to us, but since the Beta 2 (and now the official release) has provided the Content Pipeline, we have come upon some serious problems for the programming of the Editor which will accompany the engine. The problem stands as follows. Up to now, we have found only one way to add content to a game: by addind it to the Visual Studio project, making sure it is set with the right Importer and Processor and build the projet. The build process transforms these assets into .xnb files, which the ContentManager can quickly load at runtime. Now, let's imagine I am coding the map editor. How can I make the editor dynamically load resources For textures, the Texture.FromFile method works fine. But that is not a very nice way of doing it, as no .xnb file is generated, and the texture still has to be manually added to the game project later on, when the map has been saved. But there are no solutions I can see for other resources, like Model, which don't have any direct loading methods. I downloaded the Torque X engine (even if it is a 2d engine), to see how they do things, and I saw that they do have an editor. The funny part is that it looks like the editor works on .csproj files. So somehow, the Torque X editor controls the building process, and thus the resource importing process. I am lost as to what should be done. If anybody has a clue into what direction to look, I will be most grateful. Thanks in advance, David Hart. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Drawing Bitmaps to IDirect3dSurface9 Sorry, the thread in DirectX 101 is wrong Hello, first of all i want to render a video stream to a IDirect3dSurface9 (in the beginning on the primary display device later on a secondary monitor) so at first i'm trying to draw a simple bitmap on the surface... i've created IDirect3d, IDirect3DDevice9 and IDirect3dSurface9 objects... and i've got a window that i've registered and created. It doesn't matter if the bitmap/video is in the window or not. better would be if it were in the window. how can i do it i've tried it this way: pPrimary->BeginScene(); pSurface1->GetDC(&hdc); hdcMem = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc); old = (HBITMAP)SelectObject(hdcMem, hBitmap); GetObject(hBitmap, sizeof(BITMAP), &bm); BOOL tmp = BitBlt(hdc, 0, 0, bm.bmWidth, bm.bmHeight, hdcMem, 0, 0, SRCCOPY); SelectObject(hdcMem, old); DeleteDC(hdcMem); pSurface1->ReleaseDC(hdc); pPrimary->Present( pPrimary->EndScene(); please help I'm using directX9.0 and i'm programming a directshow filter Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Optimizing Multi-Rendering of the Same Model Just as a side note, I'm under the impression that the ModelMesh.Draw() method will automatically iterate through all the passes of the current technique without the need to loop through them in your code, but I could be wrong. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Port asm to HLSL help please I have managed to get a vertex buffer working for animating a skinned mesh. the pixel shader above simply adds a diffuse to the skinned mesh. It sounds easy to replicate (and it should be), be its really tricky to get it working right (due to the complex bones and weighting that transform the vertices in the vs)... th ps above works for me and I cant replicate its results through HLSL ... Thanks. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Cursor Support Jon Watte wrote: According to the FAQ that comes with the 1.0 release: My mouse cursor is not visible. How can I make it visible Set the Game . IsMouseVisible property to true . Mouse support is only available for Windows. The property seems to be there when I compile. Is it not supposed to be That's different. Game.IsMouseVisible sets the "System Cursor" visibility. SetCursorProperties(), et. al. refer to the Direct3D "Hardware Cursor" (which may use the system cursor or an emulated cursor as necessary). Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - XACT Streaming Sound Banks? Joel Martinez wrote: Is there any way that the API can tell you that the streaming buffer is being starved and let you make it bigger Not that I'm aware of - I think you just have to guess a value that works well. It makes sense that this would need to be larger on PC than on Xbox, actually, since the disk IO load is less predictable in Windows, and there aren't guaranteed to be multiple processors just sitting around waiting to do the streaming in a background thread, so it seems reasonable it would need larger buffers to play smoothly. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Flash Movie in fullscreen Direct3D game Thank you very much for your reply. I am now using DirectAudieoVideo for displaying my animation. I have to stop "beginscene - endscene" loop before showing the video. But, it works perfectly if i only want to show a movie with no logical decision. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - 360 controller I also have a wireless controller with the passthrough plugged in and the driver doesn't work for me either. I expect the wireless controller's only function when plugged into a PC's USB port is to charge the battery, but I'd like to know if anyone has gotten a wireless controller working on their PC. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Rectangle collision detection help ProfEclipse wrote: I would agree with Bill as to your problem. I'm wondering, though, why you don't use the BoundingBox structure It has an Intersects method that will take care of this for you. I should use BoundingBoxes, but I don't know how to make them. Edit: I worked out how to make them, now I just gotta figure out how to move it with the sprite. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Done :) Okay, I think I managed to figure out what you were talking about. Here's what I currently have, I'll play around with consolidating things a little more but this is working: A Windows Game Library that has all my engine code and content/importer/processor code An XBOX Game Library that has just the engine code, no content code. An XBOX Game that includes the .dll generated by the Windows Game Library in the content pipeline and references the Xbox Game Library to include the engine code. This atleast compiles and tries to run. Now I have an error about not being able to find content from a relative path so I'll be playing around a bit more before I call it a success. -Javier *Okay, scratch that. I can't see my custom importers at all. They don't show up in the list of Content Importer or Content Processor under the content properties. Clearly not accepting my library dll as a content processor. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - D3D9/D3D10 cross-compatible FX files As far as I can tell, there's no way (without resorting to macros and conditionally compiled code in the effects) to get an FX file written for D3D9 to be loaded in D3D10, or vice versa - D3D10 can't recognize a few keywords like "MipFilter", while D3D9 fails to recognize a number of D3D10 keywords. Are there any plans to allow the same FX file to be loaded in either interface Since I would imagine nearly all D3D10 apps will have D3D9 counterparts for the foreseeable future, it seems to me that being able to load the same files in both interfaces would be useful, even if all techniques in the file are not available to be run in both. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Reading the buttons of Joystick Saitek x52 It is supposed to give different meaning to the same button. This way Saitek tripples the number of buttons. This means that the modes should always show in the byte array returned by GetButtons(). 23 = Mode 1 24 = Mode 2 25 = Mode 3 Other buttons only show if they are pressed. This way you get button-code + mode-code concatenated by the standard piece of code as listed above. If no button is pressed - then only Mode shows. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - I'd like to have a game developed...but I need a partner. I can say that I have come from an artistic background and am now in Programming.. :) Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Using XNA Framework on Console App Template? If you want it to work in release build mode with the output still sent to the connected PC's output windows in VS use System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Hello"); Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - GSE RTM on Vista RTM (unsupported) Dave, great to hear from you and that it is working on your system! so it's probably just a deployment issue. will troubleshoot this evening, and watch what happens on this thread : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1007412&SiteID=1 would assume its ping-able because the 360 has been used as a media center extender for the Vista PC i tried to deploy from. BTW the router i'm using is a Netgear RangeMax NEXT - Gigabit, and both 360 and PC are connected using NetGear HDXB101 powerline over ethernet adapters. this setup has been pretty reliable from media extender sessions. Thanks, casey Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Detect mouse click on a sprite Would it be easier to create a very very small bounding sphere that follows your mouse around or create a new bounding sphere when you click and see if the mouse bounding sphere intersects with any items in the screen I wonder how small a bounding sphere can go Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Help Please, kinda alot of questions in here Actually, I would probably start with a Mario Clone, THEN a Tetris clone. Mario style games are some of the most absolutely easiest games to write, as all it is essentially, is just basic user inputs bounding box collisions, and counters to increment scores on contact/collect. Tetris clones can be handled in a similair fashion considering that the play objects would most probably be ( in lots of four ) ie a collection of sprites, but the fact that the shapings can be quite different, and the fact you might have to think ( SHOCK !) might make this one a little bit harder to fathom. Oh well, thats just MY opinion :) Daniel. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Rants on XNA 1.0 Hm, okay. Seems we won't be switching to XNA anytime soon. I'll probably look into the patterns used and maybe start using them in my own engine, so if/when XNA gets to a state where we can use it, the porting will be less difficult. Thanks for the rant, at this stage such posts are the most interesting for me! Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - General strategy question about XNA I've been wondering about this as well, and I think you're probably right that it's about generating GS Pro developers. I don't think that the X360 part of GDE is ever going to take off with the current terms, it's too expensive and cumbersome in relation to the quality of the games you'll be able to play - but it's a great lure to know that you can make your own X360 games. However, GSE will produce a large number of game programmers that a) wouldn't have become game programmers without it and the X360 promise, and b) will be very familiar with MS tools and will tend to stick to them when they get to professional levels. With enough tools and components to make things easy, it can also draw more people into game creation that are not primarily focused on technology, which might lead to more unconventional content. In the coming years of console warfare, this group may become a huge asset for MS. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Looking for suggestions on protecting game assets Just noticed your post in the thread regarding type readers/writers. That's probably a better way to go. Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - Drawing order of primitives Hi all, I am drawing semi-transparent view-aligned slices to create a smoke effect. The slices are fullscreen quads with increasing z from 0 to the end of the view frustum. Inside the vertex shader I do the inverse projection of the slice corners using the inverse of world*view*projection. I pass these coordinates to the pixel shader, where the effects are created procedurally based on the interpolated coordinates. Here is the piece of code which draws the slices: for (int sliceIndex = 0; sliceIndex < SliceNumber; sliceIndex+=slicesPerCall) { int currentSlices = slicesPerCall; if (sliceIndex > SliceNumber - slicesPerCall - 1) { currentSlices = SliceNumber - sliceIndex; } d3dDevice.DrawIndexedPrimitives( PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, sliceIndex * 4, 4 * currentSlices, sliceIndex * 6, 2 * currentSlices ); // Do some other rendering pass... } I am experimenting with different chunk sizes, but I notice a very strange effect: even though slices are defined with increasing z value, it looks like they are drawn from the furthest away to the closest to the viewer within the same chunk(same drawindexedprimitive call). This is pretty evident because, when I change the chunk size to 1, the global picture looks correct. If I change the chunk size to a very big value, then the picture is rendered with an effect such as inverse perspective (close objects look smaller). The Z buffer is active, and the function is set to less, and the card is a radeon9700. Any idea Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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    - How can I input multilanguage in Directx? I try to use the sample CustomUI, but I found I can't input other language except English in the IMEEditBox,who can tell me what happens and what can I do to achieve that goal Tag: XNA Game Studio Express Not Much To Do With XNA But... Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.

Nickinito

Well this doesn't have much to do with XNA but i am trying to make a 2D game but the best drawing program i have is paint :( . I could get a better one but i don't want to have to buy anything (they all seem to cost money). So could somebody post the name of one that i could download free

Nickinito

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dczraptor

The GIMP

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Nickinito

k thanks

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The ZMan

http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html

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Jim Perry

What's wrong with Paint

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Ska Software

I'm with Paint.Net; I think the GIMP is a terrible thing that should go away sooner rather than later.

My personal preference is Paint Shop Pro 7. I'm not sure what version they're up to now, or if it's worth it, but PSP7 is there (and it was pretty cheap to boot) for all of my graphical needs. That being said, the graphics in my games have never been particularly ... er... challenging.