XNA is a game framework by Microsoft that allows deployment for Xbox Live Indie Games as well as Windows Phone 7.
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XNA - Obtaining depth from the scene's render target?
I'm currently rendering my scene to a render target so it can be used for rendering methods such as post processing and order independent transparency.
rtScene = new RenderTarget2D(
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Game Asset Management
I am making my first small mobile game in C# XNA. Lets say I have 3 screens, the main menu, options and game screen. A single game session usually lasts for 1 min, so the user will alternate ...
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Are there specific benefits to using XNA for 2D development if you don't plan on releasing on xbox/windows phone?
I've been using XNA for a while to tinker with 2D game development, but I can't help but feel constrained by the content pipeline when targeting PC only. Things like no vector fonts or direct use of ...
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Camera not staying behind model while moving in circle
I have a camera behind a model (3rd Person) and I'm having problems KEEPING it behind the model. When I first start my game, you see the back of the model. If the model moves forward, backward or ...
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Limit the amount a camera can pitch
I'm having problems trying to limit the range my camera can pitch. Currently my camera can pitch around a model without restriction, but having a hard time trying to find the value of the ...
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How to draw textures on a model
The following code is a complete XNA 3.1 program almost unaltered to that code skeleton Visual Studio is creating when creating a new project.
The only things I have changed are
imported a .x model ...
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Displaying text letter by letter
I am planing to Write a Text adventure and I don't know how to make the text draw letter by letter in any other way than changing the variable from
h to he to hel to hell to hello
That would be a ...
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Drawing “Stenciled” Sprites and making them glow
Currently, in my game - I'm not using XNA's SpriteBatch to render anything(I am using Farseer Physic's Debug View), and I was wondering how I would render something like this:
only using XNA. My ...
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Farseer Physics for Xna missing ConvertUnits class
Im using Farseer Physics with Xna 4.0. Im following a starter guide. It said that to draw, I need to convert the meters to pixels with the ConvertUnits namespace. I looked through all of the engine, ...
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How to draw a texture to a MS Terrain object - Farseer
I'm using Farseer to make a game in XNA and I can't seem to figure this out. I've decided to use MSTerrain for making my game's terrain because I wanted destructible terrain and MSTerrain seemed like ...
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Shuffle tiles position in the beginning of the game XNA Csharp
Im trying to create a puzzlegame where you move tiles to certain positions to make a whole image. I need help with randomizing the tiles startposition so that they don't create the whole image at the ...
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Camera wont stay behind model after pitch, then rotation
I have a camera position behind a model. Currently, if I push the left thumbstick making my model move forward, backward, or strafe, the camera stays with the model. If I push the right thumbstick ...
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How can I achieve a 3D-like effect with spritebatch's rotation and scale parameters
I'm working on a 2d game with a top-down perspective similar to Secret of Mana and the 2D Final Fantasy games, with one big difference being that it's an action rpg using a 3-dimensional physics ...
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Models from 3ds max lose their transformations when input into XNA
I am making models in 3ds max. However when I export them to .fbx format and then input them into XNA, they lose their scaling.
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Client and Server game update speed
I am working on a simple two player networked asteroids game using XNA and the Lidgren networking library. For this set up I have a Lidgren server maintaining what I want to be the true state of the ...
