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Implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4 APIS for Android, iOS, MacOS and Linux.

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Multiply mode in SpriteBatch

I have a "lighting" texture (black background with white or colours for lights) that I want to draw as a multiplcation operation. SpriteBatch.Begin can specify BlendState.Additive, but there's no ...
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Where i must put .xnb files in mono game project using VS2010?

Hello there my problem was describe below In the "The Content Pipeline" paragraph ...
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Sprites rendering blurry with velocity

After adding velocity to my game, I feel like my textures are twitching. I thought it was just my eyes, until I finally captured it in a screenshot: The one on the left is what renders in my game; ...
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Performance of pixel shaders vs. SpriteBatch: XNA

Precondition: I read this question/answer about using shaders, or spritebatch, to render and mark a sprite. I need to do something like that. I also have a 2D lighting PoC which I need to write. The ...
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MonoGame: PC + Mobile?

I'm researching Monogame. Their goal is to allow "easy" porting of an existing XNA/Windows game to mobile. Does this mean you can have one solution (theoretically) with shared code, and it works on ...
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Sound not playing on Windows XP - SoundEffect or Song: Monogame

I'm trying to integrate sound into my Monogame game. I don't have the content pipeline hack -- just straight Monogame (Beta 3) at this point. (I tried adding the content pipeline, but ran into some ...
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Alpha From PNGs Butchered

I have a pretty vanilla Monogame game. I'm using PNG for all my sprites (made in Photoshop). I noticed that XNA is butchering the aliasing; no matter what I do, my graphics appear jaggedy. Below is a ...
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The right way to add images to Monogame/Windows

I'm starting out with MonoGame. For now, I'm only targeting Windows (desktop -- not Windows 8 specifically). I've used a couple of XNA products in the past (raw XNA, FlatRedBall, SilverSprite), so I ...
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Does XNA/MonoGame have a text caching mechanism, or has an open source one been implemented?

I'm playing around with MonoGame, and I've noticed the SpriteFont class draws static text very inefficiently. Each time the text is drawn the spacing is recalculated. This isn't a big deal on my quad ...
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Need help transforming DirectX 9 skybox hlsl shader to DirectX 11

I am in the middle of implementing a skybox to my game. I have been following this tutorial http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/skyboxes-2. I am using MonoGame as a framework and in order to support both ...
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GUI Library for MonoGame

Is there any GuiLibrary available, which works with MonoGame? I know there are some GUI Libraries for XNA but I assume most will not work with MonoGame. Even simple stuff like Buttons and Inputfields ...
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Monogame/SharpDX - Shader parameters missing

I am currently working on a simple game that I am building in Windows 8 using MonoGame (develop3d). I am using some shader code from a tutorial (made by Charles Humphrey) and having an issue ...
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Drawing an arrow cursor on user dragging in XNA/MonoGame

I am writing a touch enabled game in MonoGame (XNA-like API) and would like to display a an arrow 'cursor' as user is making a drag gesture from point A to point B. I am not sure on how to correctly ...
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Color sprite tint with opacity in MonoGame/XNA

In MonoGame I am using SpriteBatch to draw sprites. I want to create a semi transparent overlay that would 'tint' the sprite with a given color. SpriteBatch.Draw accepts Color parameter that allows to ...
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MonoGame Mac installation instructions

Does anyone know how to install MonoGame on Mac. I have been looking around for a while and I can't find any guides. I have Mono and MonoDevelop up and running fine, but I cannot figure out how to ...

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