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Orienting a model to face a target
I have two objects (target and player), both have Position (Vector3) and Rotation (Quaternion). I want the target to rotate and be facing right at the player. The target, when it shoots something ...
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Keystone Correction using 3D-Points of Kinect
With XNA, I am displaying a simple rectangle which is projected onto the floor. The projector can be placed at an arbitrary position. Obviously, the projected rectangle gets distorted according to the ...
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Creating a 3D map for XNA?
Is anyone aware of a nice 3D map tutorial (how to import and use the map) using XNA without any engine but not limited to an external application (like Tiled for 2D maps) ?
I did a search arund here ...
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Is it clever to use some engine to start game developing?
I started C# programming in order to develop games with XNA later (I always wanted to create some awesome 3D-based RPG or at least a functional one). I read a good book for C# which is ...
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Working with lots of cubes. Improving performance?
Edit: To sum the question up, I have a voxel based world (Minecraft style (Thanks Communist Duck)) which is suffering from poor performance. I am not positive on the source but would like any possible ...
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Is there a way of using XNA+Xbox 360 with the current generation of 3D televisions?
I'm interested in playing around with 3D on a new Sony 3D television (polarized light rather than red/green/blue anaglyph glasses). Is this possible with XNA on the current XBox 360?
Alternatively, ...
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Visual Studio 2012 and Game Development
Alright, I think it's a simple question, but I got difficulties to find some answers around.
I already read that XNA wouldn't be in Visual Studio 2012. I recently learned to use XNA, but since I ...
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Rendering Resolution Independent Text
I need a way to draw resolution independent text in my game. That is, I need to be able to zoom in on text and never see pixel artifacts.
Can anyone make any suggestions on how I could go about it?
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Physics for a 2.5D platformer with a plane that curves
I'm creating a 2.5D platformer in XNA which uses 3D models that are constrained to travelling along a 2D plane (just like Trine).
To make things tricker, however, I want the 2D plane itself to be ...
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Generating island terrains with Simplex Noise (C#/XNA)
I've got one little question: Is there any code or sample which shows how the simplex noise works? I cannot find anything about it... How should I implement it, without the knowledge how the algorithm ...
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What good 3D graphic rendering engines are out there? [closed]
I couldn't find good overview of those and decided to ask experienced people. I'm writing in C# and want to learn some 3D graphics stuff. I used to write some 3d scenes and shaders 4 years ago in ...
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Why / how does XNA's right-handed coordinate system effect anything if you can specify near/far Z values?
I am told repeatedly that XNA Game Studio uses a right-handed coordinate system, and I understand the difference between a right-handed and left-handed coordinate system. But given that you can use a ...
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Depth is disabled - How to turn on?
In XNA 3.1 is there any other way to disable depth in 3D Worlds using DirectX models other than
GraphicsDevice.RenderState.DepthBufferEnable = false;
?
The reason for my question is I have quite a ...
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3D terrain map with Hexagon Grids
I'm working on a hobby project (I'm a web/backend developer by day) and I want to create a 3D Tile (terrain) engine. I'm using XNA, but I can use MonoGame, OpenGL, or straight DirectX, so the answer ...
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What is road map for Windows 3D game development in C#
I used WPF 3D to make a demo program a while ago. I'm now want to give some other things a shot but find working in WPF 3D ... confining. I have looked at Managed Direct3D but read that it's dead. I ...
