Implementation of Microsoft's XNA 4 APIS for Android, iOS, MacOS and Linux.
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Best way to go about sorting 2D sprites in a “RPG Maker” styled RPG
I am trying to come up with the best way to create overlapping sprites without having any issues. I was thinking of having a SortedDictionary and setting the Entity's key to it's Y position relative ...
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Monogame - Input secuence game (Scripting?)
I'm starting to program my very first game, it's a clone of DDR/Stepmania done for research purposes and learning.
I (at this early stage) get most of the UI/Music/input work that should be done, but ...
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Xbox Controller Not Connecting in Monogame Project
I have recently been playing around with the support of the wired XBox 360 controller in Windows development. I am developing in C# in Visual Studio 2012.
I have created 2 projects. The first ...
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C# Collision Math Help
I am making my own collision detection in MonoGame. I have a PolyLine class That has a property to return the normal of that PolyLine instance. I have a ConvexPolySprite class that has a List ...
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IOS monogame 17 seconds debug timeout
I'm trying to debug a monogame application using xamarin studio and breakpoint.
Is it possible to disable the 17 seconds timeout on the FinishedLaunching function?
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How do I make a health bar that drains when the player takes damage? C#/XNA
I've drawn a Health Bar before and had it drain/refill on a button press using if statements and rectangles.
First I loaded the image, then I set a new rectangle to be equal to the image's height and ...
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Port XNA to Android
I want to port my game I did with XNA to android platform.
I searched internet but couldnt find any useful solution.
Mono for Android is replaced by Xamarin.Android and it is high price for me.
What ...
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XNA - Where should I start playing a song?
I am just wondering where is the best place to start playing the background song for a game. In the loadContent() method, Draw(), or Update() methods or when I initialize it?
I am trying to make it ...
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XNA Accessing a particluar type of screen from the screen manager
I am using monogame and the screen manager sample.
I have a small question regarding how to access a particular type of game screen; GamePlayScreen.
All of the screens extend a class GameScreen and ...
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Monogame Font Problems in Windows Metro
Last week, I decided to see if I could develop a Windows 8 game for Metro using Monogame. I got the app to load, run and quit properly, but I cannot get fonts to render no matter what I try. When I ...
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I am getting an AccessViolationException error in Visual Studio 2012 and MonoGame w/ C#
Here is a link to a screenshot of the error:
It also says OpenTK.pdb Not Open as well.
This happens when I close the game window after running it.
When I comment out this part of my code, it ...
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Loading sound file into monogame
I'm trying to load sound into my game. I downloaded an .mp3 sound (a second long) and tried to load it both as Song and as SoundEffect, but it didn't work, so I tried loading the same sound but as ...
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Monogame and Visual studio 2010 express cant find spritefont template [duplicate]
I have monogame 3.0 and Visual Studio 2010 C# Express installed on my computer.
I want to draw string on screen. But monogame wants me to add a spritefont for it. I click Content directory and ...
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XNA Calculate two points of triangle with given Z
I want to calculate the two points of a 3D triangle that have a specified Z coordinate. I guess the way to do this would be to somehow create a plane which is perfectly flat with my given Z coordinate ...
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XNA inverted matrix acting strange
First of all, I am trying to calculate the two points of a triangle that have a given z position. I have figured out what I think to be quite a good method. First of all I move the triangle to be ...
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Port a WP7 game to WP8 with Monogame
I have a full working game for WP7, I want to port it to WP8 with Monogame. I have installed Monogame and I have done all tests to see that it is working inside Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows ...
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GetData() error creating framebuffer
I'm currently porting a game written in C# with XNA library to Android with Monogame.
I have a Texture2D and i'm trying to get an array of uint in this way:
Texture2d textureDeform = ...
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MonoGame crash trying to load font from .xnb file
My MonoGame project uses a pre-compiled .xnb file to load a sprite font, and it works fine on Windows XP. The .xnb file is marked as content and copied to the output directory.
I've copied the ...
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Monogame minimum hardware requirements?
What are the minimum hardware / driver requirements for running a Monogame 3.x game, on each of the various Operating Systems?
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Reusable top-down collision class
I've recently picked up monogame and am working on a simple top down game to get me started and learn the basics.
I've got the movement and the rotation to follow the mouse sorted out but I'm stuck ...
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Monogame working with Krypton
I am trying to make a simple 2D game engine using Monogame and the Krypton 2.0 lighting engine. So far I have succeeded in rendering a light but I am unable to generate any shadows from any hull's. ...
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Should I be using Reach or HiDef profile for large spritesheets?
I'm working on a platformer in monogame, that I want to use a large number of sprites for making up items and objects in the background.
The main spritesheet I've created is 4095x3734, when I tried ...
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Monogame/SharpDX Texture2D doesn't hold value
The problem I have discovered is most likely between classes, so I dont really have much option but to post the whole code here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/smyw9t1ap3by2vd/pBX-aJJ-Qx
I have been ...
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Rotate 2D Isometric World
Games like RollerCoaster Tycoon allow you to rotate the view at 90 degree intervals. I'm wondering how I could apply this to a game I'm making. I'm using MonoGame... but I'm wondering more if anyone ...
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Windows 8 C# Compile spritefonts for MonoGame without XNA
Hello Stack Exchange community. Recently, I've been attempting to in some way generate sprite-fonts into XNB files for use with MonoGame. The issue is however, as you may be aware, XNA is very ...
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Monogame crashes without any change
I've written a game in MonoGame, which works great on my desktop computer. It's running Windows 8, has a good graphics card and can be assumed to be up to date with everything.
However, when I run on ...
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Detecting “Any Button Press”
I'm trying to allow the player to press any button to continue from the main page. I was able to do this by making a List of Buttons and looping through these and checking for one of them being down; ...
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Recommended aspect ratio for android / smartphones?
I'm making a game for android and would do it in 720p, but the phones got all different aspect ratios.
Also thinking about a ios and windows phone port later.
When the aspect ratio does not match, ...
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Large resolution differences
I want to develop a game on multiple devices such as PC, Android or IOS.
Want it to be in 1080p, but that means a massive scale down for the smartphones.
I know how to do that, just render everything ...
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Is there any “object” in monogame for windows phone 8, that is similar to Toast in Android?
The title pretty much sums it all.
Is there any "object" in monogame for windows phone 8 (for monogame to be exact), that is similar to Toast in Android?
My purpose is to give a notification / hint ...
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Measuring GPU time from managed code
To measure CPU code, I use a Stopwatch. Using a Stopwatch in the Draw method is meaningless for the GPU side of things since the CPU and the GPU run asynchronously.
The questions is simple: Is it ...
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Learning Web Development and Game Development at the same time? [closed]
I'm a junior-level developer, currently working full time and trying to get experience with working with ASP.NET MVC. I love web development, and want to continue to pursue it as my career, but I also ...
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Problem converting FBX file into XNB
I create a Monogame Content Project to convert assets into XNB. For FBX file without texture there is no problem: the file is correctly converted and when I load XNB into my project everything is ok.
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XNA 2d Camera Scrolling - why use matrix transform?
I am making a test game where I want the level to be constantly scrolling. To create this effect I have established a camera class which simply stores a vector2 position and an enum direction. It also ...
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Camera Matrix Transform to scroll through level - Monogame, XNA
I am trying to change the way I scroll through a level. Currently I have a static camera class which stores a direction enum and a vector 2 position. This class then has a method to move the position ...
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Best way to load texture2d tiles in xna?
I am making a test xna game as a learning exercise and I have a small question about using 2d textures. Basically the game is a grid of different 'tiles' which are taken from a text map file. I ...
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XNA Monogame How to handle tile collision [closed]
I am working on a simple XNA side scrolling game as a learning exercise. It works by creating a level object which creates a matrix of tiles based on a map within a text file. The tiles are then drawn ...
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Ambiguation between multitouch geistures tap and free drag in Windows Phone 8 Emulator (Monogame)
I am making a 2d tile based tactic game. I want the map to be slided around (because it's bigger than the screen) with FreeDrag (It's perfectly done, the map can moved around, that's not the problem).
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Efficient Way to Draw Grids in XNA
So I am working on a game right now, using Monogame as my framework, and it has come time to render my world. My world is made up of a grid (think Terraria but top-down instead of from the side), and ...
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How to make image bigger than the screen to be slideable in the screen in monogame for windows phone 8?
(Idk if my title is correct, because when I google it, there is no related result I guess)
I am not sure how to explain it correctly, but I am making a plain 2D, tile based, tactic game in windows ...
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Throttling MonoGame actions (explosions, sounds, etc)
I'm trying to find a way to deal with throttling/managing actions that need to happen on a regular (regulated) basis.
Right now, if I want to throttle an "action" in MonoGame I need to setup a ...
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What is the status of Monogame now that XNA has been discontinued?
XNA has officially been discontinued, with support no longer being offered by Microsoft. Does this mean that Monogame has died also? I see that the site still says it is based upon XNA 4. What is the ...
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MonoGame WP custom vertex decleration
How do I go about implementing and using a custom vertex deceleration in monogame for windows phone 8. I want to be able to store a position, a colour and a normal?
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Running a WindowsGL MonoGame release on end Machine
Can anyone tell me what is required of a PC to run a released MonoGame.
I mean what software the PC needs to have installed to run the games.
I have some problems running my released games on other ...
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Do I need to rewrite my HLSL shaders when porting from XNA to MonoGame?
I'm looking at porting an XNA project I have to monogame, but I have a fair number of HLSL shaders. It seems that Monogame for PC uses OpenGL as the rendering backend, and I'd rather not have to ...
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XNA PC vs Monogame Online Multiplayer [closed]
I've got a mostly working PC game in XNA 4, and am looking to make it networked. From the documentation it seems that I can use XNA Networking through GFWL to do LAN sessions, but not online sessions ...
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Strange rendering in XNA/Monogame
I am trying to render G-Code generated for a 3d-printer as the printed product by reading the file as line segments and the drawing cylinders with the diameter of the filament around the segment. I ...
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How to fix Monogame WP8 Touch Position bug?
Normally below code will result in X:Infinity, Y:Infinity
TouchCollection touchState = TouchPanel.GetState();
foreach (TouchLocation t in touchState)
{
if (t.State == TouchLocationState.Pressed)
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How to create / draw clickable object (such as Button in WinForm) in XNA WP8?
I am developing a 2D (No 3D in every aspect) Windows Phone 8 turn based tactical games for my college project. I use Monogame.
I want to draw an object similar to Button in windows form, that if the ...
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How can I render an .stl file in XNA or Monogame?
How should I go about rendering a .stl file as a 3d model in XNA? The .stl file contains a bunch of triangles that add up to a solid mesh. I have already figured out how to read the contained data. ...
