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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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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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Rendering a 2D Sprite in 3D space

I am currently working on a game in XNA 4.0 where I want to implement 2.75D, like in Paper Mario. I feel like it has something to do with z-buffering a Texture2D and drawing that, but I really have no ...
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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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How do you split indices and vertices if their quantity goes over the limit?

I try to draw a flat surface of 500x500 squares which are built out of four vertices by two triangles. There are 1,000,000 vertices and 1,500,000 indices. The Reach profile of xna, limits primitives ...
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3d world vertex translation to go to 2d screen coords

My technical english is a little rusty so to avoid misunderstands please be patient with me :) I will try to be brief and clear Situation: - I have a 2d sprite character on the screen - I've just ...