Microsoft Game Technologies

• Microsoft Game Technologies Questions

• • Effect.FromFile IndexOutOfRange exception

    Hi all,I am trying to load a shader using this code:private Effect LoadShader(string filename, List&...

    By netie

  • Effect 'Functions'

    How do I declare a function in an effect file such that I can use ID3DXBaseEffect::GetFunctionByName...

    By adrianstephens

  • MDX Multisampling - Device disposing is really slo...

    I am writing a space sim game (who isn't?) in C# that I based originally on the Coding for Fun Battl...

    By petenelson

  • Samurai Colossus

    We have been using XACT for our game that is in developement. We're hoping to shoot for the 360 live...

    By renderjunky

  • Alpha Texture to Mesh problem?

    Hi all,Red circle is my problem with below link . Why some alpha can not display?http://bc9389.award...

    By brian_tsim

• • Why does the entire system explode if you don't cr...

    Hey all,Just spent a couple of hours debugging something that I find very odd. I've encapsulated all...

    By grozzler, 2 Comments

  • Instancing VS. geometry shader VS. using pre-gener...

    Say I have a blade of grass consisting of 7 vertices and 5 triangles ( double sided using no culling...

    By scottbean, 3 Comments

  • debug drawing

    hrmm how are people handling not being able to draw lines? Previously i've extensively used line dra...

    By supagu, 3 Comments

  • GSE download numbers?

    Can any download numbers be given out on XNA Game Studio Express? I am wondering on how big the comm...

    By aka_big_wurm, 6 Comments

  • MDX1.1, MDX2.0, XNA confusion

    I wrote several examples now as some mini prototypes of things I want to use in a visualization. I w...

    By john_doe, 1 Comments

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• how to debug shaders?
• hi all i tried everything given in directx documentation to debug shaders But visual studio is not showing the break point hit. morever it is saying" This type of code (DirectX code) is unable to debug please reinstall ur debugger". iam using visual studio 2005 with sp1 and directX ...
• yln, Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:06:00 GMT, 539 bytes, 1 Answer
• Creating Plane From A Model?
• hi, im trying to create a plane from a model (the Game's level) in order to check it against the camera's bounding sphere, does anyone know of a good tutorial, or a good way of doing that?any help would be greatly appreciated. ...
• dfert, Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:02:00 GMT, 250 bytes, 3 Answer
• EffectPool with content pipeline
• I make a lot of use of the EffectPool class to share parameters between shaders. Using the content pipeline, how can I still do this?There is only a getter on the compiled Effect's EffectPool as far as I can tell. Could/Should there be a:Effect fx = ...
• eviltrev, Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:51:00 GMT, 434 bytes, 3 Answer
• Efficient rendering
• Hi,I am on the path to learning how to achieve efficient rendering. Currently I am rendering my own sprite by rendering a texture on a quad. So this sprite uses an Effect, a vertex buffer, an index buffer, and a texture. What would be the best way to render these sprites? Do we sort/batch them ...
• knight99, Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:44:00 GMT, 928 bytes, 1 Answer
• MechCommander2: Multi-Player?
• This probably isn't the right place, but I've been trying to figure out how to enable multi-player play for MechCommander2. I'm thinking it has to do with the lack of a cd-key, but I'm not certain. Where should I look? ...
• tbrinkman, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 23:54:00 GMT, 228 bytes, 2 Answer
• Mech commander 2 question
• i built the MC2 project and decided to play it all the way through. i bought the game in ages past and love it, so i wanted to play it again before i dive into the source code.there seems to be an issue with the mission 17 .abl file. it crashes with an error about fadetocolor at line 755 having ...
• jessemotes, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 22:52:00 GMT, 615 bytes, 8 Answer
• Project Error
• Whenever i try and open the SpaceWar for windows file i keep getting this error, im new here, so i hope i put this in the right section:Could not load type 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.ContentSerializerCollectionItemNameAttribute' from assembly 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework, Version=1.0.0.0, ...
• elitesniper177, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 20:26:00 GMT, 418 bytes, 7 Answer
• What's fails?:(
• hello!I'm programming a game in dx9/C# and there's a bug that I can't understand. It happens 50% of the time and it's something to do with the textures: sometimes on the DXFonts and on the TransformedColoredTextured I get small dots/points/pixels. Here are two screenshots. Any ...
• xavyiy, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 19:09:00 GMT, 787 bytes, 1 Answer
• MechCommander 2 Fix Guide
• For anyone who is interested in the MechCommander 2 stuff I just wanted to let you know I've posted a guide with all the bugs we've found in our Shared Source Release and how to fix them. You can find the guide at: http://blogs.msdn.com/mklucher/articles/629796.aspx If you have any comments ...
• michaelklucher_msft, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 18:27:00 GMT, 456 bytes, 6 Answer
• Effects Manager
• In reading the documentation it seems that you cannot have a (working)camera without passing through an effects. Would it then be better to create an effects manager class to handle exposing an effect update method accepting a camera argument, or better to just load up an effects cache and have ...
• stevehoff, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:00 GMT, 365 bytes, 1 Answer
• Catch the Maximize
• So, in our game the user can resize the window proportionally, since we catch the WM_SIZING event... works fine, and DirectX scales nicely (D3D9).But when the user clicks the maximize gadget, then after maximizing, the window resizing is then disabled by windows? Is there a way to catch the ...
• sodan2, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 15:15:00 GMT, 521 bytes, 3 Answer
• Buttons and ...
• Is it possible to use Buttons and other UI elements with XNA? Can you combine XNA and Windows Forms? Thx And a Happy New Year ...
• gms0012, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 12:38:00 GMT, 250 bytes, 3 Answer
• Catching Auto-CD launch window message in a game
• Hi, Does anyoneknow of a way to catch if a CD-Auto Launch is kicked off and not allowthat window to become the foreground window. In my game I would like to keep myWindows app as the foreground window. I'm only looking to do this in the case of aCD-Auto Launch happening.Thanks in ...
• glavian, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 10:45:00 GMT, 372 bytes, 4 Answer
• Catching/reporting effect file errors at build time
• Hi,Is there any way to set things up in Visual Studio so that fx files get compiled at project build time, and errors get shown in the Output window?It looks like currently there is no compilation of effects at build time, but at run time when the effect gets compiled from file, the ...
• manders, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT, 708 bytes, 3 Answer
• Creating several Mesh-Objects from only one file.
• Hello,my problem is: I have one X-File width many objects in there. I want to load them into different Mesh-Objects in C#. At the moment I divide my X-File into several files by browsing the X-File with String-Operations and then loading these files with Mesh.FromFile(...).This way is very ...
• xaitech, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 08:39:00 GMT, 835 bytes
• This Question lose title information......
• Will XNA include a GUI? It seems that a skinable GUI is a very common element to game production. I'm not talking about game specific elements, but buttons, lists, edit controls, tree views and the like, though a basic element to allow us to render a texture to would be good too.I should ...
• blitzwing, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 08:30:00 GMT, 504 bytes, 1 Answer
• mdx2 AnimationRootFrame
• using managed directx 2wheres Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.AnimationRootFrame gone ?it was in mdx1.x ...
• stilldesign, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 04:18:00 GMT, 114 bytes, 1 Answer
• EDITING TOOL FOR COMPILED SOURCE
• Hello Everyone:I'm just new in game development . I'm just wondering, is there a tool that I can download (free or buy it)to unpack a compiled source (e.g. .dll) and just add and delete codes inside the dll? I tried Hex workshoband flexeditor but it won't let me do it. You know, instead of ...
• noovish, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 04:10:00 GMT, 515 bytes, 3 Answer
• No components in toolbox in beta 2
• Searching previous threads I can't find an answer that werks.I have no components in mah toolbox.when I try to insert...I get the error message saying that installed sdk assemblies could not be shownbecause I am missing one or more components: The Microsoft.DirectX.dll.I have directX 9c ...
• rogerklado, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 02:50:00 GMT, 477 bytes, 3 Answer
• I have a compiling error C2039
• I am working on a school project and I am getting a compiling error C2039: 'SWAPEFFECT_COPY_VSYNC' : is not a member of '_D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS_' Does anyone know what this is and how to correct this? I am getting the code from: http://www.andypike.com/tutorials/DirectX8/001.asp If anyone ...
• tom6wenhardt6, Thurs, 18 Mar 2010 01:54:00 GMT, 540 bytes, 2 Answer
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