PipelineManager - how to use?

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So, what I’m trying to achieve is for now to have a program that builds a .png file into a .xnb at launch so I can later on have a nice modding system for my game without the modder having to use the pipeline GUI tool. Two problems so far: I have no clue what the complete initialization and build process for the PipelineManager should be, and my last attempt ended up throwing a nullreferenceexception at the Content.RootDirectory = “Content”; line in the Game1() constructor. I’ve included the NuGet pipeline reference btw.
Any ideas?

+: Right now, I have a dummy folder in my desktop with a “tree.png” file in it. My goals is to have the program build it to an xnb in the same folder for now.

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Look at the contentpipeline’s MGCB file to see how it sends commands to build assets.

And have a look at:

:wink:

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OR… you can load your PNG files directly without converting it to XNB using Texture2D.FromStream

                     using ( var mStream = XF.TitleContainer.OpenStream( pTextureFilePath ) )
                    {
                        __Texture2D = XFG.Texture2D.FromStream(  pGraphics,  mStream  );
                        mStream.Close();
                    }
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@Dexter_Z_Gamer

Don’t forget that he needs to dispose this texture manually later, because of the garbage (ContentManager handles this automatically).

@Antoine_Chartier

What I do in my current editor project (Rogue Engine Editor) is to dynamically create a content response file and then just building the content with the MonoGame Content Builder. For that I call a custom .bat file which is looking like this:

@echo off

MGCB.exe /@:Content.txt >CON 2>errorLog.txt

echo.

@pause

Content.txt is the content response file and the errorLog.txt shows if errors occured.

Please take a look at the official documentation regarding this topic here:
http://www.monogame.net/documentation/?page=MGCB

It will help you to understand how to use the MonoGame Content Builder.

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Yes sir he should ^_^y if he chooses to load any resources that don’t rely on content pipeline tools
as I choose this path and have my own texture and Mesh loader(Obj, MilkShape, Delgine ) that don’t rely on content pipeline/Assimp… from there I can implement CRUD operation anywhere anytime ^ _ ^ y.

MG Asset CRUD OPERATION