🔗 Useful MonoGame Related Links U-MG-RL

[MrValentine]

I chanced upon this post by Tom today, I think it is time I read every post he has made sometime soon…

Welcome to the MonoGame Community!

Welcome to the official site for the MonoGame open source game framework. You’ll find topics on features, bugs, development, and general support here. Before You Post Take a look at MonoGame site for an overview of the framework. Check our documentation page. If you are reporting a bug then post an issue on GitHub. Read our FAQ and always be polite to others. Please search before creating a new topic as we may have covered it. Additional Support Here are some additional partner technologies…

There are some useful links in that post… at the bottom…

Is OUYA still a supported platform? is it even a thing now?

[throbax]

As far as I know OUYA support has been removed… Read it in a PR somewhere…

[MrValentine]

I thought so, thanks.

[Tom]

I fixed this. Just an old category post.

[MrValentine]

Found these while helping with a recent request for controller input handling, thread post linked below… the last link in the list actually links to someone’s YouTube videos… worth a visit perhaps…

Search term used: xna analogue stick input

xna analogue stick input - Bing

XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh

XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh

http://xboxforums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/58712.aspx

MonoGame Tutorial: Handling Keyboard, Mouse and GamePad Input –...

[SOLVED] Gamepad thumbsticks dont have smooth 360 movement

Hmm while looking for some web links I found some interesting links that I will repost into the U-MG-RL thread too… Search term used: xna analogue stick input https://www.bing.com/search?q=xna+analogue+stick+input&form=EDGENT&qs=PF&cvid=bb634b83951d4c08bccf00d1428d5083&pq=xna+analogue+stick+input&cc=GB&setlang=en-GB https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb203896(v=xnagamestudio.31).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.xna.framework.input.gamepad.getstate.aspx http://xb…

His channel: he also has some Blender tutorials which may be handy…

Gamefromscratch

His MonoGame playlist…

[MrValentine]

I was looking for this

I wrote a Getting Started Guide!

I created a collection of html articles to help new developers get started with Monogame. The guide matches the look of the monogame website, so it ‘fits’ into the established Monogame brand. [image] The guide is built around 3.5 and will be updated when 3.6 releases. It covers a wide range of topics, including properly using the pipeline tool. It also covers basics like adding, drawing, and modifying textures, fonts, and sounds. In addition, it includes an example game with full source code…

[MrValentine]

Two in one day!

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio

Get Started Tutorial: A UWP game in MonoGame 2D

Create a UWP game in MonoGame 2D - UWP applications

[MrValentine]

A link to Visual Studio 2015 CE

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48146

Until the 3.6.1 patch is out to support Visual Studio 2017, I guess this is relevant…

> MICROSOFT HAS REMOVED ACCESS TO THIS DOWNLOAD AND YOU NEED A SUBSCRIPTION TO DOWNLOAD PREVIOUS VERSIONS NOW

[MrValentine]

A very useful and self explanatory URL

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html

Be sure to fish about there for more…

[MrValentine]

Finally MonoGame made one of these types of lists! …erh have I said this already?

5 Best Video Game Development Tools for Indie Game Devs - DZone Mobile

Another getting started guide on the same site as above

Getting Started with MonoGame Using Visual Studio - DZone Mobile

[MrValentine]

Part I – Creating a Digital Hexagonal Tile Map

Hexagonal Maps – Part I: Creating a Digital Hexagonal Tile Map

Part II – Using the Mouse to Scroll A Hexagonal Tile Map

Hexagonal Maps – Part II: Using the Mouse to Scroll A Hexagonal Tile Map

Original source links

Hexagonal Maps – Part I: Creating a Digital Hexagonal Tile Map

Hexagonal Maps – Part II: Using the Mouse to Scroll A Hexagonal Tile Map

[MrValentine]

Getting Started with MonoGame using XML

Getting started with MonoGame using XML | Dark Genesis

[Alkher]

Is this also valid for json files?

[BlizzCrafter]

Yes, I’m using json files in custom content importers. You can also use the nuget of Json.Net.

[MrValentine]

http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/tutorial/collision_2d_perpixel

How to use BoundingBox?

http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/collision_3d_heightmap

Found here:

Collision detection 3d and 2d

For 2D I would use a second texture solid colour for representing areas character cannot traverse and transparent for areas player can move, then use per pixel collision to determine if any of the none transparent pixels of the player texture overlap a none transparent pixel of the second texture signifying they hit bounds. For 3D Id probably use bounding boxes to line the edges of the path then check for intersection with the players bounding box to determine if they hit the bounds. http://xb…

[MrValentine]

Windows 10 DPI Aware related

[SOLVED] Display resolution on Windows 10

I have just started Monogame development, though I have years of experience in XNA , and so far so good. I have a couple of issues, the main one is that when you run in windowed mode on Windows 10, the window displayed is scaled by the desktop scale setting. I use a 4K monitor for coding and have to scale the desktop by 1.75 to be able to read anything. This scaling means I cannot drag the window to my second monitor for debugging because the post scaling resolution is greater than the resolu…

[SimonDarksideJ]

As requested @MrValentine , here’s my current collection so far (each are syndicated and have accompanying Annotated Videos and blog posts, just to cover all the bases:

• Darkside of MonoGame YT Channel
• Introduction to the Darkside of MonoGame YouTube channel
• MonoGame Content Project Tool walkthrough
• Monogame - Building multi-platform solutions
• Getting the most out of your assets–The MonoGame Content Pipeline
• Building apps & games for Xbox One using UWP - Build once and target many - FutureDecoded2016
• MonoGame - Engines, Frameworks & More
• Getting Started with MonoGame on Visual Studio 2015
• Getting Started with MonoGame on Visual Studio 2017
• Getting Started with MonoGame using 2D
• Getting Started with MonoGame using XML

Will try and keep this entry updated as more are added, I was aiming for 1 a month but it’s looking like every other month atm. Takes a lot of time to produce content to this level.

Feedback and comments welcome

[SimonDarksideJ]

Another thing work highlighting is the XNAGameStudio Archive on GitHub
https://github.com/DDReaper/XNAGameStudio

Started once the news about the Education library shutdown was announced and all the original XNA content is held here. Slowly but surely, these are all getting converted to MonoGame with an accompanying tutorial on the Darkside of MonoGame YT channel

Also started adding article archives as well now, starting with Shawn Hargreaves XML posts and plans to also grab all of ZiggyWare’s articles before they die on the webcache

[MrValentine]

MonoGame Visual Studio Templates
https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/tree/develop/ProjectTemplates

[MrValentine]

WOW been a while since I have been here, unable to edit my past posts [Or forgot how to?]

CONNECTED THREAD POST:

Useful MonoGame Related Links U-MG-RL

Part I – Creating a Digital Hexagonal Tile Map Part II – Using the Mouse to Scroll A Hexagonal Tile Map Original source links

Hexagonal Maps – Part III: Selecting A Tile\Hexagon [Technical Blog]

Hexagonal Maps – Part III: Selecting A Tile\Hexagon

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1193785/Hexagonal-Maps-Part-III-Selecting-A-Tile-Hexagon

Hexagonal Maps – Part IV: Highlighting a Selected A Tile\Hexagon [Technical Blog]

Hexagonal Maps – Part III: Selecting A Tile\Hexagon

Hexagonal Maps – Part IV: Highlighting a Selected A Tile\Hexagon

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Hexagonal Maps – Part IV: Highlighting a Selected A Tile\Hexagon

I have published a new article on my own blog-site that describes the highlighting of selected hexagonal tiles within a map-board comprised of hexagons. This is follow up article to my previous publication, Hexagonal Maps - Part III: Selecting A Tile\Hexagon. This new article also demonstrates how to make hexagonal tiles using Corel’s PaintShop image design tool. The source-code for the entire project is freely available for download at the end of the piece. You can read my new article at th…