🔗 Useful MonoGame Related Links U-MG-RL

[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

Be sure to follow the Forum user here:

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…

[Alkher]

Hey ! Welcome back

After some time (how much ?) they get internally flagged as “archived” and no edit is possible. I noticed this too.

[MrValentine]

Roughly 2 months yeah…

Hi @Alkher Thank you, Hope all is well with you, my life is improving now and currently in the middle of redecorating but starting to read up on MonoGame again [at this time still roughly 150 new posts to conquer, read 60~ earlier today, thinking to do 10 a day for the coming weeks… I do read every thread now, since early this year actually…]

Aiming to complete my web development studies and then get back into MonoGame and thinking…:

… Well I started playing SpeedRunners recently for about three months now and I like something they have on their home page/screen in-game… the various news feeds and the live Twitch.TV feeds list [they open your browser to the streamers page]

I am thinking to create a simple web app service which other MonoGame [New and Experienced] developers can implement into their projects and if I can get the help, get it on NUGet as well, it will be free from me, however I do have plans to create more advanced services as well, such as online synchronisation data storage - say game saves for instance - and such… probably won’t even charge a lot for those either, maybe ~£10/~$10 per licence per game project just to generate some income… something I am at a dead stop with at the moment… yay life

Thinking about it, I could look into game level synchronisation services too, you know like DLC files such as the community workshop content in SpeedRunners… [I don’t know, won’t my service need to use the xnb thing to shift data etc.?.. need to look at the pipeline stuff again, hey an online service to process xnb’s and distribute them?] my aim with the idea is to create services which end developers can add to enhance their projects, without having to reinvent the wheel and then they can host the services themselves however they like [Well it will all be built on .NET 4.5+ so anywhere they can host the full package will run them]

The possibilities are endless and I wish to stray away from becoming a central hub service as that never does well for the gamers in the long run… Like all a developer needs to do it make the game not dependent on the service [optional services] and their games continue to work and function regardless of the services… or if they discontinue support for a game etc. then the gamers still have something worth playing… same goes for online network play, I plan to create a library that is P2P driven and server driven… still need to research that aspect…

Hmm, sounds like an open platform steamworks lol

Stay Tuned

EDIT

HMM… I wonder if any beginners ever find this thread?

[MrValentine]

Cyclone Game Engine Development

Cyclone Game Engine Development

Some useful tidbits and more

[willmotil]

I might as well put in a link to some of my own stuff for reference here.

So this is mostly concept demos, examples, random tests and stuff i have linked to before.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1zD887frY04flRBaXhUU21zZnZHRUtKQzFKZGpmVXhuc1lxdS1VZDBRZzg2WmQ0bGlHUm8

Anyways i made my own little rough draft example of a collision grid. It’s not that great but it is a rough draft.

http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad207/xlightwavex/programing%20and%20concepts/GridCollisionDraft01_zpsh6psjkkm.gif

[MrValentine]

Found this gem:

XNA Game Studio
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh127556.aspx

[MrValentine]

A handy link for users developing for UWP wishing to utilise the simulator and having issues getting it to work:

Side Note: Intel SGX is a form of Trusted Execution so disable it if you have that instead. disabling this allowed me to run the simulator.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt228282.aspx#NoStart

The simulator is handy for many reasons, including creating Store screengrabs and playing with Location and rotation functionality and more…

EDIT

Side Note 2: A little confusing but to close the simulator properly, you have to sign out of it… this makes me feel weird, but I just hit ALT+F4 and click OK to sign out and it closes properly ready for another smooth redeployment later on, otherwise it just gets all buggy…

EDIT

Started getting BSODs omg not seen those for like almost a decade and will probably just I don’t know… keep the Simulator for a rainy day I guess… as it crashes my system… badly… very disappointing really… used to work so well before…

EDIT

RE-ENABLED VT-d, will need to disable it to run the simulator… SGX is disabled as I nor you will probably never use it…

EDIT

I should probably point out that the Simulator and Mobile Emulators are entirely different things, the Simulator uses your actual system whereas the Emulator is a Virtual Machine, so the Mobile Emulator works regardless of the features above… So logically thinking: the features that need to be disabled; these features isolate your system from a virtualised one, thus the Simulator will not function at all as it cannot access the host system.

[MrValentine]

Texture Data, useful for all:

Texture compression question

DXT1 is for textures with no alpha channel. DXT5 allows alpha values. The difference between Reach and HiDef graphics profiles is that Reach requires the textures to be a power of two (POT) in width and height, but not necessarily square. The texture compression selected by the content build pipeline is Desktop (Windows DirectX, DesktopGL): DXT1 for fully opaque textures, DXT5 for textures with alpha, specialized DXT3 for SpriteFont textures. iOS: PVR, with fallback to 16-bit (Bgr565 or Bgr…

[MrValentine]

Would this be useful for those developing for XBOX?

Developer code samples

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/site/search?f[0].Type=ProgrammingLanguage&f[0].Value=C%23&f[0].Text=C%23&f[1].Type=Platform&f[1].Value=Xbox&f[1].Text=Xbox

[MrValentine]

Setting up Visual Studio [2017] properly:

[Solved] Visual Studio 2017 and project creation issues

Maybe this gonna help someone. To fix this issue, you should install and set Windows SDK while creation as: [image]