🔗 Useful MonoGame Related Links U-MG-RL

[MrValentine]

@kosmonautgames does it again

Quick Overview: How to work with MSAA (DirectX too!)

Hi guys, very quick rundown of how to make MSAA work for your 3d game. First of all - what is msaa? It’s multisample anti aliasing and it helps to combat the “jaggies” at the edges of 3d models. I won’t explain why oversampling is needed, but for reference: Make it work with the backbuffer (no rendertarget used) This is the default option and it works right from the get-go. (If you click on the images they will show up) [image] inside your game.cs (so the main class from which ev…

Saved here for its usefulness

[kosmonautgames]

useful 3d tutorials and resources

General resources for rendering, a lot of XNA tutorials (Samples included)

Tutorials

Good tutorials for deferred engines

XNA

All around super useful for beginners (Samples included)
http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/xna-tutorials
http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/monogame-3d-tutorials

Useful resources on Light Prepass (Samples included)

J.Coluna

One of the best rendering engineers around, covers almost all relevant 3d techniques. A lot of older/basic stuff is done in XNA wiht sources included

The Danger Zone

A lot of links to XNA engines, helpers, sources etc.

XDSK2 – XNA Developer’s Survival Kit 2

[MrValentine]

Supporting different screen sizes?

MonoGame.Extended has a nice solution for resolution independence. Check out this blog post by its maintainer @craftworkgames: http://www.dylanwilson.net/resolution-independence-in-monogame-with-viewport-adapters An alternative is to render your game to a render target with the desired resolution and draw that scaled the way you want to the game window.

http://www.dylanwilson.net/resolution-independence-in-monogame-with-viewport-adapters

GitHub - craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended: Extensions to make MonoGame more...

[MrValentine]

I was looking for this

@throbax 's list

UnterrainerInformatik/GameDevelopmentLinks

Deserves its own post here.

[MrValentine]

2D (Deferred) Lighting:
http://www.soolstyle.com/2010/02/15/2d-deferred-lightning/

Originally found here:

Light Shader 2d

Not quite sure what the layering part has to do with the shader. I found this tutorial extremely helpful when I implemented lighting into my 2d engine: When it comes to layers I simply render each layer into a separate render target, using three layers whereof each has unique lighting, for instance; a light in the landscape layer is only affecting objects rendered within the same layer a object within the layer in front of the landscape layer is not affected by the lighting in the landsc…

[MrValentine]

A useful recent post regarding Lerping

Lerp Smoothing

In case anyone’s interested I just wrote a quick tutorial on using extended Lerp functionality for smooth sprite and/or camera motion. It contains a C# class file compatible with MonoGame. Check it out here

Linear interpolation

lerp - Win32 apps

@willmotil showed me this very useful link http://www.codinglabs.net/default.aspx though I suspect all the code is C++…

[MrValentine]

Had these on my mobile, about to do a refresh of it so posting these here as they may be useful too!

MonoGame - Building multi-platform solutions | Dark Genesis

https://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?q=monogame&doctypeid=1%3B2%3B3%3B13%3B14&pgsz=50

I particularly like this one:

XNA Basics (Windows 10 and MonoGame)

Some may find this useful:

Invasion Game in MonoGame for Windows Phone 8

Ooooh Sorting Algorithms in C#.NET

Sorting Algorithms Codes in C#.NET

[MrValentine]

In case not already here:

MikeNET

GitHub - michael-pryor/MikeNet: A networking API

A .NET compatible Networking API

Just in case you miss it:

Demo Code
You can download a visual studio 2010 and 2012 solution containing a number of sample projects using MikeNet from here.

Download
I have made a precompiled version with an installer which can quickly be integrated into your projects. The package includes:
C++ 32 bit and 64 bit debug and release libraries and pdb files for visual studio 2010 and 2012
C++ 32 bit release library and pdb file for visual studio 2008
DarkBASIC Pro DLL
.NET/CLR 32 bit and 64 bit DLL
Normal 32 bit and 64 bit DLL
Documentation
Demo code
You can get it from here.

I wonder if this works in VS15CE? or VS17RC

[MrValentine]

Found this gem:

Shared Code Projects:

MonoGame: Building Portable Solutions | Dark Genesis

Found on that page:

SimonDarksideJ/DarkGenesisPresentations

On a related search:

MonoGame: Using libraries with Windows Phone projects | Dark Genesis

That related search:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=monogame+shared+code+project&FORM=AWRE

Boy, never click that button…

MonoGame - Building multi-platform solutions | Dark Genesis

It takes you here [I am talking about the MonoGame Tag on the individual posts lol]:

https://www.codeproject.com/search.aspx?sbo=kw&aidlst=2686

Related to that thread with the YouTube banner:

The Darkside of MonoGame

[MrValentine]

Useful for any newcomers to MonoGame and C#, more C# but then you need it for MG

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/01/13/new-year-new-devs-sharpen-c-skills/#6QHGb72eUpdsA6I8.97

[MrValentine]

I thought I linked to this already:

Deferred Engine Playground - download

Hi guys, GITHUB: https://github.com/UncleThomy/DeferredEngine I reworked my deferred engine playground basically from scratch. It started out as a real fast way to make some models appear on screen, but now it has a bit more structure. [image] What it is: It’s a scene setup which enables programmers to quickly try out new shaders in a deferred environment with a relatively easy way to import models with physically based materials` [image] This is the main draw function. As you can see i…

[MrValentine]

XNA Colour list, found on a post by @kosmonautgames here:

General Conversation Thread

Here is some reference. http://www.foszor.com/blog/xna-color-chart/ I just want to point out that a lot of modern beautiful colors, like magenta variations and yellows are missing in favor of 20 sand colors that look super similar. Haha. I think the color palette is fine actually, just the nomenclature If you want true green (0,255,0) you need to use Lime. DO NOT CONFUSE WITH LIMEGREEN!

http://www.foszor.com/blog/xna-color-chart/

[MrValentine]

Another fine contribution by @willmotil

Yet Another Camera Class. [YACC]

Well i forgot all about this, I wrote this after a post between me and kwyky about the createlookat function. I meant to post it and forgot about it. This is like a 3d space sim camera. i could of fixed the y axis or done it a bit more but i never got around to it still its good for what it is a simple camera. The idea was. You add a world space object to a class. You can then control it using the Input class. Send it to the view space camera transformer. You get back a combined worldviewpr…

[MrValentine]

http://retrocade.net/2017/01/25/post-processing-shaders-in-monogame/

Found here:

Guide to adding post-processing shaders to your game

I have written a short guide about adding post-processing shaders to MonoGame, it’s a simple guide covering the minimal amount of necessary knowledge that assumes you know a little bit about anything. I’ve gotten more RTs and Likes on twitter from this post so I thought “hey, maybe I’ll cross-post here because people might find it useful”. Here’s the post: http://retrocade.net/2017/01/25/post-processing-shaders-in-monogame/ On a side-note, I’ll certainly be writing more pieces on MonoGame in t…

[MrValentine]

A topic on Video Game Law:

Is it legal to copy gameplay and levels?

A few random links: http://www.newmediarights.org/guide/legal/Video_Games_law_Copyright_Trademark_Intellectual_Property http://lawofthegame.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/copyright-what-every-gamer-developer.html And a general search link: https://www.bing.com/search?q=game+copyright+law&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=14118496feb146499412dd411c47ddd9&pq=game+copyright+law I have an idea listed for my YouTube channel to cover this very topic… EDIT OH and my opinion… forgot to add, Tetris is a closely gu…

[MrValentine]

Adding this here:

MonoGame 3.5.1 VS 2015 CE Templates Fix

MonoGame 3.5.1 VS 2015 CE Templates Fix Originally posted to the first link below, I am just sharing this as a thread to make it easier for me or others to link to the required help information. Side note: I was not using any proof reading when I made those posts and have added them here as originally posted. To fix this all I did was open the template inside the templates folder with explorer; that is the zipped WindowsUniversal.zip file. Edited the WindowsUniversa…

[MrValentine]

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/projects/campaigns/windows-developer-day

Technical documentation, API and code examples

telerik/UI-For-UWP

[MrValentine]

Something useful for newcomers

General Conversation Thread

So, having only used Visual Studio a little and not extensively, while doing my third C# studies and more of a refresher than a study, I came across something I overlooked - though I had wondered of it - the Local Help Documentation… On the Menu bar, click Help > Add and Remove Help Content… Add whatever you need, say C# here… and then after clicking Update, close that window and click Help again and this time select Set Help Preference > Launch in Help Viewer… And viola, you can see all help…

[MrValentine]

Found this today… looks to be an in-progress work, small posts but covers the essentials, somewhat…

Beginning MonoGame
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/06/232974.aspx

GETTING THE STUFF

-Why MonoGame?
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/06/232975.aspx

-What do I need, and where do I get it?
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/06/232976.aspx

MONOGAME BASICS

-MonoGame project types explained.
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/06/232983.aspx

-What’s in the starting project?
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/07/233163.aspx

-The Game Loop
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/13/237027.aspx

-Getting an image onscreen NEW
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/16/242270.aspx

-Putting text onscreen NEW
http://www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams/archive/2017/02/22/243041.aspx

-Listening for (and responding to) input

-Moving your images around

Added two new posts from this blog