Gah @craftworkgames now I don’t know which post to reply to, so I’ll do this one.
Awesome if you got the entire of the MonoGame branch running in a PCL, didn’t have time to fully test that out.
Now comes the rub, as a PCL can only reference another PCL you would need a PCL version of MonoGame with those class/struct definitions in it.
However the current direction of MG seems to be heading along the path of using platform specific libraries. Yes it looks increasingly that MG will be broken up in to several different namespace DLL’s (unclear how many yet, probably not as much as XNA) but they will stay class libraries.
However as you know from my Portable repo and my other work with MG that I am passionate about PCL’s and continue to fight to keep it a platform option. Talk with the core team progresses and they see the merit in it but there are bigger fish to fry.
As MG breaks up I will still continue to maintain a PCL varient of MG until such time as it can be effectively adopted into the mainstream and a 1st class citizen.
Keep an eye on the GitHub sight, big discussions are coming on this soon.
Tonight I put a working version of Farseer Physics as a PCL on github here:
It’s compiled against the MonoGame Portable NuGet package that @SimonDarksideJ created and in theory should work in any MonoGame project that can reference a PCL (most platforms) without the need recompile the source code.
Based on the way the “bait and switch” method works, I think it will work on project’s that reference the official version of MonoGame. If this is true, we now have a really easy method of adding physics to MonoGame projects
Could I please get a few people to try it out on different platforms and see how it goes.
According to this blog post, that error could be caused because the file was downloaded in a zip file and Window’s is blocking it.
Apparently, if you right-click the file in Windows Explorer and go to Properties you should see an “Unblock” button. Try clicking that and see if the issue goes away.
If you got queries about the portable version @fox9 its better to log it on my MonoGame fork rather than on here, as its not officially part of the main MonoGame project (yet)
@semihmasat
Will your Farseer .dll work with the original MonoGame or just with SimonDarksideJ’s portable version of MonoGame?
I’m not sure if I should use the original or the portable version of MonoGame.
@semihmasat
Which version of Visual Studio are you using in your tutorial? I tried to add Farseer Physics Engine to my solution, but some of the Farseer projects are not getting loaded. Which version of Visual Studio should I use to add Farseer correctly to my solution? I use VS 2013.
@semihmasat
The last video in your tutorial doesn’t show how to install “MonoGame.Binaries” to a WPCL project via Nuget.
I tried it like this:
I run the following command in the Package Manager Console: PM> Install-Package MonoGame-Portable
Is that how I should install “MonoGame.Binaries” to my WPCL project via Nuget?
After that, I build the Farseer .dll and referenced it to a MonoGame Windows Phone 8 project. But I always get many Vector2 error messages. They look all similar to this error message:
Body Ball.LinearVelocity = new Vector2(0, 2.0f);
Cannot implicitly convert type ‘Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Vector2 [c:.…\GameName1\GameName1\bin\WindowsPhone\x86\Debug\MonoGame.Framework.dll]’ to ‘Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Vector2’ C:.…\GameName1\GameName1\Game1.cs
@Fox9 You don’t need to ( and maybe shouldn’t i don’t know that ) use Monogame.Portable.
I fixed the video from blog.
But error looks like your code is may be wrong. Can you send the full code ? If you .zip your entire solution and upload that to somewhere it would be great and easy for me to test the code.
Thanx. It works now. But I can’t use the Farseer DebugView. I get the following error message:
using FarseerPhysics.DebugView;
The type or namespace name ‘DebugView’ does not exist in the namespace ‘FarseerPhysics’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)
Is the Farseer DebugView not in the created .dll? How can I use the Farseer DebugView in my MonoGame Windows Phone 8 project?
