Official XNA is so cool thread
by Anton Bursch · in General Discussion · 08/30/2006 (8:18 pm) · 18 replies
Ok. I'll start.
hehehe... usb keyboard controls on the 360... rpg and rts quick-keys here we come!
Quote:If the user's keyboard is connected via USB, it can be used on a Windows system, or on an Xbox 360.
hehehe... usb keyboard controls on the 360... rpg and rts quick-keys here we come!
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#2
08/30/2006 (8:43 pm)
XNA is cool but Game Studio Express has too steep requirements for a casual game in my opinion.
#3
Yeah. No kidding. But that'll change soon. And you now get 360 for casual games, and that's a hell of a better market(less filled market). Reading the blogs, Microsoft is looking to XNA as a doorway to getting more casual games without handing out dev kits to everyone.
08/30/2006 (9:34 pm)
@MincetroYeah. No kidding. But that'll change soon. And you now get 360 for casual games, and that's a hell of a better market(less filled market). Reading the blogs, Microsoft is looking to XNA as a doorway to getting more casual games without handing out dev kits to everyone.
#4
08/30/2006 (11:43 pm)
Ok, looks like XNA Beta needs a way to get meshes into the game. I think I'm going to use the mdx x mesh loader to load and grab the mesh data. Then i can put it into a format that XNA can use. I'll post that work when I'm done. Unless the XNA team puts out their temp .x to .swm file converter first.
#5
08/31/2006 (12:10 am)
You could just do a simple .X loader that dumps it into that SimpleMesh class they have. The SWM is very simple.
#7
08/31/2006 (1:18 am)
I'm looking over the map file format too. I know GG went with polysoup, but I'm curious about what can be done with bsp. how retro of me. :P but first... heightmap. that's what I want to implement tonight. Not quite ready to jump to .x file loading until I here word that XNA team's file convertor is/isn't going to be available. Someone from the XNA threads is looking into that.
#11
08/31/2006 (2:57 pm)
This XNA thing sounds pretty sweet. Been trying out my luck with Game Studio Express but at first glance i was in a bit over my head and it wasn't as simple as i expected (but hey, maybe i expected waaaaay too much). Like Anton said : Westy, share the wealth man ! Give us a link or smth. Cheers.
#12
09/02/2006 (3:05 am)
Follow Westy's link to get a .x converter to use meshes with XNA.
#13
http://xnateam.members.winisp.net/Videos/gamecomponentsdemo.wmv
09/02/2006 (3:54 am)
Here's a great video by the XNA Team about using components. You will like. I promise. :)http://xnateam.members.winisp.net/Videos/gamecomponentsdemo.wmv
#15
It might be cool to post it here: http://www.xnaspot.com/
They seem to have started a pretty cool XNA resource website with tutorials and samples.
09/02/2006 (4:23 am)
Thanks for the .x file converter! :)It might be cool to post it here: http://www.xnaspot.com/
They seem to have started a pretty cool XNA resource website with tutorials and samples.
#16
thanks for that link. It's a pretty cool site.
My mobo fried again so i can't do diddly till i get off my laptop and back on my pc. So at least I can do some reading.
Someone should start a xna sites thread
09/02/2006 (8:29 am)
Anton,thanks for that link. It's a pretty cool site.
My mobo fried again so i can't do diddly till i get off my laptop and back on my pc. So at least I can do some reading.
Someone should start a xna sites thread
#18
Even though XNA is not a GG product, I really think they should make an XNA category so all of us GG'ers can learn together. In the spirit of comunity ofcourse.
learnxna.com/default.aspx
09/02/2006 (1:46 pm)
Well, I'll post this here but I'm going to start a new thread if I don't find one on xna tutorials.Even though XNA is not a GG product, I really think they should make an XNA category so all of us GG'ers can learn together. In the spirit of comunity ofcourse.
learnxna.com/default.aspx
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XNA is so cool because i've already got the GGLogo rendered in a mini game.