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Sweet new XNA features coming...

by Brian · in Torque X 2D · 04/05/2009 (10:27 pm) · 3 replies

Hey all,
Just realized on the creators website they released information about the new XNA 3.1 features:
Quote:Additionally, Creators will be happy to hear about our improvements to the XNA Game Studio development tools, available to professional and hobbyist developers this spring, which will allow developers at any level to take advantage of new partner additions and Xbox LIVE features. Community Games developers will be able to include customized Avatars, which have quickly become one of the most popular features on Xbox LIVE. We'll have many more details about XNA Game Studio 3.1 soon!

The XNA Game Studio update, which will also include improvements like video playback and new audio APIs, means that Community Games featuring Avatars start appearing on Xbox LIVE as early as this fall!
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Freaking video playback?!? Sweet!

Brian
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Torque 3D Owner Ghostly Studios
#1
04/20/2009 (9:32 pm)
Sweet... The idea of including custom avatars is something pretty cool as well.

Torque Owner Brian
#2
04/21/2009 (2:40 pm)
Yeah. I'm wondering if avatars are going to work okay with TX3D though since outside of DTS format it is limited in functionality... from what I hear anyway. (Ducks for cover just in case he's wrong)

Brian

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
04/22/2009 (10:21 am)
Video playback is one of those much-needed features that people have been banging their heads against in XNA for a long time. Good to see it make a showing.