2009
02-22

How To: Play a Song

Demonstrates how to play a song from a user's media libary.The Complete SampleThe code in this tutorial illustrates the technique described in the text. A complete code sample for this tutorial is ava.... Read More >

2009
02-22

How To: Play a Sound

Demonstrates how to play a sound.To play a sound without using XACT, you will use the SoundEffect or SoundEffectInstance classes. Using these classes is simpler than using XACT and the classes require.... Read More >

2009
02-22

Attenuation and Doppler Pitch Shifting Overview

Provides an overview of attenuation and Doppler pitch shifting.AttenuationIn 3D audio, attenuation refers to volume attenuation—the effect of having v.... Read More >

2009
02-22

Audio Overview

The XNA Framework provides audio playback through the Microsoft Cross-Platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT), and a simple API set for audio playback tha.... Read More >

2009
02-21

vista下XNA无法安装，vs 2008 自动消失

vista下， XNA无法安装，XACT无法启动，还有一些程序莫名关闭， vs 2008 自动消失。下面是csdn的一个方法《《你用的是D版的XP,而且附带激活补丁的. 好,解决方案如下: 修改注册表: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Nls\Language InsttallLanguage="xxx.... Read More >

2009
02-19

XACT unknown error code

All XACT methods return an HRESULT which are either standard COM error codes or XACT specific error codes defined in the header XACT.h. In this case the error code is XACTENGINE_E_NOWAVEBANK which is .... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – 3d textures from Blender

A quick note, if you are exporting an object with uv images, you need to add the images to a subfolder of your Content folder called fbx (under the folder you are putting your fbx files) This is where.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – Begining 3D – Part 1

I have been wanting to get some posts on here about 3D. But since it is a much more complex subject than 2D, I have been holding off as I am still get.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – Game Components

Ok, I know I said the next article would be about steering, but the next article for that topic is not ready yet, so I thought I would talk about a pretty cool class in XNA called GameComponent and it.... Read More >

2009
02-17

XNA Series – AI – Better Steering – Part 1

I have been reading Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters by Craig Reynolds and after several reads I have decided to try to implement it in my own code and I think I am ready to explain it to .... Read More >