Error    1    Error loading pipeline assembly "C:\Documents and Settings\Riclusiarch Mikelus\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Proelium\Proelium\RolePlayingGameProcessors\bin\Xbox 360\Debug\RolePlayingGameProcessors.dll".   

RolePlayingGameData is a project that contains all the data classes of the game. These classes are referred in RolePlayingGame, the main project, which contains the engine / the game. For some purposes (but mainly the read/write of XNB/XML files) all the Writers (and Readers could have been placed here too) have been put in a separate project (RolePlayingGameProcessors).

Then, it's up to you but if you want to add functionnality such as multiplayer game, you may have to change things in RolePlayingGame (maybe by adding new screens to manage the inputs, the multiplayer rules and so on) and in RolePlayingGameData to add core data classes (a class to symbolize your multiplayer character for example).

Hopes it helped !

http://forums.xna.com/forums/t/16586.aspx

Perhaps that thread should be moved to this subforum?

RealmRPGer:

I've created a little program that allows you to export RPG Maker XP maps to Role-Playing Game maps:

http://forums.xna.com/forums/t/16586.aspx

That is really cool!  Nice work!

edit: I figured out it has to do with XNA's fixed timing functions. *sigh* Not much that can be done about it, unfortunately..

 If I am reading the below block right, this is declaring a match function in the call to RemoveAll? If that is the case, what's the performance compared to using a compliant pre-defined function in place of it.

Being an ASCII format file, it's easy enough to encrypt and patch in a writer to create the xml stream from the decrypted form. There are loads of documents out there, theory, practice, and practical examples, that explain how to impliment everything from simple encryption to complex encryption. All you really need is some algirthm to convert characters/words into an obsqure form and the string builder, to throw off users just change the file extension so they don't know it's natively an xml file.

I am brand new to GS, using 2.0 and 3.0 beta, with the Express Visual Studio editions. I downloaded the RPG Starter Kit a few days ago, created the solution from the template, and it builds and runs fine in VS2005 (and its an excellent tool; I'm learning a lot from it). I then opened the same solution in VS2008. The VS2005/GS2.0->VS2008/GS3.0 converter ran, and reported no problems - but the converted solution will not build. It fails at this point:

Building Gear\Armor\BronzeArmor.xml -> C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\MyRolePlayingGameWin\MyRolePlayingGameWin\RolePlayingGameWindows\bin\x86\Debug\Content\Gear\Armor\BronzeArmor.xnb

Content\Gear\Armor\BronzeArmor.xml(4,8): error : XML element "AssetName" not found.

Done building project "Content.contentproj" -- FAILED.

I can't work out why. I see that the Armor class inherits the property AssetName from ContentObject, but I also see that that property has the attribute [ContentSerializerIgnore]. Why is the C#2008 compiler complaining that there is no <AssetName></AssetName> in the .xml file?

Any explanation would be gratefully received.

Update #1, 28 Sept: I have experimented with some very simple solutions with the same structural characteristics as Armor/AssetName. It appears to me that the problem lies with the VS2005/GS2.0->VS2008/GS3.0 converter. I can create something in VS2005/GS2.0 that behaves as I expect. I can create the same thing from scratch in VS2008/GS3.0 beta that behaves the same way. However, when I convert the VS2005/GS2.0 solution to VS2008/GS3.0 beta, I get the same error as in the RPG Toolkit example: the compiler complains it cannot find the tag in the XML even though the property is marked as [ContentSerializerIgnore].

Update #2, 28 Sept: I have discovered that the (beta) converter replaces XNA 2.0 references with 3.0 beta references, except the reference to Microsoft.Xna.Framework in the RolePlayingGameDataWindows project. If I replace that reference manually, the converted solution will build. I do not understand why the converter overlooks that XNA 2.0 reference.

Error loading "Fonts\DescriptionFont". File contains Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Texture2D but trying to load as Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.SpriteFont.

Hope that helps!

Default Ex:

I've finally gotten around to checking out this sample and I'm wondering about a piece of code in the Data project, something I've never seen before in my experience with C#.

 If I am reading the below block right, this is declaring a match function in the call to RemoveAll? If that is the case, what's the performance compared to using a compliant pre-defined function in place of it.

entries.RemoveAll(delegate(StatisticsValueStackEntry entry)

{

return (entry.RemainingDuration == 1);

});

It's the same performance as a predefined function.  You can use .NET Reflector to inspect the binary, and you can see that it just makes a function for you. 

If you want to know more about this pattern, search the web for "anonymous methods."

pixelminerXNA:

Alright, who's bright idea was it to not have any tabs in the save file? I'm trying to figure out the game save system and the xml save file contains a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG single line of text with tons of nested tags. Ugh!

It's the .NET XML serializer's idea.  :)

I think there is a way to change it, but it would have added a bunch more code to the project that wasn't terribly relevant.  Internet Explorer will show you a controlled version that is easier to see. 

Even better is Visual Studio, which will actually add the white space for you.  Load up the document, open the Edit menu, the Advanced sub-menu, and choose "Format Document."

pixelminerXNA:

Actually, save files being xml does bring up a legitimate concern. On windows, wouldn't it be very easy for nefarious players to open up the ASCII save files and say give themselves an unlimited number of health potions or whatever else their cheating minds can think of? Come to think of it, I suppose one could even do it to the files on the 360 hard drive if one were motivated enough to mount the drive on a PC.

That is a valid concern on the PC, but it was not implemented because it's not necessarily relevant to this starter kit.  After all, the source is public.  :)

If you were going to add this kind of functionality to a real PC game, one possibility would be to add one overall "save" object that contains all of the data serialized (here, in Session.SaveSessionResult).  Then, in PC-specific code, implement custom binary serialization on that object, including possibly some kind of encryption or at least further obfuscation. 

Note that .NET binary serialization is not available on the Xbox 360 - you can see for yourself the different contents of the System.Runtime.Serialization namespaces when working in Windows projects vs. Xbox 360 projects.  If it did matter on the Xbox 360, which it doesn't, you would probably have to write bytes to a filestream.

mtnhome3d:

thanks i accidently stumbled on that myself after posing and forgot to update the post, but now that i set it to a sprite font, it says "no glyphs could be found" for my font. i've set it back to the default font .bmp and it works fine. i even put black boxes around the letters. if you want i can post the image

The font-texture processor has specific requirements for the image.  For more details, check out this post on teh Shawn's blog.

For an example of a correct SpriteFont texture, check out our Bitmap Font Maker utility's page and our Robot Game mini-game.

dsfreak0109:

Are there any programs out there that can make maps that can be exported to the starter kit. If so can you please make a list thx.