First of all here is how I have my project set up:


So each part is its own component. Here is my question. For instance lets say I want to have water that reflects the surrounding terrain. In the tutorial provided at http://www.riemers.net/eng/Tutorials/XNA/Csharp/Series4/Refraction_map.php in order to create the Refraction map you need to access TerrainDraw how would I access that from my Ocean Component which is out side my Terrain Component? With the camera you can access it from any component by registering it as a service is that how I would have to do it in order to access the terrain stuff and if so how would I register it as a service?

To register the terrainComp as a service just do exactly what you have done with the freeCameraComp.Camera.

Services.AddService(typeof(TerrainComponent), terrainComp);

Thanks! I was a little confused about that. Thanks for clearing it up! One thing though I thought the Camera would be able to be accessed from any method in any of the namespaces however I am only able to access it from its own namespace and the Engine.Environment Namespace any ideas why?

To use any type you either have to have a using statement for the types namespace or fully qualify the type.

I have a using statement. Here is what I have. The Camera is a FPS camera so I have it in the namespace Engine.GameObjects.Camera.FPS

I then load it in my main game class and load it as a service:
Services.AddService(typeof(Camera), camera.Camera);

Then in my Terrain Component (Namespace Engine.Environment) I have:
using Engine.GameObjects.Camera.FPS;

private Camera camera;

public override void Initialize()
        {
            // get camera that is a registered service.
            camera = Game.Services.GetService(typeof(Camera)) as Camera;
            if (camera == null)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("Cameraservice not found.");
            }

            base.Initialize();
        }

Everything compiles just fine and works the way it should.

I then went to make a Model loading class I copied and paste all the camera stuff from the terrain component including the using statement. Now whenever I try to compile I get a error:

Error    1    'Engine.GameObjects.Camera' is a 'namespace' but is used like a 'type'    C:\Users\James\Desktop\Game Engine\Engine\GameObjects\Loader\Loader.cs    15    17    Engine

Everything is the same so I don't understand why it is not working!

EDIT - Never mind I changed the camera namespace to Engine.GameObjects.Cameras.FPS and now it is working fine.

Seems like you had a little confusion between the FreeCameraComponent class and the Camera class.

Putting them both into the same namespace as you have done should make things easier for you.

I would suggest registering the FreeCameraComponent as a service rather than the Camera, because you may need both, and you can always get the Camera from the FreeCameraComponent.