That, sir, works great. Thanks very much. One last question for my own edification. Does "active render targets" refer to the screen and backbuffer targets only?

[quote user="Shawn Hargreaves"]Rendertargets don't have to be the same size as the screen or backbuffer. You can make them any size up to the max supported by your graphics cards (typically 2048, although some cards can go higher). [/quote] Thanks for the speedy reply Shawn. When I execute this ...

Thanks everyone. Sorry I've taken so long to get back to you all but I had some other stuff to implement before I got to this screengrab. I've gone with a derivative of Korenn's code and this works nicely. I prefer Eriba's method in terms of performance but for other developers who aren't familiar with unsafe code who may ...

I'm wanting to take a "screenshot" of my XNA output and want to double check my approach before I continue. Is the following correct? 1. Get RenderTarget2D from GraphicsDevice object using GraphicsDevice.GetRenderTarget() 2. Get Texture2D from RenderTarget2D object using RenderTarget2D.GetTexture() 3. In my case, I want to ...

[quote user="klempie"][quote user="dgreenheck"]Directional lights don't have a position. They come down at one angle for all objects in the scene, regardless of their position. The sun acts as a directional light within a small area; it doesn't matter where you stand, it's always going to cast the same ...

[quote user="dadoo Games"]This post describes a bit about the 3 default positions, but doesn't give specifics. Your best bet is to set a breakpoint and inspect the DirectionalLight0, DirectionalLight1, and DirectionalLight2 properties of a BasicEffect. EDIT: position is probably a bad choice of words above, I meant ...

[quote user="dgreenheck"]Directional lights don't have a position. They come down at one angle for all objects in the scene, regardless of their position. The sun acts as a directional light within a small area; it doesn't matter where you stand, it's always going to cast the same shadow. [/quote] Ohhhh. That ...

Is it documented somewhere cos I can't find anything?

OK I found the problem. I was Unprojecting screen coordinates not client coordinates. How noob of me. But I am a noob. :) Thanks for the help.

Any ideas?