I lowered Exisled from 400 to 240 points.

[quote user="Vegan Fanatic"]I have a PhysX card, did not pay much, bought it for the game more then the hardware. I have experimented a bit with it but there is a small installed base suggesting dependence is a bad idea. Then there is that Tesla card for 20x more cash then the PhysX cost me. It offers 500 gigaflops which would be ...

It also depends on what you are detecting collision on.  Per pixel sprites, 3D objects, polygons, etc?

I use .x files for everything personally.  Using Max 9 at the moment.

Do you guys have any idea how to read a binary file saved using FileStream but with the old-school C++ calls of fread()? using (FileStream fs = new FileStream("myfile.dat", FileMode.Create)) { BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs); bw.Write(iMapWidth) } I wish to read this with: FILE *fp = fopen( ...

[quote user="beb"]Hey guys I am very new to XNA..I have done some programming so I can understand most code that I read I just have problems writing it.  What I am trying to do is create a battle scene that is totally automated, pretty much it is a video and not a game.  I can do basic stuff like add a sprite to the screen ...

[quote user="Rodimus"]Does anyone know how to make a simple spaceship engine exhaust to attach to the back of the engine mesh in my model.  I need it to expand when I speedup, and contract when I slow down.  [/quote] You could always attach a billboard to the back and just scale the quad as necessary to make it ...

Which exporter are you using?  It sounds like you are not keeping the position matrix in a hierarchy. 

You are going to run into many problems since XNA doesn't natively support animations.  I suggest you download the libraries out there that do support animation, get them to work with the samples, and then try out different ones until your animation exports work.  I ended up having the content creators re-export animation sets and ...

[quote user="The ZMan"]I've not heard much about that recently - do you mean the 'skymarket' rumours from last year? I've never seen any follow up on if, when and how this will happen.[/quote] Check the News wires today. Microsoft announced an "Apple like" store for their Mobile Phone OS allowing developers to ...