I am currently in the research phase of this project, so I have no hard code to show, but I would like to know of any solutions to a large problem that I can foresee occuring... My project is scalable in that there could be anything from 100 AI controlled units up to several thousand at a time. The project is all about maximizing efficiency ...

I cannot find a way to render text into a 3D world (not using a texture). The only thing I can think of is to produce a scale and rotation to the text in 2D based on the 3D position in relation to the camera position and direction. Is there an easier way? and if not, could anybody give me some advice on how to go about the method I ...

Hello everyone. Im doing a college project, and I have come across a stumbling block. I cannot find any information about how to connect to a database from C#. Either I have not looked in the right places (as seems most likely) or there is little documentation on how to do this. Could anybody help me out? Any help given would be greatly ...

Ace! Thanks alot. Soved the problem! :D

Great game, hopefully I'll get to your standards someday soon, but everyone starts at the start. Just out of interest, how did you fix the "Device does not support multi-level texture width and height values that are not powers of 2.\r\nParameter name: numberLevels" exception? I'm having the same problem with a school ...

I dont use it enough for it to become a problem, if i ever do, ill refer back to his guide :)

wait a sec... you mean instanciate a new class for every variable... hmmm ill have to give this some thought. it may proove promising, but then again it may not just as easily... ill try to see if i can implement this... Thanks! M@t.

Ive already thought of that, and thumsticks etc arent a problem via this: backward = Buttons.LeftThumbstickDown; but what im trying to be able to do is for example: take the variable ''shoot'', this requires different types for each input, albeit gamepad, keyboard+mouse or keyboard only. but lets just say we are using a keyboard and mouse. the ...

I cant believe it was that simple!!! I just changed my spriteBatch call from spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.AlphaBlend); to spriteBatch.Begin(SpriteBlendMode.AlphaBlend, SpriteSortMode.Immediate, SaveStateMode.SaveState);   worked like a charm! Thanks mate, you're a legend. M@t.

Hello people. My backfaces are drawing on top of my front faces. to get any bit of clarity within my game, ive had to delete the entire backfaces out of the buildings, but ive had to leave some in. is there any way to get xna to draw only what should be visible? screenshot: oh, and it would be sweet if anyone could tell me how to sort ...