Hey John, How would I go about exporting an object w/ a reference to its normal map using your .x exporter? The diffuse bump directx shader didn't seem to work. Is there more extensive documentation online as well? Thanks!

I'd prefer to continue using FBX as well as understand how the sample was exported. I assume it wasn't done using a custom exporter. I"ll take a look at the kW X-port today. Thanks!

I'm checking out the normal mapping sample w/ the lizard but I'm running into an issue. It seems 3ds max (ver. 2008) won't export the file name and directory of the normal map, even though its been added to the material of the mesh I'm exporting. When comparing the the FBX file of my export to that of the lizard sample, I'm ...

It isn't going to happen overnight. Some things to keep in mind are that many studios have spent years developing custom engines and toolsets for their games, many written in C and C++. Its a big investment. As well, most of the current popular 'off the shelf' AAA engines are written in C and C++ which will only perpetuate that cycle for another ...

Stephen, its actually the XNA Skinning sample DLL. I grabbed the updated 2.0 project and built it. Just wasnt sure how to use that DLL in my project. Still trying to get it to work.Thanks!

Under my references folder there is already a reference to SkinnedModelPipeline (which points to the DLL in my X86 bin folder). Am I missing something else? Do I need to add the Skinned Model project to my solution?Thanks for the help!

Can anyone show me how to solve this error w/ XNA 2.0? The project contains animated models (.FBX). The content pipeline tab is now missing from the project properties where I would normally add my SkinnedModelPipeline.dll. Is there a new way to add this reference? Any help would be greatly appreciated!-gameD3V

Though I can't answer your question, I'd love to hear what happens. Though it may not seem like a lot to others, 3 months spent on a concept (team organization, a prototype, associated costs, etc) that goes no where is a set back, considering the short dev time in XBLA games. From what I've gathered, it sounds like you'll be submitting a creative ...

I'm curious if anyone has gotten anywhere with this. To share what our team has done, we have exported multiple FBX files each with their own take. When exported, we used FBX w/ Ascii out of Maya. We then manually edit the contents of the FBX in GSE and rename our takes. As well, we then add all of our takes to one file. Then in game, we simply ...

Well, I'm sure all who attended Gamefest 07' are now caught up on sleep and back into the daily grind. I just wanted to say it was great meeting other developers (Samurai Soul Hunters, Shuggy, Yo-Ho Kablammo and a many others) from some killer games as well as getting to know a few of the XNA framework developers. Thanks to MS for putting on a ...