Life as an unresolved external symbol.
XNA
Static Multidimensional Array!?
Sep 30th
This is the first time I made a static multidimensional array, moreso, one with 3 dimensions. I’m still experimenting to find out how efficient this is, but so far it is proving to be extremely efficient as its structured so indexing it uses enum’s that correspond to the right data you want. There were some comments and stuff describing which block did what but I’m not allowed to discuss the project this is for so I had to remove them. Its also indented nicely but WordPress owned my indentation.
static Vector2[][][] StaticData=
{
new Vector2[][]
{
new Vector2[]
{
new Vector2(500,534),
new Vector2(582,534),
new Vector2(663,533),
new Vector2(746,534),
},
new Vector2[]
{
new Vector2(500,87),
new Vector2(582,87),
new Vector2(663,86),
new Vector2(746,87),
},
},
new Vector2[][]
{
new Vector2[]
{
new Vector2(582,445),
new Vector2(663,445),
new Vector2(582,561),
new Vector2(663,561),
},
new Vector2[]
{
new Vector2(582,50),
new Vector2(663,50),
new Vector2(582,165),
new Vector2(663,165),
},
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Divide by Zero, Don’t Do it
Sep 22nd
PropertyGrid Awesomeness
Jul 26th
So I’ve learned some more about Class Attributes, before I was just using [Serialization()] but in order to customize the way the WinForm PropertyGrid control works, there are some nifty attributes you can tie your code to.
Can now change how the texture previews are rendered through the use of a property grid. Not much of a feat, but, I’m proud of it.
Been forever since my last update…
Jul 25th
Over the past month or so I haven’t really had time to update my blog due to lots of stuff that went down that I had to deal with and that I haven’t had time to develop anything regarding Forecourse… but now I’m back. Once again, I will try to remain constant with my updates.
Right now I am focusing on the Forecourse Content Creation Tool, named ForeCreation. It is (will be) a XNA-In-WinForms IDE, allowing the creation of assets that will follow Forecourse standardizations so that they can be used with any Forecourse driven application with ease.
I know its not much of a milestone, but this is my first time really dealing with WinForms, first time dealing with XNA outside of the XNA Game class, and the first time I had to deal with handling the reading/writing of custom data formats for use with an editor, and well, a lot of firsts. It is quite the learning experience and is going quite slow but I am getting there. My little ‘yay I did it’ milestone at the moment (which is pretty inferior code that could be done by a real programmer with utmost ease…) is the ability to programatically create tab pages that contain XNA renderers within. My first implementation of this is a ‘texture preview’ of textures inside the GameDataTextures folder of your project. It is more detailed in this video:
When compiling XNA on an x64 machine…
May 30th
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REMEMBER TO COMPILE WITH x86 AS YOUR PLATFORM TARGET.
I forgot about this and wasted an hour of debugging.
Right click your project -> Properties -> Build -> Platform Target -> x86